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I'm breaking next and I'm riding out.
Don't want to know what's up and I'm running out.
Cause I can't get down so let's run it up.
I'ma keep it going so there ain't nothing left.
I'ma keep it going so there ain't nothing left.
I'm gonna keep it going, I'm gonna keep it going, I'm gonna keep it going till the end of the night.
host for today and during me in the studio we have Alphama and Fresh and Fresh aren't
we glad to not just have two but three days of the best region this week. I've been waiting
for it and I've been sitting over the Easter weekend eating all my Easter eggs and all
the chocolate watching the SAL, watching the NAL and finally EML's here, super week
to determine who goes to playoffs. And on top of that I mean we only got to taste
the Falcons and G2 once and that was that was not enough right? So I'm kind
excited that Dubai has been last week and now we can get to see them play in the
super week every single day. Super excited about what we're gonna see today.
In case you missed us last week, the first week of the email kickoff will
talk you through the format a little bit, the groups that we have going on
right now because it's a new kind of format, right? We need something to
qualify teams to the Salt Lake City Major. We do that with two groups, five
teams of each group. We play a best of one round, Robin, against each
other. As to that group phase, which ends on Wednesday, like you two
said will have the bottom team from each group dropout. The top four teams from
each group then move on to a double elimination bracket where the top four
teams eventually will be sent to the Salt Lake City Major. Right now or at least
so far in this first week you mentioned two teams have only played once. For
example Secret, but seeing the bottom of the group as they got it to the
Sixth Intangible Grand Final still feels a little bit weird. Yeah it was amongst
the biggest surprises I think of that kickoff. It was to see Secret
losing their first game especially because we expect a lot from the roster
despite the roster changes that we've seen. Other ones were a bit less
impressive. Heretics being dominated for example, a tough start for Rebels coming
straight from Challenger series. For the rest though it's you know it's been
also a show of force for shifters on their early first game a 7-1. We're
seeing also I think a VP that is very very strong and put up the chance in
their group. So some great surprises here Jack. Yeah biggest surprise to me
I think realistically as we came into last week and thinking that we have the same big three in G2 in secret in Falcons
And I think realistically there was big performances coming out of shifters and VP as you say and twisted lines with the upset with their
Unique style that actually realistically there might be some more upsets on the cards, especially as we head in that playoffs bracket
Oh, there will be also at least going into the last few days of this group stage here
Now one thing we do not just in the mail
But at international events as well as we reviewed that last week by jumping into the panorama reviewing it with three different categories
We do that today as well starting with the monster the player that stood out to us the most last week
And this case is the player that was lethal and really helped GK get their first win over the board
We're talking about Sark's Leo. Yeah, absolutely
I mean we've said it before when we look at the roster this player is special
He was hired for one reason, that reason he's to gun down everyone.
And if you look at his game against Twisted Mind, he was absolutely still out.
Jack, he's a player that we've known especially last stage in the MLF of the night,
carrying them hard multiple times, double digits every single time.
Now in a completely new roster, he is still performing super well.
Yeah, and he's a player that realistically we targeted as one of the players that would have the pressure on his shoulders given the roster that he's in.
We're hungry with Pac-Bull with us being a little bit more backline and sport focused. There's a big onus on him to achieve the frags
That's just what he's done of the players that played two maps last week. I eat the ones that didn't have a buy
Saks came out top with EPS. He was phenomenal on the entry phenomenal on the kills great cost as well
He's really proven himself inside of this GK roster so far
It's wonderful to see that for him and for the roster as well
We'll also have a look at the craziest moment that have it last week a moment that'll make you consider or think
you're watching a rain game or
a competitive game going on.
We're talking about a gunfight
that happened outside. Jack,
this is the moment we've shown.
Yeah, this is going to be
twisted minds jumping out of
the admin window to get killed.
Not to not to I would say
strange, but jumping back out
of the visa door to one versus
one of bliss, especially when
you're in man advantage is a
little bit crazy, but it just
speaks to twisted minds.
Their propensity for aggression
for trying to take gunfights
to try and to play a bit of
different style. This is what
we say when you know what's
coming, but even then it's
still difficult to deal with.
Twisting minds, you know, they
may operate with a lack of
discipline at times, but it's
very enjoyable to watch. It's
such a statement, by the way,
like they come into one and
they play like this. You know,
after the first two games,
we're already like, What are
they doing? Where is the
discipline? But at the same
time, it's so fun to watch.
Like you said, it's just
weird to see these positions
like someone is outside the
building when they're in a
this, but at the same time, you
know what? We're here for the
fun and I like it. Yeah, it's
entertaining to watch. That is
one thing for sure. And to
transfer into our musty to kind
of make you look at what is
happening today and the game
that you need to keep your eyes
peeled out for will also talk
about twist the mice because
they are playing against their
old organization today going
up against Falcons. And we
know what happened. You know
the the falcon, the current
twisted minds roster getting
dropped by Falcons to pick up
this new Falcons roster. So
to me, Leo, you just assume
that twisted minds are
here today and kind of show
with their old org like, hey, this is where you dropped
and we are here to play.
I think there's two stories.
There's the stories of the players that got dropped
and have to face the former organization,
the one that didn't trust them,
that they could achieve the same heights
as the current Falcons roster.
And then there's the certain story,
which is this is the biggest men are there to be
in terms of organizations.
It is always twisted minds
and performing against Falcons.
Falcons, they have a different like sports strategy.
I think in general,
they're not afraid of getting international rosters
represent their colors. Twisted mind speaking with them especially in the WC, they love to
invest in local talents, they love to have talents that come from MENA region and I think
that is just two different philosophies but it is always a very impressive therapy for
that region.
It actually is. It's just our second game of the day. There's so much more to keep
your eyes peeled for. We'll have a look at the schedule for our four best of ones
for today because Rebels and Virtus.Pro have a day off today, meaning all the other
teams will be in action. Looking at this check, we talked about that second game. Any other
game that, you know, really piques your interest.
I think the last two games are a little bit more on paper, I would say closer. I think
GK Secret, with the way Group B is really shaping what we saw in the standings, everybody
is beating everybody. If Secret will happen to lose that, it puts them under a world
of pressure. And then the final game as well in Group A, Fnatic against Shifter.
Shifter's obviously looked incredible in the first and only player that they played
last week, Fnatic picked up a victory as well. So I think that could be a very, very
out-a, not underwhelming game, but a game that could go under the radar that you may
be not thinking that's going to be a banger, but it could be.
And it's games that are so important for the seeding as well. We mentioned it before.
It's a different format and obviously if you end up in that fourth spot, you don't
want to get there because you will start the playoffs in the lower bracket. You
want to have the advantage. You want to be at least at three of your group if
you want to have that extra life. And those games, because they're so close and
because these teams keep debating each other, they are critical because you take out points from a rival team
and that could propel you into the top three of your group.
They are. And we're seeing that with the first week already.
So that's kind of exciting for these teams to really make sure they have to fight themselves
among the top three or top four potentially for the survival inside the competition here at the email kickoff.
But one more thing we'll have a look at before we start with our first game is the newest addition to the operator lineup
that we've not just seen on the email but in other regions as well.
We'll talk about Salt Snake and I want to talk about this topic a little bit more because I think before this competitive season kicked off,
there's a lot of talks about how much we're going to see this operator. How effective would they really be?
And I'd like to know, Jack, if you had to speak about like the main strengths for Salt Snake and why we're seeing him across the world.
Yeah, I think, like you say, and first and foremost, there was a little bit of talk about would we see Solid Snake at all?
I think the answer to that has been yes. I think, you know, developing, depending on team styles in the region and that type of thing.
But yes, we are seeing solid snake.
I think realistically, solid snake is very, very strong.
Solo roam clearing, intel gathering that's absolutely free.
You know, just pull out that gadget.
You can then get some information
before you actually hard commit to the scan as well.
And then the fragging power as well
with having the, you know, the recently buffed F2
as a piece of kit Leo is just so strong.
Yeah, I think the main thing for me
is not only the obviously the whole gun play
and the fact that he has the F2
but the main thing for me is if you look at that scanner,
It sees so much of the map, and you can tell you all of the rooms are clear, almost at every time.
Because the duration of that timer is not as big.
So look at Handy yesterday. This is from SAO in the game where they were playing Team Liquid.
Incredible gunplay with the F2, but when he grabs this, look, he has full information on server,
on cache, on construction, and on master.
That's just so strong because he can feed information in close quarter combat like this.
When you have direct access to site from a window, he gets that information on jump out
and punishes him straight. And from by on the other side, in the same game,
Abuses that to get information on All of Church, on Blue, and on Deep Armory.
That just shows you how impactful it is at the highest level of play, especially in the biggest region.
This is from SCL, this is STK. Getting information on his entry point,
he knows there's a player there, he gets three fires, wins to get a fight there.
Those are just a few examples from the games that we've seen in SCL,
that just show you how effective it is. From a single player, firepower,
Intel gathering that he can communicate to the rest of the team, to me is one of the strongest ever operator introduced
and straight-played in Pro level, because it's so strong at so many fronts.
Given how many operators we have, that's quite a big thing to say that it's one of the strongest operators being added.
You know, we can talk about Ella on release, Ryan on release, whatever, but yeah, straight into comp, and it's exciting to see that it's all right.
It kind of shows which team is fast to adapt with those new operators, can really make that work for themselves.
but none of you can discuss that I want to move into our first game of the day because that is going to be exciting
Well, there's a lot of talk about heretics and G2
I think the main issue for these two teams that they currently find themselves at the bottom of group a
G2 only having had one point as they only played one game last week, but it's getting dire for them
They need to step it up and I want to talk about G2 first in this instance as well
And the situation is yes jack. They lost, you know, it wasn't all looking to great
they played against rotus pro. We'd like to get them the benefit of the doubt, especially
since the newest edition, Chicago was absolutely probably off last week. Yeah, I think so. I
think G2 showed a lot of resilience actually. Let's remember they were four nil down when
they started playing against VP managed to get it back to overtime and only just
lost in overtime. They've signed a top 10 player in the world in Chicago, but they've
known the beast that they've signed. They know that when they sign a clay like
Chicago, who is a pure out and out entry place pretty much for for gun fights, basically
for kills, you know, not really for the utility side of the game, you know what you're going
to get with him. You're going to get a lot of peeking, you're going to get a lot of kills,
5-0 on the entry, 14-11 on the KD. Leo, he was absolutely phenomenal last week.
Yeah, he was. And there was this moment, I think, in the very last round where he's
picking the Skylight on Gunshot and then he dies. And that's because, because Doki
got his shot, his food shot actually from that, he didn't pick, but he tried to
trade, right? And that 4-5 quickly went to a 3-5 and that basically ended the
round. And I remember in his Twitch chat, straight after he was streaming in ranked, and one of his
viewers asked him the question, did you really need to pick that skylight? And he said, you know,
that's my playstyle. I didn't think that anyone would expect someone to try and trade on a skylight,
and I thought I could win that gunfight. And that was expecting me, that's unfortunate,
there will be other games. And I think that overall attitude of, hey, that's fine,
it was just one game, that's translated to the rest of the players. If you look at
Dookie and Alamo in streams afterwards.
The games were having a laugh, they were having fun, they were dancing.
And that's exactly what we want to see from the G2 roster. Look at these guys.
They were vibing, they just lost the first game.
It's 1 AM and they're hard, they're just dancing.
I'm enlisting for that.
And that's what makes you special.
Like these guys, it was a V1, it was the first game of Kikov, they were playing against
a very strong VP, they know it doesn't matter too much, they can grind it back.
All they need to do is make sure they're in that top 3 of that group, starting the
upper bracket.
I noticed, it's just, it looks like they've gone delirious or they're just having
a great time and laugh again, don't you see what I'm saying, it's the best
video of my life.
Dude, you just lost an overtime game against Virtus Pro, but hey, it's good to see
they don't take this first
loss so heavily because it's
still a lot to come back from
right. They got three straight
games this week to make sure
they lock in that top four and
same goes for heretics for
their opponents today. These
two teams are the only two
teams in that group that
haven't actually secured
that victory yet, and
especially for heretics with
those two games play, Jack,
it's really going to look rough
if they don't want to get
grouped. Yeah, I think so.
Obviously G two they've only
played one game. Heretics
have now played two games and
the stats are not looking
win rate for example they've pretty much been bad at both of the games they play. I actually
really think they look like they're in a spot of trouble. I don't think they're in trouble Jack.
I think they're in danger. Danger of getting grouped. I mean look at this, this is poor Ria starting
it starting his professional journey and you've played shifters and fnatic on theory the two
weakest teams of the group if you compare to the current form of G2 and VP and you've lost
You're all the way at the end of the standings.
And so now you have to face Prime G2 with the devil of Shai-Kou in front of you,
and then you have to place VP who are in an incredible momentum and just beat G2.
I mean, let's be real, this is looking very dire for heretics,
and if they lose today, it's almost confirmed that they're getting ripped,
and I know people had expectations on them, they're coming up from Challenger series,
but that is a harsh welcome at a tier one level.
It is, it is. It's a beautiful meme though, we'll have to say that.
I mean we can look at the situation but it is quite severe right and my main question for that as well
We know they are a team that came up from that email challenge a series and we know how strong the tier two
Steam and email is but it seems that they cannot compete with email tier one the main question is Leo
What what is going on with the team?
Do you think it's nerves?
Is it other fundamental fundamental issues that they got going on right now?
I think there's always gonna be the same situation that many teams face when they can dominate tier two because no one
one is contouring them so they can play the same strats, rehearse the same things, prep
the same strategies over and over again, and no one contours them. And when you arrive
into tier one, there's an entire stifling the opposite team that is just looking at
your vods and making sure they can prep against you. And so Jack, what I see is a team getting
heavily contoured, no ideal able to adapt, whatever call they're making is their struggling,
and their entry fraggers are out there.
That's the big thing for me. The entry fragger's not being that. I think, you
you know, we asked is obviously
been a lot of talk about going
into challenges here is how
good he was in challenge
series and he's not made the
step up of course into tier one.
Yeah. And I think he's playing
with a lot of pressure. I think
when you come into the league
and you have a bad start that
pressure it must weigh down on
you significantly. So I think
for, you know, for heretics,
they just need to see their big
fraggers have a have a good
day. Give a good account of
themselves and go from there.
Give themselves something to
build on. They're against
you to G2 do give a lot of
opportunities as much as, you
know, they do have a high
reward game play. They also
have a high risk game play
as well. So hopefully these
So hopefully these guys can at least hit the ground running in this game.
Maybe there's an option with the map as well to try and get yourself almost a situation or a ground
that maybe brings you back to the default in a situation as well.
Seems like we're going there because we're going to Klopowczyk.
Yeah, this is in a way, it's a little bit of a surprise.
I think G2 for a long time, it was of course the Parma ban, you know,
this is going back years at this point.
And I think G2 tend to only pull this map out when they're against significantly weaker opposition in their eyes.
the game. So I can see why
they would want to take
heretics there. It doesn't
really fit the mold of five
frackers, but I think it's a
map that they can go out and
then they know that they're
significantly better on paper
than this team for heretics. It's
a map that they kind of played
a little bit in Challenger
series, but they didn't
particularly have a winning
record on it, though. Yeah,
and I think there is a
role scene, Jack. I don't know
if you would agree with me
within team staffs that
Clubhouse Canada were the
better team wins. I think
they're going to have a
better team win. I think
they're going to have a
Clubhouse cannot wear the better team wins because everyone knows the steps but the team that has the most synergy all the better
Gunners are gonna win this and so it's kind of like this base map where you want to go when you face a weaker opponent because you're like
It gives us a frame we know what to expect and there's no there's not that much chaos they can
Basically exploit and the opportunities are not maybe as big so if I'm the strongest team on paper
I want to go to a map where I think that the better team will win
And that's maybe why G to pick clouds here because it gives them a frame that they can exploit
second point is I'm very interested to know if the playstyle called by LMO and the fact that they have five frags on that roster
We will enable them to play so they stay on the map because as we saw from yesterday in SEL a player on every single floor
Basically cuts off the entirety of like half of the map or half of the floor was just that one operator
We saw a great example of that
But the good news is the first game of the day is ready to start so we'll send it to Ace and Des to take it away
What's going on?
I'm being had a slam.
I'm good. Discour crashed. Now we know.
I can hear you now.
There we go. Discour crashed.
I was a smile away.
I didn't say I was sat there the whole time being like,
I think he's having me on.
He's just pretty face this whole time.
I wish I had. It'd have been very funny.
I'm looking pretty mad.
I'm digging the nice bright white jump for you guys.
Look, stop, Lee.
Ah, still there.
It's a good one.
It's very nice and cozy.
Anyway, let's talk about this game, shall we,
because as you've heard, it has to go in through.
This, I don't want to say it's a surprise,
but it's always interesting seeing GC go into what
has always been their perma-ban.
I recall last stage, they very narrowly beat Genji.
I want to say it was on it,
and then lost it to Shivergers.
So, still a bit of a bomb him up for them
and maybe a chance for Heretic
to take down the big boys' stage.
I'm not too sure. Just giving
off what we've seen from Eritix so far. I agree in terms of if you're going to, you know, get a win from G2 anywhere. Yes, possibly here. And I just feel like G2 have got a different attitude. Don't forget they've got Shaco now. There's two spots on this map that I can think of immediately. You know, Shaco is one of those players that we try to avoid naming spots after players a little bit because, you know, it's not always very clear to people where it is, but, you know, it's not always very clear to people where it is.
people where it is. But straight away, if I say Shaco, you think in blue behind generator,
you think in construction between master bedroom and construction on the wall there. Straight
away you think of those positions because he plays there so well, because he plays there
so consistently, you know, he's kind of made the result. And so I think we might see a
little bit of a different G2 on clubhouse, if I'm honest. Heretics, look, it's been
tough start there's no other way of putting it you know we can't put any
other kind of shine on it they need to start getting points on the board if they
don't want to be the fifth place team in this group that's the reality and they
haven't really looked too close so far I think they're in for a bit of a rough
ride if I'm honest but look all teams tend to wake up at some point maybe
it's today for heretics who knows maybe maybe we'll see as we go now
yesterday we saw a lot of trap operators coming out in the SAL region
we saw a lot of Castle for example, a lot of Mirror, a good bit of Thorn, a lot of Ella,
the Loosity, that sort of thing being played. All with the goal of slowing things down, especially
when we had the kite and the bandit bands being taken away and just like yesterday
things are following through but maybe where the Deaths will be more excited Tim is of course
being Alan Arnard jumping across the running around on that solid stake and looking to
cause a bit of bother with the F2. Benj is going to start things off though and it's
I'm going down first.
Therefore, versus four, as Lolo manages to find the response,
takes them head just so that's going to be the castle
off the board, not a big loss for G2.
I think that they'll be happy enough with position
as it stands.
Two minute 10 left on the clock.
Shaco, Doki still out and about around stock and lounge.
So that's something Heretics needs to be aware of as well.
They are not just keeping themselves down in the basement.
They're keeping themselves a little bit active at least.
Shikov is kind of around that area wanting to think about getting towards blue wanting to think about pressuring that position
but ultimately, Riyaz could be the man here up on top floor. I'm not sure how aware of that G2R at the minute.
Ah, there he is, yeah.
I mean, you've just, you've spoken it to his assistant, they know exactly where he is.
And they're already taking a good bit of damage, looking for the challenge himself on towards Red now,
and the shot goes on his way forward, but Shiko just hits him with the 1-2 down, he goes!
Roma dealt with it now, it's a 4v3 on to site, Tim, with half the round still to play.
Let's see, it's not ideal now for Heretics, this is all going to be just about holding on.
I like the way that G2 have done that, they've dealt with it fantastically.
They've identified a problem, worked as a unit in order to create that situation
and just put him in a real lose-lose.
So, Shaco's going to have a look towards Blue here.
Can start making a little bit of progress down there too in Church 1 in Arsenal.
So, Blue is free for him to do that.
I mean, just using those tracks and feeding Intel back into his team,
just trying to give them as much information as he can.
first fight can't find it. It's going to be Dorky gets the final kill and G2 take the
round.
And I love how Dorky's instant response at the back of shots coming in towards Shiko is
to swing aggressively towards that final player and see the secure. Just again, a very cosy round
for G2 because they did all the hard work up front and at the pace at which they moved
and got inside the map, you know, they were already asking questions of basement
with more than half the round still to play. A lot of things are having to do a full
map clear and would normally go chasing after the Ella, but I didn't rather try and
were too much about chasing into all that utility upstairs. Just kind of managed it, you know,
they're nobody else's there. They had the track on. He had no way safe way of getting back
towards side because the castle went down inside of that first floor quite early on.
And so G2 again just didn't really look all that bothered him. We speak about defenders
not being bothered here. I say G2 are the ones that weren't bothered.
No, they weren't at all. It seemed very casual from them on the whole. And I think
that's something that G2 fans have been more than happy to see. Heretics need a
good start on the defensive kind of almost goes without saying here the attacking off I think it's
going to be more difficult for them and we actually spoke about it quite a bit on the sale yes for
anybody who was watching that one it's a similar point that I'll bring across a where teams are
struggling which heretics are at the minute and you know maybe I've got new players to bed in
we've got Riaz, we've got Zara in there you know they're trying to come together as a roster
And it's at this level, I mean, and it's just very, very difficult, I think, to, you know, to do that when you're on the attack more so than defense.
You've got so much reactionary play that if you're not getting it done on the defense, I would then, you know, expect you to really struggle on the opposite side.
So, yeah, heretics need to find their groove and they need to find it quickly. If they lose two or three here to G2, honestly, I think three, three splits, which G2 just fine.
and they've already got one of them. So, yeah, paratix. Time to start getting it going right now.
Well, let's get this hand on to, or hang on to a pretty standard test, let's say this catwalk hold
what's going on. They've got the ADSs, they've got the bulletproofs, they've got the barbed wire down
the stairs. All the things they need to ensure they hold that away from G2, but with Capitano
being banned away, we all know just how proficient that operator is at clearing up that catwalk
fire gets laden everywhere and anyone who's up there tends to find themselves quickly
torch to death. As you can see just how long the door here at least can hold on for us. I've already found
himself dug back against the window here so he doesn't want to find himself caught out by the fire
that he knows is going to come sometime soon. In fact, Zara is the one also dug in. So they actually
doubled down and have two of them looking to hold on here. Trying to be aggressive about it
and looking to cover for each other so far. G2 yet to break it but they've been asking the
question for a while that they're having these drones coming in. You've seen them watching from
the door with this entire time. At some point, something has to give.
Ratero's will go in and try and remove a little bit of that intel. How about that for an ankle?
Shaco takes down Akwit. Absolute beauty. Oh, through the ceiling. Finds his man on the vertical.
But Dora is there for the fight back to extend the capitao. That could be a big loss there
because heretics have still got that catwalk in their power. There's no way Shaco really
should have been getting away with the kill that he did whilst he still had that catwalk,
But, Naratix at least have made sure that they don't pay for that mistake too heavily.
I think it was probably the position of Doki on the Black Veer on that door
that prevented them from challenging the Capitao.
But the problem G2 have got now is a man down
and Catwalk still in the possession of the enemy team.
They've got two players in there and no utility to clear them with.
Yeah. Now Tim, I'm not a pro player.
That much is very apparent and very well established at this point.
I think you're selling yourself short, does it?
Oh, thanks, Tim. Maybe it was here for a trial at some point.
You never know. Bench gang at least won, but, though,
that actually might start to turn things around here.
Dora, I think he's made a mistake getting out of that window
and trying to rejoin the rest of his team.
They knew that Garrosh himself was safe, but the rest of it,
oh, dear, oh, dear, this is their chance to see around over the line.
I fear that Lolo is in a great spade.
A 3v comes through, Riaz-Lunch was second,
and that suddenly completes the things upside down once more.
Stomping all alone has to clutch up against the final two.
the final two narrowly misses the head shop but there is no time left this one
should be going the way of heretics outside of something truly crazy like
the missing anger plant going down but they know exactly where he is and this
one I'm pretty sure is gonna be polished there we go job is done but to run off
that points him they had nays they had flashes they had the capitol they had
all the tools to really make the guys inside a garage sweat there like the
as army in the Jager they should have been sweating but they weren't
Shaco tried to come in underneath, was handily dealt with by the Jager, but I don't think G2 were aware was there, and everything just fell apart from there, so...
really screwing stage one of that attack was a big misstep on G2's side.
Yeah, I think they were maybe skipping steps a little bit, like you say. You know, Shaco's killing people inside of Sight.
Yeah, he's got an angle, he's took his chance, but...
and I know he wasn't inside when he did that, he was down, you know, underneath Catwalk, but...
The point is, there you go, they've lost shackle.
They kinda skipped the steps, they're a little bit ahead of themselves.
They've got all the utility to cap lock.
Yeah, it's a little bit annoying that there may be an opportunity there to get a kill.
But it's sometimes better, I think, to, you know, you've got to sort of let the little fish back to catch the bigger fish.
And I think, you know, focus on the steps in front of you.
We need to do a cap lock. Don't worry about what's going on inside the cache at that point in time.
You know just get focused on what's in front of you, deal with that problem
if they get those two kills in there using the utility they've got, the Shaco
capital before they lost it, you know then I think we're looking at a different round there
where all of a sudden cash it's not going to matter if there's somebody in there that you haven't killed or not
because they're going to be under immense amount of pressure so yeah I think G2 just need to slow down a little bit
we saw you know the clip that was picked up and it was something that
fresh put on Twitter actually about you know the way that G2 had played on
console around those four entry points and getting aggressive all over the map
and it's great but I think let's make sure that you don't miss the fundamental stuff as well.
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Similar thing that Leo was talking about in the desk as well around his challenge on Towards the Skylight last week.
It's a similar thing here. He gets that kill on towards Dora because I'm pretty sure Dora was surprised he didn't realize he was there.
If they get the kill on to Dora, we'll have in a... but in fact they did know he was there because there was a terrorist beat.
more like a if he wins that gunfight the round is a cakewalk from there the fact
that he didn't want it's well placed Dora into just one of those moments where
you look at me with a bit more team play we're just seeing ourselves over the
line there and onwards through the round but we digress it's still won a piece
and they had a fantastic first round let's see how the third place off on
again what yesterday I was saying on the SAO broadcast him many would look
at as the secondary starting this map you know last year the majority's would
start down in the basement even maybe even starting in gym bedroom and then
and the second one will lose you in bedroom then catch and CC will be your
tertiary and your off-site whereas now this what we see across the last couple
of days a variety of teams have chosen to take cash and CC as the secondary site
and make Jim and bedroom their tertiary. Yeah we do see these small shifts in
matter and such. You know one thing that never changes though Tim, go on, team
start in top four on cafe. So true. I don't know why, we'll change, you know,
start preference on every other map, but no. Top floor cafe, you stick with it. Look, you know,
Heretic's actually played last round really well. I think they're doing well again here. They're not
giving G2 anything with two minutes into the round. You know, they use the power position well,
they're allowed to keep the cap up. They've got the close from there. You know, the last,
the patience from Lolo at the end of the round. Again, we've seen a lot of patience coming
out of Heretic's here. They're just waiting for their opportunities. Zara manages to get
one aquee is gonna be cut down by shaco though who is having a little bit of a
storm and so far four and one inside three rounds g2 channa stop an upside
directly now confident that they've got cctv so they can use this balcony
outside of the windows but Dora who's some important working in around the
bathroom there it's actually rears who manages to find one on to stomping four
versus three 30 seconds left to go it's becoming a war of attrition can
heretics hold on it's not looking great there's no I mean the last round
They had two kills come out of nowhere G2, but I'll say out of nowhere, obviously he was out of a good bit of flage.
He actually swing the round back around, but he didn't quite materialise for them.
Here they've got a golden opportunity and it's in the hands of that name against Chico.
Two in the round, finally taken down here by Lolo.
Plant was going down for a second, but Alomar's pulled off as we're in to the last seven or so seconds.
They have to win this fight and Benja, the returning podigy, steps up when they need him.
Round three, go in the way of G2.
It was very winnable for a minute there for heretics, lower. Great job getting that down to 1v2, I often say this, if you've got two attackers left, you've got to remember when that diffuser goes down, you are losing a gun for seven seconds, it is as good as then a 1v1.
And that was the kind of situation there, that while I managed to force by getting that first kill in the 1v3, he then creates that 1v1 situation, he lost it out, Benjo was just a little bit quicker on the trigger.
So G2 take the round, but still a great effort coming in from Heretics.
They seem to me a little bit more settled and a little bit closer to the pace today
compared to what we've seen previously over the last couple of games.
I've watched both of them and I feel like they've been significantly more adrift
in the previous ones where they do feel like they are battling and competitive in each round.
So good signs for Heretics, but G2 ultimately just having that little bit of extra class
which currently keeps picking their monster at the minute. I think it's called Shaiiko.
Yes. What I love about this site by the way and I'm really curious to see what happens again
because this has been a truth for as long as I can remember casting this game is that Shaiiko
will always be the player attacking blue. We've seen him land some ludicrous shots down
blue before as well, like through the softball, triple walling towards church, finding players
that are on the main stairs, church wall for example. He's absolutely nightmare at the
best of times and I think you'll see in there once again in this round. Now last
time around he applied a lot of pressure there, he dealt with the Roma that was
coming down just like in that prior round. He's finding himself a couple of kills
in every single one of these rounds and making sure that you've got great mid
round advantage to be able to push things over the line. I think you're going to
see them all the same once again but the biggest change to watch out for in
my opinion is going to be on the other side and looking at the changes
that have come out of heretics. They're looking a lot more dug in in this round.
There aren't going to be these Roma's they're going to have to worry about on the first
on the first floor or upon the second floor.
Everyone's dug inside the site and they're going to try and hunk it out against G2 who,
given their pace, I think would be very, very happy to play into this.
There's no warning on the other side. So, Doki's got the yin coming along.
This could be painful for Heretics.
Yeah, they're definitely going to have to be ready to stand up to the utility
that's going to be coming their way.
But given that G2 have fanned out the Electrobrows, that's been their focus,
and taking away that denial. It does leave heretics with lots of utility options. That's
the downside to taking away that denial. Yes, you can maybe move a little bit quicker,
Kate, an obvious chance for Hubhouse where you've got those hatches that are difficult
to deal with otherwise. But look at the side of heretics at the minute and look how much
utility they've got. Benari, Thorn, Small, Goyote, Tupera. That is an absolute enormous
They've got multiple sets of barbed wire being brought on. Shield as well.
Absolute nightmare for G2 to try and play through here.
If heretics could burn them down to the last 30 seconds or so
and keep as much of that utility in play as they can, G2 could be in real trouble.
They need to get themselves ahead of the game in this one.
And there we are. They've got bottom main stairs, church being opened up as well.
Like, yes, there's a lot of time waste available to the side,
but as mentioned, I think G2 moved quite quick, so I'm not too nervous for them just yet.
However, let's see what we've got.
Ask the questions that are downstairs and what that might look like.
It's cotton, you take over.
Absolutely not a problem, Dez.
Yeah, it's going to come down to, as I say, how the deal with that utility when that time comes.
It's going to send in the first candela.
It's going to be doki, just putting one down blue,
but there's going to be no direct push behind it.
Could be that progress has been made elsewhere at the same time.
Have our lobby F2 just working towards the bottom of main stairs there,
They're looking for pressure, they've got the hatch open as well.
They've got Church wall open, 50 seconds left to go, but there you go.
The gadgets are in play, we've got those trip connectors
just preventing that motor hatch from being very, very difficult to clear all those out.
Shiko's gone a little earlier and died inside the blue ahead of the rest of the team.
Now everyone else has got to play rescue operation.
Doki tried to do that, dropping down blue himself to try and replace Shiko,
but also loses life.
This is now bad because she's only really now got a threat.
Coming from main stairs and moto. This is very controllable, the heretics and they've got the numbers advantage, but a couple of health bars are dangerously low here. They need the shots and Benja finds one.
Benja's hit two beauties there, just dipping into them each time. Manages to make it a third, could be on for an AC, a 2v2, 10 seconds left to go, but look at what's stopping them, there's that utility that I spoke about.
We hear the Razor bloom with Steve the Vulcan canister doing its job. It comes down to a last second fight
Zara picks up a double and G2 just unable to put themselves into that advantageous position
Shaco dies in blue and the rest kind of crumbles around it like you say
Doki tries to retake the position doesn't manage to and then ultimately
Erotic's are able to just play in behind that utility
They know that the pushes coming from main and water and they don't need to worry too much nice and calm nice and patient from heretics to
They are playing well they're holding on well especially in these end-around situations when things are getting a little bit scrappy a little bit
Instead they're doing alright, which is good. Now on G2 style, one thing I'll say to fix
I know all well what's going on. People will look up on these rounds and go oh
Why is those dropping blue? Why is Troika guy by himself inside of oil?
The thing is this surround play style that G2 have become very much renowned for over the last couple of years
will look very nasty when it goes wrong.
When it goes right, they look like geniuses.
If Shaka walks with Blue there and gets a couple of kills
and shoots a couple of players in the back, it's like,
oh my god, he's fighting opportunities, he's a genius.
If he goes and dies like that, it's like,
what the hell is he doing?
He's out, he's away from his team.
He's doing his own thing.
Yes, that's the high-risk high-reward playstyle
that this sort of strategy that Genes of Employee looks like.
When it works out, it's great.
When it doesn't, it does look a little bit silly.
So all I say is bare with that a little bit.
And Doty was really quite desperate trying to get Blue back on their side
side because they knew it was a crucial part of their push in but was a little
bit strung in there a little bit on his own they almost managed to recover it
themselves towards the end but it was a sight round when the ultimate Izara goes
big in and gets over the line for heritage. Two of these stills can't really
separate these two teams. We'll see then in these last two rounds where G2
continue using that that ball wall constrictor styled as of going for
the ground. They're going to
have to go for the surround and
then tightening the grip as
they do so moving in towards
side of the time. Move that
was patented. I've all at a
side when you cast with us,
of course. We're going to have
one down on those lounge
steps. G two are aware of it
not able to. They don't need
to over commit to this.
Don't erotics again. They've
I'm giving themselves up at the beginning taking them in lines just giving a little bit too much away
Yeah, maybe bitten once but won't be twice shy
There's he goes in takes them down on the angle and that's the kill that you feel he needed last time
Yes, he got the one through to cash
But this time he gives them catwalk G2 absolutely flying in round five heretics on the back foot already
I need to get themselves out of CCTV here. Otherwise, he has he's gonna find them one man shorter than they are
already. And there you go, this is what I mean, the small differences. Last time when he died in that spot it was like, why is Shyker waddling in underneath Catwalk and dying one on one? If he gets the kill as a genius if he doesn't it looks a little bit wonky. In this round it's done exactly what we said it was going to do for them last time around. It frees up Catwalk, it applies a lot of pressure. And now they've got Platt and they've got Catwalk and maybe even a backstab coming in here from the bedroom side like we saw last time from Alamow that also didn't work out, they can just surround and float into water and see Xtora being the last one left standing.
that's their third attacking
man of the half. Yep, good
stuff from G two. They're
getting themselves. I think I
think hitting the target there.
If you remember, I said at the
beginning, the benchmark for me
G two. If you get a three three
half on the attack, uh, you know,
I know clubhouse can be a little
bit of a tacker favorite
sometimes, but I think in this
situation, the heretics having
the struggles they've had, you
know, still betting in as a
roster. I think you take a
three three and get yourself
onto the defense. But I
think you can get a little
bit of a bit of a bit of a
bit of a bit of a bit of a
bit of a bit of a bit of a
I think G2 will be reasonably confident then, so if they can get this next round, it's an even bigger bonus.
But yeah, beautiful. They were just nowhere for heretics to go whatsoever.
Like you said, you know, it's the same kind of play.
It was rinse and repeat, but it was this time it pays off, and you look at it and say,
yeah, what a round from G2. They looked electric there.
And that's the round you've got to remember.
Bloody hell, that's water.
Get it down, you.
You've got to keep it slippery, Des.
You've got to keep it slippery.
They see that's much more reasonable. Sheikhar feel is a sane member of society Alamard, but I don't know what that was about
That was something else. That's that that's a water sugar for you. That is yeah
That's that's the round to remember for G2
I think you know when you see other rounds that maybe don't go in their favor just remember round five
That's what they're aiming for and you know when it comes off. It does look for it
Phenomenal it's very very difficult to do anything against that I think because of the mechanical
that they've got across the
side. Um so I think we're just
going to have a little bit of
a technical pause here whilst
we get an issue worked out and
we'll get everybody back in just
as soon as we can. But yeah,
G2 I think looking good at the
minute of 3, 3, 4, 2, half. I
think either way suits them,
and it's going to be a tough
second half on the attack for
heretics. Absolutely. I mean,
again, they'll be happy with
the three. Let's do what more
it can turn into. Obviously,
We're seeing some promise from heretics to like I know we've kind of been having this conversation and saying look
Today's the day to get a result otherwise. We're into dangerous territory where it's likely you're gonna be bottom of the standings overall
Sure, that is probably gonna be the way that it can be ill transpired from here for not too careful
But we're seeing some good moments and a sorry, you know
We have splitting up good numbers today where he really struggled on the first playday
Of course, we know the quality that can exist in plays like Dora Lolo and Akku
We've seen him in the scene forever at this point it feels like for as long as we've been casting arguably Tim
that's going to be a lot of
time. So we know there's a lot
of promise there, and it will
take time for some teams to
stitch things together just
because you don't see a really
successful kickoff from them. It
might be that when we come into
stage one, that is when you
really start to see things come
to life and our teams and
hopefully heritage can be one of
those teams that grows into
things. It's going to be plenty
more growing for them needed. I
think. And I think today as
well, there's it takes a
coming into games, you know, and I'm sure teams will will tell you otherwise. I'm sure they'll say
otherwise. But you know, is anybody coming into G2 thinking that they'd be really surprised if they
go home having been beaten by them? And I think the answer is no. You know, Eritix will come in here
absolutely wanting to win. I'm sure expecting that they can win, believing that they can win,
but also not a huge surprise if they don't. So I just really don't think there's too much
pressure on this today. I think it's a little bit of a free swing for them. You know, if
the game. If they knock it
out of the park, brilliant. If
not onto the next player day,
don't worry about it too much.
But I think that the problem
comes for heretics in their
previously lost games. You
know, when they're looking at
those standings and whether
they're going to make it
through to the playoffs or
not. I think they're more
you know, they've lost the
games for the teams that
you'd maybe expect to see
around them come the end
of things rather than, you
know, the problem being
the game they had against
I'm just to get a bit sad for them that you've got VP next and you've got to sit there on that last day like, oh man, no matter what happens, the screws could suck, which is why they really wanted something out of today, but that's how it goes.
And of course, we're getting to him. We've got some other real cool games coming up. You heard about the men of showdown coming up next between Falcons and Swisted Minds.
You've got GK Secret, and then to close out the day, Fnatic vs. Shifters, which is probably the game I'm most excited about today, to be honest.
I'm really keen to see how those three teams throw down against each other.
today's performance is very, very important for me to judge them. But I could see a world
where G2 Falcons vs. Pro and Shifters become a consistent top four in EML with the way things
have gone so far. I know we're playing footballer games in and it's a big call. I know that.
But yeah.
Tim, I'm going to ask you.
You're saying you think Shifters would be a consistent top four team?
Could be.
I'm going to say is. You've
seen them play heretics who's
were seeing in this game like
a small building. Yeah, I know.
I know. You also had shifters
win six attacks in a row on
bank, which is one of our more
tackling in maps anyway. I know
they need a bit more tested. We'll
see that today, I think, and
we'll see it over the next
couple of games. Um, but I've
just got a feeling about
shifters. I think there's a
lot of things coming together
for the roster and I think
and I think they're actually going to do really, really well.
You know, maybe time will prove me wrong.
I'd like to say I've already sort of backed Virtus.Pro
and I've enjoyed watching their performances so far.
I think the thing that I'd say about Virtus.Pro particularly,
I think they're, I've said coming in,
I think they're a very good roster.
Been, you know, watching Rorik for a long time,
waiting for him to get to this point.
It doesn't surprise me that he's coming
and started delivering immediately.
I love to see that they seem to have addressed
some of the historic Virtus.Pro issues
and they're a little bit quicker, more adaptive, willing to play other maps, you know, all these sorts of things.
So I think we are starting to see that change for them that a lot of the funds will have wanted to see.
But yeah, I just think, Virtus.Pro, again, I just can't see them, I can't see them really dropping off,
particularly through kickoff, but I'm also kind of predicting longer term. I'm really interested now
to see them in a best of three. You know, obviously we've only had best of ones so far,
But if they can, that's where we'll really test that map pool.
But yeah, I know there's, I've no doubt there's a lot of people shouting at me about, you know,
discounting Team Secret from that sort of war.
I say that with an asterisk at the minute.
I'm just a little bit concerned after what we saw in Play Day 1.
They've lost German Adrian 2, huge names for that roster.
One of them to a direct competitor in Balkans.
Honestly, I think we might see a little bit of a struggle season
you know, hopefully they prove
me wrong. Uh you know, I'll say
that as I do about everybody at
the end of the day, I don't
really care who wins so long as
we get some good and entertaining
siege. But yeah, I've just got a
little bit of a feeling for the
secret that it's going to be a
tough one. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know. I just like
disagreeing me at this point.
I think I know you do. That's
the one that I'd probably
switch out with shifters. That's
I'm kind of. Yeah, that's
what I was going to do. Virtus
Pro Falcons. I'm confident
I'm confident they're going to
be three of the top four. I
was just now, but longer term,
but then I'm kind of in that
fourth place. I'm kind of playing
between shifters and secret, and
it's easy to go with all shifters
of one secret of that's not. I'm
not just going on that basis. Um
but, uh, I'm kind of very close
lean. Maybe 5545 60 40 just
leaning towards shifters of
to be the best in the region.
Right now, the hard to beat. Yes,
they weren't making second place
finishes like Falcons were, but
we're EWC, you know, real
challenging for a lot of things
and we're very, very impressive.
As I, as we know, like there are
a lot of things that did
incredibly well. There's still
got three of those five players
that were, you know, EWC
winners in the plate at that
level, you know, Mowgli, I
think we'd all agree is when
he's in the right side of the
right side of the right
side of the right side of the
right side of the right
side of the right side of the
right side of the right
side of the right side of the
right side of the right side
is one of the best entries
that you'll see around the world.
Savage, one of the best shield players.
Noah alongside June was putting up
massive performances back in SI.
So really, I guess it's kind of down to the blending
of citizen, Nathan, how well they fit into.
I wouldn't even say so much fit into the structure,
because I imagine the structure has changed a lot
around them as well.
Nathan, of course, being an IGL previously.
Citizen, I think anyone who's watched EU
for any longer period of time knows exactly
how good he can be.
It'll just take a little bit of time for, like,
building.
And I think that's why like it being called
being called a kickoff tournament, actually quite nice.
It's a kickoff for a lot of these teams
because we always have big roster shuffles after SI.
We're now in that period where these teams
are trying to gel together and unfortunately for some,
it does mean they're gonna miss out on Salt Lake City.
However, it's a good chance to get yourself some fighting form,
ready for EWC in the summer,
after seeing themselves through stage one,
then of course, kicking on to our November major
as well off the back of stage two.
And SI awaits, done.
It's what everyone, of course,
is gonna have their eyes on
as they do every single year.
We are back into game. Thank you for waiting with us a little bit ever a lobby restart there
So that's all been sorted out. That's why everyone is back at zero kills
But in case you are wondering for quite a bit of testing things up from Benja and the shiker
Benja was in three Shiker six and four on the other side re-ass was a five and four
So you're trying to truck the current kill leaders. Those are players keep your eyes on
Yeah, yeah to round that off. I think you'd like is it I'm arguing with myself a lot about secret as well because
I'm not anybody coming for me say no, but I want about this player and that one they have got absolute quarrel
You're arguing with yourself
Do you want to go to bed tonight and it will have mean
You'll be like, oh it's the thing about the women you'll be like, a secret fourth of it
A secret fourth of it, yeah
It's a secret win today, I'm gonna be in complete shambles because I just don't know which way to fall on it
But like I thought I've watched a lot of season over the years, I've seen a lot of roster changes
And it's just the feeling, I know I'm a citizen of absolute quality players, we've had them for years and years now.
Can that team do it 100%? It could be number one in the ML.
I just have a feeling, we'll see how it goes, we'll see how it plays out.
Sometimes you just got to put your neck on the line, you got to go for the opinions.
And it gives somebody, you know, it gives somebody for everyone to shout at, I guess.
What like saying, do you land on the moon?
Well, let's not get carried away.
We didn't learn on the moon.
We did, you and I.
That's triggered me so much over the last few days on social media, I can't get over it.
Don't, don't.
Say that's not a backstage please.
We're gonna have Dora just playing in here in the shower behind the mirror, the position
we all know and love.
He's on the Wamai.
One of the, we quite often see the Wamai playing in here, able to try and use those
magnets.
in the wrong direction though, really, put it onto construction door, which allowed the Selma charge to
be sort of brute-forced onto his mirror window, which has forced his movement, which has sent him die!
Not ideal! So, they have replaced that bit, not Aqui's still inside. I like this mirror that looks
on into sight and onto the windows by the way. Aqui's going to be playing that one inside
of Lodgy, just having a look, there's nobody that's moved in to retake that mirror window
looks onto the breach it's been opened by the Selma charge so it's good progress for G2 to start with.
the Bender of the game. They're
going to be able to get a good
damage here. But what can the
load do from behind the shield?
Stompens going to take it again.
Manages to get a good kill. Shaco
finds the last with the bend.
That's a G2 come away with a 4
to half and I think that suits
them down to the ground as they
move on to the defense. The
tech pause doing absolutely nothing
to slow down G2's momentum in
this game. There's been
back after the play days done
because we've had some real opportunities for them.
Yeah.
One of those were, again, it's another GC round.
They found a hole in the back midway
and threw the round and then just exploited it
to the absolute max because once Stokey got control
of construction door that early on,
Jim is much safer to be able to play into.
However, Tim, it's the halfway point.
Let's get our studio involved. Guys, what do you think?
Well, thank you so much. The players get to talk
Alcina's first half, and so do we.
I want to talk to you two about is you two mentioned the defensive win rate of heretics now
It isn't looking good. You didn't in particular Jack and looking at this one here again with a two four half
We're looking at moments where this defensive win of first half could have been so much better from heretics
Yeah, it really could have been so over three maps now
We've got a heretics defensive win rate of twelve point five percent
Which it's just not good enough to hang at this level and I think realistically the one common theme is the late round for heretics
why they're not really playing free-chubber. They've had G2 getting down to 30 seconds in so many rounds,
there's at least three of their defenses there, and this was one of the only ones they won,
where they were managing to try and let G2 execute and then win it out from there,
and that's what they've struggled with so much. It's like they've got ants in that
hunt, they've been peeking, they've been just giving G2 the free picks in those late rounds,
and that's why they've been losing them. And it's been a real issue because they've played
mostly turtle setups, right? They're playing very close to each other, they use smoke,
stone, echo, sometimes the mirror in a clash like we saw on the last round, and yet you
still don't use that utility in the late round to play close to each other.
And that is a problem for me because it's easier in defense when you have that utility
to play for each other.
Now they're about to start attacking, and when they need to start attacking they will
need to do multiple things at the same time, and that problem means that they're going
to be spread out.
If they could not already play with each other well, at the end of the round, close
to each other with the utility, how will they do so in attack when they have
to be spread out to manage multiple things at the same time. That is my biggest question mark now
is, switching to attack, can they play together more? Can they achieve one task by all five focusing
on it and going step by step? Well to the spin in a positive way, G2 have had a great first half.
The question that I missed, can they close it out here on the defense back to the casters?
Thank you very much, Ann. We'll find out indeed if they can. You would expect,
given how they've played so far, that they should be able to do just that,
that because we had this
conversation yesterday on SAL
team for a couple of teams that
had a strong start had to then
flip things over. We said coming
into that second half going on
to the attacking side, you're
probably going to find it's a
little bit more of a challenge
because it does require being
more put together as a team.
When it seems still gelling
and still figuring things out.
That is where the cracks tend
to show. See if any cracks
start opening up and hitting
the second half, whether that
be on the G2 or heretics
are going to take away the
to, uh, wall denial
operators. I can say, okay,
full sense. As this bandit
given CCTV wall given Jim
wall, you know, there are
opportunities there to keep
those walls closed for longer
than needs be. But my concern
is I'm gonna voice the same
one as I did the opposite way
around G2 have actually dealt
with the utility that's been
left in because of those
bands really, really low.
So now the question has to be
asked, you know, I have to
as well how are they going to deal with all that utility they're going to be
playing into with that band you know you've got the Azami being played now
you've got the mirror being played you've got Goyo there because they've all
been left up all bands have been attracted to you've got Bencher on the
small cable to slow things down as well so a lot of utility that they're
going to have to deal with their four sets of barbed wire you know to be
navigated to nitro so it could be coming at them let's keep an eye on
that from Heretic's perspective and how much of an impact does it have on the round church
in Arsenal will be the first defensive spot for G2.
They kick off a second half.
Shocked him.
Columny absolutely shook us, the foot was starting out down in the basement.
I spoke about it before, I think in the last stage when we had a conversation about
all the sides across the game, it wasn't the most defend decided in the entire game.
It's a no surprise that teams choose to start there, a game where I'm really curious
to see if the trend boosts the water to be carry on seeing cash and CCs second or if instead we step up towards actually my bedroom being second for a majority of teams still either way we've got ourselves inside pretty quick hitting my 40 seconds in a kitchen is now in the control of heretics and they're cooking up a storm Ram tearing up those floorboards or the members want to get to work down dirt as well so they are keeping themselves busy early on and looking to try and keep the kind of pace that she too said back in that first half.
We're going straight in with lower on the black beard looking to get aggressive Ram has done some serious work in kitchen
As you see and there is absolutely nothing at slowing these down G2 completely turtle on site
There is no
Option for them to be going for a flank really so this is basically all in the hands of heretics here
This is about you know when they want to attack and how well do they deal with that utility so far
I asked that question at the beginning of the round. I'll focus on it throughout
I'm liking what I'm seeing. They've got in there. They're taking away Goyo canisters waiting for that fire to burn out
They're gonna start pushing for smoke canisters to come their way from Benja before too long
I would expect as well to stop them getting access to that dirt door
So, you know, this is all good stuff for heretics nice and early in the round still half of it left nearly and they started to
Take away that utility that they didn't ban out great stuff
Rias manage to open things up with a kill on to the Azami as well more keeper barricades taken away
more of that utility dealt was looking good for the attack.
from stomping. So G-SIM hold on for now and now Doki's left in A1 versus 2. One of them
being a block beard is certainly not ideal. Flash comes on through. Doki is toast and
Heretics take their first attack.
Yeah, I think that was good from Heretics on the whole. There was a little bit of
messiness I will say around dealing with Alamo behind that mirror window. We had Candela's
coming in. Akwi went a little bit too soon so he found himself full white flashed and
Alamo was able to win the fight out and then, you know, a little bit sloppy from
Heretics on the attack there was a little bit concerned for them at the side switch
You know will they be able to to match the four rounds that G2 were able to get but they've just took the number one site and they were looking good
They were they were and hopefully it continues if you get things that were 4-4 this suddenly becomes a very interesting game
And a question whether or not G2 can hold on against the team moves so far as we said if
Really struggles to put anything on the board and who Benny would have written off coming in today and known that the next
in the next playday they play against Ferdin's Pride and have a day off, many already see them as out, but could yet surprise us jumping on to the Monty in this round and that's being matched up by stomping on the clash on the other side.
Now, Timmit is going to be that gym bedroom defence and not the cash that you see, so interesting for G2 to be defaulting towards that one, but they are playing this extended hold, that's why you've got stomping,
that at the spread. No doubt with a couple of other players. It's a gift for me towards
Ben here. Of course, it's got that shotgun available. The mute haven't put down a bunch
of those jammers for drones rolling on through. They're ready for heretics. The question is
how long can they hold on if this gets broken early and they lose both players? That's
the problem. If they can hold on out here for 60, 75 seconds and get both players
back towards site, that's still a win because you've wasted a lot of time. Yep. Right
now, heretics are just getting to that point. This is the tipping scale, you know, where
we're going to see exactly how they deal with it. It's going to be Lola on the Monty that
looks to get aggressive onto this door and just again, tickle it. Just try and see what's
there. What are we playing into? What do we have to deal with? He's to be careful
because there are nitros in hand and available. I like this from Aquey. Supporting his teammate
is watching for that nitro coming over the top, making sure that they don't get
caught out with it Dora does take a lot of damage along the line somewhere not ideal but
those exothermics were going off all about that from Rias just goes steamroller in up
red stairs right over the top of Alamow. That's the Canadian top white stairs field
moment. It looks like he should have had rare as dense and right there the fact that he
was laid down waiting and it's nothing for it it's a little bit mental. That's
still a good advantage though. I think the heretics will be mildly happy. Like, yes,
you've lost a good bit of time on that dungeon with that extended hold, but you've got to
kill at the back of it and you've got the smoke who quite crucially is one of the biggest
time wasters on the side of G2. Yes, you've got to worry about Mira. Yes, you've got
to worry about the C4. Yes, you've got to worry about stomping on the clash. But
this now starts to feel very doable for heretics, Tim.
It's going to be trying to get that angle from the hatch. And where our punish though
as two drops to G2. Lolo manages to take down Benjy in a trade, but heretics one of those
A's to Monty. The shields are powerful but there comes a point later in the round where
it maybe gets a little bit less than ideal having to play the pistol, but Lolo says,
you know what, I don't care, give me the pistol, takes down Shaco, and leaves us now two versus
two. The problem that he's got is that Dora is solo health. He needs Dora to kind of be
you're going for him now especially going up against the class. How about that? Played
perfectly. Wonderful read. Okay. Okay. Stopping. Stop it. 5 3 G 2. Great one V two from stomping
at the end there on the class. You really think when Dora gets that kill onto doki,
which was beautifully played by the way, I absolutely love how they manipulated that
the game. But he's got to be
the right guy. He's got to be
back with the fake plant and
opened up, got the cluster move
aside so that doki could get
through to do something and
just they are there waiting
played like a fiddle beautiful
stuff. But then the stomping
effect comes into action
beautiful one V to with the
secondary. You know, no other
choice, of course, the shield
being the primary and just
finds his shots. Absolutely
great stuff from him to
Okay, I feel the pass from my face.
It's a bit of a roll tone by Reyes.
That's a bit of a make-up of a thing from round seven.
The chaos that ensued on that charge
and towards face company was on the ying,
but we'll take it.
Either way, this is just one of those moments,
as you said, it's gonna happen.
And it looks so durable in the 2v1 as well.
The fact that it split up a little bit
really is what took it away from them
because I thought even in the 2v2,
knowing that both players on G2 were sat on main stairs,
there's probably a good chance
she can get a plant down in a good position there,
near a window, you've got the cover of the shield.
Get outside and provide cover from there.
Just got a little bit fragmented there
at the very end of things.
Heretics of thinking cost themselves big time.
Otherwise, it could have been 4-4,
and this could have become a very interesting game.
Not that it can't still.
This is round nine.
Timmy is a 5-3 scoreline.
It's one of our favorite scorelines
and favorite rounds in the game.
Why is it other good people at home?
That's why that is.
Well, because think of the difference
that we could have as the outcome of this.
The G2 find themselves six three up
with three back-to-back match points or heretics are one round behind.
It's 5-4 and they are hot on the tails of G2.
It is a massive, massive difference in scorelines,
5-4 versus 6-3, and it is all created by one swing round,
which is here and now round nine.
So often we will see, you know, these situations.
If it's 4-4, then a little less important,
but it could be critical in this one.
So, straight away, we've got the shield looking to move
downstairs just make sure that there is nobody waiting down there to flank them
and make their life a misery. I can tell you from looking across the bottom of my
screen that there is not G2R completely up on that top floor. The problem with
utility could continue to heretics here because again look at everything they are
playing up against. They're going up against those laser gates, they've got a
bulletproof camera, they've got six loads of barbed wire, they've got razor
blooms, they've got Keebo barricades, they've got ADSs. There is so much to
deal with for them just so that they can open those walls quickly they're gonna
lose the shield as well four versus four Lolo does manage to take down
Halimae so taking away the smoke great start stomping he's left down on the
deck as well but here comes Shaco flips over to the pistol managers to get
himself two of the deagles are a finish of stomping but already it's
looking like it could be a G2 round. Yeah! They've just been absolutely sliced up
the game. And the other
team is just getting up inside
a gym bedroom Tim. I don't
think they paid the respect
was lodging and if my
choice man is just that the
net there and get past the
play that was meant to watch
on hatch or what it's going to
make it for all too easy to
close out around for his team
and that's G to up to six and
three. It's looking a little
bit done. But honestly, I
think that it's not for the
first time this game.
Heretics have let G to slip
I would agree with you there.
I think G2 now, they've got one foot over the line in this.
It's going to be a big fight back for Heretics to make.
I'd be interested to see whether maybe a tactical timeout comes from them.
We haven't seen one as of yet.
Heretics, if you're going to rip the cord at any point now is the time, really,
but looks like they're not going to go for it.
Instead, we're going to see a reciprocal shield ban,
as the bullets and the clash both get taken out of things.
that's a score time. Yeah, the problem is Tim, we have this conversation so often like
having it when you're literally at your very last life, it feels a bit late at that point.
Earlier couple of rounds ago might have been the time to have it. Yes, and I managed to
win one of them. But I think leaving it down to the point where you've got to win three
rounds back to back is asking a lot. Because as I often say to you to have now only
got to be right once, you've got to be right every single time. Hopefully they
can do something here to turn it around a little bit. But I think it might just
be a bit too much of a tall order.
I agree.
I think if there's any team that you're
going to want to come back against in this group,
G2 is probably the last really.
Maybe put Virtus Pro up alongside with them.
But yeah, it's going to be a very difficult last now.
I'm glad to see that we've had a bit of a better game
from Heretics on the whole.
I don't want to talk like they've already lost,
like it's already over.
Because that's not the case.
We've seen plenty of times, much bigger
I think we have seen a better performance from them. They've dealt with problems that have been in front of them well. They have been just outgunned a little bit. I think that's been one of the problems for them. I haven't, you know, I've been quite impressed with the way they've dealt with the utility and kind of softened up site and created avenues for themselves to work into.
I've been quite impressed with the way they've dealt with the utility
and kind of softened up sight and created avenues for themselves to work into.
But they then ultimately losing to many of those gunfights,
which is putting them on the back foot despite the other good work they're doing.
So that's something that they need to be working on going forward.
But as we stand, we get back into the match 6-3, G2, they will continue on.
It's going to be back down to Church and Arsenal.
Here it is. And again, for those that are following along on kills for this game,
because that's the scene that little 4k from Shaiiki might be thinking, huh, well who's on what now?
Well, Shaiiko is 14 and 6, Benja is 10 and 5.
On the other side, Reyes has been caught up with fortune, he's 8 and 8 at this point,
though he is 3 and 0 on the entry team.
So it was started strong, but as we've seen, it's often been these mid-round moments
from players on G2 that have really pulled them through and got them to the stage
where they are now, which is in a very commanding position.
I was going to say quick entrance coming in from heretics, we have seen it a couple of
times from them but actually just dips away from that, gets back onto the drone, does spot
out Doki who was going to be a little bit cheeky there inside of Freezy, he's going
to really hard hold kitchen here though, doesn't want to give it over too easily,
the ram comes in, not able to quite find the angle immediately but does a lot
of progress from it. Doki, he and Doki can't sit still. He's looking for the
fights, he takes one and almost loses it. A lot of damage done, a minute into the
round. He needs to hold on in kitchen for at least another 30 seconds here, I think,
to make this worthwhile. It's not terrible because he's got Shoko trying to bait out
behind him as well, but no, Dora gets into the slinner of the doorway through
both of the match, you're all the way through me. On towards him, that is
cleared out, which is four stomping to back away here. Not Shoko, sorry,
This house bumping back down into the basement Ben just gonna fall off though at the same time
That's who players being taken down inside the first 90 seconds of 5v3
It's one of those a look at and say
Heretics surely don't lose from this position, right?
right, right
We would expect not five versus three has they
Need to find the next kill. I think that's that's the one that makes the big difference
Stomping still just playing up at the top of those main stairs wanting to burn as much time as he can
He comes away with a kill here
Then they could be farming themselves in a little bit of trouble heretics, but they've dealt with him
Well, they've not overcommitted they push from multiple angles and they forced him back down the flashers continue to come in using that utility
Well, so heretics have done a good job 50 seconds left to go they need to think about his sight though
Unless again think about how much utility they're gonna have to play through not as much as you might think the goya canisters
could still be in play. We don't know exactly the state of all of those, but Alamang, no
smart canister's left. Keeper Barricade's gone with that death, let's go. Okay. They're
actually looking pretty good here at heretics.
The thing is, that vocal reaction of Stompin steps into the fire, just gives it away.
He's on main stairs. Aqui is ready for him. Stompin looks like he might be two, but
oh, no! Turning back onto him! A team kill! What is that, Rosara? That's
I was worried for him. It looked
like the you know, the we're
wanting to give G to a bit of a
chance, weren't they? But after
that wobble, they get the job
done. The tactical time out has
done some good work for them
there. Instead of the ship a
little bit gets them the first
of three rounds. They need
three back to back to take
to take us to overtime. G2,
they only need to get it right
once. But look, that was a really
good chance for G2 to cause that
out. Church in Arsenal, one of the
best defensive sides in the game.
They kind of had it on a plate
there, G2, to just get this
one done, wrap it up, 7-3
move on, with a good confident
victory after the little bit of a
struggle of a start last week,
but didn't work out for them
immediately, so we're going to see
They've got two more backs at the cherry this time and I think there's still a good chance that they get it closed out
But heretics just having a look at how the last couple of rounds have gone
It's been a little bit back and forward on the entry, but what I will say is particularly whilst attacking
Heretics have done really well. They've had three out of four so far on their attacking rounds entry kills
So I think that's really powering them up getting them over the line
They only lost one of those rounds. So again, get yourself into that situation.
Riaz has had three entries this game, by the way.
So again, doing a good job of putting his team on the best foot forward.
But let's just keep an eye on that.
If Eritys get themselves an entry, I think we could be going towards round 11.
The other thing I start to look at, Tim, is the only two sides
that won in the attack have both been into the most offensive side.
If one of them came, it was you tied in the basement.
And then G2 have won on Jim Bedrim, then over on CashGC.
Obviously, now that we've won down there in the basement,
so I got one down there, so I lost it in the last round,
I imagine we'll go into the same three-side rotation,
gym bedroom here, and then across to cash and CC once again,
G2 are looking to try and waste time out on next in the hold.
Not making use of the shield, because of course it's found a way.
Instead, turning it towards the tuber out here to slow things down,
they're just trying to drag heretics over hot coals a little bit,
punish them and burn through utility, burn through time,
maybe even get a kill or two on the way.
But it also presents a golden chance for heretics
to remove a couple of players from the G2 side early on.
Riaz looking to feed.
All of them here?
Yeah, Riaz looking to be that main man again,
and get in, get aggressive, and put his team on at the best
book.
I'm going to see the first of the Toxic Bear canisters
come out very early again.
1 minute 10 into the round.
There's a lot of time for them to survive yet.
No entry for Riaz this time.
It's one of the oldest C4s in the book,
and it works out beautifully for Benja.
Aliupin up over the top, and manages
to find his man 5 vs 3 as he doubles down and finds another, Lolo will shut him down
but it looks like a lot of damage is already done.
It is, they've got the kills that they need here, surely she must say let's not look and
do something on the Monty, but you're asking a lot of him there in a 1 vs 3, G2 clean
up, get the 3 points they need, it's also to a better place in these standings for
heresy so it now looks dire, VP's the last chance they will have to try and
climb out of the buzz.
Yeah, G2's indicated that last week's loss was nothing more than a blip.
They get themselves a solid full three points for a regulation with them.
And honestly, for the most part, I would say, you know, there's a couple of little things, but G2 look pretty good to me, there's...
They do, Simon. I'm sure our deaths feel the same. We'll hear what they've got to say after a short break.
Back with you in just a few.
Hello guys, pretty good. First victory of the new roster. Pretty excited.
Karl, obviously you lost last week. In terms of this week though, playing up against Hereticz, how did you approach that game? How was the team feeling? How come you went to Clubhouse?
I think we practiced against them before we knew which group we were in. So we had some info from the scrims.
And, uh, clubhouse is a map we've been trying good lately, even with the old roster, is a map that we became to enjoy.
Kind of fun because our history on clubhouse is pretty shit.
Yeah.
But like, uh, yeah, uh, yeah.
Feeling good.
Do you feel that clubhouse is a map given, you know, you, you famously believe that you've got five entry fraggers.
That doesn't really suit clubhouse, right? You've got a lot of, you have to play a lot of breaching operators, for example, a lot of shields on clubhouse.
actually yes I mean we kind of like in play whatever like people are just
playing some random roles they never played before in their lives besides
Shaco I think Shaco is still just playing Shaco role and he did an amazing job today
just keep fighting there with the Digo like crazy and yeah but the rest of the
roster I feel like everyone is trying to adapt right like Zac is playing more
Harbich than ever I mean he already used to play Harbich in the previous
but now he's playing like even more I'm still trying like to flex whatever we
need in the rounds like can be shields, can be something else and Doki sometimes
even plays shields now for us and Benja also not always in the lurk which he
prefers to be so I think everyone's adapted to the new roles. So it's a
perfect signal because I was actually gonna ask you because I'm like the
more things change the more they never change because I see Shaco on G2 and
he's still playing Demos all the time and he's still playing Azami on the
time and he's still in garage on Klavaz and still in blue on basement so did you
guys basically build a roster around him and his roles and then everyone just
like changed changed a little bit the way they play so that he could play
basically his main position and main roles yeah I think it's pretty much like
between him and Doki because they just they always did like the same roles in
their lives but I feel like Doki was always like more adaptable than Shaikou
so even in the past Doki did like a lot of like weird support roles for
us and he communicates really well he's even like coordinated some really
really good mid runs for us and I think it's easier to adapt the hockey than
adapt Shaiiko and we have like a super signed team so let's just keep him on the
same row as he did his entire career. It's wonderful that you've given us some
insights on on the rosters and the and the role I guess as well so thank you
so much for that and best of luck with the next games industry break. Thank you
thank you and thank you guys. Thank you. I mean it seems to work. We'll get that kind of insight right I mean you know as we were talking they
famously have these five entries and that's how they joke on social media with the roles
on this roster. But we can save I've entries. It's again showing that this individual prowess
on the roster is what is pulling them through here, Jack.
Yeah, it was absolutely crazy seeing that one versus two from Stompern and then seeing
Shaco on the deagle as well. And I think this is the thing, like he's starting a super
team. You have all of these insane fraggers, all of this truly capable talent. You
know that that's your key strength. And I think G2 will always be able to find
way to win rounds just out of absolute nowhere and that's what we saw today. And the two main
protagonists of that, the two main people, were the two new signings for G2. Benjamaster and Shaco,
both of them hitting double digits. Shaco, by the way, has hit 14 kills twice in two maps now for
G2. This is the firepower that G2 wanted, that is the direct upgrades on their previous players.
Yeah, and you can see how LMOs I think is very blunt and put it very honestly in front
of us right? We know we just recruited a superstar and we know how good he is. We want him to feel
comfortable. So he plays the same roles, plays the same position, Doki will adapt. And I actually
like what he said because the fact that Doki had to give up some of these positions where he was playing
gives him a better overview, a better vision, maybe more as a flex support because Doki was
playing very flexible players. During the game he played Ying, he played Blackbird, he played
the Hibana, the Capitao, so basically by moving Doki a little bit further away, you bring him
closer to the vision of what's happening in the game and he can shot call from there,
which in my opinion was something that maybe Jitu was lacking at some point where I felt
like a lot of weight was on Alemao's shoulders when it comes to the cooling of the team.
Having Doki in that position allows him to shot call better and overall I think
yes, individual process saving them.
I'm still waiting to see more of the coordination at the top level because I thought that
Heretics had actually a good game plan here Jack because they brought the shield in attack
They were going step by step it would multiple opening engagements
Riaz is finally showing up on a scoreboard like I see improvement on this type
Yeah
I think the reason actually there was a seven four victory for G2 and not the fact that we're now still playing over time
Is that heretics really struggled in their late-round defenses as we spoke about the halftime break
And then G2 had that little bit of individual prowess that little bit of individual fire path that got them over the line
And I think realistically I've said this a couple of times now
But G2's judgment realistically for me is going to come international events because I think they will be able to make
International events on firepower alone
But I think if they continue working on the team play on the cohesion on the coordination
It's not expected to come right now. This is only match two of this new team
But when it comes later, that's when they can look dangerous
Yeah, it's they doubled their rounds one with this game
But then again, we're still looking at the point where it's again a loss for heretics, right?
They're showing improvements, but with the way that this this format works
It is coming at them too fast
But then to be able to do something matter because their next game tomorrow is against Vortice Prodecor and leader inside that group
And it is still looking really rough
But I have some time to recover they have some time to fix these errors in the issues that they're working with
While we move on to our next game of the day
And this is our game we talked about in the free show right Falcons against twist of minds just minds going up against a former
Organization will talk more about it after the break
the game. We're going to go
back to that. Our second game
all day twisted minds versus
the organization that dropped
them to pick up this new
Falcons roster. I'm sure this
one will be maybe a bit of a
personal level for them.
Jack if you think about it
right, you're going up against
your old organization. You
kind of want to show them
like, Hey, you know, you
kind of lost us. That's the
big thing. Take it back. What
12 months ago Falcons enter
the current Twisted Minds roster who I thought performed decently well. In the end Falcons ended up
picking up the the stupid team that we know and love that have been you know to almost every final
but I think for the Twisted Minds guys in particular it gives them a lot of motivation to
perform inside of this specific game. There is a potential revenge or comeback story for these
guys should they be allowed you know to beat the current Falcons roster and prove to their
former organization that it was a mistake. I will say this, I also think that I mentioned
it before that the two names of MENA, the biggest ones actually, are Falcons of Twisted
Mines and it is a heated rivalry across many different historical titles and I think
it's good that we get that kind of like MENA Derby now in Siege's EML because I'm
glad that finally we have that MENA representation in our league. I thought that Twisted Mines
So far I've showed a lot of promises. So I wish that we can get a good match here. I
Hope so too. We'll start talking about Falcons first because technically we only saw them once last week
But despite that being only one time they still had a really good game
And I think the best thing about that Jack is that June their new addition was off to a flying star as well
Yeah, I think so. I think if they could have mapped their week out specifically
They would have wanted a dominant performance and they wanted June to have felt at home in his very first game
Now, the temperament of the player is he was always going to do that.
He's always going to back himself and he's always going to produce numbers.
But I think for the rest of the team, betting him in,
seeing him put up these big numbers, you know,
making round-winning plays and game-winning plays like he made in that highlight just there,
was absolutely perfect for them.
He plays in such a way he feels like watching a perfect player.
Reminds me a bit of Stomping sometimes,
where in the way that he can play a bit passive,
and just knows when to get aggressive when you win that pick,
the way he was playing in defense with that sentry, the CSG,
winning so many gunfights, using his C4s the right way,
lands him 11-3, to be honest.
Like, you can't think of a better debut
when you're coming into such a big organization,
when you're placing a big name like Shaco.
I love his statement so far, saying,
hey, I'm not here to be Shaco, I'm here to be myself.
And so far, I think he's being put in a role
that where he can really shine.
And I'm very excited to see him continue on that path
now that we get to see a second match for Valkyrie.
Yeah, it's fair that this is working out well for them though, but it makes you wonder right
We've only seen them once how can a roster like twisted minds really anticipate on this matchup and something that we see on the likes of twisted
Minds sometimes that they tend to either be really aggressive or fluid and sometimes we also see Leo when they play against his big opponents
They get maybe a little bit and see do you think that might influence something today?
Yeah
I mean if I look back at their game against against geeky I'm conscious that I was very surprised because we've just seen at a
beginning of the show here how Gracie Vashem was in a 5v4 he runs out with Solis outside
Visa on Consulate and starts changing a bit, right? That is the roster that we know from
Twisted Minds, a roster that is extremely aggressive, that is not afraid to take gunfights,
that will use the chaos of the Blitz, of the Solis, of the Deimos to try and be unpredictable,
right? And I think that that playstyle, it suits them Jack because they've got
the individual level. My worry is, when they weren't Consulate and they started
attacking they tried to play super slow and methodical and I just didn't work. They were just slow and predictable
and I'm wondering will they respect Falcons too much or are they gonna throw themselves with that all aggressive
aggression that they need right that the chaotic aggression that they need. To me
they need the latter to beat a team like Falcons. They cannot expect to beat them at their own game.
I think you're always gonna see Twisted Minds be strong on the defense in my mind
I think because you can see individuals making individual plays, you know
We speak about it the aggression the powerful operators and it's powerful operators that stay inside of powerful positions inside of the map
I think when you're attacking you need a lot more
Cohesion a lot more coordination amongst the team and if you want to commit to the style
You all need to commit to it together and get really crazy together
And that's much harder to do on the attack
So I think realistically where we're going to see twisted minds kind of judgment day is going to be on their attacks
Oh, I would personally love to see a map for these two where the aggression could really come into fruition
like a border like we saw last week as well on the likes of Falcons.
So we won't be going there today, we're going till there.
Leo, how do you feel like the aggression from these two teams might work on this map?
Well, I think most of the engagements are going to happen really early in the round
because the way the map is layout, it will be a fight towards ups, a fight towards green.
It will be a fight when there are their basements to train clear armoury side or in garage.
I think it will be a fight already at the outer frame of the map very often.
Looking at the performance for Tristan Mines on that map, it's a map that they love.
They played it four times recently, won it every single time, including beating Fnatic in the SI qualifiers.
For the side of Falcons, the last three times they played it was extremely, extremely one-sided.
It was at SI 2026. They lost 7-1 to FaZe. They had beat 7-1 to elevate, and they lost it 7-0 against Furia.
I don't know. It was very
one sided, but it was ready two
months ago. So I assume you're
reworked happen. Yeah, two
months is a lot of time that
you can work on a lot of
stress and a lot of things in
two months. Do what really
comes to play on this map,
though. The game is ready.
So send it to a castors. Thank
you very much. And indeed
let him to have a bit of a
throw down one of our
favorite maps to see at the
moment as well, and hopefully
one where we can see a
I think it's a bit of a
bit of a big map. It gives us
a lot of opportunity for Rome
game for, you know, the
defense to kind of get out of
the box of sight and give the
attackers something to really
think about. So yeah, I like
they would do see quite
differently game to game. And
like you say, we'll see where
the falcons improve. They
played phenomenally last week
in their open other. Fantastic.
against a very quiet team.
So I think, yeah, I'm looking forward to tonight
to see how Falcons deal with what can be
insanely unpredictable twisted minds.
Absolutely.
There's always that big question for a twisted mind
to think about whether or not
they're going to have to punch up and surprise some.
Of course, it's been an interesting start
to kick up for them so far,
but now you've got a tango with one of the best Falcons.
If anyone got that question around here with Shiko
for June for Shiko, the dream swap,
is that really the one to make?
And I think outside of finals, you'd probably say,
yeah, no, Kishiko's been phenomenal this
for all over the years, consistently a top performer.
But when it comes to the big events,
we tend to see him have a little bit of a step down
in terms of performance.
When I was looking into his numbers prior,
only one of seven finals has he gone positive in,
which is not a great thing to say about Keith Braga.
For Jume, he seems to really come alive
in those big moments.
And there's a lot of faith being put onto Jume here
to help take his team to another level.
We'll see if that can also translate
Top two performances throughout things like you got so far so good. Let's see how the gaming is twisted minds
So we're gonna start with Falcons on defense and they're starting up on at this top four Tim and our fans coming through
We're touching on yet again. The electro bros being taken away and on T and dr
Be being taken away by Falcons. Yeah, we've seen a lot of the
Band coming along go for the last few days. It's
Interesting one because as we've spoken about last game
it leaves up a lot of utility for teams to play into, but at the time it seems to be preferring that
to enable those quick preaches and a bit of extra pace that they can maybe get without
closed denial ops on the table. Of course, there's a little bit of correlation there to maps
that have strong ranges as well as playing down in the basement here, taking away the
carry. It can't be a big loss to the defenders. So let's get into round one, 20 seconds in,
We're gonna have this army of June playing inside of ops
He's got himself covered off from the window with a keeper parricade and can now try to get a little bit aggressive towards story
He's gonna be fully aware
The blitz and is gonna I was just wondering that thought let's just turn his back on that door
There's a real opportunity for two minutes
And he does that
number of times he typically sees players on mezz playing behind the single reinforced
wall of one side being soft, quite common. And as army then playing inside of ops itself
some teams have done it but it is considered like a very very aggressive and risky spot
to hold but so far he is absolutely bossy in this team, don't think he knows about
the player that got across the wall to the left but he does not care. Large and in
charge, June looking to shut this down before they can even get inside the building.
Yeah, we're a minute and a half in. You know even if they go in and kill him and
He doesn't get any more of this than he's shopping.
He's done it brilliantly.
A minute and a half into the round,
he's taken away the Blitz, he's taken away the Deimos,
so no pressure from underneath, no track pressure.
You know, not having a shield up in your face
to just take ground and force you out of position.
And a minute and a half out of the round wasted.
And all the rest of his team
have still got all their utility
and can basically just sit and chill for the time being.
This is really good for him too.
You can get ticks wrapped up,
because for now, I've just been minding,
Naturally, that sort of thing's down and say, yeah, maybe Alps is a good try and push from
where else. Got Shrek's now hitting the deck as well, Solasov, to collect that closing kill.
It's looking a little bit pedestrian for Balkans so far, truthfully, since Shalad and Hasham,
the only two left standing with a lot of work to do. And frankly, not a lot of time
remaining as we get to more of the last 50 seconds or so. Hasham finds one instant
trade-up by Solasov. Second time in this round where he's got himself a pretty
critical kill like that. Now Shalad's got it all to do in a 1 versus 2. They
know exactly where he's coming from. This looks rough. Yeah it's going to be tough for him from here. It's a nice little prefire that got him that one. Make that a second one before it becomes a 1v2, becomes a 1v1. Surely not.
Shilat knows where the last days and Solotov needs to stop taking the peek here. 25 seconds left to go. Shilat doesn't have to fuse her in hand by the way. So, low health. Solotov does manage to take the kill but I'll tell you what my heart was in my mouth for the Volkans fans there for a minute.
So let's hope keep peeking that door 20 seconds off to go. You see a world where it maybe goes differently
But she'll add despite a great effort in the 1v4 doesn't quite get over the line
They still see the funny side of it at least if I'll can stay around one fairly comfortably in the end
Yeah, absolutely a couple of nice little kills coming in from the boys and twisted minds
I've agreed you're not one they're gonna be too stressed about it's one thing
But of course these guys have changed under a couple of organizations over time
I remember when we first saw them, it was a good while ago now that we first cast it.
Yeah, the majority of this kind of thing, and of course, there were a couple of changes over time.
When we saw them play, one of the big kind of things about them was that ridiculously aggressive,
like, show up in your face, and a lot of teams crumbled before them because they just weren't used to that pace of play.
But where they would historically struggle would have been one of the strategical side of the game,
when, you know, they couldn't overwhelm opponents with brute force.
How could they have been changing surroundings and playing more strategically, more tactically?
And that's where they fell down to other regions, other teams from around the world that would see them sort of starved out.
Whereas I think you're going to start seeing more and more maturity coming for these boys.
Of course, if they play in regions like this now and they get to face up against top teams more often,
they've of course been streaming top teams for a far longer period of time.
I think you're going to see a real maturity come to them.
And while it may not lead to them being a top team,
you're most definitely going to see them hitting the fighter for a few teams though down.
and we've got Solid Snake being brought along. It was a focus of our pre-show and we had Jack
and Leo breaking down, of course, the impact that we've seen Solid Snake have, in particular
his ability, and I think, again, Laira's a great actress to do this, to be able to
clear quickly, to be able to use that scanner to go through solo without drawing.
I'm saying this falcons just keep killing people so
Too much from tricks. They have put certainly worth keeping an eye on he's able to go through the large areas of that quickly himself
if the opportunity presents
Which I'm not sure it's gonna do but people
At least the mate no second three versus three now inside of a minute by the way how aggressive is this match so far?
That's what I mean
That's what you're gonna see from them, right?
they want to get up in the face of Valkyrie because they want to be aggressive
whereas Valkyrie is a kind of team that typically, old-wage are a little more
composure. Even thinking about Shaiiko as one of our best players back when he was on the team before
never really the kind of guy to go charging in like a player like Mokimite
or Dokimite and be hyper-aggressive. James starts trying to half-take with that mantle now
being the aggressive player, gets the kill, gets the down off the back of it as well.
There's done a lot of damage there but now they're reduced down to a 2 vs 2 again.
So Tristan and I don't quite know when they're beaten. Still want to push on through here
Maybe a 1v1 coming onto Lika back here, of course, gets trapped out immediately, turns tail and runs, not hit through the soft wall.
Still got half a round to go to him, it has been manic.
Yeah, it really has, hasn't it? I'm pretty sure I'm right in saying this, P9 inadvertently is actually in a better situation after being downed.
and June was a little bit unfortunate there to do it
because I think he's ended up with more HP,
almost likely, but he has more HP, I think,
than he did before the shots came in from June.
So we are 2v2 a minute left, so plenty of time.
This is something that Twisted Minds can play on.
They can just hold angles for 30 seconds
and see if Falcons are feeling generous
and want to offer anything up to them.
You know, they don't have to get aggressive immediately,
but Falcons, you got Breedier,
you got Leak effect,
who are the most experienced and patient calm players I think that we have inside of the league so
I really can't see them giving anything away. P9 does have his Define 1, Trin is there, 1v2 becomes a 1v1 but look at the health on Breedy.
This is manic. I think Falcons keep on trying to force out like a one-man play, he'll a-jume early on.
Yeah he got a kill and got a down but I was like okay, did he need that aggressive play?
And it seems that's kind of carried on.
The four-step 1B1's constantly over-kidding for two-hards.
Come on, it's a bit too easy.
Honestly, down the 1B1 and finds the kill
and gives Twisted Minds the round,
but it doesn't feel like a position
they should have been in given how that round started out.
Well recovered, and again, just showing,
they can overwhelm teams with brute force when required.
Yeah, literally, as I was saying it,
you know, I really expected Leakifuck and Breeder
to keep themselves out of trouble and burn a bit of time,
but when there's a minute left on the clock
in that kind of 2v2 it's so so difficult to as a defender just say you know what we're you know
going to try and avoid any gunfights here because at the end of the day you're in a limited space
you've got to think about moving you don't want to get out maneuvered you don't want to be in a
bad position for a gunfight so I've obviously just taken the opportunity when he thought it
was there but pan out and we were able to get that final shot again it was an easy one for
the doverkin to finish off because
Ridae the damage was done by P9
he'd set him up for success that was
solo health, literally I think he could have thrown
a gadget at him and if he had hit him
it would have done the job so
ultimately Twisted Minds, they get themselves round 2
we continue on, we can move it on to
that third choice start, it's going to be Bunkster Falcons
and we'll try to get at least the majority
of their defensive holds here
2-1, what is essential
It is important.
Yes, absolutely.
I think, like, with it being Lair as well,
a map that has definitely been very, very balanced
between attack and defence.
For a while, it lends towards being attack-assided,
but I think now it sits us out like most balanced maps.
It's in the middle of every other map of the pool
when it comes to the attack-defence split,
which just means it is more defend-alien
and attack-aliening,
but our overall balance across all maps
is the most even one we've got.
You would hope to see Twisted Minds walking away with two,
if not three rounds.
We were saying this is an all-things-equal game.
But I guess, again, the reminder you're against
against what is, at least on paper,
one of the best teams in the world.
Yes, they've changed out a key player,
but they also have had four grand final appearances.
Yes, finishing second, which is a real art breaker,
but, because this has been a top tier theme,
they're gonna be hard to beat and hard to bring down,
especially on a map that they absolutely
love like Lair as well.
But I'm hoping just to mind,
given we saw in that last round
that they can recover these rounds when they're,
you know, on paper, look down and beat them,
they can show, they can keep on fighting,
and they keep on fighting to keep themselves
inside of this game.
Now we'll see what the focus looks like there.
Looks like it'll be a focus in towards this high waist high,
but the blitz at the ready,
tricks for him to go charging on forwards.
Quite a lot to be very, very respectful of thinking
of the bioconsider in the form of the IQ
and the gridlock there.
Make sure they've got this black spot down a little bit late
on and also, of course, being a chew-through
to these gadgets as the fired.
See there, the first attempt to get in the wall open
is cleared off as is the second bad impact.
And so Falkins doing a great job here
of just burning time away.
This time, Brown was almost over in the last round
at this point, one minute and 30, we're still five versus five.
Blitz is trying to push forward, but again,
being held at bay for now by Volkens instead.
Just going to have a little focus towards green.
They've played the tracks thing, there's two trying,
just create a little bit of safety
so that they don't get pushed at top green stairs.
Penang will hold the angle physically as well,
but Volkens are able to really focus on keeping the sights
safe from above here because there isn't really
a lot of pressure coming in from twisted minds
to actually clear them.
They're kind of happy to give it to them
and just hold them in position.
I think that could be a bit of a mistake.
We've seen quite a lot of teams focus on the green doors.
I execute what we like ascends for example,
and just completely fall down the top floor.
And we've always looked at you and I
and been like, I feel so risky,
like if we fall into the door,
there's a player sat in the vertical watching you,
it can be very, very risky.
But they've made it work here, Tim,
by trying to actually kind of bait out.
They've got the main way to open up,
to make a blot,
something that's going on inside of there.
And it was a very, very long range plant
with support from those smokes,
but just as they're about to finish the stick,
All the kills flying from Falkens, they get four kills and then one a few seconds afterwards,
a little bit too quintal for them there, well handled and again, further leaning in towards
that point of needing that top floor control if you're going to try and make a plant like
that happen.
Yeah, absolutely. I think Twisted Minds will learn the mistake there and that is that
you cannot just forego top floor. You can't just ignore it and try to walk on in. You're
not just going to get the space that you need and it doesn't pan out for them.
and two right now, but either way, having a phenomenal start here on left, really tearing
into twisted minds. Two-one and we see our next bands coming in. Mira and Grimm will be
the two taken away. So a lot of those kind of execute and space creating ops have been
taken away with the Monty, the docker, be the Grimm. You tend to see the bands like
leaning into kind of sex, if you will. And I think, you know, they're all pretty
complementary to each other and to achieve in the same sort of tasks. And so Balkans definitely
not wanting to have to deal with those. And then the mirror, super powerful with here,
playing as soon as they're able. So now taking way to the next three rounds. June last time around
played inside of Ops on the Azami when they were defending this top floor. Will he do the same?
and if he does, it's a mind to go, they have a response,
will they have an answer.
I'd like to see Dover keep that blitz alive this time.
They lost it the early last time around.
I would like to get an idea on the standing of what the plan was there.
Was it about taking space over on highway?
Or was it about pushing in before he died going towards highway?
But ultimately, is the final first thing expected from that.
We will see what it looks like in this round.
his double can jump and a cross running around on the blitz, rather than tricks as it was in the prior hour.
Otherwise things looking relatively the same, so we've got Jume looking to work his magic once more,
and I can guarantee that Twisted Minds will not let him take away two players in the early round
without barely having to move a muscle inside of Ops itself.
They'll be far more prepared for it and looking to pressure him if they are going to focus on at this popside at all,
for now most upon the roof. Still figuring out exactly where this is going to be pushing him from.
Okay, Droom again is in that position, so what's the plan here?
Twisting pines, what's the adaptation?
They're running. They're running, but are they going to get him?
Have they got an answer? I'm just having a look across the utility.
They've got four nades there between P9 and Shom,
so it should be a real opportunity to force impact,
which looks like that has been the case.
Keep a par of case, two overnight there, but for Ken,
Droom just doesn't know when to quit.
He's looking to push back and get impressive dust off,
takes damage off the blitz, doesn't do an awful lot,
It's about that chip damage, it's about keeping him on the back for Junze, it's a little bit himself, but he's able to get back in position to keep up-arricade the breach.
Still dancing around as well here, like playing in a spot where I think he was pretty sure there'd be someone on that breach, but it can be so risky to play there.
Unless of course you've got the highway control at the same time to don't think twisted mines add early on, so they wouldn't have had someone there being ready to challenge Junze,
but of course House keeps note of just being extra cautious and also making sure that wall is at least partially resealed.
You just mean for a second the twisting mines know that they've got ups control and now they can evaluate right
We've got the control of that key part of the map. We can make use of it later
We're gonna have to fight for it a little bit more soon
But then what's the focus going to be off the back of that?
But now it's a drop down below as they've got two players starting to square up on rocket and they coming into four shoes
Back outcomes this focus well good idea because they're in to begin just in the meeting here
And this is only gonna slow twist of mine down that little bit further and finally there goes the blitz
We had a leak about lurking
Four versus four as Shalad manages to pick up Jute, never gonna be a bad pick up for twisted mines, take him off the board.
And somebody else on the side of Falcon's Town needs to be finding some kills, how about that Lee?
In fact just dips under the vendetta, uses as I say this, they all erupt into action, picking them up.
And that's something always gonna be one of the big strengths of this Falcon's side, is the ability, the strength in depth that they've got.
got a July to shump, wanna peace door taking down, or whatever, taking down so what's up
in use as we've within this before 2v2, Breidae and Lee could fight last alive 30 seconds
left on the clock.
Oh, keep on getting away with this, Tim. If they get this over the line, that's
fucking time to go to the sim falcons, just collapse before twisted minds in this half.
Here we go, both doubled up together, looking to play for the trade on to at least one.
I said one out, but no leaking back with a spray onto the softball gets water shoms there for the trade final five seconds
He's got to go off to pre day, but absolutely no idea where he is this one's looking pretty done
I suppose the right it's the right idea inside a highway
She's a little bit too late to the punch there Brie holds on and Falcons get the round
Great stuff from Falcons just to tie it out there at the end just learning the lessons and I said not allowing
Twisted man minds to come back into that like they did previously in the 2v2
I think it's from G2. I would
expect it's from twisted minds
in this case. Yeah 100% should
be because they are the ones that
are slipping behind. I mean,
again, if that had been around
that had gone the way of
twisted minds, I'd just be like
boys Falcons. We can't be doing
this. They get such a strong
advantage in the early round,
but then just stop bleeding
away kills the twisted mind
which keeps them close and
around. I think it's going to
kills that twisted my which keeps them close and around fighting their way back in this time
round they did a much better job of dealing with ops as we spoke about as well, forcing
june bat put in pressure onto him just kind of from there they didn't really quite know
where to go at that point. Yes, they got a couple of kills back in the mid to late round
which started to make it look closed, but I think in those early parts of the round
is typically right now where they're making things hard for themselves and while they're
showing great resilience to being able to fight back in, they need to have the
much stronger starts of these rounds I think to give themselves a bit of a fighting
chance to keep on going.
Beautiful.
From here, 4v2, you look at that and say that should be a spot the Barclash would win every
day in the Weeper, then just like that click at your fingers and they've lost two more
players.
Exactly.
That's what's going to be the end, you're playing against Falcons, isn't it?
You know, you kind of drift across the top of Rocket there and I can't ask such
a difficult shot to be hitting.
You know, and Yusus just makes a little casual from down at the bottom there, just
you know, the absolute sliverer.
top of somebody said and buying picks them open so so difficult to play against them thing is I don't
think twisted bands are actually doing a lot wrong here I think aside from their attack on to the
third choice side you know not taking top floor control and not really trying to and I just had
to call that a mistake but other than that I think it's actually pretty good you know they've
been trying to take space then they were able to force doom away from ops they were able to
take that over they got the breach onto mask wall the pressure inside they're doing a lot of
of things right and they're getting down to these kind of 2v2 situations they're
finding their kills but unfortunately as many teams have found out over the last
year
I hope they're still asleep to have that extra 10%
They do, and here we go, to go quite this earlier on too
it's operator in the pre-show, it's fun to see, a lot of you should be
when I was speaking about the bands yesterday in SAO against the current
early operator to have, nine bands already, now it doesn't sound like an awful lot
across 120 sides to see if they've been played.
But it is quite a bit when you look at the other operators
that are in that mix, we just have our classics
that are right near the top of the minute,
you know, Monty's up there, Mira's up there,
Azami's up there, once we're very used to seeing
being taken away, and I'd be very surprised
to see some of this thing get that high,
but it's still going to be very, very powerful,
as we're going to see throughout this game,
and no doubt for the play days
throughout kickoff as we play on through.
Now, high-waist me this focus again,
Leak of Back currently dancing around,
looking to cause Bonnet on this Scopus.
Also, one of our, it still sounds weird saying
newer operators, but I guess I've got Postero technically as amongst the whole roster operators
in the game. The ability to charge around the top floor and then teleport back down to
the basement into a shell that's down there when things start to get a little bit spicy
on the top floor. So you can waste a lot of time still keeping yourself safe when it needs
demand.
I think his shell is actually on the first floor by the way.
Yeah, I think he could be right there. Leaker fact manages to pick up tricks.
There is one in response though, she lied onto Solotov and that's another thing,
you know, if I'm picking out a list of things,
twisted minds have done well at trading,
not necessarily with direct trades,
but keeping themselves in the numbers game
has been a good thing, you know,
and they'll use somebody who tends to be a response like this,
they've lost somebody upstairs,
but then there's real pressure coming somewhere else,
being unmanaged to find users.
So we found ourselves still three Vs,
we'd have never get it run over in these rounds, really.
But again, that 10% just starts to show itself
as pre-day June, bare their teeth.
I want a piece. How about that from P9 by the way? Beautiful use of the F2 just hitting the
hip fire as he drops the hatch manages to take down Brede and that is Choum and Leakey fact.
1v3 becomes a 1v2. Cannot find any more as Choum will close it down. His great day continues
and Falcons go 4-1. Yeah wonderful stuff and Bexar actually nearly around there. I was more
happy with what I was seeing coming out of Twisted Minds and the pressure they were looking
to apply on towards Leakey fact they weren't getting to ahead of themselves and just
trying to run him down and chasing through the map as a one-man unit. No, they were trying to play
more collectively. And like you, Clarks, as well, I love the Devakin's response and his pressure
coming into the first floor was to actually hit site itself, make it so it would always be dangerous
to drop back in if you've managed to win a fight downstairs. But this is what I spoke about
coming into round one. Falcons are a very, very solid team. I don't think you're going to be
able to upset them by having one player suddenly surprise them downstairs. They managed to
massage that pressure a little bit. Didn't give a life away to the shield player,
an adventure manager collecting from there.
It's pushed on forward for the win.
So we did a good round from Falcons,
better four on one,
and now it starts to fill up the game.
It's time to run away from twisted minds a little bit.
Yeah, Falcons are looking quality.
And the thing I'm sort of wondering
if it's gonna happen is,
we said after last week, we said,
yeah, you know, Falcons got the win, they looked good.
But we need to see them really test them.
We need to see them against one of them top teams,
see them really test them.
And then, you know, the beat,
what's for arguments, they say,
the beat twisted bands this week we said well you know yeah they did look really
good but they were four one up five one up after that yeah we need to see them
really tested and I'm wondering how long do we go on saying we need to see them
really tested does that you know is that all the way until they win the
salt lake major or you know how long does that go on before that we still
need to see them tested that's the big question isn't it yeah well
three contestants losing their game or if they pass the exam we're flying colors
him. I'll conspire on a head. Just in mind still yet to show us that little bit of extra that can
see the rounds over the line though. They have shown again there's been moments throughout this game
where I've liked what I've seen and I think against lower level teams they probably would have found
themselves up a couple more rounds here currently find themselves down by a matter of three and
maybe about to become a five-one. So if there's not anything to say about it, once again it's
both from towards the outside of things. Joom is dancing minus Skydiver as we come around
and looking just to put a bit of challenge in. He's always going to be this entry that
that they're coming up again from the side of Twisted Minds.
They're burning a lot into Walsimear.
They've had utility, and they've had guns points in his way.
They've found one, Dritzgenzling gets rid of Droom and Leakeybites.
That's the dream start they need to him.
Now they've got to crack on and get the round over the line.
Yeah, that's the really big double for tricks there coming in,
using the sense as well.
Bit of a risk there.
You know, he's got the diffuser in hand.
He's got that key critical operator.
When it comes to time to put that diffuser down,
they're going to be reliant on them light screens.
and goodwill have lost his life there, but didn't manage to find two and it's just a brilliant opener for Twisted Bines
exactly what they needed. They really didn't want to be going into the second half, 5-1 down, you know, Falcons I'm sure are going to be just as good on the attack as they are on the defence
so Twisted Bines need to keep this close. They've got themselves a little bit of space that they can work with now.
They've got a lot more control than they had last time at least over that top floor. Still not incomplete control.
Solid top managers to find one, but not a second.
Trade is therefore versus two.
And Twisted Minds, they can keep playing this game of attrition at this point.
Ho-ho!
The shot done, the shell just chased him out of the window.
Here comes the Nitro, don't think he quite made it over the bench.
Oh, dear.
It was for the boys, that was for two versus two.
So close, so close.
There, Greeners ends their scuffle back in towards site.
As the ball starts to close in around the final 40 seconds or so here, they play this smart, they can make use of the clock.
It becomes the sixth man for the defenders, is what I'll often say, because the attackers are forced to start making these forced errors.
They can't drone everything, they can't take their time because there is none left.
And that is when these players from Falcons could capitalise for looks like we're trying to make something happen.
It turns to the execute. We've got Dovakin with the defuser now in back pocket and recovered.
should be able to get this one down. You still try and do what he can make in
this utility, just go see where the plan starts going down, but it's a little bit of a bait
almost coming on the other side here. Now we're going to recover it, and now it's time to make it happen.
But while he's looking to him, the shopper just walks in behind them all and slaughtered.
The final two players fall and they at least get a second attacking round in this half.
I'd like to watch that back and see whether the sort of dumping of the diffuser was purposeful
to distract the soloist or not. Very interesting one.
Well, let's see what you guys over on the desk think about this one. Anna, take it away.
Thank you so much. You'd have to assume that it was intentional right with the diffuser drop there,
but what do we find the twist of minds at least to win one more round on this attack in half?
We have to hide on one player particularly. I mean, there's one player that's already on
double digits after just six rounds and that player is Jume.
He's already one kill away from his debut record and that is Jume effectively. I think,
I think really a key player in most of these rounds by the way when it's a 3v3 when everything is close
He's the one getting these very important kills here in this 4v4
He's got some snake coming his back takes the challenge on to the sledge and then manages to escape here to get another two kills
And the run afterwards as well
He's the one that gets it like in this one gets a triple kill and the run after that
He is the one paying the SME on the entry either towards ups either towards top blue and every single time
He's the first guy that we stood minds is facing when they get into the building
So not only is he super efficient at burning time early Jack
He also gets an enormous amount of kills out of the way. I mean, he's just piece
He's just the perfect player Leo you described him as the EU handy and so far out. I would be inclined to agree
He's had a great start with team Falcons, but it must be so hard to play against them
But if you're thinking about how twisted minds of one they're only two rounds
one of them was a clutch in a one versus two scenario and the other one was to be fair quite a genius place to drop the diffuser
You know get all the defenders attention on the plant going down and then walk in the top floor and kill them both
But other than those two hero plays when twisting mines have gone
You know when they've gone for brawl with Falcons gone about the gunfights
They've lost the rounds when they've tried to go a little bit more strategic Falcons have also outfunk them in the same round as well
So realistically it's quite hard to play they're too far down and that's just Falcons
you know flexing that supremacy so far. Yeah, it's rough as well. We talked about the entry
engagement and it's been showing that they've been really important so far. Then sometimes in
these mid rounds, these Falcons players are just too incredibly strong and close to these rounds
out for their liking. Ending up with a 4-2 split on defensive half Falcons. Now on the attack
to potentially secure three points here for them. We'll bring it back to the casters.
Thank you very much, Ann. And thank you for the thoughts. All indeed, it was one of those
that's where that final one was
excellent and she played. It was
a close round off the back of a
1v2 been one out the twisted
minds that got the two rounds
they've got now they need to
really kick on and find some
more on the defensive side. We
said the Falcons are no
slouches on this map. Let's
see if they're attacking
chops are as good as their
defensive ones were Tim. Yeah
they're going to need to be
because any opportunities that
they've given to twisted
minds you feel like twisted
minds that are there and
ready. As I said, I don't
think they're playing badly.
Yeah, any sort of small window of opportunity that's been given to Twist of Minds, they're more than happy to take it, so Falcons certainly can't give them any opportunity or let them back into this one, because you just know that they'll take it.
So, how will Falcons do on the attack if we look across at the line-up? I know it's a dangerous game because they're going to start changing it, but we've got the Blackbeard there for breeding, not too much of a surprise to see him bringing a shield along.
the Monty has been taken away from him as well as the Grimm.
And then on the other side, Vulcan's kind of going with a half hearted here.
We've got one entry, sort of Warden Isleop taking away with the bandit.
But then instead of the key, they've come with the mirror.
And so we kind of mix and pull a little bit there.
They're just having people who don't want to have to try and work into that first.
So it suggests, I think, you know, they're wanting to take areas quickly,
areas like Ops, they don't want to have to play into that sort of utility there.
Absolutely. Well, we'll see how they deal with that difference with the other
guy. Makes it appear so then it's a couple of rounds. Is it in this first one?
It's been pretty much left out in the cold from now. Now Capitabu's throw a lot of back on
Clubhouse, of course it's not forget. Sort of banned away at them.
It's similar story here where it's available and it's being picked up by
June to make good use of on at this first push on forward.
It is all started on towards this mask wall, it's being frozen out, locked up for now by Tricks.
Just wasted a little bit of time. I think we saw that sound being taken out as well.
Solotov might even have to work his way back over. See that definitely confirmed open.
I mean that's one way of doing it. Usually you'd see the impact needs to come out,
but instead this time Tricks just walks up and shoots it straight off the wall.
So it gets the job done one way or another. I think to be honest Falcons will be happy
with that just being phantom pressure anyway. I don't think they're too worried about actually
you know it being a point of ingress but she'll have managers to pick one up that's going to be huge
big loss not just in terms of the kills 10 and 5 so far by the way you're also the capitao huge
loss of utility go ahead with those fire arrows smoke arrows all that now gone um so
falcons might be a good way to go back to the drawing board a little bit
yes may well do but of course still before on site I can still make things happen just
just a big advantage here as long as Mr. Mines play it out well, this could be theirs for taking.
Got smokes, got the F-Nats still sitting behind, the time wasting capabilities to come out from the goya canisters
and three more of those keeba barriers in back pocket for Jalads to make use of.
There's a lot here that Barthens has still got to work on, I don't think they'll be quite giving the chance for Solotov.
How does he hit a reverse pixel like that, headshot onto Jalad?
Evens things up at four apiece and all those keeba barriers disappear with him.
Understandably, June's taking a lot of the focus in this game,
given the numbers he's put up at Solotov,
so it's some absolute beauties, by the way,
and users as well with a couple that he's picked up.
So, Halken's definitely firing on all the fill-in buzz
for the most part.
And the couple with...
Just making sure everybody gets a little bit more into the game.
Or it's going to say users, he's hit some good shots,
but it has been a little bit quiet,
and it's not going to improve this round
as he finds himself down the whole night.
Overmanages to take down Brede as well two versus two those who have a quick flurry of kills their users is down
Equitably at this point. I don't think leek effect will have the chance to get him back up
But will know that he's now in a 1v1 20 seconds left to go
Hasn't got diffuser though. So really it's leek effect that's got a push in here
Which means exposing himself the flash coming on through gonna get users up as well
I like it, but time is now gonna start to hurt them
That's Sean, still dancing around the same spot, at least one's ever in formation and leek-a-fack!
Of course, he ain't gonna miss that one, Tim.
Uses the info from his teammate Beard Shot to get the trade, and most importantly, get the round.
I love that. That was Uses the Human Drone.
That was... We don't have any drones left, so I'm gonna pick you up
and you're just gonna run headlong into Rocket and tell me where he is
and then it's on me to get the kill.
What a play from the in from Falkins.
League of Facts gets it done.
There's a world where maybe that wouldn't have happened,
but a good first attack, a good first defense as well from TwistedMans.
I think we're seeing two teams here above, you know, very capable
and bringing some good teams to the table, like I said,
ultimately for Falkins, just that extra 10% that's getting them over the line.
Sometimes in that 10% is really all you need though.
But again, it's another round where you look at
because it's been a couple for Twisted Minds that have been close, have come down to those
in-round moments where they've just quite fallen short. The Balkans come out on top,
like I say, against the Leicester team, I feel like Twisted Minds probably would be
in the lead right now, but instead, they're fighting this three-round deficit. It ain't
looking easy for them. Hopefully they can just show us that little bit extra to get
it done because they started the round one. They got the entry. Sometimes it turns
out Balkans have clutched us well, Tim, as we know all too well.
Well, this is it. I feel like Twisted Binds have struggled in some areas of the game.
You know, the desk has spoken about the entry, which is 5 and 2 at the minute.
So, in favour of Falcons, they've really dominated in the early rounds.
But you just feel like... It's a bit of a minute feel, so that Twisted Binds
maybe deserve a little bit more than they've got at the minute,
because a lot of the rounds have come down to very close finishers.
Out of the seven rounds, we've had four of them have come down
to what we would define as a couple of variations, so 1v1 or 1vx.
So, yeah, really, really close from Twisted Bands in a lot of these cases, and they've only got to walk around, you kind of feel for them a little bit.
But let's see how the rest of this one plays out.
You lad, on the AS Army, as an operator, the DOOM was able to get some serious value from Twisted Bands just hoping to be able to do the same.
We see the smoke coming out from P9 as well, just to slow things down.
But very early to be using those toxic bare panaceas.
Absolutely. This here not being crossed out too early on by being crazy aggressive, which
is the main thing you're looking for. Solicite, of course, on the stake, can be revealed.
At a degree, locations of course also give themselves away in the process they know that
it's nearby. It has to be mindful of that at the same time. In fact, you can see there
the gacha's hand is giving the information that's required.
The shellite actually steps out and goes more aggressively, not less as a result.
Jume working his way down, hoping to try and catch him out on the retreat pathway.
The cover, Shum though still finding P9, that's going to have to force July back because he was his insurance policy, the guy that had his back in the spray through.
We'll find Solotov, if not him, he would have been the player behind that got that one, but again, all things are equal, it's a 4 versus 4, they do lose the smoke though Tim, and all those canisters too.
Yeah, big last schedule, that is on very low health at the minute as well, need to be careful here, he really is putting some serious pressure onto the black feed, missed shots there, had to be finding that.
Sean is just fighting a great fight here, does lose out eventually, but found one along the way.
And it seems like the answer to every question at the minute, Des, is Joom.
It's like, who's going to come and help the Blackbeard? It's Joom!
He's now 12 and 5, doing it on both defence and attack, unstoppable.
3 versus 3, 3 there with diffuser in hand and starting to inch closer towards a position
where they could maybe consider putting this down.
Yeah, I feel like every single early firefight that I've seen so far this game has involved you.
He is everywhere, like ops on the defensive side.
He's been running down those stairs a couple of times.
He's really keeping himself busy around the map
and making sure that he's involved in everything that's going on.
It's why he's got almost as many kills as three other players on his team have got combined.
He really is cooking up a bit of his soul.
However, he comes with some lines trying to hold on as best they can.
But June just carries on, gets a 4k in the round with Bride getting one for himself.
just, he just deloxes him, he does everything.
Extra 10% there's, extra 10%.
Mm-hmm.
You know, this is, again,
sort of feel for just the man's a little bit in the round.
Hashem did some great work on the Aruni,
gets the kill on the player behind the Blackbeard.
There's a couple of missed shots there from pre-Dade.
Hashem's kind of unfortunate, I think,
not to get the kill on to the Blackbeard
in that situation,
but he just holds on long enough for Jun to get there
to back him up. And like I say at the minute, he's just super signing, isn't it? You know,
it's like, so often we see players move around teams and, you know, sometimes they deliver,
sometimes they don't. But Juma's just coming and hit the ground running fantastically at
the minute. He's just absolutely phenomenal. Currently, it's at 14 and five in this game.
He is the difference. He is the difference, right?
He is. Quite literally. You look at the numbers, you look at the rounds themselves
and how they played out. He has been instrumental in so many of them so far. And that is the
means to take away from, you know, Leakefax incredible clutch in the prior round. There
are others of course being involved, but it's just that name that we keep on seeing and
saying, June, time and time again. Now got a full round lead over Swiss DeMine, 6-2.
This could be theirs, they could have well ended up being a pretty fast game. And the
thing is, I don't even feel like Swiss DeMine have played badly.
No, I don't.
They've played quite well today. They've done good. They've just come up against
ridiculously informed you yeah this could finish 75 and you'd be like okay
yeah fair enough you know folkins come away you know folkins have played really
well they've come away with a win but if twisted minds took four or five right
and she'd be like yeah you know they've heard them and I think it's one of those
the history books never shows the spoil and if it did you'd look at this one and
think it's it's maybe not quite a fair reflection but unfortunately you've
got to win the whole round not just part of it again comes in with the
entry this time that's his fifth in the game by the way fifth entry kill Tricks
does manage to find so-and-so 4v4 levels it'll that's the hard breach gone as
well could be a big loss there with the air scoring yeah losing hard breach is
one of the people things because they have to know what their options are hard
to bring anything else along so with that walls that are now closed up will
stay closed very typically you'll want to see Ops open up you'll at least
want to weigh into all the default plans quite inside a mass as well if
they haven't got the wall open up actually here it is the defence
side this is towards site itself then falcons are going to have to go into the
doorway and anything that's got to make it like that is just vile it's a good thing
you've got a shield on side but you need flashes if you haven't got them flashes
what else could you use folks you've got a couple of uses side but the point is
they haven't got tons of utility here they can move players around but they
can't really give themselves too much breathing room otherwise actually make
a player happen is my worry I think it's gonna come down to kill safe for falcons
just get themselves into positions where as you say they can move people
around and then pick them up as they do. Taking ground quite well. They've got themselves now
control of ops. They are moving across mezzanine as well. Trix is going to come under. So Dover's
going to come under some pressure there on Rockets. There's he just moving over commits to that one
tomb. It is who steps around with the F2 finds his man. I think the Demos just sees the head of
the Goyo. We need to fight Threads the Needle. Threads the Needle and finds his man. 4B2
Falcons cruising towards a victory at this rate.
What can you do against this aggression?
There he is, that name again.
Shoom up to 17 kills.
Now, bullet tricks this as he gets
grasped onto a leak of that with the closing kill they need.
It is a very comfortable way down
that cozy Monday for Falcons.
Yeah, it was.
As you say, I think to us, the minds put up more of a fight
than the score line, maybe yours, but ultimately, you know,
how long do we need until we say that we've seen Falcons
tested because I feel like pretty damn good in the last couple of games. It's very how you can
replace a player like Shiko and still look this damn good Tim. I can't wait to see how they build
up over time but now we'll go to a break and when we come back that scene I'll break it down for you.
a good start here again for
Falcons and they close it out
with three welcome points for
the swaster. We get to speak to
the victors because we have
Linkin back on the line to ask
him a few questions about this
game. Good evening and
congratulations on yet another
dominant victory. My question
Did you guys anticipate it to be this dominant at the start of the season?
Hello guys, no, actually not.
I wasn't expecting anything, just a new lineup
because it's not reshaco anymore, so that can change.
But I think the playing is going good.
We worked hard and it's going good for now, so I'm happy.
Lekithaka, I know from the many interviews that we had last stage
and even the last four seasons that usually when teams play against you,
they play at their best level.
They try to take you down, it's very close.
And I think that maybe as the question,
after two games that we've seen from you guys,
it's a 7-1, it's a 7-2.
I'm starting to ask the question, like,
in terms of scrims, for example,
do you feel like you're at your most consistent level now
as a roster than you were with Shaco?
Because from an outside perspective,
you're like head and shoulders above everyone right now.
No, I don't.
I think we still have like some stuff to do
before like being really consistent.
I think the two first matches is only two first match.
I can't even tell you like, okay,
Kosheko is gone, no one like,
people don't take us seriously anymore, you know.
It's just too much.
We played with Stainman and Rebels
to team who was in the Challenger League last season.
So we just chill out and just focus on the next match.
League of Facts, talk to me about one player
in particular, June, your new signing.
It's fair to say that he's playing pretty well, huh?
He's crazy, like, he's actually crazy.
What's the reason that you guys, I guess, you know,
as the leader of the team and the idol of the team,
what's the reason that you guys wanted to pick him up?
I mean, he did good results the whole year,
if you don't count the results.
And he's also a really high player,
high, he's also a hard worker player,
so we actually needed him, you know, just him.
Also, his playstyle is really interesting.
He's actually like one of the best players
We can see that he was the top two red team CGG.
So I think we know why we wanted him
and he just showed to everyone that
he's a really good fit with the team and he's just crazy.
We had him here last week and he said that you
and all the other guys on the team were funnier
than he anticipated.
So it's good to see this mutual appreciation
from you guys.
You're playing secret tomorrow.
That's always a big game and especially now
with Jume against his old team.
Any thoughts on that one?
I think it would be a good game, especially for Jume
because he's playing with the team, like he said.
And the secret is every, like last year
was the top three EML with us and G2.
So we expect a good match and we'll see if
we did better than us, like taking Jume
and then taking Nathan's.
Ooh, all right, I like it.
Well, thank you so much for your thoughts
and good luck with the next two games in just a week.
Thank you, see you.
I was good to hear and hear so much about Jume as well.
Kind of, we talked to Jume last week, right now.
We get the perspective of outside from what the players around you think, but again, he
just seems to be the constant highlight of this roster when we look at this game, ending
up what, Leo, 15 in 5, was it?
17.
17.
So many.
And it's not even that, by the way, I almost don't care about the kills.
Although the kills are insane, but like, for me it's the position in which he's
playing.
The first three rounds, by the way, like we said before, he's the one that plays
out of frame of the map so he's the first one that to send mines are
encountering he wins the three opening engagements literally like first three
rounds three opening kills for Jim and then on top of that whenever it's close
whenever it's a 33 like in the round five he gets a triple kill and then if it
wasn't enough you go to attack he's the one that plays the nomad here gets
the opening kill then his blackbird is in trouble who comes to help it's the
nomad again and it's June and then he continues to go to the bomb site
who gets the openings here. It's Jume again and then he gets the final one. I mean, there is nothing else to do when you have a player like this on your roster. I don't know, I would hate to play against the guy.
Jume's joined, it's worth saying that Jume's joined quite a polished system in terms of team falcons. They have a lot of good things going. They know where they're at and they've added a top level player and allowed him to really express himself.
you know, the way you can
really express himself. These
stats are absolutely crazy for
me. And I think one of the
craziest stats that I looked at
did a little bit of a deeper
down into the stats as well.
Junes actually played 17 rounds
in seven of those 17 rounds.
He has found at least a free
K in terms of triple kill or
more. That is why we easy
that's like what mental maths
30 40% of the rounds he's
that's actually incredible. I
mean, it's crazy to witness
that with this roster. And then
maybe even crazier to speak to
Leakey. If I can hear that, you
know, they're not super happy
and why there's always things to
work on that they were really
expecting this and aren't even
showing the consistency in
scrim. So when you're hearing
that from a player Jack, what
does that kind of like telling
you in the season? That's
telling me that there's a
player inside a Leakey fag
that's desperate to win. And
you know, they know that
they've got close and they
know that most teams over
the last 24 months to be looking at it from when this project first started really would be happy
with a lot of second places, third places competing in finals but not this roster. They want to win,
they are you know literally so desperate and the fact that even though that they've only
what lost three rounds across two maps so far they will go to playoffs, they will you know
they will make some like who are we kidding but realistically they are not happy with just
being that they want to be the best possible versions of themselves. And you can see it
with the attitude from League of FAC.
I was kind of, it was not a true question,
but I wanted to see his answer when I asked,
do you think you're already head and shoulders
above everyone?
And I think he had a really mature take here
by saying, hey, we just faced two teams
that were in Challenger series.
I'm not gonna take these two B1s into account
and say, hey, this is exactly what we needed
to be the team that wins the next major.
And I'm gonna wait till we have things to figure out
out because I know that we're gonna need
to progress to reach that level.
However, I do feel like Zoom is the handy of Europe
and I do feel like this feels like the one change they needed
to have that extra 10% maybe to win an event.
It's early to call it,
but so far what they're showing us really shows that path.
It's thinking really positive about this roster
and sometimes the difference between games
and the email is so big that we go from a team
that we're already talking about winning events,
ending up in the top when it comes to this group.
We go to the bottom of the scoreboard.
We're gonna go to group B with two teams
at the very bottom of the scoreboard
After this break, we'll have GK going up against Secret.
We're going to have a look at
the bottom of our score, but
we're talking GK and a secret
and they have their work cut
out for them when we talk about
GK, though they did get that
And maybe it was even better later, as here in the players' day afterwards, that they got more confidence in that second game.
Yeah, I think the nerves really hit in the first game when they played against Rebels.
Obviously they were facing what should have been on paper, the weakest team in their group.
And losing to them must have felt horrible, especially the way they lost, they lost 7-2.
It was a great comeback story to see them take on Twisted Nines, the team that had surprised Team Secret,
The player before, you know, a team that showed a lot of promises to take them down the way they did.
So our arm control, I think, was a great statement.
And they can say thank you to Sarkz, because if you look at this line up,
obviously Rexon is doing great as a rookie, but Sarkz especially was the one putting in a lot of weight here.
Yes, it's good to see that here, and he was our monster from last week as well, right?
So worth highlighting that player in particular on the other side.
There's a player we could highlight as well, because when we think of Team Secret,
We think of that one young remaining carry that is still with that roster. And in this situation, Jack could be the key to the victory when we're talking about Noah.
Yeah, he definitely could. He had a great individual performance. And I think secret. I've only played one game so far and they ended up losing it against twisted minds. And I think if you was listening to the customers earlier, ace of pirate, very keen to write off team secret.
And I think actually a lot of people on social media are quite happy to write off team secret.
It's important to note that they've led one best of one against a team with a very unique and a very difficult
Playstyle to manage and to handle and it was their first game as a complete roster
I think secret they've made like for like changes
They preserved their system and I still expect them to come cut towards the back end of this stage
You kind of want to see them bounce back inside this best of one that vibe seems to be good at the team
They're looking at these player camps. You seem to be having a good time
I want to know what map will be going to for this best of one between these two teams as you mentioned bottom on a score
there's pressure on these players. This map pick could be really important and again Leo, we're going back to another layer.
Another one. Well, let's just say that for Team Secret, it's been a long time favorite. They were one of the early adopters.
We saw them last season adapted really quickly alongside Farting and G2. They absolutely loved the map.
They played it at SSI and when I'm defeated they beat SSG, they beat Rebo. So it's not, I guess, a surprise to see them going there.
there. For Gike, I do think that it fits their playstyle with, you know, an execute heavy, the
yin, the shields, all of this. It can work really well because once you get the first 100 points
onto the map, it's directly to the mom site. So, I can see their playstyle fitting the map really
well. Well, you notice that we're going through the teams right at quickly and that's also because
we kind of want to zoom in on why these teams are at the bottom of the scoreboard. Like,
what is kind of going wrong with these rosters? I want to start with Gike and you can kind
you know, you know, it's
really important. You know,
it's really important to kind
of ask yourself in the
situation, Jack. Was it worth
it to get the player all the
way from Brazil to this
region so far? Has he kind of
been living up to the
expectations that we had for
him? Yeah, I see what you
did there, and I see what you
did that. I think
realistically when you're
bringing in a player from
Brazil, where you're
bringing in experience into
this GK roster that also
does have a little bit of
experience with hungry
impactful in the you know
in the back line as well.
You want to play to hit
of his own deletion and a fist. I think ask hasn't really done that. I think he's kind
of me and it hasn't really made waves nine and fifteen on the KD kind of mixed entry
stats. I don't really think we've seen the truest version of ask. And I think if you
care to find the result here, ask has to be a vital component in that performance.
That's absolutely not to disrespect this player because he's definitely proven that before
in other regions, right? And a player that has so many stories and such a history
inside this game as well. But you want to see him excel, especially if he does make that move all the way to a different region.
That is the case for GK. On the other side though, I mean, Secret has been cut at a talk since that big roster
transfer window happened and they lost to big players. In fact, we just saw June go 17 and 5 with Falcon, so that is a big loss for them.
So you can begin to wonder, Leo,
when you compare these players, you know, Ney versus or the player that he's replaced, is that showing up so far?
Not really. And that's going to be the question that everyone asked.
Obviously, we went from having a team that was the grand finalist of the Excitemental
to these two players going away and Naive and Citizen replacing them.
And if I just focus on the support on the back line right now,
a lot of questions are going to be asked about Naive replacing Adrien.
On paper, it makes sense. It's an experienced player,
someone that knows the back line, someone that can shot call like Adrien was doing.
The only problem that I see is that in the first BO1 that he's had,
He struggled, he struggled a lot, but that's not the only problem because in stage 2 of NAL with DarkZero
He was amongst the top 20 worst rated players in League
So he's had this history of the past stage plus the first game here struggling. That's all fine
That's one game, but I will say that the fans they will start asking questions
If it is if it does not come back up and climb really quickly
Back to the level that Adrian was showing because he's trying to replace him
it's going to be hard. And as we see on the screen, you have citizen with zoom going crazy with falcons
to me that adds extra pressure on citizen's shoulders to try and fill issues inside secret.
And I mean, we're being a little bit harsh, I feel like on the players, right? But it makes
sense with the recent performances we've seen. And the way that we're saying this is because
we want to see these players do well, right? We're speaking of roster that we want to see
run well inside the ML and make it at least into the top four here. There is a lot to prove
for both these teams, but the game is ready, so take it away.
Thank you very much, and indeed is Tim, our second layer of the evening.
And like the guys have been saying, and like you and I discussed in our last game,
it feels like there's still quite a bit to prove for Team Secret.
Yeah, 100%, you know, they've touched on the desk there
when you've got players that have moved away and are doing really well.
It's like, it does add that little bit of pressure.
You know, you kind of thinking in your mind,
like, I've got to kind of look up to that for secret.
I've got to be replaced in those numbers, but in all honesty, they may well be doing this.
They probably will be doing this.
You know, pro players, they're not really interested in the noise of what's going on elsewhere.
They just need to turn up and play their game.
They just need to focus on what their contribution is going to be.
You know, citizen, whilst, yes, he replaces June in the team,
he's not here to be June 2.0.
He's here to be citizen.
You know, saying goes, and I think they've just got to focus on that.
What's, you know, your own strengths, your own weaknesses.
you bring to the team as a set of five players and just focus on that.
Like I said, I'm kind of really on the fence to see credit at the minute.
As I said earlier, I'm leaning towards a little bit of concern for them.
But I think, you know, this is a good opportunity today for them to come out
really strong performance, jealous of team with it.
You know, there are big games coming up for them in the next week as well.
So I think, you know, yeah, get into it now and give yourself
every opportunity to push on for a good super week.
I've missed a big Ben staring at me like that.
Ben is feeling late from that angle that he always plays from.
And I agree, as I've said earlier on, right now probably as a four-place team
and it's now going to be for others.
The Piranhas that's underneath them,
but Fancy taking a big bite out of their position and trying to challenge them.
GK could be one of the teams that would do it.
We'll see exactly how much they've managed to pull together
because of course there's a lot to think about.
So you could put the net takes two teams to tango
and as GK's starting on defense,
are going to be the
very popular pickle band today along with the blackbeard. Interesting one. On the other side, it's going to be again that
electrification operator in Bandit and the mirror exactly the same team as we saw in our last game. It leaves
Kairid up, but then get played last game. I suspect it will do here at least for a couple of rounds.
It's of course being a little bit of an enigma themselves. So far we've had the
a heavy loss to Rebels, Rebels are really good that day, it's to be fair, we cast that game,
and then a phenomenal comeback against Twisted Mines, you know.
Did I cast it?
No, you didn't cast that one, you cast the Rebels.
Also, you didn't, I cast it with him, I cast it with him.
Yeah, I was like, mate, I'm pretty sure this is my first time casting the game,
what you want to know.
No, no, yeah, me and him cast the Rebels game.
Rebels were very good on the day, and then I watched the game GK versus Twisted Mines,
And they showed phenomenal mental resolve to come back into that one.
Two-some minds were well on top, but GK thought they were back into it,
and you know, had it really, really difficult, so...
I don't really want to expect from either of us to hear this.
For the day, you know, for the day's games to me,
it's probably the biggest question mark, the biggest up in the air game,
especially coming to Lair, which they've got a great history on,
but it's not one of their map preferences, so who knows.
It's very rare you see that bandit sometimes you might see, but a jammer being recovered
from the wall redeployed here to be able to let him play in behind this desk is a really
interesting shout, especially given on the other side of course, we're seeing that side
snake in position.
It is an interesting one, like you said, we really don't tend to see that type of
adaptation from a mute, moving those jabs around it like it was all very pre-planned,
and he knew where he was going with it here.
Adjusted so he could keep himself safe in behind the gas.
So, yeah, he dressed and stuff from in there.
We're gonna see the opener.
Mowgli does pick one up onto pack of bull.
But the sarks, that man once again,
he's there for the trade.
He really was the lifeline.
Look at that.
Absolute beauty onto Noah.
And this is the power of sarks.
We saw it last time around,
and he continues to do it against Secret.
Big double kill, gets GK back into the round
after losing that entry.
I'm not looking forward to it.
I did what I said it quickly,
but one and I thought am I
casting any L or E ml and
starts will get his third kill
in the round manages to pick it
up and it's a good start for
GK. We would expect, you know,
it's their first set choice. So
we expect them to know what
they're doing and they certainly
do. So top floor is locked
down. I imagine they will now
move on to the basement.
You know what it is, Tim? I
think it's because of the
way that we're going to
You know what it is, Tim? I think it's because of the way that we sound as Brits when we say,
even saying like Rexon, like the American one.
Well, we don't pronounce things fully, do we? We just kind of move.
No. Whereas I can imagine Parker or Jesse being more like Rex Han or something like that,
you know, really say the hon par, but we're like Rexon or Rexon.
But it's so...
It's just all smooth over.
It's the same thing. It's just the same blend of sounds.
Wow. What a terrible day to be British.
There was a couple of beautiful kills.
There was this breathing off just counter bear that would really nice longer range headshots from those defenders.
Don't forget the defenders very rarely have ACOs, you know, so they're working with the shorter range scopes there and just absolutely hitting beauties, three of them.
So, do you get certainly here to play, certainly here to play.
It's fascinating to see whether the key gets brought along now, no he doesn't, has been left on the board so would it be there to protect those matches?
not going to be the case. It's a secret right in their sort of choice not to ban away both
electrical operators. It hasn't had an impact. And GK just looking across the line at PYPLE
on the CapCamp. We don't see too much CapCamp played at this level, which I expect of course to be
diligent in finding those EDDs, not to say that it always happens.
Now, it can be done, but the thing is, the sportsman has slowed down a little bit more.
Not the speed was really a major threat, I think, to the defenders last time around,
but as you were saying at the start of the show at the head of things, yesterday in SAL,
we saw a lot of trap operators coming out throughout the playday from all teams,
and it's kind of followed suit today as well on defensive sides.
It's when you've seen, especially electrification operators being taken away,
the next thing to go on to is looking into also trap operators,
probably because they know the skills are as appropriate as they always have been,
been and it's a pretty good way to try and cause a little bit of frustration towards the other side.
He's going to look to walk on into the garage by extending that Monty's shield and keeping himself
safe and then he can start having a little look into Miss Island Lockers, see what is going on
where the defenders have got themselves set up, that he's supported by citizens now, gets himself
there, opens that long angle through Miss Island Wall, he's going to give him a little view
onto sight door as well which is gonna make it safer for me to push forward
effectively because nobody could have come out of sight out of sight.
There we go, the gadget is being snatched away here by this
sludge drone still one of the ugliest named gadgets in the game I think.
And then we're supposed to feel ill. Don't know why. Pretty horrible but the
effects of the gadget is pretty damn good as you saw bulletproof being
taken away and no doubt other gadgets to fall throughout the game if not too
Be careful, hopefully aware that there's someone looking to maybe challenge it, turns it back and doesn't get shot.
But there's three of them!
Wackermole! Wackermole!
A Bombay stairs in behind the desk, off towards his left, and he is gone.
I really feel for Morgly that he knew there was one on stairs, he knew there was one off towards Menden and Storre,
and then it was the completely unexpected third behind the desk that took him down.
We're gonna have Savage down on the shield as well.
It's looking like a rough start for Secret, but they do start fighting back into it, three versus two effectively.
Two versus two with Rekson on the ground as well, definitely winnable for Secret from here.
Still have Nerf on that shield for a little bit of cover, can play the magnet, take that attention.
They do get Rekson back on his feet though, and Hungry manages to find Citizen.
You now feel that this one's probably over, Nerf 1v3.
going to try and put the diffuser down.
Solar support feeding the Intel Sox with the kill.
And it's a second round for GK.
Yeah, I really thought for a second there,
we were about to see something quite special.
I had the return in Brits.
Citizen of NAF almost bringing that round back down
to a point where it could have been winnable at 2v2.
It probably was, but a little bit of composure
being shown by GK sees them over the line.
A solid start from the defenders so far, Tim.
The secret of the ones you need to find a way to recover,
because it's not looking as clean as maybe they
would have liked.
Yeah, it's not just about the start, it's about the result why it's happened.
It's the manner in which that was beautiful.
It was almost as if play was that.
It was, you know, they'd got those two up there
and Rexon was just waiting behind that desk for somebody to come in, hunting them.
And it just worked beautifully.
It's not the sort of place. It's a real off angle.
It's not the sort of place you'd normally necessarily expect to be challenged from.
You know, I'm hopefully quite rightly was right stairs.
yet. I've need to check my door as I come round here. I just didn't expect it whatsoever.
So yeah, great play from GK, just keeping secret on their toes. Here comes the K.E.E.
was in band-out, so they are going to use it for the mid-floor hold, which is going
to mean that they can secure hatches from the top floor, just having a look with guards.
All five players up on that top floor at the minute as well, so a real commitment
being made by GK to the top floor hold.
Top 4 was the wincon. There's a couple of nice attempts, immediately coming out of twisted
minds on an execute zone towards the site, but didn't quite go to fruition, and I still
think immediately coming out of the smoke did see them get a win in the end when we
had a shum come through at the end of the round, got a couple of kills to see it over
the line, but it became more about the kills than it was about the executions.
They don't want to play this game and try to go to the top floor. They're still
going to find a way to take a fight to these top four players and punish them by
having all their attention on the downstairs itself.
Beautiful, that's the electrical that they didn't choose to ban away.
They're going to lose one exit there.
They've got another two to go at, so it's not the end of the world.
But they will continue this process, this little battle.
And it's not even necessary about keeping the wall closed.
It's about time here as well.
You know, you're starting to play a real time issue.
He's got another. I don't think he catches it here.
That's going to open the wall.
to where our comes out again.
So this battle just being so nice here.
We've got two more chargers left for Citizen on the Thatcher.
And we're a minute 10 into the round.
That's the big point here, is how much time.
GK have wasted over a wall that is usually
opened within the first 20 seconds.
So it's just a range on it as well,
from Papel able to do his first two stairs,
like it isn't being caught out in the freeze as well.
So it's just not absolutely excellent.
I'll try again, but there are a little bit of a delay
on this one, unfortunately.
more freeze and the wall is opened but that did burn through a good half of the round. Yeah that's
brilliant from them, like I said that's what you're looking for. They know that wall is going to get
opened up through attrition essentially, but there's also now not going to be an option to
disable that electroclaw to do anything about the wall that's in front of the McGreen either.
So they are stuck with that being as it is because there's no more charges left for citizen,
there's no pocket EMPs, there's no way of dealing with that really, so great stuff. A minute
left to go GK if they can get an entry kill here does honestly this is a great defense
hmm lost to both an excellent and this could prove to be one of the more tactical ones
less about the gunfights and more about how they're often to defend how they're making
use utility that could give them success they need more and more time is being wasted
here so down towards the last four in there still got two C4s to play with but
here we go so this is the thing I was talking about last time around they'll just hail
Well, Mary in. In behind these fence walls to try and get the plant down, what will come from the other side?
No C4's yet being tossed, but the pats pull off for a second.
We're only going to try again, but no, the vertical is there from Hungary.
There is an attempt upstairs from some fire coming from top green,
but it's nowhere near enough to prevent the verticals coming alive and bringing down that diffuser.
That's a big problem now, because the diffuser's down in Normanslan.
They've got to get themselves into that collective diffuser and change to a different plant angle.
Rex Hung with a double-packed bullworn of his own.
a great defense from GK. What a hold. We had that 90 second battle at the beginning between
Thatcher Thermite and Kaiden Tubrow on the other side. Real strategical play and then it comes down
to the angle that Hungry found. That's a great bit of sight knowledge. Finds the man's leg,
hits his shots. Beautiful stuff from GK. 3-0. Honestly, I said it at the end then,
master class. That is one of the best defenses of that sight that I think I've seen. Now,
admittedly, the attack was that luster. They had a plan A to get the wall open, they took a long
time to do that and that was more to give cover into water scents to make sure no one was playing
in behind that pillar and in behind the bench to design with a C4. Then everything was thrown in
behind the scents. Mowgli was applied down to the light screen and going in on getting this
plant down. Once he was dealt with from above, there was no plan B. There were no smokes to
make use of. There was no one else that was able to really pick up the slack and try and
the way the defenders approach
that the way they wasted half
the round on that wall, the way
they always had cover upstairs
onto green so you could see. And
the chancra able to bring down
Mowgli. Everything was just
planned and accounted for really
well played there by GK and a
very deserved three zero secret
are not looking good. So far
sitting and maybe I'm starting
to come over to your way of
thinking. I'm really fascinated
by the next three rounds
the next three rounds because
GK have pulled out some really
nice set pieces and really nice
defences there. There's now
attack time out for secret comes
in and there's an opportunity
here for them to switch things
up for the next three. So GK,
do they have plan B plan C? You
know, is this a roster that's
got that depth yet? Or have
we seen the extent of their
great defences on layer and
now they kind of have to try
the same thing at secret know
what they're going to do and
This is where we start seeing how deep is GK's lineup as it were.
But I think it's... I think they're going to be absolutely fine.
You've got players like Papal and Hungry who've been around this game at this level for hopefully
one time.
You know, they're going to come in there with plenty of ideas and I think this is going
to continue to be tough, the secret base.
They really need to turn it around.
By contrast, you know, the secret fans, I'm sure they're going to hope for three
rounds straight on the attack from secret here, but if GK, I think, can take a 4-2,
even a 5-1 half second against, I'll take with that.
I'm gonna start against the siren.
Absolutely wonderful stuff so far.
Let's see if it can carry on secret.
Of course the ones who have got to turn this around,
Twister, gotta do some twisting Tim,
because things aren't looking good.
Hopefully that tack timer leads to something
that can get them back on the right foot here.
Maybe that answer is in Savage moving on to Bonty.
I said already that he is, I think very fairly so,
regards it as one of the best shield players around the world.
I remember actually for the time we were speaking about him.
Yeah, fantastic shield player of course, IGL for this team too, man.
Someone that was so young, yeah, that didn't mean it's in the horrible way,
but he looks very like a pure as a player.
I thought he was like late 20s, but I think he was like 22 at the time.
I was looking at him, I was like, wow, he's got so much room that can go with this as well,
and to be hitting the kind of highs that he has at his age, winning EWC,
there's still a bright future ahead, savage, but it's an indecisive budget in this game so far.
Only four kills across the entire secret here in three rounds.
It is not pretty solid.
We saw a little bit of switching around on operators for Citizen
before coming into this round.
He was sort of tempting us with the book for a little while,
you know, to work in underneath, clear that desk position.
That's going to be a bit of a for-good point for me this time.
We saw Askew, he's been quiet so far,
but we saw him move his new jammers to keep himself in
behind that position,
GK recognising the power of that desk spot.
You know, I always think back to the top hole,
playing the shield, there,
he often plays the clash there and does it phenomenally well.
and so yeah how are they gonna deal with that because they don't have the book to go in underneath
they've got the wall open but i think that desposition is going to remain largely safe
and that could be a real sticking point. So really i mean for now there's been not all that much
pressure i guess Slark's fighting to come under a little bit tagged out by the lion's scan as he
runs away and i wasn't gonna die i almost died to believe his own um talking in the end
but again it's the case the case the time waste that starts to make me worried here even
with that shield on side, yeah Monty typically does mean a team tends to play that little bit
slower and you've got a lot of storks going against, it's not looking too pretty,
Sark's hitting another wonderful shot, it's a good do this game, Tim, that I've sat there and gone, nice.
Very good.
Robin?
A cool swamp.
We thought that you would play.
It's Sark's, he's coming out and staying, yeah.
I hold my drink.
Corporal wants you to find the difference between these two pitches, they're the same
thing, she's fixed for Sark's and Geo's side by side at this point, they're both having a
a wonderful game.
Now Raxen as well has been an absolute terror inside of the server against Ypres.
We're looking into too much of what it is.
Now I thought it was in but it starts to, Raxen was on his screen but Sars gets another
head shot.
Finds Noah.
That's two deletes.
Looking very comfortable in the round.
The only damage that he has taken has been from his own fire.
It's Ypres.
Nables to buy around at this point, Tim.
Now I've missed the problem, they've been not clear in that death position.
the last spoke about it, they've managed to get the kill now, but with only 15 seconds left,
Hungry, please, sending in the Shumika canisters, they've left it, it's too little too late,
it sucks with the final word, of course, and GK with another very solid defence there,
there was so little time and Falker spent insight from Team Secret that like I said,
2 minutes 30 in the round and Rexon is still able to play on and around the desk
in that power spot. He stops them being able to push in. He gets an essential kill as well
when they try to do so. Great play from GK. Again, just looking so composed and in control and
it feels like they're playing it double speed compared to what you're seeing coming out
of secret right now. That round in particular is always going to be slow because the playing
behind the Monty, they were focused on trying to get a plant down. It all lined up nicely.
The problem is, Sark's is hitting wonderful shots, Rex as we saw, is also landing unbelievable shots as he goes along.
The fact that he's dancing around the middle of a room there with absolute freedom and is able to get to with three kills from that spot kind of tells you the whole story.
They don't look particularly bothered right now and I think it's down to secret, as I said, looking very, very limp.
You know, I've been banging the drum about how good these defensive selves have been,
you know, and how sort of like Luster did the mid-secret look.
Look at it. And I just saw us
really well. And you know, it's
absolutely fine. Everything
that's happening. But what I
mean is, I feel like you've also
got players who've been a little
bit quiet and it's like if as
now turns up and gets three,
four kills in the next two,
you start thinking, Wow, you
know, it's another threat. It's
another problem, you know, and
it's just that there's more to
come from this. Gk's hide. I'm
loving it. This is great. It's
been great and I agree with
I agree with you. The best way to summarize that I can think of is they haven't really had to get out of first gear yet.
They're very much lent into their individual brilliance as players.
And look, it's not saying they have just not reinforced any walls or not set up sites and not looked to play players in certain positions.
Absolutely. But so far, a lot of what they've achieved has been on the back of individual brilliance from players.
It hasn't relied on them having to really step up as a team and pull off brilliant trades.
For example, it's been pretty run of the mill.
And I'm kind of with you on that. I think even if Secret do step it up, there is still another layer to GK.
we haven't had to yet see be unfolded in this game. It's looking very pedestrian. It's looking very easy for them
Hopefully after this tech pause so you can step it back up
They can think about the words that they got from twist at the end of round three because as we saw in round four
Maybe not quite executed the vision that he had
Maybe it's a bad time out Tim. We don't know but I can't say that about twist was too nice a guy
Yes, yes, um, I don't I don't think it'll be I just
I saw it in the first game
And this is why I said what I said earlier and I'm not going too soon. There's a lot of siege yet to be played, you know, today and for the rest of the kickoff and for the rest of the year.
I just, like I said, I'd had my confidence knocked, not with the result of secret, but just from what I'd seen from them.
It just left me with a few concerns about maybe how big the impact of the couple of players leaving had been.
And, you know, I kind of...
There's nothing here yet to convince me of anything different.
You know, would I love to be convinced? Yes, I've said this.
I want every team, not just in EML, I want every team in NA, I want every team in ES.
You know, you'll laugh at me for being overly positive, as you always do.
But I want every team to just play amazing, because think of the siege that we get there.
the international tournaments we get then. If we've got, you know, like, eight, ten super
competitive teams in every single region, bring it up. Brilliant. I want to see it.
I want to see secret play at the best. I want to see GK play at the best. I want to
see everybody. But, yeah, I just don't have too much confidence in it right now. You
know, they've got the ability there. That much is, there's no question, savage,
no, you know, very, very capable players. You've got Nerf and Citizen having joined
as well. You know, they've got quality throughout Morgley as we know, and he's one of those players
that can just turn a game. He can just decide it's on. And we might see that here. Look,
they might get on the defense. Morgley might drop, you know, 10, 15 kills in six rounds,
and all of a sudden, it's a different game we're looking at. But I can't sit here and say that
I'm like wildly surprised either. Because, yeah, I think they just, I don't know,
it seems like they are struggling to gel a little bit.
A little bit, of course. We'll wrap him to things shortly. Thank you very much for your patience, for
we get this tech pause resolved. And again, not forgetting, Tim, we still have one more game to
come up after this, Informatic vs Shifters, which it might sound weird to say, but for me,
it's probably my game of the day, the one that I'm most excited to see how it plays out,
because it feels like the closest on paper. Yeah, it's going to be an absolute cracker, I
think. For me, I'll look at that match-up, and I think, again, I don't want to get too carried
I think it comes down to which
fanatic shows up with kindness
in two so far. We saw the
fanatic who struggled and then
we saw the fanatic where we
were. Okay, I see what you're
doing there. Um and so I think
it. I think that game largely
depends on which fanatic show
up. So I hope that again we
get the best out of both teams
and we have phenomenal game
of siege book. Um who do I
think it's going to win it?
I would back shift us for that.
Just see when we get into
I took it away, I got rid of the flags and I put in a raised, because I wanted something,
I'm not a gardener as I've said countless times, so I was mostly doing the garden,
was getting rid of the garden mostly for me, it was putting decking down patio,
getting stuff that doesn't grow, that doesn't need maintaining.
So I wanted something in there though, I wanted a bit of greenery and I thought,
do you know what? Do you know what? I'm going to grow some vegetables. So I put in a raised
vegetable plant, I know. So I put in a raised vegetable planter and I thought that can be
I'm going to do my greenery for the garden. It's quite big. It's about two meters long by about 1.2 wide.
So it's a decent size. Well, we're in spring, Des. We're in spring. It's vegetable season, let me tell you.
So this weekend I've got the veg in the ground. So we've got 10 red onions. We've got 20 brown onions have gone in.
So there they're ready to grow in. They should be ready by about September, October, hopefully.
and then I've got a couple of my daughter wanted some sweet corn in there so I put a couple of sweet corn in there
I'm a bit bothered about how tall they're gonna go
I think they can go to like four or five feet
before they get the sweet corn off of them
but we'll see what happens
she wanted them, she gets what she wants, I'm soft so
in go the sweet corn
I've also got some potatoes that are gonna go in there as well
but I'm just having to wait on the potatoes
because what you do is you get
Well, you get some seeded potatoes, they're called, by seeding or seeded potatoes.
And basically, they've been checked for, like, you know, bits of diseases and stuff that potatoes can have that will destroy your crop.
So they've been checked for this, so they're basically, like, good to grow from.
You've got to wait for it. You know, if you leave a potato on the side, it grows them shoots off it.
You've got to wait for it. Exactly. You've got to wait for that to happen.
Then you can put them in the ground. So we're currently in the waiting phase.
so hopefully they'll be in the ground next week.
But I will report back and hopefully,
it's my first year, so in all honesty, probably not.
But hopefully, bad harvest time,
we're gonna be getting some veg out of the ground.
I'm gonna start calling you Ace of Harvest
when that time comes around.
There we go.
Hopefully I will be in the Ace of Harvest.
I'm gonna have about three months worth of onions.
Great!
I'm looking forward to seeing what comes to the dent here,
man, I'm also looking forward to seeing
what comes out of the ground from this game,
because right now I see, looking like a bit
a rotting corpse, Tim. We've got to find a way to pull them out and get them playing
because they are struggling to get anything in this game. Yes, you're about to have a
lobby re-host, but if you recall, after three rounds they only had four kills to their name.
It was miserable and round four unfortunately did not look all that much better. Hopefully
a little bit of downtime. It's given them time to recut their thoughts and get themselves
back into winning ways. So this game, the shroom is defined even in a round.
Yeah, I'm going to back secret for this one. I think that they get something going
Now, they've got Nerf into warehouse pretty quickly.
They've got that long angle open that I spoke about.
It's going to push onto Missile Door.
So they are speeding things up a little bit,
which I think has been a bit of an issue for them,
maybe not getting into those positions.
I like to see that now that they've got back to clear,
they're bringing along that solid snake.
He's on the F2, he's going through,
he's using that gadget to clear out.
Oh, hopefully.
What did I say about Morgley?
Comes out with a beautiful double picks up starts
and Wrex of two better players to take off the board you could not find.
To be honest, we'll be in this game.
Five versus three, no secret.
Really starting to advance and pressure GK downstairs.
One of the likes have kept it simple, Tim.
They've gone towards Lyon, Doc B, in towards Nake as well, just to make it...
Oh!
Excuse me?
Excuse me?
I'd be raging if I was Nave right now.
That is unbelievable.
What a shot from us, though.
Bit of a hip fire, but you get the head. Who cares? That's how it rolls sometimes.
Nice stuff, and now we're down to a 3 vs 3.
It's not very good for Secret, and this is the one where you have with playing such an intel heavy setup
is the actual executing self. You start to look a little bit lighter, and that is where the Monty could come into his own.
Two players though, on a slither of HP, Citizen and Mowgli.
You can whisper at them and they die at this point, Tim, as we're down to the last 10.
It's going to come a 2 vs 2 in just a second.
Let's go, get it ready, trying to go for the second player, but can't find him!
He's on his backside, hungry to try and save the round.
Someone has got a plan.
It's got to be Sammage who's going down for it here as well.
Hungry, he's won.
Stairs in off to his left.
He don't miss with the FAMAS.
So he gets the FAMAS with the F2.
Gets what he needs.
And the round is theirs, finally.
It was scrappy.
It was scrappy, but secret got it done.
There was a world where GK could have come back
and won that there, but I think secret...
I think the tech timeouts helped him, to be honest.
I think they were just getting...
really in the the male
stream of what this game was
turning into. And I think
having that opportunity to just
let things calm down, come
back to it, kind of, you know,
couple of minutes fresh eyes
back onto it. I think it's
really helpful. But look still
GK. Like I said, I feel like
they've got more that they can
bring to the table. Ask has
been quiet so far and then
steps around the corner with
an absolutely disgusting hip
In siege we've got one shot headshot sometimes just put a couple of bullets down range and see what happens
It's why I'd always say shoot open barricades. Don't punch them
You don't know what's on the other side. You don't know what you're gonna hit and ask just gets away with it there
But secret they get the round don't and we're gonna see a final defense coming in from TK
Honestly, I think the secret can come away with the 2-4 here. It's actually not the end of the world for them
It's a really good rescue attempt at the end of a difficult off
Absolutely, I mean a little bit of breathing room helps Tim, but there's still a lot to do once we switch sides
Can't believe the secret I think they'll be going on to the bench should be that little bit easier
But not forgetting that for a long period of time and pretty much every tournament every stage we played
Secret word the best attacking team in the tournament that included against global teams
They were unbelievable
Looking a bit to shell for themselves, unfortunately.
Let's see if they can get something done there.
If they manage to smash and grab two rounds, it will feel...
So, GK, at least, like they've been robbed, given how successful their defenses have been.
Let's see how things go on for us.
We'll try the same thing against him. Got that sense onside.
This time, though, we've got some candelas.
We'll try and match him. We might be looking to try and eat top floor
when we try and push in here.
And they said they aren't even gonna bother trying to play the dance on that wall itself.
Gonna sit in towards bringing along the maverick here.
Yeah, just as well, GK have kind of read into that.
They've anticipated it and they've changed their setup.
We don't have the Tubray, we don't have the Kaid this time.
We've got Fenrir, we've got Goyo.
You know, we've mixed it up a little bit
to try and burn time, to try and make it difficult
in other ways to keep secret.
It's not quite working yet.
Aske is taking a lot of grief inside a site.
He's on the one hand. He's the player downstairs.
Last time they were all on the top floor.
So he's going to come under increasing pressure
and he needs those players upstairs
to be able to find those angles to support him.
Absolutely, the pressure's starting to build up to ask at least a little bit.
They're making use of the course of the ability to keep themselves safe,
but the first kill goes away,
and Rex then down goes Mowgli.
It evicts who came in the last round.
Not gonna be available as an option to his team here.
Ask in the depth, so you could look at it as a 4v4,
though Ask could yet still be recovered.
Gonna slow his playing his way back here.
I don't think he'll be in a spot to get recovered,
given his expose in both rooms that he steps into here.
If nothing else, he's feeding sound and information
over to the rest of his team.
Yeah, Pac-Bull is down there within Butlatis.
I think it's a bit of a big risk, a bit of a big ask at this point.
But 4 vs 4, let's call it.
Morgling going down on the sense really is not helpful.
Pac-Bull's going down, but there's not enough cover for it.
They managed to hit him with the chemical launcher.
Savage grabs the diffuser and takes it away.
45 seconds, so plenty of time for them to be able to have a chance to go again.
But the problem is that they're losing bodies.
Four versus three confirmed. Disaster was down, but it's overfallen apart for secret again.
There's four versus one. They've just haven't at any point dealt with this top floor hold.
That's been the problem. They didn't learn from it the first time. They haven't taken control the
second time. GK have kept themselves active up there. They've been able to prevent the
plant from up there and this round is pretty much done. There we go.
Sox picks up the final kill. GK causing out five-one-half. What a defensive start for them
I'm on layer.
I gotta give a shout out to one of the mods on Twitch,
by the way, who put a wonderful pin message up there.
We should feel we can say it.
Gotta talk about real plants
because secret can't get any down themselves.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, pretty brutal.
But our desk is standing by,
let's go to them and get their thoughts on that half.
Ha, ha, ha, the pin message is brutal,
but it's true though,
because when we look at this defensive half
from the side of GK, it seems Leo,
but it's just, GK have all the right strategic cards.
They make it so difficult for Secret
to do anything with these rounds.
Yeah, it feels like Secret are backing attacking
in the old ways, like they are basically reproducing
the strategies that they've had during SI
and the same playstyle, whereas GK has elevated.
And if we look at the one round, for example,
where they're playing Kaden to grow,
that should be a simple thing to fix, right?
And yet you lose a full minute,
you lose two 30-mile charges
to trying to open this pool.
And the overall kite tricking part and the timings of it
and the fact that the kite claw was not directly on the wall
but in the floor, on the ceiling, above the wall,
those may seem like small details,
but overall I think that the innovation
that was showed by GK across every single round
was paying off.
There is this example which I think is very visual
of how much time they're burning with this kite trick.
But I think in the Tibero as well,
but I think that overall when they were on basement,
They had a full extension and hold the vertical because they knew that Secret would just take
a garage and they can just help the Vert.
Here they have used the Tachenkas as much as they can, plus the Goyo, plus the C4s to
deny and then they replay together.
I think that overall Secret has no solution because they've never seen a defense like
this.
Yeah, it's been absolutely perfect just from a strategical point of view and I think
we always knew that there's a lot of big brains involved in this team in terms
of GK, you know, ask Hungary
Shepard in the coaching
capacity as well. But you
can't just have the strategy.
You need the big hitters to hit
as well. I think both rexon and
socks have been particularly
impressive as well in that
fragging department. The head
to head between the two
players. Look at that 16
kills across both of them
across one half of siege.
That's absolutely perfect.
The support players that lay
in the platform for these
guys to absolutely succeed in
that front line. It's a
great recipe for success for
GK so far. Secret. Go on
on that more comfortable half off the defense. What can they do to save themselves from losing?
Get another game. Back to the casters. Hopefully it's more comfortable for the man because this
could prove yet to get even worse to secret. GK have shown real shots on the defense and as I said
earlier about Lair has been one of our more attacking amounts. It does now currently sit
in the middle but historically it's been quite attack-asided. This could be an excellent moment
for GK to really put a statement out there into the world, Tim. Honestly, they just need to
to come in here and bury secret now. They just need to really come out and say, you know
what, yeah, 7172, job done. I don't think that's going to happen. But yeah, like you
say, what a statement that sends then to everybody else. You start looking at this
and thinking, is there a world? And I still don't want to go too big. There's a lot of
seasons to be played yet, like I said, but you start looking and thinking, you know,
in this group, is there a world where maybe secretly come the team that don't
to play off. They've got two
games after this, so I'm not
writing them off, but this
team off the pace. This team
off the pace based on, you
know, this is the team that
got to the SI Grand Final. It's
not the team, but it's the
audience. The team that got to
the SI Grand Final. And you
know, now we're seeing sort
of struggles in the regional
league, and it's not what
we expect. So yeah, GK
getting this and I think
doing it in emphatic fashion,
coming out here with a good
couple of attacks and just
the reason that I raise that point is because you're looking at anything actually.
I kind of fancy GK for the playoffs here. You know, I fancy them to have maybe a little bit of a run.
You know, you start looking and thinking, this thing can maybe do more than we initially gave them credit for.
Maybe third team.
GK are very much in bloom right now and I can't imagine they want to slow down.
Let's see how their first attack goes.
Pat Ball onto the Blitz, Hungry onto a second shield.
He'll be induced by Rexon and a little bit of flash coming out from Sark's as well just to really spice things up.
And I think here it could end up being a pretty fast hit.
This is a screen to me, we want to slow down, slow things down, execute slowly.
No, they want to take control of parts of the map as quickly as they can and do so at pace.
Watch before that thing gets them going off, that could be a little bit of a ghost sign
just to juice everybody up and get them moving in.
He needs to be careful of course, because she will take extra damage if you do it through a toxic wave.
Canister didn't manage to get the kill there, and that's back up a little bit, but Packbull does find one hungry.
Another citizen dropped three versus four hungry. Takes a little bit of damage near Farthelth as well,
so it is not perfect for any means for either side.
Rexon does have one of them left available when the timer takes up,
so he needs to try and keep himself alive really so he can deliver those hit points to his team.
four versus three GK not rushing this. Absolutely meaningful stuff yeah I mean
yes you lose to Ying but I'll say that's far from the end of the world when you've
taken two players off the other side and you fast-tracked your way towards site
Tim they're hitting site here with 75 seconds still to go this can only be a
good thing unless it all completely collapses. Mowgli right in the middle of sight he's playing a little bit of a dancing game with
Papple who's just trying to waste his time for as long as he can it's a one
for one to either side but the only benefits the attackers Tim and there
we go this is what I mean they wanted to go fast and when they said go
they're going to be able to
win the game. They're going to
go. They full well meant. Let's
go. Brilliant. Brilliant again
from cheeky. They had a plan.
You know, they've come in there.
They've abused the shields.
They've got absolutely maximum
effect out of them. They've
gone in. They're tying with
them. They're playing with
the food at the end of the
round there. There's, you
know, going up and taking
the shield bash onto the
army, getting the kill, and,
you know, there's nothing
wrong with it. They're
They know what their expectations are and they go in and deliver in great stuff from GK. Absolutely loving watching this.
Yeah, it's really impressive and it's the problem it's like and it's really hard to look at this organization and go, wow, this team are like amazing.
They can play like this, they can beat anyone. Because then they come up against a different team and obviously it can be a very, very different outcome.
Look at day one, they had a 7-2 in their first game in the stage and it was like, wow, maybe they are so great and then today they look hot.
But this is what we were thinking about earlier about it being kickoff and for a lot of teams
It's a lot of time to gel together and bigger things out
It looks at least from this game and again
They are against a very limp and weak secret right now, but for GK a lot of things are clicking
So we're on defense with just seen it in that burst attacking round
I think it'd be hard for us to say they can't get this done here and now and has seven one win today
As you've said many times there's like, you know, I love to court you of course
ways
Secret I've got to be right five times. GK only once and that's the situation. Good start, more good. Takes down Ask
As I said, he's the sort of player that can turn this situation around
That's a big start takes solid snake off the board as well
We've spoken at length today and we'll continue to do so have no doubt about how powerful solid snake is when it comes to
That solo roam clearance so on a big map like layer. He could have added some real value there
You don't get to pick who you get on a spawn peak
but it doesn't come much better than that great style for secret.
Alright, let's see how things go in-roundings.
See if things are closed out here and now.
At least, yes, if you fail, I'm losing, ask is not a dream start,
but I still think they're probably a pretty commandy spot,
but they'll feel good about this.
Again, a nice start.
Is it going to mean us to see them over the line?
Well, you bloody well hope so.
Still a lot of utility they can play behind as well,
in terms of the double trap set up, those F-nats,
as well as the Ella smokes, of course,
can waste a hell of a lot of time,
and I think more importantly, help push the shield away.
Hungry on that Blitz. We all know what Hungry is like, Tim. Back on Mr C and playing in EML and EUR back in the day.
He's a little bit of a nightmare. He's always got a little quirky operator he can bring out.
One of the guys that popularise Ying Shotgun, for example. He just has these ways and means of always finding ways to pull out some interesting things.
The more Blitz is hardly an enigma in itself, it's still a lot of damage that he can do with it.
If I wanted anybody to play in a pro game using a random feature where you just pick random operator and weapon for it, it'd be hungry.
I feel like he would probably be the most successful in that situation.
There you go. Great use of the shield again. He's also a phenomenal shield player, by the way.
Managers to get the kill onto Savage.
So 4 vs 4 has taken some damage along the way, as has Packbull.
So back on trust secret, all full health.
Mostly back on site now. You've got nowhere still playing on those yellow
stairs but pretty much within touch and distance of sight. So he's not too far away.
The Ram can now get to work. They are going to get a little bit aggro on the
verticals. I think it's now secret. Have to take risks. They've got to take the
game to GK. They can't just sit and let GK do everything they want to do on
the attack. So they're going to have to take some of these fights. 50 seconds
left to go. Time would be my concern for this GK attack right now.
Absolutely here, starting to wear down towards the last 4th team.
Still quite a bit of utility, they can work with those,
that's the crucial part, they've got the verticals they need,
they've got smokes, they've got frags.
Of course, Pat will still have one more track available on that day,
most on the other side, the two smokes can be huge here,
but Nafe has got to get them placed in the perfect spot to stop hungry.
He's looking to go in for a plant here, smoking out.
I think he looked for the rotate initially,
but missed it out a little bit.
They have to know where this default plant is going down there to them,
there has to be something coming in, stop him,
and sure enough, Mowgli is that guy.
Nafe, a little bit of a late smoke coming out though isn't going to help too much
because it kills Mote in the process, but down to a 2v2.
Final 10 seconds here, Pat Ball on the recovery needs to have some cover.
Going to try and stick it in the alternative corner.
Rex knows there's one player on the upstairs by the looks of it.
Will they find him in time? Yes they will.
And Secret will hold on and will get themselves the second round in this game.
Yeah, better round from Secret, they're able to hold on.
But look, GK, not making it easy for them.
Were they? I thought that Hungry might just get away with sticking that plant for a second there.
it would have all come down to the post plant, but secret again, good awareness, credit where it's due,
you know, yep, they've had a quiet game, but they are still sharp, still on it, they knew that the
plant was going down, they got in there and did something about it, the smoke as well, you know,
helping the situation made it difficult to recover that diffuser as well on top of that, so you
know, yeah, it's not ideal that his own players kind of run into it, there's been a bit of a
mix up there, but it did make it difficult to recover the diffuser, which I think helped
in the grand scheme of things with time as well so good stuff from secret there they get well they
can only do it one round at a time they can only do it one step by step at this point you know they've
just got to try and work their way back into this one they've just got to you know damage gk
wherever they can hold them up I think the answer here a little bit is for sure you know don't
let them play with that momentum in that case that we've seen them want to do so far on the
attack I was just gonna say I'd be bringing things like traps I'd be bringing the clash
and we see that we've got smart, we've got clash, we've got Goyo, we've got Thorn,
so you've got Razerblades, Vulcan canisters, you've got all sorts there to slow things down.
Six lots of barbed wire by the way, they are recognising that shields and speed are the problem,
so Secret adapting well to what's in front of them.
Yeah, just going to adapt four rounds in a row, you know.
There's probably going to be something good going, I mean,
we'll always like to get excited when we see an Amaru come on side like Wrexton is doing in
in this round but I don't imagine it's gonna be a goal perhaps or anything too
particularly mental here sometimes it's just more of a quick entry into the
building itself we'll see they are concerned and mind to step quick down
so good so good
Maudlet managing to get it if you remember I said Maudlet is one of those
difference maker players he's got two entries in a row now that's actually all
three defensive entries going to secret so far. Citizen with the first and
then Maudlet back to back so good stuff for them something to build on
and lower managers to take down Packbull as well.
And this is what GK needs to avoid here.
This is how we end up in overtime,
is they allow secret into the game.
They allow them to build that confidence.
They need to be, you know,
where Starks with his one tap shots through onto heads.
Where are these big players?
Where is Wrexham going?
But he's lost his life at the beginning of the round.
They just need one of those magical moments,
but the problem they've got the longer they wait for it,
you can see, for me, secret,
are even moving a little bit quicker in game.
seems to be more of a buzz about and we saw him there. Right, we've got a kill with V-Lock here,
so we're getting in position, we're supporting each other, and they just seem to be kind of
bouncing through the round a little bit more, and that is problematic for GK.
Massively so, yeah, really got to get a wiggle on here and try and find a way through,
but I really doubt they're going to be given time or space to do so by Secret,
because if you all saw at the start, got those two kills, double back,
very happy to sit and wait at this point. Still, there are a few questions and
Starks has got his eyes here on Swords 1.
Savagely, that is on the other side of the wall.
You also got one on Swords display.
It's Ask Here, poking questions here.
So you've kind of got the front lines being drawn up.
They know who is where.
And at this stage, now we're trying
to go a little bit more aggressive while the looks
of the area inside site for a second there.
Rather than discussing questions on the doorway,
we're actually looking to push in.
But a quick rotate over into another go more for a back
snap, which means Citizen has got to hold up here.
He needs to get this kill.
It's critical.
He keeps them at bay.
Secret of play at this really well.
super patient waiting for their
opportunity. Sox, he manages to get
the kill that I was asking for, but probably
a little bit too little, too late.
Siphon's a manager to get the trade.
It's all up to Hungry. Cut down.
That's going to be the end of that attempt.
And Secret starting to play with a little bit
of confidence, starting to get something
building here.
Can they continue? Is it just a foundation
for what is to come?
GK
looked a little bit rattled that round.
a little bit less. It's a
little bit more than that. You
start to run since Oh, no, I
need to back out, but he's got
the shield behind him. There was
a little bit less coordination
a little bit more confusion than
we've seen from them so far.
So yeah, J K back to the drawing
board. They've got three more
chances. But I think if they
don't win it in this next
round and it goes six four,
they might just mentally start
feeling like this is slipping
away from his a boys will
But it's one where it's probably been the most convincing round we've seen from secret all game, right?
The two of they get with this, but this initial entry aggressive kill is really really good for Mowgli and that is
classic pink Mowgli.
You know, he's still a f***ing day like, the thing Mowgli always had is a problem on wall
so he always tried to play a bit too aggressive ahead of the rest of his team and be punished by more organized teams.
Whereas here is in a spot where that aggression has actually paid off.
He's gone for the window, got rid of the Amaru and then managed to lock Packbull inside of Ops with him with the use of those
keep a barriers and from the back of that there's no she get in close out to what I then love is the
fact that they all fall back together and set up a new front line even then it still comes down to
a bit of a scrapbook we saw back in that first round where things were down to a two versus two
so you've kind of got two sides of the story there one where they can eke out a win over the
dying seconds of a round where it comes quite close one might have been very very dominant
so it's a promising sign so far for secret gk are going to be the ones need to come up
with an idea I think if they lose this round attack time out comes in they find a way through
in the next couple. Yeah this is you can't I want to say it's the big opportunity you feel with it
being the offside like you know if they're gonna get a win anywhere this is the real chance that
they're gonna do it they've got the ying they need to get more out of the solid snake it's a little
bit you can use him to clear the top floor but the problem is you're not going to be clearing
roamers with him you're playing into a four man setup it's kind of almost like using solid
to try and go into sight and get kills. I'm not saying it doesn't work, it does, but they
need to think about the use of it and the how and where and particularly what support he's
got because I dare say he's not going to actually give too much, I don't want to say valuable
information but I would expect them to already know where three out of four of these players
are on top floor because they play the same set up. You know, there are areas that
they will expect the defenders to be. So I don't know how much value they're
going to get from that operator.
Oh, Tom will tell him.
See how it moves on four?
This haven't lost anything on the side of the open 60 seconds.
Last time, they'd lost a couple by this point,
so it's a better start for GK overall.
All the intel work being done early on,
also making sure the candelas here.
This is going to be more of a G2 starplating,
but they all try and move it and flood in at once
and overwhelm the side of Secret.
They've found one of them lost cards in the process.
Down go the candelas.
Nate responds onto a second, and Rex is also falling.
Secret for now holds firm.
Yeah, Secret doing well there.
not be rattled by that first kill. They are now challenging into the shield. This is the
big moment for the round. Pack Bull taken down by the Nitro and it's all up to the Blackbeard
hunger. He needs to do some work here. He could well take a risk. It would be a big risk
to try and pick Pack Bull up, especially now with that one coming out. They are walking
for this kill but they need to be careful not to thirst after it. They've got Citizen
the game. I'm not going to
get it on the flank, though.
They were just buying it off
time to creep up. Oh, there was
a second there where I saw that
going wrong. That is a real
classic citizen enter around
as well. I love it. I love it.
It was looking a bit chaotic
towards the end there. And
again, I like the idea out
of GK. It's one things where
when it works, they look like
Jesus when it doesn't work.
They look like idiots or
the last couple of rounds.
That's exactly what they're
going to go for here. See if
they can find a way through and
get this one wrapped up before
secret become too emboldened.
Yes, the big moment for this
for this lineup. Now, isn't it?
This is what it's all about.
Um you know, they've got
shepherd in there now. We
know shepherds. You know,
knowledge of the game is
absolutely phenomenal if
anybody, you know, you
would expect to say, look,
he has a gap. He has an
opportunity. He is our thing
I think we can get this done and over the line.
It's going to be somebody like Shepherd.
But he's new to the game as well in terms of being a coach.
So it's a bit of a different ball game
when you're trying to do these things without having
your hands on the keyboard.
But we'll see how much of an impact
he can have, of course, because it has the same opportunity
on the other side, despite it being GK who called the time
out.
So Secret should be equally well prepared.
And honestly, I think they are good.
I think that they're a bit of a confidence team
at the minute.
And they're going to have taken a lot of confidence from those last couple of rounds.
And they are now a very different beast to the one that we saw in the first half.
I think it's also the size of what's really helped.
Like, the get-since-out-rehost is now seven and two.
Like, he was having a really dismal game since then.
I think he was one and four prior to the re-host.
And everyone else on the team is still negative at this point,
even though you might not as soon as see it here in the game.
Prior to the re-host, they were not having a good time,
whereas now very much we've seen mistakes change.
side to switch, so things are transforming. Like I say, GK, I think I've got to stop them
here before they really get momentum. Otherwise, I think if we get this one over the line for
the side of secret, we're probably going to see overtime.
Yeah, I think I would agree. Once they've got the top floor to go back to, it's going
to be very difficult for GK to find the space up there. I think they need to, don't
think this is blaze yourself. You don't want to be putting the pressure on yourself,
but I won't ever get in there and get it done. Otherwise, you could be looking
for a few extra. I'm not sure who's on which side as well. That'd be interesting because
obviously the defenders have had a massive boost being on that side of things. So whoever
comes into all the time if we get there on the defence could well find themselves with
a serious advantage. But right now we're going to have GK trying to get the way into the
building. It's going to be direct into warehouse for the time being. Hungry on the
shield is going to be the one trying to push in and take that space.
Yes and again I imagine you'll see a similar approach from GK because for me
again that wasn't the whole for previous round. I think the way the approach
it was good just the end outcome the end product wasn't quite what they were
looking for. So let's see how we play things out. So I'll start, show you a way
through a bit of utility, get drones in there figure out exactly what it is
coming up against and then decide on the next move from there. They've got a
lot of utility to play with and also a lot of ability to deal with would-be
roamers or players that are isolated because they've got the doccabee and
the damos on side and sure enough there's a track coming through onto
the Fenrir. He is down inside the site as they all are except for Citizen. Do they hear him though?
I think they surely must know that he's in the next room just about gets away. Now they certainly know
that he's there and his life is forfeits him but spins on a diamond gets asked, dodges away from
the Nades. Nafe also finds a C4. That is a dream start to the round for secret once again.
Absolutely what they needed. Citizen really proving his worth in this second half of
things. Absolutely brilliant stuff. Nade goes in again just to try and dislodge him. This
time it works. Wrexham is able to get that kill four versus three now, but a lot of the
impetus for GK has been lost here. Sox gone by the wayside. They've lost that call from
the docker bee as well. Asks game continues to be quiet and just feel like I said they
have these layers, they have more that they can find and they can just get somebody
I cast online for that one round it could be the difference maker that pushes them over. But right now with 45 seconds left on the board
Secret all back inside not much work done to soften it up in terms of utility
I fancy secret to take us to 12
Hmm
I don't cut your chickens until the hatched him though. Just never know
If it's in this round of the next there could yet be heartbreak the secret just around the corner
All three players on the side of GK
Gathered up here around filtration, looking to make a question towards sight.
War being opened up at the angles.
It's a little bit tight, boys. You've got so much utility.
Pack, let's see them fire. Let's see the fire and the smoke come out, but no.
Not used, but it's still a triple for Rex that he carries on with how he started in the first half.
Nine and three, since the re-host.
In we go with the defuser trying to go down here in the final five seconds or so,
but Hungary has pulled off.
Rex is on his backside.
This one's going to be over to him.
It's going to take all 12 rounds of regulation to see what happens next.
I'm really impressed with their mental resilience to bring themselves back into this. I picked out more clearly being the player, you know, that could swing a game on its head in, you know, unexpected situations, but I think it's a really good idea to be able to do that.
struggling to begin with but they've dug deep and I'm really impressed with their mental resilience
to bring themselves back into this. I picked out Morgally being the player you know that could
swing a game on its head in you know unexpected circumstances. He's done okay but it's really
been Citizen who has turned this around. I feel like we've seen Citizen back towards you know
his brilliant best that we've seen in the past. Really really electric second half from it.
Well, well, well. Just keeps on getting more and more interesting as things evolve, Tim.
Gonna things end things in regulation at least up on the top floor. That is where we've seen all
kinds of madness going on. Bogey's Big 2K coming out of there, locking pack full inside of there,
starting things out of course in our previous games. You, June, getting a Big 2K inside of
Ops to start things up in their game. It has been the place of a lot of action. I imagine
round will be absolutely no different. Now things GK are probably going to try something different
in this round. They're still sticking to one shield, not going towards the Blitz and the Blackbeard
to try and be aggressive and explode into walls to site. In fact, they're going to kind of take
what looked to not go so wrong for Seagra back in the first half, which is to slow things down
and try and play behind that Monty. That was what gave GK a lot of room to maneuver and be
quick and essentially bully the other side by playing around the back there being so slow
with the Monty. So let's see if it works out because like you said, Hungary is a fantastic
that he's going to be a
fantastic shield player and we
know that he loves to play
Monty. I think they need to
have a plan for the denial
ops here. We've seen the
Tijanka in a number of rounds
having a lot of success GK
used in themselves. Now if
this time has the Tijanka,
but they've also got a
savage on the smoke as well.
That is an awful lot of area
denial that can be brought
along, you know, as and
when they need it and can be
deployed wherever they need
it. It's not like the
Goyo that you can't have
stuck with them in that
position. So GK definitely
to be sacks underneath using those tracks to try and create a little bit of havoc, take
those shots. We haven't seen too much of the Demos being used in that way today. It's
been more horizontal, just sort of direct attacks, looking for the advantage in the
gunfight. But get underneath, use that verticality and just make it a nightmare for them to
stay still. It's a janker and you smoke, but you want to chase down. There's nobody
underneath to stop you either, so there is space there to do it.
Deathmark track around. Sorry Tim's having those little cough there.
It's quite a rant. It's really good for me.
Yeah, it seemed like a really good moment of silence because they must came and
tracked the Dejanke just like a...
It's letting it play out like poetry. Well, Nafe has got that Schumacher
pointed up towards Highway, he knows that's exactly where the push is
starting to come from, the Monty Morden, anything is going to be the focal point
of this execute. He's got the diffuser in back pocket and of course there's a Monty.
It'll be the one at the forefront, it'll be the one looking to make things happen.
So if you know where he is and you put down five to slow him down,
or you've got about a child four then really is the odd little backstout coming on through.
Potentially a Sartre's coming from underneath and looking to cause some damage.
Rexon has gone down, that's the gridlock finished off here.
Looking great for secreting to be able to hold on as the track comes in from below.
Sartre's able to get shot into Savage but not enough to finish him off.
This is the problem that they've got. The denial is still there.
I spoke about it at the beginning. They've been able to do nothing about the T'Chanka
And it is now those chemical launchers with canisters that are just backing up the Monty forcing hungry to dip away
Just chipping away at that health and then on top of it all
He's still got that big boy LMG to take the fights with Noah
Manages to get packed pull as he steps around the corner onto mezzanine five versus three now and it feels almost
Inevitable that we are gonna see a bit more of this. I don't think anybody will complain
It's been an unbelievable matchup so far more clean with a double at the end secret taking in flawless fashion the big question on
Everybody's lips after two five one halves who gets the defense in overtime does
Tim you didn't probably say the line we don't need it every time does
We need to keep a bit of shine on it sometimes
See even even the observers are calling for it
This is ridiculous
that's the only way to win this
game. It's not such a tease.
Either way, that's five rounds
in a row that we've seen secret
able to plot the bag there and
this is nothing else. It's one
of those games that again is
proofs the point of through two
hearts to a game of siege.
At the end of round six,
everyone looks at this dot man
secret so sure there is no
way they can win this.
Now we're staring down the
barrel of OT and it's very,
very possible that they can
win this only downside is
Tim. They start on the
attack of both teams have
won a single attack in this
game. They could both find
there is a world here where we see an entire 15 round game with only two attacking hands.
That is very very possible. I think you know both teams maybe need to go away and have a look at
their attacks. But I will also say on the back of that that actually I think both teams are
very very well. So I don't think it's necessarily always about that the attack has failed. It's
that the defense has been winning
these rounds. They've been
playing really well. Just in, you
know, great control of the map.
Very good understanding of layer
and I've loved to see it. We
often see, though, fortunes flip
when we get into overtime. We'll
see this where we have two
attacking rounds and then
all of a sudden people just
can't win a defense on the
overtime. Let's see if that's how
it plays out because for me,
a little bit of a result. At
least the teams walk away
from them from this game. Each
point being guaranteed. Now is
that scrap over who gets to walk
away with the lion share. Take
two away from the game itself.
Secret looking to kind of go
back to some old ways here
and savage being across onto
walk away from this game each point being guaranteed now is that scrap over who gets to walk away with
the lion share and take two away from the game itself secret looking to kind of go back to some
old ways here and savage being across on towards that blitz now as across on towards thick and
citizen also onto a bit of tracking capabilities himself with the day moss really thing is about
how these round stars going to say that it's the big piece because rexon has had such a good
first half as we remember alongside sarks but he's been deleted a round star here not a good
start for GK. It's the loss of this army as well we saw Rex on previously playing that
desk position look at this they've walked in secret are running over him now GK have crumbled
and it's going to be another flawless round this is going to be back to back without a single kill
for GK it's all up to ask in a 1v5 and I'm just not sure he's that guy there's he's going to be
cut down by Niff and that is going to be another round six in a row for secret now
They've woken up and they are starting to answer the questions. I was asking about this roster. Are they top four are they not?
I still don't quite know but they look a lot more like they might be right now
It's very crucially to meet him winning an attacking round as well
That's the people that like I said this one's got to find a second attacking round somewhere
Otherwise, it's the thoughts of this was being a GK win
But secret have come out there and found it. It's not as classic games now
Where you're gonna see GK come out they'll win their attacking round and then we're just like great
We've had so many games that you and I have cast like that where it's been really dominant towards one side and like, oh, well, we can only assume that OC goes this way and then that way, and then it happens to be the exact opposite.
And maybe, just maybe, we get better around 15 and we have to see 15 to see who wins.
Okay, then back up to the top floor we go. Can GK emulate what Secret have done and take us to round 15?
I think it's not really, as I've said, about attack and defense anymore.
This is about momentum.
And right now, Team Secret are an unstoppable force.
GK, it's time to be the immovable object or get run over, I'm afraid,
because that is the position that they find themselves in.
Secret, one more round.
We'll get them the win here.
GK, they've got to do something that they only managed once previously,
and that is get a successful attack.
If anything stands as a good omen for them,
I can tell you that it was up on this top floor that they managed to get back there.
Hmm.
The omen has been set.
Is it good? Is it bad?
We're about to fall down.
Shields really have been the dominant kind of theme there.
We could have one in every single round so far.
I'm just kind of scanning my eyes up and down.
I think the only round we didn't see one was in round three.
Otherwise there has always been at least one of the two
with the vast majority of these rounds, Tim.
So let me shot.
Well, exactly, exactly. It's kind of par for the course at this point.
We've got the DMOS with three tracks available, as we're so important with Chanka being one of them.
I spoke about this denial previously and not being able to deal with it.
It's something, it's a question that GK have to answer here, because if they don't, they will lose this round.
We saw previously how important it was that walls electrified.
They're gonna lose one Selma charge on there by not throwing it quite far enough across
But ultimately get the job done get that breach on to me
Yeah, quite like that though
Let's find get off and looking to be aggressive on the defense of it like yeah
We give away our so we don't let them get on to catwalk too easily not without having to burn utility to do so
I guess thank you for GK
It was very limited utility required a single name enough to see that one taken out and then of course
We can push their way forward
So you'll take it I think it's a good attempt or at least a good effort or idea from secret
There's one that didn't really pay off in the way that they were essentially expecting.
That makes it a good fall back to their next line of defense, so you can kind of see them all scattering back here,
out towards this east side of the top floor, as GK slowly begins to enroach now,
in towards Opps and onwards from there.
And Graeber, of course, to hit that button any time he wants and reveal where the players are.
There we go, and with that intel, in callouts, with team where they are.
One separates the challenge display window on inside of the group itself.
So they know that they're going to be playing into quite a congested area over there, but
what it does tell them is there's likely some space out towards Ops Morgley.
Managers to find Asks continues to struggle for the day two and ten since the re-host.
Not great for him overall and they could have done with a little bit more.
We see the angle being held.
In comes the intel.
At least three of those defenders have been spotted.
to take the kill on to Noah, four versus three, as Morgling, he finds another, and he was one
of those players that would just flip a game on its head, and he has proved again his ability
to do that.
Now taking out, that's some of the denial gone, that could be big for GK.
They know exactly where he is and they've got to get the kill, Sarkz is taking matters
into his own hands.
Now down to a 2v2 with the stock, it isn't quite bad for the full range, but it's down
to a 1v1. Hungry up against Savage, one with a shotgun, one with one HP. Who the hell comes
out on top? It's 10 seconds to go. Savage just trying to took himself away. Hungry, no
real idea where Savage is, but he wants to try and hunt for the kill. Now he'll try
and get the diffuser down. I think Hungry's going to have to stick it, but he pulls
off and Savage has played it beautifully. Enough of course to be able to hold on,
and that will see them over the line. What a comeback from Team Secret, deserving
The points that they take there, it was seven rounds in a row.
By the time things were done, they were six-one down.
Make no mistake, that has taken some serious effort mentally
to pull themselves back into that one
and they should be proud of the accomplishment.
Great stuff from Team Secret.
Heartbreak for GK as well, being of six-one and losing like that
is gonna sting for a while, but that's just how the cookie crumbles.
Sometimes we'll go to a break and when we come back,
Fuck! Okay, break it down for ya!
I'm breaking next and I'm riding out.
Boy, I know I'm going to shove in my murky eyes.
Cause I can't get down from this running up.
I'ma keep it going so that I ain't got nothing left.
I'ma keep it going, I'ma keep it going.
I'ma keep it going so that I ain't got nothing left.
I
Let's go.
to get the first week to a
year in the email kickoff and
therefore I'm so glad we get to
speak to them as well. You got
to pick their brains on how
they're feeling as we're joined
by a citizen. First off,
congratulations on the victory.
I mean, he's been very good,
like joining the team as good
as this because of what they
achieved last year. But I mean,
yeah, I don't know. Don't
everyone to say that just
complete beast to be honest.
Then I've got to ask you about
this game because it was
looking pretty abysmal, but
then you guys got seven rounds
in a row. Um what was the
thought process? What was the
mentality like during the game?
I don't know. For me, I just
I feel like we just played
I don't know for me. I just I feel like we just play a little bit too nervous and then like finally grew some bulls and then
Smashed them. I think that's the best way I can describe it
I mean looking at you in this game
You were probably one of the main stakeholder of the call come back because the difference of performance from your attack side
To the defense side was insane like we were lucky that there was a rehost in the middle
And we could compare the stats between the two
I want to understand a little bit more about your rules because I think you did like 12 different operators in this game
Why do you think there was such a big impact or a big difference for you in your performance between the attack side and the defense side?
I mean, just kind of knew how they were going to play, like they're going to play like just crazy, they're band warden, maybe obvious how they were going to play.
So we just played into them, played aggro at the start, like Mowgli was getting some good kills, like three rounds in a row, like keep this off.
And I think like getting that early pick gave us like a boost, it gave us more confidence and then obviously kept winning more rounds and kept getting more confident.
Yeah, I think that's all it was.
That's awesome. Tomorrow is kind of a big game for you guys as well. You're playing against
Falcons. Um, against a player that left the team that you're currently in. How do you
feel about that one?
Uh, doesn't bother me. Maybe affects other guys, but yeah, I don't really care. Maybe
they have a little bit of, uh, like, uh, bragging rights who wins this game, you
know?
All right, bragging rights to be decided tomorrow. Citizen, thank you for sharing
your thoughts with us and good luck with the rest of the super week.
Yeah, thank you. Goodbye.
Good to hear from them. And before we dive into these highlights, Jack, you kind of felt this one coming, I guess we can say, you know, when it was Secret Redown in the trenches, 6-1.
Yeah.
You said something like predicting the comeback?
Yeah, maybe, maybe. This was in our internal group chat with production saying, would you call me a troll if I said the comeback was possible.
That was when Team Secret were 6-1, 6-down.
Well, there's a saying and a stopped clock is right twice a day
And I very much feel like that was the case in in today
But no in seriously just as to why I thought come back might be possible
I think UK will be really strong on their defenses, but on their attacks
I think it still looks a little bit disjointed and the vice versa applies to secret
I expected them to be strong on their defenses because they do have so much talent individually
It's much easier to show that on your defenses. They obviously didn't have put out a great attack side whatsoever
But when they came alive on defense like Ben just said when Mowgli was getting aggressive out early when they got a good read into
What you came with doing they were able to handle it
And it was obvious it was a just accident says it saved it as soon as the water van came through
They knew they should expect shields maybe even double shields and then the ying the flashes of birders the rushes
And so all they had to do was play in tight corners abuse the traps of birders
that's why you saw them playing the Fenrir, playing the Goyo, the Iviella, to slow them down, the Thorn as well, the Clash.
And then they always had smoke somewhere, to slow down one part and make sure Jack that they were disjointed.
It's something that you said, right? They don't attack at the same time, because when you case attacking, they expect other chaos.
To create chaos, you need multiple pressure points, so you know they're going to be spread around the map.
And what does the smoke achieve? The smoke is smoking one area, so that the rest of the team can focus on the other.
As soon as Mugli was getting the kill, they just got close to each other
and made sure they would never get pinned by multiple pressure points at one time
and also always isolate one-gun fights.
And that is my main worry for GK.
Yes, it's all incredible in defense because you can play that way,
but when you're in attack, there needs to be a comeback solution.
There needs to be a slow, methodical, normal way of playing the game.
Because if that's your only playstyle, everyone can predict that you're trying to be unpredictable,
and then it doesn't work anymore.
I will say, I will say for GK as a closing thought is this group, Group B is going to
be hyper-compensative. You know, every team seeming leaking, get points from every team.
The fact that, yes, the loss will hurt, don't get any wrong, it will sting you, it will
be horrible for them. It's a huge learning curve, but they did walk away with a point
because they got 12 times. That point could be, in theory, the difference between going
out of the bracket and going through into the playoffs. So it still could be a monumental
game for them.
That is a doesn't mean question for them right they fought hard and and we talked about those players that are really stepping up on the side of
GK when they were doing so well in that first half
But the fact that we can now look at a group that are so open
I mean you already talked about it Jack, but this could be anybody's game on who goes well home
Is a big thing doesn't even who ends up being that fifth spot here, and it's literally happening in two days from now
Yeah, this is yeah
I don't know, I agree with you, Jack, on there, like I just look at everyone and I just like the fact that everyone beats each other, you know?
Twisted Mind's first result against Secret, Secret beating Gike, Gike beating Twisted Minds, that sets us up for success.
That sets us up for a really important final two playdays in this group stage and whoever wins the next match will also impact everything.
But when I look at this, I'm like, okay, that's it, they've had like three plays to go through and we're now having everyone biting each other.
It's a big question mark especially for secret to be in that triangle because they're expected to be part of the top three of email
No, one expects them to be in the fight to not even get grouped
It's it's a scary thing for them especially with the last two play days coming so fast
And there's lots still to be decided in that group
But we have one more game left for today's first day of the email super week
That game is between Pheletic and Shifters, and we'll talk about it after the break, but there's a big difference in one vital stage part between these two teams.
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of the day in group A we got Fnatic going up against shifters and there is a lot to talk about when it comes to the context of this group
Could have a look at the table so far with these five teams inside the group because with a victory today
For that it could kind of secure not getting good. We saw her it takes loose earlier today Leo and for Fnatic
Given how poorly I guess their year went last year. This would be absolutely huge
Yeah, it's a sad way to see things, but yes not getting ripped would be absolutely
amazing for these guys because if you look at the performance as a partner team
obviously if they didn't have that organization behind them they would not
be in tier one so the fact that they're in the group of a team that struggles so
hard and has been destroyed by every single other teams makes it so that if
they win here that's it they can have a bit of a breather and they can make
sure they go to the playoffs.
And there's one thing I want to compare between these two teams especially
it comes to the entry point.
We talked about it a little bit before.
There's a big difference in fast versus slow on the teams.
We look at the statistics for the entries.
We're noticing very fast versus a very slow team.
Yes.
So this is the clock, the time on the clock on the average when these teams are getting
in an entry engagement.
So Fnatic is about halfway through the round.
And for shifters, the one time that we've seen them, it was very, very fast.
That was last week when they went up against Heretics.
They were absolutely kings of entry on that bank. It was really, really good for them. They converted every entry kill into a round victory.
For Fnatic, it's obviously the stats are a little bit slower. They're giving some rounds away.
And I think that's what you'd expect for a team that's maybe made two changes. Don't really necessarily have a direct allergy.
There's a lot of boys that's going on in the team. You'd expect them to take a little bit more time to get their plans in place.
Yeah, and also, you know, it's not it's not unexpected from a team also that has struggled that has played two games
We're the last one that you're gonna see this throw a little bit more in attack as a reminder
Copying these two stats obviously shifters one seven one
So their stats are gonna be a bit inflated from that
But still slowest team in the tournament or in the in all of the ML versus the fastest one
We'll see how the clash of speed will go this many roster jack. I know you always have a soft spot for them
I think they still have a lot of things to prove though. Yeah
the team. I think they're
still there or not. I think you
know, they have a lot to prove,
and I think them picking up a
victory last week, as we saw in
the group context was
massively important. I think it
will give them some confidence
that they can come from here. The
fact that they will, you know,
more or less be certified
into the bracket and it's just
about which position they're
in, especially considering
they're in a group with a
lot of good teams is
absolutely vital for them.
100% is especially with these
opponents in their group, for
but that game was definitely an impressive one.
A 7-1 victory, and there's one player in particular that we need to praise.
Their newest addition to the roster, Leo Blaus, has been performing.
Yeah, he's been absolutely incredible. He's been such a great asset for this team.
I think one of the key players in that victory is 7-1 against Heretics.
And honestly, such a good fit for the team.
12-3. That is one more kill that Jume's debuted, by the way, which is, I think, a miracle itself.
We'll see how it goes today against a team that has more experience,
has players that have played in tier 1 for multiple years.
It will be a different kind of opens today,
but I think that shifters have had the perfect schedule.
They started by on paper the weakest team,
and they go on before facing the big guns in their group,
the G2s and the VPs.
They go on facing a team that should be, again, one of the lower calibers
if you take into account the performance in the last year.
It should be perfect for this team to slowly grind their way
and make sure they secure that they have stuff. Yeah, I think they've had a little bit of lady look
from the schedule, but I think they're capitalizing on it perfectly. They have the whole off season
to prepare for the one game against heretics last week. They then get a full week to prepare
for Fnatic this week, which it varies the two weaker teams they would go against before playing
Virtus. Pro before playing G2. So I think for shifters, especially because we know
that support staff like to counter start, they like to create very specific and deliberate
game plans for their opponent, giving them a week's notice between the games is really, really
important. That being said, I was so impressed by shifters last week. Their entry was fast.
You know, Freck was supported by Robbie by last month and Blas came in on subtle rolls and looked
really, really good. So I'm quite excited to see from shifters, can they back up last week?
That's still going to be the main question for this one. I saw some met blueprints earlier
on one of the player cameras. So I was kind of trying to see what map we were going to
the game. I think that's
possible. Because of that. But
unfortunately, I can't read the
blueprint. Very well. It was
impossible to see. I'm glad
we're seeing this out means like
we're going to bank check. Yeah,
we're going to see bang. So
this is the second time in too
much that we're going to see
shifters go back to bank. Um
and for fanatic as an
organization, we've not
really seen them play it
inside of tier one. However,
the core of this roster played
a lot of tier two, three as
well and qualifiers. They did
play it and it was a very
a very different shifters that they'll see on bank to the one that they saw last week.
So they need to be careful not to get drawn in to how much they saw from shifters last week
because that was probably a very deliberate and one only in terms of the game plan.
I think static's game plan is very clear though.
You don't go back to a map where your opponent just won 7-1-1 week before
without a counter strat in mind.
I think they heavily prepped that one.
My only question mark is that shot was out in Poitiers playing Gamer's Assembly for the whole weekend.
So he was probably not screaming with Nadig. I don't see how he could have done it
He chose to go play in tier 2 LAN instead
So a big question mark if you're going there because you're going to stradding
But one of your key players is not there to practice you. I don't know. I thought that was such a weird one
We'll see how it goes. We'll see if that impacted the team in any way
We'll see the contest starting is one of the the reasons why they chose to go to bank
Or if in the end they just wanted to go there because they have a good map
That is your question back for me.
You'll know all about this as well Leo, but like especially the BDS call slash Falcons call,
when they went and played games as Assembly and they have done for the last three, four, five years as Call,
they play it with the friends, they've always struggled that AML play day right afterwards.
That's where we've seen them have the upset losses.
So I do agree with you there.
You know, the priorities in my mind should be AML, so we'll see.
Wow, that's okay. We can't be going at 2R for them before we see this game happen.
And I know that you can hear me.
are excited for this game the good news is it's ready so take it away thank you very much and
indeed it is last game of the evening team and i said earlier on the game was most excited for
smooth can't really call this game can't wait to see how it goes no this is the one for me it jumps
off the schedule page like i said you straight away there's a question mark over fanatic one win
one loss like which are we gonna get shifters i feel like they're a really promising roster
the back room staff. They've
got you know, coaching with
loon. She's been there done
that knows what it's all about.
Honestly, I think this could be
a win for shifters today to
push them forward towards a
really good place in that play
off bracket. Well, let's see
what our operator bands are
first and foremost, Monty being
the best player in the world.
I think they're going to be
the best players in the world.
I think they're going to be
being taken away by thematics and hide away from chiptas, who choose to take away Kai-E from the other side.
Followed up by a Valkyrie band, great for this map given the size and scope of it, and Dockabee coming out of the other side.
A band that often think he's very underserved and should be banned more as well, so glad to see Dockabee taking that one away.
That's to let them get a little bit busier around the map here as well. Not to be too worried about being closed in.
Yes, things like Deimos will still exist, but I think Dockabee's a little bit more oppressed when you have those two fools raining over your head.
It's like, ugh, they know where every single player is.
They can't do anything about it.
Off you go.
The warm-ups continue, as we can see.
And I've just got a little bit of time to feel with them.
Me?
Yeah, you won't be voiced, Laura.
You just ready to scream at any time.
Oh, you mean my voice?
I thought you meant before I played ranked.
Um, voice note.
I'm ready to scream at a moment's notice.
Um, ranked, yes.
I have a little challenge that I do for myself before I'll let myself into ranks. I've got a completely...
I lost that warm-up then to the number eight.
As well, I'll go into the shooting range on the stage. We'll get the dummies out. You can set them so that they're popping out from behind cover.
I set it to headshot only and I've got to get at least 40 with 100% accuracy.
I can't remember what the time is. I think it's 60 or 90 seconds.
Interesting. I've again the TV and that's me. That's my warm-up.
quite warm up. 40 with 100% and then I'll go into rounds. I respect it, I respect it.
Does it help with the results? I think it does, yeah. It's been pretty positive. We've
been on an upward trend over the last couple of weeks, that's it. Very good mate, very
good. So we'll just put them for a second by the way, just get himself dug in behind
the desk. He's laid down in there trying to hold himself away, he's now put up
on the move and that's why he's taking a little, ah, got his way on through. Man,
As you get out of danger as Robbie was coming in for him, and there we go with the reverse shot coming out.
Freck is gonna fall. Good entry to find because it's also all of those candellas are flying on a single one being used.
Great half of an attic.
Yeah, exactly what they want. A nice entry to get them going. Forced as the defender's back.
Sort of towards side, but at least they've got something to take with them.
It's the key there. Everybody's now back.
So, hi, the shift does, you know, the job is kind of done, but you don't want to be losing the yank just to buy yourself access to the map.
It's not a good trade, to be honest.
You know, they've lost that vocal point for the push for the execute.
They've still got the Grimm, so that gives them something to work from.
It depends where the plant is going to be attempted.
If they're going in from server towards CCCB, then, you know, maybe they've still got what they need.
Maybe. At least being a spot where you've got the entry and you've fallen back from there, I think is a good spot for now to play the map well so far.
That should obviously be in that main troublemaker that you've just found supported by chasing down, but only now half of it through the round and it's starting to ask the question.
Now to get the pinch in to play a sat at the bottom of the stairs.
Then coming through to make it start that little bit more stressful, but I have no idea where the push is coming from necessarily.
These people are coming double up here with a flash. He's got a little bit too soon there to him, and that means that he's back in the corner to just take a 1B1 here, but no!
Does the step out for the swing on towards P4, who's happy to finish him off, but a lot of the damage has been done.
No hard breach gadgets available, means they can't get that default wall opened up.
You can have Sto and do it the old way, it's in by just walking him through that door
and trying to stick a plant that way with a man disadvantage.
Yeah, more timing from Chifters there, we saw Blast kind of sitting,
we're thinking where's my challenge, coming from top blue stairs,
we need to make sure we've got the pinch.
They got the outcome anyway, but they'd have much rather done it without losing the body along the way.
the Grimby's going in, but there's a Chanko, Schumick and Kanis that are still raining into
sight. It has to take the drop, managed to down one, but that's all they can do. However,
with the final kill, that's going to be Fnatic taking round one.
Very cozy first round of that as well. I mean, really it came down to Deadshot being
the nuisance out on the roam for the most part. Always felt like he dropped away
at just the perfect time. Almost getting tapped up when he came off the top four,
for example, managed to escape it and then get a kill on to frag. That was the big
one and then just when he was about to get rounded inside of elevator he drops
down into sight at that point and the rest of the team then played things out
inside of the basement very very well with over half the round still to play.
Great stop, but real major notes, jifters, I've got to find a way to climb off a little bit
but they're a bit stronger this time around and especially here was the
big messy point around for me. The cut that we had, Glass already dropping in
he was downstairs by himself for a good what, 10 seconds or so?
The lower he then did we find and see people come and join him? That was a little bit of a
I think that let D-BEC get away with that free kill.
Yeah, one's gone too soon, one's gone too slow.
And that's the result that you're going to get.
I think you need to make sure that they're sharpening that up from this round onwards.
They can't be giving those one-by-one opportunities through.
Finatic will happily take them.
So a good start from the defenders.
Nice and sorry, that's what you'd expect down in the basement there.
Not really any point in the round where you thought they were in any kind of trouble.
no backs to the wall or anything. Interestingly they are going to take the second round in open area rather than up on the top floor
so we will see how they get on. They are still going to need to hold a lot of the top floor. If we have a lot of crosslet defenders
we can see we've got at least three up there at the minute. Deadshot, Crocs and Hover are the three that are going to be playing up there on the top floor to begin with.
Yeah, same thing we spoke about back on there earlier on.
You're trying to miss a good bit of time of stars, or at least for as long as you can.
Then eventually fall back and re-join.
Feint, try and draw out utility and time and potentially a light force to up there as well.
But of course, it can be horribly wrong if you lose players up there
so knowing when to fall back is the most critical part.
He kept himself dug inside of open area with that clash looking out towards Printers.
For anyone looking skating through that angle,
you'll have a pretty rough time, unless they, of course, can get nades tossed in that way.
But as we see many a time, the clash can just check that shield up
and get out of danger. Pretty much immediately wizard. First fall, Fred making up for past
wrongs in the previous round, where he was the entry depth this time round, he secured
the entry kill.
I had it not necessarily a big loss. I guess there is the option to trick a little bit
if you're playing on the long wall that looks into the square. But I don't think it would
be out of the world. I'd expect the batteries to be down at least already. It would
have been a juggling attempt if nothing else. We can see then all of this one present
and they see the good, but how about that?
Crocs has got his man covered.
However, just the bait and Crocs is the killer.
Manages to find one, but here comes Schifters.
P4, Freck, getting one apiece.
However, taken down.
Robbie is down along the way,
but it still leaves us effectively
in a three versus two dead shot.
Still up above, trying to make
the angles work for himself on the Denari.
Plant going down.
Yeah, he's an Emperor, he's going to set
Emperor in two versus three.
But now the dead shot's gone, it's all down to Croxton.
Not an awful lot that he unfortunately can do with this.
As all three smoke him back pockets in,
but really they need to be coming out sooner
to stop the push in from shifters
rather than something being held
until the very, very late rounds.
But he wasn't really in an ideal position
to be able to use him to be fair.
It didn't just be core with the pass now
a little bit by shifters here.
Tent is kill coming out of Croxton
but people's all too ready for it.
Shifters are on the board.
I think it was, you know, with a drag
going to the third choice start,
sort of mix it up a little bit,
the back foot. You know the
attack of repick. It makes it
difficult to, you know, gain
too much value from that
because you see it's a
different side. You change up
your lineup. You go, you know,
that's the one that we need.
Um so I think we will see the
will see fantastic go to the
top floor now, but yeah nice,
um, a nice steadier there for
shifters. They got themselves
much more comfortable in that
round and there wasn't really
too many points where I think
and I think did to them back in round one. I think it's, you know, one good blow each and we will see who continues to land more as this one continues one by one.
Alright, a little bit of something shown by both sides.
It was now that I break that deadlock in the first course that they get themselves through on the head.
Now the top floor is one of the sides that we tend to see be more in attack and leaning as well.
So the shifters maybe you're fancying their chances to see this one done.
But it's been a lot of time before chasing deadshot through the map back in round one.
That's what cost them a lot of time and also sort of losing a couple of players for the early on.
They won't have to worry about that here.
So would there be any more direct, more tight kind of focus and definitely more about the team play on paper?
Or say you're giving the event a strong shot at this round?
That's you're going to be holding that tight angle out onto the rappel.
Is he going to get any joint? I don't think P4 is going to entertain that one.
I would imagine that's going to be his focus. Get that one opened up. It is currently.
Tricked by the bandits, so they don't have to do something about that. Just looking across
the options that they've got. It's going to come down to an ad going in there. Really,
got the pocket EMPs for MP4 but I'm gonna be an easy one to do at that range
necessarily. It's down on the window it should be doable here but it's definitely
trickable if Croc's is playing on the wall which I think he is currently.
Thanks for now. Please ready to step out and go for a tricky
prequire but of course you've always got the risk of nades coming sky high up
from downstairs and last but not least the one looking to get in
position to do just that. Look as well as underneath the camera. As long as
If you look at that Praggo Skywards, they can look to try and get something over there.
It's blasting a spot to be able to do this. I think he is as well.
He's probably not just going to walk straight up here, is he?
Looks like he is. He's going to go for it. He's going to try and get a freebie.
But instead, he is dinner. How am I getting him?
I really thought for a second a Nade might do the job.
They of course went with the micro-A&P instead,
but Nade's probably been enough to make Crocson at least move away there.
And now that's kind of the surprise patch from the round gone.
I think we've just heard the sound cue as well that tells us that the ex-Kairos pellets were tricked away
So I think Crocs is good to keep playing himself at elevator
I'll stand corrected if we see otherwise
But I think they've managed to keep that position secure at least great set up from fanatic
However was ready for that push. It was you know worth it worth a try
I guess maybe the sort of thing where you've seen him play this previously and you look at it and think
You know, I did sometimes leave that little bit of space at the top of gold stairs
but did not get away with it four versus four and however very low health store for that
it you would have to say kind of on the back foot a little bit but have an elevator position secure
and how about that P4 beautiful shot picks up crocs and that's going to give up what they've
gained by keeping hold of the elevators. Nice straight up there from P4 into one more two,
nine to get command here, wizard gets one back deep back into another suddenly for
Panathic turning a 4v2 into a 2v2 and now D-back is left all alone, plant going down, temporary 1v1 establishes, D-back no, that is off towards his right, I don't think Timmy's got any idea
Let's try and go for it regardless, heard that gunshot, knows that he's on that angle, but with the now out sides of him and on the windows this one looks pretty cut
Yeah you would expect so, D-back's gonna go in here bro, it's not fair, he will come up here, I thought he was just gonna give it a go sometimes jumping on it, you can get away with it
to be able to do that. He
knows he's being challenged from
both positions now. Unlikely
that deep comes away with
anything. It's going to be
Blas to pick up that final
kill, and that's going to be two
one now to shift us after a
pretty solid attack where they
had to adapt mid round. The
big plan was around that
elevator wall and you know,
maybe getting the kill onto
the player up at the top of
elevators and trying to work
it like that. But
ultimately, um, it didn't
but no, shifters up two. And this is where I get newer. I'm quite excited about saying, okay,
this could be one of our top four teams as things branch out. I think you've seen a bit of promise
across those two rounds here against, er, but that's it that have looked all right so far. I've been,
you know, quite impressed by them across the two rounds as well. Maybe less so in the second
round. That third round was okay. And round one, of course, was great. But still, so far,
it's stacking up to be the kind of contest that we thought it might be at the very,
very start of the night. First quarter is down. Our bands have come on through by the clash
and the capital taking away, Tim. Gonna go back down to the basement here for round four.
I think it's going to be an
important part of that. The
reason that I say that and bring
it up is actually a bit
concerned for this round. I
think that shifters could come
through and take this round. If
we remember last time, that's
it when it comes to play, but
it was based on what happened
out in the middle of the
game. I think it's going to
be an important part of the
but it was based on what happened out in the map.
Deadshot was able to get a kill, drop a wave back to site and punish them.
They played it really well on the roam, but can't see shifters allowing that a second time.
So, Fnatic are going for it again. They've got Crocs on the scorepost,
they've got Deadshot out there on the striker, sorry, on the centric.
They're going for that player game to give them all something to try and clear.
Havers joined the McJanitor as well, so they spread throughout the entire map here.
Stink shifters will do a bit of job of it. They're bringing along the solid snake, they didn't do that back in round one.
So that could be the difference maker.
Good ball B, OP4 just carries on being the difference maker, the number of kills is racking up.
Or is that very comfortably up at six?
The plan, you know, we spoke about historically and when we'd speak about it,
he's either the guy that's going, you know, ten and one, or he's going one and ten.
It was always quite hard to place exactly how he'd deliver and perform,
deliver and perform, but you spoke about Leela earlier on, she's always telling us that she's
stable, that through so many iterations of organisations and teams at this point,
today's proven to be a pretty good day for her, and so far here she is on the grid.
The effect challenging right at the top of these stairs, not looking to sit back and be so
defensive this time around, don't imagine Schifters will make the stable takers last time,
and look to give them an easy one versus one, which is maybe what you're seeing in going
a lot more aggressive, trying to control ground for a bit longer. Exactly, this is exactly
what I said shifters will adapt they will do things differently I don't think they're
going to give away the same opportunities that they did last time. Much better dealing with
DPEC at the bottom of those stairs. Smoke canisters now off the board, no denial over
that once but it's possible still using the skills making the way that I expected
to chase down these roamers supported by the Demos as well. Hover's trying his best
there has been a nominal time out there. Manages to get Robbie with the shotgun,
the game. They're going to
get a bit of a break on the
dead shot to level things up
three versus three, but
fanatic now need to think about
getting themselves back to
site, which they've done and
steadying themselves. They've
got a set up now for the rest
of the round. It should just
have done a better job this
time as well. They haven't
made the big mistakes. They're
making back in round one.
Let him Romans being absolute
nightmare for them to then
in the massive misplay around
deep back on blue stairs.
They've dealt with that part
of the map. Now it's about
to say that not an awful
and you've got croc above. This is looking ugly.
I don't know, I don't know what's gone on with Wizard there.
He was at the bottom of Blue stairs. He was playing the Fenrir.
I think that he's played off the F-nap there to get a kill,
and I think that Shifters maybe haven't drawn him.
You can't, you certainly can't lose two to him there,
which is exactly what's happened.
Freckard already let go of the Nade,
so it does deal with the situation and takes him out,
but then now in a position where he's got to go as more 1v2 here,
to here he's got diffuser in hand but yet losing those two bodies to to the
Fenrir I can only imagine there's been a lack of drawing how about that though
manages to get a kill with a name and can start going for a plan surely this is
dealt with impact made comes out still won't be one crocs and gonna try and hold
above but it's had to drop because of the potential for a relocation always
nervous when the defendant that situation tries to go for the fight
he does come out on top. The
second they're ready for the
last one might have his
numbers. He come off the
diffuser at the perfect time,
but no, not quite going to go
their way. It's to be finicky
of bringing things square. Yeah,
I think shifters have kind of
got what they asked for there.
I can say I'll certainly be
looking back after the
broadcast is done. What happened
there on blue stairs because
I can say that's a really
smart blue by wizard. I want
to give you credit where it's
due there. So deep egg dies
and wizard heads in there.
We can see deep egg dying now.
deep it down now. Wizard actually been taped, that ground at bottom blue stairs. The diffuser
is down just outside of the tunnel now. I don't know exactly what's happened because
I don't know that was the kill that came at that same time. I don't know if it was
from the top of stairs or from the bottom of stairs, but one way or another I'd imagine
there might be an F-net involved and he's got himself an absolute beauty there. He's
really brought his team back into it so props to Wizard for that one and it's going
to be 2-2 Fanatic. All right now we have the game on our hands here let's see where it builds up to
Fanatic can carry on because let's forget they've won their two defensive rounds down in that
base but the next one starts a little bit nervous about four of them it's where shifters have
generally looked more in control so what are they going to change up what are they going to
differing immediately my arms obviously jumps towards things here like the mirror on
side of the castle and the as army all three architects being brought out we're not seeing
The clash being stepped along as we've seen previously either.
So they're really trying to hunker down here, make this type that a little bit harder to break into.
Even if you see, of course, Mirowind have been used on the upstairs.
I think he's shot it out again. We got it.
Just the shot drone was taken out as well.
So that's a little bit of timing for Fnatic,
but they are looking to hold quite aggressively upstairs here.
That's a fraction of a second involved there,
because I thought he missed it. I thought he got the drone in time.
But no, the Mirowind all has been lost inside of Janitor's.
That's quite a big loss for Fnatic there.
a big piece of your utility that you're trying to play behind for a top floor hold so
hopefully it's a shifter's to get that done and it's gonna make it a little bit easier to go in and take the top floor dead shot
Just take down Robbie Croc State's damage along the way as well. That's gonna leave us now in a
4 versus 5, 3 versus 5. Wizard doing great work for his team and putting this all this with
saw those recent buffs. She's certainly come back into favour and you can see why.
It's a funny one with Wizard because I remember when the hymn stomping both appeared around
about the same time.
Wizard was kind of also heralded as this like a god-like player that could have really shone.
And it's not to blame the rest of his teammates for this, but Attic have obviously meandered
through with their rosters over the last year or two now, it's never really quite
worked out for them.
But Wizard has still put up pretty decent performances throughout that time.
And I'm always keeping my eye on him to see, yeah, at some point does he move
to a bigger team, does it work and click the fanatic to the stage, that he really
gets the pop off?
Of course we'll see and it's easy to say what it's playing on in this game, but what's got my eye on him?
I was very keen to see how he does
Now they're in a little bit more Intel actually gonna send the shot drone in just decided
Maybe they don't quite know enough of what is going on. We hear the cookie drone going off and forth
That moves dead shot out of his position
So creating a little bit of space and a little bit of chaos here blast takes advantage
But not as much as he might like deep back there for the trade and fanatic holding on two versus three
they've got the castle at half
health, but other than that,
they are sitting pretty flash
goes out and he's actually going
to get his teammate there before
taking the brunt of it. Deepak
takes him out and it is now one
versus three all up to the Ram.
Surely they will know where
last more is coming from. He's
going to take a little peek around
the side announces his presence.
Make it three for deep back in
the round and it's going to be
fanatic three to up, but you do
feel that they would really
Yeah, it really depends on which kind of map we're going to see, right?
We said this all night long, like, is it attack leaning?
Is it defender leaning?
Sort of a very defender leaning layer, which we're not very used to seeing.
So, I'm curious to see which way bank goes here.
Typically, it is an attack leaning map.
If they can get a 4-2, I think Venatik will feel very, very happy,
because as we heard that they're saying,
if you don't step into a map that you're going to see in a team win 7-1,
unless you specifically set up a whole bunch of counters.
So I think when we actually see shifters go on the defensive side of things,
Venatik can have some really cool stuff,
up their sleeves on what they can bring out and how they can try to overcome their opponent here.
But now, like you say, though, once we can get this one done, they get a 4-2 or feel a greater 3-3,
I think she'll feel pretty comfortable.
Top floor it is, then, for the final hold from Fnatic.
Make sure that you get the default cameras this time, shifters.
They did give them the opportunity last time around, but they weren't able to take advantage.
We're going to see the bandit play again.
Haver on the top right to support.
So we do have the ASP brought along instead of the Hibana for that range breach.
We've got P4 on the thermite now.
If you're bringing a thermite for a top floor take, generally,
we would expect some top square action because that's the only place that thermite's really strictly going to breach from.
So we would expect to see shifters taking top square control.
I think they just want to lock down that long angle, so that's why they've brought lasso here.
Try and get the elevator away so that they're not getting swung too easily from kind of stuck in janitor corridor.
As it is glassed actually over, they might ignore the elevator wall, they don't necessarily need it.
If they can just get P4 in under the default cam in square, open the wall up there.
That's all the access that you need, really, is the code.
This wall for now, wasn't too crazy inside the open 40 seconds or so.
Has been a team, which you might expect.
the trove is raining on through, bringing out exactly where these fantastic players are
playing and therefore what the strategy needs to be. All eyes really got to fall for me on
towards the last mo here on at that ying. There's no warden on the other side. You haven't
always got to make use of those candelas to execute either. A lot of the time it can
just be for clearing out parts of the map. You toss that into the wall, spending for
example, anyone in that area, these are the fours to hunk it down and pray they
don't get jumped onto and shot or they have to turn tail and run. They have to get
out of the danger zone. So maybe here's a good way for shifters to get some map
before they start looking at the sides of the hill.
Robbie manages to open things up with a nice entry.
That's the bandit gone, five versus four now.
And Hover is going to find himself
in a slightly trickier position because I think
Proxmoise kind of backing him up
from that elevator's position.
But he's now going to be all alone in stock corridor.
Has taken some damage as well.
One minute 30 left on the clock.
We've got the wall open.
P4 has got his job done there.
He's back out onto the repellent,
watching that long angle and through sight. So right now shifters are doing a good job on preparing themselves to put the plant down.
They just now need to take out those last few final steps.
Last few bits of utility that could stop them to create the space. They'll be in and doing it there.
Go the Candelas. Can they find any more kills? Five versus two.
There's a dug in here.
Maybe she's in a rock and a hard place no matter where he goes.
There'll be guns waiting for him. It's a bit of a chest stalemate because they can't easily force him out of there just yet.
You also got the support of DPEC underneath which is a really cool spot to be in here, being able to feed out on what's going on.
That enables Wizards with this here to kill and kill onto blasts.
Folks now being deployed to help protect another angle.
At the same time, shifters trying to get a shift on here Tim.
For them still standing against 3 and surely they should have the man advantage.
Yep, we can see the Toxic Heves doing their job.
Wizards having a great game and continues to do so.
As is however, stepping up to tier 1 in a big way the last couple of players.
There it is. Managers to make it 5-4 on the day with an important couple that swings the man advantage back towards fanatic and now shifters are rambling.
They've got themselves inside, but they can't put the diffuser down because everybody's too close.
You see him led prone. Managers to take down Haver. Maybe that's the space they need.
The Solis underneath though. This is going to be the game winner.
You can see them taking the challenges, but Robbie manages to get the counter shot.
down the soloist and shift his
solo hold on to a difficult
situation. That's unreal. Wow.
I think the impact really gave
the game away there could have
sprayed through the soft floor
and likely found a headshot onto
the plant. But of course he's
not to know that he doesn't
know the orientation of the
guy who's getting the diffuser
down, but it's enough to feed
over to the last second and
punish them for it. What a way
to end the half. Let's hear
what our desk thought of it.
It is definitely a way to end
that first half here. And
I could have been so much more dominant for the likes of. But it's also, Jack, we can
always trust Fnatic to give us some of a content round.
Yeah, there aren't, I'm going to show isn't the last round that we just seen, but that
also could have been the same thing. Fnatic managing to, you know, grab defeat from the
jaws of victory in their rounds. They've got a default camera here, a default camera
on people walking up in terms of this round three, and he manages to get a double
double kill to set his team up and they ended up winning that round out. He does get traded
out, but that should never happen. That literally should never happen. The fact that Schiffer should
have won this whilst Fnatic had full information on people walking up the main stairs. And
then in that very final round that we've just seen, a three versus two with a solace
below and nine seconds left on the clock and Fnatic have managed to lose that
one. For the most part they've been good, but they're going into this half, a three
free instead of a 5-1 now?
Yeah, it's like they're given rounds, they have information intel that they should not have,
they have a position that they should not have, they have everything to win the round.
And in the last final 15-20 seconds, they give away that winning position,
and they just let shifters take it away.
And like, it's been an issue for Fnatic the entirety of the last season.
They changed two players, and we have the same issue now.
They've got to wake up at some point, because this should have been, like you said,
should have been a 5-1 for Fnatic. They are on the attack side. Now they are the one that needs to
be proactive in attack. I think they have all the right elements. They understand that right now,
in terms of theory and strategy, they are dominating shifters, but they need to be really
careful in the late round, trying to abuse that winning position and close off rounds that they
should win. Yeah, we can give credit to shifters as well for making sure they win these rounds
and Fintech are kind of delivering to them on a silver plate. We kind of want to see some players
on the side of shifters step up just a little bit more from what we're expecting though but the
defensive half for shifters is ready to go. Thank you very much Ann and my excellent breakdown guys.
Thank you very much for your thoughts especially on the camera. Always interesting to see and
here Tim we've had our bands come through pretty quick. Dokka B and Habana most interesting
taking away leaving the ace up is the only range hard breach option on the other side
down here on server as well so I think we're seeing Mira creep through the
bands a lot more over the last week or two but I still feel on bank she's she's
such an essential but yes she's throwing in the last half moments where it was
frustrating to deal with now let's see how we play on it with the cliente available
blast jumping across them towards that a couple of the hatches to be
electrified off what's the other side gonna do about it well they're
to bring along a mad rate team with the jumping across on to the operator, more for a sure
choice. It also got six hard breach charges in the back pocket, of course, mainly looking
at the ElectriPyde hatch step it was to be dealing with, and they'll worry about getting
everything else opened up.
Right on to the default camps then, see what they can see. Sometimes the lack of a visual
will be as much information as having it there. The fact that you can see which
the game. You know, you're
going to have to use a small
flash. The camera's being taken
out. Should tell you which side
the push is coming from. And
all you got a goody getting the
laser gates on top of the
hatches like that. Basically
if you're wondering why they
doing that, you know, what's
the point of that? It's no,
they're not going to be able
to reactivate. No, they're
not going to be able to use
it in that sense, but it is
about just burning utility.
You're going to have to use
a smoke or flash a drone
something walking to it takes
to be able to deal with the hatch so it's just about playing that game of attrition when it comes to utility.
Well here we go, that's what it's starting on. Now as we're getting the hatch open up like we spoke about earlier on, the Electrified Ones will be visible most exclusively.
It's Breck sitting on watch from the bottom of Elevator's tomb, of course not expecting a drop to come in super soon but at some point there is a very good chance that if there is a bit of a flood of execute coming in for nothing, that is going to happen.
going to happen. Last one starting out with one, now popping out the gore. Canister to
give him safety at the top of the stairs before he can step back a little bit more, but his
job really hits him. It's a player's life. It's been waste time. Deepak knows that so
far as being held at bay.
Yes, he really will there. Just backs it up with the Toxic Bear Canister as well,
because the Vulcan Canister doesn't quite reach the top of the stairs, so you can
have a little quick peek in there if you want and only take a little bit of damage
to. He sends up the Toxic Bear Canister just to back him up that little bit more.
Out goes the next one, they've got him tracked, there's all sorts of utility being burnt here by P4, he gets taken down in the end but it's not the end of the world, he's basically wasted 2 minutes there, fantastic stuff and they knew that they had the man advantage so P4's life became free at that point, it was that so long as I used my utility and burnt time, I can take the death and we're still 4v4, really well played.
The only issue is there's not an awful lot of dice tall now available on the other side
They've got a single C4 to their name in blast, but that's really about it plus of course any good canisters
But I think they've been dealt with inside of sites itself
If not, that's a massive misstep by Panasic
But I think they're in a position here to be able to make something happen not having held with the cathodize
We're really gonna hurt though because that was their main point of utility to make use of for the executor alongside the
Grim with all them bees coming out. It's now another voice. You're gonna make the drop happen
that's it. This is too hot over in
service. We're going to have to make that rotate. We've made that call. Deadshot has
got himself into elevator. He's in a position now to try and support this push. He knows that this one just at the start
wizard goes down to a natural. We can see Blaz finding Deadshot as well. 4 vs 2
Frick is down, but not out. It's probably not going to matter. 2 vs 3. Deepak is going in for the plant.
that's going to be the last
round of the game. We're going
to have to wait for that cover
is there. Robbie gets his kill
onto crocs, and that's going to
send the pack off the plant and
the round that goes in favor
of shifters for three now and a
solid first defense. Looks like
we were really lacking
information that late round as
well as teams often can be
nice. All your drones to clear
the map and work your way
towards site. Maybe get an
initial look at side self.
After that you can be a
little bit blind and I think
losing out on the capital was
the real thing before them.
Those smokes would have
unable to plan to happen. But I think what they realised is they'd lost a couple of players
and trying to push into different parts of the map. They sort of had to cobble together
an attack at the very end and you saw the outcome. Shifters just looked more than ready
for it. Really good first defence by them. Now we're going to find ourselves up on this
top floor. Whereas imagine the last one, we'll be jumping around the map here a little
bit on that solo so we can pause a little bit of bother. Same as we saw Fnatic try and
do on their defences, making use of the solo so the plant denials.
to the top floor. Let's see
if they can have any more
success. It was a close run
thing. We saw it last time around.
It was all down to Robin and
the gym to pick up that kill.
He could quite cover his teammate,
but he could get the trade and
win the round. And they'll see
whether. Last was able to put
it to even greater effect
this time. I thought three
is on the scoreboard in favor
of shifters up to the top
usually look towards round eight, nine being important rounds.
I think it really is here.
Five, three to shifters having locked down
their first two defensive sites is not a good message
for fanatic to be receiving.
So if I'm them, I really want to keep on top of this scoreboard,
get themselves four, four, level it up,
and send that message that you don't actually have
too much of a problem with attacking.
Now Crocs is in.
I'm not sure what it is. It's
not really a good idea to
use these Ratero drones of
course able to destroy a lot of
utilities. They march on through
the map here. I think getting
rid of one of those for my
magnets, the one being replaced
inside of stock. Was it this
round and not as well? I think
it's worth touching on here
to not spoke a bit about him
and his potential impacts in
these games. We saw the knock
back in the first half have
limited impact. I think it's
fair to say we thought the
names might get a bit more
dumb, but instead just took
a bullet to the face was
going to try his very best
that is the fine margins. That
is the level of detail that
these pros are working on
their ceaseless man pings him
out and they're just starting
to build a picture here are
fanatic. The question is what
can they do with it? Only able
to force some bad situations
to shift us here. I'd like to
see for that to generate a
couple of those real lose lose
situations where shifters are
going to shed bodies because
right now shifters are
looking pretty comfortable a
There isn't anybody present inside of stock yet. There isn't actually anybody inside of the map.
Um, Wizards just about gone into lobby on the knock. Other than that, we're a minute 40 infantic.
Little bit slow so far.
Yeah, a little bit. It kind of still in the last round as well.
So I'm a bit mindful that they've sort of, yeah, got the entry point in towards lobby
and then very much found themselves a little bit stuck in figuring out what the next step is.
We've got to make a move forward from there. We've got players on windows.
players on Windows have got one out and two on Square as well. They have got players all
around but it's more the depth of those positions that I'm not 100% sure on. However, that patience
has been rewarded as Blast was going sniffing there trying to see what was still available
for him to take ground wise and was it gets freebie. Now the next challenge is Defect
rounds him from Square and gets one and straight out straight after but there's another
trade back as Proxson gets one, dead shot into another. Patience is a virtue to him
and it has been rewarded. These are the lose-lose situations that I was talking
was a bit nervous and they found themselves really not making too many
movements in those same positions but I think once Blaz gave them the one that
was kind of the go-side oh elsewhere we can now start making moves there's no
one on marble anymore all right then let's now try and take top marble let's
start making our moves around there as well in a deep upcoming and aggressive
from square on towards janitor just a really good time to start catching people
out I think it worked like clockwork and it was a great round for them
so many things are all squared team and four more rounds and we're probably
you to say the line tonight after
you were so rude earlier on and
not wanting to say it. It's almost
like you just did a six one turn
around now. Can you not say it?
You know what's him? I agree with
that person.
If we get there, I'll think about
it. That's what I will say.
Look, it's very possible between
these two. This has been
exactly the kind of match that
we hoped and thought that it
might be. And, you know, the
both teams are delivering here. I
think, you know, I enjoy the
stage in front of us. There's
been a couple of mistakes here
and there, but they have been
the end of the year. And you
know what I mean? I mean, it's
been really hard. It's been
really hard. You know, it's
been really hard. You know, it's
been really hard. You know what
happened. You'll have a spot on
the state when it's punished
by the opposing team. That's
the thing to remember, you
know, support of these themes
going out and working hard to
make sure that they are
dishing out that punishment
along the way. Right now.
It's very difficult to call
who wins this one thing that
I would say is fanatic
feel a little bit reliant on
with a little minute, and
you know, everything is
it's going to have that little
bit of extra that little bit of
magic that's going to take him
over the line. He had a couple
of big rounds with what's got him
up to his seven however as well.
One of those two could maybe you
know kind of explored along with
wizard. I think it could be
about it taking the advantage.
We'll see to me in this round
with a good ball be a key player
anyway it's on the glass of
course I was looking at this
line up when they picked it up
and I was like okay what is
the game plan here. There's a
lot of nades on sides that
here. There's a lot of nades on sides, six of them because they've got the striker on side as well.
Probably more than anything, I think it's the fact they've got the faction side while also having the
Maverick. That to me really strings towards the fact they're looking to avoid Pantanal here. They know
there's going to be a bunch of C4s on the other side, and that's going to be Halver's job,
is ensuring that doesn't go off. So I think we're going to see, although there's only two of
them, smokes go down with some providing cover, C4s will likely come out and attempt to
denial from the other side. There's the EMP there as a fallback, in case Whistle can't shoot
They're really going for a set
piece play here at some point.
Question really is going to be
where and if they can keep all
these players alive for start
looking at that execute. I like
the confidence and aggression
coming out of fanatic here as
well. You know, we want a minute
and a half into the round and
they've had control of the top
floor for the last 30 seconds
to have got in there and
they've taken the space that
has been given to them very,
very quickly. They don't need
a second invitation. We can
see them now all stacking
up. You said you're going
to get a second invitation.
You said you're going to
to get in there and create that space. Maybe even dead shot. Really go in and show us what
can do. That's where Hatch wasn't fully shot out. I'm pretty sure Blazers landed that C4 by taking a
couple of shots into it, getting a C4 up through it and then getting rid of Wizard. Really good to
remove him. Yes he only had one smoke left but he would have been in a spot where there would have been
a lot of control inside of that site itself. Without that now being available it's a bit
more defendable by the side shifters. We're coming down to the last 30 seconds or so which
means things start to look a little bit nervous here for the side of Fanatic. We've got to find a way
through yet clear and a lot of that utility from above but as we saw the
hatch was still electrified by the key fact fanatic haven't dealt with that so
there will be no access game through there but it doesn't look like it's
gonna matter crocs managers to get a kill deep-back gets the diffuser down
hovering on the action as well and this is a great round for fanatic
everybody stepping up playing their part getting the job done and they
take themselves the lead 5-4 just beautifully played I think really
really well played and bitterly a bit of maybe a numb response coming out of
shifter so that smoke going down on the quad wall like there's a reason why a
smoke goes down there and it's not to yeah it's to be fair normally you would
see it being used to get hard breach on it but you know that it's electrified you
know that a maverick is gonna open it so maybe there's got to be some
expectation there there could be some tomfoolery on the go yeah blast then
tries to recover he's an immediately responded to by the player at top blue
again a great response and fanatic that's them in a four versus three
quite quickly with lots of room to then make a plant happen inside a
the back of the head. He's
got a lot of room for the
staff and just provide the long
range cover in towards open. So
fantastic attack. Defense. Maybe
could have been a bit more
proactive about it, especially
in the earlier parts. I think
maybe so much so that that's
why we're seeing a tap time
out coming in because now they
are behind him. Yeah, I think
I think this is the right
time. You don't leave it
another round to wait until
you possibly face in match
point. Just maybe running out
of ideas a little bit on the
you know fanatic are coming in
with you could see from the
operators there very much so this
is our clear game plan for the
round. This is what we're going
to play. Um you know, and they've
just got a lot of confidence in
the fact it's going to work and
it has done for them over the
last couple. So really good
stuff from fanatic shifters. I
feel like maybe it needs to be
a little bit less predictable. It
feels like they've been
playing fairly heavily on site
a lot of the time they would
chase back towards that comment
You know the space that was given to them. They were more than happy to take it
So I'd like to see shit bank is a big map make use of it shifters
You know get some players out on the road
We saw fanatic doing it with sort of mixed success
But get out there get a couple of kills and really make it difficult for them to be comfortable on the attack
Hopefully soon turns around shifters we have this sort of situation back at start
Let's not forget as well that to one starts with that of course ended up being a 3-3
goes that way Tim, we do get to see that magical line. Hopefully we see a better
transformation. Looking already at the line up, music and mozzie coming along.
So what it tells you a lot I think, they're worried about the information game
and what it's letting Fnatic get away with here. Now a couple of times you see
Fnatic basically the outer drones come the end of the round and they were
pretty much relying on what they could do down in the basement. I think here
this is shift is to tend to double down on that and deny even more away from
them but this time around the map rather than strictly inside of the site
itself. It's cracks up on the first floor and as you're seeing on your
screen. Robbie is up on the top. That's what we want to see. Stretch, fanatic as attackers.
Make them waste as much time as you can. I feel like that's where you're going to get
success against this fanatic team. Force them to rush, force them to make those mistakes.
Don't let them just build what they want to do. They've just shown us in the previous
round when they've got the time and they've got the setup. They are extremely good
at executing it, so just make them think on their feet, push them onto the back
a little bit, Robbie. Drop back to site now. If we have a look through, we've got four on
that middle level, tellers, elevators, staffs of the pretty well spread across their P4
still in blue, but 40 seconds and Fnatic can again be comfortable that they've got
this top floor.
Absolutely. All right. It's not in point, but of course, we're talking about the site
which is all the way down in the basement, so you might have got a little bit, but
there's still plenty more to work through just yet. Shots coming in on towards
Fnatic really started to build on that momentum aren't they? And like I say as soon as they are offered anything in this game they are more than happy to go in and take it. 5 vs 3 shifters, batting,
which of those Fnatic is active and there we go.
Wussett returns for a second time of our skin
and gets with a freck of 5 vs 3.
Dream starts the round for Fnatic.
Yeah, Fnatic really starting to build on that momentum, aren't they?
And like I say, as soon as they are offered anything in this game,
they are more than happy to go in and take it.
5 vs 3 shifters battling to try and keep themselves active in it.
It's Lazmo inside of open area at the minute.
The hatch is soft underneath it.
Doesn't have impact made to those,
So there's no option for him to open it himself. He is reliant on the mosaic inside of sight
Who will do be honest with the shotgun damage is taken as P4 gets himself back to sight a minute 15 left to go
And honestly, I'm very very concerned if I'm a shifter span right now because fanatic and running all over them
It's looking good
Maybe a six four if they can get this one finishing over the line
We've seen many a man advance driven a two-man given away tonight by
I argued this one about some teams Tim so it could still all go wrong as we get
towards this last 50 we've still got the three smokes in the back pocket of P4
and the C4 lost the play behind for denial so the mistake that might come out of
fanatic here is just trying to send everything under the fourth plant but
that's exactly what they're gonna go for. First smoke comes out the problem is
though against Tim the three smokes even here and a C4 you can't deny it for the
entire round it's still too much time to go. No probably not that's the big
to the left. I'm not sure
that the position is correct
anywhere because over is going
to find a little gap at the end
of that last toxic babe to start
putting the diffuser down and
that's when deadshot can take
advantage as soon as they start
trying to force their way back
in. He picks them up one by
one through the glass scope and
he's going to go through the
window and he's going to go
through the window and he's
going to go through the window
and he's going to go through
the window and he's going to
the team. They need to have
the ball through the glass
scope, and that is going to be
a flawless round for fanatic to
take them on to match point, and
I believe there's that also
guarantees fanatic qualification
through to the playoffs. They
needed both teams need one point
and we've had fresh big brain
on the numbers for us, and
both teams needed one point in
order to qualify through to
the game. We're going to be
in a situation where if we go
to overtime, both teams
actually secure qualification
and heretics given their
results earlier would be
confirmed fifth place and not
going through to the playoffs,
but it's one in regulation. It
would now be back and attic
then shifters would still be
in the mix for that fifth
place. See the thing is and
with our things are stood
up to clarify how this
problem is shifters and heretics both have one game left after this and it's
against VP sorry no sorry shifters have got two they've got G2 and they've got
Virtus Pro. Heretics have got one game left against Virtus Pro. I don't want to
write them off it's very unlikely they'll win that even if they do they
still then have to find a better round difference than what shifters will have
after their next two games and I know you're gonna see maybe shifters
if they lose this game taking a minus three to their round if it'll be
the game. It's going to be
plus three overall for
shifters. Minus 13 for
heretics. They're really
going to have to like 70 vp
in these shifters get absolutely
shafted two games in a row to
come even closer. Take it over
them. I think so. It's a very
unlikely possibility. Heritage
can qualify, but like you say
mathematically, if we can get
to OT, then both of these
teams lock in their spot
already inside of the
playoffs. Yep. Let's see how
that pans out. Honestly, I'm
I hope my hands up.
Surprised me.
They've played very, very well,
cohesively on attack.
And I'm thoroughly enjoying watching them.
It's my kind of speed.
You know, there's those set plays.
There's a plan when they're going in.
You can see what it is.
They're not just rushing in looking for gunfights.
They want to create a space.
They bring the utility that's aimed at getting that space
in their possession.
And then they use it to put the defuser down.
Absolutely loving it.
Really enjoying this.
this and currently stand five five now in terms of man count it's six four on the scoreboard and
for that it just need to get themselves one more round. The expectation is there the default
come might be taken out but not so much on the yokai that is sat in that top corner of the lobby
we said of course can just evade all this as he's doing now marching his way forward they
have no idea that he's here so he doesn't care about any camera and at the same time
croc underneath is ready to go fire coming up from halva this is a bit of a step piece
he's playing the one trying to
crit like pinch onto a couple of
players and people have zero
idea. He's sat on his drone to
minutes, picked up for free and
cropped dips away just up there
and quick stab in the back
drop back down again. It's like
he was never there in the first
place. The perfect
assassination. Beautiful stuff
from crock. I love the little
drop away afterwards when the
challenge is coming in to try
and get the trade. Absolutely
love that four versus three.
They've brought the Amaru, they had the play of mind, they've gone and executed it and it's worked brilliantly.
Absolutely loving watching this.
So, 4 vs 3, 50 seconds left to go, the job is not yet done for Fnatic.
Robbie, seriously low health, he's the one tasked with holding onto Marble's stairs as well.
If he falls, you feel that the pressure inside is going to become unbearable for the two remaining defenders.
Defenders can they deal with him though? No, he takes the fight to begin with a lot of damage done
It comes in that will be the end for him
It's wizard again getting himself back into the action four versus two twenty seconds. There's
Double and he's got to a Katie as well of two to one
He's having a great game and just like that Croxton is there yet again for another trade
He's been in that spot so many times this game to secure or at least get a trade back on the death of a teammate
A little cross by to close things off as well for Natsik
with a fantastic performance on back to secure all three points
and assure that they are a clear three points ahead of Shifters in the standings.
Great stuff from Natsik there, just really doing a job
getting themselves qualified through to the playoffs,
that's confirmed and Shifters leave themselves out in the cold
and out in the mix for a fifth place.
As unlikely as it might be, it's still very much a possibility.
Mmm, could be really interesting that the Nazi versus G.C. again comes around on the last day of the group stage.
They could well jump over them a statuette second place, but that is for another date simp.
But now we'll go to a break and when we come back, our desk will break down for ya. See ya in a few.
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What was the key to winning this game today?
I don't know. Just, uh, play it good, I guess.
Well, that is a great answer, Rova. Thanks a lot.
I guess going more into the details, I mean, you guys made a bold choice, in my opinion,
because last week we saw shifter 7-1, heretics on bank. And then you guys chose to go to
bank as well so I want to ask you a simple question was it all part of the
plan it was a counter strat and you had everything ready or did you just feel
this was a good map for you guys? I guess it's a pretty good map for us but like
we of course we see what they did and there's some some things that they
still did same but like I don't know I think it's pretty pretty good map
for us. I guess. Nice. However, so in terms of in terms of your journey specifically as
a player, obviously, you know, we saw you last year in a full Finnish roster playing inside
of tier two. How was the step up into tier one? What was I suppose your biggest learnings
and obviously changing language, playing English as well? I guess the biggest thing is trust
that comes changing from Finnish to English like that's still going thing sometimes we
have crocs on Jimmy the deadshot to changing speaking English so we can understand each
other but like it's still it's of course different to play in tier one than it's in
tier two. The games are much harder. And like that, I don't know.
You definitely get a difficult game for your last one. You have a day off
tomorrow, but then it's super weak on the Wednesday. You're playing G2.
How are you feeling about that game?
Good, good. I think Doki will throw the game for so we can win.
You play a long run for Doki, right? You're excited to try and beat him?
Yeah, we play on the morning's morning. I'm excited to play them. We want to win so we
can be in the winner bracket in playoffs and it's easier. Easier that way.
100%. Very fair. Thank you so much for sharing all these insights. How about best of luck
with the last game for this week? Thank you, thank you. Good night.
Good night. Always get to speak from or hear from the players rather and then
here about the journey going into tier one as well because these are some big
games of how I was playing right now with Fnatic but as you said as well Jack
with this victory here clinching out these three points they might very well
be secured all but that bracket phase that was hoping to be good too yeah
we're seeing the default camera on again yeah no in terms of Fnatic obviously
officially qualified for the bracket now I think it's looking very very likely
I know we don't have some room with us right now but we're almost
guaranteed they will be heretics the finish in fifth place so group A
you finish. Do you get the
upper bracket in terms of all
the advantages of finishing in
the top three, particularly
inside of the group and
fanatic of just power
statement. Realistically, they
only needed one point to
qualify themselves to the
bracket, but a full three
points victory almost
certainly guarantees them
that they will actually get
through in the upper bracket
as well, which is
absolutely massive, given
where this team was out
over the whole course of
2025 and how they've come
into 2026 particularly. I
thought it was a really, you
know, a really good
performance that could have
been even more dominant.
even more dominant. We said at halftime it maybe should have been a 5-1 half of Fnatic on their
defenders. Their defenders were good. And then when they got onto their attack they managed to
actually problem solve a lot of the utility problems the shifters were presenting them
and they did it pretty well. So I think there's a lot of positive signs coming out of Fnatic
from this game. I think they're the biggest learning thing for me. The two things actually
Wizard, Deepak, the core of the team still performing well, still the guest outputting
the numbers exactly like the last play they were, they actually were the main stakeholders of the victory.
The second thing that I learned is, if you give too much ground to Fatic, they will know how to execute properly.
If you're scared of them and you peel off slowly but surely, and you give them enough time to problem solve the utility,
they will do so and they will execute like they should if you give them too much ground.
That's the problem I saw from shifters. Way too much respect.
the statistics from the three fighters on shifters. None of them are positive. Where
is the aggression? Where is the passion? Where is the little bit of risk taking? That's
where, if you just give everything back to them, then it will just take it and execute.
So I was missing a reaction from them. It just felt like they were really cold and way
to slow here.
Yeah, I think, you know, especially with Fnatic, their next game against G2, G2
are not going to give them that ground to the shifters, gave them today. They've
the game. We're going to have
a look at our results. So for
the day as we are done with
our four best of ones, but
the word there are still two
more players to come inside this
evening. We're going to have a
look at our results. So for
the day as we are done with our
four best of ones, but the
word there are still two more
results so far today as we are done with our four best of ones, but the word there are still two
more play days to come inside this EML super week. But speaking in regards to results, this isn't
really differentiating results today. We had some really fast games. I'm thinking of this game here.
I'm thinking of the game earlier today between Falcons and Twisted Minds as well, that 7-2
score. The overtime with Secret winning seven rounds in a row. In general, looking at this
Playday though, any big takeaways Leo, that scream to you when you're looking at these numbers?
I think I saw heretics wake up a bit too late, right? It's a very punishing format.
They almost don't fall down. I think winning a few rounds against G2 was a good news.
I think it was screaming that G2 was not having a statement victory here by the way.
I thought that losing that many rounds to heretics is not a good sign.
Falcons are head above everyone right now, honestly, in terms of consistency.
And then that come back story for secrets Jack. Is it a repeat from stage two last year?
Yeah, maybe maybe I will say those the results of games free and for I think one of the most fluid
I think genuinely any four of those, you know combinations of any four of those teams
We wouldn't have been surprised to see I think they were very competitive games
Big come back and then fanatic maybe winning in what was on paper
I would suppose an upset but actually was a pretty common on performance. I think you know
I think we're going to have
to see what croc thinks about
that game certainly. But yeah,
no, I think those you know, those
four teams were very, very
competitive and they were very
competitive fixtures and could
have been an upside the way. That
means we can have a look at
our standings as well. Right.
We discussed a little bit
already of which teams are
likely to make it through which
teams are not likely to make
it through the heretics.
Things are looking really die
right now. We already
and having to sit around and wait on the Wednesday.
For that to happen, I'll actually get the lead of this group.
That is something that, you know,
if you would have looked at 20-25,
maybe you wouldn't have had this on your bingo card
with the results of how things been going so far.
Inside Group B as well,
things are slowly shaping up as well
after our third playday.
Falcons at the top, not a very surprising result,
but Secret at the bottom there,
despite having that overtime,
two points could still end up costing them a lot, Jack,
the way they did last week.
Yeah, I think so. Everything is
to play for inside of Group B.
There's still a team to be
determined over the next two
days, obviously to drop out of
the bracket, but the fourth
place, like any of the teams
realistically from second to
fifth could finish in the
position of second to fifth. I
think Falcons are lights in a
way the best team inside of
Europe right now. You'd
expect them to be top of the
group. But after that, you
know, you genuinely cannot
call who's going to win. GK
have been involved in two
games now, two maps now
that have basically they
started their own comeback
and won the game and
they started their own comeback and won the game and then they conceded the comeback and lost the game.
So it really is very fluid inside this group.
Yeah, I'm not too worried about Secret, to be honest. I think that they, except for the Swiss and
Mainz plus, you know, they still have to play against Rebels, which on paper should still be
the weakest team here. And then obviously there's the Falcons game, which will be a huge one tomorrow.
I will say this though, they have had the harder pass. And on the other hand, if I look at
teams like Fnatic for example that are topping the ball in their group they had the easy one
you know they played shifters and before that they played heretics they still haven't had to play
against the VP that did G2 and they still haven't played a super team of G2 so it is all still for
the taking the final two play days will rearrange everything I'm not too worried about the team
that's always down in the group B and not worried about the team that's always up in the group
A everything still has changed our chances to change and that is definitely happening potentially
the game. So we're going to
tomorrow at least with our
schedule for the day. Now
there's a lot to take it when
we look at these four games
for tomorrow. The one that
really speaks to me is that
second game Falcons versus
Secret June versus old team
with that game there. And then
as a third game, we have a
shifters with blast going up
against G two. That's also
blast is for work. So I
think we talked about that a
little bit today with players
going up against their former
organizations, which was
against your old org,
whether that was because you got an upgrade
or whether you got left down from the organization.
Yeah, I don't know who's gonna want to mourn
that Falcon secret game,
cause I think, you know,
Jun's on top of the world right now
and probably isn't gonna be too worried
about who he's playing against,
but those secret guys are really gonna wanna put it to him.
I'm very, very excited for that second game.
Even if secret have looked a little bit wobbly,
they might just have a little bit more
in the tank playing against one of their former players.
And also let's not forget a team that they have
with over the last what 18 months in terms of being the top of Europe as well
They're gonna want to prove that they're still at the top even though they've had a couple of wobbly results
And I was looking at the rest of the skill do my social shifters and I'm like wow they lost the game today against that
This was supposed to be couldn't code the easier game. They have to play they have
VP to play still afterwards
I mean that is a lot and it could resemble what happened at the beginning of stage one last year when they had this
Really good beginning and then everything fell off at the last moment and they lost on they love to play
of spot. I'm scared for these guys like they need a reaction and very soon. It
needs to happen with a cheat day tomorrow having a day off a phonetic as
well. A lot can happen around these teams inside the groups but it's a good
thing for us that it isn't EML Super Weekend. It means we still have two more
playdays left of EML action. Unfortunately you will have to wait as
well until tomorrow 6 p.m. CEST if you want to get your drops or if you
just want to watch some good siege action as then we'll be back with the
EML Super Week. We want to thank you so much for watching. We have an amazing
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