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We don't call ourselves legends.
We earn it.
Who will set the tone before the season even begins?
Well, they prove they belong.
Will they shock the world?
They earn their spot at the main major.
Only one way to find out.
Only one way to find out.
Group stage begins April 1st.
Earn here, not give it.
Welcome to the North American League Season Kickoff.
Welcome back to the NAL.
Wait, where's Jonah at?
Jonah will be joining us later, but as of right now, it is Fox and Lax to take you through
Play Day 4 and Lax.
You've been having an amazing NAL stage so far.
There's been so many upsets, so many teams changes,
and more importantly, the rookies have really
came to impress us.
And I'm just excited to see how the rest of this continues,
because points are going to be on the line.
Pressure is building up for the teams with no points.
It's a scary situation to find yourself
if you're at the bottom of these standings.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I love that you talk about standings,
because it's really important now.
I mean, there's only two play days left,
and there's some teams that are on the cusp of gaining
their spot in playoffs.
And then for some of the others,
dire situation where they need points. I mean even here in group A, a hundred
thieves at the bottom, they need these points going to today if we want to see
any implications from them going further into playoffs. Yeah it would be falling
flat but five years at the top and if we look at group B we got dart zero leading
the charge. They've been doing very very well and at the same time cloud nine
and outlast tied for zero points. So another bracket that has so many
implications based off of essentially today's games. If we don't see wins under
Outlast C9 or 100 Thieves Belt, they're going to be solidifying themselves in that
fifth seed, not making it to the bracket phase. And that would just be dire for
these teams that we want to see more from. Yeah, and as me and you have talked
about time and time again, when we get to that bracket, the beauty of it, it's
no longer best of ones, but that is where the real gauntlet starts. And as
we were also introduced to as as these games go on going into this
play day into the next. We're going to be slotting in teams in their respective spots
and where they will fall into because as we know some teams will be slotting their spots
today where the others will only come into going into tomorrow. So again, there's a lot
to look forward here and the beauty of again, it is going to be in best threes as we
know we love far more than the best of one. Oh, of course. And you can see being
seed one every seed matters. You get an addition. You only have to win one game
to qualify to Salt Lake City. If you are in that first seed, then the second
and third seeds will play each other.
And the fourth seeds will find themselves in a lower bracket.
And that is a difficult position to be in,
because we lose one game, you're out,
but we've seen it so many times that a lower bracket run sometimes
can be the best friends for these teams that find themselves down there.
Yeah, absolutely.
Now, you know, we've talked about so many things within this stage
and in itself, but we have to talk about the rookies.
Because I think that's really been the bigger picture here
when we're looking at these teams, is how well the rookies have been placing.
And it's really the rookie season.
I mean, this is the most we've ever had in one season of rookies coming into it.
And I will say a lot of them really have been showing up and doing their due diligence of showing as to why they deserve to be playing here thus far.
And there's still a lot of new players in the lead too that didn't qualify as rookie, them being their first season stage playing in the NAL.
But so far, we've seen so many impressive individual players from all of these teams.
teams, everyone's really been showing up and we're only going to continue to see them
progress because there's so much talent that has come from this T2. A lot of these teams
have qualified through the lower T2 region to be able to make it into the T1. And that's
the best thing for the community, for the ecosystem is having such talented rookies.
But there's five specifically that we wanted to highlight directly. Great individual players
that have been impacting their team. And these are the five. This is our rookie
roster. We got Trevmack, Mike W, Fenz, Center and Raid. And I think each one of these players
brings a different aspect to their teams. But we've seen so much from Trevmack in the
IGL department, especially when we have such a starved T2 pipeline for IGLs to be able
to come in and take a team from zero to hero. He's really been leading the charge. Yeah,
he's a little pixelated. He's a little pixelated back there. But him and Mike W, in my
opinion being the backbones for outlasts yes they are very rookie roster we haven't really
seen too much from them but there's a lot of promise we've seen good inner workings the wheels
are turning for the team it's a little bit of an experience gap but with time they will slowly
get better and i hope to see trev mack continuously improve in the ijl department yeah absolutely and
then for the other three i do want to highlight fans right now he is the ninth highest rated player
in the season so far and i wasn't really sure what fans was going to bring to the table he
He did replace Emilio on that Envy roster.
And again, it was my big question markup.
You're replacing a not so great player
with a not so great player,
just based off his stats alone on that standby roster.
But in that match versus M80, he dropped 15 and six.
And something that I really like
with this five fears roster
is he's sure he is playing at flex entry,
but he's also playing operators that are a necessity
for the round to go the way that they need them to.
So I appreciate the flexibility coming there.
But now I want to pivot towards a player like Reid
when we talk about flexibility.
We talk about versatility.
Even in their first match against Wildcard,
I believe it was Raid and Aiden who were popping off.
They were having a tremendous game.
They were playing those cuts.
They were moving Wildcard members around
into their line of sight, and they did such a good job.
But even in his most recent match against Cloud9,
sure, he didn't have the prettiest stats by any means,
but we talk about that versatility and that flexibility.
He was bringing the yin.
He was bringing these operators
that were forcing a lot of discomfort
that was allowing Dream to set up for these executes.
And it worked out extremely well.
And I like to see newer players be able to diversify their own playstyle.
And then just to end it off on center, sure, we haven't seen a lot from Cloud9, but even
in their debut, when all the pressure's on, everyone's watching, your big brother, your
big brother of surf is looking over your shoulder, he had a very good game, especially
on that Blackbeard.
He was able to move a lot of those pieces around, be able to go for those executes.
Now we haven't seen a lot outside of that, but going into their match today
against TrevMax team of outlasts, there should be some comfort in familiar faces, familiarity
in their opponents. And I do want to see a little more out of them. But this is the
reason why I think we're highlighting these five in particular out of the rookies in this
stage thus far.
And there's so much to look forward to from these players development. But as for today,
there's a lot to look forward to in the schedule of what matches we have coming up. And
when we take a look at that, we're starting off with wildcard versus dark zero into
SR versus five fears. A big, big game for the last two is maybe versus a hundred thieves,
which of a hundred thieves loses, they will lock themselves in fifth place, getting eliminated
from the bracket phase. And then cloud nine and outlasts, they both have zero points.
So today, one of these two teams is going to be knocking the other down into that
fifth place spot. And it's a very scary situation for a hundred thieves and that
final game plot on outlast blacks. Which one are you looking forward to most?
I'm going to be completely honest. I want to see the wild card versus dark zirgim just because of what happened to wild card going into that
Second game that we saw they didn't look too great. They didn't look hot SSG was shutting them down
That's not typically what we're used to seeing on a wild card at least maybe at an international level regionally
We may have seen some that but that's what we have to get into this match to kick it off is
You know sure for wild card you can play it safe
You can play comfortable and play a math like clubhouse
But that really was the problem here is because you're allowing a team like SSG that has made roster changes
Trying to bring people into the into the you know the core of things and you're going to a map like clubhouse
So going to a very default map it is going to be punishing not just even in terms of the stat line
But especially in the entries for them
They could not find any of those entries swinging them into their favor. We're on the side of SSG
They were dominating them and there's always gonna be ramifications when you're allowing teams to find comfort
And when you're going against new teams,
this is where Wildcard really has to paint the picture up.
How can we make it difficult for them
that we can make it so much easier for ourselves?
And for me, it's really just more about the map pool.
We know how strong this team is.
We know how strong the addition of bringing Adrienne is.
But it's more so of using your map diversity
and forcing these newer teams to work a little harder
than just relying on just testing their strengths
in the fundamental department.
I mean, the maps have always been something
that has plagued Wildcard,
But on the other side of things dark zero their maps every single one that they've gone to to relieve is only one that they've
Continuously played layer, but for them as a team they have looked revolutionized this whole team since bringing on the s
She core keeping njr and bringing on Kino has really just amplified this team only to be that much better
There really hasn't been any flaws from this roster as a whole. They've just been playing so phenomenally
I mean the team individually when it comes to their KD's they're at a plus 39 as a team
Can you guess what the second closest team is in KD difference lacks?
I would I would assume it has to be a team on five years probably I'd imagine
Right, so dark serves up plus 39 the next place team close them is that plus eight?
So that just goes to show that yes, their strategy is levels above everyone else
They're playing like the most coordinated team right now and everybody is thriving on the roster and we talk about it because of the
It's something that SSG never really or never really had essentially because they had too much firepower
Now this team of dark zero having NJR having Kino. We talk about it every single playday
It makes everybody that much more flexible. Folt is getting on the board
J9o is playing a lot more aggressively and it's like seeing these older players
be revolutionized. They hit the founder of the youth and the whole team is having so much enjoyment playing off of each other.
And that's the best thing. We're hoping to see them continue to spoil the stage just because the previous SSG roster,
we've always seen them crumble at a certain point when pressure gets a little bit too difficult to handle.
But now we just want to see that consistency aspect from Barxero that we've never seen from the previous rosters.
Yeah, and who knows? Maybe, you know, once we get to the maps, maybe we'll see a lair.
Maybe we'll see a clubhouse me personally. I hope we don't see that. I know these teams have a bigger map pool
Thankfully, we aren't seeing either layer or clubhouse
This is actually a good map for wildcard if you remember back at SI wildcard would be
SSG 6 8 on the map, but again that leaves to question
This isn't the same SSG that they played before and it was a very close game
Now you could say it's the same wildcard just plus Adrian and in that match Dash actually did perform
But I do think this does favor dark zero in particular just for the fact is the what we've highlighted with NJR and Kino's additions
That it allows this team to have far more structure than they ever had even in the last time that they played these guys
Yeah, I mean the previous SSG roster was never that thrilling at bank just because of how the nature of the map is
It's very slow pace. You're playing from below. You're usually playing off the utility
We know this maps a good map for wild card
But the biggest question for me when it comes to Wildcard is it feels like they're still trying to get settled into having Adrian on the board.
They're playing very uncomfortable.
Spiker was one of those players that we were highlighting so much coming into the kickoff and we had him have a great game, you know, on the first playday.
And then slowly he's tapered off.
I mean, playday three only getting two kills was the biggest downfall.
I think Spiker is taking the biggest hit when it comes to these changes that he needs to get comfortable on.
And a map like bank is something that you have to consistently adapt on.
And this is where spikers going to be caught between a rock and a hard place
because he has to not only think mentally for his own play, but manage the team
on completely different aspects of the map, whether they're attacking
because on a map like bank, you have to take a lot of ground control
and slowly close in on what you're trying to get the advantage.
And that's something where spikers really going to be in the hot seat
for Wildfire today.
Well, Fox, as much as I want to keep breaking this down and keep yapping and
glorping, as the Twitch chat would say, we do got to throw it to our two
excellent casters of Entero and Jesse to take this math underway.
Well, thank you very much.
DZ's new roster certainly raises some eyebrows and cost a bit of chatter
online, but I think with their three and no start undefeated so far
through kickoff, they've quieted some of those concerns.
Today's the last day for DZ to shine and they're hoping to go out
undefeated and clinch the top of their group. But Jesse, they've got one of NA's most consistent
international teams as their opponent. And as the guest talked about, Wildcard hasn't
really looked like themselves, but they've got DZ today in Cloud9 tomorrow to try and
prove that they're one of NA's best and make it to Salt Lake.
That's exactly right, Parker. Darkster have looked excellent so far this stage,
but Wildcard have a good record when playing up against this DZ core. Lackson mentioned
They beat them to set the SSG flares back in Paris,
and he's right, but they also beat them in Munich.
They beat them in Rio.
They beat them domestically.
They hold a six in one record versus the SSG team
that we saw last season.
They are playing maybe a different org this time
around though, Parker,
and it comes with a bit of a curse.
DarkZero, the organization,
have never lost to Wildcard in their org's history.
So which will prevail?
Will it be the Cors record of losing
versus Wildcard team or the Orcs record of winning.
That's what we find out today.
Honestly, these teams could very easily match up
at international events as well.
Wildcard making that change in the offseason,
Dash going home.
I don't know if it was a change
that Wildcard would have made.
I do know that Spikers talked about it a few times,
but you need Dash going back to Brazil
because he was homesick.
Again, we can understand why it's tough for you
to try to acclimate to a new place,
a new culture, a new team, a new language,
all that comes with it.
Just why some of these imported players
that come over to North America all go to Europe?
Obviously Stompin'ness is a big one that you might think of.
It's very impressive that they're able to gel back quickly.
I don't think there's gonna be a lot of shock
for Adrian as he joins this wildcard roster.
The bigger issue for wildcard is less about the players
and more just professional stuff, right?
Spike is playing on different operators.
He's calling from a different position.
Adrian has had to adapt to this wildcard team and it's a little tricky when you're trying to join an existing system
With Dark Zero, I think it's fair to say there really wasn't much of an existing system
They did get call-out fault snooers in J9, I know all from space station so it's entirely possible
They brought that over full sale, but guys like Tino and NJR
They're gonna allow you to play differently
Then you saw the old SSG roster J4, and Jesus has been very good
So far not dropping more than four noons against any of their opponents. Yeah, no doubt
There's no real worries for Dark Sierra. They're in a very comfortable spot in the group right now.
Wildcard are not in a bad spot either by any means, but having the last week here, the first three days it was straight matches non-stop.
We had a lot of action for the first week of the North America League.
Now you've had a few days off, you've had some time to refine your strategies.
You knew you were coming up against Dark Sierra in this big opening game for the second week.
I'm really looking forward to seeing what Wildcard can bring to this setup.
I'm really looking forward to seeing how they've evolved over the last couple of days
Sometimes having that bit of off-time can be huge for you. They get to start on the defense
Of course here on bank, and they do go to the bottom floor as we typically do see teams go
It's done a great job so far inside of dark zero clearing out that utility there
You know, there's a lot of players over fourth open areas
We're hoping to clear them out, but the utility is stalling them for now
Blast fans are so common against this DZ team and they'll be allowed to get played here against Wildcard
so maybe he can be added at a later date.
Aston Hibana taking out, you know,
the bank is a map where hard destruction has so much impact
and yours immediately showing off while Glass is such a strong operator,
walking in copyright, taking no prisoners open towards open area.
Adrian will fire back, but ultimately, 90 seconds to go.
That's a decent entry.
You've taken out the Valkyrie.
Baby Shark has had some offensive struggles
for this wildcard team up to this point.
Spiker will get dropped to the hands of Fultz and DZ will continue to roll wildcard.
You need to keep their footing for your next minute or so.
Does Adrian drop elevator? That's my main question Parker,
is he wanna stay up and fight?
I think with the Monty that the team gets kinda made for him,
he kinda has to fall off here, there he goes.
Looking for a little bit of a reprag, still Kino hungry for this pick,
but the Nitro gets threatened, Kino has to back off
and they will stick with a man disadvantaged 60 seconds to go on this defense.
Caches are still reinforced, they don't have a ton of heartbreak,
really nothing to work with on the side of Dark Zero.
both those can openers were taken out in the pocket of NJR.
So this could still be a really strong hold from Wildcard.
It's not as bad as it might look just on the bottom portion of your screen.
Yeah, Wildcard are on the ropes, Adrian and Kansan softened up,
but these are still strong spots for them to be in.
Bay has no real insurance here as all those gas casters are gone.
He pops up, gets one, traded out immediately by Kino.
DZ have been very sharp with this refrag.
It will continue to go.
And as long as those trains continue to come in, Wildcard
it back to the learners this round. Final 20 seconds now is DZ with defuse kit. They do
have sight control, they have to be very up this red position. Adrian gunned down, Kansan.
The only saving grace. No way to stop this new nitrous on the explosives in pocket. It's
just him and his Mp7 as he creeps ever closer. Hatch being watched and Neurs who got kill
number one. We'll get kill number five. And I saw Bo on the round for DZ to start
off 1-0.
Yeah, good to see Nura's getting active early in the round, Parker, despite being kind of the only entry player traditionally on this DZ roster,
he didn't get a single attacking opening pick for the first week of games. So it's nice to see him getting active.
It's on the glass, it's maybe not the way we traditionally expect to see Nura's playing,
but it's a really good strategy to be able to get some damage down to the top floor players, clear out open area,
and then again, I was worried about that push, Parker, they didn't have any of the hatches open,
But with a Monty, it ended up being okay.
The one-for-one trade for Bay is more or less fine.
Adrian coming back, the site isn't able to do much.
That Pinot-Nuer's combo of glass plus Monty is just so devastating,
and Wild Park couldn't find an answer.
While DZ has been the really stifling team to play against,
what was the magic number for DZ to clinch blasts in six rounds?
Is that correct, Jesse?
Yes, Darkseer and he just a single point,
so if they can at least force this into overtime,
when six rounds in this matchup, they will guarantee first place in the group and get a five to the first round of playoffs.
They've already clinched a top three spot in Group B with their heroic run.
They did it against their match against Outlast that was played on Play Day number three.
Today is Play Day four, which means there's still one more group stage to go.
That is tomorrow.
But not every team plays.
DarkZero has the day off tomorrow, so they need to build up as much of a lead as possible.
And they just hope that nobody else in the group can catch them.
Right now the only team that is relatively confident striking distance is Space Station gaming the former org of three of these players in their culture call out
Man, I don't think we expected to see DZ look like this. Good
I know you and I were taken by surprise a little bit on that very first playday
But the question that was asked is who's going to entry well, it's been yours
It's been Keto and it's been a little bit of everybody else pitching in where need be and it's really working for the squad so far
If you think we're glazing DZ, things can obviously fall apart in the playoffs, but right now there really isn't a lot of bad things for us to say about the Stark Zero team.
Well Parker, I often call Kino the best sniper player in the world, but to fight that, the two snipers being brought on DZ's lineup are not being piloted by Kino.
Maybe just coming down to a bit of that roll shift that the Stark Zero team has had to work with given their 5-man lineup.
line up but I like this as well that given Kino the commando you can run
around on this IQ down below the bomb site there's no roamers down here but
with baby shark playing on that solace there's certainly an opportunity for a
late round flank whether that's down square down elevators some other way
to try to disrupt things so Kino down here could be huge and then you really
start to wonder what are NJR and J9O going to get up to from outside the
building on these sniping operators they could be really really scary
especially with Noah's zombie being brought from Wildcard.
You talk to a lot of the smarter people who cover this game and they'll say that we are very firmly in an intel meta
and shields are still obviously quite important, but they're falling a little bit in terms of their prominence.
You're looking now at operators that gain a lot of information. On attack you've got a couple of them. As a defender
you've got Echo with his three Elkai drones.
That's what Bay was doing using one of those drones to try and scout things out,
but then he goes for a dry peek on the trading. Window dies immediately
and DZ will strike first for the second round in a row.
Now, the fallback from Wildcard has not really happened just yet.
Adrian holding that single position on that stock trading door with the deployable shield,
as Warden can see through the smoke.
That catches the cross on the panels that lead him to the bomb site.
Now he goes though as he now gets very aggressive in the same area
and DZ is just blowing through this round.
40 seconds left. Wildcard just has Biker standing.
Very little damage has been done to DZ, and it'll be a flawless end to round number two, DZ, bangin' on all cylinders.
Wow, it's early Parker, but the DZ wildcard curse certainly seems to be affecting the new iteration of Dark Zero
just as much as it did the old really strong start.
Tacking her on the top floor, Neuers continues to impress big 2k entry, pushing in through the through the stock window.
And I mean, you might go back and look at that opening death from Bay and criticize it a little bit.
He was on Echo and he was giving himself information, so he knew where a couple of those players were.
Might have been a better swing if maybe somebody else did it while he was still jumping up with a yokai, feeding that intel to his teammates.
You could pick it apart one way or another, Parker, but in the end it doesn't work out the way Bay was hoping for, and that kind of gets things off.
Started right for Dark Zero.
Managed to get these couple of kills from Newer, one and then two going for Refrag from Adrian, and at that point the man disadvantage is too far gone.
gone baby sharks trying to make some plays but it's not much you can do with it and DZ
just looks easy for them in these matches much like their first three games.
I think it's an interesting map, it's one of the biggest ones in the map and I think
it's been dethroned now officially by Lair and I mean I'd have to see the schematics
in the floor plan for all these places here but it's a big map and you can roam really
effectively.
Again, information is the name of the game in Rainbow Six but it is even more powerful
right now. DZ not really using it all that much, so the operators that we tend to see most frequently,
Deimos, there could be maybe a little bit of lion, snake, solid snake has also seen
quite a high bit of pick rate depending on the map. Oucard banned those double hard breachers yet
again. The shields are being brought by DZ and they will bring the lion to their credit,
but it's just a lot of destruction that's been brought so far and their drone work has
been great from DZ. They haven't really needed any of those you know paralyzing
intel operators to find more wildcard art.
I.E.D. Active!
Sleep in Planta!
In a very aggressive game from Wildcard 2 Parker, they've been happy to get in some of these early
gunfights. I wonder if a conversation is starting to happen. Do they want to rein
things in a little bit more as DarkZero have been so good at punishing those early gunfights?
They're 2-0 for entries of course, if you like having both of those. If you'll bring
a sledge over to round 3 and try to make his way into the building, but he knows the
first one in top square. There is nobody up here on the top floor for him to find,
but of course with a lot of these players still lurking around this middle floor bomb site open area
There will be potential for flanks. So holding this town is really important for dark zero
Nitro cells they could really have a good opportunity they themselves didn't bring one
But with his valvecams they could guide themselves to an easy free pick
He could it might be the first time the wild card have a good start to this round
They've allowed dark zero to take up quite a bit map control and then have been choosing some disadvantageous fights
cost them quite yearly.
Darkster still with that control above as you pointed out.
Nitro Cell in hand for Adrian just waiting for the right call.
Another Nitro Cell for Kansan too,
so double trouble available for this Wildcard squad.
And hey, if things go really bad,
get the Valqa through impacts.
GZ maybe want to fight a little bit early though.
Still over a minute to go in this round
and I think that's Adrian tucked into the corner
of open area.
He'll go for a very small straighter.
Peak NJR sees him and fires away.
So that's more information.
The rest of Wildcard have their attention elsewhere.
The sledge of newer is five and over to start.
He's likely dead.
The nitro cell for Adrian connects.
He's still on that door.
So while the nitro cells are doing double duty,
Jesse Wildcard's gonna do it as well.
NJR finds the water and he'll fight his way
out of this position.
The best rated player in the league,
J90 on the board immediately finished off
by baby Shark and Kyle when this Wildcard team
have a lead in numbers.
NJR will need to clutch a 1v2 now.
The two remaining players from Wildcard
all ducked down behind these cubicles.
They don't need to do much at all.
That commando in the hands of NJR
can easily kill both Spiker and Baby Shark
with just a couple bullets.
And Jarr has no information, though.
Shoulder checking his way in and he's making some noise.
The Azami gets downed,
but NJR finished off and Wildcard is on the board.
Big round coming up from Spiker Parker.
Two kills in that round, but they were so critical.
The first to tilt the man count
Back in the favor of wildcard midway through that push, and the last, the most important, in the essential 1v1.
Baby Shark downed, but not out, so it won't count on the stats, but we can counter it of course.
Big play coming out from the young captain of wildcard, and listen, it gets a little bit messy,
but you can see the change in philosophy in that defense coming through.
Rounds one, they're roaming heavily in open area, they're taking early gunfights.
Round two, they're going for aggressive swings around stalk, they're taking early gunfights.
At round 3, nobody really gets active until there's under a minute left on the clock.
It's a C4 to take down Newers, that's not really a gunfight, we can still say Newers is 5-0 when it comes to raw aim contests.
But, in the end, that passive play style, letting DZ waste their own time, even conceiving space to them, worked out for Wildcard.
They were able to use the clock to their advantage, trade things out,
They could ban all five of their players close together, and it's close, but it gets them their first round here against DZ.
The final operator bans have rolled in, and they'll get rid of Montaigne who leaves the Blackbeard still open to be played when the Staples Nemo is played by QNM.
At this point in time, the Echo, likely causing some issues. For Dark Zero, they'll get rid of a powerful Intel operator on the side of Wildcard.
seen a bunch of Valkyries get played as well so I wouldn't surprise me too much if we do tend to see.
A bit more of Valk moving forward though is absent. From this lineup, Solus will appear yet again.
Open area is an interesting bombsite. Some teams will go immediately through electrical
barge through that double door and try to plant in the back of staff area. Other teams go for a
complete and total fail clear. DZ did the latter. They were not cute or quick about it.
It was one of their slower attacks as they struggled to deal with the fact that
wildcard had so many defenders in trench. There wasn't really much of a
roam game that DZ could punish, which is obviously the opposite of what we saw in
rounds one and two. So maybe there's something to be said for wildcard playing
more of a turtle setup. They do not have a memo here on this round though as we
see a far flung defense all over the map and DZ probably looking their chops
at another successful entry. Yeah the game plan really hasn't changed much
on this bottom-floor site for wildcard. Parker they're still holding open
area it's a little bit more of an extension now inside of Tellers with
baby shark here on the Solus, hoping to hunt for a nice tick, hoping to get himself at least
to even out on the Stapboard. It was first frag in the last round. It could be hungry for him more,
but they know this warden's position is Adrian inside of the elevator. Newer's holding a really
good angle on him. If he gets aggressive, Adrian is surely dead.
Good patience so far, but there's no real follow-up. Still tucked through the corner,
Kino takes care of Bay Bay died early just a couple rounds ago and Kino will continue his assault downstairs now on blue looking at the day bombsite
Through the half open wall full eliminating spiker there goes baby shark as well
When wildcard seems to lose these bodies Jesse they lose them in a hurry
We are just at the halfway point of this round and it's a 5v2 for DZ
He said six rounds was needed for Derg zero long less things get catastrophically wrong
They're gonna get halfway there in about a minute or so frankly it'd be a little surprised it takes a full minute for DZ to pull this off
I have to agree Parker Adrian's doing his best, but he's so so a long shot on the NJR
Makes it at least not a flawless, but Kanzin then falls and Adrian is left in a 1v3
Under the fall probably the most vulnerable he would be Kino had a brief window of opportunity to punish him will not do that
So now Adrian heading towards the back of the side of full rotate all the way around looking for a backstab
But because DZ have three players, they can keep somebody on flank watch.
That's exactly what they will do.
Now Adrian will stare at that vault doors.
The defuse kit goes down.
Kino's successful with that objective.
Foltz is waiting ever so patiently, but J9O has the post and grabs him before Foltz can be in any serious danger.
Three-one for DZ.
Again, it's just so hard to play against this Dark Zero team, Parker.
They look so good.
That time Wildcard, they're still holding a lot of map control if they didn't round one,
but they were less aggressive with it.
They were kind of sat in their positions, they were inside tellers, but they weren't swinging out of tellers
They were inside elevated, but they weren't swinging out of elevator. And so what happens? Darkseer say, okay
You're not gonna give us easy fights in the early game
We're just gonna go walk our blitz into blue stairs and clear the smoke and it's like well
What good is a roamer if he's not able to stop the attackers from just waltzing into the objective
Finding their way into sight and killing some of the most important anchor players
That's really the problem that wildcard are facing right now if they get aggressive if they take these early fights
They're losing in Dark Zero, but if they don't get aggressive and take these fights, they have to give up a ton of space.
And while that did work for them in round three, it's never going to be an ideal strategy.
This is a far cry from what we've seen from Wildcard, but I will also kind of caution some of the dissenters and those that might be in Twitch chat right now.
And yes, I'm speaking to you if you're saying these things like, oh my gosh, Wildcard is washed, Adrian, whoa, bring back Dash.
If you're saying any of those things.
A, I mean, Twitch chat's kind of funny, but B, it's also kind of a, you know, room temperature
way of looking at this team.
Wildcard have never really dominated domestically.
This is a team that has always been kind of the fourth, fifth, sixth place team in NA
against NA, where Wildcard shines is when they get to international competitions.
The problem is that you gotta be good enough in NA to actually get to this point.
I think even a loss here for Wildcard is far from the end of the road.
They played Cloud9 tomorrow, which based on the way that these teams are played, Wildcards
should emerge with at least one point in that matchup.
Oh, obviously it's the best of one.
Anything can happen.
But still, obviously some growing pains for Wildcard Spiker on different roles, adapting
to a new player, changing things up, wrestling with a new meta.
That's enough to knock even a team that made zero changes off Stride, but for a team
that did make some swaps, and a team that is always kind of struggling, like, domestically,
Wildcard is showing that it takes more than just a couple maps to find your footing.
Well, just trying to get themselves back in if you're on a curve ball going Archive's tellers, but it is Adrian who bites the dust first.
He was another opening pick. Thankfully it gets traded out by Spiker, a nice swing back, but man that still hurts.
You're losing that warden inside the site. There are a lot of smokes on the side of DZ and this execute is still going to be very scary when it comes to your Scythe.
Nice kill by Bane. He goes for the fade away. Nitrocell shot out by Keenoo.
Jane I know obliterates Bane on the cross, still outside of the building.
Five kills for Jack trailing newers, but they know still maintaining the highest EPS at the start of this matchup
We'll see if he remains the highest rated player in North America once all is said and done
First time that we've seen bank here in the NAL kickoff
So these two teams with new looks playing on a map that doesn't have a ton of history on it
You're always gonna see things afterwards and I have to do a little bit of a postmortem
One more kill for DZ is now wildcard trail in numbers. If you get going down it's Foltz holding on to the case this time, not Kino.
Kino has the shield there to distract, and Kanzan and Baby Shark are held at bay for the time being. Now Foltz taking some damage.
Good HP on the side of the two remaining players from wildcard, but if you allow DZ to get set up and get entrenched,
just as some of these wildcard defenses were earlier, it can really bite you.
Baby Shark gets caught in an opportunity where he was looking at two different targets and he picks the wrong one.
hands in the lone kill, but he's got his work cut out for him with J9o and Kino still upright, and they have top 4 control.
Hands in the tempting to hop on defuse kick, Kino staring him down, J9o still above.
Time getting precariously close to running out, just a few seconds left.
Kino will get the job done, J9o there, just in case, but he's not needed.
Yet another round for DZ, two away from clinching first in their group.
I mean, Parker, we talk about this log car team.
They've made one roster move, and sometimes it takes a lot of time
to get players into the right system to get the coordination up,
and that's all correct.
But the historic zero team has made far more drastic changes,
and their coordination is incredible on these executes.
Just that coordination of Kino pushing players back on the blitz,
forcing whether it's Bay or someone else to drop down
through elevator, make a move into lobby,
and then it's right into the cross-air of J9O,
who's able to snag up those picks,
give himself even more frags.
I believe now six and one in this game.
After you mentioned, the highest rated player
through the first week of competition,
it's incredible just how good this team works together.
Every player seems to be on the same page.
The strat even on a fourth site here,
which was hoping to catch DZ off guard,
looks well rehearsed, it's well practiced.
They put all the pieces together the way they need to.
And I just can't, I can't glaze them enough Parker.
I mean, this team looks so good.
even against a really strong opponent in Wildcard.
Yeah, I mean, one thing I said,
I think it was round number one or round number two.
DZ has not dropped more than four rounds
against a team here at KitKaw.
They started against Space Station
and it was pretty poor showing for Space Station
compared to their next two games.
SSG then handling Wildcard and C9.
SSG just, I guess, taken some time
to find their own footing.
Maybe first game jitters,
but DZ punishing them on-layer.
Dropping four rounds to Cloud9
in the demolishing outlast losing only two rounds.
It seems like DZ is getting more comfortable
with their roles and the target bands that are against them.
One of which happens to be that glass
that I referenced that is not banned out by Wildcard
has pushed DZ to play other operators
and now we're starting to see more diversity
in what's being brought.
We're gonna see another solid snake
this time being played by NJR.
Joe could be in line, we'll be there for the follow up
as Jemos is really no effect so far on this map.
So DZ is using an awful lot of tools here
And there really isn't a lot of good that we can say about Wildcard at this point in time.
This has been the DZ show.
I want to see some big plays this round about a baby shark.
It's the last round of the half. He's had a rough couple of games to start this season.
There's been some conversations about it, but we know how good this young French player is indeed.
He was imported to North America and played this Wildcard team for a reason.
It's not going to be in the first gun flight. It's off-floor.
It's going to be the snake from NJR who is hunting down these players, but still no frags yet.
Yeah, almost 60, almost 90 seconds in and they're off to the race this baby shark
Bay cans and all biting the dust like a hurricane landing and fly over country
goodbye to wild card spiker with a desperate attempt to keep this round
intact now tussling with the shield is Adrian he meets his fate in one of the
worst ways possible and spiker with a single kill clutch ace this round the
process giving himself away a nice play on a false diffuser goes down but
just too many targets to worry about newer seals the deal and it's a 5-1 first half for
dark zero.
Bakker there's only so much you can say about this DZ team they're looking so incredibly
good one round away from steering first in the group but let's not have no more words
so let's let our guests jump in and give us some of their words.
Yeah dark zero I've been looking absolutely terrifying to go up against I mean from
start to finish their rounds they have been looking like they're getting the
opening picks they slow it down they understand what the execute is and we've
been seeing so many rounds from them that have just been phenomenal and I
think a lot of it comes down to them just having so much flexibility a player
like Newers has had so much flexibility and that's something that I've loved
to be seeing. Yeah I mean even highlighting the round one I mean we
never see Newers on Blazz so the fact that we're seeing him and it
speaks into the flexibilities just go to showcase everyone is doing their job where they need to be and again even in that round five
I mean I have to say Fox that really was an impressive post plant to be able to get that going
I mean this was the round right here. I mean again
Dark zero the structure that they have now with the addition of those players has tremendously been paying off
I can't say I wasn't necessarily convinced off their first three games that they've played but so far right now
Now I am 100% behind this roster change and how these guys are looking right now.
I mean Newer's, his improvement over the years since teaming with us has been amazing to
watch. I mean seeing him on glass, red lock, knock, he's just has so much flexibility on
this roster and feels confident being able to do it. The whole roster looks very confident
just because they understand what the win condition is. Them getting their opening
picks, slowing down, their executes all the way, having Kino being able to be
that shield. He's playing his life. He's not going for these over-aggressive plays,
and then everybody else playing any which operator. We're seeing Jayne, I know, playing
Callie, newer's an operator that never lets him on, yeah. Everybody from the roster is
so confident in their flexibility, especially on a map like Bank, which is not something
that we've been seeing. No it's not, but that's it for us. Let's
throw it back to the guys breaking it all down.
you very, very much greatly appreciated. And with this new prolonged timeout that happens
between these halves, we get to hear the experts weigh in. The teams also get to talk through
what comes next. What comes next for Dark Zero might be a moment of celebration. They
need six rounds to clinch first place in their group, securing themselves a buy in
the regional playoffs that will be happening next week. And the big thing about that
is that four teams from North America make it to Salt Lake City. All you need to do is win a
single best of three if you top your group. So let's say DarkZero wins here. They have a buy in
the playoffs. They just need to win a single best of three and they are off to Utah. Back to the
state that claims the headquarters of their well most of their old organization, Space Station
Gaming. As for Wildcard, I don't even know how much of this you can look at. Wildcard
Jesse and say it's a wild card issue. This is what dark zero has been doing to every team so far wild card
Just might be a just another victim and not a particularly poor team. That's just getting you know mercy killed by DZ
Yeah, I have to agree
I mean wild cards certainly there are things that could be improved from from then in this game
But dark zero just looks so incredibly good here in North America leave one thing wild card can look to in this second half
to try to improve is some of these opening gunfights and I look to the two Illinois entry
fraggers that we have on these teams. You've got Neuers on one side, Bay on the other. The
two opening gunfight players most commonly in that engagements. Neuers is 4-0 on entries
through the first half. Bay is 0-3. This has been a completely lopsided affair when
you look to those opening gunfights. It's 5-1 overall with every single one of the entries
being converted through the first half so getting Bay more active, getting Baby Shark
more active in these early game gunfights should be important.
It's not something Bay usually struggles with.
He is 10 and 2 when playing against newers in his career.
That's 10 wins, 2 losses.
This could bring things back up to 10 and 3,
though, just based on how things have gone.
This is a nerve-wracking round for Wildcard, I'm sure.
And Bay has been the opening casualty far too many times
for Wildcard to be comfortable with.
Then another pick for Neuers is his entry stats. Terrific so far, 10 kills for Neuers through 7 rounds, 6 completed, the 7th now still active.
J9-0, 7-1 and 1 inside of Elevator. He heard the gunshots, raining through the barricade, not too far removed from him.
Going up against the striker of Adrian's grenade will go out, but this is entirely J9-0 completely protected in this part of the map.
will now drop through all of that gadgetry used. All you really do is gain some map control there.
It's a good gamble, but wildcard don't get what they were looking for. Not at all, Parker. This is
good man advantage coming in from dark zero, 90 seconds still on the clock. It is a lot of time
to play with if you're a wildcard. Don't get me wrong, but you're going against nitros. You're
going against a chonker. You're going against smokes. There is still plenty of utile that you
need to burn through. It only brought a heart breach charges plus the Havanos. It actually
white bit of hard bridge to get these patches open that shouldn't be a concern for them.
My question is going to be how many of these wildcard players go to hit the back?
How many of these players try to drop them through gold or other angles?
Damn it! I'm down!
And if that's what Agent is trying to do it's also not going to go well.
Newers takes them down from 11 and 3 now on the stat line.
Are you talking about the dance that is this bottom floor bomb site, right?
Even if you just got one nitrocell, a goyo, and a smoke on the board,
you have to wait out usually 30 to 40 seconds.
Well look at the time.
This is exactly where wildcard find themselves.
They still haven't cleared blue and they won't get the job done.
Kino takes down Kansan, traded immediately.
Now it's all up to Spiker and Baby Shark
as they're outnumbered two to one by Dark Zero.
Again, DZ just need one more round.
And they're about to get it, Jesse,
unless Baby Shark can win a 1v4 upstairs on the hatch.
Victory in this match, not needed for DZ.
They just got to pick up a sixth round to clinch
the group. Baby Shark drops the fuser within reach, circling looking for a kill through
the fire. Foltz gets dropped, NJR the final kill, and our first team to clinch the top
of their group is DarkZero. The match isn't done. Adizze will finish first in Group B.
What a statement this is for this organization, Parker. You go back to halfway through
2024 after EWC when they dropped Canadian, and ever since that moment it felt like
they were really struggling to get back to that top echelon to get back to the
highest level of rainbow six siege sure they made two events here and there they
were at I 25 they went to Montreal where they competed at these bigger national
tournaments they were really struggling to get top eight where they were used to
playing probably the biggest disappointment in this org is history
missing SI 2026 not being able to go to Paris and fight for the biggest title
in all of rainbow six siege they completely revamped their roster they're
four brand new players they want a complete refresh and how good does it
look topping their group here to start the North America League the kickoff has
gone beautifully for dark zero and I mean the sky's the limit for this new
roster frankly Parker I cannot wait to see how this team continues to evolve
I'm in the same boat you know there's been a lot of upheaval across the the
three main regions that we tend to cover and watch APAC is a bit of a blind
spot just based on the time zone so when those different leagues go live it's
usually like two or three in the morning which I know some you know some
gamers consider that the afternoon but for me I'm typically in bed around that
point in time but if you look at the SAL the EML and the NAL rosters there has
been a lot of turnover and because of that there's potential but there's also
Also, intrigue, frankly, intrigue is to how these teams will do.
Dark's hero has been, in my eyes, the single biggest surprise of any of these rosters that
have been unveiled, and they have been doing a terrific job.
If you told me, though, looking at DZ's matchups, obviously WildCart can claw this one back,
but assuming that we are on the same trajectory as we've been on for the entirety of this
match, if you'd told me that DZ's most dominant win of the four teams they
played would be against Wildcard, I would have laughed. And yet here we are. Wildcard
needs one more round to tie outlasts, total but they are still back of both the SSG and
Cloud9 games, so Dark's Hero is making very quick work of their final and daresay their
most important match in the groups.
It's still very important for Wildcard too, Parker. They are somewhat in danger of that
fourth spot or maybe even fifth spot if things get really unlucky for them, so
They would desperately like to claw this one back into OT.
Even one point would be huge for them
to secure that upper bracket.
It wouldn't be mathematical,
but it would be very, very strong for them.
They have another opportunity tomorrow to play more games,
so it's not a done deal.
This would be an excellent opportunity
to pick up more points,
even though the job is tough.
Early damage on the Newers,
by far the best player on dark zero today.
12 and three.
A crag onto him would have been huge.
He stayed alive just inside of checkers
and continues to be a problem for this wildcard team.
The only opening pick that this wildcard squad has
came in round number three,
which is the round that wildcard won.
So far, I went 100% success ratio,
rate if you get the very first kill.
I mean, Dark Zero has so many good stats at the moment
that's really easy to see smart
by just reading them out.
So I'm gonna spare most of you the details.
But I mean, wildcard really have suffered on these duels,
whether it be lack of intel when they've been attacking,
whether it's been lack of intel when they've been defending
whether it's been as he is didn't tell.
They had a what a Valkyrie and an Echo that one round
and they went for the double swing on that trading window
when they knew that there were people outside
it was really not the smartest of ideas.
Wildcard now will need to find some more intel
as they have 30 seconds left to pull this one off.
DZ will get the opening pick yet again.
Another round added to the tally.
Down goes Adrian.
Hard breach, an important part of this bomb site.
They've got a leg up because most of these walls
already been opened by DZ and DZ
find another kill baby shark dropping now DZ three away from a 7-1 victory what can
wildcard do spiker has really been the only man to try and save these rounds in
the halfway portion they also a kill nitro cell down below they've got an
echo drone to give them some intel and there we go nitro will go off oh my
amiss a dark zero will win the round anyway based on time a complete set
and a chaos enveloping the bomb site in DZ taking seven one clenching the top of group B of by in playoffs and an undefeated group stage for the new look of DZ's team.
Life's good in Purple Parker a brilliant masterclass on bank up against wild card gaming dark zero secure the perfect group stage to be first overall and newest post at least to my numbers the best game of his career that goes back three years.
Congratulations to DZ.
Absolutely wonderful, and a masterclass for them, we'll see them in a couple days on the playoffs.
We've got a wild card, still have one more game here, and we've got more games today, so a break is up next.
I
performance from dark 0 7, 1 we have to bring on one of the dominant players from that series is Jack J 9, oh Jack I mean four wins in a row you guys to cure first going into the playoffs.
I mean I just kind of want to pick your brain here because we're Chris Kyle on that map. I'm not typically used to being you out there on those hotels.
But I mean how how has everything really been feeling for you obviously with the new edition of these guys and really what is allowing you to thrive in your environment.
Yeah, I mean, we're definitely feeling good. That's for sure the new additions have been great as you guys can see
But yeah, we've just been we've just been working every day super hard and just taking it day by day
And yeah, I feel like yeah, my teammates set me up very well
Yeah, we can see that I mean
Congratulations, you guys have gone for oh your first in your group
You just have to win one game to make it to the Salt Lake City Major.
That being said, I think it's safe to say that SSG, your previous team, had an issue with maybe the
lights getting a little bit too bright once you made it to the event or once there was a situation
where the pressure was on the line, not in North America. But I wanted to know if that's something
that you guys are thinking about and taking steps to make sure that when you play against
the tough teams going into this bracket, like SR and M80, then you go to Salt Lake City,
that we don't see that similar type of, you know, inconsistency of rise.
Yeah, I mean, we're not actively like thinking about it.
Once we get in those scenarios, we try to just stay in the moment and just, yeah,
just play like every round, its own round, every game, its own game kind of thing.
Yeah, yeah, and we saw a lot of diversity in your as operators, specifically newers.
We saw him on glass. We saw him on grids. Is that something raised for possible for him? Yeah. Is that something that's a little bit of a
Difficulty when you're like, you know, new we need you on gridlock or is it something that?
Since he's joined your roster you guys have been teaming together that you've seen him get
Way more comfortable in picking these operators. How does that run down?
Yeah
I mean our philosophy is kind of like team above self
like any individual on our team is going to pick the operator that like best fits our win condition and whatever we need that person will play and
Yeah, he's he picks whatever we need
Yeah, does he I mean he's grown a lot does he have bed sheets on as a bed now
He still doesn't have bed sheets, but I've been trying to get him to get some bed sheets, but he's just he's not about it
He was like, he was like, all right, all right, at least
have pillowcases on his pillowcases.
He has pillowcases.
He has pillowcases.
OK, that's a good thing.
He's developing.
He also has a comfort there, just no, like, actual sheets.
Wow.
Yeah.
I mean, good luck with that.
When he was in our team house, I
had to put the bedsheets on him,
so that being said, congratulations.
I think I was there when he asked you to do that for him.
Yeah.
I had to do it twice.
And then that's it.
But Jack, congratulations.
You guys are first in your group.
We'll let you go and good luck in the bracket plan.
Thank you very much.
Have a good one, guys.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Now, that was a great interview.
I'm glad we saw a little bit of growth
from Neuers inside of the server and outside of the server.
But inside of the server, he has
been electrifying to play for Dark Zero.
I mean, we're used to seeing him
on these typical entry roles.
But him still being able to achieve the same success
for the world as a operator, I think that only
comes with trial and error that this Dark Zero roster has.
Because you have players like Kino, because you have players like NJR, they can continuously
pick up the operators that need to use the utility, that need to be in the right positions,
and Neurs can pick whatever operator he needs and then go from there.
And I think that's a success for DarkZero and I hope it continues.
I mean, it's definitely revolutionizing this roster just in their way that they approach
the game.
And again, you know, I know we make fun of it of just seeing Neurs on a blitz or
on a glass, but realistically, it is crazy to see that and to think that that's
able to be brought now, where that wasn't the thing before.
But again, I wanted to highlight round five.
We weren't able to show it for the halftime,
but we do have to look back at it,
because it just really does show the structure
that this team now has, and just the ideology behind their attacks.
I mean, it's a 3v3.
They have to go for the plant.
Kino does a phenomenal job here of getting into the site,
getting the information, and covering for Fultz
as he goes for this plant.
And J-Nong on the other side.
I mean, he's making this look like a CSGO game at this point,
with the way that he's using Kali, pushing through,
holding these angles.
taking these fights, but this is what I like from Kino, that maybe on M80 he doesn't play it the exact same way.
But he's so disciplined here. He forces the player off,
forces them to fall back into folds, folds gets the pick, folds dies,
but then they immediately rotate up top. We're again, if this is old Kino, I think he tries to fight this.
I think he tries to play this to close it out.
But they do such a good job at pivoting. Kino rotates out, gets the information.
Jack now doesn't have to peek the hole up top in CEO.
It's just a waiting game at this point. It's the inevitable
4 dark zero to win this round.
We're there's nothing left that wild card can do and we didn't really highlight
wild card too much in this series.
But I do have to say they look far more timid than we're used to seeing them.
Now that shouldn't happen off of one change of Adrian coming on to this team.
If anything, it should make them better.
But when we're looking at the roles, we talked about this already.
Some of the players just don't really look comfortable in the new spots.
You already talked about Spiker having to pick up some of it, you know,
what dash is now not able to do anymore with that change.
But even Baby Shark, being on a Hibana, Adrian on Striker, even what, uh,
Spiker on, I believe it was Grim, I feel like you could move some of those operators
around onto different players and then maybe they start finding more success,
but this certainly is not the wild card that I predicted that we were going to see thus far
and things are only going to get tighter with this loss and not accumulating any points today.
Yeah, scary situation before wild card to be in, not what we're used to seeing a lot of
one-view-one fights that Dark Zero just took advantage of but now we have way
more games to be able to go through we're gonna have SR versus Five Fierce
coming up next but first we got to go to a quick break.
I'm breaking next to the wild and out, oh I'll go suckin' my money out, if I can't make it fast, I'm just running out, I'ma keep it going till I ain't no nut.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Welcome back to play day four of the NAL kickoff and we are starting with our second game,
which is going to be Shopify Rebellion versus five Fears and we'll start off with Shopify
Rebellion. I mean, they have been a team that has so many expectations on their shoulders.
They have so many talented players on the roster of Shopify Rebellion, so talented so
much so that that seems to be the name of the game for them. They're consistently able to get
these kills and win essentially off of the individual play style and they just need to be able to
connect a couple more dots to make sure that the team as a whole is all working together
fluidly being the team that we have set the expectations for. We want them to be able to
reach them. Yeah, I mean we have to talk about the five goats of this team. I mean,
yes, the games have been very type effect. The matter is they're still dominating. They're
They're still winning the games that they need to.
It doesn't matter how you get it done.
Fact is, they're getting the points that they're needed,
and it's going to be no exception here today.
And I do want to go on a little bit of a tangent here,
because when I rewatched the game,
I rewatched even the points that we made on the desk,
even for myself.
I think I put a little of my own expectations
into my analysis.
And I didn't really give SR the credit
that they deserve, because at the end of the day, yes.
Can we agree that their first game performance,
first 1 of 30, it got a little closer than it
needed to?
Absolutely.
But going into that game versus 100 Thieves,
I think there was a lot more that I missed
because I was just more focused on, you know,
it's an accelerated league where this is a team
that didn't make a roster change,
and that I just didn't give them the credit
that they deserve because every time,
every single match we see from these guys,
they always persevere.
They always show resilience.
They never give up.
And again, they are five goats in their own right.
There's SI winners, there's major winners,
there's regional winners,
and you will always have to give this team
the respect that they deserve.
Now, even pushing further into giving the respect,
we're talking about the five goats of the team.
We have to talk about the baby goat on the team,
the player that constantly is showing up,
his consistency speaks into his existence and his play.
I mean, he always is performing.
Ambi always meets expectations.
He is such a strong piece of this team.
And I spoke with Super about his role on defense.
He's a defensive IGL.
Now, I've heard of it sometimes
throughout our career, Fox.
I never really understood what that looks like,
but from what super relate to me
and what Andy's job is on that defensive IGL half
is he is calling the operators
and then kind of just calling what's happening
in that defense, how he can be assisted by teammates,
how they can power positions,
just how they can get a lot of control
of the defensive side.
And it does make a lot of sense.
It is a very interesting role that I'm curious to see
if other teams dynamics do pick up,
but overall this roster really has been impressive.
And if there is anything that I want to see going into the day that maybe we haven't seen in the past few days is a little faster pace on those initial attacks in the early round.
So once we get to those mid to late rounds, their executes can look flawless as we know that they can be, that we don't need these nail biters at the end of the day.
That's something if I was to critique that I do want to hopefully see in this match, but like I said, it's just a little faster pace on the attack.
I mean, for a team that made no roster changes, they have been growing individually, especially
Ambi being a young player, taking on defensive IGL roles.
It's a very difficult task to do, and they've been finding success just because they have
so much talent.
We continue to talk about this talent, but IGLing, they have one of the best IGLs,
and they have Ambi that is also able to pick up that stick, if need be.
And that's essentially what Five Fears has been copying.
I mean, they're the next team that we're going to get into, and when we talk
about five years. They've been having an exceptional run throughout the kickoff as well. They're
topping their group above Shopify Rebellion currently because they have two regulation
wins as opposed to SR having two overtime wins. And when we talk about IGLing with
Canadian and Ambi, we got to talk about IGLing with JJ Blast and Forrest. I mean, these
two players have taken this team that was eighth, ninth place last year and made them
a team that is contending to be a top four potentially making it to Salt Lake City.
JJ blasts individually since bringing on force,
has been having his best start to a stage
since entering the NA League.
And I think that only happens because you bring someone
with so much experience like force,
so much that experience is just so impactful
because he can now do the thinking
in these hard positions.
He can play that primary shield
and allows JJ to be on these flexible operators.
So when JJ has the mind of an IGL
now has a little bit more flexibility
with what he can do with it,
he can set up his teammates, focus on those trades,
while Forest does the heavy lifting.
And whenever they both need to have that extra oomph
to a push, that's when we see the double shield lineup.
And you have Forest that is an exceptional,
aggressive shield player and the complete opposite
of JJ Blast being slow, methodical on the shield.
And both of them together have been so impactful
for this team and has made them, yeah,
a team that I'm excited to continue watching
because they're keeping games so close
every single playday and they're winning them outright.
Yeah, they absolutely are.
And I mean, they are the dynamic duo as you're highlighting.
And I'm super excited to get this game going.
But first, we've got to figure out
where this battlefield is going to take place.
Because as we know, SR, they have a plethora of maps
that they can play.
As for five years, we haven't seen a lot.
But what we have seen so far has been good.
We are going to see Chalet.
They are going to be running it back for the side of SR.
Now, that game was close versus 100 thieves for SR.
But I think there's also a lot to take from that match
that they're gonna look back at.
You know, what do we do wrong?
How can we approach it differently?
What are the lengths that we need to go
in order to make some of these rounds swing back
into our favor?
And as for the side to five fears,
we haven't seen anything on Chalet from these guys.
Again, we've only seen two maps from them.
But from what we have seen on their attacking half
is that they do have very coordinated two IGLs
that can facilitate these rounds.
And as you said, when push comes to shove,
and they need a little oomph,
That's where we will start to see those shields come into play.
So I am curious to see on the side of SR,
do they get rid of those shields?
Do they eliminate and hinder, you know,
Forrest's approach and what he can do on those shields
and be in that spearhead and even for JJ Blass, IGL-ing?
I don't know what that's gonna look like.
I am curious, but how are for the side of SR?
As I said, I wanna see a stellar defense
as we know that they can do.
And then once we get to that attack,
I wanna see a little faster pace on the early half,
getting that little bit of control they need
so the mid to late round can look far better
with the utility dump or going for those plants,
holding for the post plant,
whatever that's gonna look like.
I mean, there's three things in life that are constant.
Boris on a shield, SR going to double overtime,
and Parker and Jesse coming into cast
and an exceptional best of one.
And I'll bring those guys in so that we can listen
to their beautiful voices as they take us through this match.
Thank you very, very much.
And honestly, I just want to take a second here
just to commend how well both of them are doing
without Jonah, who's having tech issues at the moment.
The fact that they're able to roll with it
neither lacks nor Fox are hosts at all
and yet we're rolling with it.
And honestly, why not?
They're doing a great job.
These two teams though, Jesse,
because it's not just about us talking about the match.
We need the actual match itself.
The last two undefeated teams here in group A.
And if I said to you, one of these teams
by the Shopify rebellion or five fears
has three players in the top 10 right now,
four players in the top 15.
Most people would confidently go,
that's obviously Shopify Rebellion.
And you would be wrong.
Five Fears has every player not named Forest
in the top 15 highest rated players here in NAL.
Kickoff, just a single player from Shopify Rebellion.
And that is Ambi.
Five Fears have already clinched playoffs
if SR Women Regulation Day will guarantee playoffs,
but they're not locking in first in the group
anything like that certainly not like DZ did in their previous match. Yeah I mean
we did get to see DarkZero guarantee themselves as the best team in group B.
As the last two undefeated teams I would say in my book the winner of this match
looks like the best team in group A. We'll have to still figure that out in the
final playday of course but there's no doubt that winning this game would be a
big statement. The last undefeated team chopped by rebellion it should be
the traditional favorites in this they do have a 2-0 lifetime record up
against this five-years-court, beating NB, NB twice last season.
But I mean, this five-years-team looks like a different animal coming into 2026.
They have been so good, so dominant for the first couple of games here in the North American League,
and I'm excited to see what they can bring against SR.
I completely agree with you. It looks like there will be a re-host
because there were issues with J.J. Blast.
We are far removed from J.J. Blast being the lowest rated player
in his very first NAL stage.
It was his debut just about a year ago
where JJ Blast was on that team Envy squad.
The lowest rated player in all of North America.
And now with a fresh cut, look at how good he looks.
He is in the 10th highest rated player
and doing so while calling alongside Forrest.
And the rest of the team seems to be flourishing with it.
Shopify Rebellion made no roster moves during the off season.
The change they made was Ambi now helping to call on defense and look at the boy.
It's obviously taken a toll on him.
He looks like he's just come back from war.
Or he just, his hair's messed up with his headphones
and we're just saying this for comedic effect.
But Ambi's abilities on defense cannot be overstated
and of course the fourth highest rated player as well.
So he's fragging on top of helping lead.
I mean it's well known that Super does not let Ambi out of the basements
during the regular season, so he's already been down that basement a week.
I would expect that hairstyle to only get worse as the games go on, but you're right.
I mean, everything has gone so well for Ambi.
You go back to last year when Shopify Rebellion would undefeated in the first stage one group stage.
It took Ambi 13 games to go negative for the first time last year in the 2025-26 season.
He is 2-0 on positive games so far in this season, so he's been playing absolutely
phenomenally by far the best player in Shopify Rebellion so far today,
I spoke about this season, I should say.
I'm touching quickly on J.D. at Blast 2.
He played 18 games last season only once.
Did he post a positive EPS?
He's 2 for 2 if he was first two games.
The small team seems rejuvenated, playing under a new and honestly upstart organization.
Five years was down in, I think they were in T2.
They might have been down in T3 in NA for a little bit of time here.
An organization that has slowly developed a scene and reputation
in a bunch of different esports, not just Rainbow Six,
and they're getting the support hopefully that they need.
And frankly, they deserve that this play in time.
Still undefeated, two victories, both in regulation.
The first one coming over that hundred thieves roster
on playday number one, they had the second playday off
before toppling M87-5, that one is the more intriguing
result of the two, and it was frankly
a very, very good game.
If you haven't watched M80 versus Five Fears,
you should definitely go back and take a look.
Both of these teams are in action tomorrow,
one in 30 or one of 30 will be facing off
against five fears and then Shopify Rebellion
will be playing M80 and those matches
could have huge consequences.
What a handy, lots of the races, Parker.
He's calling on defense and he's calling his shots,
say that and jumps out the window.
Kills rival on repel, only one line scan
goes off, Thoris now in trouble as well
and he's on a single point of HP
the gas in front of them lingering for the time being Canadian has used all of those gas canisters
surf will go down and force the force to go down the hands of surf as JJ trades that one right
back advantage still push up a firebellion with these trades oh my goodness it's gone
no that snake taking down Canadian he'll get spoiled as well suddenly five fears with the
numbers advantage and he gave them that opening but it's fallen apart since snakes done a really
great job to pull this match back. Here's a fight against Rexon and he wins that one too.
That's perfectly played coming in from Taptin Jack on the grim. Now it's just
Andy in the 1v3. He knows some positions on the part where he fights are so tough to take.
Oh yeah, the upside down repel JJ Blast, reviving a bit of a scare. That TCS,
she can do an awful lot of damage. Snake will find that out immediately.
Deathmark will go in and Andy and Fens will now fight against one another while the
single point of HP for JJ Blast hangs on outside, ends finding an opportunity to go for the
defuse plant. JJ has the cross and five fears have the round. One nothing for the team in blue.
Really nice push coming out from them. Obviously we were focused on that opening
pick coming through from Andy over towards the game side of things. He takes down a rival,
but everybody else on the side of five fears was dead focused on that solar side for the
take. We saw a forest getting in on the black pier. The desk talked about how good he is
on those shields didn't have that first opening pick ended up going down early but was immediately
traded by his captain of JJ Blast and then as soon as they got that kill they had their space to
play with. Solarium was more or less fully under their control. Snake did such good work from that
position just playing with the commando finds three massive picks as SRD desperately try to
swing back and get that frag but never are they successful at least not until it's too late.
Strong first round from five years
We're gonna be singing to you at JJ's pen to the air-frustic
They actually did message him privately and he said they told him to stop doing it and you know
Tragic woke takes something else. We love Jeff. That's just how it works these days
He's absolutely frame-moggin' them, I believe. Just absolutely trust Maxing on camera.
Unfortunately for JJ, the consequence has arrived and he doesn't want to get fined, and I understand it.
But still, I really like this five-first team. Forrest is obviously quite the character that's been around for quite some time.
Any team he plays on, we're going to be shining quite a bright spotlight on them.
The other players, and this takes been around a while, was on that TSM roster way back in the day,
but lived in the shadow of some really big players. Both rival and Fens are still looking to make a name for themselves. Fens in fact
It's been very very good second highest raid plater on this team
It was talked about by the analysts and you've mentioned it a few times as well
Just trailing snake who is playing under the captain jack moniker. So if you're a little confused
That's I don't know if they just can't change their names or what but that's definitely snake
This five years team has been quite a surprise and this whole NAL kickoff has been a bit of a surprising if you watched our very first match
in the day? I expect more surprises just like that moving forward.
Shofffire Rebellion have had two overtime games so far this season so we're
expecting this one to go long if the trend does continue that will
try their second defense now going over to work far and aims.
Definitely an extension going up towards the library side of things but
not so heavily over towards kitchen and master. They've conceded most of
background for five years really just holding on to what's necessary inside
and above the bomb site. I'm really excited to see what Canadian does on this pulse part for
he's just playing inside at the moment. He might not get active early as an individual,
but we're going to feed that information to the rest of his teammates before he's off
board. Historic for one of the best calls that we've had in Siege. A very comfortable and
familiar role for him so much so that his old organization Evil Geniuses actually used one
of their pilot programs such as R6 share skins on a UMP skin as a tribute to Canadian on this
role. UMP is a very, this is a reliable gun. It's not really why people play
pulse, they play for the intel. Not much intel needed there when you got a Monty
walking at the main stairs. Rexon used the nitrous tail to no avail, so he'll back
it up with that vector. Down goes JJ. The Monty is no more, that's the main
shield. Now it's a lot of intel for five beers, forest walking, and shreds
ambi. Rexon is not able to do much of a follow-up as there's a drop in the
lobby. Fends. Now down, and Forest runs through. Canadian's point dies as
well. Rexon and start the last two standing on the side of the Rebellion.
Bens will need to be retrieved to make this a 4v2 for the time being. Rexon has
his hands full upstairs in library using what remains of that Cuba barrier and
now what little remains of the round rival and snake the final two kills and
it's another one on the board for five fears. That's crazy Parker. I mean
Forrest has not had an especially kill-filled season so far. He had
just six frags coming into this game after the first week of competition.
That's the lowest KPR of any player in the North America League, but for one round he
says, JJ, can you grab the shield so that I can actually bring my gun out for once?
And he hits some beautiful shots.
That first go into Ambi that we saw there was absolutely incredible.
Such a tight angle, but he makes that work.
The fact that he gets a second right after that is really brilliantly done to come
through from Forrest.
Sometimes you can look at a player's stats and you think, ah, this guy's trash,
But if you're not watching the games, if you're not seeing the actual mechanical ability,
you're missing out on a big part of the picture.
Really nice and forceful to get that space, and the fourth library just comes naturally
after that.
Still staying on these Intel Ops is a very valuable spot for a Canadian to be in.
I do wonder if we see some more changes to the way Canadian plays.
You'd have to go and ask Super if we don't want to just watch the matches ourselves.
I think that's because if Ambie is doing some calling, then that frees up Canadian.
There were a lot of people who maybe rightly cured Canadian for calling on those lurk slash flank roles.
You know, you remember those days where he put like, Yager and Vigil and run around the map and wouldn't exactly have a lot of offensive impact.
But let's still be able to call based on that information. He's been bunkered down with these intel ops a lot more as of late.
And I think that's the right call when you look at the firepower that you see on the side of the rebellion.
No strikes to Canadian is one of the best players who's ever touched this game, but if you look at that lineup and he's the one getting kills,
usually something is wrong and maybe not exactly the best use of these other five players.
One person who's been sensational so far for their rebellion is Ambi, he hears the shield of JJ Blast getting it ever closer than Ambi.
He decided to go for a deep run downstairs.
JJ's cleared the spot and will now hop in and out back in.
Potential there to take down the young fragger of SR and he almost gets his head blown off
But he does escape with his life now a logic bomb will give away his position
They know he's here in big garage and they're sending everything to try to clear him out
He's all alone Parker and all these players in five years. Just want this kill
Oh, through the softwall down it goes, the hands offends.
Those were logic bombs, EE-1Ds being used, again, information indispensable for the attackers
so far, no snake, no demos on the board either, so there's still options that can be presented
for five years, should they need more help for the time being, now a good opening,
Ambie's dead halfway point of the round and the Rebellion are down by one player.
Somebody else has got to get active, Ambie's not going to be the player who bails you out of this round
so who is going to be the one to get this man advantage back from shop fire Rebellion?
You want to see Canadian get a bit more active, well here he is, shotgun, echo, top floor, trying to lock down the office.
It's such an important position to be able to hold if you don't want to give up that perk to the exacters.
Now doing a good job right now on the side of Five Fears working through this,
Through this, Spoigt will be incredibly important for the overall execute on the side of Five
Fears.
If they can get rid of Spoigt in this position, it unlocks a huge part of the map, nades go
in, Spoigt bouncing bullets off of the shield, forest comes out ahead, there goes piano,
there goes control.
So much of the site is now been lost and Rexon can't hit JJ with his head fully
exposed.
Down below is Surfstake, we'll get the final kill, it's a flawless round at a flawless
start for five fears Parker we started today by frankly glazing the attack
coming out from dark zero and as much as it pains me to do it I'm gonna have to
glaze again these pushes have been so good from five fears just working off
the back of these shield plays JJ blast so important on the Blitz it
respectfully gets banned immediately and I think that's the right call from
SR but notice how he was able to really force a lot of those frags to come out
So he was finding player positions for his teammates.
He enabled that first kill on to Ambi.
He enabled the second kill on to Spoyce.
He himself got that kill on to Rexon as well.
It just feels like top to bottom.
JJ is doing a great job opening the door for his teammates
to get some of these kills,
fragging when he has to as well.
And with a 3-0 perfect first quarter
in the books for five fields,
Shopify Rebellion will decide for five years.
The Rebellion decided to call their attack time out.
I saw a lot of long faces on the side of SR.
For those that have followed this SR team through the play days so far, you know that
these wins have not come easily.
Back in the very first play day, that was the brand new team of one of 30 pushing SR
to their limits and in a 15 round spectacle, SR did ultimately squeeze out a victory.
The very next day, you go into extra innings against 100 thieves in 8-6 victory, so a little
bit more breathing room by exactly one round, but still not the most confidence-inspiring
start for Shopify Rebellion.
Keep in mind, you're the only major NA team that did not make any roster moves whatsoever
before the start of kickoff.
You made it to pretty much every round that matters since you became the Shopify
Why would I need you should be walking away with a cup of easy victories.
Those victories have not come easily, though they have still appeared.
It's been a bit of a grueling one.
Anybody who's a fan of Canadian and his system, whether he's on DZ, Space Station, EG, etc.,
knows that things usually don't come easy for him and his teams.
But now you're going up against probably the biggest obstacle that you have.
Tomorrow you have to go up against M80, an equally good team.
Star need to be in control of their own fate.
They need to be playing better.
They saw their faces during that timeout.
They have a lot to be concerned with.
I think for a good reason,
hopefully they'll be able to settle it down with this timeout.
Well, I think a part of it too, Parker,
something that maybe doesn't get discussed as much as it should
is how difficult this group is for the rebellion
as the only non-numbers-based team in this group.
They open their season up against 1 of 30,
then they play it against 100 feeds.
Now they're up against 5 years,
and tomorrow they'll be up against N80.
numbers in their name you've got to think about the disadvantage this is the
type of analysis that you used to do on the desk and you needed a laptop to do it
we have to get numbers on the broadcast somehow Parker it's in my contract I
believe back before we cast together I'd often call you nerd boy or stats boy so
forest will technically strike first but it's a trade to surf guns down snakes
snake again has been terrific six kills so far leading the team still got
depth though on this five years team so not the end of the world they've lost
the snake I think I'm more worried about the fact they've lost the lion scans
because they pair so well with this entry especially having a snake on the
board not the player the operator I know it can get a little confusing
Blackbeard still up as JJ's been rocking these shields so successfully he's
down below. If he takes those stairs Andy will be in the first line of fire
standing at the top of those library stairs backing up. Spoigt who's playing
chimney. Still plenty of space that has to be taken by 5 years. Boyd isn't such a
good position to get his first kill this game. He's up inside of mezz. Window is
cracked, but there's nobody really on their side of things, so he can be pretty
safe from library. From the looks of things, 5 years do want to kind of take
this control over towards that mezz position, that fireplace position, but
as SR will give it up, they just thought it's gonna be better to play
Oh, goodbye JJ. Surf is there but Fens immediately trades it back. Fens threw these three rounds
yet to die. As long as he can survive the aggression of spoiling Canadian, two players
on that star who are in the opposite direction. They haven't gotten the kill yet and they won't
get the job done. Four rounds in a- no, don't. I was smelling a fine there. I was
You're smelling the fine, thankfully, this is a family-friendly show, JJ keeps it PG-4!
Oh, for five years!
I think there's a little bit more than five things that SR are a bit afraid of at this
moment.
Yeah, I mean, we're getting new moves from JJ Parker, that evolution as a team, and
I mean, it's just brilliant the way this push comes together.
They get the one-for-one trade over towards the library side with Rexon going down.
get another one for one trade over towards solar stairs we watched it with
the with the black beard going down and then the trade coming through threatening
as a captain but it's rival who just jumps in the piano window gets the
lion share of those kills able to tilt the man advantage back in favor of five
years and I think it's really just been five years from the great job
pulling attention right you go back to that executing whilst we're watching
all that action happen on solar stairs the push is coming in through
piano across the map on the other side of the bomb site the ability for
five years to strike at the same time at different points, really pull the
attention from SR in different directions. I think it's been a big part of why
they're finding so much success today. Another struggle for SR, but they've been
in positions where they've been down 3L and they've been able to scale it back.
Chalet, an interesting map that for a long period of time is very favorable to
the attackers. Almost every map at this point in time after SI does tilt
in favor of the defenders so it's not really worth diving into those
numbers the way that we used to. I will say that attackers are doing better because of changes that
have been made to the meta in certain operators, but not, not like this. I did not expect a 4-0
start here for five years. Five years of course have already clinched their spot in the playoffs,
it's just a matter of where they finish. Will they top their group? If so, they get a buy,
which means that if that ends up happening they would be a single best of three away
from clinching their spot at the Salt Lake City Major.
Tomorrow, Five Fears is in action,
going up against the team with one of 30.
Oh, good of an enigma,
and could end up giving Five Fears a bit of a scare.
Well, we're down on kitchen for the final two minutes of round five.
Parker, this is the bombsite played in round three previously by
SR that started with that early pick on to Ampid down in the basements.
With the Blitz band out,
Jage is going to fall off to the Monty,
trying to accomplish much the same task of
Enabling early picks onto these defenders from Shopify Rebellion, they aren't roaming anywhere near as much as they previously were.
Andy's just playing West Main at the moment, very close to sight.
This is only being played by Sukhoi inside.
Piano was a bit of a sore spot for the rebellion previously.
He did get flashed out by that blitz and thrust the frag onto him.
Now similar stories with Blackbeard on his window, Willie Owen 5.
I mean, he was completely unsupported there.
He's playing on his own and you have to know what's coming at that point in time.
One kill from Ambi, but that's it for SR so far.
Surf and spoit just pointed down, gunned down, hunted down.
Rexon will join them in the afterlife.
Canadian and Ambi last two standing.
Spoit and Canadian yet to find a kill.
Canadians hoping to change that trend line right now.
Spoit will have to wait for another round.
Spoit has just been playing these positions
often referred to as suicide where you played to die.
I can't envy his position at all
and certainly he's not excelling in that spot.
Ambi with one kill, so the numbers will get a little bit better.
Down goes Canadian, and Rival has been very, very good
in the final moments of these rounds,
getting so many exit frags.
He got both of them.
In the previous round, he's looking for yet another opportunity,
but it'll be JJ.
Just smite Ambi with the shield.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Five fears, how about five rounds to zero,
as they are running away with this map?
I'm not sure if the NAL teams today
have all of them collectively dinner reservations
or if there are plans at some point in the evening,
but we have been flying through this playday, Parker,
in five years looking to make it another quick one
in the second match of the day.
I almost wonder if this game is gonna be
a bit of a learning experience for the other teams
in the league that you kind of have to ban shields
when you're playing against JJ and the Forest.
They've just been such a menace
going up against Shopify or Belling.
You could see it.
I mean, sports and piano on the Izami in that round.
What's he supposed to do?
There's a Monty trying to pressure him from cases.
There's a Blackbeard on his bathroom window as well.
Everywhere you look, there's a shield staring you down,
causing chaos, opening opportunities for guys
like Snake and Fence to then pop off and get those frags.
They're in such a big advantage because the information
is so heavily weighted in favor of the attackers.
It just feels like there's no answer on the side of SR
to slow down these shields and stuff them
from getting the space that they want to take.
You go back to some of these bands.
I'm not saying playing against a Ying in a glass
would have been easy, and of course it's very easy to say this after we've already watched
Five Rounds, but you gotta wonder, would it maybe have been better to just ban three shields
for your first three?
I mean, we do have the benefit of hindsight, and our job is actually made easy by a lot
of this stuff happening in the new term, you know, I think we've even said this on
broadcast before, where somebody decides to make an ego plan, we're like, what the
heck was that?
And then they have to kill it, we're like, nevermind, that was brilliant, or they
don't get to kill it, we're like, that was silly.
We don't have integrity, we just need to call the EC.
An immediate jump in, rival taking some damage,
that Tristel was not working, it's the smoke.
Another one goes off, JJ will pull this one off.
Spoiling Canadian down, they will both go
this entire first half without a kill.
Five fears looking for a six-oh to start off, Chalet.
Ambi, the only one with a pulse on this SR team,
he's gone, Rexon's gone, Serp's gone.
A flawless end to the first half.
Five fears up six, nothing.
It does not get better than that.
Troy Canadian, welcome to the new generation.
It is JJ Blast World and we are all just living in it.
A miraculous first half to come here from five fears.
Let's hear from our desk
because this was just a massacre through six.
Fox, I mean, what is going on?
What are we seeing?
I mean, this five fears roster is disgusting.
I mean, I kind of feel bad.
I was given all this credit and praise to Asar which were respectfully so but this match is not highlighting anything that I was saying
No, not at all not at all. I mean the shield has been so oppressive from the side of five fears
They have consistently been shutting down and pushing chop of our rebellion back
It didn't really seem like chop of fire a billion has an answer to this shield
They're first two bands glass yin giving them all three shields to be able to play with and then they ban out the blitz
And now we're just seeing the BBB in play the Monty constantly rotating which shield they're using
Changes the way that they're going for a play in that last round. They bring the Monty
They get an amazing plant off and they scare everybody from SR because SR is not getting kills
They're surviving around these shields and that's the impact from five fear so far that they are constantly being able to apply this pressure
SR has no response
Yeah, and again when you have two different shield players that have two different approaches you have forest who will do
ungodly shit on any operator or a shield whether it's getting your face doing something crazy something sporadic and then you have JJ
On the other end of a shield who's more methodical who's more strategic who's more slow and for the push
But then you have to look at the other three players you have rival you have snake
You have fans that are playing cutoffs that are playing trades that are immediately following up and they're doing this
So exceptionally well that if I'm rebellion, I don't really know what to do in this situation
How do you stop this train of a shield gaining information players being able to play off of it?
If anything, thankfully now they're on the attacking half
And I do want to say we've seen it time and time again from this roster that they do show resilience that they do show
Fight back that they do have that dog in them, but by no means is this gonna be an easy hill to get over
I mean you it is oh and sick
Yeah, I mean when you're going back into the attack you got to assume that SR is going to play a lot more together a
a lot of ego chows, 1v1 fights especially around the library area, going for those 1v1s
against the shields. It's not working for SR. We need that resilience to come alive, and
we'll bring the casters back in to cast the rest of the one out.
Yeah, I mean, there might not be much more of this. I told that halftime show, but I
mean, the halftime might have been about 10 minutes ago. It really just depends on
what happens here in round number seven. It's been grim for rebellion. You know,
I know that a lot of the times this team will say things like, you know, we're obviously not happy with our results, but, you know, we still got the win, blah, blah, I can tell you right now, I don't really know ball, it's not my job, I'm the play-by-play guy, I got to know ball enough, but I'm not the ball knower, that's Jesse's job, that's Laxing's job, that's Foxy's job, but I can tell you right now, I know ball enough to know, you don't want to only be winning your games in OT and then getting smoked 6-0 in your next match, that's not good.
Now, I mean, this whole stage has been very turbulent for Shopify Rebellion.
Obviously two wins in the first week is excellent, but this game may be exposing some of those weaknesses
that SR are gonna have to try to adapt through, especially if they want to make it through playoffs,
especially if they want to make it to Salt Lake City. Five fears. Again, they are not
mathematically locked into first, even with a 7-0 win, but the only possible way they would
not finish first place in their group if they win this game in regulation is they lose
tomorrow in their game up against the Plasma Rock, up against 1 of 30, and then also M80,
win out the rest of their games against 100 Thieves and Shopify Rebellion, and then also
M80 and it's with a higher round differential. It is very, very unlikely that 5 years will
not be getting that first round by if they can just close out one of the next 6 rounds.
It's been one of the fastest days that we've had in pro play and quite some time
spanning all regions. Frankly, I mean, we, we buck why we started at 5 p.m. Eastern.
Four best of ones. We're booked till probably 9 30 10 o'clock. Give or take. It is 6 30 and you
might be halfway done. So all told, maybe they do have dinner reservations. Maybe they just
don't want a game today and they want to be out of here as quickly as possible. Who knows?
Maybe five years got somewhere to be. Right now where you want to be is in the win column
and five fears are potentially two minutes away from a 7-0
an absolutely dominant performance so far.
Rebellion will now need to attack with three players combining for a single kill.
Canadian and SPOIT are typically not the guys getting frags on this team,
but that is especially so here.
A nice pinch on this library window.
Will claim Snake in an opening for SR is so desperately needed.
Good team play from Ambien and Rexon.
They force up that first frag.
More information now.
Now, this demo snake combo is so deadly and ampious, just getting perfect info on the rival.
Playing in the back bar and hits the shot, he does not lose Demos 1v1s, gets a two-man lead now for Shopify Rebellion.
It starts to put the pressure on for five fears and the moves that they have to make.
JJ is up above in piano, but Forrest is down below, thorn shotgun hunting for a refrag.
Well, a terrific entry and a lot more life in this rebellion team than what we've seen through the entire first half.
They'll use a logic bomb now to try and determine the location of these final three players.
Orrin's pick rates steadily increased and she saw a whack of buffs not too long ago.
Ambi will gun down JJ Blast so that will leave just Fens and Forest.
Fens was invincible.
He'd yet to die until a round ago.
He doesn't want to add two to that tally.
So far Rebellion.
Spoid on limited HP beyond that.
Everybody else in really good shape.
plenty of utility Rex and scoping out these final players there goes Fens and
could it be a flawless round from SR? It's all up to Phophos on Forex. The new
addition to this roster bringing leadership a veteran presence but not
much else this particular round as he attempts to retake but is unable to do
so. SR on their very first attack pull off a flawless win. Parker you said
something a couple of rounds ago that I thought was really wise and that's
that this game Rainbow Six Siege is turning to be a bit more attacker-sided than what we've
seen over the last couple of years. And a big reason for that is just how much information
is available to the attackers. Snake, Deimos, and Dokeby are three incredibly powerful operators
for finding defense positions, and all of them were used so perfectly by the rebellion
in that first attacking round here on Chalet. First you had Snake going down immediately
after being ironically tracked by Snake, then you've got this kill as a rival.
He dies thanks to that deathmark being played out by Andy.
We didn't see it on stream, but Fens also died after being tracked by the deathmark.
That game-most pain coming out to take down Fens.
And even that doka be called, it's really what stopped Forrest from being able to flank earlier in that round.
He wanted to get more active, push up those fireplace stairs,
fights the players on Shop Barbellion to get a refrag back,
but with his phone ringing, he just did not have the opportunity to do so.
That's a really strong exacting line on coming out from SR in the previous round.
If they can keep that up, if they can continue to use information like they did in round 7,
there is a world where they put this back.
It's there, and again, it would be very on brand for this SR team to scale it back, to claw it back.
Do you recall that MV versus SR matchup back in, I think it was stage 2 or stage 1 that went to overtime?
Tired out very similarly, Envy looked like they were going to walk away with it, SR ended up flying it back, and well it gave us an incredible showing.
Back last year during the NA League, obviously a different team down here on the left side of your screen, Five Fears is not Envy despite the parallels and much of this roster and staying somewhat intact, but
I like this new Five Fears team, they're doing mighty well, and yeah, I think it's well within the possibility that if Squadron Canadian can support these three frags,
these three fraggers so well on Shopify Rebellion,
especially without confidence inspiring that last round was,
this could be far from over,
but right now if I was a betting man,
my money would be on Five Fears.
Yeah, it definitely still favoring the youngsters
on Five Fears, nobody's doubting that.
It's gonna be on Shopify Rebellion to prove us wrong,
to give us some hope in this game.
They've got to attack now onto kitchen,
the top floor being held down,
white and the weak.
High Five Fears, they jump in
take the utile damage despite being slowed it's almost a freebie for surf but it gets blown up by
JJ in the midst of it right before he can find the head oh my goodness so much frustration i can
only imagine how surf must be feeling after that one honestly that fight flips the other way you get
so much control you still have your shield up the rebellion find themselves in a terrific spot
that's single death could completely ruin this execute for the rebellion they've got a minute to
figure it out without a shield and regain some control upstairs but I fear that this might be the end
Jesse. Ambi now dying at the hands of Snake leaves three remaining for SR two of them without kills.
Still, my fear is just hungry down now with a minute to go! Fence pops up, gets Canadian Rex and
dies. Spoight will need to save this matchup. It's him versus four, peaking his way in
SR, suffering a pretty devastating start to this map. They've just not been able to get back in it.
The GG's already coming out in chat from five years, ultimately disrespecting Spoight.
You know that Spoight is able to win a 1v4, but boy, oh boy, what does he do with these final 30
seconds? Is he just prolonging the inevitable, Jesse? They must know where he is. They got
to read on him from that lobby cam. He's now positioned himself over towards trophy. The real
Trophy is spoint huge content creator major champion and the last man standing for
SR just wading down on time really no win condition at this point all they need
to do is swing for the final kill and they'll do that five years winning against
SR another seven one in the books and a huge three points for the top start
team on your screen one to forget for Willie and the rebellion but five
What a statement match to come out against what was sometimes called the best team in North America
I don't think anybody's saying that after that performance five years looks so good top of the group a
And that's it for the first half of this show two more matchups for me and will they go as quick
Don't miss out. We'll be back in a few minutes
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Welcome back, we have a special guest, the man to myth, the legend, JJ Blast.
We are entertaining gentlemen.
Are we not?
We are entertaining.
You guys secure to upper bracket very close to securing first in your guys's
group. Were those expectations for you guys going in?
I mean, talk us through what this must feel like knowing that you guys are
currently sitting in that first place spot.
Yeah. So, um, I don't think it was the expectation per se.
I like our first couple of weeks of scrims as a team, like the first
couple days were good but then like we had like a two to three week sprint where
it was just bad man we were getting like four eight and nine three to every map and
like it was just like it wasn't looking good and so like the expectations
internally dip but then like I mean the goal is always to fight and make play
awesome being in a position where we feel like we can make the major and I
think just like we started to really figure it out like right when the
season started the week before the season and go into the season I think
we just really understand how we want to play as a team and I think it
I think we're really in body like we you know like a nuts hang shut up. Oh
So that that's been helping us a lot
But I mean the sky's the limit right now, but we're trying to stay hungry and humble as much as we can
I got to yell at these guys that one win doesn't mean shit around here. I
Mean, I think the energy from you guys has definitely been showing the confidence
You know, maybe you have some part to play in that because we actually grabbed a clip of a little pep talk
That you guys gave so maybe just tell us what you were saying in this situation
I just usually like run down like all the stuff we're trying to talk about like or that's after a round too
I see my mother right there mother camp
No, usually after rounds and everything like every stream and yelling everyone's hyped up, right?
So it's my job where I like literally yeah, I'm like everyone shut the f up reset. That's one round
We're going next and everyone to calm down
This is the goals for next round and they all listen man
They do a good job, but I don't let the guys get rowdy for five or ten seconds after the round
They get there and it
I completely fair and definitely earned I kind of want a more focus on you
Just obviously through your time and then in this moment. This is your first time you're ever making upper brackets or just a bracket in general
I mean, what does that just do for your own?
Individual skill your own individual just performance as a whole and just everything that kind of cultivates into that
Yeah, I think it all just leads from preparation. I think we're really prepared this year
I think we have like very big good game plans for what we want to do for every opponent and match and like what we
I want to like kind of exploit versus other teams.
I think that helps with all the confidence.
I have a really good like support staff
of people around me in my life,
whether it's video games or not now,
where like I just like,
I think I can lean on people,
I can trust people internally inside the team.
I feel like I don't have to do everything.
It's not all on my shoulders
and that really opens up the,
it just lifts the weight off my shoulders
to where I can be myself
and I can bring all the attributes
that I need to bring to the team as the leader
and like the primary shot caller.
But it also like,
it allows me to focus on my own individual gameplay,
which like last year,
I couldn't buy a kill, but this year, I think that's completely different.
I think I can hold my own weight now, and I think now I can hold my weight.
I can I can pop off of the team.
So that's the that's all that's been happening and the prep work and the trust is great.
It's really good to watch. Yeah, we sure have seen that progression from you.
And thank you so much.
You guys are going up against one of 30 in tomorrow's matchup.
And depending on the game, you guys could secure first today at the
We'll send you off today. You can enjoy relish this first place position and we'll see you tomorrow. Yeah real quick
I gotta say false agnation
Kill it kill it get him out
All right, well, I mean lacks as we can see JJ the energy that he has that he brings to his team
It's only getting stronger and stronger the momentum that this team has been building to essentially have a blowout performance today
them shutting down SR is something that nobody expected from this roster and I mean it's just
not only entertaining for us to be able to watch but this type of energy is something
that can change a team if you have somebody that's getting rowdy screaming building up
the momentum everybody on the roster is going to be performing that much better because
you have somebody that's bringing that energy.
Yeah I think it's also important that what he also acknowledged is that he does have
to reel it back in as you know you can really live in that moment you can live
off that hype but the game isn't finished and anything can happen to come back and start
to arise and then things start falling apart. So I think it's very important for him to also
understand yes we are doing well, yes we are having fun, but this is still very serious.
Let's reel it back in, let's focus on getting to the next objective, the next round, the next map,
whatever that looks like. So so far it's been looking beautiful and I really do want to look at
round three in particular. It really stuck out to me. This is not something that we're used
to see from these players throughout the time that we've seen them, but now coming into the
kickoff, I mean, just the initial strategy here, focusing on Andy, he's off on a little
island by himself, and then to rotate, and then to transition to go for the execute.
You've got players jumping into the piano, you've got players immediately falling up
to go for a trade, if necessary, understanding that there's a player below, having that
cutoff ready.
I mean, it's just not things that we're used to seeing that we've seen in the
past, but now this seems to just be a day-to-day, back-in-the-office sort of
view.
and then just being able to transition different play styles based on the shield.
First they were playing Bliss Aggressive, now they bring the Monty in.
Going for an Aggressive Plant, this is just something that you should not leave up
if you're playing against Five Fears.
And one of the biggest takeaways is not only are they transitioning the style of play,
but everybody on the roster is playing around what shield they bring,
and they're catching SR off guard.
And on the side of SR, it's really disheartening,
a team that we set so many expectations for.
And in that round specifically, we're not seeing any adaptation from them.
Again, we're talking about how they're relying on big players to be able to step up.
And Ambi's getting kills, but two donuts on the side of Shop of Fire Rebellion.
Right now they could open up a donut shop.
And it just doesn't look like something that we're confident in for SR.
I mean them not having adaptations, them just throwing C4s,
relying on it to be able to shut it down.
It doesn't seem like they've used their brain muscle that much
in the NAL in general, and we're seeing that hemorrhage in two games that we're expecting them to win.
And that's something that hopefully they can take going forward and improve on because, yes,
Five Fears played amazing today, but we expected a lot closer of a match from the side of SR
due to just sheer adaptation. That didn't show up. Five Fears looked dominant.
Yeah, and the reality is SR isn't out yet. Yes, it is a brutal way to lose when you lose
like that. It's not just on one any individual. It's on the entire team. And I'm sure
they're going to be body viewing. I'm sure they're going to be talking about to make sure that they
are prepped and ready for tomorrow. But that is it for this match. I mean, I'm surprised we're
already at the halfway point as Parker was mentioning. I mean, if it's like the day's
practically over at this point, we got two games left. But before we get into those next
We have a quick break and we'll be back.
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It's a scary situation to find yourselves in if you are a hundred thieves you are playing for your life
This is your last chance to be able to continue to hopefully make it to bracket play if a hundred thieves loses
They are out they are fifth and it would not be a good showing for the new organization with their first stage in the NAL
But on the flip side of things we got m80. Yes, they only have three points
But they play today and tomorrow and they have the opportunity to take first place from five fears
It's a big task, but if a team can do it, it would be the major winners.
It would be unmade.
Yeah, we know they absolutely can.
And the pickup that they have in Ashton, I mean there's no reason why this team can't get over this match
and beat a hundred thieves here and then essentially knock them out of contention to be able to make playoffs.
And I do want to look back at the first, I mean the most recent match where they did lose to Five Beers.
Honestly, there's not really a lot that I can take from it.
I don't think they really played a bad game.
I think five years just had a little better adaptation in certain aspects with certain gunfights didn't go in the way of that
Maybe and again, they're a major winning team
They know what they need to do in order to fix things now
One thing I will say when we do look back at that match in particular if I was to critique one thing
It was I would have recommended they would have banned fortress and maybe went to a shall a however
We just saw five years shall a I had no idea what it looked like previous
So maybe not that's neither here there
This is just what I was doing before and I would rather maybe seen them on a chalet versus how fortress when I think maybe they
Would I had a little more of a leg up again?
That's without knowing what five fears is capable of on chalet, but it's a different day
It's a different matchup and again if there's gonna be one coach in the world
That's really gonna pick apart things that went wrong
And what needs to be fixed in order to make it work going forward
Fabian's gonna do that by all means and then you look at the IG on that team up hot and cold
he is well I'm sure is pointing out where things went wrong, how gunfights could have
maybe transitioned a different way, what they can do to adapt a little better.
So I have no doubt in my mind when we jump into this matchup we're going to see a lot more
comfort on their attacking halves and defense halves and even for the side of Diffuse,
I mean he was one player that really stuck out in that matchup. He really wasn't playing to
where we're usually seeing him. So when we get back to more familiarity within opponents and
especially a team like this 100 Thieves roster, I have no doubt in my mind,
especially with idiosyncrasies being taken into place and maybe we'll feel far more comfortable
wherever they end up. Oh, absolutely. I mean we've seen Fabian do it once with this roster.
Now they got Ashen. They have a lot of talent. It just takes a little bit of time to get everybody
on to the same page. But when we look on getting on the same page, 100 Thieves is one of those
teams that are all in different chapters right now. They are 0-3. They're in the death spot
if they don't win they're out and the team as a whole we know that they struggle under pressure
and what situation are you going to be under more pressure than when you're in the elimination hot
seed. I mean they are just completely struggling the only strong suit for 100thies is their
opening kills specifically on attack because they get it very fast or one of the fastest teams
but then they bleed it they lose individual kills and that's something that we see transition
to their defense is even more the side that you're supposed to be winning because of team
play, they are losing. They are sitting at a 27 defensive win rate. That is something when you
look at everybody else that is currently playing in kickoff. There's a really drastic difference
going from 27 to 40 to cloud nine and it only goes up and up and from there. So 100 thieves being on
the same end as a full team of rookies of outlasts. It's embarrassing. It's not where you want to
find yourself and it comes down to again those individual flights on attack. They do it so
well. They get that open and kill and then they just hemorrhage the round away defense.
they're not even getting the opening kill. They're just losing 1v1v1s. They don't know what the objective
goal is going to be. And these gimmicks of having a player like Spirits on the roster is not something
that's winning them the rounds. I want to see them just focus on the basics. They're in the same
boat as Outlast. Focus on the basics. So the trades, because you can get the opening kill,
you're doing the hard job. Stop losing these 1v1s. That is something that we've seen all
throughout week one. It needs to stop now. Yeah, absolutely. And we got to see where this
this is all going to unfold because I don't think it comes down to the maps at this point
for the side of 100 Thieves. It really just comes down to the fundamentals and how they
can connect the pieces to be able to make rounds look a lot cleaner than obviously what
you were just talking about. We do end up on border. Border is interesting for me because
we did see 100 Thieves that sporadic plays end up inevitably what ended up losing
them. However, for a maybe this also isn't a great map for them either. It's their
ninth overall in preference. So I mean, this could be a big toss up. But when
I just look at the mentals.
I look at the team structure.
I look at the dynamics.
This really should fall into M80's laughs,
but that's enough for us.
Let's send it to our wonderful voices of Jesse and Parker
and take it underway.
Thank you so very much.
I mean, absolutely correct when you say this is not
the debut that 100 Thieves wanted.
An organization way too big, expectations way too high,
players way too experienced,
but I mean, this whole kickoff Jesse has kind of been
decided by teams that you weren't expecting to be so dominant.
Our matchups today have told that exact story.
So just see a team like 100 Thieves and go, well,
of course they're going to do great.
They're a huge organization with talented players.
Wrong.
They'll look at a team like M80 and go,
ah, they've been one of the best teams in North America.
They're going to produce their kickoff.
Wrong.
I don't know what it is.
It's Cesta 1s.
It's North America.
Everything's up in the air.
The one thing I can tell you is a certainty.
I know that this is going to be an exciting matchup
irrespective of who does well that's exactly right parker i mean everything is
now on the line for 100 these they need to get a regulation win here otherwise
they will not be headed to playoffs and that's just far below what the
expectations were for this team not even just because of the logo they're
playing under but these are five incredible players adam was
sensational last season spirits has been on a major winning team before
pambazou has been on a major winning team before yaga and goma has
have been around forever and have achieved incredible feats in their own right. This is
not a roster that should be getting grouped, frankly, but now they've got to play against
M80, one of the most consistent and strongest teams that North America has produced over
the last two years. It's a very tall task. I will say, laxing mention of the desk, they've
maybe got a bit of a gift in the map veto here. They're coming to border. This is
probably M80's worst map. They haven't played it since Munich. It was a bad map
for that in Munich, so clearly they've changed a lot since then, but this might be an opportunity for 100 Bs to get back in the game.
Well, I mean, three different maps so far today and all three of them play very, very different, even if the teams playing were all the same.
I mean, you would be starting on this, you know, pugilist, heavy style of map.
Shall we in Border do have some comparables? So if you watch the Five Fears versus SR game at Blink and you miss it
earlier you'll see that Border will play out a little bit the same. Lots of action that will like make her outside of the building.
You won't see too many super extended roms. Those roms that you do see might be kept on the short leash.
You can get yoinked, banked, back to the bomb site pretty quickly here.
Lots of trap potential on the side of this MAD squad.
You've got to deal with the banshees that slow you down.
The goyos will slow you down as well.
Those razorbooms will also slow you down.
And hey, why not have a little bit of early action?
A spawnpeek that almost claims Gomez's life.
Knocking out the demos early.
Oh boy, that would have been quite the boom for MAD.
Even if it might not have been the intended operator.
You know, it's been out good the demos can be
probably the best information operator that we have still in seed
when used in the proper hands.
100 feasts to play this map last week, of course, they lost it to 1 of 30 on Friday, so we've got a little bit of pause as to what type of pushes they like to go for.
This is a little bit new, just off of their lineup. It's not something we've seen before out of them, and Pamba starts things off strong.
Playing the ace, finds the fuser, looks like he was able to roll me down on his bottom floor, goes for a bit of an aggressive swing and is shut down by the newly unretired player of 100 feasts.
these. And the parties can start at any point in time. Just make sure you got your corresponding
Rainbow Six bracelets there to get into the party. Have a good time. Yeah, diffuser jack-of-all-trades
operator that sentry is gone, so M80 will obviously miss that secondary utility that is no longer
available. They've still got a nitro-selling back pocket in the hands of hot and cold. Not that
secondary gadget beyond that. In fact, most of their main gadgetry is gone as well.
Ashen jostling those razor blooms down goes Gunner M80, they're picked apart by this really aggressive 100 thieves entry that has barely made their way into the building.
Really nice start coming through from 100 thieves, now they've got 70 seconds to find these last three players, Parker.
They've got to find Gavin, Hot and Cold, and Ashen of course is walking down this site.
They've been picking apart these players, but they are starting to run all along.
two nades from Gomez and a flash from Pamba will be all they have combined with the primary utils
this last line charge some sensors into capitao another kill for 100 thieves on the board ashen down
for the count hotening Gavin now standing the test of time still a bit under a minute to go
chased away by that deathmark Gavin ran through fountains saw that the wall inside a cctv was
gone in that break room cover that he would have was also gone now he's gonna hang on for
your life. Razor Bloom will go off. It does only damage to Yaga. He'll be debuffed, but
this definitely uprights. Spirit's down. It's all hot and cold. Who's found to kill almost
gets another, but Adam outdulls him and 100 thieves will strike first on border.
I was a really interesting sense while we saw get thrown in the midst of that execute. I don't
know if he accidentally clipped the wall or if he meant to do the double bounce, but in any case
it's a really nice little strat to come through for the execute with the man advantage.
I think it really does come down to getting that early lead Parker punishing some of that aggression
It was indeed passport that diffuser was swinging in the early round for that opening death
They then get a great little spray on to gunner to get that man count even higher for a hundred thieves
And have a really nice little execute ends up being the triple coming through from Adam
So a big opening moment coming through from him to start this game off strong enough to kind of
Be getting to a game that we've been really looking for for hundred these that you have
disappointing week one getting that first round with and getting it quite
dominantly as Hunter Thieves just did has got to be good for their mental oh
absolutely I mean this is a team that if you watch some of the content that they
made before they actually played a single matchup they had decently high
expectations for themselves but they also were tempering those expectations
basically saying we've got to sort things out we've got to find a way to
gel I know that some people like to joke about the fact that Pambazoo
retired. But he still was out of active competition for quite some time and the
game saw pretty big meta swing while he was gone as we discussed. Shields are not
as powerful as they used to be but attackers have a lot more tools. Things
are very different on the attacking side with Intel being so dominant. Game
host don't could be Snake being played. We haven't really seen much Snake
so far here on board but we're only one round in. So obviously Pambazu will
have to reacquimate, and the rest of the team needs to figure out, again, what is their identity.
I know that the main criticism has been there a little bit too much, OXG, and not enough
say, DZ, a very valid thing to say, but they are still trying to figure things out, and
only got realistically four maps during the groups, and if you throw two of those,
you might not even make it for playoffs.
If youser died down here around waiting last round, he's playing the same position
Now on the centuries got this nitro prepped and ready to be tossed up to spirits
Is he ready for the nitro? He backs off and doesn't take too much damage
So it's all right for him
We'll know if the fuser position if they didn't already know how deep down those stairs he was and it might prompt another push in through
Passport, we look Pamba walking there on the ace hunting for that same opening pick that he got previously
Relatively easy pinch as long as that lobby area is safe
I don't think Pamba knows this just yet as he'll now inch his way across the Mazi touch really close into the quarter hot and cold.
Guys, Pamba gets both of them. That's what he was hoping for.
Hundred thieves wanted that about 20 seconds earlier.
They'll still get it, but they've had some losses in the process.
It's a really clean clear coming out from Pamba.
He has not had the start. He was looking forward to the season, but week two he has come fired up.
Three and 0 now to start this game, but it's an even man counting around two.
do lose spirits in the midst of that, they lose Adam as well.
They've got good information and good time.
Gomez still here all the demos of course,
this pins down the player over towards break room.
You've got action in the hallway,
you've got Gavin and Gunnar still playing
close to the top floor as well.
And he triggers this thorn trap.
The push will start to come through
and the pressure is on for 100 thieves.
I think this is foreshadowing,
but will be a competitive match between these teams.
On paper it certainly seems like an even bout.
M80 now obviously losing Tino getting Ashton onto this team
Dealing with the adjustments that need to be made there
But this M80 squad despite their unique major victory and the bones of this team winning Manchester some time ago
I've still struggled with consistency and again the big thing for M80 is how they handle opposition
Interreginally just as we said about wild card sometimes they struggle against North American teams you can argue the same thing for M80
100 Thieves with just 20 seconds left now, Ashen, a menace, his Razorbloom doing some
serious damage early in the round, down to do it with his own weapon in tact.
They're just scouting for kills through the floor and they cannot find anything yet on
the side of 100 Thieves running out of time.
What can Dolbets do?
Defuser in hand?
Very limited opportunity.
Will he even make it to one of the players?
Oh my!
Oh, that was much closer than we thought it was going to be!
That round could have easily gone 100 thieves, but M80, hang on!
Some real highlight moments in that round coming through both from Pamba early and Gomez late
Parker, but it's not about the flashy kills, it's about taking that map control and being
able to put together a solid execute despite having caught floor control that took under
these so long to get that space up above the site, and then once they had it, they
just didn't really have the soft breach that they were looking for to do much about
it.
They got the hatch open, which was excellent, but they couldn't force those players
that position inside of workshop.
They couldn't have worked themselves
as a man advantage before going to that pick.
Again, there's some brilliant couple of highlights
coming through from the player of the hundred.
Both of those doubles were beautifully done
and had insane mechanical skill attached to them.
But it doesn't matter when M80 are so consistent
with the trades, they're so consistent with the clock
and they're now tying this game up on a piece.
Again, I think this is some foreshadowing.
I suspect that we are going to see
a very competitive match between these two teams.
It would be a very good luck for a hundred beats
They continue their natural evolution as a roster and will also show if M80 are able to bounce back
Despite the fact that M80 has not been as dominant as some of their contemporaries
They've still got some pretty good underlying numbers both Gunnar and Gavin sit in the top 10 for player score
Gavin entered the day as the third best rated player Gunnar was in sixth
So I mean the guns are still working here, and I don't think if you watch this M80 team
That's ever up for discussion much has been said about the IGLing of hot and cold
He can get the most out of this team and the new member
Ashen who has to basically learn a new system and don't kid yourself playing under fobbing with the M80 guys is a
Night and day difference between playing under callout and the SSG players
You gotta you gotta really flex your IGL much muscle and if hot and cold really is the best and guess what?
You'll have to prove it with M80 getting a victory here
Wow, this is a big moment coming through with Gunner gonna be changing up his
operator in this round. They're running top floor back parker just like round
one. He's the only one who's swapped things, bringing the mute instead of the
go-yo. I think recognizing just the fact that 100 thieves were doing a great
job droning, I think both in rounds one and two, they can stop some of that
information. They might be able to stop the early bleed that's been
happening to their players throughout the first couple rounds in this game.
The opening gunfight always looks so strong for 100 thieves. They don't technically get the opening.
they're often up to early leads and there is Sean to the first frag onto Adam.
Now in a 5v4 we're having to see 100 thieves try to adapt a little bit. They're down of course by
that man and they lost their sense so they can't bring these walls up. Gunner continues to impress
with big nitro on his spirits. That's two in the round, hot and cold with one as well.
And now we're looking down the barrel of a flawless round. Pantheon eyes it but what's
That's it. Good for not much else. A brilliant adaptation coming through from M80. They pulled
together that round Parker and they managed to do what they couldn't in round one cleanly
win that round. Unfortunately Jesse you're going to have to keep going because all my
feet have crashed and I cannot see a damn thing. So I'm sure it was a great round.
Yeah I mean it really was a brilliant kind of comeback from M80 and I think it's important
to get around like that before we hit the half swap, right?
If you wait for a full rotation,
maybe you play top floor again in round number four,
you won't have the opportunity to play it again
until you get back to overtime.
So the fact that they run it back in round three
means they will have another opportunity
to defend the strongest site on boarder.
The operator bands, of course,
will change things a little bit.
It's the four and the demos to come through
to be removed.
That's Ashen's primary operator
and the four that is played every round.
And that demo is played majority of the rounds
by Gomez.
so adaptations will have to come through.
They definitely tried a different strategy
from 100 Thieves on that push.
It was not the same execute that we saw
back in the very first round,
with them focusing a lot more towards the site
and not really able to get those early picks around
passports or around office like they previously did.
They'll have some time to think about
what that push has to look like
as they wait for these second couple rounds to unfold
and we go to bathroom for the first time.
And as the adaptations do come in on those off-ans Parker, we'll see the Ella brought
out by Ashen for the very first time.
I like this change, very similar off to the Thorn, you still have a lot of information
to where players can come at you from.
It's kind of a close range operator and he's going to be playing in security so
it can be a bit scary at times, but you might not face too much pressure if this
ends up being a direct-to-sight push. All of these players are under the ease.
I say all there's a couple of players not here, but they are having a pretty high presence
just outside the teller's window. And with these candles coming in, I think it might just be a rush.
The EMPs are being watched for. The jump in comes through the spirits. They'll be in the plant
just in the window. The teaser gets the opening pick. The nitro is perfectly denied with that EMP.
Adam's able to stop it. He doesn't catch the second, but the HP is just high enough on
Spirits to survive it. He's on a sliver of health might die here
He's getting finally spammed out gunner gets that man advantage up to two but with the plant down does it matter
I think they've done what they need to on hundred fees
They can play from outside the window Gomez gets one back onto the fuser and upside down Adam's got a perfect angle
But his teammates are still falling Yaga holding up above and Adam's still watching that window somebody has to get aggressive
Yaga's protecting Adam Adams protecting the kid. They've got to do something about this. They'll stun outside the window
So it's a good grislaw to come through, and here's the jump out, Gavin.
Top floor will take down Yaga, the player, and the body all shot to pieces in a beautiful
retake coming out from N80.
Please tell me you have a feed.
Wonderful.
The Corn Pop 16 days, hearing you do play by play instead of having to be the numbers
guy, flexing that muscle, it was joyous.
I mean, it wasn't complicated
round Parker a little rush with
the yin and the Monty, but
ultimately it gets repelled
perfectly by M 80 and it prompts
this time out as you said to come
through from 100 thieves to get
an opportunity to talk with
Coach Kizzy who will be
celebrating his 30th birthday on
Sunday. If he can't pull things
back in this tactic, he's going
to have to go through a lot of
things. I mean, it's a
lot of things to do. I mean,
it's a lot of things to do.
If he can't pull things back in this tack timeout, he may have to celebrate that birthday
knowing that his team is eliminated from the NA kickoff playoffs.
That's a pretty sad birthday if you ask me.
Not just his birthday, by the way, Kino posted on Instagram that it's his dad's birthday.
Kino, of course, is a former member of M80, no longer with the team.
He'll be celebrating with or without his dad's birthday on his mind because of
DZ match earlier today, so happy birthday to all those who celebrate
Man hundred thieves though first round strong next three all I made
Call your timeout keep in mind you get another timeout in two rounds when you swap sides
So there is obviously some big cause for concern here on the left side of your screen
The kills are coming. I mean, you know, you've got 11 kills over four rounds
That's really not terrible given what you see on the score line
In the SR game, I think SR finished with 14 kills.
Or was it 8 rounds?
So 100 things are doing well, even in the rounds that they are losing.
But as you said, when you do a rush strat, when you have a good strong opening,
kills can largely be impactful, especially if it's a rush strat.
If it's a rush plant strat and you get 3 kills and still lose the round,
because the diffuser gets down way too fast, way too low,
you can't stop the counter-disable or you can't do the counter-disable.
the kills don't matter you can even kill all of them you have five kills and you still lose because
of the objective so this one thing we're remembering when people talk about impactless frags yeah it's
going to be important to focus on that objective as well and 80 often known as the most objective
focus team that we have in North America they love their plants they love their shields so i think
it's the reason why they've stayed away from border for the majority of their time as a team
all of last season really avoiding this map quite a bit their return to it has been really
phenomenal though i mean despite the fact they're not used to this play style they're being
aggressive they're hitting their shots and they are playing around that objective 100 b to try to
go for something sneaky oh gunner just dodging that nade right now playing in the corner of
archives i don't know if he's been fully drawn if they still have intel about his whereabouts
now. There's a minute it's gone by and we're still in the discovery phase here for 100 thieves.
Yaga holding the defused kit still with some utility. He's used about half of it at this point
in time, sends such a strong enabler AWP. He's going to need some help clearing this top floor
before pivoting to the bomb site down below. It's been slow and steady so far. Not a ton
of information with that demo spanned out. Of course, they have to flex a bit. Gomez has
gone on to the Twitch and they do have these logic bombs, the first one being used now,
But it resulted in a trade. Both Gomez and Gavin will kill each other, and now the kills start to stack up for M80.
Haughton and Ashen won a piece, and Yaga and Spirits are left to try to clear this top floor.
The two support players searching to get on the board, both of them will do so. Yaga and Spirits, a kill apiece.
They break that.
What's it called? Donuts? I believe it was led by the desk at one point.
Now up to breadsticks. Well in the bakery, still cooking up something good. Ashen and Haughton cold, the last two remaining for M80, and there's a minute left.
on the board. Still got utility now. One of those
Sands Walls still remaining in an aid in pocket for Yaga too. Cams will be grabbed by
Spirits. They cannot do the drone work they want because the Mazi pests deny them
that main door. So now they might just have to go in dry. That is a
really tough spot to be in. This bomb site has a lot of walls you cannot shoot
through and if you pick the wrong target there is no saving grace whatsoever.
You will get punished. A very forefront defense now is hot and cold
and Cold has positioned himself on that server door. Just a couple steps away from destroying
Yaga who will now throw out the last Sen's wall in pocket. Spirit's looking for a backstab.
On the opposite side of the map it will work out. Down goes Ashen. But until we need to clutch this,
Flash goes in. Hunt and Cold turns his attention. Spirit gets the job done. The French Canadian
sticks the landing. And after the time out it's a successful conversion for 100 thieves.
and honestly a risky 2v2 there Parker they were so separated across the map you
would yoga playing with the diffuse kid in that utility front door but what
was he doing he was faking that they were gonna go for a plant he was teasing
m80 saying okay we're blocking your line of sight we could be planting inside
events right now you just don't know on the other side of things it spirits
you'll come in get those couple of kills really have a high impact in the
in the midst of that round, beautifully done from Hunter Thieves.
Yeah, a great pivot. And something that I don't think would be addressed in a timeout,
that's just something that you have to call in the action.
But when your last two players alive are your current IGL,
and a guy who's done some IGLing before,
you've got two really good minds who can actively play through it,
and be able to change things.
A really good backstab by Spirits, great patience by Yaga,
really stretching the last of his utility as thin as he could get.
And it completely deprived Tom Colde of the ability to turn a play.
He could have easily picked off Yaga and then pivoted to help Ashen.
But because of their pick and the chaos that Spirits threw into the mix,
there was nothing that Aten could do.
And he got flashed as he was attempting to reposition to greater safety.
So final round of this first half and 100 thieves,
suddenly in a position where they could tie things up.
Yeah, it's nice to see Spears getting active with a 3k in that previous round as a runout from Gunner will claim Gomez to put him at 5 and 5 through the first half.
That's a nice first pick to get.
Spears did stay on Twitter though after last week's results that he was speechless as to how things went down.
He acknowledged that now things are not in their hands even if they win this game.
Hunter thieves are not allowed to make it into playoffs so that he would then preying on JJ's downfall which actually isn't what he needs to make playoffs.
So I guess he's just hating on JJ for the love of the game.
Thank you, sir.
Here you go.
I mean, I like a good hater.
Me too.
Who doesn't like a good hater?
Oh.
Down goes Gomez.
Down goes that sledge.
Soft destruction is mostly gone at this point.
I mean, I guess you could rely on some caliber-based
destruction here.
We've still got some LNGs that can do an awful lot of damage.
The 417-98, there's a shotgun for the YING too.
So I mean, it's possible, but not obviously
an ideal operator to lose.
Down goes Gunner, shredded his spirit walks in,
asserting himself.
Almost gets another, Gav'n dies too.
Han cold, living on borrowed time.
Night sure sell tossed out.
Adam taking no prisoners.
Suddenly, 100 deep sacrificing Gomez,
but winning almost every other engagement.
Han cold says not just yet,
he'll stop the bleeding go time being
half of a round still to go.
Han on very limited HP.
He'll have Diffuser packing him up,
and Diffuser finds his mark.
Now it's yogging down through the count.
Adam will pair himself up with the Captain of Hundred Thieves who just saved the round prior.
And they've got plenty of time to work with here, Jesse.
These two of the two situations, all too familiar, but if they can pull off another clutch into two of the two situations, Hundred Thieves will be okay with it.
The diffuser is down inside of Archives. That's going to be a bit of a problem for them.
The diffuser is watching the angle if they try to walk in the door.
He's going to have a great opportunity to take them down, and especially with spirits on low HP.
This is a tricky diffuse kit to try to recover.
I mean and even though if you come to a 50-50 gunfight hot and cold is
Kiss from the grave away from death this point all it needs is a single bullet to find him Adam has the case now getting the
Caesar down he peels off. He doesn't like it. He's still got time to reposition and go again
Spirits the cover but again spirits also know an HP if Adam is the one to stick this and spirits dies
That's likely the ballgame here in the first half Adam though
sensational, his spirits has been dropped and suddenly the French Canadian cannot
be retrieved until 1v1. Adam will attempt to go for the plant as hot and cold
repositions. Adam doesn't really seem to have a lot of intel but Gordon will make
an awful lot of noise. Through the soft wall, Adam attempts to revive and he
gets the kill in the process. My goodness! Three rounds apiece through the
first half. What a play by Adam. Huge to come out from Adam. He wins the
California 1v1 versus hot and cold and makes things even on after the halftime.
Yeah, sure seems like 100 these is really winning these rounds by the skin of their
fingertips, just barely making it two or three, three half. So many of these rounds
could have been one by 100 these way cleaner. But again, it feels like the
same issues are arising. It's one V ones. And fortunately for 100 these
and maybe is also a little bit sluggish in this battle. It doesn't
seem like we're seeing the same level of M80,
but they are adapting way better to what 100 thieves
is throwing at them.
But 100 thieves sometimes, they have the players
that are just winning those rounds out of it.
Yeah, and what really worries me
about this 100 thieves roster is when push comes to shove,
it's do or die, who's really getting on these players
to make sure they're locked in,
to make sure they're disciplined,
because there isn't any single father figure,
a big brother figure on that team that really comes
to mind, similar to what we've
had on our rosters with coaches or players.
And again, I mean, even some of the rounds that you're talking about, that they've won, that they've really been nail biters.
It was really M80 making a couple of mistakes, getting two over aggressive, maybe playing a little too laxadaisical,
leaving that one round where Spearzz has a great flash on hot and cold, these small things that are helping him get by.
But again, who's actually stylistically playing better? It's been M80 through and through.
Yeah, I think a hundred thieves could have been way smoother, but we had this one round that was just such a blunder.
And again, it shows the issues for 100 Thieves, 1v1s.
Nobody is playing behind spirits.
This is a one round if 100 Thieves just placed together.
They have the window coverage.
Yogg's watching the back, but Yogg's losing the 1.
Why would you need to peek in a situation like that?
You isolate now, again, to 1v1v1s.
And that is just why 100 Thieves is making these games
are so close and why they're losing them,
because these simple mistakes.
If one person goes for an over-aggressive peek
and it doesn't work out, it is what it is.
But every single player is thinking like that.
Oh, if I go for a one-to-one fight, I'm gonna lose it.
Everybody's gonna lose it, and your right-lacks.
Nobody is holding them accountable,
but hopefully they can lock in on the second half
of this game.
We'll bring our casters back in to close it out.
Oh, thank you very, very much.
Greatly appreciated here.
And honestly, goodness said, it better myself.
Oh, that is a joke that we use with the timeouts
that I guess we can't really use at this point in time.
But either way, very well said,
And then 100 thieves using their time out so effectively settling things down.
Border is a very chaotic map.
Anything can happen on border.
Things can change in a heartbeat.
There really is no momentum mechanic in Rainbow Six.
Other than maybe bomb site rotation, you just gotta go round by round.
Most of that momentum is gonna be in your head.
M80 is a team that usually doesn't buckle when it comes to stress.
They are a team that can hang with it when things go bad.
Their mental resiliency was on full display on the main stage in Munich.
They do not win that trophy without being very mentally solid.
So, you can't really point your finger at that.
But again, lots of changes in the off-season.
Ashen being brought in, Kino off of this M80 squad.
And M80 maybe just regressing a little bit
as they weren't the strongest team at SI.
They're fighting through it.
Hundred Thieves putting in a great performance so far
and are really hoping to not be eliminated here in the group.
Yeah, certainly the pressure remains high
for this Hundred Thieves roster.
M80 high as well.
They do come into this game in the fourth place position, but of course have a game in hand against some of the competition
And we'll be playing again tomorrow, so they have more opportunities to rack up those points
And I'll come down to these next couple rounds. It's good that we finally got a competitive match Parker
I was getting a little bit worried after our 7-1 7-1 start to the day
But it definitely feels like we're back on track
We'll get a very competitive match up here
Ashen terrified of security swampy, but nothing is coming out of the play from Yaga.
Deploying 7 up!
Maybe these guys don't have anywhere to be. Maybe they just want to be here in the server.
Maybe they're avoiding something. Maybe they know they got something after this, but they really don't want to do it.
Like they got to go like file their taxes.
I mean if you're American and Canadian, your tax deadline is different, so maybe...
Maybe you're right.
Could be.
Who knows?
Maybe an active public defiance.
Who knows, Jesse?
Well, they're going to try to defy the security player.
Again, that's Yaga being supported
by the break player of Gomez.
They're trying to lock down this south side of the map,
and they've got a lot of U-Til Ford as well.
You see those Goyo canisters that have been placed here.
Gunner down below on the buck.
This is a really old school way
to try to clear this position.
I remember back when we could cook for agrenades,
you would often see a player coming downstairs
just had a nade out a CC player.
Gunner's gonna have to do it the old fashioned way
just with the little skeleton key,
but even still, taking them over 90 seconds
and not even hitting the field is beyond that one player.
Hunkel taking a bit of damage,
but he trades it for a kill as does Ashton.
I think a pretty successful entry,
right as you finished your words.
Talk about it, Caster Curse.
And even the opposite, a little bit of Caster praise here.
Juber Algon, though, those are active gadgets
in pockets made with spirits.
This reporting cast for a hundred-
Teav's dying early, Gomez goes for a run out, he did that so much earlier in the first half, but he was the one who died this time, he succeeds and with it, he's given a bit of breathing room to his team, Pambazoo won the board as well, and suddenly the advantage that M80 had is completely gone.
3v2, one minute left on the board. The bomb site, with any reach of the TMA players of M80, and they do have the diffuse kit, but they've got to get some work done before they can get the plant down, or else Pambazoon Adam can absolutely feast.
Good nitro, a little bit off the timing, doesn't quite kill Gad, and he's going to get this wall open, Parker. No mute chambers or anything to keep it shut, and I guess he's on the ace, so in point point six that wouldn't help him anyways.
They've got a clear line of sight into the bomb site.
They can go for a plant behind the chassis,
and they've cleared out that C4 that they were worried about too.
Are there still Goyo canisters, though?
And will the swings come out from Adam and Pamba?
Good questions to ask, and frankly,
the answer, known in the next 20 seconds,
this time is running out.
M80 needs to make a move, and they cannot do it.
Under duress, it sure seems like that will be the play.
Flashes go in, Gavin finding some safe harbor
with that chassis, but a perfect lineup.
The episode dealt with by the diffuser,
he might have just saved the round.
Adam to the rescue, the exact same position
where he clutched before, completely blinded.
Oh my God, he gets the job done.
Oh!
Adding insult to injury, Adam does it again
in the same place.
Hundred thieves take the lead.
Adam has been absolutely phenomenal for 100 thieves today Parker single-handedly dragging them into this 4-3 lead
He has been the best player on this team
The only member of 100 thieves to go positive for the first week of games one of only four guys in the league
Entering today with above 30 kills and he will just continue to add to that total
I thought that that defense was perfect to come through from the hundred thieves side
They had the angle the impact coming out up was surely going to be it to deny that plant
I thought absolutely that would be enough, but it was good coverage coming through from m80
This kill right here on the pamba was insane, but it didn't matter the 1v2 from Adam is just so incredible
Taking down m80 and crushing their dreams and that one
There's a bit of siege timing earlier too when that jumbo from Gomez came through you saw that
It's, uh, the air jab was actually being thrown out by Ashton.
He was in the process of shooting it.
If he's a second faster or even a second slower,
he's maybe able to stop going for that run-out,
but gets siege timing.
That equalizes thing.
And then Adam, of course, closes things out now.
Nine in four.
10 seconds to insertion.
Adam has always ran up the numbers here domestically.
The major issue with Adam as a player
is the biggest games, inter-eagerly,
and then internationally.
Adam is the highest-rated player on 100D.
He is coming in at 9th chance of 50 active players.
So as you can tell, these are not really going well for the rankings of these 100 these players.
And when they're on the verge of potentially being grouped, they are at the bottom of group A at this current point in time.
And might be the first team ultimately eliminated from making the Salt Lake City Major.
Yeah, Adam being 19th and being top on the team makes an awful lot of sense.
The boy oh boy is he rising to the occasion here.
He is taking gunfights so well, very aggressive.
You can tell some of them are based off of Intel,
but honestly, most of these kills
have just been the way he's reading the plays
and good game sense like that is invaluable.
Add to it the mechanical ability
that Adam consistently shows
and it's no wonder that he is currently
top frag in this lobby.
Well, JJ and his friends will certainly be happy
with how this game is gone.
If 100 feeds can get up to six,
deny those three points from M80
that should lock in five beers for first place in group A.
We said they were very close to being locked in
after their win against the rebellion,
but this would do it mathematically.
Here comes the rush from Miami.
They start to use some of their youth,
so their smokes will be blocking off
the security position,
and the rush will come through to blind Gomez.
And they can't see a damn thing.
Neither can we hunt cold with the fuser in hand.
Now getting the fuse kicked to the halfway point,
he is about to pull this off, hello?
Wow.
A fashionable magnet upstairs,
and also the attention grabber.
His 100 thieves seem bamboozled by this one.
Four players still alive from M80 now
to guard this diffuse kit.
Diffuser upstairs over the namesake,
and oh my, almost lost his life
with a battle against a default cam.
Time continuing to work against this 100 thieves retake.
This M80 now trails in players
but they have the advantage of time.
Now we'll go to flames once smoke both remains
so M80 can easily use that utility to save things
And that's exactly what they're doing.
Hot and cold burning Adam.
M80's still trailing in numbers.
Down goes Gomez.
Spirit's trying to tuck this one out.
But upstairs control is still very much there.
Gavin will need to save the round.
But no, never mind.
We are well past the point of no return.
M80 wins a slugfest as Hot and Cold
plans to defuse Kit with all 10 players still alive.
And the round goes in his team's favor.
Beautiful rush, Parker.
100 Thieves that don't have a single player on the bomb site when that rush came through and you might be scratching your head saying
Why wouldn't they have even a single anchor?
But they thought they had vert pressure both Yaga and Pamba were playing upstairs in the locker position
Adam wasn't too far off either. They had a lot of bodies above that exact window where hot and cold was planting
But the chaos that M80 were creating at the same time as that plant was going down
Ashen was being such a distraction on the Blitz. The logic bombs were annoying them.
They had all of this utility that was pressuring those players up above the bomb site
and it just allowed hot and cold to get off the perfect plant and then frankly one of the best post plants I've ever seen.
The Capitao fire denying the plant from getting disabled.
The smoke that was even being shot by the Capitao up towards the vents window was huge scum through the archives window.
You even saw some of those grimby's being used in the post plant. You can go back and rewind.
Very little util was actually being used before that plant came through so much of it was being used instead for the post plant
And it just made it so easy for me to lock that down with utility
They didn't have to take 50 for the gun fights
They could play the clock on the attack and they did exactly that I told you this was the most objective focus team in that a Parker
Yeah, you were not wrong and as much as I absolutely
Nothing makes me happier than you being wrong so
Reloading!
A very important round now, we are getting to the point where you're just gonna be on match points
simply because there are not enough rounds left for you to separate yourself from your opponent.
Hundred thieves in M80, tied at four apiece.
So far neither team really having any major advantage.
Again, it's been a scrappy contest.
These teams have really been matched and well, if you're a fan of one of these respective teams,
You want to check your blood pressure because I'm sure it's starting to rise
Especially if you were hoping for maybe a bit of an easy matchup after seeing matches one and two
Sorry, we can't give that to you
We got to give you the goods because one team fighting for their lives the other team fighting to ensure that the reputation that they have
Long since earned is still relevant
Talk to cable horse hockey cold back is his own mate will go through and just deal a little bit of damage to that barricade
The clear, of course, is focused on East Stairs. That means a lot of pressure will be on Spirits.
He will likely be the first to die, but how long can he kill off this clock before he does go down?
Currently using those talks to babes really nicely to stall out this push from M80.
I like the lineup they've brought. They've got some really good drone operators in the Twitch and the Brava to try to counter.
Some of this Valk play, some of the Lucy play that's coming through the Goya as well.
Eventually, Hot and Cold does win that gunfight and take down Spirits before he can try to rotate back to play with the rest of his teammates.
but good time-waste from the smoke.
Hostile approaching!
That was crazy.
Hostile approaching!
Oh my goodness, missed opportunity through the soft wall!
Adam Gunn's down diffuser, breaking double digits now.
The only player in the lobby to do just that, but Pim is in hot and cold.
Odd on his trail, Snake still outside of the building.
Gaining intel for the rest of his team.
and 80 are waiting for hot and cold to get the all clear not far removed from
the bomb site with that blackbeard shield in front of his face so run out
from hundred thieves paid off two rounds prior that's when Dona's got his double
kill but how much he could do this time for the second round in the rail
hot and cold has found a way into the site all under the watching eyes of
hundred thieves he's gonna attempt it again just a
great cross held by gunner and now I'm cold can just sit tucked into the
corner M80 doubling up on kills. They trailed in numbers in the post plant but still ultimately came
out ahead in the previous round. This time they've got a numbers advantage and good will continue
to happen to them as hot and cold finds Pamba Zoo. It's all up to Yaga to clutch out or M80 will
take the lead back and forth. These teams have gone M80 in the driver's seat for so much of this
contest until the timeout was taken by 100 thieves and they have found a higher gear. Yaga
will be able to do too much.
What an incredible round from Hot and Cold, the leader.
Leading by example, an M80 finds themselves
two rounds away from a victory.
And Parker, it looks so similar to what we just
washed in round number eight.
We got to see 100 thieves going for a very heavy Rome
strategy.
That's not uncommon on border.
Let's say this again, they didn't have anybody on site,
but most teams wouldn't.
At this level of play, you often
see a very heavy Rome set up coming through.
But M80 were able to read that.
As soon as they had East Stairs control,
They're able to work hot and cold down those east stairs inside of waiting in through the wall to try to get himself into a plant position
You've got runouts happening from Pamba outside of jail
You've got Yaga and Adam playing up above but hot and cold wisely doesn't plant anywhere near that hatch
Anywhere near where he can get denied from up above he changed his plant position a little bit
So that he can't get denied vertically the shield makes it so he can't get denied horizontally
And then even uses those Goyo canisters to stop the defense from retaking in towards the site
It just feels like and maybe you exactly what type of defense are these are wanting to run and it really
Lends it into their play style. You know this team who wants to go for execute. They want to go for plants
They want to get that objective down
Fonkult has now multiple times just because last couple of rounds he entered this game with the most plants in North American League
And I assume he's gonna leave it as well
objective
based
Focus has anybody ever called me the objective base team. I don't think I've ever heard anybody say
Okay, so I'm gonna say it first.
This is the man who team loves to play objective, Jesse.
I don't know if you've ever thought of that.
Oh really?
Yeah, I'll write that down.
Thank you.
Please, please, please say no to that.
And hey, if you want to say that on a broadcast
at any point, even in the past,
you gotta credit me.
So I expect at some point
you can get royalties for those statements.
You can tell me and I'll say it in the past
and I'll credit you in the future.
How about that?
Thanks, I mean, that's one of the benefits
of living in Alberta, you're always in the past.
So it might be another push in very, very quickly.
M80 is found and opening now for two rounds.
And Ashen is sprinting his way through that bottom floor.
Gomez is now repositioned towards a very favorable spot.
Gomez has spent so many iconic moments in just this map
alone, hosted up over by security and break room.
Sometimes he succeeded, sometimes he has not.
It's definitely a fearsome player
now leading his team with some of the most frags here just behind Famba and
Adam's gonna try to do something from that position. He's trying to support
Yaga really when you're in that breakroom position you just want to make
sure your security player does get walked on from the east so that he can
deny this main breach from getting open, play around CC, not get cleared himself.
You have to be focused though of course from M80 is over towards tellers.
They've got hot and cold in the bomb site once again and Adam is very low
as a sole player in sight.
Ashen posted up in a position that many North Americans refer to as male box,
but right now he's just holding a cut, so if anybody runs in front of him,
oh boy, that sidearm that Deimos has will absolutely level you.
Look at that, hot and cold on Ash, are we in 2019 or 2018?
He pulled it off, but 100 thieves were waiting for a zen like patience.
Adam owns archives and he's putting all of MAD on notice with these plays down below.
Ashen will try to buy some time now.
Nades going off, nobody on the diffuse.
Those nades can not be cooked the way they used to, so there will be a harder read for Ashen.
He's used both of them now, still got his death marks in pocket, gunner holding posted up in this spot.
And now it's Yogg gonna take up the mantle. M80 not able to deal with Adam time and time again.
They subdued him earlier. They fed their way through the rest of his team and they will grab the round.
Lightning strikes twice for Adam, but not three times. Archives captured by M80 and they moved to match point.
Parker, I gotta see that kill from Adam on a hot and cold once again.
He was second, fractions of a second away from stopping that plant from going down.
If he can kill hot and cold before he finishes the plant, it's a completely different world.
Here's the frag.
Barely gets it done. One bullet sooner would have been enough to stop that plant.
But instead, Matthew Stevens holds F for seven seconds and the round just becomes a playground for M80.
Their post-plants are set up beautifully with Gunner outside the doorway, Ashen down below.
It is practiced, it is prepared, it is exactly the way M80 drew it up.
And now they sit with two opportunities to blow things out in regulation and send a hundred
thieves out of the kickoff.
Devastating loss for five immensely talented and experienced players and not exactly the
heroes welcome that hundred thieves as an organization was hoping to have here in Rainbow Six Siege.
It's great to have big words investing in our scene.
It is a shame that there are always the losers in every single match up at eight.
As teams have said, there's only one team that wins a major.
In this case, there's only four of 10 teams in North America
that will qualify for the North American major
in Salt Lake City.
Next month, 100 thieves looking like one of the teams
that won't be in contention.
A reminder for those that are curious about how
or rather have forgotten how this works.
There are two groups, five teams in each.
The team that finishes dead last in each group
does not make the playoffs.
They will have no opportunity whatsoever
you qualify at the present time with a single point.
Hundred thieves are in the last place spotting group A.
And well, then maybe you're able to pull this off
without OT or frankly just even in OT.
That might be it for hundred thieves.
You're the numbers guy.
So you'll be able to break it down
many times before.
Yeah, a hundred thieves,
they desperately need every point that they can get.
Hundred thieves,
I honestly, Parker, I'm reading the numbers.
They might already be out.
So they needed the regulation when in here.
So we'll wait for our good friends,
to confirm, but it might already be wrapped for the newest Oregon Rainbow Six Siege, regardless.
This would be the opportunity to at least send a message to M80, but it doesn't start the way they wanted.
Yaga goes down as the opening death, and four players will remain.
Chas stopped these players from getting the plant down.
Another one from Defuser, and it's a 5v3 with still over half the round to go.
It was just a couple of rounds ago that it was the supporting cast of 100 thieves that bit the dust early,
But they answer right back, Pambazoo with two, Adam with one, Adam is set packing, so into a 2v2 we go and Pambazoo will try to lock down other portions of this fight with his final razor bloom.
Back to Drones, I'm 80, we go half of the round left, and my goodness, Defuser on Cam's Gomez using Solis' ability reads that punishes him leaving Gavin in a 1v2.
Gavin's a terrific player, Jesse, but I don't know if this is something that he can muster.
The Hundred Thieves have now completely repositioned themselves.
They gotta read on Gavin now as he runs his way from lobby over towards the bomb site.
Now at the bottom of those metal stairs, taking some damage through the barbed wire as he ascends towards the top.
He's going for a full clear to find these last two players, knowing that he can't walk in the diffuse kit,
but he can't find the final two kills either.
100 teams will hang on for the time being one more round here in this contest.
Do we see extra innings and as you pointed out, does it even matter for 100 seats?
Well Parker, I hate to ruin the narrative, but we do have confirmation.
Now that M80 are at six points in the matchup, the best 100 thieves can do is get two out of this contest,
but with M80 jumping up to four points total on the standings, that will be it for the kickoff of 100 thieves.
They will not be at Salt Lake City and they will have plenty of time to think about what went wrong as they wait for stage one to begin
It would still be good. I think for the feels to
Get a win, right? I mean you can't just go for without a single win throughout your opening kickoff
You still want to be able to get that as a building block as something to learn from as a bit of morale so that the team can
Stick together and have good moments in the future. But yeah
have M80 with that 6th round securing themselves at least a top floor 4 position and they will
still be hunting for more points so that they can secure an upper racket spot as well.
Well, not exactly again the entry that you want if you're 100 thieves, but that's just
the way it goes sometimes. There are two teams that have to finish last in their
groups and unfortunately for one of the newest entrants, not the newest, but one
of the newest entrants. Let's not overshadow the fact that Five Fears is an organization
that also entered tier one siege by picking up that team. Outlast as well have done just
that. It's not just 100 Ds, that's the newest and freshest phase. And obviously before them,
it was S.R. that was the big splash here in North America. But I mean, always devastating
when you have to say goodbye to teams. EML obviously finished up their play days
yesterday, if memory serves correctly. You know, the two teams that failed to
make it there. So, a devastating one for fans of Hundred Thieves, but that's just kick-off.
That's just one of the majors. We have not even played a single game in the actual stage
of the North American League, and a few best year-bottom dollar Hundred Thieves will be
there, and I presume with much of this same roster. And, generally, I don't know much
about how the roster lock system will go in between the kick-off, SLC major, and
Stage one, but I mean, 100 days are here for the long haul.
So we'll see them again for sure.
You just won't see them in Salt Lake City.
Can M80 close this out in regulation?
Three points would still be big for them
as they are fighting for upper bracket.
Two points, one point, all would be good,
but the more the better.
We won't know M80's final position
until they play their final game tomorrow.
So stay tuned and come back for that.
But in the meantime, they've got to focus
with the job at hand.
They've got one more attack to try to pull off.
Again, I like the op-lanets they brought out.
Hot and cold actually bring in a demo.
So, super common op to be seen in the IGL's hands from M80.
But he's still got that diffuser,
so you never know what he's capable of
when he's got this attacking lineup around him
to try to support.
Yaga and security on the Erune will be playing
with that 2x scope and Gomez, once again,
in break room to support.
This is the same set of the 100 views
that played all game long.
And do or die here in terms of regulations for MADM, they're still largely outside the
building, but will spread some utility through those windows.
Down goes Pambazoo, a potential devastating loss as he and Adam are sharing the crown
on the side of 100 thieves at the moment.
Supporting Cast and Adam will now need to do some more legwork.
I suppose it is good that you didn't lose the smoker spirit.
first as this happened a couple times now, that would be an active gadget gone.
Goyo's canisters will still be there as you see the fire lingering now inside a
break room that prevents Ashen from taking up greater space.
The smart play from Gunner, he watched as Pamba walked down the metal stairs.
He was trying to disrupt that pressure but unfortunately he paid with his life.
Now with that bottom floor fully cleared out they can start working more
towards the bomb site. The clear of Yaga inside of CC went okay.
They got him out of that position now. They might have a free opportunity for a pick yes on to Adam
They get 80% damage or so and now hunting for the cleanup. It's Gavin. He's good for it another one
Gomez
Trains back on a hot and we keep things close
if
If I had a dollar for every time Gomez went for a run out in security or break room
I have two dollars and I mean that's like, you know, it's not odd, but it's just odd that it happened twice
I guess
Find Cold, the only casualty for M80 is now they double up in numbers over 100 thieves and it will continue to get better.
Yaga, last man standing and he's put in the dust by Defuser who gets both of the final kills.
M80 does not need overtime to get this job done.
They kill the opportunity for 100 thieves to go to Salt Lake City.
M80 picks up three big points and our third match is in the books.
Means we also don't know who's gonna be first place overall, Parker.
Gonna be excited to see our final playday.
I'm breaking the
Welcome back everybody a great match from both the teams and maybe however are the ones to close it out
We are bringing on Ashton Ashton first. I want to say congratulations on your guys's win
You guys do secure playoffs now where you guys are slotted into those brackets
That's undecided based off some of the matches going into tomorrow
But one thing I want to ask you as well kind of a two-in-one question
How has the transition been going from SSG into this M80 roster?
And then what is one of the hardest things that you've had to now learn transitioning into this team?
And then what has been one of the easiest things transitioning into this team?
One of the hardest honestly is just kind of being away from some of my best friends, you know
That was my first team that I've ever been on and they're just great guys, you know, and they're my family
I love those guys, but I'm on a new path now and
And, you know, one of the easiest things I think with this team is just the ability to always have fun, you know,
Gav is just an insane goofball. You know, he obviously we're serious, but I think at the same time, majority of the time,
it's pretty laid back. And I think that's also something that's different from when I was on a SSG is I kind of lost a little bit of structure.
Right. Yeah. And that's been hard.
And sorry, sorry to cut you off there, Fox, if you were going to ask a question.
I was kind of what I was more focused on because obviously the regimen and the mentality that it was SSG is very different and nothing like anything else that we've seen from other teams.
So I appreciate the insight on that.
Yeah.
Well, you guys are on a new path and that new path can still lead to first place with the win today.
It's all on tomorrow.
If you guys beat SR, you guys could leapfrog five years due to round count and be able to take first.
Were those the expectations for you and the team since you joining was to get first?
And if those weren't expectations, obviously it comes down to the bracket and just making
Salt Lake, but what were your guys expectations?
Being honest, I don't think we really send the expectations.
I think we know with me joining, there's going to be some growing pains, especially
with them losing Kino, you know, if he's a lot more of a role player than I am,
I'm more of, you know, I can obviously get it done, but I'm a lot more explosive,
I'd say, and there's certain things where, you know, we'd have to swap us some people.
And, um, we're just ironing out the kinks.
And I think we just got to keep, you know, stay on the path and just keep
playing to improve.
And, you know, if it's not our time right now, then hopefully we'll be soon.
If we just keep playing to improve.
Yeah.
And for the coach, Bob, Ian, what would you say, since this is the first
time, you know, you're teaming with him, what is his mentality or outlook on
the team and your guys' performance so far?
I don't know if you have that information,
but it would be nice to hear.
I mean, I don't really have that information,
but I'd say we're all kind of in the same boat
that whatever happens happens,
and if we qualify, we qualify regardless.
This is gonna take time, and we gotta give it time.
We gotta iron out our issues,
and if we keep focusing on that,
then we're gonna be in a good spot no matter what, so.
Perfect, well, Ashton,
we both wanna congratulate you on that win
and securing playoffs and we're very excited to see what you guys bring going into tomorrow
and then even further past that.
Thank you.
Have a good night.
Of course.
Yeah.
Well, Fox, I mean, obviously we have to look at the brackets now and where these teams
are placing.
As you said it, and maybe Ken Leapfrog essentially five fears if they do get their win tomorrow
just based off round differential.
Yeah, it's not a situation for a hundred thieves for opening debut into the NL and
you are 0-4 out, not even an opportunity to make it to the Salt Lake Major. A very
underwhelming performance from a roster that we thought we'd see more from, essentially since
them being, you know, the previous OXE roster, we thought we'd see a lot more.
As for MAD, like Ashen said, it takes a little bit of time, but for right now,
they still have the opportunity to get first. I think where it all went wrong was just where
where 100 Thieves was making mistakes individually,
constantly allowing situations to lose the man advantage,
giving 1v1s.
And I think we saw it in multiple rounds,
there was one round I wanted to highlight specifically
on the latter half of them being on defense,
that round 10 was just such a very good execute
for our matey, but a bad retake from 100 Thieves.
I mean, they get the diffuser down regardless,
so that's great.
But now you're in a two on four.
Ashen's below.
You don't know where Gunner's going to be.
Ashen makes this place known.
Yes, smart needs to be able to buy time for Gunner to be able to re-rotate, but what does 100 Thieves do?
Adam drops for a 1v1 and loses it, Gomez goes for the defuse with no coverage, it's just 1v1 after 1v1 and it's disheartening, it's exhausting honestly if you're a 100 Thieves fan to see situations like that because these rounds, so many of them could have been won.
We could have been talking about 100 Thieves right now in a 7-5 scenario reverse where they're going on to the bracket play.
But that's just something that we need to stop seeing.
Unfortunately for 100 Thieves, they don't have that opportunity anymore.
Their run ends here.
Hopefully they can figure out things going into stage one.
It's just, there's really not much else to say.
It's just really bad.
I mean, that's the thing though.
And that's the stylistic matchups really to down to a T is, you know,
we saw two different scenarios for two different retakes.
We saw one on the side of MAD where it was pretty cut and clean.
They understood how they were going to get to step one to step two to step three.
to then ultimately go for the defuse on that one. It just looked very disjointed.
It didn't really look like people knew exactly what the reason was outside. If we have to eliminate
the guy below in order to go for this, not worrying about who's on the outside and then
it's just one falling. Then now it's a question of who's doing this. And it speaks into what I
was talking about at the halftime of there's not a father figure. There's not a bigger brother
of that team that's going to reel in everyone and let's focus on this. How are we going to
do this? And it is unfortunate, but I don't want to keep you guys here any longer. I do
do want to get into the fourth game however we do just have to jump to one
quick break and we'll be back.
and
welcome back to the final game of playday for implications and the points are really putting pressure on these themes. The final match we have cloud nine versus outlast two teams currently in the second half of the game.
versus Outlast. Two teams currently on zero points.
One of them has to be able to get points today.
I mean, that's how the series goes.
But that doesn't mean that the other one is eliminated.
There's still a lot of implication based on who wins here.
But as of right now, Cloud9,
they are the team that we're going to be looking at
because they have so much young talent that has brought on
to be able to light a fire under the veteran players
on this roster.
But even then, they still are a very immature roster lacks.
Yeah, they are very immature.
And even the two tended players on that team don't really have that much experience and even the time they did have it
It's not like they were performing exceptionally well in terms of their placings for an individual or as a team
But it is nice to be in this situation to find themselves because they aren't completely out just yet
They do have a chance and it really starts today with this match
You know, we talked about this time and time again with other teams if you can't find a win at any point
That's unfortunate, but sometimes all you need is that win. That's what lights that fire
That's what gets the train and the engine going at that point and when you're going to team like outlast for cloud nine
This should sort of bring some sort of familiarity to you some sort of comfort that can allow you to start finding success
Because even when you're looking at the stats head-to-head by one another cloud nine is doing exceptionally better in the majority of the areas
I don't have all the stats, but these are two
I mean these are four I did want to highlight over the attack win percentage the defense entries and opening conversions
It is heavily in favor of Cloud9, but again, that's not really saying a lot in terms of these two.
It just does set them up to be in a better position to finally get that win over a team like Outlast.
But it really does come back to what we've talked about time and time again, is playing into your fundamentals,
is being able to adapt at the end of the day because that's the most important aspect.
And really for me, that's what I'm looking at for either one of these teams is who is going to adapt
even push that further. If there's going to be two players that I would say you would absolutely
want to watch who have been performing exceptionally well outside of maybe not the best circumstances
in terms of where they placed, I would have to look at Eddie and Trev-Mac. Those two have been
playing exceptionally well, especially on the side of Trev-Mac having the least amount of experience
in comparative to Eddie. But that's neither here or there. We got to see it unfold once
this match gets underway. Yeah, the IGLs are where you're going to put your trust in,
because either the players that are going to lead the team. Eddie has been in the league
a little bit longer than TrevMAC, but they still have the same accolades on both fronts.
And when you look at the side of Outlast, what did we want them to focus on when it came to
the first week? I mean, they got smoked in both their games on playday one and playday three,
but we said, let's bring it back to basics. What does Outlast need to do? Focus on trades.
And it looks like TrevMAC did exactly that. Ironically, even though they are in dead
last currently, they are the number one team when it comes to opening kills traded
And Todd for the number one team,
when it comes to opening death or total death traded.
So that goes a long way that the trades are there.
They understand the basic fundamentals
and that's what we wanted to see.
So I would take this as a win if I'm out last,
but going forward, now we need to be able to focus
on the next step, which is closing out rounds.
And it seems like they are on the staircase.
They're going each step by each step.
Trades is the first one, keeping it basic.
Now we focus on closing things out.
I think a big aspect to this
is them just getting repetitions.
It doesn't matter what map they go to.
It doesn't matter what scenario.
It's just repetition.
Hopefully they get to live another day.
A win here would be great.
Yep, reps are going to be important,
but we are going to send it immediately to the casters.
The players are ready to help break down the maps
that they are going to be going to.
That's it for us here.
Let's get this game underway.
Well, thank you so very much.
Hold on a second here.
Jesse, I didn't see a map phase.
Maybe it's because I wasn't wearing my glasses.
So why don't we?
would you look at that Jesse? We're going to night Haven lab. Isn't that crazy? We're going to night even labs Parker my personal favorite map in
Siege and he'll be excited to see what these two squads can do on it. It's not been seen before from cloud nine or from
Outlast as these are two relatively new Rossers here in the North America League. So anything could happen. The community gets it
65% to cloud nine 35% to outlast. It has been a rough start to the stage for both of these two young teams
But I'll tell you, Parker, one of the teams
is going to get their first win today.
And that could spark some massive changes for the team
going forward from tomorrow and playoffs.
Obviously, when you get deeper into the play days as we do,
stakes continue to get higher.
For these two teams, they're still
figuring things out, right?
They find themselves in fourth and fifth place.
That's Cloud9 and fourth, Outlast and fifth, respectively.
And neither of them really have a lot of good
that's happened so far.
Outlast has only been able to win three rounds.
Cloud9 have only been able to win five rounds.
Neither of these teams, with a point yet,
they are the only two teams that have yet to get a point
in the entire NAL.
Now, we just watched a team get eliminated from their group.
It is extremely unlikely, if not impossible,
that one of these teams will generally be eliminated here,
but you might start to hear the bells tolling
in the background depending on what ends up happening
over the next couple rounds. Obviously tomorrow's matches will have great impact.
C9, they'll be playing wildcard tomorrow. Outlast will be playing SSG tomorrow.
1 of 30 and SSG were the two teams that had the day off today and we'll see them
back in action tomorrow. So for final matchup of the day, the new look of
Cloud9 versus the brand new team of Outlast. These two teams comprised not
entirely of rookies but a lot of rookies. They're still trying to find
they're fighting they're still trying to find success. How light it looks ultimately end up unfolding.
Yeah well that's the question Parker these are two very young teams we've got a couple of rookie
or a couple of teenagers playing on the side of the last couple of young 20-year-olds from the
side of Cloud9 too so it's really going to come down to who can maybe find some of these opening
picks get some of these big entries. This has been something that Cloud9 have kind of struggled
with they've given up the entry 12 times in the first week of the North America League
and not once were they able to pull things back and win the round, so that opening frag
is really important, especially to focus on if you're outlasted. It's what they're hunting
for right now with Kickstarter receiving a bit of pressure here inside of the Raptors
position, the logic bomb comes out, and Millie just on the other side of this door with
a drone could make a big play.
He could Jesse but he's not but he's not
He gets one nitro still goes out from center down goes Trevon
Veronica's on the board center will die outlast winning all of these jewels is Uzi shreds through Veronica's
Eddie and Uzi, the last two remaining,
force C9 with over half of the round to go.
This is not the position you want to find yourself in.
Eddie will now go for the retake on Jnari,
finding one over in IT, not able to do too much.
How has he found this opening?
Where are the calls from Outlast?
Eddie and Uzi taking no prisoners
and suddenly Nesta is in a 1v2.
He is struggling in this position.
That seemed almost unwinnable for C9 and Eddie.
Hits the flank, backstabs them, and suddenly it's Cloud9's round to lose.
Felt like they had everything going right for them outlasts, had that space, they had the opening frags they were looking for, but they've now left Nesta in the 1v2.
Everything defined, lots of time to play with as well.
Defuser not in his hands at the moment, but he's going to get blinded by this Fender, and it's just going to get even more awkward.
He's trying to find his way in, very passive so far from Eddie and Uzi.
I mean, that's the right call to make.
Why bother give Nesta anything?
He's the one that will need to go for frags as the diffuser is very out of reach.
There's really not that much that he can do, so just let him wander in.
You'll get the kill, just as they do.
Round number one breaks in favor of C9. What an incredible flank from Eddie.
Yeah, for the first time all season, Cloud9 are able to win a round where they don't get that opening picks.
It's a nice recovery to come through and you said it.
It's largely off the back of their captain, Eddie.
He was playing down below he was initially playing kind of towards servers
But I believe he ends up dropping the hatch into lounge flanks his way up those rafters stairs
It's completely missed by outlasts
They had drones over there and they had some dead players
But I think they just kind of missed him on the timing or maybe the drone got shot before that
In any case Eddie's a flip pass that and bind a couple of massive kills
We have no idea of his position inside of rafters
And it really just does come down to maybe a lack of communication lack of awareness on that late-round execute
Felt like the entry was perfect from outlast. It was well coordinated, but when things got messy about nine came out on top
Just as we saw in the preceding match hundred games versus M80
I suspect this will be a pretty scrappy affair between these two teams
They have shown so far with the way that they match up against their other opponents that they are relatively evenly matched
We might actually get some pretty big moments from some of these players here as they acclimate
to playing at the top level.
This left side of your screen outlasts all five of these players making their tier one
debut when they qualified for kickoff.
And the NAE, just a couple of weeks ago through the Challenger series, Cloud9 has some familiar
faces.
You will know Eddie, you will know Kixrow, those are the two names that most people
will gravitate towards.
Here are some of you that might know here.
Both of them are as well.
The rest of them are here to make a name for themselves.
Let me offer two weeks to do so here on Night Haven Labs.
30 seconds in, walls getting opened up. Discovery phase still under way as outlasts.
Hopefully we get into the building relatively fast.
Yeah, already making some noise here.
Of course, stacking on the kitchen.
Not every common site that we tend to see on Night Haven Labs
is thought to be the worst bombsite here on this map.
There was a mission discussion on Twitter over whether maybe storage should be played as the second site
But clearly not going to be selected here instead
There's the other mid-floor site and I really like the way that cloud nine have tried to set this up
Got some players up above, but it's not a huge commitment to meeting or to
Serve or anything like that. They are mostly focused with just their players down below and they're trusting kicks around
There's all me who look locked things down inside of meetings so far. He's doing a great job
New damage done just yet. A lot of times when we've talked about this intel line-up Jesse to three operators that we like to highlight are Solid Snake,
Gamos and Doku be all free now being brought by Outlast. There's plenty of info here and good guns all across the board. That F2 is a mighty good gun.
You don't often see it getting outdulled by an MPX, but you know what? Sometimes crazy things happen.
Eddie now finding himself up for nothing as he gets that lead-off pick. No Solid Snake to help enable this entry, so you'll have to rely entirely.
on drones and then whatever logic bombs and do those deathmarks still remain
Really good start coming through from Eddie now 4 and oh he's been fantastic through this match up and outlasts
We're starting to stall a bit less than 30 seconds nest is able to work one frag down below
He's able to use that game was to take down Uzi
That's a really important pick and they have to be in control as well
But my worry is the clock Barker how are they gonna get this plant down?
They've got to make sure they're quick with the time still some nitrous self-play with misotic cloud nine
so they can deny this that the clash makes it oh so awkward.
Oh my, Kixrow shredding through Lager who didn't seem to have good wear with all.
Again, how do you have all these intel ops and struggle on this roam clear?
He's the only casualty for C9 as they hold a numbers advantage with 20 seconds left,
so it's time for Outlast to take matters into their own hands.
At least he's one player just evading his reach, but he's a little bit televisioned.
Killed from the door as C9 doubles up on him, outlasts running at a time.
Nine remaining player with the diffuse kick.
All Cloud9 needs to do is just buckle down.
They will do just that.
Trev Mc will run at a time.
He stays alive, but the clock gives the round to Cloud9 as they go up to nothing.
So what we were worried about, Parker, it was that time delay,
and it really comes off of Kikstra's excellent roam up towards meeting.
He stalls for so long with those Keyba barriers, gets out with his life,
I believe Finishes with a nice little 2K just to top things off.
Perfectly played, you saw that coordination happening around lounge too.
You talk about the information and it certainly was lacking a bit from Outlast.
Lager, I feel bad for him in his play because he knew where Eddie was.
He had the position of one player thanks to his logic bomb,
but there's that extra layer.
There's that second person you're not thinking about.
There's that another opportunity right here to come talking about.
It's a panic swing from Lager as he's not aware of his past players.
really good team play from Steve and I to be able to cover Eddie even though he dies in that engagement
He's bathing some of the players on the side of outlast to come in make that entry and ends up working in Cloud 9's
Favorite because they get a couple of picks to come through from it
Once again Eddie started this game 4-0 now 4-1
There's actually the lowest rated IGL after the first week of play there were some concerns about that
But I think he's been excellent so far today, and it's really starting to flip that narrative
Outlast sadly has four players in the bottom six rankings when it comes to the NAL Cloud 9 as a bunch of players in the bottom 10 as well.
So neither of these teams really able to break away from their successes.
It's not like they have one or two real big standout performers.
I mean you have to go pretty far down to find the highest rated player on either of these teams.
It's actually Trev-MAC, considering a 1T first of 50 active players.
So, again, lots of growth opportunities here for these teams,
and as casters, you have to treat both of these squads like how they are.
They are relatively new and inexperienced players, for the most part,
trying to find their way in a very competitive landscape,
and they've had a bit of a rough group.
Now, a golden opportunity.
They are matched up against a team that seems to be of equal skill level.
I'm talking about both teams for what it's worth.
And now they can really show which one is a cut above.
So far, defending on Night Haven Labs,
sometimes not exactly the most favorable to defenders
for a long time.
This map was pretty close to 50-50,
but steadily has broken in favor of the over the last couple
events and stages.
So I imagine that that will be in a pretty good spot
and report.
Starting a little bit of breach,
we've gone down to the basement for our final round
in the first quarter.
and it's a nitro cell from using to take down Millie.
That's a massive pick to come through.
You've taken out the Thermite, a really important operator.
He'd already used two of his exothermic charges,
so he only died with one in pocket.
That's not the end of the world,
but still it's another open pick.
It goes the way of T9.
Now, Focal hoping for another.
There it is.
Logger falls straight to the floor in Trepnik.
He's hoping to get the cutoff,
but he's got bigger problems.
Eddie down below finds him,
kicks Rowan to Veronica,
It's a nested in a 1v5.
Not an ideal spot.
C9 continues their winning ways with a flawless round
this time.
Outlast, what do you do at this point?
Do you call a timeout?
Do you just wait to get to the halfway point?
I mean, you are not really finding much success anywhere.
I don't really have, I don't know.
I don't really have a lot of good to say about this.
Outlast team so far.
go back all the way to match number one. You know, obviously that DZ matchup I was trying
to give Wildcard the benefit of the doubt because of the experience that they have as
a team. Wasn't able to really find anything good to say about them as much as you want
to try to so far for this Outlast squad. I haven't seen a lot of good here on this
map. They're going to call a timeout and try to work through this. And I mean, there's
a lot to work through. You've been steadily weakening as time has gone on against
this cloud nine team now losing that third round
falllessly.
An opportunity here to talk to head coach Super Oxy.
Maybe try to get this team back on track.
I know a lot of the conversation
that was going on on Twitter from this last team
after week one concluded was actually pretty positive.
I mean, you said it, they won one round in their first game.
They won two rounds in their second game.
And you might look at that and think, well,
that's a disaster result.
But they felt like they were making good improvements.
They were talking a lot more in that second game.
They were having more coordination
than how they played in their season opener,
and they felt like there was growth.
We need to see some of that coming up now
in the most important game that they have played
as a team so far,
and the game that will define likely
who makes it to playoffs
and who does not between these two bottom teams
inside of the NAL.
They've got to find ways to maybe get a little bit more
value inside of the mid-round.
They've had some good strats early, you know?
They're, you go back to that round one.
The clear under rafters was excellent for them,
but when things get trade heavy,
when things get messy, when Cloud9 start moving,
when Cloud9 start shooting back,
that's where Outlast have really struggled.
I'm gonna be looking for these next three rounds
to really see if they change in that department.
Hopefully we can see Outlast bring some of these trades
back in their favor and not lose such an early man
advantage when things start to go south.
I'm glad you pointed out something that you said
at the earlier portion of that segment.
One of these teams will make the playoffs.
It's like they might end up leading
the two statistically worst teams
at the end of the day. I mean, obviously, that will really hinge on 100 thieves, but these
two teams could end up being, at one point in time, the two worst statistical teams,
but because they're in the same group, only one of them ultimately fails to make playoffs.
So if you're a team, if you're one of the other teams in this group, if you're Dark
Zero, if you're Space Station, if you're Wildcard, you're looking at this thinking,
okay, we've got, you know, we might have a pretty easy match if there isn't major
improvement from one of these rosters come playoffs. And a reminder that if you finish top in your group,
all you need to do is win a single best of three to clinch a spot because eight teams will make it
to playoffs, four ultimately make it to Salt Lake City, and the teams that finish at the top of
their groups get a buy and then they just need a single best of three to get to a spot where
even if they lose their next match they still end up in the lower bracket and will still be a
the top four team.
I'll say as well Parker, while it's not likely,
it is technically possible for both of these teams
to make playoffs because wildcard lost earlier today.
So there is a chance wildcard end up getting grouped
instead of these two teams.
It would require some pretty big upsets
tomorrow on the final playday.
But we'll pass that bridge when we come to it.
Right now you're just hoping to make sure it's not
you sitting in last at the end of playday four.
The adaptations have been to slow things down
a little bit from Outlast.
They're going to focus on the electrical side of things.
Already good connection control and shred back on this blackbeard
has started to gain space over towards E-box.
Ten players still alive in the server,
so there's more work to be done,
but at least the space has been gotten
without too much trouble.
What's on 9 being up 3 and 0?
We now go through the cycle.
So once again, this top floor hold.
Things worked out pretty well for out last year.
If you recall, they were actually in an excellent position
to take this particular bomb site back around.
Number one, if it wasn't for the late playing from Eddie and Uzi holding down the fort,
we can't give Eddie all the credit, of course, because Uzi's been played a part.
I think it was actually Uzi's got the technical final kill, if I remember onto Nesta.
Now, a bit more confidence from Atlas, albeit a bit of a slower round.
Millie did not bother to break in through that rafters.
There was no his army for them to deal with right away, so Kixbro can live a little bit longer.
Vocal, the first one down. He's in the ground. Cloud9's suffering through as Outlast will take one
and then ultimately lose the next two and lose the next three.
Logger will claim another, but Cloud9's still ahead here when it comes to kills.
Nesta and Logger working together. Nesta was last alive. Last time they attacked this site,
as I mentioned. Refuse kit in the hands of Logger, so already a little bit better than what we saw last time.
C9 has control of the site. It's now incumbent upon these two last players from Outlast to walk on in,
walk on in, but they do not have any information. They have a good read on the player down on the ground,
but Shotgun will ultimately be there undoing. Nesta last alive yet again with very limited time. We'll
need to attempt to defuse plant. As Feezie and Kicksrell lick their chops, out goes an impact,
and Uzi will get the job done yet again. Cloud9 takes the round. Really solid defense. I gotta
ask a question here Parker, how the hell did Eddie get towards the connector
breach in the midst of that chaos? We were watching Center lock down E-box with
the smokes, we were watching Focal go for a big flank up through the meeting hall
and then we go to top-down POV and Eddie is in the middle of the attackers.
It's pure chaos but the gaps are being found by Cloud9 and doing a great
job of capitalizing on some of these mistakes being played by Outlast.
The flank from Bocal doesn't work out in his favor. He ends up going down early.
But it literally matters so much with all the attention. This is Eddie's position. I don't know how he gets here. He was playing in sight.
Somehow, whilst they have connection control, pushes out to that spot, puts his team in a really powerful position.
It's closed out by center and then that big swing from Uzi to come out to giving the round over to Cloud9 for a 4-0 lead.
lead. It's really really clean to come out from them. Outlast, as you said, just struggling to have too much of an impact and you mentioned it briefly Parker. I didn't want to dive too much into it but Nesta last alive a lot on these pushers. Feels like you need a bit more out of him early.
Yeah, I mean the phrase that is often used for players in that position is an
unflattering one and teams will point fingers and say, oh you're baiting. Now
the way that we talk about it has steadily changed. Now one of the big
things that we discuss is to call it a lurk, a late lurk, and in fact one of
our analysts, Laxing, helped popularize that very role over half a decade ago.
Obviously Siege is a game that is not stuck in time. It evolves, rosters
The game evolves, the game evolves, the meta is changed, and you have to be able to adapt.
But if you're playing high-value fraggers, and you're not involved in the cut and thrust of an executor,
you are the last one in the building.
You're not really providing a lot of value here. Nesta's got four kills, but Outlast doesn't have a single round.
You can't look at those kills and point to any of them and go,
that was very impactful. And that's a problem for this Outlast.
Will you still work out if you've been good?
He likes playing this Zo down below site that stops the bandit tricking, not that it's being brought by Cloud9 today, but was being brought earlier, now on the breach, Kixra will slam the head of Varonex and give himself a 6-1 stat line.
That's a tough one to lose. The wall is open, but without the ram being able to rip up these floorboards, it makes it a little bit less valuable to get this top floor control.
Still important to have, if this wall stay is closed you basically cannot plant inside of storage, so it's still progress on the attack from Outlast, but you definitely don't like losing that body.
The task now becomes how much of the top floor can we control.
Opal is the lone defender playing up here just inside of Electrical.
The monster is looking that way from Treadmack and it looks like they will be aiming to flush him out before they go for their execute.
And Millie's found himself in a spot that he's been in on a couple of rounds here taking control of that catwalk
Marching his way through CC.
The vocal's not that far removed, and if he has not been droned out this mute can be a major impediment.
And frankly quite a big surprise. Millie seems to have an idea and there he goes.
We'll see the quick peek immediately turning his attention towards those fish stares,
just in case somebody else wants to be involved in the fray.
All of this is happening upstairs, the Monty of Trev-Mac getting closer to the bomb site
that got the Castle of Uzi chased out of his position and the man you said needed to be
more involved early next than does just back.
He's almost dead, but he still gets a very high priority pick.
40 seconds left.
Neither come to the advantage now in a 4v4.
Pick fur goes down, that's a big pick from Millie and he gets a second to vocal on
the top floor.
They completely fall apart up there and Outlast have their opportunity for their
best round yet.
C9 can potentially stop this center pops up now it's Eddie's turn but Lager locks it out
and Outlast will not allow C9 a flawless first half.
Oh well gets on the board.
I do want to give him credit because we were talking a little bit about him in the previous
round Parker.
Nesta gets early and it results in a round win for Outlast not solely off of his kill
but certainly in part due to the impact that he's having in around the bomb site
early before they can get that plant down.
That's so important just to be able to get that man count back towards Eve
and get the first frag on the board for your team.
At the same time, Millie's upstairs, he's taking good space.
Here we see the kill in a nice third person.
He'll be just in through the window from bottom garage.
Millie up above getting two is so critical once again.
They were trying to retake that space
because TrevMax's plant position is very deniable from up above.
If either of those players are able to kill Millie,
they've got a good chance of denying the plant
before Trev Matt can finish it, but Millie's position is so good.
He gets the job done and gets outlasted their first round.
At some point, you got to start putting rounds on the board.
I thought Cloud9 walking away and a 7-0 was unheard of,
especially after that first round where I said,
I think this is going to be quite scrappy.
It really has been very scrappy,
even if the score line is very heavily tilted in favor of Cloud9.
I mean, it really, to me,
it really does go back to that first round.
Structurally, Outlast looked like they had everything working,
but they just did not know where Eddie was, and the amount of time it took them to figure out about Eddie's backstab
shows to me that they're working on a lot of things on the side of OL, but one of them is definitely comms.
Think about teams like M80, think about teams like DZ, Space Station, etc.
These teams would have reacted pretty quickly and not allowed Eddie to get back into the site after picking up two kills.
When you're a younger and inexperienced team, your comms are gonna be a bit chaotic.
you see some players on OL talking an awful lot,
might have just been that nobody heard it.
If that kind of chaos is in your comms channel,
it's gonna be really difficult to hear
when people come back to the bomb site on a deep lurk.
And so far, Cloud9 has really liked their lurking players.
Final round on defense,
the Cloud will sink to the basement
for this new bomb site being brought out.
It will now have played all four sites
here on Nighthagan Labs.
Now at last, they're quite scattered around the map
trying to clear these roamers.
They've got Nesta and Logger over towards main lobby.
You see Trevmak on the right side of your screen,
pressuring a bit towards cafeteria.
And up above, he'll be trying to enter meeting.
These players all around the map will have different ways
to try to work picks on the players.
But Kicks Row, like for a bit of a potential jump out,
Eddie is the main focus partner.
They want to clear a lot of cafeteria
as soon as possible.
They're using a lot of tools at their disposal.
Drones, logic bombs, constantly redroading him.
Eddie will have to fight his way out of this position
is now the shield of Nesta will get closer too.
Local does not see Veronica's behind him
and outlasts will strike first yet again.
Cloud nine trailing in numbers, Eddie not flashed out.
Drebback gets the job done with the sidearm
and outlasts advantage will continue to grow
but there's kicks roast swinging through the breach.
Drebback on borrowed time as well.
Cloud nine able to swing this to a 3D3
and suddenly the round becoming much more winnable.
Center almost getting the feet of Nesta.
these OL players really, really hurt.
As it's Trevmack and Nesta on one point of HP, Nesta gone.
Advantage for Cloud9 is kick thrust in.
Eight kills is dominating so far in this round, Jesse.
He's playing incredible, Parker.
Was roaming up and meeting.
They knew he was there, but still
able to flank in for a couple of high-impact frags.
Now he's back in site, playing man-o.
They took all the utility they could need,
and the time is running low.
There's the shot gun to Trevmack, walking in,
taking advantage of that Candela still on borrowed time,
but as long as you're a single point of HP
and you've got that gun in hand,
you can do so much damage.
X-Roll and Trevnac, if you put them together,
they probably would have less than 10 HP.
That's at that feet.
Just under 30 seconds now,
the assault will move ever closer to the bomb site.
I'll go to Smokes, two Candela still in pocket,
for Trevnac, but they don't realize
that Uzi has control from above.
Millie with defuse kit in hand,
but where is the coverage?
He's not going to be able to pull it off.
C9 will tear through him.
And the first half goes in the books.
Cloud9 emerging with a 5-1 storyline.
Use the inside of storage that whole time, Parker,
a high-impact player, and managed
to get a massive round for C9.
Yeah, I think our last right now
is just having a really bad finishing problem.
Sort of these rounds are quite good.
I mean, their trades are there.
In that last round, they found those opening kills.
But then when they get to the middle to late rounds,
it feels like there's an issue with understanding
what the next steps are.
I mean, losing Monty, we talked about a lax,
losing your shield when you can just full shield up
and push players back.
It's not a situation that you should find yourself in.
Losing top control, not being cautious of how you're
using your drones for information.
I think it's just the next step of our last grown pains
is they're doing the starts decently well,
But finishing especially on a map as difficult as night Haven to attack on the goal and goal crossfires when they're trying to get that diffuser down.
It's just not there just yet.
I mean kind of even 360 awareness just understanding where you can be shot from what can happen what can't happen.
That's something I've always noticed with newer players especially when you're in the spotlight of a match like this and for the side of outlasts.
I mean the last two rounds I do want to give them some sort of credit there.
I thought those were really well even in that last little bit.
It did start to taper off where again, it's this real,
it's really big rookie mistakes for these guys.
As for cloud nine, I thought their defense was actually
very fluid.
They looked very comfortable in how they were roaming
throughout the map.
They looked very well in terms of their trades.
They understood the positions that they were in
and what they could hold and how they could force
outlast into their crossfires into unwinnable positions.
They didn't have to do anything too crazy.
And that's something that, you know,
I do want to highlight because we haven't been able
to talk about them too much.
So I do want to see now a clean attack from them,
similar to what we saw in their debut,
versus Dark Zero, where they, you know,
pull something out of their hat.
They do a quick rush.
They might have something gimmicky.
Use center for a shield.
Shields excel on this map very well.
So I'm curious to see what they do
breathing the table here.
That's true.
I think there's a lot for us to see with Cloud9.
We want to be impressed.
We want to see the progression as well.
But for the rest of this game,
we'll leave the lands to the slaughter
and bring our casters back in.
really appreciated that last
round in particular allowed a
player who's been around the
block a few times to really
thrive. And he's been quite
consistent through this entire
first half. Kixrow really made
his presence felt there and he
is dominating this O. L. Team.
I'm very curious to see how he
does. Now the sideswap is
coming in Jesse. Yeah, me too,
Parker. I'm so happy to see
Kixrow performing well today
up against Outlast. We've
known forever just how
just how talented he is.
The mechanics of this player have never been questioned,
but there have been a rough couple of games
leading into this one for him in his career.
He's gone positive in just two of his last 10 matches
inside the NA L that does not include the SILCQ.
So for the last six months or so,
he's really struggled to find that impact
that we know he can have.
Today, he's finally putting that on display nine and two.
No chance he goes negative in a game like this
up against Outlast.
And to see it happening in such an important matchup,
I think it's oh so critical and it brings a smile to my face the other player
I want to talk about briefly as we get into the second half
It's got to be center in the first week
He was the highest rate of player on cloud nine he posted 13 kills in cloud nine's first two games
And that's pretty solid to come up from a guy like center my concern is that 12 of those 13 kills came on the defense
He got three more today four more
I should say on the defense up against outlast is that going to fall off a little bit now that he's moving on
To the attacking side. I know this player is very very talented
I'm excited to see what he can do, but this offensive side still needs to be better from center.
Oh, I mean, it's time for these players to shine.
They've been here for a couple matches now, and unfortunately with the kickoff, it is quite brief, right?
You have four best of ones, and I mean, if you are trying to acclimate to T1 and you have a slow start,
that might be it. You know, you play too bad games and you don't really have a lot of time to make up for that.
But you just gotta go game by game.
And if you can play those entry roles so well if you can support the rest of your team so well
We'll notice the desk will notice the co-streams will notice which by the way
Shout out to the co-streams and all the work that they have done a lot of ball knowers are currently co-streaming these matches
And they provide a lot of value
Then we just can't get to sometimes when we're doing professional casting and I've been enjoying watching some of the co-streams in my
Free time they'll be picking up on the same things that you are picking up
When there comes to a player like center or to kicks rose. So first half is in the books cloud nine position
Oh, so effectively Eddie probably wants that one back though
My goodness you get swung by Millie and the first kill goes to outlast
That's a really cool setup just inside connector for Millie. This is gonna be really annoying to clear with those key of barriers
But a nari setups I mean everything that's being brought in to hold down this part of the map that usually isn't really contested by the defenders
that's often given up relatively freely,
but the fact that he's playing in this position,
even with the breach open,
is gonna be such a problem for Cloud9.
They'll send another player into the hallway
to hopefully clear him out,
but if he just gets that bit of information, right,
with the Selma trying to clear out
one of those Denarii trips,
Milly can reposition just to a toxic angle
with the Keebas.
I would slam my desk in half if I got killed
with this angle, I'm being truly honest with you.
Wow.
ADS will eat that one,
and I mean, he comes alive in the position.
He's still got the Denarii traps there,
just to buy some time and give him information.
If need be, really good hold by Millie in a very smart play by Outlast to waste time
and to kill these Cloud9 players.
Yes, they know and realizing they just have to go somewhere else there,
not clearing Millie in that spot.
So they've rotated over towards Aqua Stairs,
and they get the opening pick too.
Senter is second offense,
if Rai comes out to Trep Mc,
and use his strikes back to equal at three.
And it's the smoke.
Veronica manages to make his way out.
A man on the run, he escapes the gaze of C9,
Uzi looking for some kick throw with two,
and Cloud9 are a single kill away from match point, Millie.
He started off this whole round with his position,
hold up, anchoring down this site.
Now blind firing through the smoke,
but there's a glass on the other side of it,
he's gotta pick his target so well.
Managing to get out of the way, he hears sound cues,
but that vision, it doesn't cut both ways.
glassies through it all and cloud nine moved to match point. Want to get a lot of credit
to likely the IGL making that call Eddie rotating away from connector their initial push really
wanted to clear a milly they lost two bodies to the zombie setup inside connector but it
doesn't go their way and they recognize that it's the right call to pull off try
to make something happen elsewhere on the map that is exactly what they do and everybody
in that server not named milly falls without problem they do a really good job entering
onto the top Aqua stairs and that kill from Senter on the Treadmack. The fact that he swings
in and insta-locks onto the head of the smoke was absolutely crazy. So Senter gets a little
bit of impact there, Kixrow ends up walking in around CC2 and gets two big frags to bring
himself up to 11 and two on the stat line. Everyone is frying on Cloud9. Things look
really nice for them. Even Focal at 1 and 5. I haven't seen any particularly bad
moments from him. He's being put in kind of tough spots and ultimately does not
needs to be putting up the numbers to win this game against Outlast.
Oh, I mean, it's been a real learning curve for Outlast as they try to get to this position.
Trev-Mac is a modern day achieved, some would say.
You know, for people who were around long enough,
you will remember when Achieve would play in Challenger League for many, many seasons
and never tasted success in Tier 1 until he did.
And then making his way onto that TSM roster and well, the rest is history.
Treadback has been grinding that T2 circuit for a long time.
Karn has also been down there for quite some time.
Treadback finally rewarded, making it to T1 and Outlast have their work cut out for them.
You know, they are a team that very clearly still has lots of growing to do.
Their strategies need work, their confidence needs work.
It sure seems like their comms need work.
And that's to be expected with a team like this.
So get your reps in.
I don't expect Outlast had any real assumptions that they would make it to Salt Lake City, Jesse,
so this is about getting reps in and prepping for stage one once the Salt Lake City Major is done.
If Trevmak is achieved, does that make Millie Bolo?
You have said dumber things on the show.
Oh boy, Fonkel on the mod, so you're getting good information. These two players are trapped
between two shields Parker on the other side is center and they will down logger with that
great pistol coming out one more still remains the top of the aqua stairs and he will slowly
back up. Tret Matt just goes down not even blind. Center styling on him with a nice two
bees to start round eight. Well this might be all she wrote from out last as they
They stare down the barrel of five angry players from Cloud9, dominating all over the field.
Lily fighting for his life down in the middle of the bomb site, two targets close by, not
able to do too much, still shredding through them, but not finding the targets.
Halfway through Eddie Punish's million outlasts, it's just been reduced to two players.
Veronica's firing through the smoke.
Are Cloud9 about to do this falsely?
No!
Nesta blows them up with a nitro cell.
nine still in the driver's seat, but Nesta could easily save this round and he plays it right.
And he'll take out Focal looking for a fourth. Fighting as best as he can. Last alive through
so many rounds. Ineffective through a lot of them, but this time he is making up for lost time.
They've got him pinned inside of his position in storage. Double digits will be needed to
to prolong Outlast in here.
Nesta will get the quad kill.
It's him and Eddie in a 1v1 showdown.
Alpoetic, it was round number one
where Eddie broke the backs of Outlast.
Nesta was the last one alive.
Now it's Eddie to keep Cloud9 in this round.
Flashes will go out.
Eddie with the fuse kit, 30 seconds left on the clock.
Nesta's still holding this position down, firing away
doing an awful lot of damage.
Eddie just biting his time here.
Spam pinged.
Live updates as they track him, everybody pinging away,
he will find salvation.
On ping, Eddie sticking it for the time being,
dig out, no!
My God, it's so close to one of the most impressive plays
we've seen in quite some time.
Nesta gets four, it's what he'll have to settle for
as Cloud9 wins the round and with it, the match.
Almost the greatest play of the season so far Parker,
But Eddie is inevitable. Brilliant game coming out from him in Cloud9.
They put Outlast to bed and set themselves up beautifully to get one of those playoff spots.
An incredible match for both of these teams.
Outlast obviously has worked together with Cloud9 showing why they have the experience to Outlast, Outlast.
Our final matchup is done, but the desk is going to want to break that one down.
You might want to hear from our winners, too, so let's hand it over to them.
last round I mean that could have been one of the greatest questions that we've ever seen
questionable decision to pull out the Diggle from Nesta when Eddie was already so low that
seemed like he'd done round no I don't think he did it could have went the distance unfortunately
for Nesta unfortunately for Outlast they lose that doesn't mean that they're out of the
running yet to make it to the bracket play just means it makes it that much harder and
And that being said, from a player's perspective, Lex, when you're a rookie veteran, when you're
a rookie player, you're coming into the league, you don't really have high expectations.
You want to put your best foot forward.
And I think for Outlast, the fact that they are still getting trades, they're still doing
the basic fundamentals, I think that says a lot for a team with zero veteran leadership.
Yeah.
Honestly, sometimes you just have to let loose.
I mean, even in that round for Nesta, he could have just gave up.
He could have let the round play out the way that it did and just lose it all.
And he kept fighting through and through, and that's just the mentality that you have
to keep in these situations.
As we know, being in a, being in last place, being losing matches, whatever that might be,
you have to stay confident.
You have to prove to yourself and the rest of the team and to the rest of the world that
you deserve to be here.
And as you said, I mean, sure, we can hold on to some of the things that they
are doing well, but at the end of the day, this is an accelerated kickoff.
do need to be at a rapid pace and it is it is rough to see because I don't I don't like to you know
harp on bad things that we see or players not being able to find their stride but it's the nature
of the game right you did work hard to get here the work has to be even harder once you're here
to maintain and show what you got that is the nature of the game in cloud nine for once
unless saying it the experience that they showed definitely came to the win to their help and
And that's what we wanted to see from Cloud9.
It seemed like their defenses were just so well put
on the way that they were able to coordinate,
get those first picks, the information game.
That was a Cloud9 that I don't think we've yet to see.
It's something that maybe you need
to take a little bit of a baby step.
You need an opportunity like this to beat up
on a team like Outlast to understand the areas
and how simple they are.
The information game, getting those drones in,
finding those opening kills and having that confidence.
Now that they've got there for them
the door of experiencing it,
Sky's the limit for Cloud9.
They get three points.
They tie wild cards and they're going to have a chance to play them,
which makes everything that much better for Cloud9
if they can use this to snowball their momentum.
Yeah, it absolutely does.
And I believe we have an interview.
I didn't believe the interview was with.
Okay, it's with Center.
Center, welcome to the big leagues.
Congratulations on your win.
I want to talk about what the days have been leading up into this match.
Obviously, you guys kicked off your debut.
You yourself had a really good game,
but then as it transitioned the rounds just wouldn't go in your favor the games wouldn't go in your favor
But today familiarity was in the air you guys know these guys you guys have played against them in T2 and rank
Whatever that looked like. What was just everything leading up in today? And then what was this end goal of today?
the way we started like
Our NAL stage was obviously not the how we wanted it. We started off 0 and 2
I mean, I think we did have a great for a showcase like for against the DZ game on layer
I'd agree.
Unfortunately, we couldn't close out some rounds and at least get us a point there.
After that week, we came into the next week's scrimmage.
We practiced on what we needed to improve on, and I think today showed it.
Yeah, sure did.
I mean, I got two questions for you, one, this being your first run in T1, we've commended
your play and being able to lead the team, whether it's on the Blackbeard in that
matchup on Lair like you just mentioned in your first showday in Star Zero, how have you
felt yourself evolving since being into this kickoff stage? I know it's very short, but
in the two weeks, what have you feel that you have learned from the two weeks?
It's definitely like a big step up from like how I've played in the past. Like I am now
like the one that's making like shot calls at the end for attack mainly because I'm
like that shield the spearhead I don't think it's a hard role for me to play I
actually enjoyed playing it like I think I've been doing a good job at it making
sure that we are on the same page for like the later round executes and making
sure we're all synced up for like three two ones yeah and I guess this last
question was a little bit of a funny one you know sometimes we've seen you in
the background of search games has he had the opportunity to sit behind you
and watch some of your matches yet no I don't know why but he's in the
the other room is being weird is not watching any of my games for some reason.
Well, so I do have one more question before we send you away.
Is there anything that you even, you know, look up to your brother as and asking
questions about, you know, his debut?
How did he take things?
And, you know, when he wasn't on very successful teams, what was his
routes just to focus on getting to improve?
Is there anything that you looked to him for answers to?
Um, yeah, whenever I was like stuck on a, uh, like something I needed
to help, like, uh, to improve on, I think he was always the one
that I'd always ask for help.
He's always been able to give me tips
since he's been in the league for like four or five years now.
So it's been a while for him.
So he's been able to be a big help for me.
Yeah, well congratulations on your guys' win.
You guys will play tomorrow.
So we'll let you enjoy the rest of your night
so that you guys can prepare.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And with that game wrapping up,
we take a look at the results for the day.
very fast day last day very quick day dark zero opened it up and then we had five fears getting
their win against shop fire rebellion and made with a nail biter game to eliminate 100 thieves
and cloud nine wrapping it up three seven ones in the day I did not expect it to go this way
but lacks we'll take a look at the standings next to see where everybody's shaped up and
It puts things into perspective.
Group A, still a little bit of seeding that needs to be happened,
but 100 Thieves is eliminated for making it to Bracket Play.
They will not be at the Salt Lake City Major,
and it's unfortunate for them,
but the rest of the teams are still playing for seeding.
As we take a look at Group B lacks,
what do you have to take away from this?
I mean, Dark Zero, 4-0, 12 points, sitting pretty,
only needing one win once we get to that Bracket Play
to put themselves in Salt Lake City.
And then it's really a toss up here
between Wild Card and Cloud9.
Who's going to be the one to secure either upper brackets lower brackets SSG could technically fall out as well
I believe maybe they can off-round their front
So I think they might just be stuck there if it is going to differential
So it's really on a wild card in cloud nine to decide where they're going to end up and who their opponent is going to be on the other
End so still implications for these teams, but that's either not that's either that's neither here or there
We got to see what tomorrow shapes out to be
Yeah, we'll take a quick look at the bracket as we still have some teams that need to be
slotted in, but this is what so far it's looked like.
We got Dark Zero at the top.
That's about it.
Everybody else is still playing for seeding.
Standing in Group B are still up in the air.
We don't know who has been eliminated from that group, but we move on to take a look
at the games that we'll have for tomorrow, which again, every single one of these have
implications.
We start out with five fears versus one of 30 wild card against cloud nine and made you
versus shop by rebellion and we finalize the day with SSG versus outlasts and either outlasts
cloud nine or wild card.
One of those teams will be going home will be not making it to Salt Lake city major but
it all depends on tomorrow.
Yeah, I do believe outlasts is officially out.
As I said, I believe it's just up to wild card and cloud nine just to switch their
positions as for space station.
I'm pretty sure they're locked in second for that.
But I mean, again, it's been good so far.
I've really been impressed with what we've seen throughout.
There's obviously one more playday left.
I am curious to see where some of these positions could change,
as we said, and maybe could technically topple over five
years just based off round differential.
So there's still very important games to watch.
But by no means does it mean if you lock yourself
in the upper bracket, you get first
that that's going to be easier.
Sometimes, as you said, when we started this day,
sometimes that lower bracket is what really creates
excellence. When pressure makes diamonds and teams go through that lower bracket run to then
inevitably qualifying. So it doesn't guarantee you a spot SLC. It does make it easier, but sometimes
you do need that little extra push and your back being against the wall starting in that lower
bracket. I'm sure do. Everything comes down to the wire to be able to see where the teams
seed themselves in the bracket. Tomorrow is the final day and maybe we'll have Jonah back
by then, but as for now, from me, the studio Lax,
thank you guys for listening to just me and Lax Ramble
on the desk and be able to give you guys points.
We appreciate it, and we will see you guys tomorrow.