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Attention fans, it's time for the top five traitor moves.
Yeah, my friends, this transfer window was absolutely wild.
So let's get straight to the point, otherwise we won't have time to cover it all.
First off, we gotta give a shout out to FaceClan.
Not only did they not change their roster, but they've kept the exact same lineup for
three straight years, an absolute record in our region.
Big props to Faith!
Moving on, let's talk about the two new teams in the top tier.
Well, technically, one of them is a returning INTZ,
back after more than three years away from the competitive scene.
They return with Angels, Arthur, Legacy, Raps and Stroker.
The biggest goal is to get to the top of the top of the top.
If we were in the top of the top, after getting to the top of the top of the top,
now, I think it's crazy.
So, I think this is the biggest goal.
It's something instant.
I know, the team is very new, too.
It has to take some time to work, but it's our goal.
Meanwhile, on the other side of this rookie showdown,
we've got Imperius entering the scene with Floreo,
Makina, Mitrix,
Yex and the veteran, the sexiest cake of them all.
Guys, you can expect a lot from us, we are with a lot of blood in our eyes to play this kickoff, this start of the year, this split film that will come.
Signed Llanda, replacing S and his methods.
I believe that the change wasn't a team choice.
I think it was a much more individual choice.
And man, what happens is that it's something that we don't predict, that we don't expect.
And the game continues.
Man, I came to Flux for a better opportunity.
I'm not a team that is a little more competitive, but I also think it's a security.
And it was, I think, the two main reasons why I chose to leave Nape and go to Flux.
I think this part of the market is normal, there are always negotiations with several players
and it ended up being a good thing, so I'm very happy, very happy for the opportunity too and for the confidence of the guys.
Now in third place for most changes, we've got Laos, they made three moves in this window.
Stroker, Perez and Baceto are out, while Rizzettes, Stem and the only tier one rookie, Gavuts, are in.
I think the audio was really interesting, I'm a very versatile player, I can play with all the players, I don't have a function, I don't like to do stuff like that, so I think that was the only thing that allowed me.
and Landa moved on and Nask has officially retired.
To review, Liquid picked up almost the entire
Fudia roster and staff.
Everyone except hers.
Yeah, that caused a bit of chaos.
We felt that our team was pressing for a change.
It was part of me, but the whole team bought this idea, made sense.
We saw that we were going to a comfort zone, and we were pressing for more and more.
So, within the changes that we imagined possible,
what made more sense to us was really Erdina being out of the team.
I think that for him, individually, would also be something very good.
We took this decision before, but we communicated with him and made it to the night.
As for Furia, they brought in Diaz Lucas and reinforced their lineup with Florida,
Boxzera and Vopes, joining herds for the battles and headaches of the national scene.
Told you this roster shuffle was messy.
Told ya.
Anyway, there's just one team left to talk about, the undisputed Champion of Transfers.
A roster completely rebuilt from scratch.
Los, they've come into this kick-off with...
Daffodil, Darkies, Nuzga, Perez and Dash.
It's been a fantastic defense. I think we're going to be a team that,
even though no one has ever played together, we didn't come from a uniformed body.
If we prepare 5 pieces it'll be a great job.
That's it!
So what do you think of all these changes?
Which team came out stronger?
Drop your thoughts in the comments.
And don't forget to call out your favorite traders.
Thanks for watching.
See you next time.
Hello, everybody.
Welcome back to SA world in the colors in the red, at least for me here.
I have some sunlight. Uh, now that I say it, it's turned gray.
It will be great today for some of the teams because by my side,
the beautiful Leo, there he is. I found my underskirt colors.
I'm trying to match you. I'm trying to match your colors.
I thought you were trying to point at me and I'm like, no, no,
but I'm pointing at the colors. Honestly, I love your space.
I think it's very well decorated, very classy, very modern,
also with a hint of mid-century modern which I mean a lot of my own furniture is in the style but
today we're looking not just at mid-century modern we're looking at modern at the future today is the
last play day in our group stage the last opportunity to break out and be in the top four
even in the top one to move into the playoffs here in sal kickoff this will be the final stretch
the final few days until we qualify four teams from this region to the major in South Lake City,
which is only what less than a month away, crazy how time passes. And today the matches
are important, as is with always and every point matters. Imperial TL,
Elinwere is up first. But I want you to look at this, Leo, and tell me what's the most important
match that can really have reverberating impact on our bracket tomorrow? Oh, that's a difficult
one. That's a difficult one because SEL I think almost like every league but especially this one
makes the final play so interesting because there's all to play for. Literally if I look at the first
one, Imperial, they're still not grouped yet. They could get grouped if they lost to Team Liquid
Alienware. Team Liquid Alienware, they can make it to the first spot, they can secure first
of their group and all the way the bottom right is the same scenario. Loud could get grouped
and Feria could top their group and if I look at the other ones, they're fighting, fighting
for some of them to make it to the first place, for some of them trying to avoid lower bracket,
for some of them trying even to avoid to get grouped. So there is a lot to play for, all is
still in the air because everyone has been beating everyone. So they're so close to each other in
terms of points, then it makes this final day absolutely critical. And for that, let's actually
view the groups, the bracket just to show you exactly how things will go. We'll talk
about the bracket very quickly, but at the top right now, it's a fight for first place,
like you mentioned between FaZe and Team Liquid Alienware, that's in Group A, but also Survival
at 4th and 5th place. And for Group B, things are still up in the air, really all around it.
Loud can come back into it, Fluxo can come out of it, and TZ could get taken out of the group
as well. It's all over the place and like we know in this region, what in any other place,
Leo? You cannot underestimate any team in here because an upset is almost bound to happen
in every playday and for that I want to take a look at our bracket because things are very similar to
every region I know you guys were explaining it on the email broadcast I would like you to help me
explain who gets to qualify where depending on what position they're in place. So the main thing is
if you look at the players bracket is imagine that you're first okay imagine that you've
topped your group you're gonna reach all the way directly to the upper bracket semi-final
now the main thing that that means is that the match three that you see over there
means that you've got one single BO3 to win and you're directly going in the upper bracket final
which qualifies you to the major. You don't need to win that grand final, it's just for seating. So
if you reach the upper bracket final you are qualified as part of the two top seeds which
means that not only do you qualify to the sole XCD major but also you're directly sent to phase
two. You don't have to fight through phase one. Now let's imagine that for any reason you've
stopped your group that you've lost the upper bracket semi-final. You will reach them the
lower bracket summing final. And that gives you another opportunity, another BO3, at making it to
lower bracket final. And if you're in the lower bracket final, you're also qualified. So overall,
topping your group means that you get not only one, but two chances and making the total city
major, and you only have to win one BO3. That's why everyone wants to top their group. If you're
number two or number three in your group, you will start in the upper quarter finals,
all the way to the top left corner of your screen. That means that you get two chances,
basically to be a threes to go to the soul like city major and then the last thing is and that's very important if you're a force of your group you will still be in the playoffs but you will start at the bottom left corner of your screen in the lower quarter finals which means you don't have a life anymore if you lose you're out and you need to win two games in a row to make it to soul like city exactly shout shout out Shopify rebellion fans out there by the way just just mentioning that real quick exactly exactly and by the way set set four hundred thieves fan that start their season see
by being moved. And sad for also for secret that's in the lower bracket in the ML by the way,
went from SI Grand Finals finalist to lower bracket. Anyway, one final thing to notice guys,
and it is very important for every major region. If you make it your way all the way to the lower
bracket final, all the way down right off your screen, if you lose the lower bracket final,
you are qualified to the Salt Lake City Major. However, with one big caveat, you will not be
starting in phase two of the major, but in phase one, that means that you've got to
fight your way to the playoffs of the major instead of being directly qualified to them.
So being fourth of the region is good because you go to the major, but also it means a lot more work.
It's similar. It's kind of a different system, a different twist on what we used to see two years
ago where there were quote-unquote T2 region that qualified teams into phase one exclusively,
like Mena for example, but in this case it's changed it's a lot more clear cut in that way where yes
you qualify but it's more you earn that spot because yes you qualify but you weren't as good as the
others they get to make it and skip that extra step so very happy about that however that step
could be Imperial that they are up against the wall in this case and if i've learned anything
here in SAO Leo is that any team against the wall they might play gatekeepers and it's something
If you're a face plan fan, right now you're watching Imperial TL Alienware and you're thinking
I am Imperial's best biggest fan.
If there are no Imperial fans out there, it means that I am no longer alive.
It's that important.
And the main reason is the stake of this matchup, right?
Obviously because Imperial are in a spot facing T. Likuner Alienware, where they could in
theory stop Team Liquid for gaining more points.
Team Liquid is sitting on 7 points, face plan on 6.
That means that if for any reason Imperial manages to beat Team Liquid in regulation, let's
just say Team Liquid has stuck on 7 and that gives the opportunity for FaceTime in a makes
match to top their group.
And as we've seen before in the bracket, it means a lot.
Now the main thing is, Imperial, they have some reason to fight.
They have by far the hardest path in front of them.
Because they're sitting all the way down, bottom of their group, with a single point,
minus 11 in round differential.
And despite all of this, they could still make it without getting ripped.
And that is a beautiful part about this.
What they would need is actually to win 7-0 against Team Liquid anywhere.
And then they would need Black Dragons to then lose 7-1.
So it does require a very specific, very small chance that it happens, a very specific
scenario.
However, looking back at this, I think the most important thing is for you Miloches.
Liquid Aliaware came into this changing organization bringing on Maya, changing roles, making things
that in the short run should have hindered them. And despite all of this, they be faced
land and right now their fate is in their hands and should they win this in regulation,
phase cannot catch up and they stop their group. And that to me is the beautiful part about
that roster change.
And it's something that you would have you have not heard of for what over two
years of not three really I'd say two years minimum because the run that they
had Tim Liquid back then before they were to Tim Liquid Alienware to get to the
Manchester Major was completely different. It was basically scraping by and
had a really good run at the Major itself all the way to the main stage but
here it's something different. So seeing Tim Liquid at the helm is not
something we've been used to for a long long long time here in SAO. So
So let's take a look at our veto because it is all in TI Alienware's hands today.
Lumpiro, like I said, can play gatekeepers and you know, we left the Slay Queen, gatekeep
may be part of it.
This is Imperial's opportunity border.
Fortress will be Liquid's banel.
Take us to Bancleo.
Yeah, Bancleo meaning that we're going to go back to the team on which Liquid
almost, almost lost to Loss.
It was very narrow victory, 7-5 versus that team.
I remember looking at that game and thinking if it was not for the incredible plays of Maya and the multi kills that he got and a few clutches here and there, it could have at least went through over time.
So, Tim, they could have showed that map recently in SAL. They've struggled to beat, couldn't put a weaker opponent compared to the top international teams in most bet it was still a victory.
On the side of Imperial, what I find interesting is this was kind of a crutch map, Milosh.
It was a map that they played eight times throughout Challenger series.
Between open qualifiers, through all the way, through the group stage, through the free stage, through the playoffs.
They played it eight times, they won it most of the time, but that was against Territory teams.
That was not against a team like Team Liquid Alienware.
Very different calibre here, and loads of voids to exploit.
Well, as much as I love hearing from you, Leo, I think it's even more important
that we got to hear from Imperial and Liquid ahead of this game, so let's see what they have to say about it.
So, I believe that if we know how to use our experience, we will be able to get a few kills, sometimes even a round that they are at the advantage.
No, there is no way to say no, guys. Let's be careful, let's be careful with the warrior, the warrior is coming.
So much so that 1.2 has a lot of quality.
been seeing much in the way of results but maybe today will be the day of course I used to play
on the liquid squad whereas Maya on the other side he's looking good and speaking of looking good
demo and fluke my beauties today wonderful as always how are we doing Mr demo cast
I'm just uh I think obviously last day of grips is always a bit of a fun one um
Obviously whenever you kind of look at how all the other regions have kind of played out
Still last days are very important in a very kind of condensed format that what we've had
We haven't really not had it come down to the final day for all the other regions and certainly the way leaders kind of broke it down
Today's gonna be no different
Sorry, it was actually to say things as well to arms. Yes to arms. I am here
I'm excited for a good day of seed rainbow six seed where all the games are as cool and as each other
Thank you for that I mean
On a different note demo, I know you're someone who always has a very
Specific opinion. It takes you a while of course to form it
But when you have an opinion, it's all settled in seeing this team liquid now on the verge of
of being in first place in their group, retaining that position, going into the playoffs. What
have you thought about them seeing their progress in this kickoff?
I mean, I think for Team Liquid Alienware, it was always going to be that Furia team
minus one. You know, that's what we're dealing with. It's not as though this is a new team
where it's been formed from all different players than maybe what we've had with
the actual Furia team. This was already an established team before they came into
this organization.
All I'm telling you is I'm excited for the Maya effect. We've
heard it from TL's basically coaching staff at TL and where
they said they're loving it. They're rebuilding the whole
thing. I cannot wait to see it in game. Maybe today is upset
they'll leave it to you for the demo.
Thank you very much, Mr. Lof and Leo. Sorry, I was in a
very silly goofy mood.
That's there. I think that was just the manner of how we
appeared on the desk. And it's like when you're sitting in a
classroom and the teacher doesn't like sort of recognize you
at first, right? Like they don't sort of note that you're there
and you're sort of you spend a little bit longer and you get a
little bit silly. And then it's very hard to get out of
that energy demo.
I mean, when are you not in a silly mood is probably the
best way to put it. I will say that much. This is you be
yourself. That's what it's all about. Be yourself.
Yeah, I mean, you know live strong, you know have fun
Do you be be bold and be full of rain basics imperial e-sports versus tea?
Lauer tea liquid alien wear and
Two rounds is that sort of slip up right now because things have not gone good for imperial e-sports
They are one of our two teams in this group that are on a negative round
is deficit currently the other one is minus one they are minus eleven there's
also five points difference between those two teams so there's a little bit of a
long route and they've got to be flawless they've got to be flawless try and
find their way through today demo and then hope as well but the other result
is also a very powerful one so let's see where things go starting here on
I mean, just come back to your point about Imperial and kind of the odds that they're
out here today. We kind of set it on Tuesday night, didn't we? We knew it was going to
be difficult for them, based on their last two games. You know, we have a phase into
a team like they were. That's not going to be easy for any team in the world. And
we see what happened with phase. They didn't really put up a fight. I mean, phase, I
think on the day were just immense as always. But certainly it didn't help Imperial
the fact that it was a 7-1. What is going on here? A quick rush into lobby is being foiled.
As crazy as it appeared with two kills, almost had a third, but Mitric says,
nope, that'll do. Just the two for you. But, I mean, at this stage, surely is that,
is that game set match already? I mean, the first round is going to come to a halt.
There's a little bit of a quick start here. There's a little bit of a hot pace
that was applied. And why not, right? Throw yourself into the gambit and see if you can
You can sort of come out with the nice pull or draw, but not quite met itself.
Floreo on a bit of a lane on that mission, but meeting that solid means he's not going
to be able to get a kill on the back of it, and it means he gives away the attention that,
okay, we know one is here.
Ooh, ooh, it's a trade-out in our square though.
Mitchwick is able to find one before JV960 to make sure that important trade game stays
in towards their favour.
This is a very important engagement.
If you can get this clean, then you can actually maybe turn the tide, but that
is anything but clean, but it does get it.
The two versus two in the meantime,
they're able to actually down JV92 in the same second.
Yet, just fighting their way back before the box
kills the other man.
There was a split second there where Imperials
had been able to pull that round background, right?
They'd been able to get themselves into a situation,
but now a one versus two from something
that hasn't sort of pointed out, felt a little bit worse.
They're still able to activate Gadgettree
on the stairs as well, pretty vicious.
Okay, so there the drone the cover of the flash just gonna try and slip his way up. Remember he does not have the kit either
They've got themselves just sort of doubled up here as soon as
When we slips his way through on the road type he's gonna get put out by BP. They just they know everything demo
Yeah, I mean a solid site. He's been able to hang out with both of them are but he knows it's
Crossfire that he would just get annihilated. I'll be trying to push for one the other one will be there to kill him and
look at that fully box actually went for the drop and again because that information that he was able
to get from the ping he thought they're both an open area I'll just go into the site maybe try and
bait a plant here but no you look at Alienware switched on for that one I mean that is probably
the weirdest basement bank you'll see for quite some time I mean that's typically not what we
expect to see on that attack you know that's a weird with a glass and a Deimos and Deimos being
in the only form of hard breach as well,
rushing in the lobby and just got smoked.
That's a weird one.
Attackers need to locate and just use the phone.
So that's one of two.
It was they had to get at least, what is it, two rounds?
Or, no, as soon as they've lost two rounds, they're grouped.
That's one of two, a 50% of the way there.
And then from that point onwards,
the game is just, well, if teamwork
could get themselves like done in three points,
they can top the group.
can get themselves that very important buy because they alongside phase plan and
potentially lost as well but I can't do math who are my Leo locked in towards the
top three in fact no I think loss aren't but there is that sort of element here
of like we can get ourselves locked in there in the upper bracket and on the
the other bracket as well. So they separate their routes towards getting in towards the
live stage, getting towards everything from playoffs by just two series, which is a pretty
nice place to be in, darling.
Yeah, just looking at the standings, I'm assuming, based on what I'm seeing, all team
looking at earlier on need is just a point. And then that'll, you know, because no
matter what's going to happen, we will see split points between Black Dragons and
phase. You're both sat in six points so no matter what, if Team Liquid Alienware get a point out of
this game, one of the two won't be able to catch them if it's an overtime anything like that. So
yeah just the point that's all they need. So six rounds is what Team Liquid Alienware are aiming
for but I mean I also didn't even get to mention about the map. I mean taking Team Liquid Alienware
at a bank, I always find is dangerous. I mean this side are immense on a map like bank. You
you know, we kind of look at bike, you think the top teams in the world, you look at G2,
you look at Secret, you look at Falcons, you look at FaZe, and you probably look at Team Liquid
anyway, you know, those are the top teams that we know and play this map extremely well.
Also, obviously, they're able to, well, take a win against Loss on it a few days ago,
or about a week ago even there, have recent stint in it. It was close, but then it
becomes the conversation of, okay, how can I prepare? How can I sort of win the fight?
But at this point, I mean, what was attempted in the first rush, you do wonder if after that second round
we're almost going to get a little bit of an entirely different playstyle from Imperial eSports,
because they will know the cost, they will know that the round difference is a big
sort of number driver, and they'll probably know that at that point once two rounds have gone away
from them starting attack on Bank, which is an awkward thing to ask for, then they're probably
going to be in a way more relaxed with their play. It's that element. As soon as the pressure's
gone. What would you sort of play for? You play for yourself? You play to have fun with
the game? You play to maybe have a little bit less of the shackles in the late of the
couple? What's wrong with you?
To get caught out by the drone, got the hatch open for him, has an escape route, but can
sexy cake drive his way up immediately onto all of the barbed wire. Now there is
somebody that wants to swim in the double ball, but you know, she actually opens
it up. Mitrix, I think, just tries to go down white skylight. There's a double
down and there's the trade-out but actually in the Spider-Man position they're able to
secure themselves. Man, before it's just traded back out, Maya gets the head of sexy cake and
we have a 3 versus 3 buck, I mean, they're rising the sights. Yeah, they're strong on their way in
free spiral haven't they? They've done a great job at getting that ground and making a very
important kill. 2v2 bar they aware though, a flank, I mean surely you're going to have some
I think they did but he still wins at KZ. That rage is wonderful. Oh dear. Oh no, the clash loses that somehow. What if it was that? That was a 1v1.
I mean, KZ's got a place in that position. He can swim this if he wants, but he doesn't want to.
can just so sit out the rest of that round and that is it for one of these two teams.
Now from this point with this divide, this far, this many rounds dressed like this on
this day they're not going to quite be able to make their way out of groups.
We can now confirm Liquid, FaZe, Loss and Black Dragons will be escaping the group stage
in Purely Sports and fortunately the hill is just too high to climb.
Defenders protect your bombs.
That's it. For Imperial.
Now it's uh...
Not just over to Team Liquid Alienware to make sure that they can get all of the points from this game.
And certainly I think for Team Liquid Alienware on bank, on the defensive half,
you just know it's always going to be a strong suit for them.
Yeah, I think right now they're kind of in the flow zone, I think they're trading back really well.
Um, majority of the team is gunning right now, just a good, good, good start.
I think for a team of liquid Alienware in terms of what you want.
Um, I've also just noticed that Leo is, is he maybe self back with himself?
And what I just said, I hope my back.
He hopes I'm not right here.
I hope.
Put on a man that doesn't, that doesn't cookies for me, buddy.
The fact that he waited until I openly used his numbers in the
broadcast to then throw doubt in it's just kind of cool.
Oh, he's pivoted, he's pivoted, it's a hundred percent right.
Oh, we went from hope to a hundred percent halfway.
As soon as we called you out, Leo, it's a hundred percent right.
As soon as we get the sample from the crystal ball.
He's just a crazy source.
Alright, anyway, it is confirmed.
Ignore, both ignore and listen to Leo.
Team Liquid, they still want the three points. They want to make sure that FaZe cannot catch them at all.
Obviously, you know, there is two teams that are on six points below them, but one of those isn't playing, so loss cannot in any way.
And then suddenly they get a secret three points, which I think is against the rules.
I think it's called cheating when that happens. They will not move from six points today.
Their risk is that Black Dragons could jump over them.
if black dragons are able to pull off a big result against FaZe if they're able
to get themselves an overtime win would technically do it because it would give
them the benefit of round difference and put them both in six points or
obviously three points clean but FaZe well they're currently locked in second
they cannot fall to third they're guaranteed upper bracket either way
Maths. Love it. I don't. I hate Maths.
If I ever say that again, you know that I couldn't give Maths the wrong calling for help.
Well, Leap-Ox, maybe sounding the call for help too, is just being pressured to drop the hatch, and so is this teammate JV very closely behind him.
There has been enough pressure in towards that top floor, but then again you look at the time and you think,
Yeah, maybe just team look at alien fire. You know what? We've wasted two minutes. We can just drop now and
turtle up on the bomb site.
It's over to Imperial to
make something happen.
Look at this position from Sexcake. They've always got himself in through the basement. He's on the bottom main stairs and
just tying up potentially that walk into the site or maybe in towards Tellur's Orca. That's another option for him too.
We're soft destruction now being done with the ram, but
I mean, look at the time.
There are 45 seconds left.
There's Boiozabian pop. There's still two smokes.
What's that? It's looking great though for Imperial.
I think this is sort of it, right?
It's almost the exact split difference
of their opening round where everything happened in the open 30 seconds.
Now they're just going to try and send it.
They're above. Fine, but there goes the first two bodies.
Kaze is able to get a double.
They're still trying to fight their way down.
They're still breaching them towards the hatches itself,
and maybe it's the other side of this.
They might play just sort of recklessly and fun and loose when everything's sort of done
Maybe they're just low energy at this point there is a bit of training back and forth
But three rounds a flawless site rotation if a team liquid alien were on their defense
Our game is still well in hand
Yeah, it is you like for them, isn't it just a lot of time being wasted also think you have the ram
They didn't do any form of verts and those players inside tellers and archives and that's when the majority of the kills came from
routine liquid Alienware because they held obviously top floor they got to the minute market for okay
We can just leave now
They've really done nothing and then they retreat into that secondary position where they then play horizontally across that on site and they
Kind of dig themselves into ourselves and archives and they just didn't have the time imperial to go over there and deal with those rumors and
Well, now the time comes in
time out. I mean, it's just playing for pride now, Aerson.
Well, yeah, I mean, the thing is, okay, when a game, okay, I'm going to take a few steps back before I say seven sentences at once.
When a game entirely gets out of your hand, right, when a split does, what do you do? Do you shut down or do you try and utilize it to grow, to have lessons to see where you can go?
Oh, there's obviously still a lot of work to be done.
The new system means that when we have these kickoff events,
there's a league that isn't gonna be too far away.
And then, you know, it's quite a busy year for events,
as it kind of wasn't last year, right?
There were sort of bigger gaps.
And they need to make sure that what this turns into
is in some ways educational.
They do not want to be the only team
across the entirety of SAL from kickoff,
And obviously there's still a game to play that has not won a map.
Because even the bottom two teams in the other group, Loud and Flux with W7M,
they have both at least one map.
But Black Dragons, two OT wins in their own form, right?
Currently Imperial eSports, the only team in SAO that have not won.
If they do not take lessons when they can take them,
that trend will continue, and that is not a good trend.
I mean, on the other side of things,
team Liquid Alienware. This is exactly what you want. You want to try and top the group,
obviously, trying to beat out FaZe. And I was just looking back at some of the results whenever
we had the old Team Liquid Alienware up against FaZe. Remember, it was the Nesk roster. That
team was only able to beat FaZe one time out of 11 fixtures. And I remember whenever kind
of 2020-2021, Team Liquid Alienware versus FaZe, that was always like the big game. I mean,
I mean, certainly me and all, I've seen that way.
It was kind of red V blue, you kind of back team liquid Alienware.
I was very much in the face side.
And then as time kind of went on,
that facing just miles in front.
And I'm really happy now to see that we've got obviously,
you know, the fury of core on this organization now,
because that red versus blue brother V brother matchup,
I think it's just, it's just phenomenal now.
And we already seen, you know,
but that matchup happened and you know,
it was team liquid Alienware beating phase.
And that's the first time that order,
beating phase in quite some time so just that that's I love that kind of rivalry
that I know just gonna keep getting better and better you know ready with
backfire goodness have you we are all waiting for it we're all waiting for the
series
D'laor was it still kind of fun to say I get themselves as we said great 30
rotate and now playing with the warden on the side but to be honest that
wasn't really the biggest problems, but it does cause problems for the approach, right?
Think about what Imperial wants to do, and it's probably just to slow things down, compartmentalize,
and especially on a site like this, jump the utility, but that is not something that they
can get into pocket. Instead, they'll have to fully rely on, oh, the proper tower vaults
if they want to go for something traditional, and default on the other side. At the same
time, Makina hunts down, and this is causing problems. Kaib, going to be on the board,
The hatches will be slow and impossible to get through in a lot of regards, so we can do as we approach it.
We've got a couple of open options fine, but you still have to try and get your way in towards the site and the pressure itself.
There's still some of these angles. It's all taking up precious time in the solicit.
Yeah, it's just not looking great, I think, for Imperial's point of view right now.
minute left and we just got themselves into position where they can work the hatches.
But there's still going to be a lot of bodies and DMRs and don't even, I mean blue stairs is still
yet to be touched and you've got a shotgun from FLEEPOX ready to go with that. And even if you
kind of think okay maybe we're running out of time we can maybe look at going for the
hatch drop. I mean this class could also be a nightmare for those hatch drops. It just slows
everything down. Now they're going to start trying to work on that blue stairs player,
But as a looker so that the fire arrows have really hit its mark and he may be gonna go for a hash shot into a
Main cells, I think they might and this is where the clash is gonna be nice
You know look at this they z with a shotgun picks up a double the drop comes in the pistol
It's actually JV beaten to it. Oh sexy kick and the flick of it also goes down for the pistol KZ on the terror right now
I mean he's just having a great map, right? It's one of those sort of players where
You know, Prosec kill records has been one of the big dogs and then one just point onwards. I mean
Perfect ends towards it
Kind of finding his feet, I think it's fair to say, you know
Was it was an 8-1 or a 9-1? Is that a 4k? He's already had those 9 kills. He's on one versus one clutch out there
technically as well, but
He's getting there. I like to say that for a massively storied player coming into a big roster from another big roster
Yeah, he's getting there. I
Guess it's always the thing actually I it's a change of org. Is it a big roster to a big roster or a big also a big org?
I guess that's the thing
English is hard sometimes you're fluent English or you are an English speaking country I believe
I mean can you ever be fluent in the language? Yeah I would say you can. You know your native
language is typically the one that's twisted my yeah yeah
I'm so in a silly goofy mood I don't know I can tell I can tell if Milish is
fault I'll lock him no blame him okay I'm sorry oh can I blames that sort of
shot that sort of range with that sort of gun beautiful take them it's a
Maybe they will be able to get themselves this opening round.
Yeah well we go back to Tautlar and it was a pretty close one, it was one of the one don't forget.
They're just going to strong on their way in through Lobby.
I wonder if they're going to try for something similar or maybe a little bit different.
And you switch from a bit of value there, popping off Agios.
these that the windows are all clear apart from a banshee that sadly the
twitch cannot deal with. He stood back in the day, the twitch during the banshees, but
at the moment, the same with evil eyes too, that was also another fun one.
I really, I think for Imperial's sake, I need to be able to close this one
together. I sort of had themselves obviously with a few different
approaches, right? We had huge hot plays early on. We've had sort of back and forth, but this is the
first time they've been able to get that opening kill across all around so far. They get themselves the
chance to maybe have a bit more balance approach. And most of the time as well, outside of that opening
rush, the opening kills come in the final 50 seconds at the very sort of tail end of everything.
So this is a chance for them to try and form you up. It's a bit of an awkward site. You've got
try and make your way up it came down to a one versus one last time here before as
well you've locked out the sort of often problem player of shaggy 92 as we now fall
into this final minute the same picture
here is the same thing but slightly smaller here is the same thing but
slightly louder. To drive up towards the site, the attempt at the post from multiple different
directions.
Quarter-last. Clawed out. May. Great take there, don't man.
Yeah, using the Banshee as well for that information and, oh, swing the sub, how KZ if he was one.
SexyCake though has been able to get himself into a banana, but look at this, why? Look
at KZ, rotates now into the danger position and if nobody knows he's here, he could
be on for a free, be my other with the DMR still, hauling down the fort. Now
a 2v3 that Imperial need to try and battle back from a sexy cake. If that F2 will find
KZ who remember was in that off angle position 10 seconds ago his teammate Austin's been
trying to assist him but as he tries to go in for the window Maya that seemed to a sexy
cake pulls up the revolver but no misses the shots and Maya with that DMR picks up
a 3k in the end there. Team looking alienware. Still find another way to win around. 5-0.
Oh, no. It's tough. It is tough. And I mean, I guess the way I sort of put it before where
Imperial Eastports, they're probably trying to take as many lessons out of this game as
possible. I didn't expect them to try and learn it from the School of Hard Knocks, right?
It's they're getting these situations. They're having a little bit of growth. But to be
fair, you've got to look at Team Liquid Amra. They're playing brilliantly. They're
They're always covering each other.
They've got really, really good awareness, the utility, the position of the cameras as
well and how even in that situation where that was a very wide approach, very multifaceted,
they've done a lot of time building and work on the utility on the approach there, and
then when it came time to do it, the sort of reactivity, the network that Team Liquid
Alienware had was able to just keep a bit of control, keep things smooth and you
now teams with a man deficit we've seen entire games be decided by the entry
statistic before and bank is intricate bank is tricky with all its little boxy
shapes and fat plate team at reiling where I'm obviously Maya for pulling in a
3k will they have a fearless half-demo or can there be one little oasis in the
desert that is what we're about to try and find out now I'm purely sports
They have their chance to ensure that they have a chance on the second half though
They are out of their chance of getting into worlds playoffs
They could still get a win something that has a suffer for the only team in the sal that do not have one
There may be some going if they do though
Look at the
Circumstances that they're presented with
Right now this is a team look at alien where he want to cement themselves. Oh
We're really stuck.
All right, that's got me going.
The opacity is a good one there.
Yeah, I think my good aileyware, they're just on top of things.
And I mean, that is probably a case of KZ feeling untouchable.
And he's went for a bit of a boisterous swing.
He's been punished because of it.
I sent their way in.
Matthew is able to get one as well.
JV92 is gone.
That is KZ and JV92 erased.
And at this point, 5-0 in a 5 versus 3, surely, surely.
I'm touching wood, I'm crossing and un-crossing fingers, whatever is lucky, I can't remember.
And then, seeing if they can try and just get this one cemented.
Now, the shield needs to be operated out with a friend, and the friend comes in with a little bit of cover.
Flash is coming over the top, they're just going to force them down, they have a 5 versus 3.
But, where do they try and go?
With the driver of the sight to see if they can try and sweep these last bodies.
Flora is going to hold onto white stairs and they're going to try and push potentially down spiral and towards our lives on towards
Anyone in that sort of elevator position, but nobody is currently there, so they can take this ground
They can do it step by step, but as time
It's time slowly
They're gonna find themselves in more of a sticky spot because time is usually a sixth man in the case of it being the fourth
Well, one kill here could be that change, maya, where we pull this one off.
Swing around coming in and that rota a bird wire kill has happened with their home aid
Some of the friends that needed to kill the Blitz and this is King Toxy turn me home, no way
That would take in another one
I could have thought it was on Shirley for a kill but somehow
Leap of Sivane had her tross fire
The Fuser looks as though it's going to be planted and that's going to be a 1v2 retake
It seems like the Alienware need to try and deal with
This has to sit. Hold the angles. Surely he's going to know what both of them are.
He'll pop up. He's trying to isolate these kills, but the leapbox is there!
Oh my word, Team Liquid Alienware can do no wrong today!
The start of the 5v3, I believe, is a 4v2 in the end. They win it!
As he said, they just cannot do wrong slowly and steadily, improving and growing
every single time. And it's just the sharpness of the team, right? It's a team that started on
an overtime loss, seven, eight versus Black Dragons, PD, then they're able to get a seven, five against
loss. And then they're able to sort of keep growing and keep moving and improving and
improving and improving. And here, they look like they're on the precipice of handing over the
first and this has to say in a bit, when we're talking about statistics, but statistics
don't lie, as we have our midtime break, this could be the first 7 0 of SL in the kickoff
groups, we've had a couple of 7 ones. But this could be the first sweep and not I don't think
how anybody wants to end it unless you're, you know, Tim, look at the alien footwear
found and you're probably like, heck yeah.
I would say it's certainly a case of the almost one-upping phase, because phase 7 won the Imperial
team like earlier thinking, hang on a minute, we can do better than that.
Look on for the 7-0.
Yeah.
What would your speech be right now?
If you were there in the Imperial e-sports cons.
Just get around guys.
Surely we can get A round.
And if you get one, okay, surely we can get two, and then three, and then four, and then
five, and then six, and seven, eight, and you win.
I'm writing that down.
Did you repeat the second bit again?
No, there's a book coming out, so you can buy it.
You can buy it there.
39.99.
Wow.
That's an expensive book.
They are.
They need to be a pro, you know?
That's true. You're making money back. It's an investment.
You read that book, you can list the hammer.
That's what the book is called.
There's got to be a lot of people wanting the money back.
I'll tell you that now.
Also, there's a PENGU quote on the back that says, this is a great book and it says PENGU.
But then it says demo because you quoted PENGU, right?
You're sure PENGU said that.
Yeah, PENGU put, this is the reason why I won my armors.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Slash pengu slash demo.
Anyway, were back in.
6-0 could be 7-0.
Imperial Esports might not be the only team that hasn't
got to win.
They might be, well it's the first game of the day,
but they might be the only team that gets 7-0ed
as well in SL.
And that is not the best welcome.
But hey, somebody's got to lose.
It just depends how much or if they can mount the comeback
will come back, which is also something we've seen many many times. Now, from this point
onwards, Team Liquid Alienware, they just need to try and push this one over the edge. They
guaranteed themselves at least a point, but they are hungry for more. They want to try
and get the full three, just so there is no way FaZe Clan can catch them in top
See they just need the three points and then that is their job done
That is then with a bye in the bracket before we have the two groups meld and meet
It's gonna be quite interesting demo because in group B. It's generally been a little bit more
Sort of I think top heavy obviously you've got nip and furia 8 and 7 apiece and then it's 4 3 2 at the bottom here
7 6 6 4 1 it's just all felt a little bit more anybody could lose in this group
Where did we go? Top floor, eh? I mean, I think whenever you kind of look at the top floor
though, with the bands that have came in, you're going top floor knowing that you don't
have a castle or a mirror, and you've also left both of the hard-breaching ranged options
open. So there's Habana and an ace. A bit of a stranger in why you go here, isn't it?
That was just me. I just don't think the odds are in your favor with the lineups.
Well, you have to do something. You have to do floors. All right, you have to
try and win. Yes, does it really play a minute? I guess, you know, you've got some denial on
towards the windows and you can sort of double up with the play space. The bandits can
lock down the canto in the long corridor. I don't even think that bandits really that
much of an issue though. Just whenever operas at Capitao exist, I think you just made an inflame
and the guy can't do anything. So anyway, I don't think that something Team Liquid Alien
would necessarily struggle with. So I know, I just think it's a bit of a crazy play without
certain operators, without banning certain operators. It's just going to be really messy,
I feel, for them. And yeah, just using the rain star preachers, open these walls.
That's what Team Liquid Alien we are after now. It's not anyone using that corridor as a
location area and again these big old long DMRs holding down those angles. I mean this is the
much better setup isn't it? Looking at the way Team Liquid Alienware kind of moving through the map
compared to Imperial who were pretty slow weren't they? I mean let's be honest, I mean a lot of their
attacks or probably you can kind of limit that amount to just how long they were taking on their setups.
I think one of the good things there as well you're seeing sort of every corner covered,
every sort of aspect is sort of watched and crossed, teased up the eyes, they're making
sure that they're still operating as this team and as the drive comes towards the bottom
of spiral stairs, this is exactly the position you talked about, how effective can a band
it be when they just get forced out by a host of utility and there's still ranged
hard breach on the board, not very is the sort of sad answer that, am I? And I'll put the
eyes on towards the...
Yeah, I mean, there's possibly a case where you could say stack up or one of my disks
to really make Team Liquid Alienware have to burn through that util, but I don't think
they went down that avenue. And I mean, with both of the walls in towards the office
and then obviously the elevator was really working. You say it's just gonna be a bit of a
flasher full bit space now and look at this from KZ finds two strong on his way in for
a janitor a big old flashbang. We flashed both of those players but it's just a slaughter.
A flawless for Team Alienware at 7-0. There it is. Stuck, bit, ship it, do whatever you want.
Team Liquid Alienware, pop the group. Well what can you sort of say other than
great play. There's lessons to
be learned. 100% of your
eSports took a risk coming back
to this map that have already
sort of been in the recent
roster and itinerary for
opponents, but from that point
onwards, you know, just a
fantastic performance, a
tremendous drive and really,
really well put together. I
believe we'll be going back
with our desk in just a
second, but that was the
the top two group. They did
that. I mean, they seven out.
It was maybe they did too much.
Did you try too hard to get
that one? Who knows? Um but
certainly, I think for Imperial,
we always know, basing that the
last two fixtures they had, it
was always going to be a long
shot for them getting out of
these groups. Well, I shot
shot for us is a quick jump
Well, it's up for us. It's a quick jump over to what our desk
Thank you very much my friends and what a quick one to kick off our day team liquid Alienware
Definitely not giving space to Imperial eSports and showing us why they are the dominant team
It's crazy that I can say that with full comfort in a situation like that Leo
But team liquid Alienware at the top by miles at this point
Yeah, honestly, looking at the way they did it as well, you know, at some of these grounds actually came closer than we thought, you know, some to be to some 33s, but in the end the experience works in the end the multi kills are in the ways of Tim liquid, I didn't wear and and there's in the end it is a shooter game and if you have the best
best winner on top of having the best strategy. There's just a huge, such a huge gap between
the two teams that you know it was really displayed in full motion today. It goes to
show that that Imperial clearly had some issues throughout kickoff. I think that the jump between
tier two and tier one despite having had three players that came from ENX initially
just was too big. It was too big of a gap. And on the other hand I think we can
only praise Team Liquid and Yenowar for all the work that they put in, I think that it
was going to be a good one, but that run started by the way, with all the collateral,
the all kill, which is such a statement as how the rest of the game was going to play out,
but I think looking at Team Liquid, I'm like, I am 100% confident that we're looking at a team
that made the right choice in rebuilding that roster for the long run. I think that
their kickoff overall, despite the first game that was a bit shaky, and where they
dropped an overtime loss except for this I think they're really quickly improved
and I'm especially excited to see them win here the group in a group went
right away with phase by the way so you know me that's already a statement the
fact that they managed to beat face as well and the fact that now they're
headed only one BO3 away from so like CT and we're gonna see them play in a
BO3 which I think is the most interesting part here because I think
we've seen a lot from them but only in BO1s. And if I'm not mistaken Leo
Because of the fact that they're starting in the same group as phase and they're number one that they wouldn't meet phase until
Later on right unless phase go through an entire gauntlet to face up against
I'm just gonna take a look at that bracket again. So the way the bracket is done theoretically
I think I assume it would be reverted. However when I reached the semi-final
I don't think they should be able to play phase, but I'm not an entire sure
So I need to check basically where phase would end but phase is the end of the day for sure
Yeah, exactly, because FaZe is not yet, basically they're not yet confirmed in top two, right?
Because they are something by Gregants. If they lose to Black Gregants, in theory,
they could drop out to top three. So that changes where they would play in the bracket.
But back to our guys here, I mean, I mean, first and foremost,
Maya's consistency is still daffling me.
Incredible.
Yeah, incredible. Like, literally, he didn't have a single game that,
where he wasn't dropping at least two KD or double digits.
The only one where he doesn't drop double digits is a 7-0.
KKZ always there, you know, the only question mark I have, but I think it's just a question of time,
is JV, because as Igor so openly stated, was JV has switched role is more a little bit,
more as a flex player now plays a little bit more of these utility-based operators.
And I think that is still a little bit adjusting to that, because it used to be so aggressive,
he was the best performer by far of the team at SI and in previous events. So I think he's still
adjusting to that, but that's maybe the only thing that I can watch that is not absolutely
perfect with Team Liquid Alienware right now. And you can also chalk it up to the fact that, well,
the rest of his team, especially KZ and Mai, I just kind of keep stealing everything. And JV
were used to him being at the top of the scoreboard, but it's just a different role.
and we've been told by Igor and I assume we'll be told again today that the changes are just how they are.
Yes, they might not have rebuilt the entire team
physically in that it's four players from old Furia plus Maya, but the way that they're playing
and their positions on the team are very, very different. And we're hearing Maya and the calls
as well, helping out with Feli. There's just a lot of different things that are happening in
in this team dynamically that we are not used to.
It's gonna take us a while to adjust
because this is not just Furio with a new name on it.
Definitely not the way that they're playing
and the way their positions are.
And I really wanna hammer that point in for people
that have not had the time to watch kickoff so far
and see how Team Liquid Alienware has been playing.
We'll get to see them shine even more,
I am sure of it, once we get to the playoffs
because so far their application has been sick.
As you see, KZ MVP, 195 EPS.
The man is goaded.
I don't think you need some sort of fairy tale
to tell you how good this player is.
It's just how it is.
I want to hear, however, from their coach.
Igor is joining us on the interview.
Let's bring it in and get into his head.
Hello, everyone.
Hello, Igor.
Get to see you again.
I was so happy to have you on here.
Congratulations.
You lock in number one,
Despite all the changes now, some teams, some players take time.
You guys have done it just like that, like Clockwork.
What do you chalk up the speed of Team Liquid Alienware's success
in the kickoff group stage too, from what you've seen so far?
No, we had a slow start in the beginning
because we lose to Black Dragons.
But we knew we played really bad.
and you focus on the process.
So we had more two games and we won everyone.
So now we are in the first place in our group
and we have one win to get the place to play in the major.
South East New York Major, I think so.
Yeah, what was that process earlier?
Just to say, what was that process that you focused on
to recover from that loss early in the stage?
So basically focused on the process because we knew we really played, we are in the screen, we are not playing really bad, as we played against Black Dragons, so we only focused, okay guys, we have more three games, so focused because we are playing very well and we did, so isn't anything magical or something like that, only focused on the process because we are new.
Yeah, you're not like, so you've got 1-0-3 to win to make it to the Salt Lake City Major,
and even if you lose it, you still can win another one and still make it to Salt Lake
City, so either way you really proved that you went wrong.
I'm wondering when you saw the group and you saw that FaZe was in your group, was
it already an objective to top your group despite FaZe being in it?
Did you think that you guys could win the group already?
I think looking on paper, everyone expected the two-time SI winner to top the group, right?
Yeah, but at the same time, the group stage is about to be a one. So, even to the most fair match,
and it's okay, we won face, but they are the best in the world. We won them, but it's only a
be a one. So, we need to get a helmet, other things to be the best of the world. So,
I think we could do it.
Are you excited for the team?
Because I was telling me last year just before you came in,
I was super excited to see you guys in the BO3.
Because I want to see the dynamic of the team in that stage.
Because that's really when we're going to see like
all of the new team come together.
Are you excited about the playoff and the fact that you're going to be playing in the BO3s
against other strong teams of SAO?
Yes, of course, because until now we only played three maps.
Because until now we only played three maps, we played two times then, we played Castra
and we played Clubhouse.
So now we have more maps to play and BR3 is the best, you know, it's better than BR5
because it's too long, it just costs a smaller set than BR1, so yes, I'm interested
in it.
much looking forward to it. That'll be in the upper bracket where you guys stand as number one out of
Group A. Igor, always good to have you on here with us. Any final words you'd like to say to the
Team Liquid Alienware fans out there that have been supporting you and are very, very excited
to see the success of your team? Well, thank everyone who was supporting us. It's a pleasure
to be here playing for the Team Liquid, Team Liquid Alienware. And that's it. And by the Team Liquid
bundle, please help us out. It absolutely supports them. That's World Championship material here.
Igor, thank you very much. We'll see you in the class. Have a good day. See you. Thank you.
Always good to have a chat with Igor and never forget the night where we could all
sit down and have a chat around the beautiful French dinner. Thank you Leo
for having me being a part of that because picking their brains, especially
Igor's was incredibly impressive and entertaining. These people are some of the
best to ever do it coaching-wise, especially the Leo. You and I are
definitely not done for today. We still have three more games and one that
has an impact on group A, though not as much anymore, is coming up. Next face
clan are having their own match for today. What happens against Black Dragons? We'll have to tell after the break.
Welcome back, my friends, to Alphabet with Alphama. I think that's something that we should
do where Alphama teaches us a new word every time we come back to the show. Do you have
something for us, Leo?
Well, I'm feeling pee-fling today. I'm feeling futile. I'm feeling
No, you're not
On the show and you just to perform you can't be futile
Just just for the context here. I've been reading a lot of English books
And so my goal is to try and prove my vocabulary so I can be a better analyst on the desk
And you tell you guys more stories with more words, but the thing is I am surly to
Put those words that I learned in two sentences that makes sense
So I'm saying that I'm telling people that I have no idea what that means.
So for any Englishman here, just don't mind me.
I'm trying to be less of a Frenchman and more of an Englishman
and probably my family would hate that.
Yeah, no, maybe your ancestors became English at some point.
You are from Normandy. After all, however, my friends,
let's move on to our next conversation topic,
which has to do with FaZe and with their opponents,
Black Dragons now Leo phase are in second place. Yes, but how strong is their positions? It also for dragon
But dragons there for camera position change
Absolutely. So if we look at group a right now Tim liquid Alienware, they are locked in as we say during the interview
They have confirmed topping their group despite phase being in it
That is an achievement in its own and that's great for them now for face clan on six points right now
Below them is loss on six point as well. The main thing is
is loss have stopped playing.
They cannot play today.
That means that phase then whatever happens,
Black Dragons can even catch up to them,
but whatever happens,
they will remain in the upper bracket.
Because in terms of round differential,
there are plus seven losses at minus one.
That means that loss cannot catch up with phase.
Therefore, phase is either top two of their group,
either if they lose top three of their group,
whatever happens, they will be in the upper bracket.
For Black Dragons, however,
there is a lot of sake
because currently with their four points,
They're sitting in a spot that no one really likes,
which means fourth, lower bracket, no life in playoffs.
So what they wanna do, Black Dragons,
is win against FaZe, whether it is in regulation
or with it, whether it is in overtime.
That way they will overpass loss.
Loss will be sent in the lower bracket.
So that means that loss fans are straight behind FaZe
and Black Dragons fans, well, they're behind Black Dragons
because they're the only ones that have their fate
in their hands to avoid the lower bracket.
True loyalty will be tested today.
I'm looking at you everybody in the chat cheering for black dragons
The chairgum's also watching just to see who's talking out of line. Anyways, let's talk about
Faceclan in this case the squad that is two time back-to-back world champions the best team to ever do it
And yet they are in second place their loss against team liquid Alienware
Really set them back there for a moment, but that's a fight in its all right
it's the upper ranks of group A. Here they're trying to secure onto that second and third position.
I think it's easy to say that they can do it, but what's the reality on the ground there?
I think that they will do it. The reality is that they beat plus 7-3, that they beat Imperial 7-1.
It was not even close and they're only getting in that spot because they had one slip up,
which was against Team Liquid 7-4 in that clubhouse game, which was due to many
many multitudes who may be coach moments but in general face plan and haven't ego
admitted it that was an upset in a B01 so I'm not too worried about these guys
I'm especially impressed with Vyta King who is the IGO can play the shields and
despite all of this he's still the best rated player on the roster on the
other side we're seeing like dragons here with Miracle I don't know what
he's sending but clearly he's not sending stats because he's struggling
right now in terms of statistics but for the rest of the team I like it I
I like Rare, I think Rare was one of the staples support player of that team.
I love the new two pickups by the way. I think that looking at this roster, the fraggers are
especially stepping up. We've just seen it here by the way. We've seen Otlo, we've seen Swag,
the two guys that were doing so well especially Swag at SI. The big question I have right now
is for Lenda because Lenda was brought on the team to be the RGL, he's put on a more
forward role, he's a flex but he's still struggling a bit in the fragging development
So today they're going to get heavily tested,
they're playing against the two times world champions,
and they need a victory to make it out of the lower bracket.
And we'll repeat again what's been said, any victory.
Be it all three points in regulations,
or a victory with two points in overtime,
that'll be just enough because they hold
around differential positive compared to loss,
loss at minus one, whereas McDragons are a plus one,
loss to not play today, this is their bye day.
This all happens to be the last day in the groups.
So a huge opportunity for Black Dragons to get that extra life as you described once we have that graphic up on the screen.
However, let's bring up our vetoes real quick and see what map we're going to be stuck into for this matchup.
Because Igor was saying it from Team Liquid Alienware, you don't really get the chance to play many different maps, varieties,
not the spice of life here in Best of Ones and Groups.
We're going to go to Clubhouse.
Phase is decision and they're starting on the attack layouts.
Interesting. I'm hoping that the plan on the side of Black Dragons is to try and repeat the miracle of what Team Liquid Alienware was able to achieve when they played face-climbing B01.
The only time that FaZe slipped up, which was in the kickoff, was to lose 7-4 on Clubhouse against Team Liquid Alienware.
So I'm thinking that Black Dragons have seen that and they want to use that opportunity. But there is a backstory here.
It used to be the home of FaZe.
In fact, if there is one map on which the coordination
and the team play really thrives, it is Clubhouse.
And those are two of the biggest attributes of FaZe Clan.
And then the last thing, and that's the backstory here, Milosh.
The last time that Black Dragons has played Clubhouse
was at the Six Mutations of 2026
and was against FaZe Clan.
On that exact same map, they got destroyed seven and one.
That was a Black Dragons that was a bit different from the time,
but that was only two months ago.
a scaze it enough to not lose 7-1 again.
I don't know, but that is a huge gamble on the side of Black Dragons,
and they need one to be FaZe.
They absolutely will.
The two-time world champions are going to give it their all in this game,
just to deny the changes.
They're playing Gatekeeper in their own way against Black Dragons,
and like you said, lost fans are definitely cheering for FaZe.
And again, like this, up to the BD Loyalists to show themselves.
However, let us bring in our casters and take a look at or really hear from them what they believe will be the situation
We'll get to see in this matchup fluke and demo demo on a turn is a question to you
You've seen the first game. You've seen how team liquid Alienware dismantled their opponents and held on to that first position
Do you expect to see a repetition of that just now with phase on club?
I do with the map. I think Leo has got a pretty much spot on
on. Phase on top house has always been a kind of staple with this roster over how many years
now it's all don't matter who's came in the door phase always played this map. And certainly
whenever you look at black dragons you look at the record in the history in the map.
Last time they played 7 1 destroyed invite and as much as you know much as what we talk
about yet and you know a few changes black dragons it's still the same core you
know it's still going to have that same mindset that same mentality. It just depends
of Black Dragons have actually improved and have actually took the time to learn about
Clubhouse.
My question to you though, Emmy, is the concept of revenge in this case, right?
You lose online 7-1 and you want to bring it back when the opportunity comes to you.
Is this the time and place for BD?
Where else but now I think is the best way of putting it because we're going to get
into best of threes and best of threes Clubhouse is always around.
always a part of it. If there's a chance for you to shake off the demons, do it before you hit that,
because regardless of how this goes, yes you can get yourself onto a buy, yes you can get yourself
onto this, but you're gonna still have to get through these themes eventually, right? You're
still gonna have to probably play a team like FaZe, or a team like Team Liquid Alienware on
Clubhouse, so why not do it where the stakes aren't as big if it makes sense? Like it's
technically a buy and it's this opportunity, but you have to get rid of the Band-Aid off.
It might be the time for it. Well, we've heard or you have heard our opinions on this.
Let's see what our players from both Black Dragons and FaZe have to say before this match.
It was a tough match against them, but it was a good game against them.
BD is a team that went for Invy, not only for the playoffs,
but it's a team that was building its history there,
and a fight came out of there.
So now I hope that BD is a little more competent
and they can fight harder.
I think it's because of the look on the hand,
it's a guy who sells too much to the guys,
it's a guy who has a lot of impact, I think that's it.
Well, I think it's because of the look on BD,
I think it's a JL that ends up getting a lot of eliminations there and helps the team for sure in the cause.
So it's the main player from there and I think it's time for us to go.
I'll give a message to Rendi, he talks too much, he doesn't play all that, it's strange, you know?
It's very quiet to be against him.
Well, I don't have any message to give to Rendi.
Take a look at Handy, keep an eye on him. I think that's something that kind of comes
with the territory.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, they were kind of honest in that one, you know, they say it's
going to be a good game and I'm like, we're facing the two times world champions. They
haven't changed a single player. Let's be real, this one is going to be a hard one.
And I think they're honest with themselves. I don't think they're in a really good
spot right now in the sense that they're in the lower bracket. The only way they can
make it to the upper bracket is to defeat the two-time world champions. I think they
know it. I think they know it's going to be a good game. And I love the handy words at
the end that said, I don't have any message for them. Like he's been there, but they're
beneath him. He doesn't, he doesn't really care.
It's, it's fair enough for him to say it. I want to ask you something. Since this
was a topic conversation over the past couple of weeks, since solid snake had entered
a competitive play in here, we've been seeing him on different maps. But do you think
He would play as strong of a role as we'd see, for example, on Knighthaven or Lair, as
you would do here on Clubhouse, Leo.
100%.
And the best reference is actually from FaZe themselves.
The last time they played Clubhouse against Team Liquid, they abused Solisnike because
from the balcony where you see Master, Gym Window, and even Server, Solisnike can see
almost all of the top floor on Clubhouse.
Makes it so strong if you're room clearing, or even if you're attacking both CC or
Gym, you have information on all of the anchors.
So I actually think that if we get to see phase plane attack here, you will see them play
through the snake.
And bad tension because Handy was especially impressive with him.
Question is always how to deal with that if you're expecting this.
Like when you knew in the day that Mira is going to be brought, you started planning
your entire space as an attacker, try to deal with a demo for solid snake.
How do you deal with them as a defender in this case?
Because the man can just spot you without really putting himself in the line of danger.
thing I'm not going to say is don't say alibi's the counter because ain't nobody playing alibi right
even though I know it is a camera ain't gonna work right people are too smart for that uh
certainly I think with solid snake I do think there's elements where their situation for is
really strong then maybe we're you know he's okay uh you can look uh open uh maps with kind of
like crossfire I mean we literally seen it on bank earlier you know solid snake is great he can
ping out two players but if they're set up on a crossfire he can't do anything anyway
especially if you look at 1v2. So he is very limited. You really need to use solo snake in more of a
team place now. Use that as a quick ping, quick bit of information.
All of that though is a theory, a game theory. Fluke, Demo, take it away.
Thank you very much, Milos. I am upset I didn't get to talk about snake that for a second. I
had a good point. It was used seven of the 11 rounds in the previous showdown. It got
multiple kills. FaZe used it four rounds in their attacks against Team Liquid and had pretty
mixed results generally, but when it was in the hands of Team Liquid against them, Team
Liquid Alienware, it was just in control. Maya was absolutely sort of running the
gambit with it and I think the way it could sort of feed into it is it picks
apart big avenues of opportunity. So for example you had these snake approaches
that were being done and every single one of those rounds, FaZeKam were able to
get the opening body and then pretty much in every single one of those rounds
Team McGregor more brought it back because they could build on what was
missing they could build on the sort of missing aspects and avenues of these
players but anyway anyway here we are a brand new clubhouse in that it's
the same clubhouse, puts a new day upon it, and they should sort of put the stakes together.
FaZe Clan cannot really move, but Black Dragons desperately want to, they want to jump their
way up partially.
So, Black Dragons on the defense first, which has been the better half-folder in
terms of how it comes to clubhands, it's usually the attacks that is where we see
this side start to struggle so you do hope that they can improve on things to go back
here after last time. You know, the football house, it was up against Bay, 7-1, you just
hope they can learn from that. Look at this, already. That's the play here from Trello,
the football guy, take down Cyber, the solid state who caused such a debate on the dead
I mean that that's how effective solid snake
could be. Just run out the door and kill him.
Now they're gonna try and see if they can match a bit of pressure here. They've lost
that body super early to the monty's life. Right in the chaos. Let's move in.
The breach is happening on towards IT. Remember where the site is. We gotta get
out of this place. But they have a lot of support here on towards the top
floor and the benefit right now for Black Dragons is this man advantage.
Because now it's what two players down on the site itself they could
Try and play into this, but if they can get themselves angled away to big site. It's a wide site. There's a lot of clear and
Without that body to try and help clear what do the attackers have here to root out information just the Monty
The king has to sort of face check every angle so I can't do the reading that I talked about and complimented
They've got to take things at face value and at face value
It's kind of easy the black dragon suitors fall back and back and back towards the brick stairs back down and back into
It's the sight. No. Rare, unfortunately. It sort of gives them an engagement. And oh, there is.
That play. None of the cover and Black Dragons overstayed their welcome demo.
Yeah, they did. That's around for that great opening pick.
Oh, lonely. Oh, they're being bled out.
I mean, for Black Dragons, you kind of think on the basement, if you get that first pick,
back to sight and play that 45 notes without having an extra man on a clubhouse. Excuse me,
it's very difficult for the attackers. You want to have a 5v5 at all times or certainly just make
sure everyone's alive in this basement attack, but this should now just be easy. I think for
FaZe Clan, with a minute left, they still have a Monty Full HD. In Black Dragons, they've got
some bits of useful work. They're primarily going to be those Goyal Canisters, but
But do we stave off this phase clan side
for a short period of time before they get you?
Only for phase.
Again, they know, they know exactly what they're doing.
Just go for the motions.
Look at where the monkey is.
Into our church.
Should be an easy excu- I- I expect.
I mean, that's it.
The fact that they're able to get that opening body
and then it's entirely turned is almost in that weird way.
I guess I can still sort of make a comment on it.
This is what Team Liquid anyway
were doing against FaZe every single time. The open body would go away from them and they
would just collapse in place down and not sort of change the critical aspect of their
play. There's one, but there's only one, is FaZe turned a situation from possible to
die. Or the other way around, even back dragons for the ones who turned it from possible
to die, they just sort of tried to hold on a bit too long.
Well, certainly an interesting way to kick things off.
You think the Black Dragons, yep, get that first pick, go aggressive, get in the face
of face, kind of set your own tempo, and no, nothing came off of it, and at the end
of the phase it was very easy.
Actually, I mean, the money just walked into the site and nobody was there.
That kind of sums up, you know, that kind of round for Black Dragons.
bark no bite, and Shreya-Lek, they're going to switch things up and they go into a mushroom
defense rather than the more typical gym and bedroom, which is what we're used to seeing.
I mean, I guess, whenever you kind of look at the bands, both of these top floors can
be pretty difficult to hold because you don't have a cage and you don't have a bandit
to use. So, I mean, take your type of wide walls, they're going to be opened up and
as we know, we're both the top four bomb sites, get the walls open as a very key
thing for the attackers I think for phase they've made things very easy for themselves they've got
four hard bridge gadgets on their select the five and they still have that monthy which I mean if
that monthy's gonna be a recurring thing now in this round and also the next I'm sure that Black
Dragons will probably assess that and go to the month. I wonder what's gonna happen I wonder what's
getting a fad they'll see if they can try and drive their way up I mean Monty is always
going to be massively influential in taking care of these stairs, right, regardless of
whether it's being a sort of frequently played upright.
Let's see if that can be something that they can sort of operate behind. They're still
worried about Black Dragon's wider hold, and it's actually Mr. Outlaw, the big opener
Last round, it's almost the quiet one this time, so if he's a bit of damage, retreats their way back up red and handy
I was just going to get rid of any utility that might touch with them at the stairs, so potentially a player if he's lucky
Just getting rid of that, giving themselves an option for that backstab up the staircase
Just means that somebody from Black Dragons is kind of locked in that position, they have to hold the staircase and hold their slide
So you don't want to see it, I figured she would be looking at you.
Oh, he tries to go the Hail Mary play and that has not worked.
Cyber and the breach has that angle covered off.
And I guess you see that Mr.
Ella was thinking, we all have a go here, but things against that.
But look at phase.
I mean, half the round is gone and they have already got themselves
in for drafters and they have an opening into the breach.
Miracle is in the smoke, but he's not going to install out all this time himself.
Now, Ken may just try and get himself the second follow through, he's twice given his
life, but there's a lot of time here, damn it, so much.
And the Monty's actually gonna just try and drive on forward as they get the kills behind
the shoulder, off the side, they'll bait the smoke, there's so much to execute them.
The Monty's the man with the kit itself and, I mean, who needs to play it, right?
the team through gets the last kill himself a flawless round to face him. I mean you just
look at them you think yeah you know why they want two hammers you just use no don't you just not fair
I mean that acts how you place he does not they make it look so easy I mean the month
the up can't walk obviously a little bit of an easy time I think face had with with rafters
because the guy kind of thought, I'll just jump over the top rope and hope that nobody's
there and I know he's thinking about it, he died and once you give FaZe a team like that
Ragnar first control will have to round the game. It's just not going to happen. And
even like you've seen as well, like how clever was it to obviously expect that Black Dragons
are going to throw a lot of utility as soon as the call gets, oh, Monty's in to
go for a plant. Monty just blocks the door and lets the team funnel into the
bomb site and then just play kills. You know, they know they have that kill
advantage and you just swarm the guys and when you see black dragons just stop
against the wall and know where to go. At this point phase I mean if we're about
to have two teams absolutely stormed through it means the day itself might
not be so exciting but Baster Threes cannot come soon enough right?
Like, there's the element of it where everyone that you want to hit up is hitting up.
I'm just playing the quick look as well. It took up to the third round against Team McGrell and Orph.
A phase plan to win, not as on Gym Bedroom, and then win, got three, and they're attacked.
So obviously different teams that are up against in different sort of situations.
But it's always worth sort of remembering on the opening playday, Black Dragons beat Team
Mcwhaling where 8-7 on towards Café had a very sort of solid lock-in.
Faze themselves were obviously dispatched 7-4 on the loss here.
It's been all these sort of ups and downs and maybe teams are starting to hit fine,
but the weird thing is that this league and this group especially is that everybody
seemingly beat everybody.
Nobody was clear on towards the advantage.
We'll get this first advantage there, the opening kill as the scope of strifts their
way back down, wants to try and replicate potential success in the basement.
But will the basement be found?
Cyber?
Seems like he's gonna try and get himself in without early engagement and we know what
Cyber's like on those entries, can be devastating at times if he's in that flow state.
It's rid of the scopo shell upstairs and all four black dragons, all of them.
4-1.
You can shoot back with bombsite, but for that hatch being opened up, you can easily rotate
as well.
They get the fifth if needed.
Just look at the map control you gave the phase though, and you've also opened up the
kitchen hatch for them.
This is a good step from phase, as long as they don't get caught out by this lone
man inside a kitchen, everything should go to plan.
There's the drill, they'll be able to spot a man, and he caps, so FaZe a full cut through the drill man,
and they can start eyeing up for their execute, a minute last.
It hasn't been obviously a catch or a kill yet at this point, they sort of kept themselves far away,
with a correction they tried to do last time around, they sort of got that body advantage outside the building
and then fed a couple more fights, and FaZe are able to put them back in here.
Now, what a very wide hold. You've got a lot of pacts, there's a lot of space to get a timeout down, but you've got to be the push in the pinch, the back of the blitz, sometimes make a mistake, sort of seeming stress, so what for with 30 seconds left?
It puts things a bit down to the wire. These invasions to the narrow now.
Well, they happen to last fight. Solz is the first. He's fought his way partially in towards the side, which covers the side, but it actually goes down.
actually goes down, he's on the side, there's a drop on the back as well, but it's a 3 versus 2
technically, as Mr. Outlaw is down, and now it's just swag, left phase. I said it's intricate,
it's a tough approach, and I know they still got to stick the landing, they know where he is,
there's the sip on fire, there's the final catch, but they are just everywhere, damn
Mario, everywhere they need to be. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I'm gonna laugh for phase,
the current execute, that's easy for them as I mean, they know exactly what they're
doing at all times. This was always going to be the worry with going to clubhouse up against
phase. They know the map so incredibly well. And obviously one thing that phase has compared
to any other team in the world is the lack of roster changes. And I also, I'm also not
saying that's a bad thing. As in it's the same five. We have been playing each other
for how long? Those last time that they made a change. I think it was a 2023. Yes,
a while ago. So it's like these five just they know where each of us is going to be or just
just just toss it honestly it's just silly just silly.
Well the timeout has been called and then get time to talk and sort of go hang on lads don't
think this is working let's see if we can maybe try and find a way to fix the many problems that
have otherwise come together. The reminder is that they're desperately after the two points.
They just need an overtime win and then they can jump loss and they get themselves that buy.
Now I did say it's always a risk coming to this map, but also
and you know it's good to take risks, but also it's something where you do need to get this
comfortable but the same can be said about FaZe because FaZe took a bit of a knock on it
the other day. They've come back in with a vengeance of being like let's reassert our
clubhouse. Let's make sure that we have this locked down against a team that we're statistically
better than, against a team we're expecting. They're FaZe Clan. They sort of probably expect
to beat everybody that they go up against. Here we're getting that in motion. The difference
between how they approach this map versus how they did the other day,
this is FaZe. Unfortunately for Black Dragons this is what they can do. Monty
They're a band. I can't believe they found one to just did you see that coming? No, no, I would have banned, you know
Something else for the souls like yeah
Get him gone
Souls is picking onto a solid snake notice should have banned it
Imagine
Joke we should have banned it
They have a clash, so their own big shield for Black Dragons, a man to the forefangs.
Certainly whenever you can't think about the operator which is clash, obviously going to
give you a lot of control.
You know that's the main thing you look at whenever you see that operator is being
able to control the pace at which the attackers can move around with the map and move around
bombsite.
And certainly I think having that clash in could be a good best ability that Black Dragons are definitely in need of
because certainly for FaZe, making her FaZe being the quickest team, no, I think they're just kind of taking their time
but still know their parameters and terms of how quickly they need to move away from him.
Maybe if I get to that minute more, like for example in the last round,
they'll be having another problem that FaZe need to deal with,
could just be the picker that maybe Black Dragons have been looking for.
I don't know if the pullers are pulling them in by step, obviously, but if they find a way
on towards the gym bedroom side, they're still in a way keeping themselves rotating with tapins
back towards the basement, but I think they've probably learnt that that site isn't quite
going to work for them in the way that they want.
But how long are they trying to hold on?
So, it's very aggressive position, potentially taken here, and they're not really leading
anything up towards chance.
They've actually pulled back phase.
They've been so unendingly felled, right?
They've obviously got the solid snake
to read some of the intel,
but the drone's consistently working.
They're always moving one more player ahead
and one more bit of ground and there's miracle.
Suffers in the flight of the just catch.
We're in a logistic now.
It's hard to kill a miracle.
Let's send them solid snake.
Goes right for the classic self.
And they had the cover from the skylight
to get miracle.
He tried to save him.
Brilliant one too.
but there's almost two kills right back there just exploding their way in towards the site itself
but it does settle. There's a three versus two. The swag goes down but balances it back out Mr. Outlaw.
It's just traded bodies lender. All that is left. Now souls and handy. They can get the intel.
They still have a lot of utility in the pockets and a lot of time as well. So they're just
going to try and force him towards the player. There's the continual pressure of face climb.
And I made the sort of comment, you know, what if he gets an ace, but he was the driver around.
Just phase on relentlessly. I mean, that whole situation with the clash, though,
I mean, how did the clash end up in that position? Well, you know, in a position
where somebody can drop that hatch and stab you get the shield bash and kill you at the same time
so obviously position it for the clash not who you want to be but you know for phase just
you give them an inch and they and they don't just take a mile they take 10 miles at times
they have no concept of stop it they they're just in a if you were to look at the traffic
lights around phase it's green and then occasionally oh no it's just more green
they just keep going keep driving and again I love the take on to the class
because it's so bold it's we've separated this clash trust me I like it's the
kind of cool you would make and ranked that would go wrong it's the kind of
cool where you'd go hey Tim you watch the hatch I'm gonna drop it
Well I was going to use Jaffas, who's unreliable watching this one, what's in your cover up?
I'm not going to answer that question, I'm getting some trouble.
Gibson? Is that who?
No, I was going to mention some staff of players, but we'll get that at the end.
anyway yeah and it's this element of just fully trusted and then drove into the
class the class starts screaming I assume and then picks up the smoke on the
swing as well and it's just beautiful explosive siege and then at the same
time press on the site press on the site press from the site and just means
that no support can truly come in it was a good attempt for Black Dragons to
back back in but anyway that is last round and this is this and there's
has only been one round where we have not had the solid snake.
Yeah, speak the soul snake was able to ping a player inside a cache through cyber.
You'll feed that information through, but anyway, I mean,
the guy in cash going to make himself known as he's amy.
Lock it off a lot of windows in the open to reinforce wall.
We'll try and get himself out of there, but it doesn't matter.
Souls is an absolute heater here today.
A and O for himself swipe and the bike back, it gets handy now.
Who knows maybe a battle back and yes there is gonna be a battle back because Miracle finishes off souls
But still for phase they still have the man advantage
The three versus to the man advantage the collection of the kit
Now two versus two now they've got themselves sort of leveled out
Let me try and get them to pinch themselves back in a minute.
A minute is so much time and with a smoke but no grenades.
Viking suddenly left alone, that's a 1 vs 1.
A 1 vs 1 here, desperate fight but look where the kit is and look where the player is.
He's just going to take the engagement demo and win it out.
Oh, he's tried to pop the fire extinguisher to let him cross, but as soon as he popped it,
Baking just pre-fired!
My oh my, phase at 5.0 up!
I mean, we had the pleasure on EML this week, Fluke, where we've seen two back-to-back 7.0s.
Maybe SCLs is going to treat us with the same.
We're like the opposite of Des and Ace.
We get a overtime game across two games when you combine the two games together.
Yeah.
It's not bad.
Also, the frenzy phase kind of speed run a game like this.
I just think KDS had told the team he wants to go home.
That's what it feels like in a things like that.
He's got the stuff too.
He's got other things to do.
Exactly.
I think he has just a normal plan.
I want to clock out here.
Every time I just think of that guy with the thumb up at SI, it just gets me every time.
Honestly.
That meme is sea-charity, that picture of him.
I mean, you know, hanging in the loser.
We did, after the event we did.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Oh dear.
Well, it's 5-0, base, looking for the flawless half of the can.
Right now for Black Dragons, I mean you can see the attempt in the last round for Black Dragons,
they thought maybe we'll try and put up more of a fight.
the triangle for the trade game but I mean phase or phase and you know every single one of the players
on that side can gun they can gun extremely well I mean Souls as a Souls one has always been my
favorite player in face because you kind of think of them as this kind of flex support role on the
side but he just kills anything doesn't matter what gun he has he just kills everything and he
plays so many variety of operators I mean already if you kind of look at this game in terms of
what he's played. He's played Habana, he's played Nomad, Solid Snake, Sophia is now in the yank,
he does on everything. Oh, just moving our way aggressively around the side of Vakiba,
how close to the fire do they think they are? And once the pinch can't do this narrow fight onto
us, the door in Mr Outlaw takes a bit of a bite, but there's actually a double that follows
it round elsewhere and the player is able to drift out before they get entirely trapped.
And there's Rare slipping their way on towards Hanby. The pressure comes on. It's the 4 versus 3
and they did escape but still holding onto a wide sight with a big man deficit.
Where can they turn, build themselves in? Will they be the team today, the first team today
to prevent a flawless half.
I don't know, I think they're in the same parameters as the last time they were down here in the basement
where you gave FaZe a minute to gear up and go for their execute.
They've got their hatches open.
You know it's just only got to be a matter of time.
Whenever you give Picks like that away, it's just so easy with FaZe now.
You've got two man advantage there.
You just take their pick in terms of where they want to go.
And because there was that heavy hold above,
Leave areas soft that look at the triple wall into a church
Is not a fun place to set for any defenders
There's the Goyo canister if you stem off anyone dropping in towards mowing gives the yings from so 40 seconds left and KDS
What's the oil pit using that man advantage to really spread things out in their cyber an easy pick up face six, so
Wallace half
I mean T liquid Alienware got it earlier and phase of said we can keep it paste to
This could be a quick day of siege.
I mean, I think we looked at these first two games as being the ones where there's going
to be one direction or the other direction, right?
We sort of looked at the balance here, but apparently we expected this much pace.
still silver linings demo we should always look for those it it does mean theoretically
if this keeps going the way it is imperial won't be the only thing we got 7-0 to this
split in SL.
Oh yeah.
So the silver lining everyone wants to know about.
There's a silver lining that the imperial esports fans want to know about maybe.
Listen, you have to look for the positives in life if you are specifically looking for those kind of positives
It's okay for two off someone I'd say that or does that set you off rule?
I mean, that's a dangerous comment to make whatever a phase plan. You just don't show any signs of stopping anytime soon
You know was he for it for phase it's just another day in the office for them
Swag is getting some aerobics and it looks like
There is a
Do you limber up your fingers what so stretch would you do like flick your fingers out for like
So
They should
Hey
Well, well, I mean a swig turns this around because he's stretched and I believe it any gamers if you're listening
neck. If you might be stretch, work out before you game. And then you too can be as good as
face plan. Imagine face plan doing like sort of pregame stretches led by like KDS thumbs
up KDS is going to be doing stretches and I think he just he takes it out. It's
be choosing professional. I bet he's not like a high vis with a hard hat. I don't know why he does.
I could just see KDS, you know, turn it up, ready to play. And he's got told, sorry, we have a
Platys class, and he's not having any offer. He's like, I've read my contract. This was not in there.
It just said team building. He knows what he signed. He knows what he signed.
yeah okay six oh that is the half-time break done what did they talk about probably hope
there's an idea an ideal i think more than anything they are you know what's funny as well
what we talked about how the last time both these things played each other's in clubhouse and
face seven one black dragons and we said okay maybe black dragons have learned from that
somehow it's gotten worse. How much of a roster is this? It's three players, no?
What's it for? Muzi left. Ask left this year. Let me see. They lost
McIner and Hornet to have to send them the last year. So it could be quite a
a different roster. It looks to be two players. Okay. Well, those two players, maybe for
the reason they got a raft or demo or gamers in chat. This could be a game of two halves.
It's just one changer, please. Black dragons set themselves up and start themselves going
try and put pressure on towards FaZe. Now it is sort of always worth looking into the
facts and the previous game where FaZe played this the other day. When you're
preparing to take a team back to a map they played recently, usually you'll see
more of the results when you're attacking their defences because they're
in some ways easier to predict. They're harder to change in a short space of
time rather than some of the other approaches and FaZe were only able to
win one of their defences before Liquid got four of their attacks across
the second half of the game, most of the game was lost on Phaser's defensive half.
The kids can get one, and that's the kind of worry, because, well, Black Dragons cannot
lose a single round, but it does mean that there is this aspect, this blanket idea of
whether they've used their time out, they've had the halftime, but they do still have
a half that's statistically recently Phaser struggled more on, and with all that
said. It's still got to do it.
Black Dragons, steady approach, seems to be pretty traditional in terms of the way they're going about things.
They've got pressure over towards the windows, they've also got the CC breach open too.
So you can stop anyone from using that window to attack said players in the bedroom windows.
There below, we'll also use the C4 so I don't think he's going to do too much of this for you now.
The Black Dragons as long as they just avoid jumping that hatch it should be fine.
Can't really do much else from below.
It's a mirror window though, cause some issues need to try and get
something to deal with it but actually looking at the lineup they don't have anything left.
They've used all the Selmas.
So that mirror window will stay intact and that means that
kind of flood in towards Yakuza.
Not going to be an option now.
Right, just have to try and smoke off.
Well, they got left first. They're gonna see if they can try and flood that way in on the back of it
and they've actually driven all the way into this bathroom. Cut the site in half, but they seem to-
Oh, it's been a kid, I think! Collateral, the double there!
Oh, no!
And now they've lost the players inside the site. They've lost their Bs and their Breaks, but they do get one underneath.
Handy, gone.
That is a big potential bit of threat there with the chance.
Any damage done?
30 seconds look at the utility that they've got left no more smokes to throw themselves in the frag grenade and flashes
They've just got to try and push in on the back of gun skill
Whereas KDS is a pre prepped from ripped C4. He's just loose to not put anyone with
But they get to play that element they love
Holding on with guns. There's a swing. There's a quad
I said we might get an ace earlier on but we could end with another 7-0 and an ace
And that is for all the stories, all the marbles and all the points of it, phases to take a
wonderful ace and a wonderful clubhouse, unless you're Black Dragons in which case
you find yourself in the lower bracket and there's a lot to prove.
that's the way it is.
Next seven hours for us here.
S. A. I mean, phase. Very
well deserved. I mean that the
attack of obviously was
exceptional, as you expect
see from face. I mean, that's
now phase over the past few
play days only dropping one
round. So that thing heading
into playoffs. They're just
starting to hit that form.
That's terrifying for anyone
else left in the competition.
Yeah, I mean, I think
point dropped one round dropped over yet not even a point around dropped over two
play days as I said these teams are heating up and we're about to get into
best of threes we're about to get into the situation where it's just gonna keep
developing it's just gonna keep sort of sending itself further and further
how is it gonna build well that's for our desk actually we'll ask them
Thank you, Amy. At some point I was like, you know what? This is my job, I'll just give it over to them.
And Leo, I find it very difficult. I think this is one of the most difficult desk types that you might have in post-game analysis,
because you're seeing a team that is clearly dominant, and you're thinking like, okay, well, what do I really talk about other than glazing the team?
And frankly, that is one of the most difficult ways to do it, because face, we know how they are, we expect them to play well.
They played really well today fair enough just another day of the office. They deny the opportunity to advance her BD
You know at this point they're looking very comfortable
I feel like maybe the best course of action is to look into the future
What can stop them in this case because at this point?
It's it was realistically team effort anywhere and that was within the context of a bo1 like we even heard from Igor himself
I think you would gap the care gap between the few top level of NN and the rest of LCL
and the reality.
This error is unlike any other we've seen before, it's a 1.266000 error with a sim.
It's not unaffected by the usual number scan of the compression after winning an
that hits teams where you are loving about the victory, I could just tell you that they remain perfect.
They are just that stand up whenever others are not before coming in and I think the biggest example of that is again.
I just want to mention him again because he is a pretty player on the roster and he was before StarCraft today.
despite playing a shield, despite playing more so than the U2 Tiber.
In this game, he plays Muntime in two rounds,
Ace in three, Brava in Warden,
and Laid-Ace in 13, and he just mis-taple example of how perfect this team is.
And I want to point out that it wasn't a throw from like dragons either, like,
we had the 7-0 and we're like, yeah,
Landam, Miracle, Outlaw, like, in 25 kills.
Okay, cool.
I think that in general, in some of these rounds,
Gen, despite losing the man advantage early on,
they fight back,
Peter 3v3, they manage to have some kind
of resemblance of a trade.
In general, oh, I'm still,
you know, all that we expect
to try and beat it in like face.
It is incredibly difficult in this case.
And like you said,
every time you think,
Oh, we have a leg up against FaZe in this one specific round.
Well, somebody's going to pop off in this case.
Souls and VTile were definitely out there, but how many teams have faced off against
FaZe online or offline that whenever you think you have an advantage against them,
you lose it.
In this case, Black Dragons came in looking for revenge.
Despite the changes that we talked about it at SI where they played this
very same map against FaZe and they lost one to seven.
Well, guess FaZe can do better, right?
7-0 victory to the two-time world champions great for them they gather all three points even more of a round differential that they had
starting years when having started today. They're at plus 14
They just add an extra plus seven at the end of the playday black dragons at least remain in fourth place, right?
That was the big
story for this match is can black dragons overtake
lost by beating face clan, even regulation, or in overtime. But from a
realistic point of view, Black Dragons already qualified. It's just to see can we
get that extra life and keep in mind we've been seeing Black Dragons at events
recently quite often. So we might have written them off or wrote themselves
off really against FaZe in this game but this is just a match in the group
stage of kickoff. We're not in the times where things really matter. Where it'll be in the
actual playoffs bracket starting tomorrow. That's the story for another day. Vita 2-12
VPS, which is insane. 13-2 on KDR. The man can flex on any operator you want. You want
him to support. You want him to be in the front lines, whatever it is. Vita will
just do whatever. There's a reason why there's King in his name.
Yeah, such an impressive player to be honest. He's been a carry of the team and his main
player for a long time, the back line that never shifts to one that has the best ideas
and best goals. I still remember when Faze went through the overall roster changes three
years ago and everyone was doubting, well who is that guy? Who is that guy that you
destroyed the roster? And everyone was surprised that Faze became such a bold move, back
in the necropanum and I think that he's proven time and time again, not only with the two
handers, how valuable it is, but his longevity, his consistency as an IGL 10 as a support player
really is a staple. And he's making a statement at a time where ENC might be around the corner
for the selection for Brazil and I think for many eyes, many eyes would have stayed
30 for a couple years back, but if I had to choose one Brazilian player right now in terms
to lead the president's anxiety at UNC, I would make a right.
Because there is, if I'm not mistaken, a limit to how many players from the same organization can play for their national selection.
So you got to keep that in mind for the future.
But that is far into the future.
This is a conversation for another day.
We got, of course, GP ready for us on the call.
Let's bring him up.
Hello, hello, FagaleraJP, welcome to the show, Jogo Bonito, 7-0 for FaZe Clan.
Fagai, do you tire of constantly winning?
No, never. I think winning is not something that you get tired of it.
I mean, we can see that. That was certainly a way to win.
Honestly, J.P. has an analyst like, after what happened after this game,
do you have anything to try and improve on the side of FaZe?
I mean, in everything we plan, we like execute perfectly basically, so I don't have complaints today, honestly.
Yeah, I think that is zero in your spot. I don't think that you can already complain about anything.
I guess my main question is that I think in general, if I look at the previous rosters that won SI, right?
I look at NIP, I look at TSM, I look at rosters that just shortly after winning SI, they had this huge drop of performance.
And to a certain degree, last year, I think you guys dropped a bit right at reload.
You weren't as good as you were at SI before.
And it's still early.
We've seen just a couple of the ones from you guys, but yet I believe that you guys are way more consistent
and already showing the same level that you had at SI despite just winning it.
What do you think that that is?
What do you think there is this big difference between you and the other teams?
But after winning a side, you still seem so strong.
Last year, the reason that in my opinion we got a little bit slow at the beginning of the year
was because we had a bigger break between S-Site and Re-Load.
And most of the players of the team, me and Ahadel, we took a bigger break
and we took more time to be back on the track when he starts bringing me back and preparing.
So in my opinion, that's one of the biggest reasons. Last year we started slow.
but this year we have like two weeks break and we went back to spring right before our site so
I would say was the the break last year. Well I'd like to answer this JP because of course now you
guys are locked in at number two in the group Timlick with Alienware having overtaken you
in position one we talked to Igor just before I know you're very familiar
friends with Igor from the team and he told us yes, Team Liquid Alienware beat FaZe Clan,
but that's just it's the best of one in groups. It doesn't really say much in that way, you know,
who it was a very competitive match. What for you then will be that next challenge swapping
over to best of threes? Because at least on the surface it seems like the game is completely
different and it might end up benefiting a team with more experience, which in this case
you definitely have. A best of three is you have always a margin to mistake like
you have you allow the other team to pick a map that you're not that good but
the last two maps are better than them so you have this margin of error when
you play on best of three that make a bigger difference. Wicker teams they
used to have like worse maples and the best is having the better maples
So that's the reason BU3 is more comfortable for us than BU1s.
I want to have your opinion on this. Since now, Group A is pretty much locked in.
For Group B, INTZ, Fluxo, W7M, and Loud are fighting for the last two spots.
Who do you think the last two teams are going to be to come out of that group?
INTZ and Fluxo. I think Loud has to beat Turia. It's a hard challenge.
And I mean, I think he has an easy challenge to be in touch with the group, really, um, so so, but I mean, I think, so so and I think it will be a bit less.
Well, then thank you very much, JP. Can't wait to have you back on here during the playoffs until then, I'll let you go rest up and get ready with the rest of the squad.
We'll see you very soon.
See you guys.
There it is. That is hearing from JP. Always a pleasure to have him on there. I think he's
been a staple of SAO broadcasts especially and there's a lot to hear from him though.
This is the final tally of group alio. We're set closer to finishing up the groups. Team
Liquid Alienware at the top. Faceclen at second position then Lost and Black Dragons. I'll
I'll take it back to day one in the conversation with Fox.
This is what people were expecting,
maybe a loss on BD kind of inverse in position,
but regardless, were you surprised
that the results that we have from the game?
No, I think on paper it makes a lot of sense.
I wanna praise Loss for coming up with a team
with five players that came from five different rosters
and still made it work in a span of a few weeks
in order to win two games
and to be able to then lock in upper brackets,
it is a fit in itself because as a reminder,
Black Dragons in their group had just went to SA
and went through a minimal amount of roster change.
So to defeat them and beat them in the standings
is by itself, I think, a great achievement.
I think in parallel by far,
just because of the core of ENX and what they went through
and the two fraggers that they added
that really dropped the bull hog,
especially that I had some hopes for McKinna that was a bit too inconsistent.
I think these guys got punished hard and that's the truth and the reality.
So looking at Group A right now, the only big surprise is to see FaZe not topping the group.
That is only due to Team Liquid's Alienware incredible achievement in beating FaZe Clan.
I am excited because I think that the top two teams of Group A will 100% meet Sublexity
with the level that they showed compared to any other teams.
I think looking at them and an NIP and Furia on the other side,
I think we may have a top four of STL clearly defined.
And that excludes Fluxo W7NM, which in my opinion is a big, big surprise.
And so we still have two matches to go through here, Milosh.
And I think that Fluxo, they can redeem themselves and maybe push
themselves in upper bracket to make me lie and still the spot of NIP,
Furia, or maybe one of the top two teams of Group A.
Well, Leo, you never lie.
I know that all of your analysis based on what is present in the moment actually never
Never ever heard July about anything before except for when we know that there's something coming up
And we're kind of trying to make a joke of it
But if I will say that we both don't know what the script is for
SAL's group B and put my hands up in the air and see what we get all of that and more
We'll talk about after the break
back my friend it's time to talk about our next matchup that is all turning
towards group B we've already locked in that group A won't feed you all that
info later on once we end the day the fight now is fully focused on ANTZ and
Fluxo what needs to happen in this case who can overtake whom and who can be in
a better position or a worse one at the end of this match Lea let's bring
up the groups just to kind of give the visual as you explain yeah the
the idea about this matchup is that when we look at group B, you will see that everyone is so close.
If you look at the way at the bottom of the screen, INTZ has four points, Fluxo WCNM has three,
Lada has two. One single point, defining the difference between all three of these teams. Now
that means that if INTZ and Fluxo WCNM win in regulation, they confirm themselves in the
upper bracket. They're facing each other. That means that whoever loses a year puts them
themselves kind of a jeopardy aren't threatened threatened basically by loud because loud will
then play furia and if loud were to win in regulation they would surprise them and one
of these teams would get grouped. So the pressure is there Milosh because the match
have to happen after. So for Fluxo W7 and NICZ right now the main thing that they want
is a regulation win to confirm upper bracket and playoffs because if they don't do so
they could very much get grouped today. It's a lot of pressure on both of these
squads they're definitely familiar with it but in this case there's lifelines on
well really preparation for the entire kickoff stage. Let's go with our rosters
INTZ is up first they are in the lead with four points to the three of fluxo
W7M but where have they been have they have surpassed expectations if we're
looking at their past playday here INTZ. Well they beat Furia that was a very
close match in an incredibly important one to collect two points from. Yeah absolutely I think
I look at this roster, I look at raps, I look at STK, I look at legacy and I look at players that
were overlooked by many of the teams during this huge roster mania that happened in ACL
and despite all of this they got together running their way through challenges series
and make it very difficult for all the opponents that they played because out of the
three matches that they played out of the potential 45 rounds that they could have
have played Milosh. They played 44. They went through every time every single matchup
and that includes games against Furia, games against NIP. They made their life hard. So
for Fluxo W7M, a team that has struggled so far, that has lost against NIP, lost against
Furia, that has basically lost their status of a top 4 team in SAL by losing to these
two teams, that is a lot of pressure because right now they have less points than
ANTZ which is already itself a really weird one and on the other hand they're
playing against a tricky opponent that has made the life very hard against
everything that they've played. So right now a lot of pressure on the shoulders of
Fluxer W7M to perform and to somehow manage to beat the very tricky ANTZ.
We're really not long ago a couple months ago we're seeing Fluxer W7M as
probably the third best team coming out of Brazil and if anything on the
rise where we could possibly see them overtaking the old Fiora roster back at the invitational
that would be punching up to the phases of this world, but that is kind of no longer
the case, but we're looking at that through the lens of best of ones in the group stage
of kickoff that does not tell us the whole story.
But today with Bass Against the Wall, there is a lot for them to try to pull through.
Though our map veto for this game, let's bring it up and see where we'll be going
to, will there be something different or not?
Eh, well at least Laird Noghaven are out of this, no fully aggressive map and border,
and we're left with Club and Consulate, scientists have that slow the game down Leo.
Yeah, it is a very weird choice in my opinion, because it not only is it a map on which,
by the way, out of the whole map, all of the map will not have skyscrapers out,
is by far supposed to be the most defender side map in the meta.
You're leaving it to the favorit in this matchup,
you're leaving them the defense side by picking the map,
they could choose defense.
So you're gonna start on the weak side.
And then not only that,
but ANTZ actually played the map in Challenger Series
against tier two teams,
teams that should be very far away from the level of Fluxer W7M.
And they lost to two tier two teams on that map.
So it is a very weird take for me,
especially because Fluxer W7M,
They played it at SI, for example, against Prime SSD and they beat them.
They played it against Secret and lost to them, but it was very close.
They also destroyed Enterprise at SI on the same map.
So it's a map that Fluxo-Seoul and WCernan not only like, but actually love to play,
play it at the highest level against much better team and managed to win.
So it is a very tricky map, Vito for INTZ.
I anticipate some kind of Koto Stratton,
but it does not give them the advantage on paper, for sure.
for sure for sure for sure. Maybe not the best for sure. Maybe some improvements to make for
sure. Today is the moment for it though. Let's bring in our casters to discuss it real quick
here. That's Consulate IMTZ on the attacking side. Thoughts on that decision demo. What
do you got for us?
I mean, I think one of you can think about a map like console, especially if it kind of comes the best of ones, you have to be really careful because this is the map of the side choice is crucial.
You know, we've seen it already in our stages, especially whenever we were kind of cover it inside of the ML. If you are on the attacking end, you have to be ready.
You know, if you choose this map, you have to be ready to attack it.
to attack it. So I think that is straight away the first thing that comes to mind is that you know, for, you know, for going into this game, it's, they have to be ready to attack it. You know, that that is the key thing in my eyes. So let's just hope they can if not we can have a repeat we can have seven
could be that could be very very fast actually in this case just looking at the
chat to see who wants to go after but let's go into the video and actually
hear from both of these teams when we come out of it fluke I want you to
tell me what you think about their fighting words
This game is about playing, the guys' team was very good with Count's entry, and that's it, let's do everything we can to win them.
We have to get into a good preparation there, because we have a lot of information about them and what they have.
It's good for the guys, it's good for the day, it's good for the confidence, because everyone is blood in the server.
We started the game at the right time, I don't want to, but the guy will get to the most eager, the boss with the will, so for me it's not going to be a game.
I'm going to play against Condos, I've changed my function now, I'm going to leave the support, I'm not going to need to do more GL.
I don't know if they're going to lose, but that's it.
If you have off, you're going to take the map on the day.
There's an overwhelming amount of love going through those internet cables, but you and
me here in Leo, it is kind of clear and very, very incredible in this case that we got to
a point where Fluxo, despite all the hype around them over the past couple of years
really, are on the verge of maybe going down to a lower bracket matchup, which would
definitely add some difficulty to their situation.
Yeah, I think it's a tough one because I think their change made sense, right?
If you look at Fluxo W7M, ever since they brought Palu in,
it was supposed to bring them consistency, a strong fragger, someone that had experience.
And I think that Palu really fit in their playstyle. I think that Palu had the best statistics,
one of the best-rated players in the world, really, with W7M across the entirety of the SR events that they attended last season.
season. They didn't miss many. They had deep runs every single time, not as far as they used to, but
still one of the top teams in Brazil by far and during the last SAEL finals, they actually made it
to the grand finals. So I think there were a couple of really good signs from this roster.
One thing that was holding them back though was Volps as the IGL. They were struggling to have
him. You know, as an IGL that was consistent, they were struggling with a vision. And so what
what do they do? They let him go to Furia and they grab an IGL that has managed to have
NIT step up drastically and at his cons. And I think that on paper, you take all of the
W7M that love to have the Viper play aggressive strong runners and you bring cons that loves
to call aggressively and is a strong IGL young and hungry. On paper, it makes sense. It's
just a tough one because they play 2B1s against 2 strong opponents, Furia and NIT, and
didn't manage to beat them. And that's why in such a short format, there is the industry
key position.
And that's kind of the situation that INTZ can exploit in this case demo. This is an organization
that over the past many years of siege, they've been a big part of the region, they've gone
away for a bit, and now they're back into it. Between that and the situation the players
are in now, do you feel that that adds maybe some pressure on players that in comparison
to of course, that Foxy W7M don't have anywhere near as much experience.
Well, that's where it's always going to be, though, a kind of game
league like SAL, where we know some of the top teams in the world
come from this region. Yeah, I mean, obviously, you look at the invite,
for example, and you look at the kind of final four teams,
two of them where SAL.
So I think whenever it kind of comes to that, whenever you're kind
the underdogs of the smaller teams. You do have stuff to prove, but it's always going to be difficult.
We know who the big players are. We know the teams expect the international events,
but it's up to teams like us to try and break that mold.
Breaking the mold is a big question, though we're seeing legacy at the top on this team. It's
been someone that has been incredibly hyped up at the start of this stage. Are we feeling that
he's gotten to that point but it feels like he can't be alone in this fight Leo.
Yeah I mean already you know the the only player that was retained or that that could have been
retained by the lost roster and I think it was legacy I think he was a standard player from that
roster he was the one that was always consistent. I was really happy to see him back at Chiwan and
actually really surprised that with the incredible roster mania that happened he didn't get picked
picked up, for example, by Furia or by other teams that were rebuilding.
I think he deserves to be here, but like you said, I'm still waiting to see some players
step up.
One in particular has to be STK.
He's playing a flex role.
Most of the time, he's allowed to roam, he's playing roles where he's supposed
to frag a little bit, he's one of the most experienced players, and in stage one,
with Cloud last year, he was doing so well.
So he's supposed to be, you know, I think one of the players that are supposed to step up
Angel is like then I would I would forgive Arthur who plays the hardest roles and plays
shields but for the rest I think it's mainly Angel and SDK that have to step up.
Well, we do have a few tech issues with the lobby just so you know that's why we're
out here yapping and trying to form our own theories around everything but you'll
see Fluxor W7M on the other side.
Yeah, last year the big conversation was Paloo now on the team.
How has that been?
But it feels like, despite all the positive changes they've seen,
this setup here, the short stage in kickoff with a few play days
and best of ones has really kicked them in the behind of a demo.
And they're struggling a bit to really get that machine going
that we got used to over the years.
Yeah, I think whenever you look at this side
and the evolution of them, I think
Leo made a great point in terms of bringing in cons.
And certainly if you can highlight NIP,
and we kind of looked at how they performed last journey
said that they improved massively.
I mean, I think for cons being a helm on that team
is also a big reason why we've seen
such an improvement in that side.
So I think being able to pick up a player
who is also able to kind of weaken an opposing side,
I think is always a big bonus.
So certainly in terms of what they were able to do
the transfer window. I think they were very clever in that in terms of getting the IGL
and also weakening one of the other big teams in the region. So yeah, I think overall for
Flux.W7M having that new IGL I think it will come good. Just takes a bit of time for I think him
to get used to how this side wants to kind of play some siege. And oh she's back. Fluke is back
into it, let's ask her for her opinion. Emi, after having seen the evolution of flexor
W7M over the past year in a bit, and now over SI in person, what do you think we haven't
been seeing them at the tippity top here in kickoff?
Emi, it's kind of hard to gauge with them because they're struggling, and I know it's
sort of like a weird statement to make, right? But the fact that they're sort of under
the threshold for both attack and defense there. Neither of the sides is coming for them. Whereas
I think that's a little bit of a normally outside of the teams, I can peer all these
ports or loud who have really sort of struggled off the gate. They just haven't been able
to find themselves forming up. But then you also sort of get into the idea of, okay,
who's supposed to be the sort of player that dragging themselves in, they're trying
to get this building new system right, they're playing with a lot of shoot games.
They're in some ways flowing themselves down as they build a new system. I think
kind of hurting them in that
regard because pace is something
where you're looking at players
like, okay, maybe not Palu who
likes to be the last man in the
building, but we know what
players like Logan are capable
of. We know how they can sort
of even that flexible or get
themselves in quite aggressively
and I think with how quick
this league is, and with a
style that's taking a bit of
time because it's not in
effect truly their style and I
say Al, it's just teething
issues.
Might just be the case. Combining that with best of ones, it really does make it complicated.
We're waiting for one more INTZ player to join it on the lobby and then we'll be ready to go.
Thank you very much for sticking with us through these technical issues.
Not really anything that we can do, although we usually like to blame HAP or the casters in general,
that they're not pressing the start to game key.
In this case, I can guarantee you that is not why we are in a position like this.
I even forgot what map we were on. Wait, let me pull up the Vito. Consulate.
That's the hardest way when that was done.
Well, I can run you through. I think it's a mistake or a big gamble on the side of NTSZ.
We've seen these guys play during Shenji's series, right? They played against two tier two teams.
They lost it twice. It was close 7-8 twice on the side of
Fluxo W7M. It's a map they love that they played three times at SI
They played against some of the best teams in the world including SSG at their prime and they beat them on it
So I look at this and I'm like already this gives the advantage to Fluxo W7M and on top of that
Fluxo W7M did not choose the map
It's an integer that shows it which means they could start in defense when it's a BO one on
On the best side, on the map where they have the most experience, all of these things makes it to me that they're heavily at an advantage here.
He's cooking, he's cooking as always Leo.
Leo's cooking?
Ready to bring up the numbers in this case.
Now, Iantezade had the last decision.
They remove clubhouse, which means Fluxo can choose the starting side.
It makes sense that you go for defense.
Iantezade clearly on the back foot in this.
What can you do to crack that defense on the attacking side because, we talked about solid
snake, there are different ways of playing around it, even though it is difficult to get
through the defense on this map specifically then.
I think one of you kind of look at Consulate, two attacks is sometimes, that's enough,
you know, you don't have to win and think, okay, we're on the weak side, we'd have
to go in there and win that side.
Two attacks is usually enough.
I mean, sometimes even teams can get one attack and then you just have to go really well in your defense.
I think for consulate, if you can try and play fast, aggressive, can I go off a little bit of cheese?
That's where we see teams kind of scam around.
I worked really well for them.
And defenders will obviously have, you know, pretty good time in terms of the free flow of the map.
They can go for the big, heavy extensions downstairs.
They can have a good roam game because of the free sets of staircases you have.
Getting into the building is sometimes pretty difficult for attackers,
the main ways in is either dropping skylights or swinging in free repels which is never favorable
for a lot of the attackers so I think that's always something that's going to benefit the defenders
that's why we see such a high defensive win rate in this match so I think friends as long as they
can come in with a couple of cheap strategies get the two attacks then they can really start working
with it. Very good operator bands what are we expecting here Leo? We're really scraping
in the barrel just so you know well uh honestly i have no idea i cannot predict it i think that in
many other maps i could have told you that bandit and kate would be banned because it seems to be
the way to go many teams grow by default to the world in a row however i do think that
unconsciously it does not play a big role therefore targeted bands are usually the best
and i do not know if they have spear advantage or information other reviews that base their
target bands so i cannot really predict what they would ban here well i'm trying to look
at this from the context of Loud and Furia and really into what happens oh we're actually
getting into game can you hear the people saying it is done we're getting into it full
demo please sing in the song of angry men and women all yours that's that's kind of
actually it'd be like raise against machines or something anyway enough about that more about
Thank you very much to me, Lush and Al Thammar.
So we find ourselves hustling in towards the game.
Now, you and I, I and you, two sevens in a row.
Do you think we'll get three?
Well, we said that during the email, didn't we?
We get it. No.
We did two rounds, dad.
I honestly think based on the map and the side start,
it's possible it is but I have to say we don't know yet
so let's see what gets themselves sort of set up as we said map bands they're a potential
they're a sort of twist and all of this and it could be targeted I don't think this really is
Monty and Grimm, Azami and Fass, this is almost just sort of default in some ways.
Right, all four defense, standing to see this from the defenders, it goes straight in towards
that top, put him on the favorite side, many teams. You look at the lineup, trying to get
and smoke. So lock the mile. Straight away for Enx, we're going to do it on a timer.
That's not going to be the three minutes, it's going to be even less than that because
you have flames and the smokes. He calls as well, setting up, opening up all of the
vert below that window. Just in case we see that play coming in where teams will
want to try and cheese their way in for a single window. Look at lineup of Enx,
I don't think that's going to be the case because you're missing operators
like a nomad and also a factor but you're very good for that side take this is
something that still go yellow though based on response what time will tell
a shield right I wouldn't say there's there's a lot that the shield really has
to worry about you know so you're dealing via an alley that could be there
there's a traps I mean it's a denarii you should be able to spot a trap
pretty well compared to like a foreign gadget or an alimine
much to worry about here at the moment for Entz. However, Glaz does need to be careful
there is still a warden on board. As long as you can find out, don't forget that Glaz
is a powerful warden. I don't know how it's going to work out there because I've seen
that patch notes from the step plate and it looks as though Glaz, in the way that
his scope is going to take a little bit longer to see the yellow figure come up,
so you might be able to get the warden to see, have to test it.
Let's get this first drive in towards it. Obviously, yeah, there's set themselves up
a bit of a network that isn't truly being tested on the other side instead of the wind over.
We'll take round towards yellow, get ourselves driven in, go on in there,
utilizing the gadgetry pretty solidly, but the smoke's having to be very active.
And shutting this down, that is, honestly, a bit of a dangerous game there,
but enough time to slip away past that floor, as soon as the first smoke comes out,
we'll look at the position of the glass, ready on the break window as well,
but the pit is a bit Arthur. So, I'm just gonna try and drive this way across.
He wants to bait all of the Gadget Trailiers, got two so far here dammit.
Yeah, that's not bad.
Assessing the, you know, win cons here for Lux of W7M, it is gonna be the denial.
Oh no, there's Smurge down here, all the run is great, oh no!
Oh, quick peek, not gonna work out, there's another player protecting, said Smurge,
but still it's gonna get 2v2s, Lancacy's been able to push in through the breach,
He fucking won and oh no, the one and the rest of the guys follow, is there, legacy though, finds another
but so sadly the legacy loses to this teammate now it's the one V2 that he's up against
and they know exactly where he is, he will make the play to move into the bomb site but it just
doesn't have the information here Fluke. No at this point the one versus two there's still a
C4 to play on they've got 30 seconds but look at the kid is in look at the position
of the remaining players, right? They've tucked themselves ready for the pressure as soon as they
hear the footsteps they can just pop down at the shotgun and then double down with the C4.
Beautifully balanced.
Well, I think you could see that I mean I thought the game plan was was pretty solid now where
there's gonna burn out the smokes and then they would execute but it felt as though that
somebody got a little bit carried away and you know went for that swing straight into the
the smoke, but was not aware there was another player inside of the gate who had that tray.
I think it was Angels, wasn't on the gridlock. I mean, he's the player who went for the swing.
Um, and it just, yeah, it did not work out. And kind of like, why? I mean, did he need to go for that
swing? Or were they could have just gone burning through the clock? Would still have had, what,
a minute there? Especially if her legacy was able to get the kills over towards the breach, too.
This seems like a missed opportunity, I think, thanks.
I think, yeah, it's always the tough thing, though, when you sort of look at missed opportunities
and you weigh them against the idea of a player being able to pull in a 3k.
Right?
If that's a fair sort of scope of things, because Polly was spinning on a diamond to
pull bodies out and he was the perfect operator in the perfect position, so we
can sort of cool missed opportunities, but if they got the kill on towards him,
If the guys are able to get the drop onto him, then...
...like it's trying to balance our omnipotence with what they might know or they might understand if that makes sense.
Does that make sense? I'm still opening tabs after everything went down.
That'll make sense.
Yeah, I thought it was funny that both my computer entirely died for a minute
Also, we had along the desk. So I guess
Maybe I'm in South America
No still
England and no more SDK caught out
There goes your Intel man
It's surprising how the SDK has been picked off considering he is a soft snake and he would have thought maybe he would have had a pin as he moved into the middle of the map but no, he has himself up very easily and no opportunity for a trade here for mints however they have been able to pinch out a vigil who is roaming upstairs for himself and himself is not going to give his team any opportunity at going for the trade and that's a minute gone.
It looks to me that everyone from Flux to W7M has retreated back to the bomb site.
That will give free range over to Enx, but as you can see here from the sledge,
I'm still a little bit worried that there could be robbers after seeing that SDK was eliminated from said position,
but I think now the drone work has been done and they can start moving in and using that sledge hammer for better uses.
I.E. opening up the actual flooring into the bomb site.
These mirror windows are probably what I'm going to be looking at and seeing if they can deal with that successfully.
I mean, looking at where the mirror windows are, they should both be able to get sledge from above.
And over here, it should be that much of an issue here for instance.
But, I'll try it at the moment. No, a lot of action is you can cut a mission for a basement bomb site.
This is kind of where the attackers transition into the hearing up phase, looking to see if they can start opening up walls,
do your vertical work, start burning a bit of that youth out, and start trying out where you could possibly look at getting a plant down.
Cracks right, they're in the way.
Now there's still...
All guns a bit back and forth.
I'm trying to see if they can get a catch on towards this vertical, but they can finounce.
And utility and...
They're caught out themselves, so there's still one more C4 in pocket.
They can still try to apply some bit of range damage, but look how far back they've been forced, right?
They don't have that pillar pressure, they don't have that power position,
and instead they've got, but there's quite a deep back line that they're having to build on.
Fine.
You can have great guns onto it, but as long as that man is on the cross,
they have a bottle they can just do that as soon as they went through it. There's one out that is still
clutch ropes set their way past however the plant being covered is it enough? Is there able to get
a couple of bodies? No it isn't! Arthur gets swung on and oh great play there from just locking in
and holding out. Yeah flexor w7m on the back foot for the majority of that kind of execute but
some cracking shots, a lot of long range kills coming in for Flux or W7M and for
ints, obviously we're looking to try and get that diffuser down, the player rushes
in towards that yellow pillar, but everyone else around went down and that
I left the sledge in a very difficult position where he just could not hold all
of the angles and we seen that crossover towards pipes happening.
Yeah well as soon as that diffuser goes cold in the middle of that bombsite, you don't see ints getting back into
I don't want to go ahead myself, but we're still in that frame for 7-0s today, we're
still on it.
Surely not.
I mean, I don't think we've ever seen in one playday, 3-7-0s back to back to back.
I know, I mean there have been playdays where we've had more games generically, I think
we've had play days where there's been six games the old days of APEC
both in South for how many games was that I think I think there might have been a
period of time where there was six I know that there's obviously been that
with the six that means we would have a 12 team league and I don't think we've
ever had that before I don't think we've ever had that
listen I've been around a long long time I've seen it all I've even seen things
I'm making up as C4 ready to rip and go on top yellow well it's his first pressure
pop it on on towards yellow on towards these vertical players force out
Dodas seems to be the first port of call but I mean with the Intel game
they've got demo if they think they're comfortable to drop down they will and that goes over all three stories
of information see if they can play off of it and they all of the things for consulate
i kind of think figuring out what attackers are doing in consulate is really easy because i don't
think there's much you can really change here in consulate you know i think a lot of the attacks
are kind of set in stone you know if you see three people towards admin it's gonna be you
there they have to take that's pretty clear and dry isn't it so I have that
info to the pulse it's very very important
it's a little bit actually thinking about maybe I might go aggressive here but
stays in the staircase doubling up with his teammate here they of course have
that horizontal hold in towards tellers and visa so parricades are just gonna
remain soft for the meantime but I'm sure that will be opened up in due
courses. I think Santa is looking to attack these rumours upstairs and they will begin to do so.
Well here's the drive-through, here's the pinch, it's just steady on the black bits that's their way
past, they do find a bit of a fight, maybe a second of unexpected but not enough to cause
any danger but it's two minutes and wow there's a body traded out, no twitch, no pulse and you
probably take the root of the pulse of that assuming the twitch sort of becomes
do some of the work that they wanted maybe remove it there's razor blooms more than anything but now
what do you do right you've done this first step you've still got bits of utility fine you can maybe
try and drive yourself in and wow now you've got no blackbeard no shield no coverage on that no smoke
canisters as well at this point you're gonna have to try and send it violently they've got the
pings in the idea the flash around the corner but nobody follows through because they don't have
of the destruction towards the castle barricades and well damn demo 20 seconds how are they
going to make this land?
I mean angels is just holding angles but you need to get a move on the defenders aren't
going to go for it.
Finally the plant will start to command angels as all the noncees have shot gun barrel nobody
here from fluxo is responding however Phil has come through to the fuselage.
Oh what a shot that hits!
3 in a row, perfect rotation as you said, and I mean the thing is, okay,
day. We've already had obviously two, three hours followed by more three hours earlier
on the day. This doesn't feel as one sided. This feels very back and forth and it is consulate
and consulate is the most defined decided map we have in SAL across the split so far.
You know, there's this element of I know you don't understand it. This will be a
game of two halves because the benefit of time is sort of pressing them out and so
going to use their timeout, it makes sense. Because you definitely want at least two rounds
going into the other half, you want that tertiary site, the tertiary is seen as awkward and untenable
in some points. The gun skill, I mean, you can get the taste of the gun skill, look
at flexor W7M skill balance. It's like saying, this is Dodders is around, this is Palae
is around, this is Dots is around.
You know, you can actually kind of blipers on one and say, oh, they each had an ace.
That's light of people. I started, but I started this by like people because I can have a note
open. So let's just continually lie to people. Yeah, every round has been an ace so far. Ignore
the fact that it hasn't. Time out. Time out called no glass, no water.
This is 3D starting to get scared for ints, because this is where the game could really
run against you and you mentioned three players from Flaxer W7M, all gunning, you don't want
to see, especially whenever you get Polar and the team of our big morale on that 1v2
clutch as well.
momentum is in full swing for flexor W7M. Thanks to the back up stairs now. Last time
we were here it was a good idea for Mensa I think in the opening portion was all about
burning those smokes early. Maybe they jumped the gun a little bit and tried to go a
little bit too flashy in that mid game. Flexor W7M, the guns go the weather off
that storm and that Blackbeard comes into play again. You see that the Warden and
Graze are both being banned so who operates at counter each other?
You're gonna be nullified. But yeah like I said that Blackbeard is still gonna be down.
I think I like to try and change things up in the weapon side because this was the part of that that was
no action whatsoever. So I wonder if I'm gonna be answering, gonna try and
Pressure flux of W7M and make them anything twice. It's just not gonna be as simple as everyone hold yellow
Lobbin, I'm just gonna take up the pulse below so C4s downstairs could be an issue. Someone needs to turn screen into a diamond. Be careful about that
This is the risk of being a talent again like this, right?
of they we've had, clutch backs, principally being able to pull one off just to retrieve this round,
you still have to try and rest the control in the opening two rounds. It dictated the way the rest
of it went, right? You've got half of the course and multiple pre-plays across it.
Seems like the step back in is juggling with an animation game. Look at the
pulse down deep below, they're trying to surround them. I think they sort of read it as a
yellow stairs push and they operate on it. We've seen flanks go unchecked in this position before.
They don't really have any direct watch on towards it, outside of obviously the gridlock, but
you know, can't see entirely lock in. You've got to try and cover the side of the black bit itself.
Oh no! It's the answer! Christoffer's a poor one! Look at this shield!
Caught out on the other side of the pulse. They've gone for the pinch as I said it.
They've had to be a bit more direct. They needed maybe a third player in this instance,
but the third player shows up just to split second too late, as does the fourth.
I said it, just as it happened Emma, will the good luck be enough? No!
I mean, it's a cracking shot from D.O.P.S, isn't it?
Switch from the Blackbridge straight into the head top of Angels and
yeah, Fluxy W7 in great position now, look at the ADSes
destroying a lot of that youth, so every day you see a ying be blinded, but it was
his teammates' flash actually more than it will find legacy in D.O.P.S.
with the final what? So W7M
In a complete blown state.
And it is off the back of players just hitting great shots.
Like I said, you look at Angels, ready for the Blackbeard, but just that quick switch.
The Eager seeing the Blackbeard.
And even that little bit of companionship, the pulse fire in the C4, as that C4 comes
up, the Eager ready for the swing.
Sadly, the C4 didn't get the shield blast, I think they were probably hoping, but still
it was enough to do a lot of damage to the Blackbeard, and they still were able
to get them eventually.
I mean the synergy from Black to W7M is great, it's great right now, they know exactly what to do.
Four in a row and well the timeouts work both ways, demo and as you said they seem to really know what to do, but
there is that sort of element obviously where the hero plays in some ways, Doc's been able to drive himself up
Now, 8-1, another 3k sort of sets itself in and that means over the four rounds we've seen,
three different players on the side of Fluxo W7M have been able to pull off a multi-kill.
I don't think I need to point out which three players they are based on the current
kills for the team, but if you are really confused about that, I guess you're intrigued.
other side things. Can you tell which two players haven't had multi-kills?
Reloading!
On the other side, it's... though they've been able to get that opening kill once outside
of it, well that was actually STK's only kill. These entry games, these entry players
who are usually quite sharp between an STK and angels just haven't been able to get themselves
off of that board. They haven't been able to get themselves.
What are they doing? Looking for this sort of bit of pressure.
Now we'll see a women admin take. They're being slow and steady. They're being cautious.
Think about where the site is. A minute's gone and they're still sort of pressing and
impressing themselves on towards the windows at the top. By this time before, they're sort
of trying to drive themselves immediately and towards the site itself. And that could be
a big reason why being held at bay the calls go out the pressure goes out the
force back they all it's just the entry kill once again instead so just sort of
scuttling their way across I mean you've still got what is face checking
corner face checking positions and clearing out the map a minute 30 gone
we're quite so they said I have to actually pick up and rotate their hold
right there reading what's being put in front of them as you said they're
going shopping since the last round they were able to sort of get
themselves locked in and solid and well then they'll just be a bit fluid right
Instead of their holds being guessed and counted and pushed apart. Let's pick things up. Let's move things
Let's reevaluate the position
Why will this first engagement come from
We're currently missing they're ready for the swing around there
ready for just a bit of pressure here but 45 seconds no first engagement outside of
on is the first engage from early on with STK they still have all five players this is the
first time we've got into which is about a minute and every single player is still standing but
this this big divide this big cross we talked about before lobin could activate could
execute on towards the back end of this they're still cautious though there's another
player watching from the other side the cross but it's Arthur gets the opener on
towards dots itself. Another corner, bit of clock, the flashbangs cover everything. They're just gonna
drive themselves in and rounded off to the corner here. It's a bit of a sticky position to hold on
to. 13 seconds is lobin. There's the flank, there's the attempt. There's the fight for two!
The brilliant take. They drop the kit, the C4 over the top and Fluto W7M.
They get themselves another round. Another one locked in here.
And that is now five, five in a row!
And at this point I would like to turn to demo and be like, how's this going, but unfortunately,
whatever, SA-L and I at the same time, has now hit demo, so I'm flying solo for a period of time.
Friends, maybe demo will return.
I think if you all make a wish,
I need to flip your heels together
and wish for demo
maybe hold it down
oh my word it worked
it worked so quick as well demo
I didn't see it, yeah, not really so
sorry for that
it was all me
and I'll break it down for you
they were a little bit slow in court for senior opener
They tried to find their way in, but they were getting group control, but they couldn't get an engagement out of FW7, and we just kept pulling back and kind of pulled back to the point where they could still activate if they needed to.
Most notably, was lobin' just to the top of spiral, waiting for the plants to come through, and the final 20 seconds, I think it was attempted. Oh, 30 seconds. It was attempted.
yeah and then killed two people with some great shooting over the top of the piano as a C4 stuck
the kit at that point there was about eight seconds left for them to try to recollect it and
plant it and they could not fire in a row yeah i can see that the first kill happened at 26 seconds
yeah well thanks friends obviously the 5v5 26 seconds you lose your first man
not great and it's like you said it's it's it's only here it's have to try and
break it for one round to stop it from happening and again and that basement
gonna be locked out so that means they have to go in towards this mid floor now
STK, look at this position, straight in through the main door!
He's went by himself, and he hasn't found that cheeky first pick that he's after.
Instead, it's going to be an opening death that he suffers, and his team are not going
to be in a position to get the train of Balu, with a double, a C4!
Being able to pick off angels, Raps has gone as well!
And they've perpetuated it before they've even really got in the building!
It's a four versus two. We've seen these flip around time and time again. Now there's one
back at the scrappy. The player was sort of pinched between the two remaining. Three versus
two and a lot of time. Think about the sight and think about who's still on the board.
We talked about this before. The pulse can sort of fall down another story and be
just a big threat again immediately. With the C4, with the position, with the power,
With the chance what they do have is obviously a shield a lot of candelas and some heartbreak
They could try and find themselves a pocket to play but
Where's the seeper actually gets ripped though the pressure isn't going to be anywhere near as high maybe
Cons use that a little bit early
You can hear a lot being
Rolled out there the pressure of the candelas
They're actually gonna go underneath and make sure that there's nobody directly underneath it first and then pull themselves
background because obviously oh the flight could happen but cons well he
might have thrown the C4 a bit early I think we also called this to demo we
might be on for three but let's not ask us let's ask a wonderful desk
Now you just close up the round please with the love of God, but Fluxo just come back,
bring it, and they've done it now for six rounds in a row.
How does that happen?
Yeah, it just keeps on happening, right?
If you take examples, you look at round one, and you look at a moment where on, or round
two for example, or on basement, it's a 4v3, they have the verb, they have everything,
and look at angels, contesting on yellow, it doesn't need to be doing that.
Look at legacy as well. He doesn't need to do that. Look at the C4s left on the side of Fuxo. Not a single C4.
They had all of the covers from above. They should never win this in theory.
Same thing happens here with Palu that wins a 1v2, picking the guy on the hatch and then the fit on all the other player.
Round 5 here. 5v4 for Inns. They can go for the plant. They've got the vertical play. They've got a man advantage.
They have everything they need to win. Lobin gets aggressive and flanks. We don't know how. There should be a flank watch.
he gets a double two upstairs, the c4 gets the player that had planted, and the two other players play together.
Now it's not too to really blame Nxz here because Fluxo they have their retakes together at the right timing,
they play together, it's smart and they hit nasty shots. The problem is how do you keep losing
situations where you have either a the man advantage, either b the defender planted,
you should be aware that they can only come from one area and yet you still lose those gunfights.
And to me, it's a question of two things, inexperience. That's the first one.
You should be in a tradable position when you're in the man advantage.
And the second one is, realistically, there's a difference in caliber between these players.
They keep on losing the most critical gunfights. And if you look at dots,
Palu and Torez topping your charts, they are the ones that are winning the most
critical gunfights at every single moment. And this is why we're in a 6-0.
Well, INTZ might stand for intrepidity. Unfortunately,
that is not helping them out in the match itself. We continue on with our second half
for Flux or one round away for victory. We'll see if they close out a 7-0 fluke demo. Take it away.
And Leo, do you agree with the fancy Frenchman's words demo?
Yeah, yeah, I think he's got a pretty spot on. Look, I also think it's the case where
they're, they're still a fantastic team. Like I also, I think we forget this team finished
four for SI. Like it's really impressive. You have to remember that this team has really
went from leaves and bands because I'll be the first to say it. I think after the kind
of major one that they had back in was Atlanta, I don't think they really performed like
a major team since invite. You know, invite is where I kind of seen them. Okay, this
is more like it. I think they were kind of a limbo phase where you kind of have these
expectations where they won the major, but they never really made the big impact that
we wanted to see from them. And now you kind of look at them, and especially with the addition
of Paulu, they've gotten so much better this side. So I think overall, the teams just
whatever the teams in that close they're tough in the beating of course they are
Will we get the statistical anomaly of another 7R?
Now I know, I know I've said it's a game of two-offs but remember there was a clutch roundup
there was the start of this game early and also four of the rounds had somebody pull up a multi-kill
to kill and one of the rounds that they didn't was a clutch right it's this
element that they are still sort of eating and squeaking on by it's our
standing skill fine but it's tougher to sort of formulate on the attack you
especially a map like this where you can't just drive your way into sight
there's a lot that you have to sort of get control of and clear first and as
Logan almost found out, but didn't quite get caught out. Snake was almost as useful as
the snake was against the...
He was reopening death at least one of the two times it was brought, but here. Eyes on
towards Admin, looks like a fairly standard player they've ever got to catch here. The
idea is to force those players back in towards vending, down that narrow avenue, and then
back towards the reception desk as well. Keep your approach wide, give yourself options
later on, but the Warriors, as soon as they swing in, C4 might fly its way over the top.
It's a multi-peaced unit.
Peace, sir.
Well, see how the team wants to go about the next phase. You've got yourself in towards that,
but now it's about clearing out the corner, or look towards the vending of courses,
being the tricky position that you may have to dump a bit of util in-surf.
Someone wants to play there. You can see three players from in stack up in that hallway
In times also a little bit of a worry in a minute fifteen and actually never mind. They just picked off with the chanker
And another one. Oh no, we could be seeing Ct's history as far as I'm aware. It's a good thing.
Three seven-os in one day. Back to back to back.
It could happen. Unless X, unless Raps can try and stop them. But he's in the 1v4.
A minute lack of a reflection of W7M who's just gonna swarm him another 7-0.
Here it is, yeah. As far as I'm aware, history's been made of never-seen-time-in rounds one in a row. Here it is.
I know other casters could believe that we've had this in the day.
I
We cast this game for how many years six years seven years now. This has never happened ever
What a day right it's weird and obviously we sort of you go through the first two games and you're like I
Could see this being a 7-0 I could see this being a 7-0 this one
We expected a bit more back and forth based on how the teams have been sort of building and improving and
I guess, I guess they disagreed.
I mean, this is console, this is what happens if you pick the map, you're gonna have to
attack it, and this is the kind of outcome, this is what happens.
Well, you were right, and I assume a certain Frenchman is going to have a very big smile
on his face as we cut over to our desk.
From ear to ear, you can see it, he is so happy with this.
it has never happened where three games in a row in a professional league we have had the full seven zeros in the same play day.
We are witnessing history and it just so happens to be on the final day of groups a huge day for flexor W7M and their fans.
Honestly, I don't even know what to say. I guess, I guess I think they weren't even my veto. I will say this.
this. We said it on the last time, on paper, looking at the results. If one team could not
win a single consulate in all of their tier two matches and then challenged a top four
Brazilian team that won it at SI against multiple top international teams, and then ended up in
the weakest side possible in Siege history because you go on the most different side of the map
and you start attack, I don't know what else to say on paper. It made no sense to me.
And so in the results, it made no sense as well.
I will say this for ANTZ, they made the right choices most of the time in the rounds.
They actually got themselves in a good position.
Round 2 was a great example of that. The plan goes down, it was a 4v3.
And then they just peek for no reason.
And it was bound to happen again and again and again.
This was a post-planned, this was a 1v2 front-balloon.
Once again, they had the right setup.
Here, I just don't know.
Like every utility is on the yellow stairs.
You have Wama, Jagger, you have a close friend shield with a smoke, and they still decide to push yellow.
And even here, on round 5, this is a moment where they 5v4 and they go for the plant.
They were so predictable, so readable for the side of Fuxo, that it was so easy for them to come up with the right solutions.
Have to price Fuxo because they executed it flawlessly, and just look at their attack.
Much more composed, much more a clean admin take, everyone plays around each other, there is a trade everyone, every time there is a kill.
kill a massive difference in calibre once again and Palu who's 9 and 0 didn't die from
the whole game.
I don't know it's the night of records like Palu doesn't die, gets 9 kills, 3-7 zeros in
a row like I just I don't know listen it's log vs. Furia afterwards, Furia last game
you played they 7-1 their opponent, is there a word, can we dream?
Can we dream that this might be the fastest playday of all time, the most one-sided
play the off all time for seven hours in a row. Can we dream alive? Just jinxed it.
That has not even happened in API. I know we're hyping it up when we don't want to jinx it,
right? Because it would be incredible to see. But then again, can you not talk about this?
It's literally the talk of the town at this point that we are nearing an inflection point
on the final day of our group stage here in SAL. It happened on Consulate, the starting side
for flexor W7NL on defense was huge, talked about it endlessly, you've talked about it
endlessly, we had an insane pregame also due to all the tech issues and everything going around
so we dug into it as deeply as humanly possible. It was right there, right on the wall. And yet
once you see the result itself, you cannot really believe the situation that you have. Look at
Palu and Dota's at a hundred percent. How many times have you seen, I mean one player having
100% KOSD is not that common either. It's pretty impressive, but to have two players that are
running around with 100% KOSD, that's crazy. I mean, it's a statement. You're only going to see
stats such as these ones, you know, in the 7-0. The reality is, these stats could have been even
higher had had flux of WCNM had multiple players that were carrying hard. But no, it was a
team effort. Everyone stepped up at the right time. They hold out their moments. But wow,
what a game once more and what a way to close things off for Flux to WCLM because we keep on
figuring out like how crazy it is this 7-0 but the reality is for Palu here at the MVP once again a
crazy start that for him and his teammates there was a lot of stake here they were in the lower
bracket before this matchup had they lost they would have started play of similar bracket
despite them being expected to be a top 4 in SL teams so it is a great statement they needed
this kind of victory to feel confident about the playoffs, they will not be starting in a per-bracket
and what that means is that it puts a lot of pressure on the side of INTZ because now if
Cloud were to create the upset, were to win in regulation, they would end up grouped. That is
what it means. This is the stake after this victory. It would absolutely change what we
would get later on in the bracket as well but we have to wonder no more because we get to
actually chat to our victor's lobin is joining us once again.
Flux, so that be seven on lobin welcome. I don't know if you
know this, but you guys got the third seven zero of the day.
It's time to make the day for us. Yeah, yeah. I want to go
tomorrow.
I saw the moves.
Tomorrow is the big starts. It is the big start of that
bracket but for today it seemed like as Leo had mentioned during the the post game
desk it seems like the result of this game was already sealed in the map ends
were you expecting consulate and for you to get the spot to start on defense?
Actually no we didn't expect consulates to come along like we thought they were
gonna but especially because when they got to choose the map we're gonna start
on defense so that like not really wise to do but they still do it we
We were pretty confident and pretty sure about it, so, yeah.
I mean, they were heavily at a disadvantage.
I felt like you, honestly, when I saw Consuleta was like,
you guys played it at SI, you beat Space Station on it,
you're really confident.
And on top of that, you're given the defense side.
So I was like, wow, that is such a good way to start the map.
Yeah.
Looking at you guys, honestly, like,
you came back in so many rounds towards the lead round,
like some of the moments where, for example, in the garage,
they have garages, they go for the plants,
and all as one you go and play together aggressively.
I feel like you guys are so good at this right now.
Yeah, we focused on that.
Like we had like a par last week.
So we focused especially like individually
we had some problems, but that can be fixed
like everyone by themselves.
But the main focus was like a team play
and playing together.
So on defense, especially like sometimes
it looks like the attack round is pretty good,
but then you play all together
and some gap just goes in and the whole attack just falls apart.
Yeah, honestly, it was beautiful to see.
We didn't get to see much of the attack, only one round, which was clean.
Can you tell me a bit more about Conz's integration in the team?
How is it working with you guys now that it's been a couple of weeks
and you've played more games with him?
How do you feel he's helping the team now as the IGL?
The IGL is Dots, so...
Oh, it's still Dots, it's still Dots.
It's still Dots, yeah, yes.
Okay, so my constant like the shot colors is still helping and he bought like some ideas
Especially like concentrate was a very strong map from an IP when console is there
So he he bought a lot of ideas to us in this map
We're like, I think things are how can I say it? I think we are seeing that place
With more different styles like when we had folks we are like pretty much aggressive all the time
And now we can have like this pretty passive game style and play more
slow and punishing because that's pretty much what like cause brings to the table is more passive. He's more patient. And of course, like, he's switching up his role on the IGL, but he's playing like more aggressive and attack and that's still the shields. And when you go to defense, now we have like cause that's like one of the best like anchors in like insights.
So, and Dots is pretty more free and he always wanted to do that.
So, yeah, I think in the first weeks we knew there's going to be some times that we're going
to lose, we're going to have some problems.
But after like two to three weeks, things are just starting to get really, really good.
And going into best of threes and playoffs is definitely going to be more comfortable territory
for you.
It's longer games, it benefits that new gameplay that you have.
So, it all fits together a little bit.
anything. I'm just very excited to see you guys in best of threes now in the final bracket. We'll
see today where you'll be sitting in the standings. I think that's the biggest question that kind of
is out of your hands. You did your best today. Clearly you could not have done better. Anything
like to say to the flexor W97M fans out there before we end this for the evening.
I just want to thank everyone for the support, for like cheering for us
and I hope to make the take the spot for the major. So I see you guys there.
There you go. Lobin, thank you very much. We'll see you in the playoffs. Have a good night.
It's a...
And here we are, always good to be around here with Lobin, have a chat with him.
I think he's a very open player about the realities that his team is going through.
And it's with the proper questions, of course, relate to you by the one and only.
Alfa, man, I'm very good to get all that info and learn more and more about what Flexus W7M are like in the background.
I think it gives us a lot more insight on how this team is functioning.
Thank you for that. Leo, however, we still have one more game.
The question is, will we get four seven zeros in the same play day just so Leo can say I was right?
Well, we'll have to figure all of that out after this break. We'll see you then.
I
Welcome back, my friends. An incredible day that we've had so far with three seven zeros
in the same day here in SAO, never before seen Leo taking off his glasses because even he could not
see this and yet at some point you were predicting it because we're just so excited to get to have it.
Maybe we'll get to see it as well for our final matchup. Speaking of which, let's bring out our
teams because here Loud, they got to work for it and Furia, they're looking a bit more comfortable
looking to regain their number one position. Let's bring up a loud roster in chat about 10.
Or sorry, well let's go with Furia. Why not? The team is not the same that we looked at at
the invitation. Of course quite different but still not too shabby as I think really to be
very honest. Seven points in three games. Preca NIP is eight in four. Pretty good spot.
Yeah and I did not expect any less from this team. It was obviously made of scratches.
parents the only remaining player on furia but also by bringing huge huge names lawyer back from g2
votes back from 2 2 w 7 and bog 0 seen as many as one of the brightest rookies of acl we're looking
at the lineup that is very impressive that everybody uh you know has had huge expectations on it
ds was doing amazing on liquid despite the collective struggles of that lineup they're seen
as one of the team that has there to challenge the top four teams in Brazil. On the other side,
Lod, Lout with the only rookie here that we see on the screen, Gavut, the only rookie of SAL,
and then Stem that came from Innovate before that. He sits as well, came from Innovate,
the suing player at SI. Life was one of the only member, apparently, on Lout that was retained.
And Flash3, Flash3 obviously, who was the best performing player on the team in
stage 2 and was also retained as well. We're looking at this lineup and they had expectations.
Such a big organization, loads of fans behind them. But when we see the results here, Milos,
we look at Goobbe, Lali's alone with two points. Fluxo having won makes it even harder for them
because Fluxo was closer to them. They had three points before this match. That means that in
order for them to go above ints, they need either an overtime victory. And that means that
in round difference they will triple inns and therefore inns will be eliminated. Either they need
a regulation victory just to make sure and they will be in the lower bracket which makes them
sure that they won't get grouped. So the fact that Fluxo W7M170 has had a tremendous impact
fallout because that means that if they only win over time they will win the round difference
with 90z and therefore they will be just because of one round difference. They will be in the
playoffs in the lower bracket and 90z will be grouped instead. It's a huge moment here for
loud. It's a tough opponent of course. This does not include Fluxo's points, three points that
they got from their game just now, the 7-0 victory that would propel them higher up in the points.
otherwise pretty darn good. Yeah, Furia can be in the number one in this matchup.
If you're allowed or trying to get out and into the top four, that's really the
big story for both of these squads and we're just gonna have to see which map
we're gonna be playing on because we're asking for the, I guess, you know, the
cabin chance for those who watch a certain Twitch channel for a certain
painter, God rest the soul, but here what is the 7-0 chance? We're going to
fortress as Furia removed Night Heaven Labs but they're starting on attack and
loud on defense. Now it is going to be difficult for us to judge Furia because
the team has changed so much it's not the same IGL, FeliPox used to lead the
team when we first and and the last time we saw Furia play that map which
was at SI, it's a completely different roster. I cannot judge their performance on it so
we're left in the blank here. The only thing I can look at is loud who played its
during kickoff and it was their only victory. An overtime victory against IMTZ. I don't know if you
remember all the way at the beginning Miloche such a close game went all the way to infinite of a time.
The two teams struggling really hard to win a defense, an attack sorry, it was heavily defender
sided. Good sign for them, they're starting a defense. That means to me Miloche that we
don't know how serious playing but still it is a slight disadvantage to start an attack
on a newer map. So the chances for a 7-0 are a bit less than the ones before.
Yeah, I think that's a very, very fair assessment in a case like this. Let's bring up the casters
and see because so far they've had a pretty quick day, despite a couple of deck issues
here and there. I mean, Fluke, we're just rolling through this, but as Leo said, and I think it's
clear to see in the map bands, it's going to be a tough 7-0 in this case for either teams.
Demi, how many 7-0s have you cast this week up to this point?
That would be number five out of seven so far.
And also, just out of my mind back, one of them was Fortress in EML, wasn't it?
E2?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So this would be our second 7-0 on Fortress that we've cast this week,
and it would make our sixth 7-0 that we have cast this week alone.
Six 7-0?
Kill the stream.
Anyways, you heard from us.
Let's see what both of these teams...
45.
I'm not 45, shut up Demo.
I might be balding, but I'm only 32.
Only four years older than Emmy.
Thank you very much.
Anyways, let's send it to our video to see what both of these teams have to say
against one another before it's turning the skin.
For Furio it's going to be a chaotic game because of their style.
I like to play in the first half,
but if you don't let him play in the second half,
we'll have to adapt a lot to their style.
I hope it's going to be an easier game.
I'm not expecting too many things from them.
I won't let them deal with it in a different way.
I hope it's going to be an easier game.
We have to look at Loira.
Because of the player he is, he's present in every tournament.
He's a very incisive player.
I think we have to stay on the human stage.
When he wakes up, he wakes up in the good day,
things get ugly for each other.
I'm going to give Ricardo Puleira a bet.
It's always been playing in the BR,
but we're together that now he's going to take a shot here.
It's always been there that he's connected,
that he would be a long time partner,
but the coffee shop is also there,
it's going to change a lot.
I don't know what I'm saying, but I'm just trying to figure out what I'm talking about.
Our squads are squared up and ready, and Emmy, I hope you understood that that was a compliment.
I just understood what you said. I thought you said I was in my 40s.
Yeah, I know people don't listen to me.
Seven six. Just to remind everybody we are on Saturday and it is not Sunday
Just to remind you I see what's going on in the chat, but our game is almost in demo
What is the the 7-0 chance for this match in your mind? I
Don't know. I think this this is gonna be a bit of a closer game
And it's not because I still I'm still kind of fancy fury because I don't think loud have been that right
I think it's just the fact I think fury is still as a new side getting the grips of each other
There's gonna be mistakes and that's where they're gonna lose arms in my opinion
Well, let's see who gets to grips with fortress or final map for the evening and for a group stage here in
S.A.L fury and loud all yours fluking demo enjoy
You missed the lush and the most your video
I read pedantic for a second about something you just said because it's funny to me. Yes, this game is going to be closer demo. The opponents just need to get one round.
I'm not so like that. I just I just think I fancy fury because I think the fliers are
great. They've looked pretty good so far this age. But again, a lot of their kind of games,
you know, you've kind of you've seen mistakes. You know, yes, they win, they win games, but
they still lose rounds. And I think that's obviously, you know, the thing with furious
are still getting the grips of it. I mean, they lost eight, seven to eight in our
last play day. You know it was a close game yes but still a lot so please don't get mistakes
which is be fair probably a good thing for this site. Yeah I mean you know it's one of
the sort of growth elements right is when you take losses when you take blows is how
you can sort of learn from it we even talked about it over the last day of like okay when
you're out of the running what do you do you learn lessons you go back to school
you know you got to get washed to get clean is the classic
sort of saying and sometimes you get washed by your parents multiple times
but fortress fortress fortress we've had a lot of do it we've had it a few times
not just with the 7-0 that we had the other day and it does in fact I'm not
sure what the sort of over-the-world rankings of it is but in SAO I think it
was only really play it was only played once and it was actually pretty
balanced between attack and defense is a see if I can work it out and to no
surprise Hamam was not played if you can believe that well I care don't worry
about that I doubt they care well let's see now how things start to pan out for
fury as they will be attacking and I mean I think this map suits them really
well similar to the way we talked about G2 and how good that team is in
you've got players here who
can just find their footing.
I mean, player like Laura is
going to mention that maybe
on this round as he has
picked off, but look at
Furia, though, they're still
charging through using that
shield, the great effect
in Diaz now.
Trying to hold the flank as
the diffuser starts to get
planted as Vops has made his
way in towards bathroom.
Diaz needs to get close to
him because he is by
himself. He has got the
diffuser down successfully.
He's going to find isolate
now into one be one up
against Resets.
He's trying to cut the
distance here.
He's been able to make
his sort of way around,
round but look at the long watch here from Diaz they've got themselves a bit of a split
hold they need to try and circle in the one but oh the blitz beautifully played here on
the door noses against the warden so just tries to catch him a little bit early but it's
just cat and mouse right now right there's almost a blitz does that oh no! Pullead!
Button down the hatches and the hatches are the defenders the first round falls
into the favor of the attackers demo yeah that's good it's good from Fioria
and also a very quick kind of explosive round I think from both teams I mean
obviously allowed leaving the bombsite pretty loose if a blitz is able to walk
in and go for a plant by himself but even the way that blitz the way you
played it isolates that is on it you know if you're a kind of shield player
special if you're a blitz you know operators you can tangle against on
what you can any one of the shotgun you don't really go near anyone with
to see for same thing could be said, but players like an asami, you know, he's just
got a gun. It's easy pickings for you. It really is. You can see the way he isolated
that, get the flash off an easy pick and then he's smart enough to realize it's a warden.
I can't really do much against the warden. I can't flash him. He's got us goggles
on. He just backed away. You know, he just says you have to come to me with this
opportunity. He gives the shake back and Jack, oops, certainly a great shield round
from him. The furia things off one. Oh, no, look, it was always going to be one. Oh, does
that mean it's going to be a seven? We don't know yet. So I used my big brain to have a
look back and see where the time was played. And yeah, I actually already knew this. And
I don't know why I forgot it temporarily. It was loud versus it. This is the second
time that forces has been played and both times was by loud. And well, it was a game
that went all the distance, 4-2 fast, both leaning in towards the defenders and then
in towards OT, where they were just able to sort of pip it with three attacks in a row.
I remember it well because chaos seemed to suddenly rain down on the game and the balance
of where people were finding success absolutely tilted on towards its head, but Laud took
that away from it. Obviously the sort of first win, bouncing back after suffering
two seven on the opening play day.
A day off as the follow through.
So try and find the narrow fight.
Just getting the angles.
Herds goes down first might get cleared up as soon as the smokers
space, but like that.
Folks is going to the plot again.
Oh, that might change things.
The folks gets to kick down fine.
But nothing beyond that happens.
Demo.
Demo.
Yeah. We are not having another 7-0. Well, you know, at the end of some point, didn't
it? Yeah, I mean, yeah. Imagine it from this point on. It's like one of those, like, young
adult novels where it's like, on this day, everything changed. Everybody woke up with
superpowers and the fire nation attack. In this day, every single siege game went
seven. Oh, yeah. I mean, I already have a three seven zeros is already history. It's
crazy. You know, we have we have the day. Um, no, again, I think fury have just went
for it. Haven't they like they are playing so fast on this map? Um, I mean, both plants,
by the way, they planted them in both rounds. Vaults planted in the first round at one
minute 56 and in the second round one minute 55 so there's not much in it in
terms of plants going down over that time lad were actually able to retake
and three players basically dad with an instance of each other as well like just
just gone but yeah I think lads didn't let the kind of aggression get in that
point the Denari must have helped as we see that get really good value was
able to down the ace. So now let's see if Lad can kick on here. Come round the piece,
which feels weird saying after the day we've had.
Okay, well, things have returned. Normalcy is back to the world. Both attackers and
defenders and both teams can make a mark. Still now with a shield, but this time brought
a friend, got a buddy along and double down alongside the Monty. I mean, even
know that like they've sort of driven themselves into the heart of the site
twice in a row they've sort of got themselves proposed remember what
louder playing for here is an overtime win at best or at worst even sorry at
best they want the full three points but fury are just as hungry for that in
fact fury will take no just the single point I think depending on that if they
lose by two rounds then it goes into head versus head which they win so as
As long as Furia get to overtime, I believe they snatched Topseed, I'm sure Leo are typing
French Maths somewhere, because even then if they were to tie it around difference, even
if they got 8-6 with NIP, but they have to head, and at this point, I mean that's the
sort of result that both of them could take away with.
If they get the full 3, there's no argument about it, they'll jump up towards the
top, and we don't have to do Maths though, and that's actually the result that I
like quick breach pressure across, killing yourselves through games
in towards the lovely meeting room, before they want to sort of eye up
on towards the site where, well, they made the sneaky plant happen last time, didn't they?
Yeah, so a little bit more of a slower approach here for Furia.
Still stemming though from kind of bedroom site into bathroom is what they're after, but shields are
certainly on today's menu here for Furia. And the Blitz makes an appearance
on these with them this time
We'll see if you're yet to start eyeing up that one and towards horse very pivotal area as we know
And if you have a player inside a horse and it does make holding bathroom a little bit easier
You're gonna have that cross out if you lose horse in the players in bathroom really start to feel the hurt
And the smokes go in I'm sure the shields will probably follow
But I think those the narrow tricks and that the grew minds are maybe just keeping them
They for the meantime and look at this position that Gabby's gotten so vint to on the alley in towards the corner
Nobody's gonna get mistronged here potentially could catch a shield by surprise flash tree gonna open up and they have a monkey gonna get caught out
and oh almost misses a shot
It's gonna be a lockout round here for loud and it will be to one
Louds in the leaves bounce back did everything they needed to and to be fair alright if we think about that first round
The fact that it sort of came down to just driving the shield into sight pulling off the plant was maybe they were unaware
That's a good lesson that we talk about learning lessons in mistakes and the mistake of taking your eyes off of the ball for a second
It cost them and they were able to sort of rebalance and and bring themselves back
Competitively two rounds in a row. We get to the bands. What shield will it be?
Come on T
I want a tactic bomb the shields we're going to go, weren't they?
It's obviously been the game plan here from loud, it's just been to use the shields, Blitz
was brought every single round, I mean you still have the Monty there so it's not all
doom and gloom or fury, they can still play with them if needed, obviously fury are going
for the time out.
I mean 2-1, I mean it's also free zero which is typically where the timeouts come
in but still want to get in there and kind of be stopped the bleeding momentarily.
So I mean it's sort of I guess there's some elements here right they are on their attack on
this map so what do they think warrants the timeout if that makes sense we're seeing a lot of
of third round timeouts, there's adaptations to be made.
We actually sort of talked on this
and highlighted the rise of the third round timeout
or the second round timeout even
when they bought the band system in.
Now you get that halfway team talk anyway.
Teams feel quite liberal in using their opening
sort of gambit, right?
In that sort of first half,
if there's one thing they wanna fix,
they'll try and fix it and get it driven
and then sort of coast the rest on that half way time out, and I don't know maybe there's
some statistics there. You're not the statistics kind of telecaster there are you?
No.
You do know some, you will say, I don't do numbers, I'm not Jesse, I'm not whatever,
and then you'll pull out some random facts like your Sherlock Holmes going through the
his memory bank from like always keep always have to keep in your toes yeah
you never know listen I'm impressed by your season of late less so you're
ranked thank you
do one there's also no denari and what's denari good at stopping quicker
plays especially ones with shields on the stone the stump they just sort of
responding to it that much. Yeah, pretty much. You say it's just what is kind of cause
each other headaches. That's what's been bad. And so yet no Demari will make that entrance
in towards horse. The shields are a little bit easier, of course, still got the operators
like Alola, which you have to be careful off if you are on the shields. We'll see
how fury want to go around and bottom floor bombs right now is in towards our kitchen.
It looks to be a bit of a clear out of the roamers upstairs, and it's not often that you'd
really see players hold in towards horses heavily as what they are doing now for this particular
bomb site.
It's usually in towards bunks, as we're seeing a majority of roamers, you're going to try
and hold above, that's what we'll do though, but still, for fury, we're going to try
and go for it.
That is the bonus of having a shotgun.
Lawyer would not have been able to get that kill if he had the LMG, that shotgun.
research with that swing lawyer using the condo is to lead the charge down see if they can pinch out
this player inside a bathroom who has been spotted out now by the shield and blastering looking to
try and assist his teammate and come to his rescue. Another one comes in but there that time
lawyer almost got the fade away with a pistol videos down but still in position where he
can get revived and the blackbeard is going to come and try and protect him. Yeah I mean get
out of there right? It's gonna be a five versus two they can get lawyer up pretty freely at this point
and they're just gonna try and hold the guns there are still one above watching
droned out they know there's only one person on the site but they also know this player's alone so
well we've got a minute demo we've got a minute let's just go kill him the blackbeard's not
gonna get caught out because herds is there for the cover and whatever they talked about
out. Well, it's a very fulfilling conversation. This round is about to give the reveal on pops
the fire, but the only thing it does is make his post round stance seem ever cooler. It's
Furia balance things back in after the time out. Good time out. Good for the rounds. I
think for Furia, it's a little bit of a slower play. Isn't it? It's slowing the rounds
I think now I help them a lot with just gay into the kind of strong areas the map into worse horse
I mean that really good pinch. Yeah, it is also down to lawyer. I mean if lawyer doesn't get that first pick
Where the theory I go from there because they lose any pressure that they had towards the kind of backside of that take
So I think that first opening pick was pivotal that lawyer had to win that for a side or else fury
Really would have been up a creek with our paddle
It's allowed. Not successful on their third bombsite trip. That doesn't mean that they
get to go back to the places they won previously and they go back in towards our bunks.
Let's see that Resets is hiding the clash. And that's being the kind of mammal here
for Fury of today. It has been Shields and what is Clash really good against? Oh, other
Shields. So that's going to be a problem that has to be solved by Fury in some way,
I'm looking at the lineup though Fluke. It doesn't look promising, not a lot to deal with
that clash bar, what the EMPs you get from the recruit?
Yeah, it's sort of the element right where is it going to slow them down because they've
been pretty good at wrapping around, but they've also been pretty direct in their approaches.
I think their response is to hold in general over the opening couple of rounds, especially
Weren't as weird as it is to say they had a plan and their plan was drive in pressure pressure pressure
Here's our cut. Let's keep going here with two shields pocketfuls of smokes. It feels sort of the same
Yes, they can do some damage to the floor as they can sort of buy themselves a space
But it seems more like they want to create a tunnel and then charge
through that tunnel. Here's the watch
Control of the top of the white stairs. They're gonna see if they can cut off the rotate halfway through on the side of the
Bedroom, but they've actually
Strictly slipped their way
Back through both of them
Urmite shot down second area in use to make a hole for a black deer who
They just run through the one
But you know, maybe didn't want to kind of over extend himself
And maybe there could have been a shot on the someone was close in the door. I don't know
Well, so this is way in scares off that smoke and here comes the second shield
But, if they smoke the clash yet now they will.
So that is going to be something that fear they need to go up against and hopefully that
gets fed through the comms channel.
Okay guys, they have a clash.
I don't want to go about things and maybe if you're very much quick enough, you can
try and cut off the clash here, but I think clash can simply just walk away now
until it's back to safety.
Blackbeard starting to move up too.
Clash now, forward and back into the bottom site.
I can still keep that shield up there of course.
I think that's just gonna be the issue, it's just Clash.
And for Fury, do you maybe go for a pivot?
I mean, if you know where the Clash is, maybe go where she isn't.
At this point, look at Gabby though.
He's gone wide, he's gone on a bit of an adventure, he's coming his way around the
back of the stairs and if he can get the stab at the right time, he can really
unsee any of this approach.
How known is he? Oh pretty known based on the slight motions there of a pre-fire lawyer's
got the scent but now what do they do 40 seconds? The time isn't as wide for them they've got
to close down quick but ha ha ha it's... Ha! Scaboo! Drops the young gunner and now they
can focus themselves forward but he did at least distract 20 seconds and they can start
activating these smoke canisters these are the bits of pressure there's still a lot
in the pockets of fury are fine.
But not a lot of territory, not a lot of ground, and look, the smoke perfectly against Vulture's
already hurt, but Zara charging to the window, it's trades out.
That dawn leaves the four versus two, with ten seconds though, that's very easy to
start putting the pressure in on a dime, but unfortunately needs to be a little bit
richer.
Oh, tough round for Loud, looked as though they were in good shape, you think the
flight committee pay off but Furia they were on it and you see how quick they
something knew that Gabby was inside the tower they wanted that kill and they had
him dead the rights great pre-fire from herds you then have that 5v4 and what
did I say do they ever think about going for the pivot and that's exactly
what they did they went for the pivot they went for the clash wasn't going
to be and they were able to put enough pressure in that bomb site the
exterior breach player doing a lot of work to being able to get those
respects. So Furia really good decision making seeing the kind of exploits that you can have
for you know if the guys out in the room by himself go and get the kill. That's what they
did. They pev it away from the clash. Yeah, I like what I'm seeing here from Furia. I think
the shields are working really well for them. I mean, if you're loud and you've brought
a very strong shield counter in the former clash and it's still not working. I mean
where do you go now? Like, it looks as though it's going to be in the tracks. They've tripled
down on tracks. Ella, Lisa, and the four. The game plan here, I mean, has been let's send
shields in and try to disrupt, right? It's really been a bit of a drag force. And the
thing is, okay, it's not that unusual to say that on a new map. We've actually
said that multiple times, because it gives you an element of safety. It gives you
that sort of modicum of being like, we can play behind something, something we can move
and something that we can sort of put together. But, Vulp's being 6-2, having played a shield
operator, every single round apart from the second round has just, I don't know, loud
has just been a bit lost in how to deal with this major problem. And as you said,
all traps. All traps, heavy focus on towards it, the clash didn't work, they've, you
played with the smoke back and forth hasn't quite noted the same results
Goyo no because well they're either moving too fast and they got it on the second
time it's fun yeah they destroyed the drone no waste of u2 noo my u2 well got the shield in
when he wants to be in towards the old tower starting to approach now that
room clear. In terms of roamers, there ain't really much roll out. Is there anyone's inside
a bunks to really go up against those shields? And towards the hallway, if it's ployable,
is where Flastery is going to try and play. There's a player all the way downstairs or
look at life. This is a c4. Never know what he could find if he goes fishing.
for fury it slow and steady take how it is at the moment that form will be
droned out now Gabbo sign them as well so there's a double up here in a swing
oh look at that the swing is gonna expose them Gabbo also opportunity and
Laura sees his and jumps straight in able to pick them off should know about the
form of flash tree and cut closing behind that half walk now I'm gonna
He's on the floor lawyer all by himself now towards meeting
Well his more bullets starts a pepper their way through here comes the pressure the shield once again about to be a big problem
But no cut off on the side. Volts does get one before he's taken out 50 seconds
Technically a four versus two and you can see that they're gonna get the player back up, but
Oh live in the meantime takes care of Diaz three versus two. Was it worth?
The attempted fight on the one versus one. He'd already dumped the utility, I guess,
was the thinking, to see if they can try and get the other side of the horse, but
unfortunately that side is the one that kicks. That leaves them less than 30
seconds of scrappy transfer to a new position. I mean, leaves double results.
Loira. Obviously the return to the region from EUG2, but can he be the
reason they get at least the swing round can't quite get all does finally find the connection
one more time but resets just holds on gives us the even half and on that demo before you get to
say your words let's hear from our wonderful desk.
Loud they're doing their work they're doing their preparation but there's a lot of it
in theory. Fury on the other side are adapting to it. How is that happening and how do we get
to a three-three-half on a map like Fortress? Honestly, it's a good game plan from both sides.
I can see the side of Laud trying to bring a lot of traps. They replaced the denarii that was
eventually banned with the thorn. They abused the ELA as much as possible to try and slow
down things. I like the adaptation from Fury as we re-ratch round four, for example,
with the yin shotgun, the smokes to get an entry point, the clay shotgun to get aggressive and create chaos
and look at the side of furia, look at how they're all spread out and vopes is ready to lead the rest
of the team into this pinch with the blackbird, he's pushing away this roamer, the yin is behind him
ready for the pinch, they are feeling the pressure from multiple sides and then the yin can then
enable the pinch, get aggressive, the rest of the team follows the blackbird, it's a beautiful
way of clearing out the roamers, it's the adaptation that was waiting to see from furia.
Great play from Wolves, good in everything with the Blackbird, and then they'd use either a second
kill with the Blizz, either a Ying, either the Deimos to break apart the roam. What I find interesting
is thanks to that after banning the Nery, they find the opening kill in the three following
rounds. However on the side of Laod, really trying to burn down time, play the trap
operator, bring on the Clash on the Smoke to burn time a bit more with the Goyo. I think
it was beautiful from their side. All in all, great play from both teams. We're seeing a much
better adapted, or I guess a much deeper strategy from both teams this time. I will say that
Ferreira was at a disadvantage when they were attacking, now on the defense, and not sure
we're going to see the same tactical depths on the side of Laud. So I'm afraid for them
switching to that side. But so far, very impressed with the adaptation for Ferreira.
Well, we know we are not getting a 7-0 out of this to add more to the day. That
is for sure. But it depends then on what happens the second half. Will it be a
full on reversal will it go to overtime I would not be surprised if that would be the case
but all depends on their actions in the server we'll send it back to our casters
to take it back all yours. Oh thank you very much Mr. Lush and demo what do you have to say?
I mean now we kind of see the the side switch coming in and the last time we seen
loud here on fortress. The defense would certainly their better side their attacks weren't too great
until we kind of hit OT because I believe it was four two halves each in their game versus ints.
So certainly I think there's opportunities there for Fioria they kind of look at what ints did and
how they kind of surprise loud and maybe try and do a similar thing. There is options there for
them still siege to play free free even haves we'll be out in front as of yet look at the
bands area it went for a shield bar of their own and also the grim goes down and for loud
a mirror and a clash takes the hit there are the two operators for great kind of controlling
games, good information, get from both of them. I mean, I've always had this clashes,
you know, a mirror window of lights in many senses. I mean, you're not wrong. I mean,
Miracane first. Miracane first. As everything first is a cheap copy, is it not? I've heard
that. Yeah. Who's the first operator to have a gun? That would be Smoke. That would
the smoke. It was one of those two. Okay, then everyone's a cheap copy of smoke or
sludge. Yeah. 33 Oh, oh.
So I'm for loud. Good. I mean, it was crazy. I know. And they
went, they went, we're done, everyone.
Today.
Also ended in seven rounds. Look at that.
It did. Every game has done in seven days. That's the
thing. They forgot. They didn't get the notice. So
They had to be a 7-0 now.
Group A is obviously all locked in.
We already sort of knew how things were going to go, and they went that way here, B. It's
all still to play for.
NIP are currently sitting in that top spot, but if Furia get at least one point, they
get into overtime.
They guarantee themselves top seed because even if they lose there, they're loosed
by two rounds, well, that puts them at plus six, and then they have to head-to-head
with the same amount of points as NIP, which they win.
So, NIP just want Loud to beat them.
In the meantime, Loud, they wanna get the win
so they can jump INTZ.
Now, based on the fact that the round difference
would change to a more positive one,
then they just need to be able to get to OT
and then get the OT victory to match them on points
and then round difference would do the carrying over,
don't know.
Yeah, it's still a lot to kind of take in just looking at that table. I mean, certainly,
I think overall in this kind of kickoff stage for SAO and you know, this was probably like
the biggest shuffle that we've had inside of SAO that I can remember, you know, always
for SAO, but like the kind of stable region that never really changed. But certainly
this is the stage where we've seen a lot of changes, a lot of org changes too. And certainly
I think for the kind of teams you're at the top, it's kind of what we expected, I would say. More
than anything, would you agree with that or any outliers? I think, no, I mean, no,
it's the case for Flux of W Salvador. Yeah, yeah, I think you definitely could. And I think
like there's the elements about this region where everything is always going to be
competitive after the first day I remember the first day had a lot of
strange results in it I remember you know liquids Alienware losing to black
dragons the sort of balance power force you know it
it's like confused people but it sort of changed the pace a little bit and
then how close then that following game was with it I'm lost the next day
phase opening up with a loss on a second day, sorry not opening up, they won their first day.
It was just very up and down. But it's almost that weird thing where even amongst all of the chaos and the results back and forth,
when things have settled down, granted I didn't expect it in 3-7-0s, but here we are.
Things have sort of arrived. I can see why Loud needs reset. One of their players is evaporated.
That makes sense.
Evaporation can get you at any point.
What's last year?
He's back.
He's back.
Hopefully it shouldn't be too long until we're back in, which is cool things to
have ever so slightly.
Certainly it's been a good game up until this point.
I think it was really important that that team kept the ground running, you know, for the
players that they've picked up, and, you know, for the organization that they're under.
I don't want to say that you can expect immediate results, but you kind of do.
You know, you think that team should be good enough?
Yeah.
we've seen super teams in the past come and fall, you know, and I think for fear here, it's not going to be the case.
I just really want to see that team and nationals. That's what I want to see.
I think it's the way that this sort of kickoff event has formulated, right?
When we all first saw it and we all sort of, sort of, it was a very compressed season in a strange way
in towards this event and then we saw it was this group format so they wouldn't really be,
there was this thing like, no, I wanted to see these games, I wanted to, you know,
why do I not get to see FaZe vs Furio there and FuseW7M vs Team McGrelly man, but now it's
almost got more excitement, like procedurally the games just based on these almost mini
regions within regions collapsing in together and collapsing into it, like I want to see
the playoff stage. I want to see how these teams that have almost been in their own mini-league,
their own element, their own p2 dish have grown into the battles that they've had and if we'll
almost get the difference of sort of structure.
See how this round goes now?
We're loud in their attack.
Maybe they've put the map or in.
I wouldn't say Fortress is a map where hard breach is to kind of end all and be all,
and all and be all we've certainly seen teams just flood through a lot of
detail but I think it is good and elements to have that hard breach give
yourself that entrance way if you need to get in and try and go for the plants
there's a demo track obviously it's gonna be this pretty big room clear that
Why are we going to have to go up against?
We're going to extend it all the way over to the other side into the office.
A minute gone already, not much to talk about, not much just happened.
Yeah, I think it's just a little bit of a moment right where it's a slow build here, loud.
The course is approaching and it's worth sort of saying that they're the second lowest detecting.
Out of all the pretend teams that we picked together, the only one worse than them I think.
They're sort of being technically drunk at the start of the day with Black Dragons, but
the only one worse than them is Imperial eSport.
But 30% of their attacks have been able to go over the edge, so they've got to really
try and find a way to get themselves that extra foot in, or they will make their mark,
I suppose, if you're going to do it essentially faster than that, is that sort of leisurely
all the damage in towards them. Stemp that does get the opener. Lawyer caught out shut down
at this point with this man advantage and just about a minute left.
Can they try and get themselves some pressure and some holding properly inside the building
in towards horse but you know think about where the site is and what they still have to cover.
a minute left. On that opening pick, walls now start to be targeted. As the bathroom
wall now starts to get opened up. Let's give them their way in towards meeting and here
comes the Maverick right. See if we can drill some holes in and pressure the players
into his tanks and this is where you can maybe catch somebody by surprise with the
but now it will be called out, but vault swings it anyway and gets punished by resets.
We'll 5v3, this is what louds to work with now as the smokes come in, the demo's from
below, that's going to be a bit of a pain for the Azios being tracked now.
Insurance in a matter of time before I can just capitulate against them.
Should be an easy pull out, Fury trying to pass the panel back and there's the
swing in and sir
Beside one another and DRO by himself the views are gonna go down the nailer side it covers there
Yeah, and a very fast finish you like whether you use that damage from below too. Oh, it's great
And I mean it was everything that needed to be right
It was cautious fine and it was sort of a steady approach and they didn't play behind shields
And we sort of talked about the benefit of them when you're building in towards this new map
But when they came down to the collapse just the the sort of combo of the information the demos below as you said
There's a lot of stuff there that bring in the day was back
I'm wondering if we get to this that's already becoming a thought of your spirit. Okay. Well, let's go to the demos because
You can't have players start to activate in that manner in the same way
Gabby we got it. We're actually not sure we've been saying Gabby
But in the video that we saw earlier today for the first time I think really listened to it is a Gaboot.
So maybe we need to add a T in there.
Seven is Gamer Slime for T.
Have you ever had numbers in your name?
Nope.
You would never, you know, swap the O for a TkZero?
Nope.
Nope.
the easiest one
I bet Milo has
I bet Leo has
I don't know, did Mira try to have like a...
Cause I know where Milo's the medic, yeah we have anything funky in there
I think Milo's, the fact that he has a V in his name
means that he's not gonna show any corners
Like he's not gonna cut any corners with the letters in his name
Okay, he's just given me his live name from console and apparently it's an auto-generated
name that he never changed.
Alright.
Oh man, maybe his in his forties.
Three four.
Loud.
The first attack.
attack
Nice pinch beautiful demo. Yeah, don't recall into the blackbeard
I can
Scared push him out off that position he was in and an easy kill for stem as he came in through laundry
I mean that is a scary one isn't it, don't we call it into the shields, make anyone jump,
and it did.
Here we are, on the back end of it, being loud as much as you've talked about that they
haven't been great on their attacks this stage, which is so that they may have turned the
corner here because they are in pretty good stead right now of that opening pick especially
looking through, they've been able to kill is the smoke, that does down a lot of
time.
So if the call goes in, no follow up though from that one.
That was just maybe a bit of a safety joke to be called for them, as they can now figure
out, okay, where do we want to go next?
I mean, it's good.
It's again this sort of well-prepared pulls and pinches here loud.
Step by step, they're just sort of making sure they can isolate a corner, put the
pressure on that using their time fine thoroughly, but thorough is paying off right now.
two pinches that fury has just been lost on here and what we're doing is blast the
giant pull a fight over but flastery just wins it out and now a five versus two
with 40 seconds and yeah fine we haven't really had any direct presence of the
site but yeah fine we haven't needed it now we get that the back bit is in there
trying to make as many friends as possible but all the support is
coming hops over the close wall the ass does get one but all great
point cover finds the kill leaves one for not long now I'll take this moment to
remind you at this point one round one round and loud get themselves I think
into class but I think they still need a win in OT because they are two points
adrift yeah they need to get themselves in towards that position but also hit
It's time to remind you, Fury, I used that time out a long time ago.
Yeah, I was just going to mention this is where it gets staring out for Fury.
They called it whenever allowed to one up.
That's how long ago it was.
And this is where you start kind of standing on pretty loose ground.
That could go at any moment.
You don't have the coach to be able to get in there and steady the ship.
So for Fury, it's all down to them to make this happen.
And the kind of strange thing is, they're still going through the full rotation, they didn't
win either of the top floors and now they're going to go into our third choice bombsite
to catch you which usually ain't great for a lot of defenders, because you can't really
play on the bombsite all too well because again you go above, you do the vertical work,
it's pretty tricky.
So I mean this is scary now for Fury allowed, they really could pick up, I mean obviously
match point yes is is definitely going to be there for their through in this round but who knows
could go on to get all three points that means that fury don't pop the group it also means the
ints they go out instead so it's not all riding on this game
five to three wow a small divide to cross but we've seen teams crumble and the pressure is
it's most which is there's only one step left to take. Furia at the same time got
three kills over the two rounds since the rehost and well both of those on this
half as well. We'll talk about how good or bad loud can be on the attack as I
said before the 30% rate is currently looking out of date. They have been
sharp on this approach they've made sure that they can deliver when they
need to in the split is god but stakes a bit of a bite
drift its way further and further on
now fury is defensive right where it's sort of at the start of this day they
were the best defending rated team demo across all of them that is also slipping
away the statistics being polite by the pressure with his otherwise going
Remember, Furia, they just need to get to OT to secure themselves.
Top seed.
If they have three rounds to try and bite back on there,
ooh, almost an accident.
It's the pressure surrounds here.
One in the bathroom, another pulse.
Resets almost gets caught out.
Shield covers the divide.
In the meantime, the grenades force the player to vault.
Massive bit of cover there.
Stamp over the top is able to at least balance things out.
A four versus three.
If they finally get the surround,
but how much time was wasted?
How much utility?
and also how many players two quick kills come back for the side here. There's one more for vaults.
Furia are not done yet demo.
And finally this room game is working out well for Furia. They struggled with their extensions in the first two rounds.
But this time they really dig their heels in vaults is there with a boat load of kills. The help is seen.
And that's more like it for Furia. That's a lot better getting the kills, getting a bit momentum now.
them now that's what they needed. I mean loud there was a big old battle for that bathroom
was that that was really the room to be in if you want a party and well maybe maybe you
loud party a little bit too hard didn't work out for them and even really get an opportunity
to attack the bomb site everything was settled in towards that top floor. So Furia have an
opportunity to ban something that they didn't like and it's going to be the soul of snake
that takes the backseat of the Izami that loud have removed and surprising that
they haven't went for the black beer because I think that has also been a
very consistent thing though that a lot of I've been working ever the past few
rounds
well I said the pressure can sort of reach a point this could have been that
tipping moment this could have been that point
curia couple more rounds two more to connect two more dots to find there on
their defense and it's a good defense map and as I said statistically at the
start of all of this they were the best defender side in atl this split 64 or a
65 percent trance is now since down with loud they still have momentum they
still have at least two sites to their name that they've been able to sort of
clutch and clear away and it's only really the ground floor. Our success is
found and as we joked about nobody's gonna go to Hamam.
Nobody's saying. I'm sure it's been played.
We'll keep up for the show match. Keep moving to the show match.
Move to the special rounds and I think, you know, King George's early person should be playing those games.
Right. Another King George 20.
Good beat, good beat. Hey George, neat casters?
What's up? Drop us a line, eh?
George Feds is uh, a pocket parker.
I know he's the I'd buy, I'm well aware he's a pocket parker.
A parker's happy to be in the pocket.
Yeah, he can deploy, he can deploy his little Canadian whenever he wants to.
Exactly, yeah, because the thing is it's like the Russian dolls inside Parker's jeffsy.
This is how it goes. George Parker, Jesse, and then Lynx. We've got live, though, taking
the head off of Herds, and that is that drive-through on the shield. Herds, all in four, since the
Reho is still in four, since that position. The driver, to get himself in, was able to
go, I think, three and four in the opener, so he still wasn't positive, but he was
pretty much getting those ones and I don't have the same success here.
Lawyer as well. I mean Lawyer I think before he was about seven and four and
since then hasn't been able to get anything. Does though. Find one in the
middle of a Vulp's sandwich. Yeah half of it. Vulp's has been brilliant both half
six and two here. That puts him up to about 13 and five. Oh sorry make that
15 and 5, I think, as two volts 4Ks in a row?
Yeah, I mean, volts right now is playing out of his skin.
I mean, that's another round where Furia just locked it out before Loud have even got near the bomb site.
Again, the first two rounds, the attempt is it didn't work.
we're able to pick off those rumors and then all of a sudden furia back to back rounds
just an absolute nightmare to deal with the shield not having the same impact
I mean again whenever you've got one player who is just untouchable right now that's all he's
going to be a bonus 15 kills is what he sat on in 10 rounds that's so impressive
of the timeout rightly so comes in from loud.
It's kinda now or never, isn't it?
It looked as though that they were in the cusp
of just cruising past Furia, getting out of the groups,
but I don't think there's fixtures over just yet.
Defenders protect your bombs from being abused
by attackers.
Okay, we had 7-0, we had 7-0, and then another 7-0, so I guess we were due.
It's like when a bus comes, right?
And, alright, the bus doesn't come even, and then you got three buses in a row.
We were due a long game.
And...
Well, we're gonna get it.
Though it's being elongated by volts, I think, more than anything.
two rounds in a row that have sort of been taken here by furia two rounds in a
row volts has got a full kit there was still a lot of the team left standing I'm
not gonna say it was an entirely shallow effort but at the same time you can't
dispute the fact that no one else has really been able to get the full sort
of connection in and where are things falling apart if allowed do you think
Why did they deem necessary to have this conversation?
I just think that for Fury they've went a lot more aggro, haven't they?
I mean they lost the impact, didn't they, in that round?
You know, Herds, he's been having a bit of a nightmare since we've came back after that first half
and the team kind of realized, okay, we're down a man, that's all just go for it.
And they're all moving as a unit, as much as what we're saying Vlps is playing out of the skin.
You know, he's refusing to die, but I have no doubt in my mind, if he wants to die,
I would say someone would be there for the trade, because that's the way Fury are doing it. They're not going in solo now. They're going together whenever they're doing things.
Now with this sort of positional awareness and the traps that are balanced against them, obviously you've got the Alemines, you've got the Sustathorn traps, they know they're expecting the shield with pressure and sort of driving through that makes that approach, as you said, of trying to find that inroad even tougher.
Because now there's something mobile to stop them. They can play outside the building so as vaults first of all there goes
Gavrooks. Oh there goes a second vault! How can he get away with it twice in a row?
Oh no, Resets does find one but takes a lot of damage on the side of it
They're gonna see if they can stick the plant in the meantime. Is there anything to stop this? The swing will come out
Yes, there is but the cross comes together finally found the end of vaults
But at the cost of everybody else,
Furia, back in this.
Wow.
It shows how quickly the tide's
concerned.
And well for Furia, we're sat
five-three down,
another one in six-five.
Hey, what about that?
I mean, vaults.
Well, what can you say?
I mean, did you see that swing
at the main breach?
It's twice he did it twice and got two kills for it and didn't get punished until later on
Plus 11
Did not want to lose and this this confirms furia
For top of their group they get that by they get themselves
that extra chance in the upper bracket and IP 42nd they are still in the upper
bracket but they have at least one extra game to play which will then seed
them if they win that in towards Team Liquid Alienware now the question still
remains how is things gonna stuff at the bottom of the group when you have
have. Yeah. Oh, actually, we'll take her against you. How does seeding work? I said that confidently.
And then I sort of, will they be up against? Yeah, they will. If they will fear our top
of the group. So that means they'll be. Yeah, no, we have some of it. So I think
it would be. Yeah, because they would if they're second the group, they go against
lost. I think nobody on lost his side.
Yeah. Hey, thank you.
So NIP and apply any NIP versus loss. Yep. When are that goes
by liquid? Now it'll be phase plan versus. Yes. Alright.
It's on our screen literally right now.
Oh, oh, that wasn't looking.
I was looking at the, okay, there we go.
You make it think it's possible for yourself.
We have one spot left to confirm,
and the difference right now
is if Loud can get to OT, first of all, one round,
and then get themselves a win, second part of the plan.
still chance. So there's a chance that's going to have to be one heck of a turnaround because
Furia looked primed and ready to finish this here and now in regular time. But that little bit of
momentum I mean they have just went and died clean sweep. You know that's three bombsites to
find it in a row. I mean we now know what the bombsite's going to be. It's going to be
back in towards our first floor. So it will be in towards our waiting defense.
And I mean, if we know that, surely Laird will know that. That means they should have a pretty
good idea of what they want to do.
It all could potentially come down to a bit of a single round. Obviously, it's been just
chunks of rounds as well, right? There was obviously the trade at the very beginning,
one into two. But then since then, it's been sort of at least a pair. I hear big
chunks of three. Theoretically, if the passengers to be believed,
there should be loud rounds and then they'll win four in a
right, but I don't think they can.
Look at who that is on the background monitor, the occasion
they get.
Yeah, I noticed that as well. Who is that?
The back of lawyer is monitor. That is somebody on
You got to sit better and do your answers, go.
Yeah.
Anyone know?
I would say if you know and put a stretch out out, but I've, I'm not reading.
So I'll just trust that you got it right.
Congratulations.
Whatever name you said, you're right.
You can carry that for the rest of your day.
The rest of our day is almost done, which is, we'd say, still 370s in a row, and we might get ourselves into AT here, as is written.
And if we're going to have a longer game this as well, we could do delays.
You did say it could be longer.
They're with us.
What? Where?
Oh, no, no.
Only me lost, it's alright. You took your shirt off, don't worry.
Me lost, me lost, me lost.
Sam's the best with sometimes getting confused.
Do you know when we did those photos at SI recently, when we were in the sort of
prison fashion, and you didn't do them?
I know it's crazy that we were doing shenanigans and you didn't want to get
involved. The photos of me and me was so cool. And Leo as well, just Leo just
suited the looks. But do you know who I think suited the looks better than
anybody of looking like they were in 1970s Paris from the on air crew team?
because
I just really suited looking like a cool 1970s Parisian guy
even more so than the French people that we know
I mean, we only really know the one French man in that one
Milaf kind of counts
I will be French mark my words no no no no
attackers need to locate and defuse by not really say we are confused this but
we're not confused anymore because we are back in towards the game thank you
for being with us as we go down towards the ground floor now it's a bit of a
back-and-forth sight crosswinds and losses between these two teams but
but actually today it's more actually a reflection of the sight of the sort of sight than anything.
It has been won by Fury on their attack in the opening half, and once by their defense,
will this be an 100% win rate on this sight to push this over the edge or come loud?
Find something to give themselves a chance at escaping this demo.
It all comes down to the last round of groups.
Do you have it any other way?
No, of course not.
This is it.
What do you want to say?
And this is where you kind of have to start looking a lot and thinking, OK,
but a bit of a breather there with that slight delay.
Oh, almost.
Oh, nice.
I'm straight.
Taking a lot of damage from that C4, but he's still alive.
And that's the main thing.
So C4, he ticked off the board.
I'm curious to see how loud we're going to change things up because obviously it has
been the issue of dealing with that roam game.
Raphuria really tried to go gung-ho and aggressive a lot of the times compared to how they played
during their first two defenses.
Well, a minute gone.
Not a lot has happened for Loud.
He's got their way into the building just as of yet, looks like he resets, he's
himself in towards the man by himself. That's about it.
All this engagement find itself only two rounds there. Plink kill has not led to
Woodlater on success here and it's not really been something that they've
been able to get themselves a proper handle on here. Flastry is, how does he
is? Being your hard breach you've got to keep him a little bit more on the
backline and protected but whoa Stem takes a big old bullet to the chest and the
Daemons is gonna have to drift himself slightly further away. Stem lost
information on the grasp here on the approach. Without that solid snake there
a little bit more liquid and a little bit more push aside. Stem does find a bit of
revenge. It leads to the rest of somebody else but as Volks gets live
and Gabbits gets heard things are starting to go back and forth Diaz
The DMR cuts through and a very narrow fight goes,
Bob's his way.
Seemingly everything feels like it is,
and now a triple kill for Volp's
leaves just the new young gun,
keeping Loud Ian with a chance of hope.
But finding their way through that hopes can be dashed
and so can the only rookie in SAL, this split,
they will not be finding their way through
in the meantime. It's to breathe a sigh of relief. They will survive in that lower bracket spot. Loud
are our second team eliminated in SL groups. 21 kill for Volts. I mean that is some show he's put on.
They couldn't kill him. He was untouchable. Especially in that second half he just ignited
massively in that defensive half in your fury. I mean, four rounds, they sweep the win in regular
time. So impressive. It was everything that they needed to do, right? They sort of had their
lessons learned, they brought themselves the structure to see such an attacker-sided map.
Isn't everything that we always see, but what do we always love to see demo? That's right, our desk.
Thank you very much. It seems like Demo is still thinking, huh, who do we like to see?
What I like to see is Vulp's Leo and him pulling the numbers that were needed there, denying
this opportunity to jump up for Loud and Furia, lock in all three points. Oh, so important.
We talked about the win condition and what is needed, how that will impact the groups
and they made it happen.
And I tell you, this is despite the fact
that this game looked way closer and way more complicated
than any of the three we've seen before.
Yeah, I mean, it started with the defense, I think, really.
Well, everything swept at this moment, right?
On the attack side, I would say this.
I still thought that Wolfs was, in general, the main actor.
He was the one with the Blitz on the very first round.
He was the one creating the space
with the Blackbird afterwards.
He was the one that was helping everyone take control.
And here in the background, he's
the one that planted the diffuser.
I think sometimes that's a beautifully displayed.
sometimes it just comes alive and has some incredible life game and today was one of them
and as much as he was all shiny in defense I truly believe he was the main reasons why
they were able to create these pink scenarios here with the example of the ying he's the one
with the blackbird that's on the other side leading all of his teammates to grab the kills
on round four it's the same story I find it nonetheless so impressive that he drops 21 kills
having played shields five rounds out of six in attack by the way that just tells you of how much
he was carrying in defense in fact in defense he had three different rounds with four kills
and and I think he was the main main condition really right as soon as he was three
and he switched to defense he's the one that is that has been sent on the commander's office
for example holding the bunk site so holding the extension when they were on the other side
he's the one that holds the extension towards towards horse and whenever he was downstairs
he was the one trying to retake and getting the kills. So he was the main character at every
single round being the rumour that plays aggressively and honestly congrats to him because
that was an incredible one but I think to do it on Castle on the list that was that was insane to me
like that round where he's got a sliver of HP he gets aggressive here when everyone would have
fallen back and he gets a 4k with like the worst game in the game here he jumps out
get your headshot and he's not even traded like honestly i don't know speechless most of the rounds
because i was like how is he getting away with this because welts is one of those great players
that we don't always get to talk about just depends on the roster that he's on and how things are
going today definitely showed up and i think the perfect moment to show up right because
fury as whole mo today is trying to get that first place and if there's one day to be fully
activated. It is today. Volts 21 to 6. That is insane. I just to block myself from saying
a swear word there in between because that to pull your team across the line to get all
three points to be at first place. This is the performance that you need. And what you
earn from this is a buy all the way very deep in that bracket. Your one game went
away from making it to the Salt Lake City Major, that is deserved after not just the performance
throughout the groups right now, but especially today. Yeah, it's the main thing to me, the fact
that he's leading the team, the fact that he drops 21 kills, like I said, we're having played
five rounds out of 16 attacks on a shield. The fact that he planted twice, that he's got
two opening kills. I mean, it's too much. Literally, he had one mission. The mission
was gain the win in relegulation, get yourself three points, make sure that you overpass an IP
and you can surpass an IP and make it to top the group, two all the way to the upper semi-final.
There are no one win away from the Solak City Major. I think many people expected when this
roster was put together that they would be one of the top contenders in SAO, but he's the one
that really cemented it in reality. Well, my friend, let's have our interviewer final one
for today. Diaz Lucas himself joining us on the call all the way from Brazil. Diaz, thank you very
much for joining us now. Compared to last week, this game looked a bit more comfortable. We had
hopes also activated. Can you tell me what happened between April 7th and April 11th in
the performance and the mindset of your squad? Yes, last week the loss was actually pretty
pretty good for us. I think it was the perfect time to lose. We learned a lot about the team, learned a lot about our map. It was bad. We fixed our stuff, came back today and we won. We started off a bit slow today, but we're able to bring it back and Volps put the game in the bag.
Yeah, I mean that was a crazy game for him and I want to, obviously 21 kills is one thing to acknowledge
like I think a 21 kill game in a BO1 is insane, but the fact that he did so, you left him play
an extended setup on Bunkz with Castle with a UMP, he's got 5 HP and he gets a 4K, honestly I
don't know how he does that. But I want to more so focus on what, yeah absolutely insane,
I want to focus more on what he brings inside the game in terms of CUMMS.
Obviously, we all knew him as the IGL on the side of Fuxo W7M before he joined your roster.
Can you tell me a bit more what it is to team with him and what he brings of value within the team?
Well, he brings a lot to the table, to be honest. He's a very good IGL, the best that we're played with, to be honest.
He's a very good leader.
And one of the most important things in my opinion for an IGL is to make sure the team is calm.
And just with his voice and his leadership inside of the game as an IGL, he's able to make sure that the team is calm, you know?
And I feel like it's easier to take decisions when you're in the shits if you're at IGL's calm.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I think also one thing that I notice from him is that he
gets to be very involved in the rounds, like on attack he's on the shield, he's usually
at the forefront of your entry line when it comes to clearing the roamers, and here
in defense I saw him as like the forefront of the extension with the roamers. Do you
feel like that helps him cause for you guys? Because he's directly in the action?
Yeah, for sure. His shield game is insane. He's always like the first one in so he's calling and making sure that the players behind him know what to do, know where to aim, know where to flashbang all that stuff.
And on defense, basically the same thing. He's like organizing the defense so we know when to fall back, when to fight, when to not do something or do something. He's just the man.
It's crazy to take the leadership position from the front lines themselves where you're
in the middle of so much happening around you and yet you keep your focus on what's
important moments like that calm under under fire is a very difficult skill to have and
to maintain and to develop but DS at the end of this you guys are topping your group
a huge huge huge moment for you your one game away in the playoff bracket to making
it to the Salt Lake City Major. Anything you'd like to say to all the Fiora fans out there
eagerly watching your games.
Shmuel, I thank all of them. Support has been insane ever since you joined the team. I've
been loving Fiora, the organization, the players, everything. I'm having a blast. And shout
out to my parents as well that always support me.
Shout out to support of parents. Thank you very much, Diaz, for joining us. Congratulations
again on topping the group. We can't wait to see you in the playoffs bracket.
Have a good night.
And there it is, DS with all the tea that we need.
There's a crazy man on Furia and he's not done just yet, Leo.
At the top of Group B are Furia just under NIP, Fluxo at six points at their place and
Ion's Zets squeaking forward with Loud, so Caster's and you've said they are no longer
in the running for the Salt Lake City Major.
Look at that.
That's our results and our groups.
surprises for you, Mr. Robin?
I think the hard part for me is that we're looking at Laud
and when they came in as a partner team,
such a big organization, such a massive fan base.
Lots of people had expectations for them,
high expectations, and they disappointed everyone last stage.
And now they come in kickoff with a revamp roster
and sadly ending up groups.
I think that's a tough one for them.
If there was one stage where you would wanna miss that,
that's the first one that's kickoff.
There's still stage one to play for
with the WC afterwards.
C-Stage 2 to play for with the Japan nature afterwards and rather see them fall now and try and fix their issues
But yeah to me seeing them grouped already when I anti-z grinded over through Challenger series
They they that's that's a huge go for me
So I'm surprised and you will see it here in the playoffs bracket
The fact that face clan didn't top their group that fluke showed on U7M ended up third seed
Means that one of these two teams that were at the tippy the top of ICL only last stage
are going to end up in the lower bracket straight at the beginning of playoffs so the quarterfinals
are actually going to go crazy and as you were talking to DS and telling him that he's made
it is one game away from the Sunlake City Major I was like he's going to have to play
the winner of Faze vs. Twix at the same time that's going to be such a hard one to win.
What a crazy what a crazy bracket. They need to do it. They need to do it. This
is kind of it. Basically the playoffs the best of threes here in Brazil with most
teams, especially the top that play in their own teamhouse.
This is kind of the prelude to a major.
If you want to learn more about S.A.L.
and how teams actually compete, the playoffs are the perfect
time to come in and watch especially those big teams because
they're going to end up reverberating all through and all
the way to the main event of the next major.
give you an idea. NIP and loss are playing against one another in phase versus
fluxo tomorrow. I'm very, very sad that you won't be here to witness it with me.
Leo, I know you will be watching it, whether you're on your plane or
training or whatever. I know you will be watching it no matter what, even
though you're not by my side. Jesse will be here. We'll be discussing all
that between me and him tomorrow on the show, but these two games are
huge and I'm gonna leave you with the final question of who do you think actually wins and advances to the
semi-saleo? I think looking at this NIP was the team that has the most consistency, they only made one
research change. It was their ideal, yes, that's it was your pay cons, but I think that overall they
looked more consistent at loss, so the other five rates in that one, Astro, FaZe Clan, Fluxo, W7M,
anyone who says something out of FaZe Clan doesn't know this game, these guys are two
two time SI winners, they only failed once in abuse one
and that's why they're ending up not topping their group.
I think if it was unfortunately,
Kudalian were going crazy in their group,
they would have foreshort of their group as well.
And even then, I would not be afraid to say
that this face turn was in group B.
I do believe that they would have topped their group as well.
I think that they just stumbled upon the second best team
that was in SAL.
So I think they will be the heavy favorites here.
If anything, we can guarantee that tomorrow
have banger games and we'll have massive repercussions on what happens later on next week because
come Tuesday these questions will have come to term. We'll be also preparing for the weekend because
next weekend we'll get to see all four teams that get to qualify. Who will they be? Two from the
upper bracket that will get a buy directly into that second phase of the Salt Lake City Major.
Also as you mentioned at the top of the show Leo, from the two teams that are going to be
left in the lower bracket, the winner of that lower bracket final, they're going to
advance into phase two, whereas the fourth team, they're going to have to grind their
way through that first phase. And that's not going to be easy because the caliber of
competition everywhere in Siege keeps improving time and time again. We saw it at SI, it's
only going to get better in Salt Lake City. And if anything, that should be your queue
as of you're out there somewhere in North America, especially to grab your tickets
and go to the Major because that is going to be the pinnacle of Siege for the beginning
of 2026, the actual full competitive year. We've seen it now for years Leo on LAN, it
is like nothing else and Brazilian teams especially play on LAN in a way nobody seems to be
able to predict.
Yeah, absolutely. And honestly, looking at this and looking at the Major, I am so hyped
because it will be the main big test for all of the regions that made such a huge
research. I mean, it was the craziest roster mania we've ever seen. You know, the two of us actually
joked about it with our R6 Daily magazine. And so coming into the major, I'm just so, so happy.
I want to see, you know, ShaiKo.G2 play against the new Furia. I want to see the two new team
Liquid face against the Falcons with June. I want to see the new CNL team coming up
against some of the best international teams as well. I think there's so many stories that
that we're going to see at this major.
So I'm just super excited to see who we're going to send,
who are going to be the best representative of each region.
There is nothing like it.
It's all of this online phase, the preparation
to see the best seats that there is.
It's a formality for some teams,
but definitely not for most of them out there,
especially with all the reshuffling that we've
seen post-SI.
The post-SI fallout is always something beautiful to witness.
And because not only we have Salt Lake City major now,
with kickoff coming to a close over the next 10 or so days globally, but also with stage
one that will be kicking off in the summer with how EWC ties into the official ecosystem
now with a guaranteed spot at the invitation with points that are going to be coming up
later on in the major in Japan in November with ENC also that's coming up that's going
to shift things up even though it's not officially part of the ecosystem. It'll
be something definitely to look forward to. We have a stack tier ahead of us and
all begins here at kickoff and I thank you Leo for a wonderful evening that we've had together
three seven hours and then a game that always almost almost went to overtime if anything it was
an entertaining night to close at the group stage here Leo I'll be seeing you next week for the
grand finals of SAL until then I wish you all the best in ENL I know you guys have a stacked
stacked timeline next week. Very much looking forward to seeing all the action and who gets to make it out of EML because it is to me still the most entertaining region there is and there's just nothing like it out there.
My heart always rains in EML after what like now 10 years of European siege. Thank you again Leo. I'll see you next week for those watching at home.
Thank you for joining us.
Tomorrow production team here.
See you next time tomorrow.
Bye.