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It is due or die for our teams because today either they qualify to the Salt Lake City
Major or means they'll have to watch it from home.
My name is Annel B, your host for today.
Join me in the studio with fresh and alfama important matches today guys.
Do we feel a bit of the nerves on behalf of the players, maybe?
Yeah, I think it's the last day also, so that's why we're a bit nervous.
You know, we're here to design who are the last two teams making it to the next City Major.
We're very much EML Shields, so we kind of want to have the best teams,
but also a good bite to teams that we would want to see the City Major, so it's emotional day.
Yeah, it's going to be an emotional day. Obviously it's been quite a condensed schedule,
you know, it's been quite a short schedule for kickoff,
but that doesn't mean these teams haven't played a lot, practiced a lot for it,
And today's the day you either will make the major or you will fail in your chances. It's as simple as that
Especially in the bracket it's been really condensed, right? Because in just a few days, we've had combined of two teams
We already qualified teams as well to the major yesterday
G2 and Virtus Pro are our first representatives of the email the first representatives of the whole world as they were the very first to
To qualify and then today look at that match eight and nine again
Such important matches for these teams and I'm looking at match eight and both these teams should
How did they actually make it?
to go into EML and in the very first season they could come in and it would already secure
top four and then a spot on the major it would be massive for them.
Yeah yesterday it was the big ticket Thursday today I'd like to call it final chance Friday
it is that first best of one of best of three sorry that's really important for the players
but then after that should you win that match and should you play the second series
today that one is also going to be really important.
Yeah absolutely that's because that final game of today will determine the winner
will go to phase two of the major.
will sign phase two of the major which is more aside points, small prize pool, it's a better shot,
actually achieving your goals of the major. If you were to win one best of three today,
that's the main goal, of course, that will get you to the solid state major. But then if you
were to lose that final game, that final best of three that we have, you would then be signed in
phase one of the major, which means an earlier chance at elimination. It means you've really
got to run the corner. Yeah, you've got less to say points as well, less prize pool,
but still that would be I think somewhat a deal that Muslims would take, because if you
If you don't win your first game, you end up with losing your B.O.1, your B.O.3 story,
and that means that you're losing on your SA spot, or you're a major spot, sorry,
losing on SA points as well, losing on catch-brides, and it would be a huge blow,
especially for teams like Secret of Islands.
Yeah, it would be, but I'm gonna go too much to seize you in Phase 2,
just like G2 and Virtus.Pro already are in,
and I feel like we haven't talked about this in offline,
because with Virtus.Pro, we qualified a rookie to the major,
a player that's only just in their first stage of EML,
I think that goes to show how strong our tier 2 scene is right at the moment
We've got the rainbow rumble going on lots of players
They're in contention to to show up and maybe get picked up by these teams as well
But very soon after that the second circuit or second
Tournament inside the tier 2 circuit will also start the combine signups are open for that right now
So if you feel like you you can be that new shifters or twisted minds and make it to an international event
You know got four capable fraggers sign up and play the combine
And I think you've got great examples of what it means for the two players.
I mean, look at heretics. They grinded their way to tier 2, made it all the way to EML.
Look at Rebels, another example of that.
Look at Geeky, a team that stuck together and also playing EML.
They were in the tier 2, so outrageous.
Exactly, so you have multiple examples of recent history, of teams performing and sticking together
through Combine, through Rambo-Ramble, through Softbridge,
and because of all that experience, they eventually made it to tier 1, you know?
So this is one of the critical moments of...
It's a central piece of our aggressive system.
You need to play it. If you expect to be a one-day, maybe playing for a living.
I mean, it's not just as a team. You just mentioned three teams there.
But we've also, like Antep, we've got Roarik that came up.
We've got Halbert that came into Fnatic.
Teams are picking select players as well.
So we're getting full teams, make the step up, but also players as well.
Combine, Rumble, they're all big parts of that process.
But when the big roster shuffle comes around next year, that's when their teams will be looking.
They are. So the signups are open. That's a very important point to mention.
into our games and the players that are signing up might as well very much find themselves as the
new secrets, the new Falcons, two teams that we see amongst this top in EML and two teams that we
have in our first matchup of the day as well. There are so many stores and so many things that
we can set about for this one but we'll have a look at the roster first because the main
important one to me from this one is that we find Jume playing against his whole team.
Yeah it is going to be a very important one. He obviously already played them,
that was just to be a one on border and I think he doesn't have great memories of that
That one, because Team Secret took them down in a convincing way.
Now, if you look at this roster, it is the trick of being the first of their group.
They only had 1v0-3 to perform.
They eventually lost to a virtuous pro that played much more matches,
and then in the end maybe that helped them basically beat Falcons,
and now Falcons are standing in the lower bracket.
For the first time ever, Jack, they have confirmed not being a top two team in EML.
And we were discussing together when we came here about the fact that
14 legs falcons it must feel exceptionally special to be in a situation where for once they are not in the league to make the major
You're back against the world. It's uncharted territory. You know, they they don't know what this feels like
They usually coast through the upper bracket. They're in you know, the approach on they are usually the first cure
Now there's real jeopardy on the line for falcons in that they might not even make it
Which to be honest over the last two years is absolutely
Unthinkable for this roster it is and we can look have a look at secret as well
I mean talking about this roster they've gone from being second
to be able to get into the
team. I think that's a big
problem in the SI Grand Final
to struggling against for
example, and make it through
this bracket. Yeah, and I
think secret maybe a little
bit more excuse in the fact
that they did have two players
ripped out of their system
and had to bed in two new
players, but not just two new
players. Two new quite big
prominent voices into the team
as well. I think we've kind
of seen that from secret. We've
kind of seen the good, the
bad and the ugly across the
entire kickoff phase so far.
You know, we've seen big
pictures that picture against
You know, and they really had to dig deep enough.
I don't know the thing that stand out, of course, looking at this roster, you were looking at the statistics.
Everyone is negative in EPS, but for Noa, who's at 130, I mean, he's really shining with this roster,
but he needs some other teammates to step up, they want a bit fountains and make it to the major.
Yeah, we consider these two teams still the top four of EML, or at least they were,
and that means that they play against each other all the time, whether it's in the EML,
whether it's at least international events, they have a really rich history against each other.
team. The two organizations
as well. Like you say, and they
play together all the time in
the ML. Why is that? Obviously
they play each other in the
loot fixtures for the actual
the brown Robin, but they also
find themselves playing each
other in the playoffs in the
double elimination, but also
seemingly every event as well.
You know, you think even all
the way back go all the way
back to Manchester major when
it was BDS get secret that
this roster was denying
secretly opportunity then on
the main stage, so they've
got such a story history and
it's not one sided or the
Sometimes secret wins, sometimes falcon wins.
It's not one side at all they win.
Well during 2025 it's most of the time when we have falcons because they beat them in
the playoffs of the ML, the first stage, also in the second stage, also in the ML finals.
But when it came to a side, things were different.
Finally the most important one, Secret took them down in the B03 to reach the final.
Now the thing is, is that trend going to continue?
And are they going to prevent falcons to finally reach a major that would be
the end of such a long streak?
Whatever happened though, it will be the end of an incredible streak for them.
I think something we talked about a lot as well right is that when June leaving to go to Falcons
There had to be somebody in his place in secret to really pick up
I guess what was left there right to really become that new superstar in this roster
Yeah, if we look at Noah against June that in this situation the stats lean a very peculiar way
Yeah, they absolutely do the two brothers separated of course with June depart in this roster
Junes had a I would say he had an electric start to the falcons life a little bit so and so recently
I think maybe trying to find his own again
But then Noah has been a hard carry of secret and a realistic like he said layoff the only carry of secret
One third CPS and just fragment out of his mind. Yeah, it's not staying in the same system
But given the shaniest role of roles, you know, he's become the star player of that roster
Yeah, we are for Jim. He still needs to adapt to a new system. So it's a bit unfair to compare them
Yeah, at the same time you have a better standing team where you look at June and all of his teammates
Yeah, I know the other side
It's much more one-sided on set of secret it's funny with June being a both outreach
So we have of course he had 103 PS, which is you know, 103% ultimately of what an average player is. He's still doing okay inside of that new system, but that's maybe a little bit below the standards that we expect of him as an individual, because he was the most talked about player in this transfer window.
He was the hottest property in this transfer window, and that's why Falcons went for him.
maybe that played a bit in his mind when they played against Secret in that
initial best of one right when we talk about best of threes and the maps in the
situation as well I want to see if there is a chance that we might be going
back to the method they initially lost on but for the first map oh we're actually
not going because voters being banned out the first map in the series will
be cafe yeah it's an interesting one because if you look at Secret they
actually don't have such a great record on it there in fact they lost
it to Rebels 7-4 which was what send them in the lower bracket in the
I'm just looking at Falcons who lost it to Virtus for yesterday. I'm expecting that secrets so this as a weakness
And so that's why they picked cafe itself
No big surprise here basically just okay. I've been was seemingly weak on that one. Yeah, so that's why we're picking it
I always do look just with that secret because I always do look for bank in this map meter between these two teams
I was very surprised to see secret not picking so especially how dominant they were last time they played it the other day against
However, that is also testament to Falcons, because Falcons also look the most.
Yeah, and then for Falcons to pick Fortress, not another surprise. They're actually playing the same game.
So Secret has looked quite weak on it. They lost it to Twisted Minds, so what are Falcons doing?
They pick the map where their opponent seems weak right now.
For Falcons however, the last time they played it was at SI, and it didn't go so well for them.
They got 7-1 by Rebellion, they also lost it to Wildcard, at a time where NA was basically predominant on that map.
So I'm assuming that they reworked the map since SI and this is where basically secret comes into play maybe into a trap
They will ban the bank one
For the disabled we could have a bank decided that would have been a banger bank decided as well
But now it is going to be shall I and I think that's a big pivot actually in times of the map
You think about cafe think about fortress think about two maps that can be quite difficult to attack
The defense should have a lot of options onto and then you get to shall I and it almost splits directly
said, shall we look for comfortable to attack on too? So of course, with the best of three,
we won't know who starts on the attack side until we get there, which is quite a change
from previous seasons as well.
I know that makes things really difficult to predict right, but looking at the veto,
looking at the way we find ourselves in the teams right now, any chances of who might
come out victorious?
I think most people will still say that Falcons are supposed to be the favourites
here. Let's be honest, they topped their group, Secret ended up fourth of their group
and started in the lower bracket. Falcons, they are in a system that works fine
And yes, they welcome June, but still most of the roster itself, the IGL, everything they do still is similar and it's still the Falcons that dominated the last two years of CG Sports.
On the side of Secret Jack, yes, it's still the same IGL, but it's two new players coming into a system and clearly a system that does not fit them so well because they're all negative in EPS.
Yeah, I think that's the thing. The Secret definitely feels like they're still in an adjustment period even if they did try and mitigate it.
the end of the year. You
can't do that. For Falcons. It
like is in Charter territory,
but you back them into a corner
what they're going to do. They're
going to come out swinging
yesterday for them was
unacceptable. Ultimately
unacceptable not to achieve
those goals of top two, but
they will have a big reaction
up the back of it. They won't
just whimper out and they won't
just leave this tournament. It's
not in the DNA. They used to
go into literally the grand
final every tournament over the
the last two years. They
have had a big talk after the
game yesterday and then they
will be firing today. And that
is the important thing, right?
Because we have so many stories
for this matter. We did save
the best one for last because
when we look at these two
teams and we look at their
results on international events,
they have made it to every
single international event in
the last two years. But with
this game that streak for one
of these two teams will have
to be broken. Think about
every event. Think about
literally every event starting
point scoring. One of these two teams has competed in the Grand
Final. Yes, may not have got over the line. As you can see,
we're Team Secret of the SI 2026 with Falcons in Munich and many,
many Grand Finals before that. But we've been so used to seeing
these teams, these organizations, these individuals, one of
them today has to fail because this is a low bracket game. One of
them ultimately will be a complete failure. It is not that
it's just a two year long streak because that in itself
is already impressive that these two roster made it consistent into every
stair event within the last two years. But like you said, it's the fact that at least
one of these teams made it to the grand final. It's deep runs every time. It's huge core memories
for these teams. It's teams that are used to reaching the top, top, top of international sports
in Siege. They are used to beating the top teams of every region. And one of these two teams
today, they end up going home. They won't go to the major for Liquefac and for Savage
especially the two IGLs. It is a massive moment because they were at the very core of the project.
They were leading their teams to those one finals.
One of them are going to watch the other play and maybe eventually reach the grand final of the Southlake City Major.
When they're set at home, this will be a huge slap in the face.
But I feel like with these two teams, I'll add even just a little bit more emotion
because I want to talk about June just once more, right?
Regardless of how you put it, it's going to be rough.
Either Secret sees their star player leave and sees their star player then make it to the international event.
to make a big change. It's
been a long time since he
went to the team. He went
denying their final chance of
making it. Yeah or June will
have to take it by his
brothers. And defeat them to
make it to an international
event, and especially when
you're a player who makes a
big change. It's very funny
seeing him sat in the team's
secret chair. By the way,
we were Falcon's Jersey on
that's just that's just the
position of this player
right now. But you know,
he made the choice to leave.
He went and he left because
he believed in the Falcons
first full team, then the one he was in, and if he ultimately fails today and has to sit
and watch his former project go to the event, that's going to be really tough one to take.
I think with Jume you have to come back to what makes him special, what makes him standout
compared to everyone, and I think to me as a former pro player, it is having someone
that is so consistent in the way he plays. It seems like the mental game barely affects
him. It feels like he's not nervous, it feels like that consistency is always there.
I think looking at him right now, I'm pretty sure that, you know, he's not here standing
on a stage with thousands of people, but this match means so much more to him.
Because he's, like you said, either denying former teammates, brothers with whom he's lived
the best of memories, either his brother are basically sending him home.
And that is, I think one of the trickiest matchups you can have in your career.
And it is probably for the player for dream himself just about him focusing on the game and ignoring all of this all of this type of the sentiment of his former team of the expectation.
It all has to just be white noise to him and just focus on the task at hand. And that's a really hard thing to do as a player because you know it will come afterwards.
You know, he wouldn't. If it is the case of a failure, he will start second guessing himself. Did I make the right choice?
You know, did these guys make the right choice to me?
But right now right in this moment as he compares the game as we wait for players getting a lobby
He needs to be focusing on only what he can control which is inside of the game
As you mentioned right
We're still waiting on all of our players to be in the lobby and for the game to start and that means for us to talk about this game
A little bit more. I think we talked about our two star players
I also want to bring it in a little bit more of a well negative
See it sounds really sad
But in the way that which of these players probably feels the most pressure to to deliver because we talked about our start performance
right? The ones that we expect to release a boosman who has been maybe dropping the ball
a little bit too much. Yes, to this point, dropping the balls may be a bad way to put
it, but I think the pressure probably falls for citizen and knife. I would say I think
because, you know, there was a lot of questions when these guys joined roster as you know,
if they were good pickups, if they were valid replacements for Adrian and June and
secret have had their trials and tribulations. I think realistically, the one thing secret
picks up with those two players is big voices. They picked up voices inside of
the team and that's because of
that they when they pick up the
voices you've got to mesh that
with savage as well who is used
to being the lone voice of team
secret. So I think there's a
lot of pressure on on you know
those guys really you see in
numbers but actually to get the
team flow. Yes but we have all
the players in the lobby and
that means we can bring our
casters as well to chitchat
a little bit before we start
this game. We're joined by A's
and this and guys I feel like
you got a great game. I mean
we're talking about it here
in the studio. One of these
it's a great opportunity for
the team to be able to make it
the first week of making it to
every international event and
even grand finals. It's weird,
isn't it? Like I was here
earlier on. Like, can you
imagine a tournament without
either of these two teams that
it now given what powerhouse
is that becoming the region. And
it just feels weird to know
we've got to send one home
like very, very weird. It
feels as though this matchup
has been written in the stars
since the day that June left
you're going to be able to
get to the top of the list.
It always comes down to it. The
one match up you think I
imagine that it's always the
one that happens next up
Falcon's G two Salt Lake
Final. I'm just saying. I like
it. I like the reason either
way, it might be written in
the stars. At least the match
is ready to start so you could
take it away. Thank you very
much. And yes, let's get into
this one team because although
it's exciting moment. We're
about to qualify team to
the other than Jim having to
step over his old friends to
make it to Salt Lake Hall. The
rest of secret move forward into
a new era without and it's going
to be a great series over
kicking things off here on
cafe. Whereas you pointed out
earlier. Alka's got bastard there
yesterday. It wasn't pretty. It
wasn't pretty, but it's brought
played very, very well. Um you
know, it was partly about
that team and how well they
played, but the reality is as
well that Falcons did not
I don't know if this map is going to be a little bit. I'm not trying to undersell it, but
Is it going to be a little bit of who's the the least bad on cafe?
I don't know, you know
It's work been done. I've falcons aren't going to have had too much time to you know
Too far into cafe and secret may well have been preparing for this for a couple of days
But yeah, it's going to be an interesting start. We've got our bands come through grim and snake
Will be the attackers that will get off the board
I think he's going to have a
good. No surprise to see
snake taken around cafe as we
sin. He's so low. Well, clear
capabilities. You know, anything
other than top floor, which
hopefully we don't see too much
of today, and snakes going to be
super powerful in working his
way through and clearing those
owners out. So definitely a good
shape taking him off the board.
I think. Yeah, and I think
you're only going to see more
and more snake as time goes by
in terms of bands. That is
because the team start putting
into good use and sees realize
gosh, so impressive. We can't
deal with this player on
making a way like I remember Leak of Art being one of our pioneers you might say was told us.
Look at the number of teams tried, she got nerfed. Leak of Art was then still playing the living death out of it.
To the stage they were drawing the odd ban here and there.
So I think you might find Snake going the same way, but otherwise as you said,
he's now to your architect being taken off board. Mirror and customer move away.
Just sneak up and move through the map at least a little bit more fluidly,
without being held back by those two operators.
So let's see how things fare, Tim.
We are starting things I believe up on the top floor,
I imagine means you want a particularly happy bunny
We don't need to go into it again top floor bath other sides good
Teams keep picking it
Let's move on. I don't think we are that looks like it could be a read. Oh, it's difficult to tell just from the silhouette
I'm not crashing out today. I'm not crashing out today
I refuse. I've been saying it
for years. Nobody's listening
to me. They keep picking the
lowest defense rates that primary
choice. Go for it. Go for it.
Let's see. Let's see how many
defenses get one here today. Um
secret start on the attack. Let's
have a look at that line up.
Nothing too kind of, uh, you know,
meta defining there. We've got
sort of met a reshaping. If you
are, we've got the dock of it.
those war takes particularly red stairs if like the flank coming through.
You've got the ace there to open, I would imagine Piano Wall, try and get through,
give a little bit of access into their clear pixel out,
and then the docker being lying around is going to be very disruptive choices,
especially if you've got anybody underneath.
But for the time being, I need to worry about that balcony window.
Mowgli's going to take a bunch of damage as well,
as Vulcans get his underway with the first chips of damage coming along.
manages to pick up cities in.
Nitro does no good.
It's going to be five versus four.
As the docker we are flying at that as well.
Tim, no step confirmed,
called available to make use of,
which is so crucial for moving through the map overall.
But the defenders playing very heavily
to this trap line-up.
Tim, three of those trap operators
on the side is proving a little bit of a headache
to try and deal with
until like that,
secret staff flooding in.
But they've lost everyone except Nafe at this point,
both Noah and Mowgli down on their ass.
And Nafe is left in a one versus three.
So this one not really feeling too recoverable
unless Brett,
He's feeling particularly up to it today, but a couple of critical shots from Solotov.
It feels like the first round is going to wear falcons.
Yeah, it does look that way.
We finally have a successful defence on top floor, so a well-done falcons.
They close it out, and we'll be able to move on like facts fired up already.
The desk said, you know, a very, very valid point.
Falcons are not used to being in this position, you know,
for qualifying for major events, having to win, you know,
being essential that they get that result.
So I'm sure that emotions are going to be sort of running high within the team today.
I think we see that after round one a strong response and a strong bit of emotion coming out.
I think that's good for Falcon and see, you know, make sure he doesn't get out of hand,
but be fired up coming here knowing that you're going to win it.
I think confidence wins the game against a secret that have been
on a little bit of a roller coaster ride so far.
I think put the wonder as much pressure as you can as early as you can
and do you start wearing things heavily in your outfit?
Yeah, I've known him a long time, realistically, for a lot of teams.
It's one thing I think that many of us have overlooked since the time he's gone by.
This tournament that we're in now is called Kickoff for a reason.
My post-SI is always the biggest shuffler roster she tends to see around the world,
and Heaven knows there's still a lot of that going on in other major regions too.
But it is a little bit of time, it seems, to really get myself fed with injury and kickoff
and figure out what's working, what's cut, what we've got to change.
So we have seen rising and falling performances through our kickoff,
But once you get into what's past like this, this is where it really starts to matter.
So I'm hoping we get that strongest climate secret today because while it would be heartbreaking to not see
Falcons that are arguably now one of the strongest islands in the world
Invigorated by June, who was one of our best performers at SI
It would be absolutely heartbreak to not see them there
But what a story and what a high it would be the secret being that team to do it
And to then looking at that defensive lineup we've got the Fenrir
It's been quite a lot of Ben Ray played over the last couple of days and not that he's just got particularly strong in the last couple of days
Or anything is an excellent operator. Very disruptive for attackers
It seems to go up and down a little bit, but always popular the last few minutes
We're gonna have losers bringing them along just trying to prevent that push into restaurant
It's going to be citizen looking to be in a typical sphere here.
Goal-seeking all of that, just to put the kill onto June.
Citizen does indeed get himself one, make that two.
Big, big moment from Citizen.
Just dips in, gets his kill, dips out, and then they can just reshape.
What's going on here?
No, a solid top trade with each other.
Leak effect fighting back 1v4 becomes a 1v3,
but the stat is completely open to Team Secret here
as Leak effect is stuck on White Stairs
and taken down by Savage on the blitz.
Yeah, excellent opportunity spotting at the start there from citizen to get that two games open at the rest of the round was beautiful because
It I states a lot of the other players on the side of Falcons who want to try and get back in towards site
You simply can't do that when you've lost all this control of red you can't easily rotate out of bakery to the north
Everything was very very predictable there for the side of secret
Dare I say that's kind of the secret that we know and loved and have done for many many years now
As I've said for a while every tournament they've played at recently they have been the best attacking team barn on
across the entire tournament. They're a brilliant team to watch on the attack. And I was worried that
we might still disappear away with the loss of Adrian and of course the Dume. At least in that
round I'm a little bit buoyed by that saying it looks pretty good. And wow, Fnatic catches some
stray shots there. Love that. Fnatic just sat there like, huh? What an answer! YF me!
gonna set up a bar by storage he's looking to prevent anybody getting into piano essentially neither of those spots
You're just trying to do it more than anything. You know, you're not gonna play the entire round
You want to hold them back for as long as you can get a kill or two if possible even better
It's gonna be up to secret to move in as soon as they can in the round really
Yeah, kind of we'll come back to speak about earlier
and how we're going to see the rise of the fans.
Snake is trying to go to fire.
Well, once Likith back comes to hit him,
he's jumped onto that solo list.
And like I said, when she was getting nerfed state,
he was still one of the very few players.
You can probably count them all on one hand.
The players that were still playing solo around the world,
you're going to see more of that here.
Of course, the interesting dance,
you get to see the IQ of the soloist back and forth,
but I imagine Likith back would be a bit too slippery
to simply walk in and take his head clean off.
and he's going to hold the ball angle up towards cocktail from the window.
See if he can catch anybody out.
It's going to be June in that position.
He needs to be careful.
Takes a few shots.
It's as if patience pays off.
Sees you down to nearly half health.
Savage is going to start this slow march
across top floor with the Monty as well.
First job is going to be clearing Solotov,
but let's not forget he was backed up by Bredi in barred back storage still.
Holding on Paxil, good bit of damage into Savage as well.
If him didn't quite realise he was there at his attention,
he'd only turned into you as far and he paid the price.
Even Joom now asking a question of loving the aggression.
Coming out of the Falcon's boys here, mate, and a third team.
First from Pixel, then into the garage.
Selfing for a run-out from Leaky Fat, beautiful stuff.
Probably something we'd see Leaky Fat doing,
heading out on the run-out,
but he's decided that the chains are off
and he's going for it.
Solid self-managers to find Mowgli.
Now, if we're the response, taking down Joom,
but Joom's done a great job, wasted a minute 45,
been aggressive and maybe just
facilitated some of those other
kills. We've seen that just
created that space. If tries to
go running in runs only into
users. The shotgun found
himself taken down and it is all
up to savage on the shield.
We know that he's great on the
shield operators, but what
before you can't really expect
him to do too much freedom takes
him down and that is going to
be the round for Falcons.
attacking side and they're very effective in the execute even against teams that aren't so put together like the best way to
Disrupt them on the attack and really send them into disarray is don't let them have all five operators available come the execute time
And that can be going for cheeky C4s earlier on it could be doing runouts twisted mind style
You know the several ways that you can do it Falcons aren't always the kind of team that will go ridiculously aggressive as we've just seen there
Three players one after the other all trying to go aggressive on towards the shield player
the head out taking shots that
brought from leaky fact again.
It's quite a rare occurrence for
them, but I started the size
maybe the things could be turning
around just that little bit more
like how they're keeping secret
under those there.
So you could never even got
sniffing that round.
So around three together you've
had two very different rounds
there but very, very
decisive from either side.
I think it's going to continue.
I think that's what we're going
to see not just through
cafe but through the day.
You know, these are two teams
that are fighting to nail the
desk of spoken about it.
you know how many events they've been to consecutively grand finals that they've been to you know neither of them wants to miss out on this opportunity and you know as far as the story goes it's you know like I said just before we came into the game it's a funny thing how you know these matches tend to come together it tends to shape up that way it tends to be that you get that one match up is the just imagine just imagine one of these two not me.
it. Breeder. I'm going to be
setting up the camera in the
corner there. See screw into
cigar also sees under new
hatch and beautiful. It's
difficult to clear out as well.
It's got to be wary of the
swing coming onto new balcony
from cocktail. If you're
focusing on taking that
camera out, so all good stuff
for focus on the setup. They've
got the mind stores well
at those bubbles exactly what I was going to say yeah the fact that you got the six nades on
side that you've got the strike or a long here that's kind of their chosen go-to way of dealing
with it we're kind of in a mess of delware I think actually given you know just in a couple of
operators receive nades as well like it's in a spot where you can get a lot of nades
around in 12 if you want to you know that may have a nade like here more out realistically
as well if you see this spot of course we'll be very very strong still although it's being a
really interesting method where there's been a real blend in terms of what shields get brought
along like you see the savage running across in the monty a little bit even crossing the
the blitz underway here as well. Is it his element right now when it feels like we've got a shield operator is?
I don't understand it's from now because they always have been, but even more impactful than we could have been previously.
Including Clash.
Yeah, we saw some big Clash player from Stump and yesterday for G2.
Was it Pengu who was just like, who even asked for this? I forget who was and said it.
But then it's like, who asked for this increase from 10 to 15? It feels crazy.
I'm not going to be doing a job
and stomp and prove that yesterday,
but all the proving today is going to have to first of all be done by these two.
We've got another big match coming up after this.
We've got another two big matches coming up.
The next big match after this, of course, is Shifters vs. Twisted Mines.
One of those, again, who will go to Salt Lake City.
The other will be eliminated.
the top floor again, it was a
little bit scrappy last time.
They got themselves into new
balcony, tried to push and get
aggressive this time. They have
managed to pick up the opener
onto solid top, but that's a big
loss to Falcons. The store is
super powerful, especially the
lot of verticality available
like there is here, but how
about that from user citizen
just to get the ball to the
top floor again. It was a
little bit scrappy last time.
They got themselves into new
balcony, tried to push and get
aggressive this time they
have managed to pick up the
The citizen just looks right into his scope and he says, thank you very much great read from users as well thinking knowledge in
And then doubled outside the building so where else could he possibly go of course
He's gonna reply up and try pushing towards no door and the read on him was absolutely beautiful
But while that's been going on there's been focus elsewhere to a three players trying to push it upstairs
Can they get away with one June getting into the back as we start to see the oldest thing
to the right. He's going to
get him. He's on for a second
up for a third and June does
it all closing it out for
Falcons in round four. Exactly
that is exactly what you did.
Correct. I thought that was the
replay for a second, then, um,
master doing big work there. Um
you know, I think my straws
very valuable operator. Um I'm
not going to, you know,
I think it might have been. I
don't again. I'm not going to
attribute it. I'm pretty sure
Nick was talking about it on a
stream, and he was basically
saying similar. He's like, I've
kind of wondered about that one.
Um, because master brings a lot
of value to the team with the
Intel with the difficulty
disrupting the bubbles with
the elder as well. You know,
there's I think there's a lot
of value. I think that might
have been the one that
that document police.
Is also the one that put
the jackal down dead low and
then played it himself twice
yesterday and pull him out
for it. And he was like,
well, he's got needs now.
Like, come on. Give me
We see that sometimes. We
have to put some slack. It's
okay now. Yeah, there'll be
some chicken around the
search with the addition of
needs and things like that,
making things very, very
interesting indeed. I'm up
secret as you guys very
clearly see by now. Using
this before 45 seconds in
which the coach can step in
twister and have a good
conversation with the boys
about things that he thinks
are going wrong. Now to say
things are going wrong.
Probably is a little bit
harsh like it's 31. It's
certainly not the end of
the world were very used to
It has been quite decisive, you know,
Secrets 1 was when they managed to find a gap
on the ground floor downstairs.
Citizen Jumpstein collects two kills.
Thank you very much.
And the round is basically over from there.
Whereas every other round, I'd say,
has been quite decisive on Cloud and Spavor.
So they've got to turn something around
and see what that something is.
Dume had a little bit of a quiet day yesterday.
And he is certainly turning a few things around.
6-3 so far to be a big round four in round four there
on the nationals, we just saw.
We're going to see Vulcans now heading down to the bottom floor and I'm sure they're going to be waiting for us here to make the purple patch continues for June and that he is able to continue picking kills up as you see he was trying to hide himself away there on the Valkyrie but it's picked up and we see the IQ brought along and so those black eye cameras should be reasonably easily dealt with.
Should be Tim. Should be. Should be.
Every time a scene seems to bring along an IQ, just because they're like the gunner,
then they're actually nice to hunt down the crucial bits of utility.
It's designed to count in counter. It's just like, crazy.
That's crazy. And it might be a case here that didn't see Zoom because to be fair,
Solisov was running around making sure there was nothing in sight, and then
when he realized he was okay, he started getting his set up done.
It might be a case of, okay, we haven't seen the fifth, we know the hiding something here.
It's probably going to be a vowel creak. We should deal with that now.
And so that's why I think they've brought around more fence professors, more than anything else.
Otherwise the rest of the lineup is very very safe as you said earlier on Tim, it's not like a meta, like revolting lineup is not changing everything over or spinning it around, it's very much sticking to what they know and Lurg has got the fliers inside for the safety, the gridlock to make sure they can knock down the red stairs especially and Savage, well you know what he's going to play Tim, he's always going to be a shield.
He's gonna do a great job of it, that's it.
He is.
Ah, Doom.
Gonna take a little bit of damage there.
I picked him out from the last round.
Said he was having a good game.
He needs to be careful that he doesn't lose his life in this one.
Goes for the bat and finds it.
Takes the head off a niff.
But mine in window.
Brilliant kill from Doom.
Continues then to beat a nuisance on that mid-four tick and down.
In a late trade from Morgzley.
Beautiful one.
Dazzle being held from brown stairs.
But half of the round wasted and a body down.
But this one hangs in the balance because secret they've got plenty of time to get this done as well
Not too much of a problem from there sad
June said the perfect read on both plays and if you'd hit that second one on to the brown stairs
I'd have been like June turn the boxes off mate and read outlines that you can see on your screen
We can't see an ass get it turned off, but it would have been absolutely ridiculous
But I think one savage shift in out there with us a little bit more careful then know what it was
He was trying to do how he was trying to manipulate things and just cause chaos round train itself
So it was a good response from T secret
Just now trying to get themselves down towards Breezer, our team's secret.
Malva's going to hold the position on Red Stairs, just trying to see if he can catch
anybody out inside of side.
It doesn't get too much movement around there though to offer anything from Falcons.
The real big problem is they need to do a Breedy, I say this time after time after time.
He's playing in VIP, as many players do, the Tubarao is there, he's preventing
the hatch drop, he's preventing the push to bottom right of stairs.
That's what they need a plan for.
That's who they need to clear out.
Next, they've got 30 seconds to get it done.
Solid top.
It's a beauty up through the floor, on to Citizen Ticks.
He's down four versus three.
20 seconds, it's getting concerning for secret.
It's again, Barthas is being really disruptive
and peeking constantly onto these players.
You know, Simon, Tunes, Rome,
onto that second kill they've got then.
They aren't sitting back and playing turtle.
They're taking the fight to secret.
All every single chance they get.
Now, Stabbing's throwing a stocky side of the ball
to be the case. He's left
entirely alone. Falcons aren't
going to give him anything. They
take round five and this
disruptive play store that
adopted here on cafe is working
wonders even after attack time
out. Yeah, they're looking miles
better than they did yesterday.
I think Jim Tech in a leaf out
of Dawkins book yesterday is
just getting the food on board
whilst he's you know, he's
cooking them in the server is
eating them outside. He's
He's getting stuck into his snacks. We love to see it
Yeah, going good for so far
Falkens 4-1 looking completely different. I did adjust to be on cafe to be honest
Looking much more in command of things here and much more comfortable. So we're not looking like they're least preference map
They've been really stretching team secret. They've been as you say playing a destructive play style, you know taking
success they've been getting like doom on the full-size solid top fighting from bottom red you know on the reverse vertical angles
Just really mix the things up
And I think surprising secret a few turns and looking at the fact we've got Fortress and shallow to come
I feel a little bit concerned right now if I was a secret van
That said Falkens are on the defensive side. Cafe is defensive in that, you know over the last recent pass
Concedrably so is it a tough map to attack on to so
I don't think it's a secret, I haven't seen it yet, but Falcons didn't build it so much.
They do, very different team, learned from the mistakes yesterday and normally at events when you and I speak about Falcons, you know, you often say to yourself, everyone can have their one down day, that's completely fine, they've just got to find what day that is.
If that was yesterday and today the Falcons are back up full of full strength, then it's great news for them. Not such great news to secret, unfortunately.
They still got the chance as well, you know for the better seeding
We spoke about that on the desk what it means if you get one best of three wins two best of three wins
You know the basically if you can get the two best of three wins
You're gonna see yourself having the best seeding going through to sort like so here as well
So they might actually if Alkins can win two games today
Like you say, you know, if you've had days everybody has them during a group phase, during a tournament, during whatever
You can have those days where you're a little bit off if you can just get them at the right time
And you don't have any control of that
But if you can just get them at the right time and you can perform when you really need to you can actually come through relatively unscathed
Yeah, for sure. I think honestly it's the change in playstyle today for Falcons as far as yesterday
We had a lot of things like Echo coming out and we're digging deep behind Goyo's all the time
And they've got a Goyo here as well
But it's the fact that they've got Romas available in nearly every single round a lot of trap operators for example
I saw a little bit of that yesterday. It's where the falls in Bandaway. Here it was played yesterday.
B-O-H-O-H-O-H-O!
Bit too easy for Leaky Fat.
Like I said, Tim, they're wanting to play this destructive playstyle today, where they get out in the map,
they don't sit back and hide behind utility, and it is working wonders.
Leaky Fat was through wonderful shots.
Uses gets Nathan swimming in nowhere. The Deimos goes down.
This is now looking pretty much unrecoverable for Mowgli and Savage.
This gets Won back. It's a lot more work to do.
Yeah, it could have been a lack of intel for Team Secret there.
But let's have a chat to our studios to what they think about how the half went down.
Yeah, you guys are right. It's only one win really on the offside there for a secret though.
This being their map big, they're struggling on the attacks.
Yeah, definitely. When you pick into a map like Cafe, you've got to be confident in the way that you're attacking them up,
especially when you're up against a formidable opponent in Falcons who have those enabled, you know, individuals on the defense.
In fact, they actually only managed to win one singular attack round, and that was a really, really good preset rush.
and actually we can roll the clip and listen to their voice calls.
Oh no, you ready to flash to go?
Yes, flash, flash, flash, flash, ready, ready, 3, 2, 1.
Fucking hell, what?
Ah, what the fuck, bro?
Ah bro, one trade a day bro, like one trade a f***ing day, hello?
Oh damn, my friend.
Alright, so what's the key thing to remember here?
So basically, opportunity seeking.
It's a roam, extended roam, we see the opportunity, let's go for a rush.
Three, two, one, let's all go together.
Great, great timing.
Now the problem is Falcons, the way they've stopped that is,
if they don't leave a gap, if they play close to each other,
then there's not that opportunity to go hit the side directly, right?
So, secret, they have to go back to a default push step by step behind a shield.
The problem is, Falcons, they always send a player aggressive around 1 minute 30 or 1 minute left into the round.
Why do they do that? Because it's the moment where Secret has got limited control over the map.
They're trying to basically prepare to execute. They have utility in hand, and look at the last round.
Lekevac comes in, gets a double kill when the guys are setting up.
That's a classic Falcons' way of taking away the man advantage and closing out the round in a defender-sided map.
Is that aggression right as Secret? We're just getting comfortable into the control.
sub-agent probably they're going through the ponds what six you're gonna be bang bang two people dead
okay guess this round's lost again and that's where falcons were really good and really winning
most offenses yeah with the way that they're doing it i mean they have the players to back it up right
to make these individual plays make these hero plays to really get that control back but we're
looking at the second half or we're looking at the operator bench right now a mira a
montane so far how are we feeling about those mira is a very like the classical barrier i think
on cafe because it's so useful for mining reading and top floor not a big one and yet
and Azami, right? The two classic ones. You want to remove the two strong ones. So effectively right now,
mining, reading, and top floor have become way weaker because Mira is bad. And then on top of that,
Azami, same situation, really useful up top. The counter start obviously is Falcons are not going
to have the shields to, you know, be that leading force to get the attackers around it.
Breda does play a lot of shields, however, it doesn't necessarily feel as big as an
impactful map. They're not necessarily a clutch team on those shields. So less impact,
Maybe you could have got rid of maybe the yin the grim something like that
Maybe the ace for the preaching as well means to come for that Falcons have now with those rounds in the lead
Let's see how the second half goes
Defenders protect your balance from being the heroes on the guys over on the desk
Definitely be an interesting house, and we actually saw Falcons doing particularly yesterday running black beard a couple of times
So maybe you see it work out again, but I did lose those rounds yesterday. So maybe they'll avoid it today
Yeah, they seem happy enough to and I'm gonna say this before
The epic finish is that they're going to change onto the shields and we'll now end up with a few shield and a Blackbeard by the end of this clip.
At the minute, it'll even be worth a match. They're going to be bringing along a burst, obviously.
Maybe the fact it's going to be used with the F2, no doubt.
We've got the Dockabee, the Lion, again, just talking about that, the classic destruction combo.
Make it difficult for people to go into stains, you know, stationary spots.
And then on top of that, you've got the Nomad being chosen instead of the Gridlock.
They're both doing the same job. They're both there for the same purpose. It's just different utility that can be brought along and breed it on the Grim which you know
Always super valuable
When it comes time to pushing forward to clearing out and thinking about areas like piano possibly
You know the goal of these army now to hold that area so if you're looking to get in there where's your risk?
It's washroom. It's pixel spot. It's being swung from those corners things like you grim bees canisters
They can go in there and prevent those swings coming through
First thing they're going to have to deal with is Citizen.
She's been a surprise for all that got League of Pats starting the half-off on the stake as he did yesterday.
I'm giving the other operators of the scene in play.
Looking back at that solace in the first half, information is ink.
Especially for an IGL of course, I'd be able to make plays at the back of that,
call up the rest of his team on what the focus needs to be, so it doesn't surprise me at all.
As the pin's coming out, now imagine me left the back of that to be a course we've seen right.
One's on Lumber, one's on Pixel.
expected granted at this point in the round but it's always nice to know I'm
actually going to bring others into action quite an interesting choice it's
only like a micro really he's going to pick up the opener onto Morgler there
what's going to fill up the manager to find the uphill kill onto the man at the
bomb chassis but we could fact use these drones to clear that laser gate
he's on snake he had a nade in pocket which he could have used there's not
too much that nades are going to be successful with Jager and Wamai onside
Just an interesting choice to kind of give up the intel when he's on an operator who could pick up more nades.
But, look, fighting from deep-air is going to use that DMR makes it seeming to find Solotov.
Nomad taking down, but it feels like it's a matter of time as Falkens get aggressive, push forward.
Usus has got leak effect covered. Manager to find the second as well.
And that is going to be Falkens taking their first attack, and that is a long bells ringing.
it is panic stations. It is
everything for team secret
does because they have now found
themselves 61 down and in serious
trouble on cafe. This again, and
I think you just in that round
is perfect proof of why solid
sake is going to become a very
hotly contested operator thinking
bands as well. I think the
only player that leaking fact
didn't see throughout that round
on cams. Only supposed to
gadget story is this player
kill for June. Solid stuff going down there. You might look at it and say, well, they didn't
know he was there. The thing is they did, and this is why it's a little bit like, huh, at the moment,
it's like a facts full, why the last two players were. But there was one inside the cocktail,
one hung off towards the new balcony, and I was like, okay, surely this is far too easy,
but I don't know exactly where they are. So I've been solidified and missed the
farm mods for that little bit too soon there and wasn't common to them in time.
But immediately the response was, the players on windows watching him,
the players pushing him from bar, they basically had a 3v1 onto that cocktail player.
It's just beautiful teamwork and again shows the lethality of these big Intel heavy operators in the hands of players like Lika Fack.
Yeah, exactly. That's actually interesting that it works out that way, because that's why I made that point about the drone as well.
You know, he has other options but still chooses. You know what, the Snake Gadget is just so good right now.
And I've got this Intel constantly. I can use this scanner.
like drones have been king in siege for years you know Tron and Intel has been
so important and it was like snakes kind of at a point by a leak of facts like
I don't need that anymore I'll chuck that in to get the layers of gate cleared out
I've got my Sion around fine and it's just a really interesting thing.
Well even if you're stepping away from this one to the Ram you've got Jumis now stepped across to take up those solid snakes literally duties.
Swapping ass!
You can get the scan in and of course stop forgetting because what I think for a number of frag is the very much enjoying snake because of the fact that F2 is
available, lethal with that rate of five.
I've met him in the corner, always the nicest player around,
but I don't think I've seen one with Zoom.
Yeah, I feel you right now.
I'm still on for the end, too.
The players like Zoom, more than happy to do one,
it's like recall doesn't exist.
Yeah, you just pulled out of it.
Nah, not at my age, you know.
Erm, how can I see Zoom getting in on these?
Oh, it's Nicky's also got the right working alongside him.
3D drones, this is serious work, actually, in Vulcans.
We're only just a minute into the round,
and they're already starting on that verticality.
All good, gonna take half health damage there.
He's to be cautious now for the rest of the round.
Dipsy's were out of sight for the time being.
Look at this.
Alcans are ready to start getting themselves down
to that lower floor as well.
There's absolutely no messing about checking the scanner there,
I think, to see if anybody is inside the court
and see what they can pick up
as they move down those stairs.
We've got Bridoe Lone here on the double doors.
But the fact that he's got these fees down
suggest that might be two or three players stacking on this door.
Teams are so used to seeing like trade-based play coming out of there,
which is a great highlight by Crash of the strat that came up with Twisted Vines
in the day to try and push the way through.
Oh, I'm sure it's on the back of that.
You just completely tore the box in!
That's four ways to win, Matt.
One point, that's for sure.
Savage could do nothing but look on what a fantastic round
and fantastic map for Vulcans as they go up 1-0.
They are not looking about today.
Users making it look like I'm training, Matt.
He was just walking around, clicking heads, casual as you like.
Not a problem for users and not a problem for Vulcans.
Jim's gonna finish off his snake because they've just made a snake out of Team Secret 7-1.
Well, this could prove to be the end of the very quick series of account carries on at this pace.
Let's hope the secret could turn around during the break.
But with you in just a few.
I
Not too long since we last had here because Falcons made really quick work of that.
Well we can't even call it another second half because that's how short it was but there
was such a clear difference in the class that we're seeing on these attacks from Falcons.
Yeah the base thing the entry kills as well this is a symptom of uh
Secret moving way too much in the first defense. They get punished really in dumb ways, right?
But also because Falcons got into the building much quicker than Secret on the attack side and this is another example here
They have cleared all of the top floor. They had already waiting control
You have one pair of side-back to playing aggressive this triple kill from users that just gets in front of waiting
The pacing and control of the map is just completely different from Secret
the team. I think the team
can be really good. I think
they're really good compared to
Falcons. Yeah, and it was a
lot of the operators. You know,
the snake the day most the
dog could be no photo shield
grim the line. The shields in
the matter today. And ultimately
we showed them up head to head
in terms of the pregame.
Do you mean gets Noah knows
maybe winning it one 30 PS
pregame over the whole
stage. This is not one
stats only and you can see
for example, the doom
actually was absolutely
actually like to highlight another player on the side of Team Secret. That player is Mowgli,
because for me, Mowgli actually had a really, really poor game, and we need to highlight that,
because when Noah's not fracking, we've come to be quite accustomed to the fact that it is
Mowgli, that he's that big game player, that he can make those plays and he can win those 1v1s,
he previously has had issues when he's fracking up against this team Falcon's roster.
It looked like over the last six months that he'd sorted those out, but then we see that
map one from him, which, you know, ultimately he was constant. Yeah, the key thing is that
some of the attacks from secret, yes they were rushed, yes they were in a position where they
didn't have enough map control, but the gunfights could have helped them. If Mowgli won some of
the critical gunfights on the top floor, I'm thinking for example that one round on the top
floor where he's in long bar and he can either kill the cocktail player or the freezer player
and he misses both, you know those are examples. Or on Bakery, Bakery same thing,
they're executing on the site, yes they don't have a lot of control, but if Mowgli
wins this gunfight killing the only anchor on site, they win that round as well. It's
critical gun fight very important moment where he misses the critical shots and
that's two rounds two rounds in a row that secret could have won there and
that's below their expectations that he's comes up on himself as well.
Sending or seeing the vibes at least from the secret players so far doesn't
really seem that there's also much pressure on their shoulders they seem
quite calm but they need these bigger player moments as you guys were
talking about especially going into map 2 and we'll talk about that after this break.
Falcons are a map point to make it a salt lake city and that means a secret might be
in for a negative surprise because we haven't seen this map in a little while from Falcons.
So in Falcons, they've been hiding it since SI, so now is the moment they pull it out
at the most important moment, also because they're one map away from the Major, and a
critical thing is Secret, they've shown it already, and they lost it to Susan Mines.
So not only do they look quick, they also have zero idea of how Falcons are about
to play the map.
They had two months to rework it entirely, and that puts them at the advantage.
So for the sake of Secret, you hope that they have cooked up something to keep
themselves alive in this challenge to get to Salt Lake City.
We're going to see how this one plays out and Tim, isn't it? Fortress, as we said, is an interesting map for both of these teams.
Do you look at the numbers? I believe you said a 28% attacking win rate for both of them, am I right?
Yep, 28.6 if we're being precise. Yeah, it's not good so far, but as Alphamus says, we haven't seen Team Falkens play since SI.
You know, Team Secret does include performances since then against Twisted Minds, so it's better say we might see something a little different coming out of Team Falkens,
the team seems to like it.
I think it's a very good map.
Yeah, I think there's going to
have been some serious work done
there by Falcons and I would be
concerned for team C.
Looking at you, which has been
the most popular map so far
throughout the stage and how
things have played.
Interestingly, across the world,
this is mind you throughout
April. It's been our least
picked, but every map has been
the most popular map in the
I don't want to say too definitively, because it's difficult to remember every single map pool we've ever had and where the one was maybe marginally better.
But I look at it at the minute and I just think every map is very competitive. There's none that stand out to me as I age of problems or anything that sort of people don't like or anything like that.
I think there's some good comfort maps in there. There's some good strategy maps in there. There's some good gun fight maps in there. So yeah, I think the pool is absolutely fantastic at the moment.
I agree because on paper, I will look at it probably about six months ago and said, you know, a cafe, I can do without a cafe. I can go and get something else. There's a coastline back in there, maybe something like that.
But boarders kind of hold in that role that coastline had before, so I'm not too keen to see them both in the pool.
I don't think you can have force, I'd agree.
No, and I actually think cafe is in quite a good spot at the minute with the addition of snake for example
It's made some really interesting plays on that map
It used to be a little bit of a fortress a box that was hard to break into it was impregnable
Whereas now as we've just seen it can play out very very differently
But let's do what happens here on a fortress a big old map to work through sir shock horror team
We'll see if Alphan's carrying on not this time with double Intel operators in the docker bee and the solid stick
We've also got a must coming along
just see a little bit of reactionary play from the defenders there. I like it. Mowgli on the
thorn just sending out that razor boom once he knows where the push was coming from. We've seen
that recently with the razor blooms. We've seen it with the guest mop mines. In this case,
no one has deployed those, but quite often we will see them played in an active way. Actually,
quite often to be direct land denial. You know, once that plant's going down, you send the
gadget in here, the planter, and they've got a choice to make. Mowgli, just to make
John fans the head of June takes down the snake big loss and also pre-day super low health at the minute
So secret holding on really well, so these games are going side
This isn't the size it's the extension and they prevent the Vulcans getting in there
This is the very thing that we were praising Falcons fall back on the previous map was the early aggression coming out trying to get up into
Basically attackers secret have done exactly the same and for my money Tim
They've got rid of part of the best operator you can be clearing out
We saw the effectiveness of state back on cafe and how much quickly how quickly it let a leak it back
Callouts between where players were and how did then form 3v1s of the back of it?
That's very very
Well, we're twisting around what the hell's going on
But we're in a spot like I say way without the onsite. I think it's much better for them
Yes, they can still lean on good old faithful in dr. B and Deimos, but for my money's makes worse a little bit more
which on here, they could get caught unaware.
Oh, we're back!
I mean, that's just like half.
And Breeder in towards the second as well, just like that.
What was it, four versus three for secret?
It's down to just two.
And Breeder, let's not forget,
he's on the side of HP, Tim, has been all round.
Yet he's still been doing work for his team,
getting map control, and now doing what he does best.
He's getting that diffuser down.
Does exactly that.
And now Savage has a serious situation in front of him.
He's got a 1v3, he does have full health at least,
you. You're going to have to
do it. You're going to have to
do it, but needs to do it within
the next 30 seconds. If you
want to have time to react to
diffuser so easy to take out
pretty as I said it was going to
be it was the tickle of the
tolls that got the job done,
but they now know where
savage is. Leak of fact
4k in the round. I believe
maybe three. Um, brilliant
stuff there from Leak of
fact. He just works on that
backstab. Absolutely
brilliantly. He actually
the game's in dormant Denny
circuit cycles underneath comes
up the white stairs past the
eagle and secret just aren't
expecting it. Great movement from
like if I don't want to take away
from the four players on his team
in this round. It starts out a
little bit broken. They lost
June really was my HP. They
couldn't really have him be
the tip of the spear anymore
for the boys. And like you
say, like that was the one
that really started to open
things up. Not only was he
one calling that round and
getting the boys in the
right place to make that
happen. He does that's in
And you look back at the previous map and how often that was happening.
Of course, it's all that very, very critical round on the attack
where he was the one running around on snake, but he put up a lights out performance there,
going 8 and 2.
He was 2-0 on the entry.
100% cost is worth stressing.
For my money, and I know it's occasionally in this conversation,
but I think Cudder's name's come up furthest,
he probably is the best fighter in the world right now.
It's always difficult to define a, you know...
It's very hard, because we don't know everything they say,
but it's unbelievable.
With any position, whether it be entry, whether it be support, whether it be idea,
you know, it's always very, very difficult to define an absolute, you know, absolute best
because there's always people in the discussion, you know, you're with the IGLs and there's many
others that are in the discussion. I'm sure there's people in the chat going, what about
Canadian? What about Alma? You know, what about many others? So there's always going to be,
but I would agree with you. I think it's very, very difficult to make an argument against
I would say it's easy to make arguments for others, but it's difficult to make one against
because he has just been so consistent and so good over the last year or two and continues
to do so for his team. So, well, just take one.
And a good IGL knows when to get on Thermite.
Certainly does, they certainly do. And that's exactly what he's going to do, of course.
Thermite having that buff recently going up to three exodermics from two as well,
in even more useful which I would to see.
Does that burn my only main?
Yeah, we're going to see him opening up.
I'm more than born now, the DMR's beautiful.
Opening up that wall and moving on, the Ratero Drone's
continue to rain in.
In secret, they're just being pushed around a little bit
at the minute.
Yeah, I was going to try and anticipate where this hit's
coming from is the most important part for them.
Re-day again is that tip of the spear.
Blackbeard last time around was really to take space.
Blitz needs to go aggressive when the word
Go comes in from leaky back the track coming out towards Moby's the low where he is they can try and play around in here
Because again, you know, let's not really being too effective in towards him else. Otherwise, you can worry about everybody else on the map
He's off isolated advantage get the one Moby does get a kill back on towards me
He's done his job the walls fit opened up and here comes to him for one gets trade that on by Nate straight after with
Then breed a's in going on to that warden getting him down into a two versus two and we still got half around to play Tim
Yeah, there's a real opportunity here for Solotov and Breeder. That drone being taken out, I just tell him that there's one on the flank as well and so an opportunity to get into sight and that is exactly what Breeder is going to try to do.
He's got Solotov in support as well, and you've now got Team Secret trying to hold from away. I'm starting to not sure that they're aware that the diffuser's going down.
it's a beautiful 180 flick. You
thought he was dead to rise, but
he comes away with the kill.
Catches the solace coming down
the stairs. Great finish in the
2v2 from Falcons. Secrets
wars. They go from bad to us.
Oh, that was unreal from Solotov
for a start. I think it was the
right move coming out from
secret to because if you know
the diffusers going down, which
I'm pretty sure they had the
idea on it's why you had
these movements coming in
about his movement, you get a temporary two versus one. Well, Brideg's holding down F, he can't do
anything, the Spires hold down F. That is your best time to get in there and kill the Capitao
and win things out from there. But this spin here, the noise that he gets,
unreal that they couldn't find him first and then spins back for Savage.
Yeah, I felt the same leak of that. That was pretty spectacular from Solotov and
Balkans just continue impressing today. Yeah, and for a side that have struggled
on the attack of Fortress. I don't want to pile on to secret here but they're getting themselves
into a situation remember that every round on attack that Balkans win is a round that secret
are going to have to learn an attack in order to come back or overturn this you know and to get
Fortress as their map and that's not ideal for them is what I will say when they played
against Twisted Binds recently on Fortress if we have a look at Secret on the attack they
only won two attacks and it was only command office that they won, just the one site. So
the Falcons, if they can get themselves to three attacks, you start them wondering, well,
if there's two other sites, you know, let's, for argument's sake, it's here, okay, secret
win, office again, and bathroom. That only gets them two rounds and they're gonna need
more if Falcons have got three attacks. So, not looking pretty. They need to get
themselves some defences, they need to get it soon.
In fact, of course, main stairs here are very, very good spot, but it's all it's hard to get rid of now.
For him, I was going to say, the problem with the leaker back came at the top of those stairs.
The bottom of the falls, but no, that problem has been solved for him.
Phone call coming out here, as well as that the rest of his team moved on forward.
Something the Falcons have always done extremely well.
It's actually stopped me to move through the map and look at it, Tim.
It is relentless. It's like a squat operation.
Three more players fall in the space of three seconds, and it's Nafe left all alone.
that. What I said at the time
when that happened and the
discussion that I've had with
people outside of the streams
as well is. They've got away
with it with fall with fanatic,
but I said, had they been
playing a better team. On
shally, and that's no, you
know, not trying to sort of
insult fanatic here, but they've
had ups and downs, and you
know, it slipped through their
that have lost two nil and
that have been out of this by
now. Um and I think that's, you
know, what we're starting to see
here is they are far too slow
coming into this. They are now
getting rolled over by Falcons,
but this time they are not up
against the team that is going
to open that door and allow
them to come back into it.
They either wake up now, are
they going to find themselves
out of email kickoff and out of
the Salt Lake City major not
even qualifying. Before they
I would love to be a fly on
the wall. Savage is wall right
now. Ideally listening into
this conversation that's going
on with Mr. Because it's just
looking like an absolute
landslide. They're not even
close like you say to him. And
again, I think probably what's
coming down to it is they're
trying to play the same way
the Falcons did back on Cafe.
They're trying to be
disruptive early on at the
start around one. It almost
worked. They got rid of
solid state. They managed to
bring down the black bead
incredibly low. It was a
good start to the round and
then leak of that pulled
out a little bit of an idea
then they're trying to do more of that. They've tried to be disruptive, but on the other side,
Falcons just keep on running things up the damos, like the Dockabee, like the Solid Snake,
and it's overwhelming. You can't roam into them when they're playing so heavily for this Intel
game and you're then losing players. It doesn't matter that Falcons don't have like execute
heavy operators, they don't care because the majority of you are dead at that point,
and they can just make doing it through versus through because they bat themselves.
I put out a static about it the other day. They are the most clutch team in the world by
Quite some margin. They had prize kit for at least prize players. They have like 17 clutch opportunities
They won seven of them both the one percent the next closest team is 26 percent like they are that good right now that they've got themselves in this
End of round situations. So secretly need to change the record here
They've got to do something a little bit different and different to me in this round. I'm looking at the is army
I'm looking at the mirror. It's more about those architects more about offering up the sides itself
I don't want to see him losing a couple of players out in the room. That says look at Valken's
they've changed away from everything because that docker bee has been taken away.
Yeah the thing is like you look at it and say you know falcons obviously could have taken away the
his army could have taken away the mirror instead of the mute but I think falcons have looked and said
you know what we're three zero up we've won it despite those actuators being played four out of
you know sorry you know we've seen mirror and his army in three out of the four rounds so far
And it hasn't slowed us down. It hasn't been a problem.
Um, so we'd rather just get the walls, get the breaches, get them all turned up quickly.
Oh, just giving the opportunity.
And as again, no one has a look.
Morphly taken down by June Falcons.
How's he gone down?
Just everywhere. They're just everywhere right now, Des.
There's... why don't you try something that...
I'm a bit curious how a mirror has died so early in this.
Mirror windows are down and deployed, but again, they're just losing players.
I don't quite want to say for free to him,
but I can guarantee you Falcons, they ain't paying very much.
It's looking a little bit too pedestrian still even after that attack. We could be honest
This carries on for a flawless attacking half here on fortress
Yeah, you start thinking about it. Don't you start wondering whether that is going to be the case
No, it is just reposition now gonna activate that scanner trying to keep himself
off the radar against citizens movement getting caught out taking that chip damage look at the side of Falcons
They've not one hit point lost between them all days. They are absolutely maxed out on health at the minute and ready to take these fights
Where a secret they've probably got about what a hundred and fifty health between them. Maybe a little maybe two hundred at a push
Big problems for them in the late-round facts because there's a world where folk and CSA
Just collapse onto site and take the fights against the three of them
It's lucky. Look, it's only going one way to be fair with you Tim
Like they got rid of mode girly on in the mirror savage now being taken offline as well
the boys now almost are hiding in behind mirror windows and on these crunch points the pinch points
throughout the map often said the meeting is a little bit of a blender it's a horrible point
in the map to try and push through for the attackers but they've got the numbers and they've
got tons of utility with which to it I say tons not as much they started with of course
by looking at Breeday here fire spoke and brimstone risk stone is coming their way so much to use
as you say so much to create space and give themselves an opportunity no just a little
bit slow on the uptake there so his man but couldn't quite hit the shot.
Dume, I mean just a fine citizen and it goes from bad to worse to see
Grip, 20 seconds left to go, however. No one fighting back, it's Nefu actually
finds the second free versus two but the plant just
starts to go down temporary 2v1 for Nefu, no other, can they get a better
outcome than this thing previously? No, not in a position to do anything with
it, Brede taken down but it's Liga back on the
glasses he just needs to hold on.
to make a shot as well.
Crank that challenge ever looked
to 11 and he still comes out on
top Falcons will not be stopped
today. Beautiful one B2 from
Leica fact there. Just have the
situation completely under
control. I love that call that's
been made. Breida you stick that
plant. Just stick it. We know
that this toxic bad canisters
left. We know there's a good
chance that you lose your life
to it, but Leica fact showing
that confidence and I said
that Falcons have just been
they continue to do so. Great
finish to the round. Lee could
back plays it perfectly. Nathan
Noah were in a different world.
They win that maybe if they have
the HP, but they don't. They
both won hits because of the
damage the chip that's been
done throughout the round by
Falcons. Great round from them.
They continue to make life a
nightmare on fortress. That is
four zero. Even if secret can
to those attacking stats for secret that we've seen even during the group phase.
It is not going to be easy for them here on Fortress to get four attacks against the Salkans.
I think it's worth looking at how the stats currently stand after a round like that,
by the way. LukaBuck is 16 and three throughout the series. 16 and three. That is mortified.
June 14 and 8, Solotop 13 and 7, uses it 9 and 4.
It's one of them days where you just go and get a chance to show up against them, afraid.
On the other side, Nour is closest to 8 and 11, and that's what the back of getting that 3K in the previous round,
even if 3K from him isn't enough to keep them in the game, unfortunately.
They've got to do some magical work here, some spectacular business in these next couple of rounds
to give themselves a breathing room in the side slot, because even with how this is going,
I'm always the biggest opponent of the two halves to a game of siege.
I don't see how Falcons get slowed down even on the defence.
No, I'd agree with you. I think, like I said earlier,
I don't think it's about Matt. I don't think it's about where you're playing.
This is just about performance and Falcons have turned up for it.
I think you could put them on boardy, you could put them on shally,
you could put them on console.
I just don't think it would matter at the moment.
You could fact it, a turn of damage there from that Bosch G.
Not quite enough to put him down, which is handy,
handi given that he's got those exothermics. One has already been used so may not have been the end of the world. But you feel that secret, you know, if I'm feeling bad for secret for a second, you feel like they just need a little bit of luck. It's like Savages hit the shot with the Boschie there and taking
in fact almost all the way there you know in a different world you hit the head shot before the
thermat is off the board it's marginal marginal differences okay well let's see what more magic
can be done next year by Mark it's always to stay like in a way because one in this kind of situation
you'd be saying ah well secret haven't turned up today and I don't even think it's the
case that they're playing awfully they're playing okay they're certainly not playing at
their best what we've seen before he was coming up against the world beat about until
that approach from the UD is going to happen some time. Let's see how the round plays out there.
Once again, we'll leave the rules for the snake. It has come at the brain which just stays with
that open client. Now, being able to move between the day most, the doke, the bee, all between
solid snake, I think they're going to be a really hard team to ban against their international
events. Giving a brood day, of course, running around on that blitz. We've already seen, of
course, a little bit of bother today in the previous rounds. Rushing now, Mowgli, getting
the diffuser down. He can still do a lot of work in that position as a more aggressive
You know, it's a really good point you make, actually, there's, you know, you've spoken
a long time about Falcons and their love for Dockabee.
Snake has been a true blessing for Falcons, hasn't it, because it's just given them the
alternative to Dockabee.
It's like what they've been waiting for, you know, like you say, that banning against
them now becomes extremely difficult because you're going to leave up even if you take
Dockabee and Snake off.
You then leave in so many other options on the board, the shields and, you know,
other operators, Leakey fact managed to find cities and his reign of terror continues as he manages to
find another entry. Five versus three now as Dune picks up Mowgli and secret aura grumbling
there's it's falling apart for them right now this could be a flawless round in a matter of seconds
the plant is going down falcons they're not taking any risks no one manages to find users
even though he was fully flashed but it is likely to be an impactless kill. 1v5 becomes a 1v4
with the fuser down cut down by
Solotov end of the round and
falcons just keep on
decimating team secret. Just
yeah. We said it all at this
point, right? The half team. It
is not even close. In fact, just
keeps on moving up as well with
the kills. It is honestly
terrifying how he could end
this game. It'll be one of
those performances that you
look back on and just
remember how bruising it was
Their former teammate in June move onto the Major while they sit at home,
watching on-line with a bunch of others and the rest of us,
seeing if they can finally get it over the line because even looking back at
Falcons and their history, yeah it feels crazy just to sort of revisit
what happened before, kickoff. Shaiiko benched and moved away of
course now on G2 and June comes in to join them.
You know what, I think everyone probably agreed in saying that Shaiiko felt
irreplaceable. He was BDS, he was Team Falcons, he was all the
I'm telling you, I've said at the beginning of the show, I've watched a lot of sport and those
like, you know, I mean, you
know, I'm not sure. I'm not sure.
I was Matt trips that you look at
and think, Oh, wow, you know what
a story they always seem to have
a way of finding themselves
happening. I missed the golden
chance, by the way, when you
start watching for 40 years,
and I was like, Yeah, for the
first 30 years, he's like, I
didn't even watch the ball.
I didn't want to jump in here,
but yeah, it's like did they
have a way of happening? And
it could still happen. Um. They
have a way of happening. So you
know, you click that and get
ready to tweet it when it ends
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Salt Lake City Grand Final and
will see who wins. Like because
they just have a way of
happening. I don't know the
troll work out. I don't know
what the other way of happening.
I tell you what, there's one
We'll look forward to that another day. Right now we've still got at least a few rounds of a match to come.
Falkens 5-0 and absolutely cruising. But the other thing that I think we haven't mentioned so far that I think it's worth saying is,
so far we've seen Falkens play this map twice to SI and lose it twice.
You know, the analysts picked up what they're going to be working on it. This is the first time we've seen it with this watch.
They've really done a lot of work on Fortress, and they are looking like a very capable Fortress team as well.
It's really comfortable. Savage at least getting the opening here on Swords June, but immediately the response is just always there from Falcons.
Leaking back with the trades, it isn't fulls, Alstair Mowgli. Looks like he has.
Ian, if it's Monday, if it's Friday, what is up from down, once again slammed out of the round.
The plan starts going down, Noah and Nafe at the same time.
Cut down by Falcons. I said earlier on to him when it was 2-0. Wow, we could see a 6-0 half here.
We've just had one. This could be a 7-0 over and done with.
Let's go to the studio and hear what they've got to say about that half thing. So I imagine it's not particularly kind guys
Well, it is kind but for Vulcans that that's the main thing is how are they able to do it?
And I just want to take an example of this round for example where secret they're defending common common center and like many teams
E that defend that they will extend citizen is holding horse you have
Savage all the way holding pool you have Mugli who's all the way downstairs and who's tracked by the demos if you look at the lineup
You have Juman demos you have the soy snake you have the look a be everything is there to basically control the room now
I want you to pay attention to the positions because if we look right now at citizen
He can be a grassed by solotov here with his solid snake
He has information on him and can take the one-to-one gun fight. It's beautiful and that's one by solotov
I don't want to end there because they have demos they're aware that Mugli is gonna come and flank towards the stairs
So both Jume and Bride with a shield are just waiting for him to come and so when Mugli comes up
He gets killed as well and then the last thing at the same time
They have full information on the last remaining player on the room that Savage and as you can see
Leakefak is ready to take their gunfight. Yuzus has thrown Leakefak even if in this situation
Savage can try to escape. You have Breeden, Zoom to backstab him and then in a span of what 30
seconds not even a minute left it's a 4v1 for Falcons. That is why my friends,
we see Falcons absolutely demolish Secret every time they attempt a roam.
Yeah you just got to look at those operator lineups. This is from the first half.
Look at the operator lineups. Five solid snakes. Two dokevis before it got banned.
Lots of Deimos. You've got the Klaas, the aggression.
And the shield as well.
And the shield in the end. It does make you wonder why they banned away the Monty.
Because we said this, yes. Falcons are not really nerfed if you get rid of shield because they can play
so many other good operators, lurk operators. This is the modern way of playing. This is how
they're getting fast map control and entry into the building. Particularly that solid snake.
I feel like that would have been the most effective ban against Falcons.
What was the main thing we said was going to be the advantage for Falcons going into this matchup?
We said the surprise effect because they have not shown fortress since SI.
So this is where the biggest mistake has been done. They have not shown their operators.
So secret behind the wrong ones. So then Falcons, they can abuse the right ones.
Yeah, I mean it's crazy. I mean we're talking about the information that they have on the side of Falcons.
We can listen to the player problems that we heard Slotov even say after round five.
Almost kind of being surprised with how much information he has
And how strong does operator isn't helping them to get this this information and these rounds of the board looking into the second half
Though we're seeing a Monty. We're seeing a banded band so far
Yeah, and I'm anticipating her. Oh this time Dave and the yeah
So strong. It is just so strong
I think we and this going into you know into Salt Lake City and even for the next week or two of flight across the regions
I think we're gonna see so many solid state bands because he's just probably the best attacker right now
Oh this is much point for Falcons just one ball round that they put themselves
with a ticket to Salt Lake City can they do it in just a ball round or we need more.
Oh we'll find out very very shortly and thank you very much to you guys over on at the
desk. We had this yesterday's film where we were like, I don't know yesterday sorry
day before we were a bit like guys just keep it don't give it back it's fine
it's done it's over and then about two minutes later the game was done
this could be another one of those unless they could really show some attacking
But the reason that we remember matches like this being overturned is because it is few and far between it is
Something special when it happens and I'm just not sure see put I've got that something special in the in the tank today
If I'm honest
The way that falcons have been played. Okay aggressive
Not even punished for it know what takes damage there leaker fact gets away scott-free
Yeah
And these are the kind of things, those are the kind of gunfights that we've seen Falcons winning themselves, right?
They'll get a freebie there, they'll go all the way to a sect in the elsewhere around the map
and just like this one, June gets away with another 1v1.
That's what I did with Mr. Lacto, David's secret has been traced in, but look at the pressure coming in.
This is good from secret, they've got really aggressive there, managing to find themselves
maybe two leaky-back solos of finding kills elsewhere, though.
I knew Savage finds some answers, trades come back.
come back to V2, to V1 as Breda stands up
and the problem here is it's savage all alone on a shield.
It makes it a little bit difficult
because he's going to have to take these gunfights
with the pistol and that is difficult
because so far Breda now they've had time to set themselves
to try and increase the distance I say that,
but it does not, because it's savage on the shield.
But it's Breda to clutch him.
He was like, no best clutcher.
I was looking at the numbers of the day,
three out of eight of the clutches that he's had
come out on top and there's every chance here he could add another score another tie to the score
try and bait out a plant here so she's trying to keep on moving out great smoke coming out from
B-day right onto that plant spot and around to play force the second one comes out here very much
strapping sabbage in of course he can try and bait up that plant again here he's got so much time
to work with 75 seconds left on the block he just needs B-day to step on board a little bit
B-day's being so patient isn't being baited in here he might not have a choice rounds his way
further off around the corner. No more smoke left to work with. It's Fridae Rounds. He goes long here.
Up past Paul. The Savage is giving chase. Fridae finds the beats in. He don't lose out on those
touches. A 14 and one scoreline on the day is going to send Falcons to Salt Lakes to beat.
Fridae's just put that perfectly, hasn't it? Keeping that distance there. Didn't want to be
anywhere near that big splash of the Blitz the Shield and just did it brilliantly to send
his team to the Major, Falkens get it done in style.
Well they weren't messing about today Tim and I can't wait to see if this kind of
performance carries on going into Salt Lake.
Commissuration's a secret, but we'll go to a break when we come back our desk.
We'll break it down for you once again.
to the major and therefore, we
get to speak to the victors. We
have two on the line to ask a
few questions. Congratulations,
you but you make it to the
major. What a weird few weeks
has been for you. You joined
Falcons boom first of the
group. Boom qualification to
Salt Lake City. You must be
to the group, boom, qualification to Salt Lake City, you must be feeling great.
No, it feels great to be honest. Today was just, it felt so smooth. I don't know what happened.
I'm actually wondering how smooth it felt yesterday after the defeat because, you know,
you just joined a team that is used to being at the top of TML, that is used to qualified
for every major. We've done a lot of pressure, you know, like they go very often, they go
through the upper bracket and they're not put back against the wall. You joined them and then
they're put in a situation where if they had lost that match, they would have missed the major
and for the first time in like two years, you know, how was the team feeling after the defeat yesterday?
Surprisingly good to be honest. I think we knew we also should have won yesterday. We just were missing
like still like a little bit of I think our way of playing the game as a team, because you know,
we were still a new team. We're still trying to figure out, you know, they were very used to
Shaikun stuff and I'm very different to him. So I think they took it quite well. And today
We just fully like reset for the game today and just had a way better game plan
But like worked out. I think we showed a little bit of what we can achieve like it was just great
June obviously we've got to talk about the fate that brought brought you against against in secret, haven't we?
In an elimination game for the for the major
Obviously on one hand is great. It's great for you that you've qualified
But it must have been difficult to stop those guys and stop their two years straight of making the major
Yeah, it definitely was kind of fun playing them, because we wanted our revenge, our revenge
from the group stage game, but also feel kind of bad for them, because I know they deserve
to be there as well. It's kind of fortunate, you know, we played them again, but at the
same time, you know, it's, it's how things work.
I'm a whole different subject, you know, I think the camera caught your dog earlier.
Is your dog around? Can we say hi?
My dog?
Yeah.
It's not my dog, but wait, I'll try to get him.
the game. Yes, this is the
content that we all come to the
about briefly caught very
briefly caught right at the
start of the playgrounds of
today. Oh, that's great. This
is this is the content that we
show. The email for you come
for the game. It is just made
to the legs. You just want
No, I don't know.
That's Loki.
Loki? Oh, cute. Very, very cute.
Beautiful.
Loki obviously, supporter of yours, but anything you want to say to the fans and the supporters for the journey?
Just thank you for the support, obviously. I think if I would have lost today, I would have gotten a lot of faith.
So, thank you for that. And just thank you for the support.
And obviously, the Falcons bundle, the charm I've been using it the entire time.
It's kind of good.
All right, very well taught and of course, thank you so much for your time to me. I have a whole series to play later
So best of luck for that. Thank you. See you
That probably is one of my favorite interviews of every not we've been all the way back and forth there
But we have to talk about another player on the right
The effect is a player if it's not the individual skill. It's the idea yelling that he helps it
Yeah, but actually look at some of the operators. He was doing them on those execute those like operators
The duck could be the glass as well. It could have been one versus two here as well.
If he could have lost that, that actually maybe could have been the start of something for secret.
But that really must have been a gut punch for them.
And a big uplift. 14 Falcons, the fact that he won that.
We talk about how good he is. He was amazing today with those KD, with that staff.
And the fact that he does it on the eye-gelling role as well.
He's got a 5 KD.
What?
24.
That's 10 times your KD.
4 times 5, it goes 20, right?
Yeah, yeah, he's got a 5 KD.
I don't think he heard it.
No, no, no, no, but I was just, I was still, I was just listening to it.
Who gets the 5k D against S.I.Gran finalist?
Against Secret to make it to the major.
And on the other hand, it just feels bad because once again, it's just Noah that's there.
And I have the excuse for savage. He plays the shield, he plays the worst role.
He's ideal in the whole thing. Why not?
But, but Naive, Mugli, he's citizen, where are they?
That's the main thing is that we're lacking the rest of the team.
I just feel bad for these guys.
We talked with, yeah, we talked yesterday about, about Brawlz, about, you know,
it's a really secret in turn up to the fight.
it wasn't even a scuffle they just did they would when the secret log into the
server because they've not beaten that today to be honest yeah it was really
really bad that's not detracting from how good Falak is well well they were
incredible you can see when your IGL is getting a 5kd clearly something has
gone right but secret also played their part in just not tying a whatsoever
we can have a look at the bracket because we are on the middle of our
lower bracket still yes these two teams were just fighting in the lower
bracket and that meant that the last chance for secret has now been used
They have no way of claiming their ticket to the Salt Lake City Major, which feels really strange to say.
You go from being a contender in the SI Grand Final to not having a chance to even make it to the next international event.
It's taste incredible to me, but what a way as well, a 2-0, and then that same kind of face will be hanging over either shifters or twisted mines.
Again, a rough matchup.
It just feels weird for twisted mines and shifters, because even if they win, they know Falcons are waiting for them.
And even if they make it to the Major.
a red hot falcon. Yeah, I'd say a falcon is just one 14 and one, you know, like, you know that
even if you make it to the solid city major, there's a decent chance you're gonna lose the next
game and already descent in phase one. But yeah, it's already jumping over things, you know, they
do need to qualify, they do need to beat the first opponent first. To be honest, whoever wins
probably was an outside chance to go to the major at the start of kickoff anyway, so they'll be
more than pleased with baking it. And then they get a free hit against falcons, you never know,
the game's not played on paper here. True and real, but we still have to determine the
important for Falcons of 4 in that game, which by the way is really important because it depends
on whether you play Phase 2 or Phase 1 of the Major, but first we need to send the
to assume it to the major and then either be shifters or twisted minds out to the break.
I
There is only one more ticket up for grabs for the Salt Lake City Major, and that is
either going the way of shifters or twisted minds.
Now for the last international event, the 6th event, these two also played against
each other in a lower bracket when it came to qualification and that time it was to a
shift story. It's Twisted Minds. They played it twice. Yeah, but in that case it was Twisted
Minds destroying the hopes and dreams of shifters of making it to an international event.
This time it could be the other way around and specifically you want to think of a
player like Robbie Wright. He's going to have to play against a team that he made
his last and first international stage appearance with. We're speaking of Twisted Minds,
core of this roster now, hoping to see some many representation at the major too, quite
important for them. But looking at that roster in general and the players at least on that
team, they've definitely shown us some struggles inside the ML2.
Yeah, I do think though that they've been refreshing for our region. I think it was
very important, like you said, to have many representation players from that region
itself. I think they brought their own playstyle as well, the one that we
learned to love at the international events, whether it was at Gamers 8 or whether it was
was later at Montreal Major, for example,
where they took down some of the top international teams
with a very surprising, chaotic, aggressive play style.
We got to learn a bit more about them during kickoff,
I feel like.
We saw the loyalty of that roster,
sometimes very aggressive and sometimes very slow.
Yeah.
You know, I think they're still learning the ropes
of playing in the top tier region.
Learning the ropes is a really good way to put it
because if you look at their style, it is very unique.
And I wanted to actually show and visualize
the top six teams. Inside of
this league in terms of this
kickoff. Now this craft is just
a little bit much, but I will
explain it to everybody at home.
You're not used to seeing it.
So at the very top, you've got a
highest individual EPS from a
player inside of a single map.
So Twist in mind is out there on
the right. They've got the
lowest anybody in the top six
one four nine. So they haven't
quite had the pop offs that
we've seen across other teams
in terms of the lowest
again, the 42 down there. That's
the lowest from an individual
lowest from an individual map, other than Pasha going 0-10 yesterday,
Twisted Minds actually had the lowest.
Now, what's interesting is the little solid bar in the middle.
That shows that Twisted Minds are all quite close in their average EPS across the entire stage of pick-off.
However, if you look at where that bar sits, it's lower down on the line compared to everyone else.
So what that tells me in terms of the numbers and what these numbers tell me is actually that
Twisted Minds are all quite consistent in their playstyle.
They're all having similar-ish performances,
But their average UPS of every single player is more or less at 100 or below, which means it's less than average inside of this league.
So what that actually tells me is sometimes the inconsistency of the way this playstyle, you know, sometimes it looks really, really good, sometimes it looks really, really bad,
and overall the inconsistency sits them at a level below the other top teams in this.
It can really shift.
Yeah.
Yeah. See what I did there?
Good luck.
I have another one because if I had a nickel every time a team in the kickoff
Eliminated another team with a 7-0. I would have two nickels, which is not lost
But it happened twice it just happens with Elk is a secret and it also happened with shift is eliminated rebels basic mass earlier this week
Yeah, good. Yes. Thank you, but we're looking at that right. We're looking at a big difference
I guess sometimes that we shift us to right the ceiling could be really high the floor could be really low
But then again, they also get to eliminate a team with a 7-0
Yeah, I think so. I think we're kind of used to seeing this inconsistency was shifted
So we do keep asking for it more and more
I think P4 another year our German in English
We we saw him really come into his own in that rebels game
And we've also seen Robbie and last month to an extent even though he's picked up the shield as well come a little bit
More consistent than what we saw last year
So I would say yes
We have seen some of the inconsistency on the whole is being quite good for shippers
Yeah, I think that game against rebels that I want to go back to again
And I want to give you an example of that because I do think that's really when P4 was thriving as an ideal
I'm taking one example when they're attacking on bank
And I want you to pay attention to the Intel game and the reaction that it causes inside cheaters right now
We are watching P4's drone is running top floor and you can see there is an extension
He spots there winning trading calls it Robby instant reaction
Lions can so that the arena cannot move and really gets to kill beautiful play right but look at the Intel game
he doesn't continue, he continues there.
They spot the Vigil here on the top floor.
And on top of that, Robbie has a drone on to open space.
So what do you learn here?
Vigil is gonna be the next target.
He's still upstairs and they need to take
top floor control.
One might think that Robbie will take upstairs
and go very aggressive towards the Vigil.
But because they know there are two players
in open space, they need to make sure
that the two players that were in open space
don't go up the stairs and don't go help the Vigil.
And so based on that intel, yes, Robbie comes in,
but Robbie, instead of going for the Vigil,
he goes directly for the guys that are gonna go up
to help him. And so he gets a free kill from that because of that information.
And during this moment, Robbie has gotten the kill, and at this moment the next target is clearly
Vigil. So at the same time, Lion scan, IQ goes up main stairs and can then challenge the Vigil
and take that kill for free based on that information. And at this point, we're in a 4v2,
it's a beautiful play and you've seen the drone, it's still in open space, they still have
information and they notice that the two last remaining players are in open space. And so
So once again, the Intel game is amazing, but the reaction is even better.
Robbie dates from above, and that gives the time for the Lion of Blast to go through Kitchen
and go directly hide here, behind the plate, and take that gun fight on one of the open
face players.
So what we've seen here is two drones, great information, and every single time they prioritize
the target at every time and making sure that they use the Intel to get a free kill.
And that's the beauty of shifters, is that we look at a team that plays well together,
that is well-coordinated, plays a fundamental good game.
It's just a question of can they do it consistently,
especially against a chaotic opponent,
which will be the case way more with 2-0-9s than against Rebels.
I think it's again showing how little information can be used out in the earlier game today.
We're seeing it here again with the example for shifters.
I want to talk about these playstyles a little bit as well,
and more so the way that Twisted Minds got here, right?
Because you mentioned it already, it's going to be a bit of a different game here.
Twisted Minds, when we look at their recent game, they nearly pushed G2 into an overtime right?
I think you see the frustration of the players, or like, sort of, onto a third map,
the frustration and the players' faces of when that didn't happen.
If you look at the way G2 demolished VP afterwards, by the way,
it does show a statement about how well Twisted Mind was playing in that game.
Yeah.
It means that they can really go toe-to-toe with a top team,
and that mainly when it takes it to a cut, the gun fights.
If you eliminate the gun fights, and if you just make sure that you overwhelm
players using cohesion, using team play. Then you have the weakness of two-set makes.
I think it still makes them a really tricky opponent to play against though because...
They're annoying.
Yeah, they're annoying. Even when it's all set and done. They probably thought of something that you're all not expecting.
So we actually really highlight your Telstra at Aliyah about how information is going to be the key for shifters.
If shifters are going to win, it's going to be off information.
It's going to be off the back of P4 making the right calls on that information,
basically being king of the things that you just shown in there in that
frustration. So Shifted9's how annoying can be? Can they really disrupt that flow
of people? If they can't, that's in my opinion that's where they'll find success.
Information maybe in regards of counter-shedding as well, it's something
we've definitely seen Shifters do on the maps, right? The maps that they were
playing on Bank for example that we saw. I want to see what maps have been
selected for this matchup. See if we get another potential Bank. That's not
going to be the case. But go to Shelly. Yeah I'm not surprised with this
because Shifted Minds. Shifted Minds, we're gonna have to say that.
Oh, three of us are playing for this point.
It is a tough one to say, especially for a Frenchman.
I will use that card. Alright, Shifters, why does it make sense for them?
They love that map. It was the best map of the team last year,
and it still is, because they beat VP on it quite convincingly, 8-6.
And on the side of Twisted Minds, it's a map that they barely played.
They did not show it during kickoff. It's kinda hidden right now,
but it's still going back at home for Shifters here.
Yeah, I think it's actually, uh, two-some months later left it open, because the map you think about it, it lends itself to a lot of, not necessarily individual plays, but quick plays, aggressive plays, annoying plays, which it should suit the twisted-minds plays, not even though shifters are picked up.
Yeah, and then four twisted-minds to pick clubhouse, it's a map that they played a lot in tier two last year, they abused it as much as possible, played it a lot in Saudi League, and then played it in kickoff, and destroyed Rebels 7-2 on it. It's a comfortable one for them as well.
one for them as well. I don't think it's just a bad map for shifters though. I think back all the
way back to the Wolves days when people of Zagelin Wolves, they were phenomenal on clubhouse,
they loved playing it. He has some nice little pocket plays, rush plays that he likes to call on
it. I'm thinking the gym bomb site all through the jacuzzi breach, dropping the hatch at once.
So it's definitely a comfortable map for shifters as well. Very balanced, very balanced all
over. Kefi is the same story I've seen for me. I think we're looking at a matchup that
should be much closer than the one we've seen before. We're praying. We're praying for the
But it is, you know, we had a big, big hope for Falcons against Secret, we know of the
calibre of that team.
I think when we look at these two teams, the main story, and that's what everyone should
remember here is one of these two teams will finally reach that top four of EML, will
make it to a major.
For Twist and Minds, it would be his story being made for Mena, I think, for the representation.
You know, it would be the first one to come through EML in a tier one environment,
in one of the best leagues in the world, and make it to a major.
is the statement for this
region is a challenge and the
objective for both these teams
for sure to get that ticket to
Salt Lake City a major but the
challenge starts here on
cell A with fluke and demo.
Thank you very much and Leo. You
know, I'm not a big betting
person but you did say you want
to close the series. In
fairness, they only have to get
two rounds demo, so I think
we're in pretty safe hands of
potentially going a little bit
more of a distance here. Yeah,
that we're left with, I think overall it suits both teams really well. I think they've
got a kind of good mix of maps that we've seen already this day, so it kind of gives both
teams a chance to kind of improve and maybe the mistakes that they had in the previous
times they played those maps. I mean, look at the social prediction. I mean, that is
Woo! Straight down the middle, like,
kind of with themselves going the other way.
So...
So, so, so...
How will we find the last little team of VML?
Getting their last little plane tickets and getting themselves all aboard and on the way.
It's going to be a pretty exciting, I think.
A sort of thread of how all this comes together.
You know, there's a lot of potential. There's a lot of great stories.
the ability for obviously a team from Mena.
After we became the EML to make it from EML,
it's massive.
Cannot dispute for how brilliant this region can be
on the sort of international tier one circuit
and getting themselves in.
But their opponents, equal experience,
equally balanced, equally brilliant,
and they need to be.
It's just a matter of who can get their ducks in the row.
So let's start quacking a nice tune.
We start here on Shallay.
After you and I, I think we've really got
much time to your cost over this sort of split. It's been a little bit more of a backseat map for us.
I think overall for coming into a fix, shall I? You know, I think it's very interesting that,
you know, shifters going for it because you remember we had the luxury of casting that VP
shifters game and it was a bit of a weird room, wasn't it, where there was a lot of clutch
kind of moments coming in from shifters and you know, I always think, you know,
know what kind of clutch you have or you don't. You kind of have that DNA. And trying to replicate
clutches as we know is very, very difficult. So I do want to see a much more tighter shally
being played here from shifter because they were able to beat VP on it, but it was very,
very close pigment. Oh, he didn't as well.
Uh, yes, I think it's a. I don't want to be like maybe we're a little bit ill
Fated I
Love Tim and does I love Tim and does great guys great lads
They're a series that a
Best of three series 15 rounds
We've opened up on a tech
I don't want to be like maybe
stolen the luck of the day in
in terms of quick things run out but oh we're in okay maybe they haven't there's a
moment there Monty, Darkerbeam, Clash, Fenrir all gone from the setup.
Yep we look at the the kind of bands that shifters had the last time they
were on Shallay they also banned Monty so it is certainly a consistent thing
that they want to get rid of that shield again it makes a lot of sense I
I think with a map like Shallow 2, where Monty is great at dealing with a lot of the crossfires
that you can establish. You think about walking into the piano, for example. There's three
different angles you have to face check, and having the Monty there is very, very helpful
in that kind of situation. I think for shifters, it's no surprise to see that band come
in. I am interested, though, in obviously the Fenrir band. That kind of perks me
ears to stuff. Because straight away, if you're shifters and you're seeing twisted
mind's ban away, that trap operator. You should be expecting Twisted Minds to really stretch
their legs and look for those back stabs, yeah shall I? Big Roman map, you've got the free
sister staircases that you can flank up and if there is a gap spotted by a Twisted Minds
player, you know they're going to go for it. Well the gap might be started, the bing
and the spot is by Snake who's slithering the way around the front of the building
and heading over towards West Main. It's quite a thin map. Snake's going to be
to get a deep read across pretty much all of the sort of crux and swing corners here and can just
bleed a little bit into the rest of the team. The first one, poor timing, from P9 doesn't quite
catch the player that rotates round. Who knows how lucky they feel that they have gotten, but
Bilson might work in some ways in P9's favour. They might not know that he is already in this
position and to get himself up towards it. They're quite quick getting it underneath.
Lasmu already under a bit of pressure. He pulls himself back further away from the windows.
the flashes come through ready for an expected swing there's the cross-pup on the fire itself
and just look at that how much intel they'll get doesn't really matter Frank gets one swings out
there's damage being done from Robbie as well last mode does go down in the meantime but two quick
kills come out as they try and explode their way through on towards the site itself keep the
pressure going and it's c4 the shield saves the life of tricks but he's between the fire
and he can't quite get the player as well great keeper sort of drove you to the end the
the shield is trying his best to drive his way up, but
his army there was a stop and get the kill in the meantime.
Jalad gets one and sprayed round and shift is open us up.
Well, that is a lot to digest because it kind of went from
0 to 100 real quick. Look, Solarian take from Twisted
Minds. They wanted to force the shields, play the way
kind of very minimalistic play style, isn't it? Go on
with Soli. You don't need a massive amount of the map.
And because, uh, Twisted Minds didn't go and take the majority of the map, what happened?
We start seeing, you know, the strong positions start being challenged onto.
On that solar take, you're always going to have attackers over towards back from balcony,
and what the shifters do, like, okay, nobody's really holding us.
We can swing, we can eliminate these players onto the bathroom.
Then once you lose that little bit of pressure on the windows,
all of a sudden that site kind of opens up to the defenders,
and you can just run around and do exactly what Robby did.
Also, I'm going to point out that I keep a barrier.
I think Craig Sharp was now being able to save the injured team.
I don't think it would have mattered in the long run
because I think Shifter's run really good stead still.
It's always nice to see.
But yeah, overall I think Shifter's understanding
the tape that Twisted Minds were going for
and they just go aggressive.
They don't allow Twisted Minds to set up.
Five seconds to insertion.
Five seconds.
Well that is the first.
That's that sort of open sprint and I mean it's he said they sort of tried to set up for this one of the conversations
We had about this one yesterday. I think that they were so
confident
It kept on stepping back in it's something that they've had as a bit of a hallmark throughout their performance at the split
They've had it as a sort of big part of their game
They've had it as a big problem that other people stuff to solve and here they're when things start sort of going everywhere
They double down they keep driving and it's how aware
And how ready they are to be into it.
I mean, who else but Robbie with the 3k, the man he used to sort of play alongside them.
Hash, I'm gone.
Othan, who else but Frack, the person who also, well, you could say Dabble's in the playstyle.
You could say he dictates it at some point.
He's so competent at being aggressive and being a problem.
And, oh, lad, lucky to not have more than just a couple of scrapes across that mirror armor.
Yeah, swinging big window, not always ideal, but still for shifters they have that opening pick very early on and a great operator too to eliminate.
It's the flora is gone and you look at the line up here from shifters where you have operators like Azami up.
You know, it would have been great to have that operator to remove some of those keys as well.
Certainly losing out on that flora is not going to be great.
I mean, what position it's been I had gotten myself into and last time I was just sitting and not expecting something in the windows, he gets taken out.
I'm just looking out for the people gave him better false confidence thinking all my teammates over there. Surely it'll be fine, but no, not the case.
Still for the minds they have to put their way into the map now, even though it is a little bit awkward as it's only the one person that stuff that hold has been established.
But just look at this kind of Romeo flute from shifters. They're trying to extend pretty much the entire off the map.
Don't forget it's a kitchen bomb site and they're extending all the way into our bar.
Yeah, I guess it's one of those sort of stress to see it, where it also just caught sprinting and rotating.
Blasov is obviously almost caught under a double window, but just in position.
Well, with this big stretch in there almost again, caught as they're just sort of drifting by on windows.
Twisted Minds are doing a good game of being sort of set up, ready to strike in these positions for Robbie.
Oh hops out moderate and pulls the body down and well slips away, and I guess that's the other side of it
Right if you spend your time window watching some point somebody's gonna try and wash it
Now just in mind and pressure in their way inside pushing across the top on towards bathroom
But 30 seconds down. Oh, they've just got the versatility now
They know that Robbie can be a you know sort of point of pressure could swing up the stairs behind them as we talked about before
You've got multiple places to sort of reset and rebuild and we have a go at things
and in this point trying your eyeing up the site itself but it's very possible to
try and close it back down. Ooh a nice little safety box. Great take on to one
but Blaz! Swings on to the next and as it's back and forth here just not enough
time shifters. I'm sure that'll find its way in social media somehow. Me
whenever one says we can get McDonald's. Yeah look shifters I think fairly
I mean, it's not like they're
really confident for that whole
round. Nothing really worried
them. I think they just maintain
that kill. They didn't they got
very early on. We've seen that
quick bit of aggression coming
in from Robbie. I think it's the
confidence is coming through. You
know, it seems very. Business
focused here feels like for
shifters, which I mean, that's
where you want to be. You
know, if you're on, uh, for
getting into the major, you
have to be business focused. You
want to go in through the
It's not like a book.
The KDS mindset.
Get in, nine to five, leave.
Yeah, leave your work.
That's how I was at home.
Looking good.
It is looking very good from shifters.
I'm very impressed.
I mean, I just think that this side, you know, this stage, kind of went from strength
to strength.
It felt like, you know, where maybe they didn't have the greatest of you, maybe
they wanted.
Um, last year, then obviously they made the change coming in, and they bring in Blaz, so, like I said, one of the times before I thought they're really, really wild, honest time at G2, and I think for this side, getting into the major with that new change, and I still think shifters are relatively young team, you know, apart from people, other than that, it's still a fairly young team, isn't it?
Yeah, I think it, you know, it's one of the good things to see in this.
Okay, he's just gonna keep doing that I think.
I mean, that's just the confidence that's there on map, isn't it?
And they're just running around.
We've had Freck be the best player in the region.
We've had Freck do these sort of games and we know that it's a game that you have to
bring in such a line.
He's gonna try and do his best and he said it's his map, but that is now three rounds
in a row.
Freck has been able to get to the opening kill and it's on three different members
to the first two opening two rounds. I mean, I think if you if you kind of look at twisted
minds, you're always looking at Hashim, aren't you? That's the kind of callus player for
this side. You know, can just go absolutely nuclear for a one heck of a fight against G2
and they speak of him, and he shot the lever.
Yes, the kill, first kill of the game for Ash Elm.
Swapping next.
Better late than never, you know?
Arrives on the third site, but it's almost
that there is a little bit of a worry from what we saw yesterday,
where we had this sort of competition.
Goodbye, Trix.
Goodbye, Dov.
OK, two for two.
Wrapped up package, parcel and scent packing.
I was about to make a point when it was a 4 versus 4
that there's the worry that they're only gonna be able to get the tertiary site in demo
and now in the 4 versus 2 there's a worry that I'm gonna get any of these openings
3 down to Hashim and Jolad
let's see if they can try and swing this round with a pulse shotgun
it goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I mean Hashim on the top floor outside the window
I get it's a 4 versus 2 right
you know they're not playing for this position but
there's no real way that they were gonna be able to support each other in that situation
especially with a minute lack
fire a couple of nades and maps him out of the utile now to remove any bits of utile that
gents can still be up here for shifters, maybe a goya could also cause them issues but I don't
know, he might just try and run the clock down out here because he ain't really doing
much. I mean that's really a full 30 seconds and now he only just makes his way into the
building but you look at shifters, all of them back in the bomb site, nobody wanting
to risk giving Hashom an opportunity to go for a clutch.
And it's good patience from shifters and that's the mentality that you need to have if you
want to put your spot into a major don't give twists that line anything at all.
And for Hashom it doesn't even have the kit so you're just going to try and find four
kills in ten seconds which isn't going to happen for him.
And shifters looks to be that they're going to complete a full rotation here on
What a way to kick things off!
It's...
Oh, sorry!
I like how Blaz's camera is, like, one pixel every now and again.
It's fine.
Oh.
That was fine!
There we go.
It's fixed.
It's when you make big movements.
You know.
E-Rex.
you're going to be able to
find the right place to go.
The only thing that's going to
happen with the shifters is don't
take your foot off the gas. Keep
putting problems in front of
twisted minds. I think there's
obviously the opening kills is
going in their favor, which is
always going to help right at
any side of get the opening
pick. We know very important
stat that we look at in the
game. But even whenever it's
five before the shifters, they
don't lay off. They'll maybe
wait. Maybe 30 seconds and then
Okay, we've lost that player. Now what do we do?
And by the time they figured out, okay, what we do,
another two players have died because shifters have went aggressive
and they've went and found those kills.
So they're always keeping kind of twisted minds,
having to think, you know?
Just moments like that, you know, obviously those players
are just outside waiting to say,
okay, what's the call? What are we going to do?
And then I see if we're just guilty of that.
And you think, oh, well, that's that round gone.
So I love the way they're attacking us.
So I don't know why the
Portion I make you laugh so much, but it's really like a so anyway, I started blasting kind of guy, you know
Just bring on the corner and
30 I was listening to a brilliant points. I promise. Thank you. I
Maybe I'd spoke to you soon about
Having the quicker series
We know what they came up think about how close it was obviously for them yesterday as well
The first map wasn't lair was G2 just kept them finding that extra bit of an edge right they kept on getting themselves
that little bit further into the series and sort of finding fixes but on
The split of it if you look towards when shifters inverters pro played this map
When they play challenge it's sort of opened
And when Shifters were on the defense, they're able to get two of the first three, then they got the fourth.
Like they led against Verdi's pro attack pretty well as well, right?
And then it still ended up going all of the distance, just to struggle more on their attack.
When they sort of got into it, it took Blaz to have a superstar performance, plus nine overall for the series,
for things to shift away. And, you know, at this point, yeah, you're getting a few of them pop in, Blaz and Robbie,
seven and 0, between the pair of them, yet to die.
Whereas on the other team, they've only got one kill each, but...
...and so, seeing it's just...
...it doesn't mean that they're entirely out of the woods just yet.
Hash on.
Slow and steady up inside.
No, somebody isn't too far away, but that's somebody with a shotgun.
Who knows if that's really good in close range, dammit.
Yeah, and this is the worry now, I think, for Twisted Minds,
because that's a different playstyle than what they went for previously.
They thought, okay, Hash on.
Do what you do best. Go and find us some kills.
and he's been shot down immediately.
So if that was probably the kind of plan B
for Twisted Mines as they kind of
stack off the more strategical pursuit
and try and play into obviously the
feathery brand that they went for,
I mean that's, you know,
that bit of aggression there from P9
has been put off really well from shifters,
but at the moment, for Twisted Mines,
everything they're trying to do is being read into.
You know, we've seen the shotgun ready
with a bit of barbed wire up the stairs.
They're expecting that play style.
You know what, and again,
it's something that everyone knows in this league
is the kind of place that Twisted Minds can pull out, the way that those players can just find a way
to sneak their way in on a backstab, on a flank and to get kills. And if you are ready for actually
preparing for that, which they're also doing now with a forward command is the kind of such a
trap hop rare. Good shot throw from Geladu. Actually gonna try and explode him with a Blackbeard
but it's not gonna work as shifters as held their ground, mostly glass, in the sight of
plus with another the webcom is is he just using a stills camera is this well
listen I'm glad his internet is going to all it's the game and not his cam but
P4? Cool.
P4 is low.
Shift this.
I don't know what this is.
The bit is getting to me.
I'm excited when we cut to our desk
and every time they cut to Leo
he's frozen in a new angle.
There's your new opening schedule.
Oh no wait, this is the last lady.
Oh wow.
Next season.
Next season.
Anyway, they tried something different.
Right, you were pointing it out throughout the approach,
they tried to get themselves in the building.
As I said before, there was a lot of sitting in the windows
and waiting, trying to hope the pressure crossed in,
which could work great on Chalet against the right team.
This wasn't the right team.
Shifters have been very, very good at that game.
Then they try something else.
Then they try a new approach, they try something else.
And it just still ends up in these engagements.
They're putting a lot of trust in Hashom and then obviously P9
to get these engagements inside the building.
mixed results, but it sort of shows how risk for a board they're having to go here twisted minds
that yeah really trying to go deep and this is the kind of difficult side with entry players
it's you have to get that opening pick the entry is a really tough job at any team because sometimes
you could make or break the round you know you can either put your team at a man advantage
or put your team at a man disadvantage you know a lot of pressure in that role you know and I
I know it's just fucking out of us.
We're reading into everything.
I mean, that's probably fun.
See, we'll just kind of put an ablet.
OK, I was going to talk about it.
It wasn't just a blitz, right?
A blitz?
Day must track in Robbie with an lion scan at the same time.
They were like, let's full-state utility
and just try and isolate a man.
But they got too blinkered.
They were like a horse screaming towards the arse.
Someone shot the horse because we were just
looking at this single fight.
It's just every plan as you put it there seems to be sort of known by shifters right there in the right position
Hashan does find frak
Does get one back is able to utilize some of that control and
They have a bit of spagility and then some pressure underneath
As the day goes to track they force the last moat into a different fight
This is that sort of continuation of the almost catching
unfortunate release program there as he can get away get himself out of there
there is still p4 getting one but it as I can say there's actually still Robbie
on the other side but Robbie's now being trapped he's gonna drift away before he
gets caught it's lucky that he isn't being watched by one of the windows at
this point and again shifters whether it's a great prediction or the
premonitions coming through, either way they seem to just always be one step ahead.
I mean, I think that the biggest issue of seeing what Twisted Vines is,
they're not trading their kills back well enough.
You know, especially the past two rounds they've tried to get more aggressive,
but it solo pushes.
They're not going together as a team, it almost feels a little bit like they're paying each other.
I think, you know, sure, for shifters, if one player dies in shifters, that kill comes back immediately.
You cannot say the same for Twisted Lines.
Good spirits.
Good spirits here for shifters.
They're sort of riding high.
They've now got themselves five in a row.
They have every single open kill.
And now this is what I mean, right?
That they're sort of locked in towards the path that's ahead of them.
I mean P4 being able to pull out a blinder, it doesn't always happen.
Last time we were on Chalet, he went one after the last.
Went one and ten.
This is what the Masters want.
He knows he's up against P9.
Exactly.
He has the right of the best.
There's a big rivalry.
The battle, the rivalry.
Honestly, you know what?
It would be so great if P9 ended up on four kills
and P4 ended up on nine kills.
And it could happen.
If that happens, how do we celebrate?
They have to change names.
Have they done a shirt swap yet?
Have they ever been at the same event?
I know.
There's a shot.
That's like a Jesse fun fact.
Who knows?
Jesse probably.
Anyway, can twisted mines get one on their opening half, their half of choice, their attack
on towards Chalet?
Can they even get another freebie for free?
Yeah, he's gonna get this kill.
They should get this kill.
If he just used the scanner and see there's a guy on his drone, on the solar panel, it
should be a freebie.
Goes for it, sends somebody in a drone.
I see some outside trophy window inside.
Yeah, yes.
Oh, well.
Oh, well.
Magic is no luck catching those rappellas.
There's another wrong window.
It's also, it's double-sucked there as well, so you could get some damage.
That is the whole way down, but no, P4!
Pops out.
Go on, P6.
It's able to find Dolphin.
Again, that is a flawless opening statistic here.
Now for the side of the shifters.
He's able to take a bit of damage.
P9 is on the approach.
We're about to have two P's in a pod, but the pod is a violent gunfight.
He's got himself a little bit of a really good great take onto one now.
Look how isolated P4 is.
He could try and fight his way out, but it's actually...
Since they're safe, but it's done, doesn't move, holds the cross.
Knows they have to try and clear him.
Another grenade will force Frank further and further away and...
Well, they're sort of checking it corner by corner.
Oh, I know how to run, know how to hide.
And that'll put him...
Just one step away, but now a minute 10, damn it, they have a man in Brontage.
They do.
I think they've done a bad job at clearing the kind of first line of uterus,
But there is still that shield top fire.
We've got a nade, but that nade needs to make sure it can avoid any whammy disk that could have been placed
in towards fireplace too.
There's a whammy on board for shifters.
Spends a Robbie place, but he did die.
And the brim goes in, they have spotted out that shield and...
Again, so that can they get rid of that shield or not?
Last map, finds Jalad and trains the shield!
I mean, they spotted a whammy disk as though he was unaware he was going up against that!
It's 2 vs 1, 30 seconds to shop.
His made magic happen before and he's able to find the first.
A 1 vs 1.
Two of the best gunners, two of the best jewelists.
There we have a cross EML and now they gotta see which one can sort of take the cake,
but no utility.
This is all a drive-thru fight based on the Intel 15 seconds, half the time gone.
He's pulled his way back to the pool table and potted himself a perfect half.
rounds in a row for shifters. Oh, frac, when's the 1v1? Big old half for shift-ozen, eh? What
did the team of this should do, Fink? I don't know what these email players have for breakfast
this morning because why are we seeing such dominant halves? I mean, what is going on?
Absolute excellence on the players on the side of shifters. And I am a microwave.
I warm up everything so quickly that it's 7-0-7-1-7-0. It just keeps on coming.
That's just how it is.
I am hot right now, just like sheafjures.
Just like sheafjures.
I am always hot, let's be real.
Sheafjures, they are especially hot today.
What a playstyle.
I love it because they're in control the whole time.
They're hot intel.
They're hot intel.
Sometimes, just because Swiston likes that extra.
Look at this.
They had information on the bathroom player.
Why is that, Jack?
Because the default cat was left open round two.
All right.
All right, Swiston minds.
So whenever they have default cat,
they have to even.
But also on top of that,
sometimes they bring the boss,
Sometimes they bring the Mira. On the first three rounds it's Mira set-ups plus information that gets in the round.
Here there's a shift because Mira is banned, they decide to turtle.
They play World in IO, they play Zanny, they play Waden, they stay close to each other.
Whenever they go on an extension, they do so together, they grab the opening kills.
Honestly, on the back of Robbie on the front line, Blast on the back line, what a day for shifters so far.
Are you sure he's on the back line with 7-0-1 at this point?
Yes, he really was.
That's crazy!
It was freck. It was Robbie that was really getting enabled and then boss was kind of the link player
He was the one most of those kills or a lot of those kills were trades of his teammates
Whenever it's he was getting traded blast was there and everybody was put up the numbers wasn't just boss
He fought hard a mega round on the dining kitchen bomb site as well
And I think yeah, I really enjoyed the different ways playing it was you know
Like he said, it was really really aggressive
anniversary rounds and then a very deliberate act to get closer together to play more backline more time in the late round
4 rounds 4 5 and 6 from from shifters so so good so far and it comes are really snappy the guy on the screen here P4
Coordinating everything the guy that was on the screen before blast blast making a lot of short course from the back line
I think they really are trying to understand and every single at every single point in the round
I hear a win condition and most importantly I hear everyone commit to that win condition
What is the ruby jump out whether it is to fall back to side?
They're always are trying to get a line to whatever they need to do
Yeah, so that's why we have a different split that is actually perfect
The reddit is now switching to the attack and can they do this, but on the other side?
I mean with what I'm seeing right now they're in flow state. That's literally what it feels like watching
Sisters for these first six rounds though. We're getting the bends coming in right now
We're looking at an Azami, a Monty, and then we have a clash at Adobe as well.
Clash, okay. Interesting. I don't necessarily think that the Monty band is gonna hurt them too much
I think that they don't need it. I think it's very similar to the Wayfarkens attack fortress. They're in the same flow state right now
Yeah, don't need shields to get entry picks and yeah, if recent minds keeps on moving like they do Julian defense
The game plan on the side of of shifters has to be punishing them
Yeah, I think so the potion they're caught off the line
Feels like we've been talking about this before over and over again
I'm it's also one of the shifters very similar don't necessarily have a natural shield player
So banning the shields isn't always as effective love mode does hop on them from time to time
But we don't necessarily know him as a mainstream shield player
So, you know, certainly a monster ban again feels a little bit
Alright, is that the right idea or how punishing can shifters be? Let's find out in the second half.
Oh, thank you very much, Desk, and we are here with, I guess if you're just a minor fan, hoping for one of the best comebacks that we've ever seen on a shadowy map.
Because, well, anything less than that, and we are off on our way to map 2, demo.
Well, what a weird, weird day!
So far, so far.
Um, as well, Leo's a little bit confused with the Clash Band.
I think it's just a preference band because it's the exact same bands that they had against
VP.
So I just think it's just something that shifters just don't want to play against.
I think that's just a general plan for them.
Just to clear that, Leo.
That's why I'm here.
Make sure they help each other.
Just because I'm not.
The shifters are helping each other.
You know, it's the way that Leo kind of talked about it.
They're doing it with one brain, aren't they?
And it's P4.
It's P4's brain.
And they're just loving it. I mean, to be fair, he's living through it as well, right?
It's not always... We've made a sort of slight comment before about it, but he's not always the one that shines through the kill department.
And with the rest of the team you've got around yourself, yeah, makes sort of sense. You've got a lot of great gunners here.
They're operating themselves pretty direct, wondering how much of a cover they're going to have.
You can see, obviously, Lassman and Freck go into the opposite ends.
They've got P4 ready and waiting on a big double window.
The window with the Tranker trick, up through the open, out onto the balcony, and that's a nice little delay.
Yeah, but it's really good whenever you know it's always going to be a shield in that window.
Yep.
And they get the first as well. There goes your Grim. There goes those bees.
There goes the players that were sort of watching me on the opposite side.
Can't quite reach, unfortunately. There's a lot of room on that shield.
You can't hop in. As soon as you hit that barbed wire, the amount of damage that could come through, the amount of barbed wire that twisted mines brought,
They really want to make sure they're aware of any approaches that come their way.
Yep, this is the eight piece barbed wire strategy that we're all familiar with.
It's a very common thing that you'll see all the time.
Yeah, eight barbed wire, it's a little bit overkill.
But hey, we'll see.
I mean, nobody should be getting up staircases out of the case.
I want every better staircase, better have at least two bits of barbed wire on it.
You could get everything off. They've also got the jackets we keep away. They're really spreading on time.
They've got a horn in certain locations. There's another bit. Just everything.
This is like a mini game.
Here's the drive-in. There's a race bloomer. There's a lot of damage.
They must get one. They can't quite get the kill. There's the cover.
Great push back in here from Twisted Mind. Blast gets a double though.
Now, but everyone's getting themselves a two versus two.
The Angles, Blaz and the last move,
find in and amongst it, find but 40 seconds.
A recollection of the kit and P9 is watching,
waiting and ready to shut down the jaws
of anyone that gets a little bit close.
But what do they have?
A lot of smokes to go for the cover of their plant
and there's still enough fire to slow it down.
There's a bit of damage done.
Towards Hachom, towards Blaz.
It's a janker.
It's not an easy gun to operate in these kind of angles.
But as a DMR, well, it's even tougher.
There's the swing round.
As a follow through it's another one versus nobody because Flash is bloody brilliant!
And that is another flawless arm for our day!
Wow!
Flash bangled 1v2 and he lost that he jumped straight out of his chair!
Wow, a 7-0?
Then he's back back!
Wait, I mean Liam said it was going to be really close!
I don't know what game is he watching?
I mean, yeah, there's a lot of shit about that, but hey, that's not for us. That's for our break
We called it Final Chance Friday, but it might be very fast Friday after all with the second 7-0.
It's 5-10 Friday! Woo!
Okay, and also here is this, a very fast day so far. What do you mean we're getting another 7-0?
And if for a vacation game, that attack and that 1v2 by blast as well, what is happening?
Yeah, we played what 22 rounds out of 45 maybe so far in terms of across the three maps that we could have. Yeah, one versus two from blast two
Versus four ultimately pulled back to enable the two buses to the blast then goes and wins out
And they're just absolutely fine, but this really was the story of the entirety of shifters
When you're in a seven now
It wasn't that long ago that we were speaking about some at the halftime blast with a hundred percent cost
184 on the ps scoreline
He was a big link player today and even then in the late round. Why do you want your spot players in those light rounds making those big plays?
That's exactly why you did you live in KD ratio? Yeah, it's just on the game plus I to the major. That's better than Wikifox. Yeah
It's more than two times better more than let's see if he could keep it up for the next
Can you imagine being just the boys in this case? Are you saying now? I'm G to go next
that happened and what do they do now? I mean the second map is their map break but still that doesn't give me much faith to be honest.
I think it's a side issue. I think that attacks have always looked weaker for those in mind.
Yes, they thought that Charlie's attack is excited, they thought the attack there, I understand their choice.
However, I do think that I need either more productivity on the side where when it is all about getting aggressive and getting in the building,
building, I'd rather see them really focus on one area all together and try to achieve that point
rather than still trying to split it to play split. Because I don't know what's what's happening is
they're splitting split over the map, you're losing almost all of the opening engagements
and there's no never a trade. So if you want to play like this, just commit to one area of the
map all together, make things easy, create steps where you can all focus on one objective at
the same time, layer things. For me they they have to apply a lot of shields on this
roster in terms of twisted mind. And very, very often, you talk about them being split,
he's very out there on his own, entry depth quite a lot of the time as well. I'm ultimately
putting them in a lot of four or five scenarios, so they need to group up around the shield
as well. So like you say, take a smaller area of map, but group up when the shields
are in play as well, get behind them, make those players happen together, and then
go from there. Because realistically, they just, they couldn't deal with shifters
in that first map, they get onto a map pick that they know. They know Klubhast. There's
only very limited positions on Klubhast that you can play. There's nothing really that can
be a surprise too much, so in theory it's all about themselves.
I feel like we're seeing slight signs of stress on the faces of the Tristan Miles players.
I mean, that makes sense given how the first map went, but also talking a little
bit right, making sure that they get their things sorted for map two. We'll talk
about that one after the break.
I
the game. I think it's
really important to have
players that are really
aggressive for shifters
realistically for them to get
to solid city. I think they
need to continue that
heterogeneous place are that
place that will have been
aggressive in one round and
then being really passive
enough to keep twisted
minds guessing in terms of
their attacks really cat flies
on that decent that we're
seeing for a lot of that
twisted minds, like we said,
play this play the shields.
Identify a small amount of
the map, get close and then
just try and go from
seems like still there's
very much not be the case. Just one map. The curly sounds between scissors and the Salt Lake City
major. Get the deal into or get to Mr. Bynes balance back. Well, I suppose that's down to you and me
to find out demo as we go in towards Clubhouse. Now that has changed by about 20%.
Yeah, I mean, this is usually what happens is that the team who wins the first map,
I just get the majority in the
vote. Uh, people think, oh, it'll
be done in two and I mean, after
a seven, Oh, could you kind of
blame them? I don't think so. Um
certainly whenever we kind of
go from shall in the clubhouse
to very different maps now that
we're dealing with strategically
you think what shall I where
it's mostly focused on your
crossfires and being able to
kind of get into the building
the map. Yeah, we're talking
about opening up the reinforced
walls. That'll be internally
next year. We're also going to
see quite a bit of hatch play
to toy is going to be very
different fundamentals out
coming into this map. In terms
of who that suits. I mean, I
think one of you kind of look
at the series and yes, we knew
shall I was going to be strong
for shifters because they
picked it. We're already seeing
them play against vp. Now
whenever we kind of come into
and after twisted minds because they play club at this stage they won 7-2 very convincing
whereas the last time the shifters play clubhouse it was a very long time ago I think all the
way back in the previous stage and that was a lot to Virtus Pro 7-2 and that's the old
VP as well they were losing it.
Well there's the other sort of thing about not just the map statistics but recent result
statistics, right? He looked towards Twisted Minds yesterday against G2, and the first map
went very much away from them. 7-3 couldn't get themselves anything. Then they get into
the second map, and they're 4-1 down. They're sort of, everyone's a bit worried at that
point anyway, and talk about the bracket. They have a timeout, they rebuild, they pull
themselves, they're not able to win it. But importantly, when everything felt like
they were going away from them, they were somehow able to rally. They always have
that potential, they always have that option, and as they sort of start coming
into this they look quite happy look quite chill inside those player cans you
gotta keep that mood up there's a Tiberhouse flowing things down here
there's just gonna buy a bit of time but to be honest eventually that wall will fall
and well utilizing the Tiberhouse canisters here well what else could it
really sort of flow down yeah with a Cade Band this is gonna be pretty easy
it's just that mines the gold bang bang bang and open up all these different
walls and there's gonna be a pitch on to the soulless Robbie gets caught in the
basement he was tracked don't forget my hash on them danos and Jolad made that
big rotate team was on the roof up earlier and straight away went down
into the kitchen for that cut off so really good first opening pick I mean
obviously for for twist of mind that was a massive issue wasn't it for that
side because they were not getting the opening pick on their attacks they
didn't get a single opening pick whenever they were attacking shall I
already things are different now in clubhouse they they open up with a great pinch and yeah put some five
The four up and again, they've done the basing right. They've got the walls open
Yeah, just a little bit of a slow and steady
They've just been able to get Robbie on the alley that limits the solace as well. You can't quite play in that position
You can't quite get yourself locked in underneath, can't quite play in this sort of weirds area,
get the C4s locked up.
You can sort of focus yourself a bit flat, but there is still work to be done.
It's very procedural here, right?
Twisted Minds.
It's almost, you know, it's a very different map, obviously, for the shalay.
But here, how much focus they're paying to every single bit,
and then how they just keep on pressuring.
They seem to be fully locked in on where they expect people to be.
There's no stress.
compared to Shallay where they could not catch a break or a single shifter's player here.
It's just been a steady and circling. They've got the track from the player at the back end.
There's pressure all around. There goes the last moe. They're going to have to try and
fight their way out in a C4. We'll be able to catch one, but at the same time they've
lost the last moe. Now they've lost pretty much everybody else. P4. All that's left
on the back of the main stairs, but not for very long. Very, very good round there
from Twisted Minds. Yeah, well, there compared to Shallay. And look, two things
I want to know is one opening pick already mentioned that and two
Not as much aggression coming in from from shifters compared to shall I and I think that's just because the way that this map can restrict
She compared to shall I yeah, you can fight against the windows really well on a map like shall I
Again, the Rome game is going to be there
You can be really aggressive with the way the layout is and shall I with the staircases
Whenever you move in the clubhouse whenever those exterior walls start getting opened up
It becomes very claustrophobic and you don't have
the movement that you would you would have in the bombsite that you'd like.
And I think that's where you kind of see the difference there for shifters.
They went for that room game. Look how easy it was to kind of pinch and catch that player
just with the layout of Klopp house, where you can only have those two sets of bottom
staircases and so it's kind of pick your poison. And if you get caught in the
wrong one, you're dead and that's what happens very early on to the souls as
we've seen. And then once you get the open pick if you've listed lives, you just start
for the motions and you're allowed to set up. They were not allowed to set up on
Chalet, so it's kind of what's changed here for shifters.
I think it's, you know, it can be a question of what's changed, right?
But it's also a question of what the map offers.
Chalet offered them a lot of space to not run free, but run around.
It offered them a lot of space to get away with the cheeky rotate.
The amount of times that they would slip past the window or slip past the
engagement and just slip out of the fingers of twisted minds.
Here, Clubhouse is so well boxed and structured, they don't have that same opportunity.
The approach from Twisted Minds, for me once on Chalet, it's not gonna happen here.
On this split.
Lasmo's gonna probably be the first point of call here, see if they can get the shield in.
Blackbeard, up onto us the stairs in the meantime, go for another sort of flat clear.
Get themselves on towards Jim Benjamin, put the pressure across equal sides and just get the work done.
Without the fear, almost the shifters are going to pop a player out and shoot you in the head.
Sloan study.
At least the mines.
Actually for them, if you're on the clubhouse attacks and if we're dealing with another bomb site,
this is what it's going to be like.
Get the walls opened up, open pressure in those windows.
And for shifters, you have one for that extension over into Jim and Bedroom.
I would say we'll be slowly forced back, but if you till now get scumped in with the ying and congala's and
it's not a great position I think for Robbie to be him, never mind he wins it against the Blackbeard
Oh almost gets the knife behind you with the shotgun primed and ready
it is going to be a trade though as it is still a free on free now
another shotgun tricks with the ying shotting now too
P9 the only person with an automatic machine gun on this team
Can you try and bounce this round the corner?
It has two blinds, but the worry is as soon as the fight comes round,
he swaps to the shotgun, the range was sort of battled him back and forth.
He's only got three pops left in that, but he's just gonna take the dive.
Slips his way across.
There's Hash on that's gonna put some pressure up the bottom of Red stairs.
They've still got some barbed wires, taking a bit of an awareness here,
frozen out by himself.
Keeps himself cool!
Needed to thread the needle.
There's another slow on the opposite end.
He's able to get a nice pin on towards one, but he's in the middle of the remaining pair, and that is traded rounds.
That's traded rounds, and a lot of traded kills also from shifters. They didn't allow twist of minds to have that opening kill and not have it traded back.
So a lot, lot better, I think, from shifters in that round.
obviously whenever you're kind of stemming in from I would say the less traditional approach
I mean typically whenever people think of your cctv and cash from bomb site
It's okay go garage with a shield that's usually how things go and I mean
Blackbeard and also over at Monty has slept his way through the panning face and also capitao
Going for the rafters. It is certainly very viable
I think for a side that just lies, but they didn't want to go for that
They actually wanted to challenge that extension from shifters. They wanted to go into a gym and bedroom side
But whenever you want to kind of actively take engagements and actively take gunfights
That's what's gonna happen
You're gonna have to kind of get messy and you kind of lose some key elements
Which I would say the key element was certainly losing that shield losing that like fear
It does put you in a stupid position
So maybe if they go back there again for for another attack
That may be your rafters might be better just based on the operators that are open to them.
Five seconds left.
One-one, and we might finally, for the first time today, have a game of siege.
Obviously, with our things gone so far, we have currently matched for opponents to be able to pull total rounds,
regardless of how this goes. It shifts us one every single round. Well, that's two of the same theories,
but I don't think that is what we are going to get, not with how close that previous round went as well,
Well, even when they're trying to drive the answers for each other, well, they're actually being posed.
They're not just operating in two different worlds.
They come together for a clash, finally, of Titans, and that is what everybody wants before we send our final team.
Afterwards, Salt Lake City.
Here. Just keep them themselves at least with the shields away.
Yeah, themselves out of there. Let's not pull themselves away before he's caught on the stairs.
It's a wide sight. I've talked about this before and that there's a lot of avenues for approach, but a lot of avenues to cover as well.
You've got Pranky, you've got the hatches.
And I'm going to contest most of the map here, Demo.
They're going to sort of sit back and say, yeah, you can start playing on the hatches. We'll see you when we see you.
Yeah, bonker. And we're named from Shifters and...
Oh, flip's the wrong way.
These tricks is expecting the impact to come on the other side, but...
E4?
throws that one instead of impact trick. I mean, I was always going to get the hatch
to open. No doubt about it. But yeah, no extension there from Shifters, no round game whatsoever.
So they basically said, well, if you want the map, you can have it.
And for Twisted Lines, he had to quickly leave Redwood to get in and just start openly
not all the different avenues and jolads, maybe jumping the gun.
I think he's got half the round left. He's already trying to make a challenge
down toward a flow and his back fired on him. Now you've lost your demo suit
is really strong when it comes to the basement.
If you can kind of get the drones in
and spot out some of the players
in the kind of awkward positions
where they are kind of stuck,
you think about in behind the generator,
in towards blue, you think about AKs.
If you can track a player,
it puts that player under immense pressure.
So without that operator, it'd be pretty tricky now.
When you think about what they still got to try
and get through here,
it's gonna have to come down to a bit of gunfights
that make a bit of audio,
make it a bit of noise,
it's up on the far side as well,
the pushing in front of the bottom of the main.
Practice goes down, they can't quite finish your masters, Robby's able to find tricks in the meantime,
there goes your Hibani, a DM outcover, and there goes the shield that was to support.
Now at least two players left on the single side of the map, the kit is isolated on the other side,
from the other approach, and all four of them can look.
And this is sort of the drive I mean by how wide the site is.
Now the only way to get to that kit in time is to fight their way through,
they can't go out and rotate over the top, they wouldn't be able to make it,
they can't offer any external pressure, so they can just do this.
Shifters pull back hold it as the single angles and tuck themselves in when they want to try and get the end of it
they're watching from
Well nowhere they can be found shifters retake the pace two to one
Yeah, I think twist the minds they've they tried to obviously try to get themselves in towards blue and execute with a kind of double
Pinsir
Coming from both of the kind of blue hallways one down the stairs other from oil pit and they were able to downfrak
that smoke smoked off the
Ram issue should awaited. They
kept trying to go even if one
of their players was locked
out of the round at that point.
So they just needed to take an
extra bit of time to let them
burn through that smokes and
then go together as a side
because it was very easy for
shifters. They kind of go,
okay, this guy smoked off.
We'll focus on the Monty and
his friend to kill them back
to the blue. They were
still smoked off. So I must
say give credit to the smoke
I must say give credit to the smoke being able to assess that you know what we're under a bit of pressure here
We need to find stabilize use that smoke early
Control the situation focus on the kind of bigger issues like the monthly pushing down long
Say overall event shifters reacted very very well to the attack that's what the mines were going for
Now at this point we got ourselves the extended band and
Zonk kaput now there's a lot of structure from the tactical approach from both of these two teams that mark
It's a weird one because you know the way we've kind of talked about Twisted Minds and I've
made the point that sometimes players have kind of came on the interviews and talked
about Twisted Minds and say, you know, they didn't really play the playstyle that we're
expected from Twisted Minds.
But do you think there's probably a situation with Twisted Minds where everyone's expecting
that playstyle so they kind of have to go a little bit more structured from what
we're used to seeing from this side?
I mean potentially it's always the sort of thing of I guess it also does into conversation when
you were sort of talking about uh not about Leo too Leo the previous map of of your bands
are they brought in by comfort or are they brought to destabilize your opponents? I mean
banning a capitao and banning in his army um it's always gonna limit structure it's always
gonna sort of limit for anybody right that these are these are your bread and butter operators
But surely, if you know it's like Twisted Minds, you think, okay, what are they really good at?
They're good with like, A-Motion stuff, aren't they?
Like those kind of operators who are just perfect for players like Asher.
You know, I think it's an interesting take, isn't it, with really how do you go about the Twisted Mind situation?
Because again, it's great to have them because their playstyle is very unique, isn't it?
The region.
And then what's an absolute depth of thought about having, you know, the menace slide in here, it's great to see.
I think there's also the idea of, you could look at Shifters battles and in some way say that that's almost two and a half different playstyles, right?
You've got the Grim, you've got the Lead in with the Guns, one of the best entries.
You've got the Play as somebody usually over the shoulder, but here's the...
He's stressing the rub, and then you've got the Capitao who sort of plays in support to either of those two teams.
So, for a team like Capitaos didn't mind using them, I would say they used those three operators in three different ways,
and Shifters might have removed three different playstyles either way.
way. Enough about that, let's get towards this. You can see Deimos underneath, Hashem.
We talk about what he's capable of and he could really apply some pressure as he goes
in towards the start and starts tracking upwards and just causing a bit of damage and destruction.
And your jammer says nothing to try and cut this up to the past, but there is all the pressure in
the world. The class is doing their best, the C4 won't quite get the full cash. How does he do that?
Should not be allowed. And well, he won't for very long. P9 does get the kill. The class is so
the game. I mean, I'm not
alone being doubled down on
children. It's not out of this
hold the line. Oh, the line is
they get the player coming in
for support. Black gets one in
the meantime, but it's two
versus three now. Before was
really trying to keep them
back. But no, just not
enough and. Yeah. I mean,
is that occasion? Maybe a bit
of an overcommitment there
I think you let the clash go because the player construction tried to come over to help and then got killed by hash on as he tried to do so
So I think there is the element where maybe shifter just has to let twisted mines have it because as soon as that kind of main
Cash wall gets opened up. The matter of space and angles that get opened up is
It's a lot to deal with and and yeah, I mean for twisted mines knew exactly what they wanted get in towards a kind of garage
I mean great shot here from Frank as we know very swiftly though traded out and this was it from before you see
I tried to come and help him but no it's not the case and then twist lines and easy 3v1 for them in the end
I mean I was certainly more or quicker trying to think we've had
The thing is that you could say that it started one of the
It was a really quick finish. I know what you mean. It was the latest opening kill that we've had.
And then suddenly everybody was dead. Still finished before like the minute wasn't up to the max.
Well the rounds have actually been getting quicker and quicker in terms of the opening kill.
Statistic, obviously still haven't been able to get a plant, but I don't really feel like that's the game for it.
in a single plant obviously in the opening half but hey twisted mines a 200 increase on the
excessive their attacks on the first one hooray it's all it's all on the up and up it's all on
shooting for the moon. I guess we have a look at the mines and just see their
defensive breakdown in terms of kind of where they were the last time they played it they're up
against Rebels and like I said before it was a 7-2 victory so pretty convincing for them
and overall it's looking pretty good I mean it's actually the defensive side which was their most
impressive side because they didn't drop a single defense against Rebels and they were able to get
a 4-2 split on the attacks. Freck almost punished for a bit of an adventure but Glaz
couldn't quite get all the reed on him. T9 obviously suffers a little bit but breaks up as a little bit more.
If the damage done as well, the first two four is thrown in loose, then oh no!
We're caught out by the last one!
Sees legs, sees the legs. Scopus takes care of the glass and it's a bit of a frustrating loss there
because you can see that he wasn't aware. He was entirely on the reed and, well now what do you do?
They've lost the player, he's dipped out of there, they still have to remove the shell
You can always go back to it.
Oh, I was gonna say, I really like the Goose.
Oh no, I mean, that is a blunder.
Right, while he's getting probably gonna get revived,
I really like the addition there, the Skopos,
where the Skopos play inside of Rafters.
You start off inside of Rafters, if nobody's coming towards your Rafters,
or they're not going for Rafters take,
you can quickly TP back.
Hash on!
Able for our last map, we probably should have had him dead to rights there.
Yeah, that was a bit filthy.
I don't know, it was a little bit...
There was a bit of a worry as well, because you could see at first Hasher wanted to kind of keep pushing and then stop and just held and waited.
And if you kept going, you know, he's an insane talented player.
But when you know the rest of your team is having to rotate and reposition, it's not just about they got the player down.
It takes 20 seconds of like three players to try and get things put together.
There it goes, your lad. The box gone, they've been able to sort of reconvene.
They might get us to get him back up, but look at the health of now, it's not going to be a three-year-of-the-twisting-minds players.
And look at what they've still got to go up against, two smoke canisters, another potential Razor Bloom that'll get thrown if they go for the plant,
and a C4 Rift and Ready to go from Robbie.
Well, there's at least no more of the Razor Bloom, but...
...the force of the player potentially with the grenade, they could have on him.
P4?
Just a minute ago.
I thought you would have dipped out of that, because I said a little bit off, but no!
You can see his foot!
His foot is visible.
Instead he's going to kill a different man.
And he's going to waste the grenades.
Oh no, this is entirely falling away, Blast.
He has 5 seconds to hold on.
They go into the plant with what we said
was so simple and so straightforward
somehow to grenades.
What?
And a bit of pressure.
What happened there?
Well, I was thinking
whenever the nade gets tossed in
that, you know,
obviously if you
are playing in that position. If the nade, you know, you get the indicator up, and if
you're P4, if it's red, you have to go for the swing, right? You just can't sit there.
But for some reason, he just sits there. So, whenever I see him throw the nade, and
I didn't see P4 moving for, oh, he must have missed it. And then he gets downed. So,
Oh, bit of an ugly one.
Yeah, I mean, one of those scratches, I think, there.
He's like, ah, didn't have to use my grenade.
Very confused why he didn't move though.
I mean, if you're gonna get knaded, just turn and sprint.
You're gonna have a swing, you know, if you want to.
True.
Just don't set on the grenade.
It's the thing as well as I stood block
Listed all the utility that they had to stop that from right and
And then just sort of brains off a little bit
We'll see if that round comes to haunt them later, I suppose
Just to bind to the meantime three of their attacks 300% game. Wee
They have as I said earlier. They have an ability to bounce back. They have an ability to sort of mentally reset
Fortunately the divide was too far yesterday but here the fact that they've been able to get it a bit earlier on
Gives them a lot of hope and maybe maybe
We'll set us up for a third map a showdown after what was a very quick first map
To me this extension now from shifters that I'd mentioned the last time
They went for the basement, they didn't have any intention in going for the Rome game and
they just cannot allow the map to fall into the hands of Twisted Mines but this time it
is going to be a full four man Rome game.
And the Blackbeers, they're open up a way for Hachel now, he is completely faking his
way in through and towards stripping him back to the base.
Where all he goes down, he was, I think, distracted by the Blackbeer charging at
him and Dolph is lucky to be alive.
Look at that HP, must be one HP at least.
The last
I'll find p4
I mean there's actually a lot of just out of my hold
You know they're going for their own gift
I'm gonna give the map away
I have lost two players, I've been a mid and
Maybe they're gonna force that after it right now
Oh you can see Blast wanted to sort of give
A passing gift
But a 4 vs 3 on this site
Remember when I sort of talked about how much trouble this can be
When you have a lot to do and how it was sort of giving away
The c4 isn't quite
The result that they want
on a little bit longer and get themselves a potpipe the last move is the last form
dragler here a minute 20 they've still got a fear of somebody else loose but
they seem well aware yeah there's mozzy we'll get track we'll get forced down
we'll just hit the hatch and get out of there we don't need to give them the
four versus two but does give them a minute now the man of blanche to go
for the rest of this clear a three versus four again an
An entry statistic is something that is really sort of causing problems, but it seems like
Christopher Mines has been able to bounce it back over the entirety of the map that
we had before.
And this one, they've only been able to get it twice throughout all of this stuff on.
They're almost about to get themselves another kill this round as well.
All the pressure is big where I take 40 seconds to make it stick, but the shield can sort
of make its way round.
How they pull that one off?
I don't know.
I don't know but...
Well, they'll have to wait a little bit before they can cross that pipe and here inside the site in a bit of light and cool out big goyo, big trade.
Tricks gets one more least and a one versus three, swings around, it's able to cement one more.
He's worried about the next swing and it comes and there is a four to half revitalized Twisted Minds and a conversation from our desk.
Thank you very much, you had a great health from Twisted Minds, I'm glad to see this improvement from them and I think a big key factor to this on the attack has been that shield for them.
Yeah, I think you know the moment to have shifted, shifter's minds are twisted, shifter's mind is melted, everything is melted over there.
What a moment to shift to be honest, I think it really has to do with the way that these guys are attacking.
I think that on one side, you've got shifters that move too much.
Exactly the same issue that Twisted Minds had before.
And then the second thing is, it is a step-by-step plan for Twisted Minds.
Reverting back to Klobals behind a chill, it's easier for them to just think,
okay, step one, take this side, step two, take this side.
And exactly as we called before the match, they do it together.
Let's focus on step one, all five of us together.
And I think this is why it's working right now.
Klobals has that familiarity aspect to it, doesn't it?
when you're on your attack, you kind of know your role's responsibility and how each round is going to play out because you've
seen it so many times before with how few variables generally play out on Cuphouse, you know where you need to be, you know what
timings you kind of need to hit, you've seen all the obstacles before. I think that's what's enabled Twisted Minds to really
play and really actually show themselves to be quite good on the attack on this map specifically. One round that they kind of won
where maybe they shouldn't have to be on the shift as absolutely trolled on that CCTV defense, so should have really been a
But they've got 4-2 and Matt's got some power.
Even technically it should have been a 4-2 for shifters if you think about it.
Because there's that one on CC where they troll and the one before went on Gym.
Clash, before on Clash, is top red sphere.
He's surrounded by everyone.
If he's there, it means that he's called that everyone should be fighting here.
So he calls for a fight, he's there with the clash on red stairs and no one commits.
He's just surrounded, no one helps him.
And so there is a little bit more hesitation.
Where is the team play that we saw on Shalit?
It cannot be only a map thing.
There needs to be a reaction. We do need to celebrate though, all three of us right now, because this is the most competitive map that we've seen tonight.
It isn't a 7071, so we do have that to be thankful for.
Oh wow, that's definitely something. I'm glad about that, but we're going to go into the second half now.
We're going to have to see shifters go on the attack for themselves as well, and of course the operator bands with that.
Before we get some any predictions, anything they might get out of their hands or just the mines in this case?
I think the main thing is be ready for the change of style of the play style of Twisted Mines
They're not afraid to take risk. Yeah when he comes to defense even even on a map that that favorites defense like the boss
And that's why I'm normally not the biggest fan
And it's been a bit of a pet peeve of mine so far this stage definitely has been the bandit in the cave man
It looks like that's what shifters gonna go for certainly the bandit first
But actually kind of makes sense of clubhouse. I said before with the way people like squad gel
He likes his team to kind of play this fast place the rush get the walls open
and then just go to fight direct from there.
So Bandit Cave makes a lot of sense off the back.
Yeah, it's going to be direct takes almost only,
I think, if that's the smart way to go about it.
If you think of CC bomb site, just go for your garage take,
go for server plant, easy peasy, gym, same thing.
Go for Jacuzzi, take the windows, go for the gym plant,
try to take shortcuts directly to the bomb site,
avoid the aggression on the side of 2009.
I absolutely think maybe a Firemite Band
could have been more affected from Twisted Minds.
It actually slowed down that breach in Cave Billy
a little bit so you can be in position ready for it.
I'd have probably done the Firemite instead of the Monty.
But Monty on Clubhouse is always strong, so I understand that as well.
I feel like the approach of Schifters really is that standard checklist that we always have on Clubhouse.
So I'll write that.
When everybody can dream and everybody has seen so many times before, let's see how the second half plays out.
Oh, I'm tearing up.
And the desk, here we are, on towards the second half.
How will it play out?
Well, without any electronics on the defense, or at least the ones that can be attached to a wall,
which feels like health and safety violation.
But, well, I don't think we use that hand, but we do.
That's got a good shot about the bands.
Jack mentioned about the Furamite band, too.
I mean, certainly hard-breaching, as we know,
is a massive thing whenever it comes through the clubhouse.
But equally, I just think, you know, you have a Monty there
who is extremely good at taking kind of rafters' cake
into her gym bedroom, also very, very strong.
So there'll just be too many things to ban, I think for the side of...
Twisted mines.
But shifters need a big old half, because they did lose the defensive half and...
...fine 4 and a 4-2 split, not great for shifters. Twisted mines though.
Inch and before, whenever they played against Rebels, it's the exact same score line that they had.
It was a 4-2 against Rebels, then they went on to take very clean 3-0 on the defensive rounds that they played.
so twist the minds if yet to lose on their defense here in full house
Well, there's a sequel
This it does
What happened there, okay, they're able to find one they're able to find the second that's the time
Okay
What just happened
am I crazy I mean yeah okay I that's a basement by the way just yeah like that's
like the cherry on the top of how weird this round feels great take on to one
instantly locked down
What a weird, what a weird day, weird round.
The fact that it was like, it was like a T-Rex, it was like if I don't move the C4 won't
explode.
Well, a full start from all the corduroy twist at mines, yeah, obviously a massive
extension in towards that top floor, which was very swiftly dealt with by shifters,
I mean, I have to praise them now efficiently they kind of cleared out those rumors using that blitz
That's the focal point
But no weird frantic mines get to see that plans his cameras working again. Oh
Oh, well you have to say it
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I don't okay
They just didn't, they just didn't fancy it, did you just find that?
I don't know, I don't know, they were next to him, and I was looking at it, I was like,
yeah, they had like a lava, so I don't know, no, it's just, you know, he didn't even
attempt to blow it, like, at all, he just didn't, he was using it like a prox, you
I took a landmine.
Anyway, we're here to round, weird round.
Again, another entry kill though here for the side of shifters.
That means, again, still only two over the 14 rounds that we've had so far over this map in the last.
Have gone into the favour of just mines.
They've been very good at conversing them in towards their favor, but you know, it's a different story than attacking defense and
You're also not really had twisted minds on defense throughout this series so far shift this
Now I guess get to see obviously that was that sort of preferred half to fail. Well
I'm a slightly different approach
But then immediately on towards the wall behind there's the mirror window
They're not quite able to swim around and get it
they play the E1D at the same time they do get the window popped it was a nice
little idea there to see if they could try and destroy it from the explosion of
a pipe but I wasn't quite able yeah he's tried to go for the Aruni trick where
you have the gate and then it redeploys but with how it works they're only gonna
hit one of them rather than if it was the full projectile and the gate was
actually up but it wasn't because the mirror was still too close to it to
activate and then it came back on so that's not gonna work so a little bit
Let's play there from Twisted Minds and then Blitz tries to go in. Big last one was very close, I think Blitz actually missed it, but for heck of a big ol' double!
Squares it back, an able mancafe, there's Blizz, and oh another one, Hashom comes up the staircase!
However, you look at where both of the Twisted Mind players are now, they're so far away from one another, and Robbie knows that he can manmark Hashom, and hope that Blizz can win the one against Amira, but the kit, look where the kit is, never mind, they have to go towards him!
No, he just runs Hashum. Oh, he wants that where he's being held. If Hashum knew, I don't
think Hashum knew he had the kit. No, I mean, when everything is that frantic, right, you're
not really looking to see what falls out of the body, because the body will fall, another
frozen camera. The body will fall, it'll fall with the kit. Fine, but he is eyes
locked forward because he knows that at this point they're probably flooding the
site, right? There's been these big back and forth trades. He knows that there's
this man sort of situation he knows he's got a sole player left on the side of the side itself
this that the swing back in the re-application of practice everything we love about twisted
mind game style coming together here and this is what I mean right so at this point on words
yeah oh it's just in fact yeah he didn't even get the kill on the player but it was on the other
side of the shield so he isn't looking towards it he's locked on towards the flank on the players
instead which obviously you would be and unfortunately means that he's taken that dive but if he'd
I mean he could have pulled back to us red, I mean he could have put him in a bit of a chase situation, draw them out, but it wasn't a huge amount of time left, but a decent amount of time for them to recheck. Either way, very suddenly, demo, we are tied up.
Five seconds left before insertion.
And it's tied up very quickly too, hasn't it? I mean shifters have really hit those two attacks hard.
And yeah, I think players now starting to come into it. I mean look at Blaz. He's had a stellar stage, hasn't he? Coming on to a new team for him.
He's really impressed me so far this stage, especially whenever he's doing on a backline role too.
You know, I said this, I think the last time we cast the shifters where Blaz had professed that he stayed on the kind of the operator pool and the role he was on in G2 where he was playing more of the support operators and he's doing it again.
very, very well. The shields and all the shields almost got sent there with the C4 but thankfully
Freck shot that C4 just in time because Robbie was on his drone so he didn't have the shield
in front of him to reduce the explosive damage so very important to Freck up that B4 shot.
Certainly I don't think Twisted Minds are making it easy here for shifters to get
themselves into the building.
And Jalaam's playing very aggressive in behind that keyboard and Ashleam actually
Covers up the window to allow him to retreat back.
Oh, P9 was thinking, I'll have a look into the kitchen as he's a blitz in there.
He thinks, now I'll just go back.
It looks to me that Twisted Minds have all came back to the site.
However, do we know where the scope of shell is?
Does P9 maybe put it upstairs somewhere or is it in the site?
Really don't know.
I mean, we saw him physically, right?
Oh, it's just by the site.
There we are.
Yeah, thank you.
Thank you.
How quick they have that for us.
Yeah, that's it inside the site.
of course some problems maybe on the corner but he physically rotates the player back in.
It's always the thing about a black bit or shield or whatever applying pressure on dirt
is it becomes a little bit of a okay everybody back to the site right you can put this pressure in
and then suddenly those players have to pull that way back you can force a bit of game and then
where do you go from here hold hold Robbie Dove is is sort of playing a dangerous game against
Blaz on the verticality they're forcing the player out there seeing if they can try and get him
by the way but he misses the full rotate and misses the follow through now the
pressure's coming on they've got to drop on every single bit and again the width
of this site has spread out should desire one falls and that's the number
to kick above the hatch and kitchen alone so now they're sending it without
the kit itself the second goes down in moto the third goes down there's the
fourth and well there's at least not a flawless but this is a failure to
launch and they are all over it
I mean, I think that's a
important thing.
Important around there for
twist of mind to get some back
in the lead. Whenever it comes
to kind of basement defenses.
That is the way it can go very
quickly for the defenders where
the attackers tried to make their
approach and everyone just picks
up their own kill and then it's
just a complete fallaway of
around for the attackers. Um, I
think you know, there was
certainly an opportunity on that
as the kind of retreats from back armory to try and get back into church, the player holding them is
a blitz with a pistol, it's not the most ideal situation and because of that the kill kind of gets
dropped and you're not able to get that man advantage and then I just think the time, you
know, uh, twisted minds and but a really good job in the early game especially that kind of
denial in towards blue, they stop them getting into blue early, they keep the barriers out,
they're fighting against it, they use the e-force because they know that their wincon is always
going to be the operators like the Goya they still have the Goya's available that they obviously
can take advantage of in the later stages of around and just think the time of just kind
of panic shifters they went for it they'll lose their engagements and they lose the
round because of it. So with two minds the first defense then it becomes the question
of doing it on a single site right it becomes the the warrior well if that rotates it's
twirl around we go into a tee you know that they're a good team on the split of
but it's an attacker side it's sort of song right now right it's a split they've
got to see if they can try and make things connect here or obviously on
towards church not church awesome sorry I'm on towards whatever that's that
site will be probably CC I think you don't need to guess too much do they
know there's some preparedness not quite gonna take the rest she'll add he
can feel himself away that makes you to run out if they want there's the runout
there's how far he goes but Robbie had the better garden that's the second look
at the health that was done towards obviously shifters dog obviously went
for a fight of his own at the same sort of time but five versus three now
Yeah, big, very, very big for shifters being able to find two ticks of inside the first minute.
And a Plumhouse attack is very important and whenever you kind of think about Plumhouse and the way it lays out with
kind of window gameplay you can have in gym and bedroom having those extra bodies to use those windows to cut off the crosses
to kind of check people who could still be lurking in towards the cashroom side.
There is a player that Hashel is over in garage right now so it does leave Dolvan P9 as the only two players remaining in the bomb site and again with those extra players
This is the way for Hashel because he knows that there's bound to be somebody at least watching him
At this they've caught them on these rotates before they have the ability to obviously, you know, utilize the lying gadgets as one comes out to see if they can force a bit of motion but
Ooh, it's narrow.
Archie and stuff dove himself in.
There's Hashom on the swing.
People went for a plant for a put a stack of it.
Now they know there's only one potentially inside the site.
The blinds go out.
He's gone right past him.
He doesn't know.
There's an, oh no!
Nobody knew.
There's the swing and so I excite.
Hashom's got himself a distance, but a post plant situation
and there's gunfire all over the shop.
He's going to see if he can hold on,
but he's not able to.
Five apiece.
I'm surprised as well. He's been able to sprint past two windows, but I'm just one guy in the windows and that was it. So that's probably why I killed the planter after the plant.
Yeah, I'm surprised as well. He's been able to sprint past two windows
But I just and they one guy in the windows and that was it so that that's probably why I kill the planter after the plant
Also, they're being lost in logistics is quite funny
That's the room with the maps then you should know everything is
Timeout could be the last that they take for a period of time
obviously if this map goes away from them and there are only two rounds away from it
then that is all we get of twisted minds they will not be getting that golden buzzer they will
not be getting aboard the flights to Salt Lake City they will instead be watching shippers
about 30 minutes later playing in another game
It's a good map so far, isn't it?
In terms of all maps really back and forth.
I just don't know where it's going to go next.
Well, we run it back.
Actually, that's where we go, Jim and Bedroom.
Or twist the lines.
Could have went, don't forget, over towards CCTD and Cashroom, but...
Oh, I'll tend to go there.
So Jim and Bedroom is where we go, and I mean for both of the gem attacks.
It has been pretty straightforward, I think, for shifters to kind of know the game plan and
terrific overall for shifters in the German bedroom. The trade-back kills very well, haven't they?
They've never really allowed Twisted Binds to have that extra man advantage.
They've always kept it either level or, as we've seen in the previous round, a two-man advantage at times.
Yeah, you know, how they're sort of operating on their approach has been really, really sharp, right?
shot right we didn't get a full sort of taste on it on obviously shall I because
of how the map went but here the way they're covering for each other and also
the way they're sort of processing information just feels really quick feels
really sharp obviously around people but you know it's a project team that's
made its way and steadily tried to improve sort of bit by bit I'll get
themselves to break on towards the wall now quite quick you can see that
Let's get the drone herd, it's a little wary.
I'm just going to go run.
I guess they are.
There's one.
They're able to swim themselves round,
but Tricks, that important kills back
before he gets traded in by Blaz,
to drop into logistics,
isn't quite that self-sufficient reward for...
On the BP, but Blaz is the man with the kit.
He's inside the box.
They don't want to go to the plant
just yet, the pre-firing,
popping and hoping,
but look at the health of Freck.
Everything has slowed down.
Suddenly, they're a little bit on an island here.
Now they are in a position
where if Freck hit the kit,
they would be planting,
they would be laughing,
but that needs the problem,
almost like they're in the wrong place in position for the dance and Blaz has to cross P9.
We'll need a bit of support but if they swing out well then suddenly they're in a really tricky situation.
All threats survive somehow. P9 does a bit of damage towards Blaz as well even though he was expecting the swing.
Twisted mines they get underneath and T4 great rotation.
There's the pickup on towards Blaz.
And it started well but fell away now.
That point is in the pocket of twisted mines.
You've made a great point that, you know, their fluke with who had the kit. It should have been
Frank in that scenario, where he was on that single reinforcement, perfect position to go for a plant.
But it was Blaz and you can't plant in the bathroom. And, you know, if Blaz wanted to try and
go in towards the bedroom when it worked, there's a guy in logistics going to help him. So
it's a difficult one for shifters, but they had to do something.
By them doing nothing, you have allowed Twisted Minds to figure out what they can do to stop
your push.
And for them it was okay, we know where this guy is, he's stuck in the single reinforcement
in gym, we haven't pinned.
Oh what do we have?
We have a C4.
Rotate someone downstairs, blow them up, that's it, they've lost their gym presence, you
know where the remaining two are.
And then they win the round from it.
So shifters, they need to do something there and they just didn't move.
We stood like statues!
Wow, one round separates us from a third map here and how will that play in the mentality of shifters if we find the series extending beyond the life that it's had, beyond the sort of strength that we feel like we're a million miles away from the 7-0.
This one map has almost been the whole length of the first series that we had earlier on today.
It's the kind of what you want to get right. You need to make sure it's always the thing always said every region every cast everywhere around the world will say
When you are sending the teams you want to make sure that they are fully tested
because what is
That's sort of something that isn't tested what is the sort of problem shit is obviously they
Got themselves another opening kill. They don't have the best sort of record on
Club it's not a map that often plays and towards that strength when you look into a cafe and it's it's sort of a
of 1-0 for both of them two days ago it was a 7-0 uh for shifters
against rebels four days ago it was an 8-7 the twisted mines win
i guess fanatic like it's very mixed results but the momentum has been sort of taken back
by twisted mines yeah i think for kathie it's a volatile map too and it's very difficult to predict
what kind of kathie you're gonna get words from pophouse i mean you generally know how this
This map's gonna go how the bombsets are gonna play out.
I mean, nobody's rewriting the book
on how to play Pothos anytime soon
because I think it's been rewrote many a times.
We've got every volume on the map.
So I think it's possible to write another book in Clubhouse.
The shifters, on this ground,
they need to win to keep themselves in this map,
to win the map.
They go to Salt Lake, so it is very important.
Oh yeah, well that's it right, it's not a huge distance for them right now, but if this round
goes away for them suddenly it's another reset, it's another 7, it's another hour before,
otherwise what could be 10 minutes, and they're so close, they're so close, they're in a fight
going to get themselves into another OT, P9 does fine prep though, level stings up,
great bit of positioning there, it's otherwise the only player that's on that side of the
This is now a very flat approach here. So they've got to rotate P4 round.
He's gone over towards the hatch himself. He's just going to get himself posed up towards the top.
It was a dangerous twing beforehand. He can expect it, but as the pressure comes against the keeper,
they've got a long range fight to slip their way through.
The tracer will sort of throw it across. There's one!
Ooh, can he find the second? It does a bit of damage, but there needs to be some action from some other players.
They're knocking on the wall with the ball on towards pipes. They're trying to get themselves round.
round they've got the close top player but has he been missed has he not been caught out I think so
there's the swing round there's the double for Darwin P 9 gets himself another leaves just Robbie
alone watching hatches 20 seconds and I think we are about to find ourselves in can he sort of
ruin the dreams of the team that he was able to drive and play with before gets one gets
himself on towards blue but he's in towards the red time he's gonna see if he could
a pocket plan for seconds and at this point he's just going to let them swing back in.
They stop perfectly played and we have ourselves a third map for what feels like the first time
of the past two days. Yeah, we got a closer affair. Uh, I think it's safe to say after what we've
had today in our first series, in our first map this series, but what about a lot closer?
Seven five, just a bunch, take it much better.
A great response after the earlier map.
Well, cafe, that's where we go.
Cafe is where we will be going,
but we'll usually do that after a quick break.
It almost got to you.
They almost got too close for comfort, but Twisted Minds lock in the second map.
They keep themselves alive and they keep the hopes and dreams alive.
Pull that ticket for Salt Lake City.
A much closer game and honestly, one that deserved.
I think it started with them leading in attack, which is supposed to be one of the weakest
side on the clubhouse and I think it started with them going back to their defaults,
to their fundamentals.
Maybe something that was not assumed to be their strongest suit, or they'll say
this on clubhouse, they know how to play it.
And then to the defense, look at this, they tried to retain the same playstyle as we know.
They tried the scopos right now.
They tried multiple ones, one from Earthstrip, one from Kitchen.
They tried to be unpredictable and I think shifters read well into it.
But then there were multiple moments where they got punished hard.
I think some rounds where really shifters are in the upper hand.
And by twist and mind just staying close to each other.
That's enough.
Four shifters have done shifters, two just...
Oh, shifters mind, yeah.
I'm not going to be able to say it properly.
I don't know what's going on!
It's so true, the fact that Twisted Mines kind of stuck to that identity, they were annoying, they were niggly, you know, they were in unexpected places.
How many times was Hashum finding success on the fly?
Yes, he was getting traded up, but he was just causing another problem for shifters to think about.
And it's always the Hashum P9 duo, you know what I mean? Like Hashum being aggressive, being annoying, being in a weird position, and P9 closing the round in the backline.
But I think there's one player that we need to highlight that we don't always highlight on the side of Twisted Mines, particularly that first map on the left.
map on the left, the second map on the right, that's a big improvement for Tricks.
Yeah, especially for a player that was not a professional player before, you know what I mean?
Like it's not a player that was in tier one, that was not in EML.
Someone that had Kim Hee's composure in a game that could qualify into the major,
he completely failed map one.
He comes back with the right mental to succeed in map two.
And what do you want to say after a failure in map one?
You want to see a big reaction, a big performance.
That's exactly what we saw from Tricks.
Yeah, big reaction is also needed from shifters in this case,
If they want to make sure they bring themselves back to that third map, it's Cafe.
We'll talk about the starting site because there's a different or exciting thing about that one as well after the break.
the game. We're going to go
into this final up here if they
want to make it to Salt Lake
City. Now we talked about a
little bit right the rules
around the decider have
changed. Yes, this turns out
positive for shifters. Absolutely.
So what we do now is we take
the round differential of each
team, whoever has the best
round differential will get to
choose the starting side on
the decided map. Now shifters
they want seven zero. Of course,
we've just seen twisted
minds win 75. So therefore,
and Kapek, which is massive player.
Yeah, it is massive because the last time we've seen shifters play the map was against Rebels
and they also started defense, and they won 7-0, 6 defenses in a row.
That's just how different a side of this map is. They know how to play it perfectly.
And so that gives them a huge advantage going into this game, also because,
and if we don't take it to a con clubhouse, on the side of Lissand9's attack has very often been the weaker side.
It's a clear advantage, but can shifters also make magic work
With the advantage that they're giving going into this final map, who gets a ticket to Salt Lake City, the final map is ready to go.
Oh, thank you very much, and we will have one more chance, a little bit of a swing back the other way by about 10%, and we are maybe finding ourselves a little bit more, I guess, with a bit of belief here.
Demo for Twisted Minds. Sorry, Leo says, Shifting Minds. Sorry, which one is it, Leo?
I don't think he's here. It's like you're in the room with us. Listen. Maybe. I do wonder
how quickly they take their earphones out of their lives. Throw it out of there. Do whatever
they do. No, what the hell is that? It's the GDF. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're off the
floor. That is it. That's why they're furious about these half-sum corners. We
have. Shift is best to some
as it would go. And this let's
be honest. Demo is really the
map you would want to do it on.
Nope. This is a very volatile
map as we know cafe and
sometimes Linux favor into who
starts on what side? Um
certainly not people for
twisted minds getting that
second map. But I give them
the third and I mean there's there's an old pal of mine big man but seven foot
two called Olly oh yeah eight foot ten Olly yeah yeah yeah big believer that
wherever team takes a second that goes on the win the third I believe okay I
guess we'll see if you know if his knowledge is like dump from
9 of the 7 kingdoms. Great show by the way. Can you watch that?
We've done this before. We have done this before. New bit, new bit, new bit.
We find ourselves here. Is everything to play for.
And to be fair, there's almost a conversation I said about it before where we have a team that is revitalized.
Right, we have a team that not only has been on the second map, but a team that lost it in such tragic fashion that it really had nothing going for them, and then since then, what a return to form has been here for Twisted Minds.
Shifters, they have the benefit of D-flats, but as Leo and Frashinanda talk about playstyle,
how it's being able to be that, how these two teams have been able to hit the first and
the second map, and how the successes and failures have sort of reflected that, does
bring us into what is it a new flavour, a new bit of ground here.
Just in mind, they've got themselves very close together, all in ready, sort of able
to cover each other's swings and crosses, they did a lot of window sitting, and the
first map they were happy to try and get some on the back but applying pressure on
Kaffy Gostieffsky isn't always that easy.
That can be tricky.
See now that the black beard on the window, so he's got that shield in the space,
very safe way of gaining some information.
We'll spot out that Blazowalt is up there with him.
He takes, uh,
a little electrification damage there.
But uh,
I'll have the moment.
Everything is going to plan here for shifters because there ain't a lot happening really
on the side of twist that minds that when they just made their entry into the map, they've
got in towards that top floor but they're dropping like flies, two players gone.
Blackbeard who's on half HP as well.
He tricks has been able to get one kill back but again for shifters, look how quickly
they just retreat into the kind of next half now off their setup.
They let go of the top floor and oh, last mile gets caught up, don't start from hell!
For me, hung around longer than what you should have.
Yeah, I love that too much.
There's a little bit lost there.
I mean, to be fair, it's almost what sort of should have been punished more on Shallay, right?
If I'm going to talk about the positions that they're in, how many times did we see a shifter's play a sort of anvil pass the window?
Get caught out by being in a position a bit too late.
And now, the three versus three.
Two buddies last on either side.
What do you really have here to work with it?
If you're looking at the sort of spread of utility,
you've kind of got a bit of preference
if they can build behind a black bit,
if they can work with the shield that they've done
so well before the site is a bit of an all-good one,
but there's also still a lot of gates to go through.
What are you gonna throw to get through that, right?
You don't really have anything.
You can take the damage, fine, but instead,
they've got to sort of rotate in this 30 seconds demo.
Okay, so maybe now you start to look at,
well, shifters, they might not have a lot in their pocket,
but they do have time.
They've got angles, they've got awkward as long as they can not do what they did on that clubhouse round from the previous map
but just sort of keep themselves pressed forward. There goes the plant.
Dogs off, they've got a great position here. S is going round onto the wall.
Brown, they're looking for the follow through player, but they'll secure the plant.
In the meantime, Blaz goes down.
The Blaz, a great long watch, but they can do this from above.
And now, all of that time is actually going to drift this way elsewhere.
They've got to try and swing their way back in.
It's nice repositioning is now on the window that's picked up on P4 in the meantime somebody else has gone down
But with 27 seconds, they can't just sort of keep playing keep away
Great shot through the premonition and the call based on the inside tucked himself in but ha ha perfect play on the red stairs
Really good plant and post plant from twist of minds weren't great stat during the opening half of that round
I mean, the Blackbeard did
enough. I mean, the Blackbeard,
his whole goal was to sit and
hold my name. Yes, he dies. But
it was enough to get the
diffuser down. And then once you
get into that post plan, really
took their time to get into
the building. They lost a lot of
men. But there is still able to
pull off a three V five there.
Very impressive from Pistot
Binds. I mean, they just
smoked out the entire bomb
stuff because they know, hey,
we've got a glass. We can go
for that. We can just smoke
everything out. The glass can
that post plant really difficult post plant scenario there for twisted mines or sorry for shifters
because you've got a player sat on the red stairs who has a great angle onto the diffuser and also
stops them walking in for the double door and he also got the guy rotating outside just default
on the window so no matter what there's always going to be somebody who can cover that diffuser
so it means that shifters has to go for the gunfights and you just can't like you said you
you play keep away and maybe there could have been a bit more reaction I think from shifters
whenever that diffuser was going down their walls and I don't pick enough movement
I think they were really blanking that the fight would come in they would kill the guy who
was in pillars which they did and then they have the retake but the retakes tricky as I just
mentioned wow really not having many plants across the opening two maps you suddenly get
if you want immediately here in a situation as you said because there have been a bit more reactivity.
Yes, no, maybe so. I don't know, can you repeat the question? The question is, can they try and do it
again? Damn it! Crusted mines, they're in, they're off and I'm just gonna see if you can try and find
something almost got an ace in the previous round and it's good to see from a player who is the
quiet one. Onto a twisted mines roster, right? He's never really the one that's sort of
driving the superstar kills and frows. In times not been able to really connect in there
in the post plant being able to get himself in get the kid in get everything locked in
what else could you really want in the game where it matters the most there is something you could
want and that's the death of frack 0 and 2 from where he started the series being pretty much
the opening killer three times in a row to here unfortunately he has not quite found his feet
And a good opening pick as well, you f***ing think of who's just died, well am I, an operator
who adds the gadget that will assistively replenish to the longer he stays alive, but
if he's dying within the first minute, it's not ideal or will be near enough, while my
disc is what I'm sure shifters would have liked to have, well does depend on what
they kind of take to be here for twisted minds because they can go anywhere, I mean
You've got the Capitao who's really strong for dealing with anyone in behind bakery
You've also got the blitz who could jump in through wedding window and try and pressure the bakery play that way
Based on where they're setting up looks to be the bakery. Yep. Is there a mistrum?
No, not mistrum. Last map does show themselves so they know that one player is at least inside a bakery after trying to deal with it
Last mile, next to the aggressive standpoint, the key lime is there to jump him down
I think he sort of felt the pressure on the walls, right? He wanted to try and get out of there
People is taking a lot of damage as well as inside the site and prep that they're knocking on the door of the class
The class just gonna reset because we're doing the other shields got in there's no support for him. Jalad gets a double
Yeah, I mean it might almost be a time
That's a cheeky one, but no further beautiful take that from Christopher Mines
Yeah, really really strong. I mean time out. I think could be on the cards because they'll be you know
the first round they were 5 vs 3 up for shifters and they lose that and then that
round they just got steamrolled so it's not looking too hot and this is where
you could start to spiral out of control because this is the way this map can be
very volatile rounds just don't rack it up and we've kind of mentioned typically
it's defender sided but if a team can attack well they can also make this map
a nightmare for the defenders with the matter you tell that you can dump in
using the shields. Good vertical work there from Hash on two. Don't forget about that.
That's another part this map has, especially on that kitchen bomb site.
You know, it's scary. And if you look at the wind percentages for both sides,
twist of mind that they were able to get five attacks out of eight. It gets fanatic.
You know, and that's a pretty good shift. And then you look at shifters,
last time they played against Rebels two days ago. What was that 7-0?
It was that 6-0 defensive half.
Well, it's not a 6-0 defensive half this time.
There's a little element that from the side of shift
there's might be a bit of telepower in terms of the energy.
So as I sort of made a comment, how
Frank started this series fantastic on the entry.
Well, actually, that's true for the whole series.
He was 8 and 0 on entry up until that round.
Now he's 8 and 1.
At the same time, as we're talking about outstanding stats
over the opening two maps,
Blaz had what was a 95% cost over two maps.
Which is pretty good.
I think it's fair to say almost every single round
over both Clubhouse and the opening 7-0.
Blaz had an impact of some kind.
Now that has fallen to a paltry 90%.
How far that's gone.
But if that starts, if those two statistics
from how high they peaked start to descend it could sort of show two things one it could
show how much twisted minds have brought themselves back in well there's at least one of those statistics
nine and one frack two could also show a little bit of the energy sort of how things have
sort of gone up and down yes it was a seven oh it was a quick win on that first map but
that's a lot of adrenaline that's a lot of height and it's a lot that has to sort
dissipate and
Now five versus four they also get rid of the capitao we talked about this on the band when it was in clubhouse
It's a great usage, but also there goes the shunt demo
He's gone my very important operator as you mentioned that's out lot of useful
Something to be used in this round C4
Will get tossed and
Somebody off in the window, but not gonna be the case and Robbie has to try and watch some nades and quick trade comes in
and it's still on the front and last man finds P9 at least but oh Vlad the shotgun
charged up the stairs to meet one and Jill had finds two not only did he get
Vlad but last man was exposed himself that's the second time he's died
without Sam repelling this map. Steve thought through the window he
weren't quite net any damage. Vlad's able to easily sort of drift away and get
himself to safety but it's two versus two and it turns into that long watch
game. I talked about position, I talked about utility and now what we have
demo. There's an old fashioned gunfight. No more pocket throwable utility. Obviously the sledge
can make some of the work done on the soft, but they just have to operate. There's two pairs here.
A twisted mind is going to do what they did last time. See if they can formulate a plan and a plan
and try and get themselves in or will they instead go for the kills? They've set themselves up a
drone just to watch. Keep a good awareness and sort of set the approach here going. Just
just gonna have to take the damage and pillar.
Oh wow, he's pulled that one off.
I couldn't tell you, but what will P4 do?
Had a big, big opening first map.
Rotates his way down.
They're fully aware of Twisted Minds.
Seems to know all the motions that he's making
goes for the battle again, but there's the cover.
Where was the Twisted Minds on the first map?
They're so aware.
I think they're not going to
believe themselves they've won
it.
Because they were kind of
lagging behind in the majority
of that round.
And then Jalad finds that very
important double kill.
Where shifters look to be pretty
comfortable, look to be leading
the round.
Last now dies the second player
that Jalad kills and it goes
into V2.
I'm not for it. I'm guessing
drilled a hole into the pillar
walls, and that's how we killed
that player in the site. Well,
there's the time out that we
talked about maybe happening
after round two instead. It's
round three because that is three
rounds now in a row of
twisted minds and two of them.
The entry kill has gone into the
are struggling here on Dostoevsky and they're struggling on their defense as well. This is
the site and the site where we talk about the preference, right? This is the one where we go,
oh no, they've got to try and be able to get through this, right? They've got to try and
build themselves in and, you know, yeah, it's, as it sort of filters its way out of the four
players, it's a 54% on towards the defense side versus the attack, but it's still something
where it if you're getting to this point and you're playing a long series and you have to sort of
operate in those duo moments those trio moments that we see in around one and three that's tough
across the map with all those different angles and shifters unfortunately just one step a bit
behind twisted mines right now still time out and in that that I can't
This is where shifters really need to dig deep.
Because they are not in great shape and you just hope that that time out, you get them
back into the game, twist the mines.
Just playing off aren't they?
I mean, that's the thing that Twisted Mines is, they're probably starting to think that Haru winning some of these rounds, but they won't care.
As long as the rounds keep coming, they'll keep up with the playstyle, because really, I think they're just one that based on gun skill.
I mean, the strategical side of Twisted Mines, probably apart from the kitchen bombs that were pretty well done, you know, good result at usage.
The other two rounds, more or less, came down just to gun skill.
Ready to push them out.
Now, how this goes follow-through will be that sort of drift on.
We've seen timeouts not let any rewards and we saw it punished well on Chalet here.
I mean, it happens a bit, we see another sevens here, it's always the chance.
Down to shifters, this could be the most important round that they play
to just rest some of that momentum back in.
Yeah, they're able to sort of go around to any of that defensive site. They can get themselves anywhere.
Everything is open and instead let's see what happens. Look at the pace demo. They're already in.
They're looking for the fight. They found themselves. Nobody. How much further is he about to go?
We'll hear the shield. Prints him in his own fire. P4. He's able to drift his way out of here,
but how much damage is taken? P9 takes a bit, but catch the killer last moe inside the site.
It's shelfed. Blitz is still looking for a loose tipper out. But in the meantime,
They've got the kit on the window of the site.
They're trying to go with some pace.
The trade-out elsewhere just misses the first engagement,
finds himself against the Seals,
who sort of drops the goes for the fight.
There's the support from Hashem, a four versus two demo.
And it seems like twisted minds have made sure
to just turn the pressure on.
Yeah, and they keep moving with the blitz, though.
I mean, Trix is just leading the way.
And a shot with a shotgun.
Trix with a final.
I mean, this is twisted minds in a state
I mean, that's confidence. After the first three rounds, whenever you see a team go for a timeout, they just rush.
They haven't really shown any rushes and cafes, not being the playstyle. It's been pretty slow and methodical.
So that is definitely not what I'm sure shifters would have talked about in that tactical timeout.
So I really like that they've kind of upped the ante on it's caught jifters completely by surprise
Wow
I mean as I said that could be
The most important round
That we see here the timeout did not net a reward on any site. They could have chosen
in and it falls in the manner. And it's always a great thing. It's something, you know, we've
talked about some of the best teams in the world doing, especially the best teams in
EML. If your opponents are on the back foot and they take a time out, if you entirely
change up what you're doing, right, if you have success, you absolutely melt their mental.
They are so lost. If you fail, well, you tried something different. You entirely
tried to replace the game and it's not the end of the world really. You can sort
of P-Wade background, but it just keeps everybody else on their toes and you are in your own
way regardless of their time out. It's still in the driver's seat. The conversations that
they have, well, yeah, they might have predicted this, but eviction, preparation, and, oh
well, you can have a perspective on it. It's either very different things here, twisted
minds. Four rounds in a row. And now with a combination of operators and no real
soft destruction for truth. I don't have a feeling we're gonna get something a bit
direct potentially through Bakery.
Really good info. Coming in from
Jalad. On that solid stake he can spot out that one player is upstairs and that's really it so the majority of players are gonna be
located in and around the bomb site.
I've used that Aurora to
Oh, a quick one here from Robbie as he's tried to retake the position that P9 got himself
into and yeah, shifters the aggression, the retake has not worked out for them and ha-ha
P9!
What a shot!
But Blaz would have had him dead, the rights were not the case!
Oh man, this is sort of it, right?
It seems like all those moments that were going in their favour have just been taken
away from them.
They do have the kit down and it is a three versus two.
So it's not entirely out of their grasp, but look at the shifters positions. They can't really support each other
Last move is a very close separation of the fight pops the guy and pulls back to his side
How's people gonna get there now? They know he's off site. They know he's above that
And there's so much time demo a minute 20
What are they gonna do with it? Well, they just try and
Implement the plan it seems like yeah, we could probably go for the breach
They'll probably have their drones, you know sort of being watched shillad and tricks will keep the key
I've been very good at Intel rotating their way around they obviously can't go for the
plan itself but they can still try and formulate their approach together and keep the players
isolated keep the two remaining defenders away from each other and now there is only
one caught on red stairs prashed away from the site itself and that is now four to
five in a row demo.
I mean, you look at the set up.
We are dealing with the kitchen.
We see the double reinforcement on the freezer walls.
By doing so, you basically forfeit your VIP and restaurant immediately because once you
see those walls reinforced, you can take light very, very easily.
I mean, defenders have no reason to play instead of VIP anymore.
Cause generally whole reason why you plan VIP is to stop the hatch drop from happening.
So once you reinforce them up, you're basically telling them,
oh, you can take the MP in the restaurant, we're not really too fast.
And because of that, look how early the entries came in for Fist of Mind, straight into the building, straight into that part of the map.
We've seen that retake, tried to come down from the right, it shut down because B9 was just at the Christmas tree.
And then, you look at that free V2, and you mention it, the amount of time that they had because of how early their entries was,
You just rotate that man to where you know the two defenders are.
In towards Maekri, the guy's fucking red certs, he can't come down.
The other guy's stuck inside of a deep kitchen, he can't do anything either.
So he walks in, finds a freebie.
Freebie one, yeah, twists at mines.
Just ran it so well in the scenarios that are being gifted to them,
but you just look at the kill difference on boards.
Like, you look at shifters, free kills is the most.
And it's P4. P4 is the top performer in the kill department for shifters.
We know something's going wrong, because that's not the way it's supposed to be.
Will we get another 7-0?
It becomes the question on everybody's lips.
Are we going to have our most competitive series so far,
and two we've had today, and only really have one competitive match out of it?
It becomes this worry, right?
There's an absolute reversal of fortune and fates, and...
you know if we talk about how great the opening map performance was before now
you get to say the same about Dove you get to say the same about the other side
of it of these players who are usually a bit quieter a bit of a backline who
want the sort of statistics driver knowing when they need to sort of put
gas in the tank and drive baby what can shifters do here what can give them a
life flight give them a single round one to play with here we go the next cup of
the glass straight into it he's gone last map just takes a shot picks them off
however there was a second manifold and it also takes a lot of damage P9 on a
sliver of HP July been able to find one you don't know about the player in
pixel now they do but fight through glass mouth is the examinian can just
block off that doorway. He's in a tricky position because he has close to being
things by those grins. He's gonna have to try and go for it again.
Shalad is really trying to go for the kill here. Freck on the P9.
Minus a weird round for Pistomize, but it's working out for the Nevermind Freck.
A very important kill. The window though, the traits come in. But last
about who's stuck in that corner of the whole time. Able to find Hashtub and Dove now.
And the 1v2, however you know. Look at HP and Blast.
Do you have a ball? Maybe.
Dava, if I'm gonna sort of talk about his skills and how he's been able to get himself in, this could just sort of be that icing on the cake, but...
Blast is such a great series, last one was pulled himself further back, he's ready to pop up as soon as they go round and there it is. One round.
one round. One round is what they're able to have. One round is their lifeline. One round
will be all they clutch onto before, well, two rounds might send them. I was going to
say home, we'll send that to our studio.
Thank you. That's an interesting half. I think we're seeing here from shifters, there's
a lot of struggles once we were expecting them to do it really well because they got
to pick the starting side and they pick defence. They're still stunned. They're still stunned
about the last map and the momentum on the side of Tristan Mane is still very much there.
It really is. So yeah, I mean it's stress. It's ultimate
of the stress. Twisted Minds are playing amazingly well and we'll talk about that but
it's stress on the side. You can hear it or you can't hear it. We could hear it
in that communication. Listening to them inside the game. There's a lot of stress
in the way they're talking to each other. It's panic station. Even in the time out
Laurie was saying to people, calm down, calm down because you're stressing too much.
And actually, let's listen to the side of Twisted Minds and how crazy they are right now.
You can see the mood shift on one side.
One team is panicking hard, one team is heavy, heavy onto the crazy attitude right now.
But they're also quite silent. That's what we're noticing in the comms right now from Shift to Asterisk.
There's not a lot going on, but it feels like they lost already.
It's not in their difference. And it comes back to this at an elite level, at such a high level.
When you're in the, you know, the real Parchons, you know, this is the top level of Rainbow Six inside of EML.
Yes.
Um, it comes down to mentality. It's such fine margins.
And when things go wrong, it can be like a landslide.
And I just felt like looking at Shift to the Twisted Magnet on one side, I feel like there's one player that, for example, like, has turned everything around.
Dove, you mentioned it multiple times.
He just went from being the worst player on the team to the main character.
8 and 2, that round where he's with the Nomad and he gets a 4k on the first round.
He's the one that, you know, is pulling all of the team together as a support player.
It felt like on the side of Twisted Minds, you said it all the way at the beginning,
there is such a big delta between the players, everyone is kind of average.
Well, Dove, he's finally hitting his mark right now.
And then what a way to do it in potentially like the most important map that you're playing
in the whole of Gekkoff, because this is essentially coming down to a best of one,
were potentially in the case of Twisted Minds two rounds away from making it to an international
event that is actually huge for that team and especially going into the defensive off right
now and thinking of operator bands, things they can take out of the hands of shifters.
The first one they are taking out in this case is the Kapital, we've seen shifters
play a lot with that.
That's going to impact them for sure.
Yeah, I think so.
I think especially the executes, you know, you think the control position, yes, his
army's gone, but he's still going to be playing pixel, maybe with the mirror.
he's going to be involved as well.
So taking that cap top out could be very effective.
It could be, well, potentially two rounds
for Twisted Minds, as you said,
that that's between them
and making it to an international event
or do you shift the tassel that you say about that?
Second half starts now.
And will it be a long one or will we be back
with the desk in about 10, 15 minutes?
Who knows demo at this point,
But with how this has gone, how much of a mountain is this now for us to climb?
I mean, that's a lot.
Whenever they go on the attacking side, this is where they have to try and do it.
I mean, last time, we kind of mentioned, they played Kafei.
They had a 6-0 defensive half against Rebels.
And they just had to have the one attack, and they won that.
So it's not as though we have a massive amount of
And a history here with the shifters on on their cafe attacks
We'll have to see how they get stuck into it whereas compared to twisted lines
I mean they were able to win free defenses against
Fantastic, so we know that they can defend this map to a
Be confident level
Ready to add
It lit up! Wait, it's a bit like F2!
And one of the sort of things about it, and obviously the statistics will have less...
Oh no.
Uh, Blizz has gone.
Uh, there goes, early on.
One of the statistics, they have less maps in their pool, but coming into this, they had the best attack in winrate of any of the teams in the ML kickoff.
So far, shifted. They, you know, have themselves a nice sort of 65%, but...
Again, they've played four less maps than, say, Virtus.Pro at this sort of point, and...
a couple less than other teams that have done along the series.
The shifter's losing.
Obviously, Xilad, you said, had an early engagement,
but what a way to sort of step the pace, right?
The timeout came together.
And then from then on, that was a bit of a slow.
They're still going to try and keep things going,
and they're lucky they still have the boogie drones as well.
They can sort of get in control of the stuff themselves.
It's not entirely pulled away,
I think the main issue with losing the sledge though is the nades, that's probably the biggest
issue you're gonna have because there is certainly a few things you want to try and
nade off, personally being the goya canisters, and also maybe the scope of shields which
last time we checked it was in towards Coat, for Frank it just has the one nade of course
was all I was thinking he gets the one unless he can replenish it. Not a lot has really happened
here for shifters apart from the main setup of getting in towards that mid floor and opening
up the vertical angles and getting hatch open. No kills have came in favour of shifters
so pistol mines can just sit in their hands and hope to try and fall onto that man advantage
or a threat will get stuck in with the first pick for shifters before Jalad is there
to take down Robin. Now that 4 vs 3, I mean it's just as scary as the 5 vs 4, but at least
don't be this time, there's a slightly different op, and then there's another, oh no! Oh no!
It's a 4 vs 1, I don't know, and Frank, he's been able to have some magical moments,
but look at twisted minds that they're applying the pressure, they're forcing him out
of the building, they're forcing them out of the round, and they're forcing them
have to be flawless from here until the end. Twisted minds. Well, maybe this is a twist
that shifters did not see it coming. From where we were, a 7-0 opening map to where
we sit now. Oh, how they have fallen. It's not done yet. But if I said it was a big task
last time, it's Herculean now.
I have to play perfect. Five rounds of perfect siege is what is needed here from Shifters
I just don't see it happening. I think Twisted Nights, I don't know why I've said Nights,
that's a bit random. They're just flying high. I mean, you don't see them coming down any
time soon. I just think they've brought the energy. I mean, you heard the comms. They're
screaming their heads off, you know? And I think for Twisted Nights, it's been a long
time coming hasn't it since kind of we would get a manatee back in the national stage oh yeah it's
been it's been a long time since from that last thing it was what last year's SI wasn't it?
It was, yeah. For obviously only counting tier one circuit events from last year, yes.
And it was a shame I think all of us felt that they weren't represented in the ML right
that obviously you know they were at the point under thousands and the buyout happened and
And, you know, a very talented roster got unfortunately sidelined for none of their own
militia, right, none of their own work.
And now it's almost a bit of a revenge job, it's a bit of a return, it's not done yet.
But think about where we were, think about that, you know, clubhouse round with thirty
seconds left and Schuster's let it sort of filter through their fingers and how that
One came down to 7, 5, it really sort of dictated the whole map, but if it had an OT, this could
already be done, and now instead, instead here we are.
Duff goes down as the first, I was going to get the lock in with a grenade, there's
the swing through and there's the second, Freck.
Plays the pressure and goes for the close down, a bit of damage done towards Blast
and Freck both of them, but they're in, they have the top floor control and they
have two bodies for the trouble.
see if they can hold onto this one, but Jalad has a great pick.
He's a doable now as that one kill has came back in favor, but very swiftly, robbing, able
to keep that man counter at two.
I think at this point here for shifters, he's got tons of time now also to really make
this happen and help B9.
He's tried a very aggressive peek up through the floorboards, but has been punished now
and Jalad, who did get that pick earlier, sounded just a sliver of HP and that's
an easy one for Robby.
shifters hey there's one we need four more that's one and you know technically
at this point the defenders only need to connect the ones that they've already
won they only need another kitchen service to go into the sort of way but
the longer this goes on remember there's still the twisted mines timer
they can take this bill the bands that come through
It was a nice approach, in the little case that they had, that was a good take, but then
just immediate responses here from the side of the shifters, a better step back in, but
four rounds, still the distance that got themselves here, they got pulses to potentially
play below, just give themselves that stretch, that pressure, it's all a lot of stuff,
but then also you can watch it from the verticality, right, you can force them
have to go for the clearing when you're using the sort of really gates when you've got the stretch there
you've obviously got the catch for the thorn traps and the quick entrance in case they do it again
as they did in the previous round it's sort of just you know covering themselves it's not quite
eight barbed wires again five seconds no that's that's a that's a shall I only strategy I think
I didn't really love work out that was shall I it was shall I um one thing I will say about
that the pulse in this site it gives you that alternative option look everyone's obviously
going to try and hold above that's going to be the kind of go to strategy for the defenders
but if you have a pulse it gives you the options to go downstairs and you can maybe try and go for a
c4 however i mean shifters i mean straight on the money they're not going to allow any c4 prizes
down here as breck has taken a very early standpoint that does live it now just the
the mines in terms of what they can do. Well thank you never know, maybe Frack will come
up at some point and leave it open but, in terms of tricks, kind of playing at the, the
way that you can see that the site falls where it's just gaining information, feeding that
information free to the players upstairs, you can call out if someone's on piano windows
if somebody's going to drop in towards the piano or they're going to go to the swing,
that's just from a yellow thing, I mean just a shot from Blaz. Wow, just out from
Yeah, they sort of had that read. I mean, it's a great drone.
Oh, that's a great response to it. There's a take back on.
The doccabee's gone.
They obviously still have the line that they can utilize.
Robbie almost gets caught by a razor blue note.
Oh, and P9 swings onto the door.
And it looks a bit of pain. And there's another follow-through.
And there's one more. And it's just Blax left.
Gets it down.
Onto a single player and they finish off the one that they caught
There is a rotate coming through they've got somebody pushing up white stairs and somebody pushing across the top
They're just sitting waiting kills his teammates says we're not gonna give you the option. It's a fair play
Return to not only this series
And he's got a lot of
injuries.
But also the tier one
circuit commiserations close
shippers. They could not find
the key.
The twisted minds found every
single idea.
That's the top of the
ship.
There's after the opening
map that they had a 70
feet. Okay, shippers. Here
we go. But twisted minds
respond.
picture right there that sums it up well well sums it up oh yeah hard death that's
That job! Let's go to a break before we backflip down.
I
I'ma keep it going, I'ma keep it going, I'ma keep it going so I won't worry about nothing.
I
Absolutely, happiness and massive congratulations to Twisted Binds for qualifying to the Salt
Lake City Major.
That is great news.
And now when we get to speak to the victors, I'm pretty sure we have a very happy P9 on
the line.
Congratulations.
I'll make it to your first event in over two years.
You must be feeling amazing.
Yeah, I'm feeling amazing and I'm very proud for what have we done.
I think we did the great things, especially that it's our first AML and we qualified for it.
Speaking of this P9, I think you guys just made history for Mena.
Not only just coming in with the AML and your first time being in this league,
you not only proved that you deserve the spot in the league, but also you deserve the spot amongst the best teams here.
How do you feel carrying the hopes of your region here all the way to an international event?
Well, as you know, AML is one of the hardest leagues that you could qualify for, and honestly,
I think we didn't show our performance yet, and we hopefully can show our performance,
real performance during the major.
Yeah, because if I look at the last few times, your core of a team attended events, you
know, Montreal Major, S&M Boston, you surprised everyone.
It was top 8 every time.
Do you think you have that in you to at least secure a top 8 going into League City?
In this major. That's like a major. I hope, I hope that nobody can predict what will happen.
Yeah, you don't want to jinx it, you understand?
But we hope that not only top 8, first channel.
Okay, I'm talking about today's game. You said EML was one of the hardest regions.
It was looking a little bit, a little bit, a little bit close to comfort when you
lost the first map 7-0. How did the comeback come about? Because you know you seemed very
confident after that. Yeah well I don't know how and I just you know what Daigo said and
what Gelat said was very emotional for us to reach this major you know and we are
Very exciting to reach the Major.
So I know the first match was 7-0, it was a lot, we didn't predict that.
But I don't know, we just have great mentality and we are capable to do the comeback.
One more question before we let you go, because you have a whole series to play still.
Any team out particularly that you're looking forward to hopefully play against at the Major?
Hopefully, I think for me, I don't have any performance, but I think maybe has some one talent.
Ooo, okay.
I think, yeah, I think, yeah. But for me, no one. I just want to win.
That sounds awesome. Thank you so much for sharing your insights. Again, a massive congratulations.
I'm making it to Salt Lake City and best of luck with the next best of three you have to play.
Thank you.
Wonderful. I feel like that was very contagious happiness that I was getting from my interview.
interview but just to remind everything about what we saw about three hours ago going back to all the
maps and how they ended yes we saw the 7-0 yes we saw an amazing combat close on the second map by
Twisted Minds and then on the third map I feel like it was over after the halftime when shifters
got real quiet yeah that second map felt like the switch over it felt like in in map one shifters
were riding the high rising momentum and then map two it kind of dipped off whereas for
it was the opposite. But
one terrible carry much worse
right? And then they really
grew into map to and then map
free onwards and really, really
kicked on. It just goes to show
just how important mentality
is in elite level sport. And
that's the same in any sports
as well. Twisted mind. They
they dug in. They kept in the
game. They've ground out a
win on clubhouse. It wasn't
pretty by any means. It could
have come the other way in
another scenario, but they
got over the line and then
really have the advantage mentally they put their foot down and they flex their muscles.
What's incredible is how shifters was dominating in most of the rounds by the way you know like
you look at frek here 9 and 1 in the entry, lasmos 6 and 2 in the entry. Yeah. How many more
opening engagements do you need to win? I'm thinking of clubhouse again and I just
re-won things and I'm like there was a certain point where they were in the lead even in the
5-6 scenario they were in the lead in that round they throw the lead away they must hate
them to actually I believe that that round crushed them mentally and that they'll be thinking about
that that cctv round will haunt them absolutely haunt them in their dreams because that run in
particular they got the enter kill with last night on the catwalk they then had everything in their
hands and they just gave bodies one by one by one those two rounds go live away we're talking
about shifters having qualified for major an hour ago yeah and that will haunt them and they
were probably still thinking about that going into cafe to be honest and you saw the player
camps afterwards as well. That was the realization that while we had gold in our hands, we just threw it away.
Imagine the highs they went through. You just win the first map 7-0, the vibes are completely high,
you feel like you're completely dominating your opponent, everything feels right.
You have a small break, you come back to the server map and everything has changed.
I mean, look at what it means for Frank. It is a team that made the gamble in a huge
transfer period to retain four of the original five members despite having a disappointing
year from their own woods right they only made it to a single event the other qualification i'm not
counting reload so you know for them this was an absolute mandatory to come in and actually make
it to the top four and many people would have argued that they had the easiest bracket as well
you know on the other side it was secret of falcons and they got twisted minds so on paper
they were supposed to make it. So for so many reasons here, they were the favourites here.
And again, the reason they were even in their position in the low bracket, they finished fourth
inside of their group, which, you know, when speaking to Doki, he said our group was really weak
over the MVP, so they finished fourth in it as well. They've got to do some soul searching,
I think, because we both believe there's a team there, but they need to find how it works
under pressure because under pressure, that's when they keep consistently failing.
to be the first to get to the
final. It's not going to be
the first to get to the final
final, but this shouldn't be
taken away from the greatness
that twisted minds have achieved
right? We have a look at the
brackets and see once again
that where they find themselves
in that lower bracket final. And
as we mentioned already during
the interview as well, right?
It's huge for multiple reasons.
It's their first stage in the
email. It shows they deserve
that spot here. It's great
for men to have that
representation at the
international events again for
these players that have when
would actually, even though they are new to the league and like P9 said, it is a step
up instead of EML. These players have gone further at the international event. They have
got that big game international event experience and their style, let's not forget their style,
is unique and it can be very, very punishing, especially to other regions who might not
be as comfortable with it. You know, we've saw him about Hashoma and I don't know
how P9 was. They scream those guys every day. They know what's coming. Some of
the international teams are not really going to know. They're going to have heard
about what's coming. Yeah. They're not going to have felt what's coming. So
So at this point, we know the four teams that made it to the major representing EML.
And I'm really happy about it for many reasons.
I think that G2 right now is looking like a super team and they've made it.
They will carry our hopes very far.
Far comes with the improvement of Jume, I think will really shine.
So they're really, really false false.
Exactly, and we still need to see them in this BO3 in the next one.
I'm very reassured about this.
Then let's focus on the two next ones, right?
VP, the way they rebuilt, they deserve that top two.
They're going to be incredible and they have a history.
Dan and with Fasha to go very deep in every LAN event. Finally, and last but not least,
with Twisted Minds making it, what I've said before, Estah and Boston top 8. Montreal Major
top 8, they're hitting some top teams. Do you remember which was, who were the fourth team
in EML that we sent? It was Gen.G to EWC last year, and it was Shifters to Munich Major.
None of them made main stage. I believe, personally, that Twisted Minds with the quality
that they showed today and with their previous record they can go further that Gen.G or shifters
could have in their previous event. So overall I believe we're sending the best four teams of
EML possible at the Major. That was my logical display. And how nice of a surprise is it that
two of those teams are completely brand new to our league in terms of the core of the roster.
VP materially changed away from what they want and Twisted Mind is new into the league as
well. So it's so cool that we're not just sending our established three plus one of a runner.
We're actually sending teams that feel like they're going to be competitive.
And there's a real chance for Twisted Mines to make a statement here as well, right?
Because they're going to play a rematch now, which was really a show of the best of one in the group.
Say, mind you, against that formal organization, right?
The one time they made it to an international event was the final time they played for Falcons
with that six-initational in Boston Falcons that picked up the roster that was BDS
and has now, well, evolved into the roster that they're currently playing with.
But since they lost their initial match, there is the momentum in their hands right now.
We see how lethal that can be for the side of Twisted Mines.
and probably the hunger as well to take down their formal organization.
I actually believe they're the kind of team that plays best when they're unleashed.
And currently, let's be real, the main target of making the major, it's been done.
So they will be unleashed, they will go and go crazy, they will team kill their teammates when they're injured.
That was the best moment I know.
We don't care.
But to make the major, we don't care.
He killed him and it was intentional.
You know what? I will hear for it.
We need entertaining teams.
We need teams that have an entertaining playstyle.
Let's go.
They were playing to win when the others were playing not to lose and there's something quite important on the line to write something
We talked about in the pregame. We're gonna see either twist of minds or Falcons in phase two of the major
Yeah, absolutely. So this is the context of this best of three. You might just think it's a third fourth place game
It's not the winner will be in phase two of the major the loser of this best of three will be in phase one now
Twisted minds the context of this is they're making the major itself is absolutely massive
It is phenomenal inside of this league for Falcons if they have to stay down in phase one and go through the gauntlet
Yes, they will be able to do it, but it's more games, it's more stuff, it's more pressure.
So they're going to be putting a lot of emphasis into this best of their game.
Yeah, because especially Falcons are known to go into international events and struggle to run up.
They usually struggle. And as a reminder for everyone that's watching us, Phase 1 is composed of 8 teams.
And only 4 out of these 8 teams will go out. So it is very, very risky when you go into Phase 1
because you know that half of the teams are going to be sent home after playing a few days.
teams in there as well, that we don't really know a lot of yet, so it can make it really
control Spandam, and it works if we don't really know those teams and have all the information
on them, but there is, I feel like they're so much more stuck. We can sit here and yet
for an hour about this final match in the EML kickoff, but to make sure the players
have a little bit of time as well, because just the mines are coming off of a high,
probably further than the ceiling at this point with the qualification to the major,
we're going to get them some time to unwind, get ready for the final series
off the Ymla against Velkins after this break.
Cause I can't get down from this planet up
I'ma keep it goin' till I hang on left
I'ma keep it goin'
I'ma keep it goin'
I'ma keep it goin' till I hang on left
Welcome back to the EML, but we only have one more matchup to go, our lower bracket final.
Before we dive into that though, we'd like to remind you and everybody else at home
that there is still signups open for the Combine, as we're in the middle of the Rumble,
another Tier 2 event and another Tier 2 circuit.
There is one opening up, very soon, so if you think you got what it takes to
maybe compete for spots at the Major in the future as well,
definitely make sure to find your squad and go sign up.
And whilst you do that, we'll go get ready for our final match of the day here.
We do have Falcons and twist the minds going up against each other Falcons minds of Falcons
We are going to do this again. Are we we are?
Okay, it's fine Falcons have qualified to the major earlier shifts of minds
I want to talk about Falcons though because we spoke to two earlier rights
We spoke to about how much it means for him to qualify against this all team to kind of deny them the opportunity
To make it to another international event. Yeah having as big a support there as well
Yeah, he said it that he he thought that if they lost again that he actually would have received a little bit of hate
Which you know, I guess he probably would have because it would have been a massive failure for this roster not to have attended
That intentional event in Salt Lake City as it is they managed to win they managed to win out on that first best of three today
They got the job done against him secret
but I think what was important for me is they got the job done in such an emphatic fashion.
And then my question is how did they get here? Leo you have a beautiful clip of displaying how Falcons got to this point.
Yeah I think it's one thing that makes Falcons special, we focused on it multiple times, they have incredible firepower, that's always a cool thing,
but what sets them apart from competition is their ability to find ways to win rounds where other teams would just not see it.
We're here on the round one, they're attacking on Fortress against Secret, and they've all already spent a lot of time and only have half of the map.
If you look at this, this is Savage and Moogly holding a meeting together.
Most teams will try and fron this because they've spent a lot of time tearing bugs.
Now the thing is, and you will hear about it, let's listen to their comes and what do they think at this moment?
I'm very low.
Yes, I will push here with the cacool I think guys.
Guys, I can track three as well.
You can also rotate like full horse and trophy.
They're not paying horse.
They're not paying horse.
Just one more.
Let's come as well.
Go push as really.
Go push as really and just hold the cross.
I will push you.
I will push east as well.
That's fine.
Yeah, but I'm not leaving.
All right, so two things that we learned here.
They learned that horse is clear.
And that's because of June, by the way, the new recruit.
So it's proving his worth here.
Horse is clear.
And then Leakefax says, OK, fine.
Breida, you go there with Solotov.
You're going to take horse together.
And I'm going to backstab from his stairs, which
is the main stairs here.
Why is that important?
Because all of the defense is here, towards meeting.
And they just found two opportunities, two gaps
to exploit.
So instantly after this call, what do we see?
We see Breida rotate, fall back with the shield,
go with Solotov.
The demos in the shield together
will take the free spot.
They will take horse together.
Sotov will die in that process, but that's fine, Brides got the control.
At the same moment, what is Leakefak doing?
He backstabs from long, he just went up main stairs.
And finally, where is Yuzus? Yuzus is all the way still in meeting
and he's been baiting the other defenders the whole time.
Thinking, hey, hey, I'm still here, this is where we're attacking
and in the meantime, they've got horse control, they've got long control
and Leakefak can get aggressive on the bomb site.
Three, two, one, let's get in, get the first kill on the anchor
at the same time Yuzus kills someone on meeting, Leakefak gets another trade
and in this moment they can plant safely.
And look at this, even in a post-plant,
Lake Efat can hold Savage and shoot Savage pick him.
We have users all the way safe from horse who can still get the trade.
So when Savage gets into the rotation, he dies instantly.
This is what sets them apart from competition.
Falcons will not push and form something
when they think there is a better opportunity to see it.
They will find a gap that no one else would have thought about.
I'm glad we have this little recap,
because this match feels about 25 years ago,
with the way that that twist and mines game was so back and forth,
but they've shown us incredible mental resilience right being down 07 after that first map to then have a really close second map and a
Very dominant third map. It's again. We talked about how deserving it is for twisted minds
But we have to say that right it shows in a best of three the team that has the most debt most debt in this case
It was definitely twisted minds
Yeah, and it was it was a debate that we had with Jack, right?
It's when you look at this team and you look at the amount of time they've played in the ML
You may think that they don't have the tactical depth and especially if you see the first map on Chalet
They're like what is going on? You know, they're not putting in a fight
What I love to see from P9 in that interview was
We had the resilience. We knew that we had eaten ourselves. Look at the hype man here
That was after they won the first the second map that that hype it carried them all the way through cafe
Especially because they were starting an attack on a very different side of cafe
Look at tricks. Look at how he's yelling look at P9. Hashem as well
It's a team that thrives on momentum, that thrives on side-flowers, and it's just, it's beautiful we work for them to make it to the major.
Maybe not the matchup that our Falcons are expecting here. So in case Falcons are watching, Jack, would you please give us an idea or a breakdown of a twist of mind round?
I absolutely can, and Leo referred to it there actually, is how they can, it's not just about the mindless aggression, it's the mini-plays that they make.
Now, if you was eagle-eyed yesterday, you'd have seen Leo do a great illustrator about P4 and how he likes to play the Freeza on the basement of cafe.
And it's like, you know, you
can't just go into the
tournament of cafe. What he
wants is to show presence and
then rotate himself over to the
bakery side and bait people out
and trying to force them into
the bakery. He does that in
this play. Exactly. He moves
the clash from the freezer drop
all the way to go and have
his teammate bakery. How
good twisted mind to respond
to it? First and foremost,
they use capital to make a
little microplay capital
utility. That's not twisting
minds. You know, number
one way of playing, but they
all looking at him. That's three players plus they have impede the clash. So he is just completely
stuck. You've got Hash on holding the red hallway for Robbie's shift as well. Here's how it plays out.
It's absolutely perfect. They push him all at once. P4 goes down and JLab picks up a second kill to
set up the five versus two. This is Swiss in mind friend free flowing. It's very fast. It's
decisive. And the best thing about it is it's all these mini plays. It's not just
mindless aggression. It's in sync. It's together. And this is what we need to see more
It's all five players coordinating a play that was one of the things that we were thinking like yes
They're aggressive. Yes, they're chaotic and a lot of people will label them like this. Yeah
We say that a lot of times sometimes yeah, but still their fundamentals are so good because they just came up with a way to
Breach a defense that many teams struggle against you know a few times before
When we look at shifters. Yeah, and the text as well
I mean that's what really helped them get this whole series over the line
We talked about that being a big
You know help for shifters to start out on defense, but twisted because we're having no other absolutely not
I want to see what maps we have for this one though because when I look on my side
I'm seeing players load into a
Particular and I kind of hope that it is selected a four in this matchup the first map that will be going to for
For the series the first the first two bands make a lot of sense later from twisted mines
You think of bank you think of flair the two maps were like yeah, I can start the absolute favorites
Yeah, border. I like it. Yes. I like it. Although we liked it yesterday when they played up against
you two on it, I will say, I will say, but I do like it. It's going to be very, very aggressive.
I like it. But well, Falcon's picked it because I was expecting to see border. I thought
Twisted Mines would be picking up. I was about to say, yeah. Yeah, it's a weird one to me because
like I said, like Twisted Mines, they made it stupid. The style, it feels like the style
should suit twisted minds, but Falcons like it as well and they have shown it a little
bit. They have played it a lot. In fact, actually Falcons picking it makes even less
Last time when you start thinking about it, and the fortress comes in because Falcon lost its team secret.
Yeah, okay. Makes sense. Why not?
I think it's a gamble. Fortress... No, I think... No, Falcon's just destroyed...
Falcon's just destroyed Team Secret on it. Might be a switch.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think this is a bit weird.
But whatsoever, I mean, from a Falcon standpoint, Fortress makes a lot of sense.
They've been hiding the whole time, only played it today, and what a show of dominance.
I've just done a test patient showing how if they were able to come up with attacks on the fly and execute them properly
So yeah, I'm thinking that
Yeah, the border one makes a lot of sense for twisted minds fortress makes a lot of sense for fagans and from chalet
The one map were twisted minds just
Interesting interesting, you know what good opportunity should we get that to redeem yourselves on the map in what is for
Twisted Nines are relatively good here as well.
Yeah.
I mean, maybe they also just wanted to be nice to their opponent
and wanted everybody to have a great match given the maps we've changed.
Did I remind you of the history between the two teams?
The fact that since Falcons dropped their initial roster
with now Twisted Nines, they couldn't attend a single Asteria event.
They had to grind their way to another event.
That's it, they just made it, but that was after they were dropped.
That's happened.
All right, well, this seems like maybe this is for a personal reason
this matchup with these two
teams and these two organizations,
but we can bring in our casters
because I believe when we're joined
by Fluke and then with Fluke,
you have something to say to us.
Hello and uh, England calling.
Uh, hello, uh, 10 points towards
uh, France for the wonderful
work that Leo has done, not crying
over all of the losses that
have otherwise gone through.
I'm used to it at this point.
12 does go to Copenhagen does
Congratulations everybody. Because what a great season it's been.
What an amazing EML season it's been for everybody and involves demo.
You love Eurovision. You're excited about that bit.
We do it for demo. We're trying to do it later. I'm here.
I am here.
Demo, what would make you smile?
That's right. Jack makes me smile.
You make me smile as well, Demo.
Thanks, mate. And I was also confused about the bit, so it's fine.
How do you do that?
Okay, fine. You're just not cultured. This is what you get, not your opinion.
It's fine. I'm glad we got the settle.
We just don't play ranked all day, me and Demo were not cultured.
I'm glad we got the settled and just friendly bit before we jump into the final game of the email.
The final game of the day. It is ready to lower bracket final. Take it away.
Oh, thank you very much.
I'm so excited for this to all bring itself in.
I pitched up the ages ago and I actually entirely forgot what I was going to do.
Yeah, you do your demo.
Alright, let's just go to a side demo.
76% we'll go as a side as that is set up towards a felt for success.
You want to cheer up that?
We're going to take some tech time out here immediately.
You know, I'm fine.
Who's your friend?
You're originally not, I'm fine.
Hello, Alexander Rybak?
OK, OK.
I am actually, honestly, surprised you did name a real
you're originally not.
Anyway, enough of that.
Are you excited to find out the stakes?
Well, you know the stakes.
you know, it's a very, very
important thing to do. I just
find out who actually gets to
succeed. Yeah, I mean, as much
as what you kind of think about
all it's only the third place
fourth place finish game. This
is actually very, very important
in terms of seating going into
the kickoff event. So overall,
I think this is the game that
you need to be kind of switched
on for if you're twisted
lines, if you're Falcons
because yes, both teams are
you can get into the game. You
can get as much of a chance to
win the thing and get as deep
as you can into it. Because like
the mentioned on the desk, if
you do get put into that phase
one, you're going up against
some teams that we don't have
a lot of information on that
mostly being or seeing L teams.
Yeah, well, I think that's
sort of the excited like, you
know, you can get some
sneaky sites upon them. There's
that brings wonder. It brings
mystery and it brings a little
bit danger. And apparently it
brings solitov. Stepping away
from his computer.
Might be a long one.
It's always the thing that was
actually grossed is sort of
A pack as a whole right across
the entirety of the history of
of Siege was, now I'm hungry, great, was how, when they get towards the International Stage,
because they play a different style, they've got a different sort of, you know, pop that
things cook in that people don't really get the taste of until they hit the International
Stage. As you said, the mystery will be those TNL teams, but only one EML team will be stuck in.
in. So anyway, you said Jack cheers you up. Yeah. Do you want to talk to you? Do you want
to talk to him a little bit more? You're loud. Am I allowed to talk to Jack? Yeah. Yeah. Hang
on. Jack. Yeah, so me. All right. Just, you know, we've got you guys here. Thank you
for redrawing us. I guess you just were still here. Demo, what do you want to ask
God that's what was to us your head out
by this game just just want to say hi to
Jack
Jack
hi there man all right you could say
hi to us as well you know no I mean
hello listen we've got because yes
what does it go goes about leads
all right the bone you expect them
no that wasn't even the bone
what is it like what do you keep
talking about picking bones you've got
an issue to unpack with him
yeah well sure issue was it was it
Yesterday where demos that they didn't think that VP had a chance against Falcons, and then they two zeroed but what a terrible take
I listen they just I can't I can't speak back for you. That's the only thing that's fine. I didn't trust you. All right, I
Don't know what way the French Falcons fans given me great about his team losing the VP
Well, you know, I'm also a VP fan to Frenchies on the line-up story my friends are there everywhere
Listen children, I've been asked for protection we need to get a little bit more on topic. Yeah, and what is your favorite?
That's a rough question I
Yeah, too many no, I'm not the type that gets that gets to watch your revision
I'm actually I have one but it's a very hot pick you might even know the song
There's a few years ago like I think it was a Finnish song a soft engine
They compete it with a song called something better. It didn't do very well, but it's a beautiful song
I reckon maybe we'll listen to it finish song didn't do very well
Finvini ML didn't do very well. Thank you for reaching us back into the game
Because I'm I don't know if you are getting yeah, it was good. Yeah
I'm getting all of production's favourites now, which included Euphoria and Lordy, so they're all feeding me all of the Eurovision details right now.
Just want to say we're not sponsored or anything.
We can talk about Siege if you like, right? Falcons, Twisted Minds.
What do you think, which one, if you had to put one against the CNL teams, is like a welcome to all the levels of the game?
Watch out for really hard push-ups!
Oh my god!
I actually think that Twisted Mind's playstyle fits a bit more what CNL...
Has any of you watched CNL?
I have not.
It is very chaotic, very aggressive, really skilled players,
but I do think they like a bit of that tactical depth.
So if you were to put them into a TDM matchup, to welcome them to EML,
either you send them to Falcon's Traits and they will learn the ropes the hard way.
Yeah.
Either you send them to Twisted Minds and it will be a banger of a game,
which will be all about the TDM.
Maybe what we're about to see on board, by the way.
Can you imagine that?
Your choice is like, these guys are just going to outthink me
and know everything I'm going to do.
I'll play against Falcons.
Oh, and they're pretty good as well in terms of...
Well, to put Corey, they don't know what you're doing
if you don't know what you're doing,
which would be the case of the senior teams.
That's true.
Mastermind.
Or you get to play against a team
where randomly they are in corners
and there's people on the floor
and it's just people push you all the time
and it's... either way, it doesn't really...
Yeah, no, that's not a nice proposition either way.
Have you heard about the Hashem beat?
Yeah.
Let's do it.
Here's an introduction to the Hashem beat.
When I asked him about it in Montreal, he was like, yeah, it kind of just happened.
I asked him, like, how did it come about?
He was just, yeah, like, I have my pro on my mouse, and then it just happened.
It's a crazy mechanic though, isn't it?
Like, can you imagine in real life, like, real life physics going to a floor as you're going past a doorway?
I mean, I wrote all the interrupt shots, maybe in Penbull, I think that's what it was.
But I do think that actually he's inspired a whole new generation of ranked players.
I can tell you with how many ranked we've been playing this season, the number of Hashem
Pika died to.
Especially the Grims.
The Grims that play the Bay Leaf and they switched to the Bay Leaf and they Hashem PQ and
they just won't have you like this.
Oh, it's so nice.
We've seen it so many times in the M.R.
It's like he gets a kill and he's thrown and it's just like, you expect it and
he's still getting them.
I do hope we're going to see more Hashem Piks inside this game though because
Lubby has just started it again.
The game is all yours.
Thank you very much our wonderful desk and okay. I demo I take back everything I said
They're always there for us. They're always there. They are the winds beneath our wings and
Maybe enjoy the are you are you better?
Yeah
It's like
Come on guy. Come on
Smiling anyway, we're in we're in we're off. We're here and ready to rock and roll Falcons of us twisted minds
to be able to get into the
game. We've got a lot of
clients. We got ourselves in
towards border. Now they sort
of talked about it there. How
aggressive this map can be. How
fun. How exciting how
thrilling. We kind of hope it
is, but do remember. Though
there is great stakes. The
1000, uh, bureau or whatever
currency. The difference
the price pool is. I can't
remember. Um the 25 side
wasn't the biggest thing of their day the biggest thing was getting to the event itself they would have
driven themselves in obviously falcons said i think it's a fair to say a pretty dominant win
because of their series it's a very quick one they're 14 and one yeah good for the books twisted
minds they had along the route but it's either way it's still been a very long day demo
yeah i think falcons have kind of had to hang around for a while because they know that they
had to go in and play this match too. So they have been just back, interesting to know what
they actually got up to that they maybe have a warm up scream I don't know. Certainly if
you twist the minds it's kind of out the fracking fan into the fire you could say. But I mean
that's a good little discussion with the desk there about you know what team would
we like to see go up against the the CNL sides and I mean I think I actually would
I'd like to see Falcons down there and the reason why is, I would love to see Falcons just get frustrated with expecting the unexpected that some of those Seattle teams would come out with.
Yeah. Oh yeah, well this is like, you know, we have station for Falcons.
We get to have new recipes, we get to have new things come together.
And it's always going to be exciting and here, well, we're still not quite there yet.
Starts with a bit of damage done towards Solotov, but that first engagement, oh, a little bit more done towards Solotov.
He's obviously in that prime position, right? Attention will be paid to him.
He's being swung on either side. There's the Deimos that's been getting underneath.
There's been no actual mikes to do. Just going to force them up.
He's making it to read it as well, but a shield.
Sort of saying, we know you're here, mate. Just get out.
That's why they've got that little knee jammer on this position.
Mainly to sort of play against the Deimos before, but that gets destroyed by a grenade.
It's not as though it does go down, picked up elsewhere, but it's actually users.
The guys are bitter, and suddenly everybody is down there inside the site.
Gelad has a bit of control here.
They're otherwise peeling themselves away.
Dume is suddenly all that's left inside the office.
And he's linked and wow.
It seems at the pace that Twisted Fal-
Uh, Twists? Whoa, I'm doing it now.
Twisted Falcons did.
Well, they've kept it up from the previous series.
I sure am going to win that
Run. You know rotate on
fountain. The cover off the
metal stairs. So bad site set
up for Balkans. I mean, you
have to have rotate in fountain
that leads in towards metal
in towards beepers in towards
Brazil rotating the CC. You
need to have that little
junction. And if you don't
Switched off on that first round.
But for Pistot Mines, he'll do that all day long.
They'll look for those gaps.
One round, and maybe a bit of an awakening for Valkyries
to be like, oh no, wait,
the head's just coming for back of the series,
we need to lock ourselves in.
I think the fact, obviously,
that the push was so well orchestrated,
that the framing was so driven,
Even without the doccaby, it sort of shows the power of those interlocks and they're going to double down once again.
Oh, actually, no, they're going to swap out instead.
No, they're back. I'm going to stop talking.
They get a whole snake and a lion because those two animals, when you put them together, well, you've almost got a zoo.
Not a very good one, but still one.
They want to try and bring towards Borda.
Immediately.
That's the power of the snake gadget there.
Spines looking at their line up, they've got some aggression, they have the blicks, they've
got the ying.
I wonder if they're going to use that as a quick plant.
Which I mean they certainly could based on where the diffuser is outside of the site.
So they may go for it in terms of vertical or is a bit.
We can use this as here in the half wall position upstairs and we can try and hold
on to that window but he's not going to be able to do much though Fluke if he
He does get blinded by the candelas though that's what they have to be careful of here
Falcons need to react if users can no longer hold the jump.
They're just going to send it in, they've got the shield on the back and oh there is
a leap somebody pulled off the last split second what changed.
And you're able to find a single kill, the C4 does a lot of damage towards two
different players but they've prevented the plant.
And the defack also has Hashomon.
I mean, yeah, the lad is massively hurt, but all that damage came just after.
They attempted to plant, instead they swung their way around on top.
They decided they wanted to fight instead, but Falcons are happier for it.
You just get another and...
I mean, I'm gonna have to sort of have a look back at what it was, right?
We saw the rotate coming through.
Elamine.
Elamine.
Yeah.
Yes!
I mean, saved the round right? Yeah, just they smoked the door. They tried to move in with
the blitz, but the shield on your back means you can't get shot from the vertical. Well,
not very well anyway. We have to be some pretty lucky shots for the smoke to finish off the
blitz. And what's used is to just throws the gridsmort. I think the one kind of thing
for Twisted Mines is they have the ying and the ying was not used to flash the
player in half all that's what they should have done. There should have been a guy on
the sandwich window tossing in the candelas, being able to stop users from lining up that
charisma mine, but it wasn't to be and once that plant does not go down, once that plant
doesn't get successfully planted, it's a dead rat. You know, if we're falcons they're
going to stabilise a lot of utils going to be dumped. Instead of just that yam,
Use upstairs or should have been used
Jeff up and very easy round for them
Can't believe I missed it
Brilliant brilliant brilliant hold on single piece utility shows the importance of it
This point now one piece about things have a response
It's very close and it comes down to those single pieces, right?
How much of a puzzle can it form itself?
Now as they get themselves a stretch, obviously it's bordered.
You're looking at teams and drawing themselves on the attack.
You're looking at the pressure that they can sort of apply.
It's the map that Falcons wanted to come to.
So once again, twisted minds.
I want to lead in here, but, well, technically,
the amount of rounds that Falcons have lost today has doubled.
That sort of talks about the success rate of that day so far.
They might actually get themselves a bit more sort of pressure cooked in here.
Is this the steady approach?
One towards the top once again.
Switch.
Well, now you can quite get that, but instead you're going to run their way around, see what other utility they can take.
Unfortunately the only one taken is the first kill into Jume's pocket.
and the twitch drone caught out, got it done towards.
Eyes on passports, they're being surrounded,
Solotov suffers inside break as well at the same time
and has to get out of there, escapes the air jab
and escapes back in towards long then short.
Yep, minute gone.
Great start for a twist at mines
because they have lost some players
and goes on with P9.
He's off the board, Jim, just about survives that spray.
There we go, Pashop is there,
so at least he picked up the remains
He said downstairs inside of customs
But now for twist of mind you're still playing with that man disadvantage
I've got that foothold in towards customs as we seen Hashel was able to pick up a kill from it
But other than that, there's not much else. I think Falcon's still in a very good position a lot of top floor control
umplier in the site it's gonna be Bridei
Hashel has worked his way through now in towards workshop
but surely this information that Bride can provide letting them know that yeah, Hashum's there and having to refact jobs on to it
helps this team mate
Dov now also going to be spotting out as he's picked up Bride in
This seems to be the information, it's not there for Twisted Minds but Falcons have a pretty good read on what just the mines are going for
At this point the three versus two
What do you tell us either they can try and forwardly move in but well they can't really forwardly move through bullets
Hi there
almost gets things leveled at Dov and after the great opener again he had one of the best maps
he's played as the closer of the previous series so if he can sort of keep up his momentum
Mr. Mines find themselves driving forward slips his way on pass 30 seconds and he's
actually able to cross the divide and unfortunately
oh there's one last player on the defense but we're already dead and now that's easy swing
round. Falcons regain some control.
Yep, not bad. From Falcons, they never really looked out of sorts. I think they
kept pretty good control and just kind of knew what
piss-up mines are going for me in that early fight in towards east. That's
always going to be expected on border whenever you do have a doom who I
think plays the east so well. But overall for Falcons after that
first round, things have went pretty well for them. Obviously I think for Falcons, you know,
it was like a very quick series of me, obviously very goblin and one sided from Falcons up against
Team Seeker earlier on and I mean it's just a case of can they get themselves going again after
that big break.
here we are again here we go again on my own we find ourselves
designates really more and more hate them why is that you get to enjoy more
siege that's true well no this is a game that is give me give me a give me
Here and you look look at these look at these guys. Look. It's a little panda. Oh panda in the background. Where's the dog?
Probably sleeping. What time is it? It's what I thought she has an eyes
All that way 10 p.m. In Europe being later
Yeah, that's how time works
Where's those fans it's also been earlier
Solid snake and the warden goes so I mean I think if you remove the warden
You should, from Valphe's perspective, be ready for quite a lot of Ying and Blitz action.
That's just something to make note of. It could be the way that Twisted Minds wants to kind of change their mentality.
It just, you know, abduces the operators that don't really have a counter because they remove the one counter in the game.
And look at Twix's on, straight away, onto the Ying.
No Blitznip, which, I mean, certainly is an all prayer that we know that Twisted Minds can play.
Yeah, I thought they had a good game against G2.
I mean, I think that board of your history fundamentally and strategically it wasn't,
I'd say, great in terms of their team and I thought it was fantastic.
From Twisted Minds and G2, it was really, you know, on the edge of your thick stuff,
you didn't know how long the rounds were gonna go.
But overall for just the mines, I mean going back to border, after a very good showing from
G2 despite the loss, should feel still pretty confident against Valkans.
The thing about sort of, you know, snake leading in towards it is, talking about how
the operator's been, talking about the information game that's been grabbed so well, they're
Now down top of the city, they can utilize that with the lion as they've done before, but limiting the approach in the pinch.
Oh no.
He's...
Ah.
You know, actually...
Confirmed.
Yeah, for how this place gone, we've had a pretty, pretty easy time of it to be fair.
Let's get them all out now.
Just a just a few problems, but the apple TVing issues
Go on. We'll get there. I
hope so
We will we will we will
But as I mentioned, you know twist the lines up against you two yesterday. We had the the luxury of asking that game
And I think in terms of twisted mines
I mean they weren't looking good in the first half certainly their attacks was a bit of a weak point and
Then their defenses really started cooking
the opening picks. I think the
opening picks from. Pistomized
yesterday against G2 was always
an important stat line. I think
you're able to get that opening
the opening picks. I think the
opening picks from.
Pistomized yesterday against
G2 was always an important
stat line. If you're able to
get that opening pick, let me
see. Yeah, nine times 10 times
sorry, 10 times 15 rounds. They
were able to get the opening
pick, but obviously on some of
those rounds, they struggled to
actually convert the rounds
because of it.
of it. So, again, not what she's talking about is 2-1 as we take another tech pause.
Wow, a moment. It's a 2-1 in opening kills, so they are dominating so far this game.
I have good news. Your favourite guy has got something for us, apparently.
Jack, show us what you've got. Oh, I'm back. Well, you actually asked, as we were
in a previous tech pause, would which China League team would
prefer to play?
Would they prefer to play Falcons?
Would they prefer to play Swisted Minds?
I actually think it's Swisted Minds.
So in this round, Swisted Minds are completely
focused on Solotov inside of the CCTV room there.
Look at how he's been naded out.
There's utility.
There's Goyos.
There's all sorts going on.
But wait, what's going on at the same time?
J-Lad has walked into sight from archives.
Who knows why?
Who's watching it?
Absolutely nobody.
Why is that happening? I don't know.
He walks in, he gets two kills,
first one on to the assault,
second one on to users,
and opens up the round for his team.
But wait, there's more.
Where's the diffuser, you might ask?
Well, this is Falcons, this is Twisted Minds,
and they've got it outside the break door.
The win condition is kills for them.
So they play it through, and it's as simple as that.
Suddenly, a round on boarder,
within one minute, it just goes to a five versus one,
five versus zero, flawless round,
And that is how, because the player has just lurked in to say,
that is the twisted minds that we know and love.
Oh, thank you very much, Jack.
See, I'm always ready, always happy to sort of pounce on this.
Sorry to interrupt your point there, Demo.
Don't know how the rounds are going,
about the entry kills and about how the balances are coming together.
But I guess we'll see if there's something where, you know,
the snake with the awareness,
the lack of it of being able to drive themselves in towards the sight,
and it being banned off, fine.
I mean, I think the solid state was was brought every single round, uh, like Jack pointed out, actually thought it was a walk up metal. But the fact that it came from archives, I mean, yeah, you didn't expect it would be archives because how is probably what you'd say?
that, you know, it's let you
know that somebody's came in
through that door. I thought
it would have been up metal
because they didn't have that
rotate. They didn't have the
pressure that you need to stop
people from doing that. So
yeah. It's a weird one. We're
at first round for Falcons,
but I've mentioned they have
stabilized though from that.
I've been able to take two
success arounds. All of these
moments will obviously take even more out of players that have been playing. What? How
long ago was the Falcons game at this point, the first one? Oh, they finished it. What
was that, maybe three, three and a half hours ago?
And then they've sort of, you know, had time to eat, but we talked about like sort of adrenaline
spikes, right?
Even within a series, but in the great scheme of things, when you get yourself up to a position
where you're sort of having to get yourself back up, get yourself back around, and put
yourself back down, it's, you know, it's a big, big energy spike.
You're so locked in.
we said, there are big stakes for
the series, right? And that
it's the the sorting get
yourself on towards phase two
be the ML team that isn't in
phase one of solid city. But
the bigger one was earlier
say there's just no two ways
about it. The big one was
getting to the event and
I'm not gonna say they gave
their all out there and
I'm not gonna say you can't
play two series back to
back, but to think that
they weren't trying to give
it their all. Even with
game. The score line is only
that good because they were
giving it. Their skill. They
were giving it their all, so.
Hopefully be. Back in. Soon
rather than later, if you've
only just joined us welcome
welcome. Two to one at this
point, but these teams are
this is deciding factor if he gets third place and who gets fourth place 25 aside points a thousand dollars and
First or second phase by
for something is
Stakes here and then yeah
last game of email
Kickoff at least yeah, I scare as the phase one face to that. That's the more important thing that you can't get out of this game
So
Yeah, I want to try and avoid that phase one and again. I mean I also think
that. I mean, it's like. Whatever
we kind of talk about the CNL
teams that we're going to have
the luxury of seeing at the
kickoff event is I don't think
you want to be one of the first
teams that go up against them. I
think you'd much rather be in
the face to and then you can
kind of get an idea of what
they're like. If you do meet
them in phase two rather than
the kind of unknown quality
that you may be getting face
one because I think there was
certainly elements of that
whenever we kind of seen the
manner region be introduced.
Remember they got spots and
the Mexican sides too? There's always that unknown element of, okay, what are they going to be like?
So, knowing what they're going to be like, understanding how things can pressure.
Also, in a way, could translate into this, right? We've talked a lot and at length about
what. Men team stepping back in. It's fantastic that they're able to sort of reestablish themselves
great to see them going towards the first circuit tier one event and international event
since they're unfortunately not able to make it on the league. But here imagine them being
able to go in as the team that sent Falcons to the first phase. Right. Imagine being
the ones to sort of ride higher than what is a one of the super teams in the world, one
of the greatest teams ever, but be the team that sort of replaced you on this dog.
Yes, the bragging rights, doesn't it too?
Yeah.
Um, I think for, for twisted minds, obviously getting to the major is, is key for them.
We know that.
And certainly whenever you look at twisted minds and I think you kind of mentioned as
as well. They had to go and play in the Tier 2 circuit, you know, because we had the spots
locked in last year. They were fortunate not to get one. And they had to ground their way.
And well, they have been people to get themselves to this point. But they have been worthy of
a spot. And yeah, straight away, they're back and they get into that top four position.
They can debunk, I would say, Team Secret, wouldn't they? Certainly a team we would
window, get themselves out. It could be different this time. Round, Dayumos getting
in underneath, it's not that sort of surprising for them. They're a team that
loves to stretch the pressure around, they're a team that's more than happy to
swing the sort of wets and the wings of a map and put the pressure in. Talking
off, it's often solitave in this opening position here. It seems like
a similar approach, once again immediately on towards sandwich window.
hoping to get a bit of a scrappy take and it's always the sort of take that
Falcon sometimes will like to fight them I
I was thinking for Falcons, they can go to toe if their players are up for it
is anyone in the world
well no there's certainly a player we know can just take control of the game
gym if the opening picnic has been traded back very swiftly then there's
Saltoff to inflict even more pain on the twisted mines as
Think the twist of mines are looking for an exit here is a lot of utils being sent in that to Adele's the smoke as well
C4 goes out and oh
Misses a kill on the tricks. He fight now able to punch you lad. You see that trick
I'm gonna go for it and it jumped straight back out since he lost his teammate
He's out he fact takes a lot of damage there from the pressure of tricks probably just yeah
back in, he's looking to find a fight, look at the line up here Falcon's just going to
swing in and he couldn't get out the window in time. There is now technically three rounds
in a row on the other side of the bands and technically in a way Falcons have been
able to complete their three site rotation just with a bit of a speed bump at the beginning
but for the surprise of what was Twisted Minds sneaking onto site in the very first round
and it seems like, well, Falcons don't like surprises.
Falcon switched on again for that.
I mean, I think for Falcons,
it's playing into the fact that, okay,
they're gonna be playing a lot of yank.
You know, they banned the warden for a reason.
We need to be ready for that.
That's probably why you're saying, you know,
that the traps come in, obviously,
to if the yank wants to push in
with the candela's pushing for their smokes,
you're gonna have the traps
at least give you that audio cue and certainly with an Ella and a form. It's
gonna give you a lot of info. Look at that, the Alan form comes in again, so the
traps is gonna be the main way that we're trying to fight against this heavy utility
dot. Then this time for Twisted Minds. I mean they're now switching off the
the English, switching off using the Candelas. No idea if I'm bringing in the Blitz.
In terms of getting the value out of that, man, you're not going to get it.
What if you got two flashes and two smokes? That's really it.
I guess we'll see if they can try and form something out of it, right?
Maybe it's those problems that we had a little bit earlier on in Shallay,
where for everything that they tried, and they did try everything.
They tried multiple different approaches, multiple different takes.
They just couldn't get it to stick.
It seemed like the defenders were always a step ahead,
and I know it could be the worry that it's a sort of similar story.
a similar story especially when we have Shalya as our third map because Porta gets away from them.
And it ends up on the map that they were 7-0 on earlier today.
Wow. Also I think it's the fact that the next map is a map that Falcons 7 and Seekron.
Yeah. Do you get the reverse? Yeah.
I mean I don't even know what's happened there then what's happened there then
I saw him lying down for a second there as well yeah I mean tricks is a bit of a
misplay that dropped the shield but the single bullet was pure fill I expected
it to ricochet up a shield I close then you think there's some support
I'm about to find the swing. I'm immediately onto it, but it was stood in the place where it's gonna be the pre-fire P9
full of bullets, C-Fat gets the lad and
Probably a conversation after this round. I mean what game is this?
This is one-tap simulator
It's going out in the store very soon
Everybody's in one-taps. We're doing a we're gonna bring your friend off for as well. You get a two for one
What is going on?
One tap safe.
Stop.
That's not a one tap.
Get him out.
Get him out.
Kick him out.
Get him out.
All right.
Wow.
Rapkins have sort of, I guess, reminded the lobby and themselves who they are.
It's four one four rounds in a row on the defensive border. It is obviously their map, but
With a round that played out like that, I mean
Still a little bit lost about that but they kill at the beginning do it happen. Let's see
Okay, am I crazy it look like a shield with up
Yeah, I don't know if it's one of those siege moments. It might be
There's been a lot of times where I've died, where I've thought, hmm, how have I not put my sheep?
So, I don't feel the pain, we'll see.
Yeah, okay, so that is what we call a moment.
And I've experienced that a few times.
I'm just not gonna say anymore.
There's gonna be so many people that were like, see!
I took like to that rank.
Yeah, we're not crazy.
Like I throw it to you!
Oh well, I mean the rest of the round was still very hand-delayed.
Yeah, I didn't mean to, I mean, they didn't do anything at all, so I don't know, it's
full.
Yeah.
Oh well.
We move, we keep going.
Yep.
Well, let's see how Twisted Minds are gonna respond on their final attack and it's being a great act for them.
I'm gonna go into the blitz now, back to the blitz again.
I think I'm with the Grim here.
It seems to me a lot of the focal point I feel for Twisted Minds has been trying to take in towards
kind of break room in the CC, but I mean, Solotov right now is having none of it, he's five now.
Yeah, I mean, what a sort of rise from the problems before, he's made himself step in.
He was obviously under a lot of pressure.
He's almost the opening, definitely the opening round.
He's the feminine too, over the entirety of the map as well.
So, I think that puts him like seven to one over the past four or five rounds, or four
rounds even.
So that though, we'll stem some of the problems, gets the opener and in fact
get to a response and there's another one shotguns at dawn is apparently the
back and forth here
the razor bloom forces the shield deeper than they would have liked
solitov that's another one on fact doesn't down by users confirmed by
solitov and now the three versus three am i?
yeah the razor walk by himself and he's gonna get punished because of that
nobody with him to help him out that gobble up from falbgans look
all three of them are by the way they're all upstairs and I mean Twisted Minds
they're aware of two of them I mean would they be expecting a first player
this this may be what catches them by surprise a minute left Nate goes over the
top they've got no form of hard bridge to open up that mountain wall so they
aren't just going to have to push in for a goalie. Oh, jeep, absolutely was being
good for a second there but they're able to fight their way out so it's
able to find his kill and there's users getting hash off. P9 all alone. And 1 versus 3, situation
40 seconds. They've dropped their way down towards the site itself. The kit is unfortunately
under a hatch where somebody was punished for trying to take the drop to the force.
It's got to go even further and further out just to find a safe entrance point.
But as soon as he does, I mean, you can see they've set themselves up there to
play on the contacts there. Ooh, there's sort of range of it. I was finding
opportunity to get Solotov. It's a good first, 10 seconds, can't get the kit and
get to the site in time. Can't even get in the room. So that is a 5-1 half, but what
do our desk have to say about it? I feel like it was very much testing the waters in that
first round, which you also tell us right here, of course, and then after that, it
seems really clear that Falcons have figured out the recipe to success. Yeah, well the
way Falcons lost that round flawlessly should have been a massive wake-up call
And it was, do you know what they did after that?
They played five rounds of Ella.
They played four on every single round.
They jumped on the Legion.
Every single gap they could possibly think of,
they closed it up with all the Chappell prayers.
They got condensed in terms of the locations near each other.
If anyone was buying, they were getting traded instantly.
And from there on out, Twisted Minds really had no answer.
Yeah, if you just look at this round,
it's a perfect example of like, hey, we extended,
then we go close together, then we build up,
we play close to the bomb site,
and we're forcing Twisted Minds to try and problem solve.
Put simply, Twisted Minds, they wanna play the TDM game.
Falcons, they wanna play Siege.
They wanna play Utility, they wanna play Gadget.
They are layering their defense in a way that Twisted Minds,
well, yes, you have to clear barbed wire.
Oh no, you have to clear another trap.
Oh wait, there was another mine here.
And in that way, they cannot surprise anyone
because they cannot find gaps.
And if they cannot find the gaps,
they have to problem solve,
and they don't know how to do it.
But they can't do that on a second.
The second half has to be different
from the side of Falcons at least.
Well, yeah, this is what I would do on their side, right?
You know that they're gonna be extremely aggressive towards you.
So what you do is you bring a shield if it doesn't get banned.
We're about to see the operator bans now.
We're gonna see what is out there at this point.
But what I would do is I get a shield, I get behind greedy,
I spend most of my guys on one side,
so I don't go for a split take like Jitu would do, for example,
so that I have enough manpower
to resist the aggression on the entry points
and I can trade whoever gets in.
And as soon as I've got an entry point,
I just snowball from there behind the shield.
That would be mechalized in AGL if I face a team like Twisted Minds, where I know Hashim is going to go crazy, prone below the window, jump out, all of this stuff.
And actually, we've got precedence to this. G2 really actually struggled to get into the building when they played Twisted Minds on this map, until they jumped on the shield.
They literally, that was the only way that they were finding any kind of map control behind LMA on that Monty.
So I think, yeah, for Twisted Minds from that point of view, for Falcons, we want to see them on the shields. We want to see them take map control.
If not, it's going to be the fight on the East Stairs, the Breakdoor, CCTV, Barclay, all those usual places in Border.
TwistedMans will fight for them.
Oh, look at that. I'm going to say that.
Very excited. It's literally lost the last game.
Oh, look at that. Maybe it's a Blackbird, man.
What do you think? There's like, what, 36 other shields in the game at this point, I feel like?
Yeah.
And...
Good.
Do you know what? I would say that's really good.
Because that's just how well Falcons were playing at early run.
I was I was setting myself up, but if it was a blitz, I'll block it
We saw earlier just how good Falcons were on the docker bait on the solid snake of taking map control using those operators for free
All right
They got rid of one of each calling the lineup like there are all blitz and then you bring a lion to bring a ducati
And then you bring a green and it will be beautiful. All right
We'll be beautiful. Well, maybe with the operator fans Falcons have found their recipe to success
We'll see if that is the case at the second half
and it will be beautiful things said about the potential lineup things said
about our deaths when we throw to their wonderful pieces and segments demo
I'm so positive
right now yeah you know they saved up bacon maybe I was maybe I've been how
What's wrong with that?
It is.
The sort of...
There it is.
Obviously, the one you found against Falcons, it becomes the question. You drop out the shield covered.
You remove the Monty, you talk about how they can sort of breathe in.
Snake is a solid snake. I think it's, you know, unless there's changes before or amongst the sort of lead-in to the kick-off event.
Gonna be one of the top bans surely across the board. He's been brilliant in additions for strong teams
It does make things very difficult though because we know they're still like really strong operators like your grim
Which has sneaked on free for falcons because list of minds they've went for that snakebamp
And I mean grim on board where it's already like quite a claustrophobic map where there ain't a lot of room for maneuver
That grim can be very potent in the right hands
But there's something that certainly Twisted Minds need to keep a check on.
So that's all for the opening pick.
And as much as what they have found out at the Solar Snake, there is kind of, I would say, a one-for-one replacement in terms of information.
That's what the dope we can give you. A very similar idea to what Solar Snake gives you.
Well, the fire is going to put all the pressure on to watch that.
You know, it's obviously been caught. They've got themselves a fire burst of boring call that comes out.
Maybe Leo finds it beautiful to watch, but I think Twisted Minds are in the war.
Oh, so I'm right now and they're gonna see if they can try and get themselves out to green a pathway.
They're like down below.
What do you like, Teemo?
Yeah, he's got the FAT, you're ready to go.
It's gonna remove any of the traps, the runigate, which I believe has already been burned through.
And here they go, it's a bait and switch.
They think they're gonna go for an all-the-cifo, but no, it's gonna be the quick one.
All-the-cifo is just caught out in perfect time.
And that is the demonstration of the power of the FAT here.
And now the shield, well, they can hold themselves close.
You've got the lying down prime player watching
since you're last jumped out, which happens now.
And now it's a four versus two with somebody
on the vent window as well.
Ready to sort of pop up the stones to get themselves wide.
I mean, users, he's everywhere you want him to be.
There's the cover.
There is a six to one demo.
Yeah, so good for Falcons.
Starting off with that East into office take.
It kind of forces players to kind of dig their heels
in towards fountain.
leave armory and support those players inside of Fountain, and once that happens you hit them with
the old archives straight in using the faction to create a fact, removes any potential traps that
could have been there, and also as we've seen it's there for the kind of clay pigeon shot,
nails the C4, and yeah that's all she wrote, very easy post-flat too for Falcons as we've seen.
So I'm just in one more round and that's border locked out.
I mean then you start to look obviously towards fortress and I guess you're always worried
if you go into a series against Falcons right because of how smooth they play this game just
look at how like effortless this is like yeah it's everything you need to be but the pace
of that application the purity it looks simple and it really isn't anywhere
near as easy as they make it look and that's the beauty of the way that they
play games. It's such a well-oiled machine. Excuse me, you're actually late night. Thank you.
It's cheeky late night. Late night you're one.
Six one. Falcons though. For the sort of slow we had in the middle of this game,
They're more than happy to pick the pace back up and want to reiterate that if they get this series locked down
In a similar fashion that they did the first series
Surely it's one of the best days of siege a team has ever played in a family
After a fat check on that, but it'd be the case. See how I'm looking at great form right now
Well thinking losing out a seven one again. It's
just too easy for falcons and one thing I mean we did get the luxury of casting falcons
against secret and after they had that lost to VP you just knew they were gonna bounce
back there's one thing about falcons it's very rare you would ever see this side lose
two games in a row other than your maybe invite or whatever it comes to EML especially they
maybe would lose the odd game and then the next game they would go and dominate
You never see this side have a bad run inside of the stage.
Oh, they almost got the first error.
Right, this is the core of the track, as they battle back and forth.
Pinch underneath, Gelad is wasting, anticipating this approach,
but they're not taking the bike just yet,
because they can't quite net the kill flat,
so instead pull off, re-rotate, reapply.
Half of the round is gone,
and they've not really been able to get inside the building itself.
You can see, you can see the other side.
The gatter tree is being reactivated here, the launch has failed, the falcons, they're
going to see if they can try and look their feathers, and find flight elsewhere, Brede
buying up the pressure on forwards long, but it's P9 that takes the first body, Hasham
does go down, she will potentially get back up, you can see him crawling down the
stairs as well, Tricks is there to find the swing round, they've finally got the
the clay here across the top itself but at the cost of two minutes a lot of
utility hmm oh and actually they won't be able to get the player bottom metal
this is just a threat will it just look at look at how some hell couldn't have
been closer so it's not speeding the buzzer isn't it I mean you made a good
point the time that was really up against Falcons and there could still
be Goyos hidden around the site which could really be a bit of a nightmare
for Falcons. They don't have really any soft destructions, yes they have the top floor but they
cannot really use it to great effect. That's a great pick though, being able to pick up somebody
inside the bomb site. And there's a shot high up the front here from bread, I have a very important
killer from dog, takes down solotov, and they can maybe re-take a shot if they want the two.
Hattering that DMR home, gets to down and the drop into the player, swings their way in
but there's a shield with cover and they're able to take him down as well at one versus three.
uses not enough time to find anybody else and they are not done yet I mean that
is a bit of magic from daub isn't it yeah needed to step up in a very very
important kill on to that metal player force the effect to have to go in for
the swing he wins that too it's the blackbird gets the last wow well it
It does give Falcons something to kind of look at and think, well, maybe that didn't go to plan, because
they did get the opening pick, but they were not able to convert that round.
So certainly for Twisted Minds, it keeps them in it for another round, but
it just depends on how long they can hold out.
We know that Falcons have got four rounds still to see it out in regular time.
And for Twisted Minds, I mean, same way we're kind of talking about shifters early on
You don't want to get a Swiss lunch after the perfect thing, as you said here.
Well, I think this is also the, yeah, right, it's the element of feeling perfect.
And Falcons, it's bumping the road fine.
But that's one side, that's one defense.
They've got to find themselves moving background.
They've got to find themselves on one, so they walk straight up brilliantly.
And they might have to go back to Armory Lockers.
And that's always the thing, right? Armory Lockers, as we found ourselves back on,
It sort of goes the way of saying, you know, CCTV on Clubhouse once upon a time, Top Floor
and Cafe, these fights, because they are the strongest, because they're the first preference
in the meta at the time, and because teams have to learn to attack them, they learn
to attack them very well at trade, and they'll both be happy with that, but also kind
of sad at the same time.
That's a good thing though, realistically, for Twisted Minds.
You take down the Deimos.
Yeah, as he knows, if very heavy impact operators, you can get the right track at the right time.
Really?
Just have a laser, it really has to try and deal with, and some kind of flames coming in with a dachanka!
Oh, that's fantastic!
Using the Molotovs to get the shield bash onto Bridey, and Hash on swings for all his worth.
Well, now that they get themselves the control of the shield, they're putting pressure on
towards looking back and you think about the two big points at the start of this push
that have been removed, fine, you've got three great players as the final thread, but
now you've got no demos for that area pressure and now you've got no black beard to play
over the top of everything that was talked about before, so at this point, well against
the air, not the air, just against the Schumichel launcher, against the other
pressure and a chance at a C4 and this here a window. Well with one Ash charge left, how
can you confidently swing out towards it as they're still happy to put the pressure on.
There's a C4 caught, there's some- Oh a player as well, big risk, no reward, three versus
three of them, some sort of side damage, but EFAC is almost caught out as the Ash.
And you're just struggling to find a route in here, damn right. Yeah, that pick.
Let's give Falcons a bit of a lifeline
You can see the rotate of Solotov being able to find that pick
And maybe Armory could just be a freebie here if Falcons are quick enough
Maybe it's a little bit too slow and contracts could have had an opportunity maybe to rotate back on through that mirror window
But just fought against it
It's gonna be opened up by that actually quick pre-fire almost a bit of a no one action
still gets it though with a swing, but Jalad retakes in towards Lockers and has the trade.
How important is this position and how great is this gun and how good has Jalad been?
In fact, barely any house. You can see they've come to offer some support.
Had Jean sort of fired a couple of shots over the bow for 30 seconds.
Oh, he's seasoned down Jalad.
The support has come in, he's stepped into that important position I said before.
forward oh so doesn't know doesn't know the ashrams slipped his way past
it's the finish on the player and he's about to find a shocking reveal oh we
fuck went for the plant rather than try to boy heads up you just didn't have the
information shawm played it well just sat on his dead teammate almost used
and they had to pivot, had to rotate in towards Armory.
But for Twisted Minds, it was very important that they stood tall
and they were retaking positions which weren't occupied.
You know, very strong position. Nobody was inside Armory.
They needed to get in there and make sure they defend that side
as soon as they realized that that's where Falcons are coming from.
And they had to rotate towards Armory.
And they had to rotate towards Armory.
But for Twisted Minds, it was very important that they stood tall
and they were retaking positions which weren't occupied.
where Falcons are coming from.
Hey, time to talk. Falcons time out. They just need one. We just need one! But now they've
had two. Now that's six-one has become six-three and well we know that they're a team that
can get energised. Put this one to bed. They're still one map, maybe two, ahead of us. The
day is not going to get any shorter. Time to sort of get themselves potentially pieced
together and you know maybe they're talking about the direct sight take
maybe they're talking about how they can just sort of approach wherever they're
gonna find themselves on towards next that's Armory Dunn the one that they
won pretty cleanly before in here it was close it was a one versus one but the
fact that Twisted Minds are still doing that game style that plan that
frustrates so many teams they're up against being outside the building
and being aggressive and now again losing the day must start early then losing the Blackbeard
as well, oof, 6-3, I think for Falcons it's time out, I wouldn't say necessarily to kinda
check their own mental but maybe it's the case of trying to slow down the momentum now
that Twisted Minds has maybe gained and trying to cool them off a little bit, but for Falcons
they want to do it here and now and don't let this rock any further, because if a side
like Twisted Minds can pick up that momentum, they are terrifying to play against, remember
their players are just hitting those nasty shots that we know they can deliver. Falcons
see the bomb sites going to be the bathroom of tellers that they go up against. Hasn't
There's going to be a bomb site that we've seen defend up with twisted mines here, so it will be a new experience for them.
Not in general, I'm sure they've played this bomb site before in their careers, but in this map, in this current series, it will be the first time.
See how Falcons want to probe at it, floors being brought in, can be a good character through castle barricades, then Jim will do just that.
It's always to think about the expansion of the space here with Castle.
On board are where things are so dangerous from so many different places and we know
how well things can connect.
It sort of offers itself in two ways.
One, just mind a team that loves to be sort of explorers on their defense can get themselves
a little bit of a route and give themselves extra pockets to swing behind.
It allows teams like falcons space to set up in some regards right they can get themselves some boots inside the building
Which maybe it could be a lead-in got one C4 to throw against got
Otherwise the port coming through there's that one
Once was the BP but they still haven't got this man out. It's just gonna go outside the building
But it's a shield and eats and breed a
He's not gonna find a fight that immediately
Yeah, this is gonna be the problem solve
Falcons it's taken east and clearing out that castle
with that castle barricade being taken down from weight and it will just put
your lad in a situation where you can't really retreat back to the site as
he's better than a wonder and being picked up here by my tricks and maybe
tricks is gonna be eye-op another swing Jim is right beside him inside away
ain't but this is not the start the Falcons wanted the fact that it's
sort of come on the back of the time now, obviously we talked about how this stuff can play itself in, they do find two though.
Great kills back in, they still have the shields up this time round as well, no hard breach, no muckles that come through from Solotov and
James massively hurt and a bit of an awkward space here, he's so worried about being picked.
The limitation of the hard breach in this approach could be that sort of question, right?
They've obviously got what they've got open, they have this rotate that's otherwise been put through, but it's been put through by the defenders.
the defenders they've prepared for this angle this engagement close up tritch ready
we want to spend on the passport and takes the engagement against users can't quite
cement in the kill but to be honest you know 40 seconds if they rotate can they
it's a big ask they're already at the bottom of the sort of seating area
instead go for the plant Bridae's gonna lock it in they're just gonna try and
make sure they have the single cover power up onto the top great rotate
There's the take on the shield and there's the take on the last man hash on
Really quick switch if Jim would have had a death there, but no hash on
What's on to him?
That's another one that's free in a row
Which was that lions and falcons had just used the timeout also
I mean the opening just did not work out
You see if I he tried to kind of signature crouch walk
I mean he does so well isn't he whenever you can find that gap we know if I can do the bomb sites
It's not working out for him here Swiss at mine seem to have things on luck
Who runs away?
I guess when we sort of thought that maybe it was gonna be a bit of a quick game
incorrect
Seems to be the sort of response that they've really just let themselves
back in round by round, break by brick for all the results where we've had a
game and to highly scream in one direction to now get ourselves to hear
we've had everything today we've got 7-0 7-1s we've had all the ways we haven't
had an overtime yet but that means twisted minds they look like they want
change that demo. This is where it gets pretty scary for Falcons because I mean if just a
mine was already taken free in a row, you can say they can't take four and take five.
It is doable. Falcons need to find a solution ASAP. Go into our vent and workshop on site and
Last time we were here, just that mines was accessible, so they will be pretty confident
of going back here again and hoping that they can be pretty good on it again.
I have good success, but I think overall for Falcons, they just need a little bit of something.
It's been a little bit monotonous, almost, I think, in this opening phase for them
in the past three rounds, and very slow, tried to look for kind of these little
gaffes, efax tried the spot but it just hasn't worked for them. Also, this is the first time
that they've rocked the shield. Britae is on an actual gun this time.
Well, this first engagement gets itself locked in because it's also been a big decider.
If Havas has got itself leveled out three in a row, it's almost another one.
What it is, Jalad!
Gets onto Lickifax somehow, spins around, in and amongst the chaos, is about to back into another player
and he can't quite escape three days long watch, but still.
It feels like that's a kill that's, you know, five rounds ago.
Falcons, what it is, is locked in.
Since then, they've struggled there as well, Stolatov.
Gets a little bit of a scrape on towards Dov, holding on towards the back end,
not enough and it only takes a bullet in the tap.
We still have to take one tap round.
And now we'll see another take outside the building,
P-Dyne.
Outside the breach, leans into where a teammate died again
and again, twisted mines.
Yeah, and I think now for Falcons,
it's a little bit of a laugh shot.
I mean, Jerm's going to try and do it all by himself,
but he's not really supported.
This is the disjoint now that I worry about that Falcons
are maybe losing their shape and losing their structure.
And they're not playing together. I mean, this right here is Twisted Minds!
Through and through P9!
There is no way you pulled that off!
Falcons in the mud, dove, with a final pick!
They're doing it! They're one round away!
One round.
One round was all Falcons needed four rounds ago.
And now one round is all they have before they have themselves back on three rounds.
That's a lot.
I mean, this just finding opportunity and the break in the timing.
Outside P nine time and time and time and time again.
Still happy, still cheery, still driving, still on map 1, still with...
I see this is their map, the pressure of playing a map that isn't theirs regardless of early
day results.
Well, did anyone think this was going to happen?
This is certainly a match up and a half, isn't it?
They'll two halves, to be precise, just a mines one round away from Kikmus into OT.
Over Falcons, finally turn the lights on and get the round one and get it done and
dust it and move on into Fortress.
Falcons, where are they going to go?
after attack into this top floor this is the only attack that they've been
successful on has been this top floor bomb site we'll see if they can recreate
that as the mines it's again kind of similar shape isn't it you have a DMR
inside security you have the mirror windows set up looking in towards break
I think the only change is the warden coming in instead of the mute compared
So the last time they were here.
How will this first fight go? It's dictated every round, but to...
Caution that has to be in a way applied here by Falcons and their approach. I mean...
It's just been taken away, and it's not even really been multi-killed. It's fine.
You know, you had a big round there from P9, but otherwise it's been just a steady sort of cross.
it's been a great combination. Solotov finally breaks the ice, breaks the threshold.
And there's the second Solotov. Catches P9 of 5 vs 3 Falcons. Finally remember!
How to operate here and twisted mines have been punished.
Broken mirror window, they can't quite find a route round.
It ends up being Armory Lockers that they lock in for two attacks.
They'll take it at this point. There's a run out there, Hashom.
jump outside the building finds one he's maybe gonna find a fight with the
Deimos but both of them are a bit nervous it's a heck of a pistol but it's an
awkward place to take it when you know you can feed in teammates and that's
exactly why he gets out of there he's a player happy for an engagement but the
longer he sits the more likely another falcon's player is to show up
he doesn't quite want that Limo
Renek could maybe just try and walk into the bomb site here it is on
forum there's only one guy has to worry about that being thought over
Actually, I'm still on the test, and oh no, the one player that Brite had to watch for!
He looked the wrong way, and Dom has been able to slip in there with the DMR, and another one's thought of gone!
Oh dear, oh dear! Falcons have slipped on the banana peel!
And Yuzus now is thinking what's happened to my team!
He's the one V3 to keep the minute and win in regular time!
We've really have had everything!
that what you can pull out is an ending and we are in OT!
6 to 1 to 6 apiece, we open the day with 3, 7-0 or 7-1 maps.
And now we are here in our first OT.
They're for a late one gang, and they're for the long haul.
Falcons.
They're everything.
They just needed one more round now.
They've had everything taken away, even this, the two body advantage.
Punish, lock down!
Ah, just.
I mean, you cannot fault them, never giving up. It's the sort of story about this Twisted
Minds roster. How many times have they had to fight their way back in? It's just, it's
nuts. Twisted Minds making the comeback happen. Ivan Rowe, you don't see that all
too often. The credit to them they deserve it. I mean that defensive half from
border was great to see. And guess what, they did it again. I mean this is perfect for Twisted Minds.
I will say though, in the game against G2 it was very defender sided in the regular rounds
and in OT it was all attack wins. So who knows we could get a repeat of that.
Well, three rounds to now shake it out here on the first map, and it's going to be such
a change of pace because the longer that this border goes on, right, again, we talk about
the length of the day.
We talk about how things are sort of pieced together in the pace that it started on.
Just in mind to sort of cap the level, and you're going into a map that will slow
things down.
Fortress isn't a quick map because of how it's functioning, because of how new
it is.
The pressure's either side here and the straight on towards the top of the stairs and the impact
straight out the door itself.
Fly the piece.
Nobody's been shaking just yet.
Nobody's trying to find their way out of the building but you can see how anxious they
are and you can see how likely somebody is to die.
It's around this point that often these first engagements have bled their way in.
That half of the opening kills have come in the opening minute throughout this showdown.
There, East. That's what first minds are going to try and hold on to.
And Jalad is more than happy to give his life up to hold on to it.
There seems to be a similar approach again from Falcons the last time they were here
that did not end well for them. They really struggled again and the Eastern British
just gave themselves up again. I mean, hit the impact that he should be having on the shield.
Shield is null and void, but in fact pulls out a Kraken Double Kill and flips around upside down!
Somebody's got to step in, demo, somebody's got to sort of step out and make that mark right now, and if it's in fact fine, but...
Double kill's bouncing their way back and forward and just the pressure that Falcons needs to try and reapply!
They have to read on a solo player. How will they operate?
They know now that one maybe floating their way back and look at the position
they're ready to try and catch them.
Slipping their way onto the hatch but then they're a bit worried about entering all the way.
A hash on.
Boys, I'm gonna take the hatch drop.
Maybe.
Maybe they'll think they forced him further down.
Maybe they'll think he's taking the drop instead.
We can go over the plant itself through the drone hall.
You're not quite gonna get the full catch here.
Oh, there's the souls in there.
What is going on here?
Missed the player immediately on the side.
back on the move and it's retaking the verticality, they've flooded themselves, it's a P9 doesn't care!
Unbelievable return to form, unbelievable setup.
7-6 from 6-1 this is where Twisted Minds hit.
one round away from taking a map that felt so lost.
That this,
this is just unbelievable.
Wow.
Again, Balkans, you can think okay.
Looks good, 3v2, Droom trying to go to the plant,
and it's a simple thing, the life is not a ground ball.
It's so simple.
But even Solotov not being able to kill P9 there, too.
I mean that...
He should be dead to right, but he's not somehow twisted the mind to get away with kills that he never should.
Ugh, what a game.
Barfgun's on the defense, fuck my!
It's been a while, fucking back!
I guess how is this gonna sort of be remembered for them because they were so good on their
defense.
They only dropped one but then they couldn't get, they couldn't buy a round, you know,
in the sort of previous half.
And now Latin, man, to all that energy, think about the opening round for Twisted Minds.
Think about how they won their attack.
It was by being both, by being fresh, and by just getting themselves in there and
finding the fight and well if they can try and utilize some of the energy of the
previous six rounds I mean what a comeback it would be
obviously now they still would have tried to get themselves formed up
Falcons they're very good on their defense we've had one of the most
defensive sided porters in a very long time
They do often open with this hash on the Deimos underneath and you shoot off
potentially some protection here for Breedake and just sort of feed that in
towards the position it's also of. You can see that they've got themselves this
aggressive take before obviously they've had some big moments and some losses.
He's trying to find himself these engagements, take the utility, take the
pressure, take the players and meet them bit by bit.
They just pop themselves out the door, but he can't win against the cover P9!
Just keeps going and going!
The Razor Bloom won't quite get the catch on towards the player, but they now have CC.
All the C4 messes up now, Germans.
The very sticky situation and the...
It's gonna be enough to force them out of two B4 Falcons!
Oh, they're gone! They're shattered!
At the helm!
Crystal binds with one of the best combat you'll see in a long time!
Eight, six, they take it!
My, oh my!
It might be very late, where they are, but...
They show you've still got up earlier in the morning to stop them.
We have to our break before we're back.
We've mapped two.
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and I'm going to show you how
12 and 13. We're very clear stand that round as to why just the minds come away with the victory.
Yeah it was it was honestly what was going on. I think Falcons I'll be honest that Twisted Minds
are always going to present the same thing on the border. They're going to be aggressive,
they're going to be risk-taking, they're going to be stupid at times, they're going to be
floaty, they're going to be everywhere at once and nowhere at the same time and it's so hard
to play against but these two guys start on the couch. Me and Leo we presented as a plan.
We said take east with a shield, play close together and just control the map, control the pace,
control the aggression and that's what Falcons were telling themselves to do every single round
in their comms. Did they do it? No. And they lost and they lost and they kept losing and
they are probably quite sad right now even though they qualified for the major and twisted
mine too probably came to this game without expectations just had a great
time and they had a hell of a comeback. They might want it more I think if you
look at this reader and think of the perspective and the way that trust
mine is going to this game with them they might want it more.
You know you have a mouse Lee when you can speak. I am still angry about what happened.
I would say if anything we literally say this four or five times what's the
You take your shield, you take his stairs and you fall on the shield.
Are you okay?
Literally, it's literally the same thing happened.
Okay, okay.
They're in the 6-5 lead, they're 5v3, they're still open.
I have a treat for you.
A bit of funniest home videos type of style video that we have about round 13.
We're gonna play it out with the player comms because it is quite funny.
I'm going to rotate, I'm going to rotate.
He's throwing, he's throwing.
He can't deny, he can't deny.
They shot me through the bone hall.
They shot me through the bone hall.
Honestly, they were headscarred. They were absolutely headscarred.
Everything.
They told them in the timeout, the IGL told them they just knew to stay close together
and they kept saying it the other way around.
Guys, stop trolling, stop going everywhere.
We'll take Easter.
What did they try to do?
There's three days through Easter.
One guy's archives window, one guy's in Narnia.
One guy's tell us when the idea...
It was so easy to fix.
easy to fix. And that's where they will hate themselves only very much too much. And that's
somewhat worrying because that is in theory our best team in the ML not being able to
have not even especially when they're being told but just coming back to that pressure point.
I actually think Falcons putting more pressure on themselves because they want to win because
they know stage two is important. Yeah that's the important thing right and so far it seems
that twist and match absolutely floating at least through this first map here but we'll talk
We'll talk about the second map after a break.
I'm gonna spread it out
I'ma keep it going till the end
Goin' till the end
It is time to focus on the fortresses that are set up in this series.
It is important that we know that phase 2 of the major is on the line, right?
That is essentially what these two teams are playing for. I think if we speak about stakes, that is probably the most important one inside this matchup.
Yeah, because if you're Falcons, you don't want to go to the major, you have a small door, not the big door.
You don't want to go into phase one or one, so you're simple for the big door.
Yeah, let's go to the big door, right?
Like, come on, you're Falcons. You've attended so many grand finals, never won one, by the way.
But still, you've been so far, so far in every SEG.
That part is really upset you up there.
You just got June!
You just got June!
Which was in my head the MVP of the SEG Grand Final, except for maybe, but who knows.
You just got such an incredible lineup.
You're telling me you're gonna come into the Major being the worst seed of EML.
Come on.
You're gonna tell me you just threw a 6-2 lead on boarder.
And you can't win the rest of the maps.
It's fine. Leo, we're gonna watch the second map.
We're gonna knock Rashed out again.
We're just gonna see if there is a potential for Falcons to fight themselves back inside this series
or if Justin Bionic can close down in a 2-0.
I think Leon needs some sugar. Leon needs some sweets. He's crashing out. He's throwing them. He's throwing them hardy.
He denies the Falcons fanboy allocation as well. Let's check, isn't it?
It's check. To be fair, I've been there with G2, so I knew what he's feeling. So he's lately as a Falcons fanboy.
I don't know if he's a fucking fanboy. He's just he loves France
Right. He's like anything French. She's waving a flag, you know
then
If there's a roster with a French person on it, he's got the jersey on he's wearing it underneath ready to go
I think out of the lot
Stalkins for him isn't it? Let's be real
We'll see we'll see
Falcons
Now, we don't really need to go too far back to talk about how good they are on this map.
Then how do we?
Nope, 7-0 against Secret.
Not much else to say apart from just the perfect, perfect Game of Thrones Falcons.
Not so much for Secret, but for Twisted Lines.
I think going to Fortress picking it into Obstacle Falcons who just played it today.
I don't know how good the staff are for Twisted Lines, how quickly they could
about the data to get a help them and do a ball review I don't think that would
have been something that was available to us the minds today but I mean that
they're gonna go for I mean I don't mind I don't mind going to come out like
fortress for them especially whenever they have also been team secret on it
was seven four all the way back I think was it our opening play day wasn't it
it was supposed to mine took that secret so you've a twist of minds
There's also no slouches in the map. They know how to play it.
They also had, obviously, a bit of pressure that they could apply themselves here.
It's a 1-0 and technically, outside of the 7-0,
recent history in terms of how Falcons have been on it when they've had other sort of international games.
game. So great. So he's sort of a bit suppressed.
Seven one lost all the stuff firebellion and
otherwise it can piece itself together but
see if this is something where they start as they need to go
on. Obviously the first couple of rounds pretty big that
they're starting on their attack. It's not going to be
the biggest sort of reason here to decide if
They can't quite get this first attack up with the line, maybe not even the second, but if they can get the pressure on, if they can make sure that falcons are still a bit sweating, they'll find themselves on the map that they've already sort of passed their way through, where they should have been able to lock it in with poppy utility, great use of the twitch, and just getting rid of the problems for later.
Epic value spotting the goyos, getting rid of the Prittbines as well.
I don't know how Sean McGuire has been cleared off already, so he is going to start his approach.
P9 with a shotgun, challenge everyone against bread, I mean that's a very common thing, you'll see a player play that spot to die here on the white stairs.
Usually with a shotgun, and sometimes the attackers, they take their own shotguns to deal with it.
Wow, man I don't have a shotgun in that position anymore, right?
All right, five versus three.
P9, the demo, because the pressure round gets to it.
There's something too quick back though.
There is the balancing, repositioning on the other side
of horse and horse is at the important position
because how do you force them out of it?
They're knocking on the door of the site itself
until they get rid of this player.
They're just gonna drive it with a shotgun,
go for the swing.
Round and they're able to get the end of it, Hashum.
He does the down, but P9 locks it in
and there's the round.
They said they might not be able to take the first
and they disagreed and how much
pressure does that now put on
falcons? Yeah, it's the
confidence coming free for
twisted minds. I mean, the
demos knows the position of
where that mirror is. He knows
he is the shotgun and he just
has to take the swing. He
has to take that chance. Who
knows? He could just die from
my guy holding bathroom, but he
didn't and he gets to kill
because of that. This team gets
access to the horse and they
It was a really solid attacking strategy, using that damage, using that shotgun, making
sure that they can assess that the power positions for Falcons, obviously the power positions
in the setup for the defense, was you're looking at white stairs, you're looking at where
Bride was, and then you're also looking in towards horse, and the shotgun dealt with
both of those positions using the demos, targeting those 1v1 engagements, making it
so that damage is always going to have an advantage.
Well, off to the races almost immediately here and that now puts us quite a lot of rounds
in a row for Twisted Minds, obviously they're able to pull the reverse sweep.
Now from that, that's eight, they might even be able to fight themselves in a round
in a row as Falcon's got earlier in that dispatching of an opponent and it just
It shows the sort of distance that we've come.
And that's eight rounds, that monumental eight round in border.
Everything really sort of turned on its head here, just to mine.
And the limitations on their approach is obviously down between that doccabee,
between that snake you assume Deimos is going to be the third to join me after round three,
but we still have to get there.
I don't know, we've still got a bit of distance to go.
I'll get the second one, check your floor.
Now, all quiet in the first 30 seconds here.
Four twist at mines.
Again, they're going to want to try and get good map control.
Man, it's just that this is the guy I think for me tonight.
He's the danger Mahashom.
Did you just know what he's going to go for and what he's going to do?
Man, he could easily just jump in.
I mean, that's the kind of playstyle Hashem goes.
Unexpected. I mean P9 also had a stellar night I felt and
I'm working as that kind of solo individuals often the demos
Blinder the shot eliminates player who did get triple kill in the last round
That's good for for Falcons and that was just the minds need to play catch up
Well, so let's get out of there. He fucky survives his scrape the danger and oh Jim
and we might be about to be trading rounds here 5 to 1.
Is it a flawless? But he has as much health as there are players against him at this point.
So let's see how much further he can get in.
One more for the road.
The flash will lead you in and the prefire does net it.
Three glasses one.
He didn't really need to take that.
He was just trying to end the round and sort of have a response to a response.
the more it can cool down as the more time twisted minds can maybe have something out
of it.
Changes tack, changes approach, head back towards the side of bathroom but when you look at the
cross and the divide that he's got to get as soon as he goes past that wall, he's either
got the door, he's got the wall itself but there's so many ways you can swing onto
this pressure point and you can see how close they are, how tucked and ready they
out to go on a mirror window no less double up the utility there but
unfortunately it went all fully rebits way round so it's easier to pick up 30
seconds just a sad affair isn't it yeah tricks nobody's gonna give them
anything 20 seconds sit your hands Falcons he's one HP to really anything
I think whenever it comes into those gunfights, obviously you've seen from Solotov, having
confidence that he can swing onto that long corridor and win that engagement, he does
so.
You lose that day most four, twist up lines, P9 off the boards, and then they just pick
kill after kill after kill, so that's a lot better for Falcons.
It's the first round that they've won in quite some time.
after kills so that's a lot better for Falcons it's the first round that they've won in quite
some time but they're gonna need a heck of a lot more of that which for Twisted Binds
we know they're gonna come back strong as ever in the next round now we're gonna have
the sort of difference of a game right because obviously you know you look at the first map
and it's like oh they traded the rounds in pretty much exactly the same way over
First round went towards Twisted Minds, second round went towards the defense of Falcons
and then Falcons got in the driver's seat and took the rest of the map
but again, if Twisted Minds can keep the pressure up to three rounds
suddenly on towards their attack and trade it out, they'll get to the other side
and with the woe of the attacking that was put forward
and with the problems that were so consistently caused
by Twisted Minds on their defense.
Four Falcons, I mean...
Sky's the limit when you come into this sort of position and standoff.
At this point, swing themselves around, keep your rotation.
Just in the day, Moss, for the drive-in, but you've got a lot of that verticality and there's
the aim of this game.
Get yourself in, get yourself locked in with those angles, this is just to try and find
a pocket of the plant behind the Blitz Shield with all the cacophony and noise they
can roll in with the Ying and the Lion.
I'm wondering if they're just gonna clear enough space and send it to them
They're very well good based on the lineup
They have to try and get their information
Locked in before they go for that
There's gonna be any traps and I mean there is a multitude of tracks that Falcons have brought to the party here three of them
They'll be primed and ready. It's not good news for Dolves all of them
They're gonna be a bit of a pain in the backside for any blitz
be nice to have to do is do diligence on that quick stone and eliminate some of that util
but that's the line seems to be the slower approach as they are now looking to take in
towards that top floor. Falcons are happy enough to get it over to them, we're going
to try and play that retake site I suppose with a lot of players towards the man side
of things. Here we go, the ramp. I'm gonna get much though, not a lot. We'll actually
play in that bomb site with a vertical to see onto you. Mostly deeper in towards Kitchener's
where we see a lot of the action. No, dear. P9. That's a... I think there's something
to go for the flanking. June falls for it, though. This is sometimes quite weird to see
a Twitch with an F2, though, isn't it? After all this time. Right? I mean, I know
we sort of sometimes when I do the day where we said the F2 is a great gun,
on the side of Snake, but it was how you just had DMRs across the board, and obviously before
Snake it was just the sort of, well, we don't really see that gun anymore, because, which
DMR is just so good. I mean, it was the best gun in the game, the French DMR, for a period
of time. And now you can't get back here.
Yeah.
I'm not on the hash on them.
No, he goes down.
I also think that the Scorpion's in a very good spot, so I think it's a very good guy on the map.
Here we go with the Blitz stuff.
Go straight in alongside the cadets, there's the traps that I talked about.
That is always going to be the issue for the Blitz, and out here, of everyone you would like to try and find is the Blitz.
It's going to be the... Oh, man! Oh!
B9 tried to come in and say, I'll back you up.
He gets sat down, but it has...
That's fun though, when it's sat though, it's twist at minus, finds a double.
It's just E-Fackin' look where he is all the way upstairs.
I don't think he's going to be in a position to stop this diffuser going down as if they
rotate it in towards kitchen and they can simply plant where he can't see him.
That's it.
Do they know?
Do they know about his position?
The plant is being attempted.
He's trying to operate on the angles that were open for him, but yeah, they know.
Traded rounds.
We are not in the map that we were before.
In fact, we're not in most of the maps we've seen today where it's been big
lump sums of rounds.
one however this map opens back and forth. Well Trist at mines straight on the
money with what they wanted to go for. I mean a very important trade though I
thought that Dove needed to have in the Blitz wasn't it? P9 tries to come in,
tries to burn his way through that warden but uses very quickly, took him out
But then that well needed trade on the blitz. So that was key. That was the important kill
It gave them the bombsite control
And from there as we see the effect was upstairs and where else to go
So the good opening star I feel for twist of mind here at the moment
This to me Jim trying to very early point halfway through the round. He tries to go for it
This is the moment very important kill
can use this. If they'll gun that SMG-12 at that kind of distance, it's a lot better
close-up. You do get punished for missing those shots. That's the way it goes. Alchins!
Need this one back though. They cannot allow twisted lines to get momentum because we
see what momentum does to this demon border.
Reloading!
I guess this is always the element of how long this could take, how many hours
though. Default could start playing and the fact that twisted minds have sort of stayed
at a level. They've stayed at the sort of piece. It's one of those old questions to
be honest of how good do you prefer in a day like today to have the break in? Or would
you prefer to back his back? It's an impossible sort of thing to decide because of, you
know, you don't know how long that little series is going to go. And if it's a quick
one, fine. It's a long one. You might be interested by the end of it.
But at this point Falcons, as he said, we know what twisted mines can do with them and
we know what they can do.
And they get some of that pay supply towards themselves and as the flora's drone starts
to obstruct from the utility, opens up the door, gives them an option to swing in and
the user's always going to be tempted to swing back in.
Problems in those plants is, off the course, we see in some pretty dangerous razor blooms
in there, the scariest flower of all.
Out of the many dangerous flowers?
Yeah, the giant ones that can eat people, I saw on the Simpsons.
Yeah, okay.
Don't know if that applies to real life.
What?
Yeah.
Not dealing with any man-eating plants from outer space, that's not what we're dealing
with here.
Uh, certainly I think for Twisted Minds, that kind of opening for them has been pretty passive.
I mean it's mostly P9 who's been involved in all of the entries, he's won 2 and lost 1.
So wouldn't be surprised if P9 is going to be the first to appear on the scoreboard.
Don't know which way it's going to go though.
I'm sure he will be there.
So let's off, that'll be someone that we see in the opening kill department also
for Falcons.
comes into a bit of bother and pops a go at it, let himself just retreat back for the
meantime and it's not bad. Why? If you look at the timer and the Twisted
Minds haven't really done much, they've only just got their way into their top four control
into our bunks now. They still have that Utah dump that they need to deal with. There's
a player parking on the staircase. Is P9 a no or is he a no or? Yes he is, but
Jim wins it out. The set P9 has probably shot on the scoreboard first and well,
It's in the wrong side for twist at mines and two double kill maybe a third
No hash on is there to shut them down that DMR, but I think Jim's done a pretty good job of getting those two
three apiece
This point you can see if they can try and just drive on the back of it. There's you to know what out another one
From that gun. Do they know that they know they're ready for it dove on a dime drop them
And I said it might be Trader Browns, but this, with the pressure coming in from horse
to double up by the side, they're surrounding the van, it's now a distance.
That's three attacks over the opening four.
This is not looking good for Falcons.
falcons. Jume has went big. They go double kill, open things up. And E-Fact forcing that
flank again. I mean, Jume's already went for a flank. He's got two kills from it. And
then E-Fact tries another flank on top of that. And he gets caught out. Gives himself
up. Because maybe if they played more control on site, just to say that E-Fact couldn't
they've been there, they've maybe tried to kill out on, do you use this who died?
It's the synergy, it feels like individuals are playing the game for Falcons right now,
rather than everyone being on the same wave life.
It's something that I noticed at border, people trying to go in it and make their hero plays.
That's not what's needed here for Falcons.
The pressure is getting to them immensely and they need to snap out of it.
Imagine, imagine you are those players who tested mine, so the players who, unfortunately
after an Ascii performance, find yourself without an old find yourself having to fight back
around on T2, find yourself having to reaffirm and re-assert yourself in a Top Asherlons.
You find yourself, fix one down on the opening map of the final series of a very
long spear and then the team that replaced you the org that left you you get to be the ones that
i mean yeah you're going to salt lake but you send them to the first phase you leapfrog them
could there be any sweeter revenge in sexual way of falcons they're always capable they're
always possible but last map the timeout did nothing just in mind she's kept the pressure
on and well it was an attack half that they were struggling with before, but at this point
would you say those mines have already done enough on this opening half?
I don't think it's the case where they've done enough, I just think they're gonna keep
wanting more and more and more.
Like it's not a case where they're removing down free one and they've clawed it back
to free rounds of peace, it's two rounds to play.
I think they're just gonna want the piles as much pressure as much as they can on
the Falcons over they get into the attack in half. I mean, you could argue they've done enough,
but I just don't think they're going to sell for it. They're going to want more and more and more.
And I think I guess a team like Falcons, you always have to be careful, because no matter
maybe how they play so far in this series, as much as you want to make a debate about the
border game, you still have to give Falcons their credit. It's still a top top team in the world.
And if you give Falcons that opportunity of a comeback, I'm sure they'll take it also.
Now there was a temptation to potentially go quick, you see how they can sort of adapt
their approaches to the mine, sometimes when they're working and sometimes when they're
not to cover the blind, they hope that they can get a quick grab onto the player, it's
up around the corner, but pre-day isn't offering themselves as a fight just yet,
the half reinforcement means that they are free to sort of play this position for now,
Otherwise a bit more destruction will come.
An avric line.
We'll get rid of that.
Oh, so does at least one, but there's an avric.
Getting a bit of revenge, however, that does put the kit cold and also removes the candelas before any of them could be used on this approach.
Things are just going to slow down ever so slightly as twisted mines are rotating now
into their site execution where they want to start moving in towards those reinforced
walls but they need to get a bit of a move on because they're still quite a lot of denial
on board from Alps because they've got the Goyo.
I've also got that to check it from USIS.
So I need to try and make quick work of that.
I also deal with a bandit trick in towards meeting.
I mean, they have a Maverick, it should be too much of an issue, but still.
This one we need to be careful of.
50 seconds, this is where I think users under the chunk should be.
Look at his left flanking, well, this is great, they're the longer they take the more value I'm going to get.
Yeah, getting off, sure, more perfect, sort of.
I'll pray it's a half, and this sort of setup still has most of the shimical ones too.
They've also got the C4 in pocket, and two bandit batteries, who knows what they'll be useful.
But without them being able to force out this position, we can close the wing now.
There is a lot of getting three days. It uses is there to public the stairs get revenge and retreat most importantly
It means that they can't get that revenge. Oh
Beautiful take through the
Burn in the wall and now a two versus one dog pulled off some pretty huge things throughout this
throughout this setup so far, but
This is not one for the books. No time and well that's unlike the present
the game. They're going to
get it. They're going to get
it. They're going to get it.
They're going to get it. They
take the time out demo.
To get themselves around three
to. Yeah, it's just the lines
of interest taken quite a while
to kind of get things going
for them. I mean, effect made
very risky play because he had
to have rotate it from mean
in three Bunks to get very
close to the site door and
there was a maverick holes
drills. We just got the
perfect opportunity where nobody
was watching the maverick
set up and do the right things, but whenever you let a gap like that slip, you know E-Fax
gonna take that opportunity if he thinks it's on. And yeah, he punishes them for it.
And certainly for Twisted Minds, that kind of attack, it's not what we're kind of used to
saying. I think we're used to a little bit more of a util dump, aren't we? Mostly coming in from
old tower side, but yeah. I suppose if you kind of look at it from Twisted Mind's perspective,
if you see it, the check could be brought in. What's the point? Because the shields are
going to be null and void if you try to go that way. There's a hefty amount of traps
also being brought in by Falcons. I mean, Foran has been brought up three, the last three
rounds I'm pretty sure, and Ella even before that. So there's always going to be something
that you know the shield's going to struggle with. So I get the idea of maybe going for
a slower approach.
I'm wondering obviously if they can kind of hold onto this Falcons, if they can
Red two rounds in a row. It's been a long, long, long time since they've had repeated success.
It's really been an all or nothing day for Falcons. Maybe that's something that's eating away at them, right?
Obviously, they're opening series. One of the best ever played. They're opening half.
They're raised to the question. Honestly, this could turn into one of the best days of Siege a team has ever played at Tier 1.
Of course, more for the series.
Then...
You jinxed it.
Yeah, I did.
Then what?
minds happened and I mean at this point Falcons you know they haven't been able
to get two more rounds together they've only been able to get them in groups of
six or seven it seems now little pieces little bites if they can get
themselves an even half they get to re-establish themselves a bit they get
to sort of say look okay we can play these back and forth games we know they
can but you know sometimes you have to lift yourself in the mirror and go we
I can do this. Today will be a good day.
First at mines.
I found the opening pick just yet.
Again, it's a very slow approach.
You can see once more for Falcons they're happy enough to give away that top floor.
There's a bit of soft destruction still being brought in.
By just the mines they have tricks on the sledge.
T4. It's what the Valkyrie camera up stairs so
Maybe C4's to try and deal with those soft destruction operators could be on here for Falcons and use as well
He's able to drop down the C4 recollect it. I'm gonna keep it in the back pocket for now
Yeah
Still no pick as a yes, so it certainly has been the longest round that we've had without somebody dying
Yeah, I mean the final minute now it's really gonna be all guns blazing
and we have them still propped up and sort of proposing the idea of the pressure it's
obviously down on towards the ground floor that the first C4 is all caught out
and Jalad actually catches on towards doom. First body gone the Valkyrie caught out
entirely right on towards the camera the position was there and now what can they make on the
end of it 30 seconds eyes on towards the site itself so instead he progressed from the side
out man on towards the wall of a site that gonna try the different approach
obviously without the verticality without that immediate pressure as they
did before just trying to cover the plant and so it's a pops up pops two down
and serves them up on a plate inside the dining room hit the razor bloom can't
quite get the surprise swing they wanted user skills full stop towards that it
is a 3 vs 2 3 vs 1 though leaving a shot is just a pistol and a dream and one more
buddy we get ourselves and even half and we get ourselves a wonderful lesson from
our desk thank you very much even Stevens at the half but still I feel like
this is very convincing from twist of mind Leo are you already expecting that
old-fashioned expression yeah now please do your job yes
I'll do my job. Yes, I will entertain you. That is my job.
I will say this. I think that the Falcons have been flustered or is that the right word?
Flustered? Flustered? Flustered. Flustered. Because of water. I think that they're confident
that it's shattered. I'm looking at a site where they should start defense, right? They're in
control. They get the opening pick most of the time. They understand the playstyle of Twisted
Minds. And yet somehow, Twisted Minds always makes it close. Whatever Twisted Minds attack,
You can see it most of the time actually very split right yeah, and despite that the trading game on twists and lines
It's very impressive the most critical kills happen and arrive on their side
Their energy is still there can sit with tricks come here, and I think that it works so well for them
This one is a 3d5 by the way that five is free another one a thousand store away Jack
It is a consistent issue for them to lose huge rounds in my advantage something that was not witnessed before
It's like the nervous anxious almost just trying to get the rounds over the line
There was a couple of them realistically where they were just moving much on the defense from Vulcan side of things and twisted minds were like
He said planes slow. Yeah, I'm a little bit more
I would say methodical than where you used to maybe see it not as crazy certainly not as crazy as border
But it's effective, but he creates an overreaction on the set of thought. Yeah, they're so flustered
Yeah, what happened on border then whenever something happens whenever they hear a call out
Yeah, they're stressed in the camps
They're over rotating over moving and then they get punished by someone who's just waiting in a window
I wonder why I mean sure we put a bit of pressure on this much of right given that you qualified to make face to of the major when you make it
But surely they can't be feeling this much pressure from just uh
Well, you could call it you go from beating your opponent 14 and 1 yeah to losing a 6 to
Like lead. Yeah, I think that will shutter any man's confidence. Yeah, I agree
And also, let's not forget the way the best of free to set up. It's a free best of free day your first best of free
You can make it to the major. Yeah
I don't know if that would be joy or relief for Falcons
Maybe a little bit of both in all honesty given the situation they were in with such a ton of performance
By the way, then they sit down and have to watch the second best of free and then they have to get themselves back up
Yeah, and then they got rocked again. It's been a real rollercoaster for my thing
Immersionally mentally that being said they are a top-top team. They should have enough to get through this
But yeah, even on that map pick, it's not looking too hot.
And then maybe playing in a point that they weren't so much expecting.
And then maybe we were thinking that Shet is going to make it through.
And one more thing, they're playing on this side this time.
They're going in defense.
Okay, flexed.
Yeah, they're going in defense.
They're back for today.
You might be joking, but he is the one side where they're super strong.
They can express their playstyle the most.
So there are a lot of you out there.
Exactly, they have the advantage here.
Alright, well let's hope that turns out positive for them with the advantage of going into the second half on this map.
Have they lost the plot? Do you think, Demo?
He's doing English lessons, Leo, so you know what has.
I think to be fair, English lessons is one of my favourite things about when we're all together.
All he's the best for, all he teaches them some cracking words.
Really shouldn't, though.
that that's been explained but there goes the first you've got no knock-a-peek yeah big kick
they go that and I think whenever we're kind of highlighted uh I think in the pre-desk the
mentions falcons on fortress against team secret they were using the secret snake they were
using secret snake it's all a snake against secret they were using the doka they they were using
these very strong information operators to their advantage.
So this makes me banned, no surprise.
And then you just lost to Dokely right from the get-go for that.
Dokely even has a chance to use a call.
It's going to make things really awkward to approach,
because I mean they're still at the day-last thankfully,
but you usually have this sort of combo, right?
You get the call, put the pressure on,
see if you can try and loop around the verticality.
You know, they also have three day on the shield,
it's shooting in, but he's unfortunately struggling to get into it.
He hasn't been great in the shields today.
You know, I think this Blackbeard on boarder was very weak.
I think it's a big reason why Falcons struggle with those attacks.
I mean, the shields are so pivotal. We talk about it all the time.
You know, it is part of the game, and you need to have that shield player
ready to go for exactly what they need to do.
You look at a team like VP and have a good day.
Bottom of the shields with having Neko.
But certainly, or for Brita, he's center of the office.
That's all. Let's make the drop. I was thinking maybe he's trying to go aggressive with the shotgun, but I think it's against it. So let's off.
We'll find the first pick for Falcons in the round. Down goes P9. Maybe he's going to try and enter in towards horse now.
Breeday. He's still struggling on the shield. I must drop him. Look at the rune hole.
Oh, that was almost a tragedy.
You can also see the player locked in with a shotgun underneath to try and rotate on
towards the door from the other side.
So how aware are they of this position?
All he misses is opportunity and he's going to actually try and try and try again.
In the meantime, users kill somebody else and try to slip his way in.
But the 3 vs 4, and they're going to pull up, go somewhere else, look for a horse.
Yeah, exactly.
firehorses trying to get themselves a different lock and they've realized there's too much aiming
to their way. I mean there's still a lot A in their way.
Damos is a track on a player that's behind a lot of fire and they've rotated Hashub.
Oh he's up and he somehow survived for 20 seconds. They need to try and push this.
They can't leave him to do things like that, Temmo!
Wow. Wow, wow, wow. Pist at mines.
the game. I mean, it's a
lot of things. I mean, it's
super brown from them. Um couple
of things I want to know. As
they kind of couldn't get
through into me mostly because
their shield player take a lot
of HP. So British kind of
useless for pushing into a
meeting at that point. Then
they think, Okay, let's flood
through horse. One effect
you lose the EFAC. The rest of the three players are all situated beside one another. This kill
right here is so important. But you look at that denarii trip that just runs right across
free horse. It means that that Deimos cannot enter in free horse to help, don't you think
mate? It also means that Blackbeard can't do Eever because if you could maybe say,
oh, the shield could tank a hit. Maybe Swingsy has a shield in front of them. Because
Brady's that low, he can't go for that Eever. The trip could just kill him. Just
the mind's the setup is good I mean obviously I mean a hash on it's just
running around as a second left this is what I'm does yeah yeah he's a terrifying
player to go against the go must be a nightmare I hate to play against them
if people do people openly have said that we've had a shot gun running around
it's just the thing is okay sure think about the the place who's being
right it was holding that position he missed the opportunity made a lot of
he knows looking for the fight he's up against users and he's still like yeah
I could try and get two or three more attempts in on this engagement goes for
it sends it falls apart fine then rotates his way up the stairs comes face
to face with a shield pulls back slightly realizes the shield isn't chasing him
there's 20 seconds and is like they'll be watching me but I have a little
shotgun I just sent himself back in he knows when to apply the pressure and
yeah okay he could do it in the opening 30 seconds and sometimes it goes
way fine but you need a player that is able to make those split-second
decisions where it's 30 seconds in or 30 seconds out from the end he does it
so repeatedly order three about it they're bad day at the office gets a
little bit worse for breeder oh and six now across all obviously playing shield
up to playing sort of support structure but you do you know if it's the things
that we actually talked about twisted mind struggling when they went up
against G2 if not quite having all of them firing in. Look at them now, right? Look at
the balance that they've been able to have today. What a return today it's been for this
roster versus the day they had yesterday, don't they?
Yeah, yeah. Especially for Dolph. I mean, Dolph had a really rough series last night, didn't
he? And he's really turned it around. So, credit to him for that bounce back when
it is needed. Obviously, they got the major spot earlier, but they want to try and
get themselves in the face too long time. There's P9. The dev has always as expected
to appear here for the first kill or the first death and hell he's the first death this time
so I'll talk one time from the head. Now, just mind their playing at the man disadvantage
here on their bunk defense. Just waiting for falcons to make their approach now aren't
you? Hiding under the window, I mean they know
he's down here, he's able to slip his way out behind the vending machine, get himself
round of this back because why not gets to kill outside levels things up for a
piece
pretty almost cool again you see stuff get the shit on the back force forward by
the razor bloom and just has to keep on moving down like I show him what we're
Now I mean he'd like look at this. This is what he does
Finds the blackbeard diffuser and Jim picks it up
Me doping tricks have to try to hold this out and well Jim's there with a train
That's gonna be a 1v1 to have to try and win it for a side bit of a whiff there from tricks
But now they cool off the shot comes out
But a great repositioning from tricks gets them out of the range the shotgun of tricks wins it. Oh
my word
twist their minds
What is this?
just basking in it just enjoying it just knowing knowing that this is a team that
we get to have back on an international stage and we get to see other people
dealing with this again that hash on can we just talk about the hash on what
he's done that round. I'm like, honestly, I feel he's fine, right?
You think about hash on trying to play aggressive with the vending
window? Yeah, try to take the fight to the player on exterior
breach, fire at razor blooms, everything given under the
table. He goes for a week. Okay.
I forgot. I forgot. Yeah. So it obviously tries to kind of
off angle on the right side off the window gets caught
That prunes himself away.
If I try, okay, that's him dealt with.
He's ran like a dog with the mistel between his legs.
Raise of one comes off.
And what happens?
Straight back to the window, tries it again.
This time he brings a friend to swing,
if I kills him.
And then he rotates from vending.
Keep in mind that the attack was stemming from old tower.
Yeah, that was where the attack was coming from.
And he somehow rotates from the vending window
back into the bombsite.
And then it's prone! It's prone in that corner!
And he finds the Blackbeard! How's he done that? I don't know!
How Falcons have let him do it! That's the main worry!
We've had pairs of traded rounds for most of this now and maybe that pattern will continue.
They're on the back foot of it Falcon, so whatever they need to try and get, they need to try and not let go of it.
Sort of that problem is you just sort of said how have Falcons had this happened and how have they let this go through or
How is twist the mind to be able to steal it?
Well steal it back put your own mark on it wrap your fingers around and refuse
But not have the pace to said hashrams play style. Sometimes you'll go out in the opening 30
Sometimes you won't this time is one of those
Negative ones actually the first time in the opening. Yes, and the opening killer throughout this. Yeah, you're not torn by a man
Yeah, it's mostly being seen on Juma, isn't it? That's our main culprits for the opening
kills and opening deaths. It's nice to have a different name on the scoreboard, I suppose.
Great, I think. I mean, the Blackbeard certainly not working out for him today. He's now
on the blitz, and we're going to see if he can get himself in through this window,
the Grimm. I'm going to ping out some marks for him. Oh, almost, the fuck.
It's going to be a nice little kick as well for Falcons, but there is a bit of a cover there.
It's going to get down treks. Anyone that indivisibility to go for the revive doesn't look like his.
They're dealing with this dable some Blexu jump into infirmary.
Lay down, Smok!
They've got the bees, they've got the stone, they've got the cover, and they've got one more back for their trouble.
To the four versus two, they're on the ground, but there's the swing round and Jalad.
This is now the only one left. It has to slip by on Smok, and by on bees, and by on...
Somebody can drop out now the smoke it might not get the end of three day
Impact doesn't even get close enough that'll go a little bit deeper
Unbelievable it's just him versus Breeday Breeday needs his first kill the shieldy repositions. He's keeping his distance
But it doesn't matter demo it does not matter
Okay, his camera is frozen because I am screaming
We've seen it all tonight
It's mean everything and there's the ace
Twist that mines do it again
Around which they have no right winning
How what where where and why it all gets asked
fast. Where do we go? Where do we go now?
I don't know.
Today's clutch?
Don't have the words.
Today's clutch, we have had everything.
You think at this point, you know, you kind of think, okay, the fuse is going down,
3, surely gets the 1, but that, over extension there by users, it gives them the 1v1s, it
isolates the kills.
Well, I mean the other player was down, it was 10v1 vs 4.
Just, it's a beautiful sage.
Like, the fact that in the previous map it was a 6 to 1 and they've gotten to this
point.
It shows
In the loudest volume
Everything people love about this roster and everything about how it's just
Keep fighting
I think it
Who thinks for me today after watching this series of options located a bomb and one
She'll play isn't there from British and I no doubt about it had a really really rough day
And then two on the attacks. They're not trading their kills back well enough
And it's unlike them it's uncharacteristic of what we know this team to be
Right I'm still sort of sat there with a big old grin
I feel like I'm back in my napers, C4 at the top, aren't quite net, anything.
They're going to see if they can try and hunt down the Lucid player, obviously there's the
bandsaw to find its way through, you've got the dock beat, go on another sort of track
operator leave, or really the Daimos and the Grim as the charts are pulling things
together, a little bit of drone parkour up towards the top, do instantly get shot
That's the rule if you guys don't talk to the man and you know somebody's on that position and
well it does sort of want to take the fight they're so cautious about this early
engagement and to be honest wouldn't you be?
Alcons, what do they do? They've been hit with a stunner and well E-Fact
He's managed into his own hands.
We'll find the opening pick on the Hash on.
He's down.
Now we'll see if they can close this one out.
Hash on for the second time. He's been picked up early on.
Look at this huge lad.
He has been pinged though by the Grimms and he goes a nape.
Takes that.
Brushes it off.
Still here. It's still a problem that Falkers need to deal with.
I mean, he can't really drop safely.
He'll kill you before you even get an opportunity.
Need a flashbang or something?
We need something with flashbangs!
They're gonna go for it, will they, won't they?
He can assume with a flashbang he's...
...he will find dull, but...
...maybe he's just gonna think about leaving him.
No, they're just gonna try and pitch from below.
Don't tell me they can try and climb up the ladder.
No!
Not surely not.
I mean, it could be bird users drop so then solos go to the climb, but now it's just too yanked.
I mean, it's a very strange
after what happened the last
round to see the flawless
response. Falcons with one back
need another two though. You
know what the other weird
thing about having everything
of this game that's the first
floor this round falcons have
had across the series. And
it's the first floor this
round falcons have had across
the series. And it's the
first floor this round falcons
have had across the series.
across the series and it's the first one we've had across the series since the
very opening round on board up was the only other floor this round we've had
two more rounds there if this one goes back into a third map it might be good
always can everything's possible what we love about this game it is and stop the
Falcons to get us there he has to that's the wind of three
France to get into OT and even then it's still up in the air so just don't
I don't know.
Where do we go?
Twist at mines.
Here's over towards our banks.
Don't forget last time we were here.
It was down to, not only Hachel,
but for very Hachel-like play in the endgame,
but also it was Trent's.
They go clutch, 1v2.
Falcon's looking at the lineup.
I mean I see a glass you see a grim you see a blitz you kind of think it's gonna be the old tower take surely
Three day Kenny try and operate as well obviously
You know didn't get a kill, but he didn't die that's something positive to build behind there
And see if they can try and wrap skin control here just
Ooh, not even get away with the first bit of crime.
This gym is out on the first braver drone, so there's one more.
You've got a lot of problems to get through, right?
You've got obviously the razor blooms, you've got Fenrir mines,
you've got the pressure of the laser gates as well.
And then if you want to cook against it, do you go for the gadgetry?
There's a lot to steal, and you're going to support the bit for choice.
It's not even sure where he's being shot from.
It's all quiet. See the entry in now, users has dropped into old tower of the C4 with the response.
What the smoke would cover it off?
However, twisted lines are not going to confirm the kill as they have chosen to reinforce that single wall.
wall. And to be fair it's not a bad idea. I think they've actually clocked the lineup that Falcons
have, but notice, I'm on it, they don't have heart breach. So this is where just the mines are
just playing the lineup and it's got to create quite a hefty bottleneck now. So this is a big
old worry. The side of Falcons about that single wall, you have to try and enter in
through that single door and making that cross is difficult.
Oh, okay
Damage and there's tricks being right back in the final minute, maybe the final minute of email
Before we get ourselves in
Angled up towards international stage of lad takes a scrap of damage
But jim and saltov are both already high and you can see breeder is so cautious swings around the corner
The dove gets one before breeder can get his own three versus three
And they're just trying to drive towards a plant position. Okay, he's deep
But someone has to stop him doing this and he's able to get it done demo
Tricks and he's full of the deck and the other one before he's caught 20 seconds
Lick and fat cannot do it right, but you know who can you know who can set no foot wrong today
twisted minds
Stand innovation for twisted minds almost one of all court make them play again find someone else get g2 back out here again
get that rematch going. There's twisted mines, wow, today.
The best bit of CG you'll see from that side, honestly, they're just rolling for the motions.
They're taking everything in their stride.
Well, massive congratulations to them and also good luck how the teams in Phase 1
you've got Falcons to get through who won't revenge but what we want, well,
how about one more Dexter demo?
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Twisted Bines, they two are Falcons in the lower bracket final and therefore they find themselves in
phase two of the major. We get to speak to the vectors, we have Trix on the line to ask them a
few questions. Trix, I see you're smiling, you must be feeling very happy making it to phase two of
the major. Yeah I'm feeling fantastic honestly, it's a great feeling honestly. We qualified and
it was an amazing feeling but we didn't want to stop there and yeah I'm just happy we got
faced honestly. I feel like the objective was very clear, you beat your former organization
in this case as well. We see you quite often as the hype man of this roster. Especially
when you guys won this game just now, we're going to play you a clip with you guys as
Combs as well. Could you please talk to us about what you guys are talking about at that moment?
I mean basically we're just shouting just to have a fall on them bots and you know we said
and they can only get us in group stage and playoffs, it's a tower tough, you know.
So talking on that as well then, Borda, that was one hell of a game. What was going on
on the defenses? Because you guys were just floating around making the point.
I have no idea, P9 and Hashim, those, the entire team, I barely did anything in Borda.
The guys just, they did everything. They just kept swinging, killing and I didn't
have to do anything honestly in Borda. Did you guys feel like you started to
get like a mental advantage on them because they were just they were
flustered. I mean you can tell what a team they're really you know we run very
well on momentum we try to maintain momentum and we just go on and just
fighting everyone. Yeah that was gonna be my question because you can feel like
your energy that's carrying into the game because you guys are doing like
some insane plays like the J-Lad A's or like like some of the clutches as
well. The P9 moment on Fenrir on border where he kills the guy planting
through the whole hotel. That was insane. Those moments I felt like every round you were winning
was just building that confidence up. How much did you believe you could actually take down Falcons?
I mean, personally for me, even throughout being to all of the losses that we had,
I was confident in this team, honestly, even when I joined them.
I'm confident we can really go through. We can go through most of the teams, honestly.
We need to keep that momentum and focus up. That's pretty much it to be honest.
We see how this works out for you. We asked Penan earlier as well when he was in the interview about who he's looking forward to playing against.
Wouldn't you eventually make it to Salt Lake? Is there any team in particular that you really want to play against?
Or do you get some revenge from anything?
I mean, personally for me it's been quite some time since I last played the ST tournament.
I think last day I played was EWC was GK like in 2024 and it was just
Just insane. I kept getting grouped and grouped after the Atlanta run
I've been getting grouped in literally every single tournament the guys on Falcons like the ex falcons guys with me
They did pretty well, but right now. I just want to get back on top. Oh, sorry
I really respect that while we hope of course the best for you going into the major again
Congratulations on the big victory here and best of luck with the preparations for the major. Thank you once again
Here's everyone
Beautiful stuff there from the players, but you've mentioned it already right there was big height moments that kept on building some momentum
The one that speaks out to me is that ace you're saying they're watching it
How is he gonna get away with this around? It felt possible as well if the way the context of this game was going it felt
Absolutely possible. I don't know how he got away with that. That's to be killed ain't it? That's beautiful that that one
Contagious happiness as I said earlier, but I can't get again and that seems to be what this was a thrice of so much
Yeah, I think tricks that I actually mean if you said they said we're a big momentum based team
And I think it's no surprise that thought to see the big swings and the big losses in terms of the round results
I'm the big comeback as well
There's so annoying to play against but they're so fun to watch and that's the cool thing about the roster
Yeah
The one thing that will say is it's gonna trigger for them is that they will reach an event where if something was wrong
Or if you know they start, you know losing a lot
And then they don't have one big clutch or one big moment to kick back the momentum
It's a spark. Yeah, exactly if you don't have that sparking moment where you're like all of the confidence is there
Then you you can't wonder in the where this I'm gonna be because the reality is they would play in a very different setting than at home
And if anything though, Leo, this is very entertaining gameplay that we're getting from
I mean, I know one guy one guy that was just sitting back on his shields
His name is Dov and he was just working at this and all 15 mates going oh absolute cinema
I'm just lucky. Well, let's just say Dov actually had some great moments on the on-border
He had the four kill nomads. I'm some really good. Yeah, he had a big already play as well
Everyone was pulling their way to be honest like everyone was just was just shooting on their side
And I mean it takes that amount of skill to take down Falcons
I think for Falcons it will be a hard lesson learned because they will be sent to phase one
Yes, yes, they will have to play against the NL teams. They will have to play against the worst seeds
Yeah, and that will be a tricky one for them. And I think yeah, they always have weak entry into tournaments
Yeah, and I think realistically for them they'll probably look back on this. I just think the weight of the pressure
They probably applies themselves inside of this game. So you literally just wore down on them way too much
It's a learning process
Maybe with the new roster changes that they make right you gotta get used that and gotta adapt to that too
But that was our final match of the email kickoff once again for the final time
We'll have a look at the bracket and see how things have played out now
My main question that I have for you guys when we look at this is we're seeing sort of a new top three
I guess in this case being defined in in email with the way that there's also showed up
But it's pretty strange to not see a falcos or not see a sequence like that
Yeah, very very strange. I mean g2 being if we just go top to bottom g2
I would say very worthy champions often make looks the most confident team and the most complete team in
Inside of the big place across the whole of kickoff still a few things to work on ahead of Salt Lake
That's pro a very very pleasant surprise in fairness
I think you know big material changes the fact they got second is testament to the work that they put in
Obviously we've just seen twisted minds big upset against Falcons
But on that day and I'll keep saying it and I'll keep saying it for a salt lake as well on that day
they can be any team in the world because they're so unique and then Falcons, yes,
they got to the Major, but clearly still things to work on now. I think mainly
internally as well. Yeah, that's that's small things to just imagine. Like most of
the hard stuff that they need to do, they do it well, it's just maintaining
like they need one free school, regroup, make sure you don't lose that
advantage, punish that aggression and by regrouping, making sure you can
trade whoever get killed. That's something that's kind of easy to
fix, especially ahead of the Major. The hard things, they're still there
for that roster, so I'm not too worried.
Any closing thoughts on the email kickoff
as a whole before we call it a day?
I think that the heavy roster mania
has made our region even more competitive.
I think that we've learned last year
that we're struggling to have four teams
that could compete at the highest level.
And I don't know if Twisted Minds is there yet
in terms of consistency, but I'm convinced
that the three other rosters of G2 VP and Falcons
can absolutely make it to the grand final of the Lexity
and that's what's making it interesting for me.
I agree.
Good.
That's it.
Good job.
A man of few words for the final day of the EML kickoff,
but it's been quite a day.
We will have to be honest with you for that,
so we'll excuse a bit of, you know,
I guess us wanting to close things off here,
given how the series went and how close
some of these games were as well.
Of course, there are still many other regions
that have to qualify teams.
To the Salt Lake City Major,
we just had the honor of sending our teams first
from the EML to keep your eyes peeled out for that we have so much change action still
to come.
Over the weekend that is it though from us here at the EML, kick off we'd like to thank
you very much for watching and we'll see you with our EML teams in Salt Lake City.