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and welcome back to the APL we're here in Melbourne it seems I recognize the Yarra River
Anyway, and beautiful Flanders Street station, but of course we are heading down under four tonight. I'm Dempata and Pengu
Nice to see way. Unfortunately. You're still over in Denmark. Maybe one day we'll get you back down here down under
But at the very least we can have at least some time to see OCE League once again. How you feeling tonight?
Feeling pretty good this morning actually because time for differences
It's our first show in OCE now with this big north. There's some Asia and now we'll do that
and we'll try back there saying let's round off our journey with those.
Oh yeah, but of course the stage has only just begun.
We had kickoff and what an exciting time it was to see the best team from Australia go overseas.
Now we're back in, we're here for stage one and the journey has begun.
Of course everyone has their sights set on EWC in August for their chance to represent
their team on the biggest stage that there is.
and then later this year we have our very own APAC Major. So the APL is popping this year,
this been no more exciting time ever to be a part of the APL and we've already seen some crazy
upsets and some big plays. Darling back the clock to yesterday, we saw this round, Tengu,
an old face in Pingu who made his return to the OST scene and he had a crazy moment in the match
point game against Manila foe for Barbie boys. It's fun returning back down under and look at the
way Pikachu sneaks in with that Dockabee. One HP and 40 seconds on the clock. Like this is for
the game and look what he pulls off.
He's stuck in the corner there. He's struggling right but no he's just too much successively
and then into the 1v2 still 1xp left to go.
He doesn't win this, right?
So can you get a facepink for your game?
Bang!
Like bro, how do you win this bro?
How? How do you get that 4k?
It's 5-6 match point against you.
The team went utterly bananas.
So awesome to see.
And of course, let's bubble it down to our schedule for tonight.
Actually, some seriously banger games, Nick,
because of the upsets we saw yesterday,
particularly,
an enterprise getting upset by Shagun.
It's like, what the hell is this?
Enterprise getting upset by Sharkademy. That's kind of re-conjectualized a lot of the games that we have today
Alright, so very sorry honestly also with you know
EP Opset and she's like had me the Riders metal authority feels like we got banger after banger then come up in the middle
They're Bobby boys six targets persevere women one side affair
They're favoring Bobby boys heavily in the match up, but it happens to do a custom competitiveness to games
Yeah, very much so of course a question later on today is can enterprise bounce back?
They've got a much easier opponent arcade yet to win a game on the flip side
Sharkadamy was it just a flash in the pan? They've taken out EP are they gonna be able to take down in theory?
The second best team in reality on the standings the number one team in the league right now
Which is the chiefs of course the biggest big exciting thing about O's league for stage one
is after enterprise went so deep top eight at Salt Lake City, they actually have wrestled over that second slot for the APL to
international events off of Asia and on to OC which wins two of the teams from this league are gonna go to EWC.
Most people would expect enterprise and chiefs, but you can never count out teams like rival and Manila foe
Really anyone at this point. Sharkaten has proven that let's have a look at the standings and how it's panned out so far because we have been
thrown a few curveballs this is not what we would have expected at three play days in.
Still gonna look here, I mean to be honest I don't think it's too crazy as of yet of course
you know I could hold like should cheese good version as it enterprise you throw it that
mind you EP did suffer a loss yes but Brenda wasn't actually on the roster for that particular max
so is it really a loss you have a sub player you know what I mean I'm still very keen to see
your happens we lead it come on now don't give me that I don't think 100% it's like in 95%
sorry so Academy so Academy would on the back to back L's to mid tier teams and then they go up
against EP EP is smack talking all night long all the way home and yes look they did have Brenda
unfortunately Brenda didn't go into it on Twitter but he said he had some health concerns so of
course we wish Brenda all the best I hope is able to bounce back and get back into the server as
as soon as he can, and hopefully just live and well.
But let's focus up on our first game of the day,
of course, it's Rival versus Manila Foe.
Manila Foe, the latter, let's dive into this team.
Of course, no roster changes coming into this stage,
but we were very impressed by what they were able
to achieve last stage.
They ended up going, I think, a lot deeper
than many people would have expected.
You know, it's really just a pretty enjoyable team
to watch in general, actually, you know?
Pretty personally, pretty big fan of Hunter's Pistone,
in particular.
I feel like he's the player
that's always very stable and consistent for this roster.
We always talk about beer system, of course.
My boy, beers, also here at Manila Fo.
So generally speaking, they have decent performances.
They got some fun players, they got some fun names.
Even if they were to lose in the matchup,
they were still bringing some sort of
flair in the server usually, so quite key for their matchup.
Yeah, and behind Enterprise and Chiefs,
we would be looking at Manila Fo to be the next best team
in the region on paper.
They came third in stage one, only falling eventually
to Chiefs and EP, the only teams that they lost to.
And like I said, no roster teams coming to this stage.
Very much a tried and true roster at this point.
But of course, after back-to-back wins
in their first two play days against Arcade and Chai
Kattie, they ended up losing two Barbie boys
on the back of that big clutch that we saw at the start
of today from Pinky.
So how can you bounce back from having the three-point win
in your side so then for, well, elements is, wow,
with the bedroom. That is some serious red. I feel like I'm watching an episode of Futurama
with the devil trying to do a little bit of a summer dance. What's going on in there?
Someone turned that air conditioner down. Let's focus on their rivals for this game.
Of course, it is rival eSports, pun intended, their opposition. And this is an exciting time
for us now because Team Annihilus were the best tier two team out of last year. And now they're
not just in tier one, but they are repping players like ACOG, Chef Chef and even
Wettables. What are these guys going to be capable of with a new org and a new fresh set of talent?
Yeah, exactly. I mean, this is going to be exciting. We always talk about, you know,
ocean, river, 6th, how many teams can actually compete for, you know, a top two, top three position,
right-leaf spots, mountain muscle, you set the mental info, also in the conversation for
how far can they actually take and how far can they get here when they get to that more
experience as a full co-roaster. Of course you have Kilmerman, Lee about his beginning of
June with ACOBs running in, also very good hot roster. And you get ACOB paired with Winnable as
well. I feel like that's how I'm a mess beat in heaven. They're all teaching you the way to be
in the way of the rules. So again, that's what's making this first match of the day so exciting
because you've got two great roasters out of the guest trooper. Yeah, very much the case.
It was a nice, exciting time to be a rival e-sports player, though it was a tough start to the stage, of course they ended up getting a win over Arcade yesterday, but they really want a full point win this week, both games, both games under the belt, because it was a tough start against their best oppositions in the league.
Realistically, this team has a lot of talent, right?
ACOG, one of the best frags was on that old Rock LFO roster.
Wettables, he was on that Bliss team
that went so deep, top eight at the Six Invitational 2024.
But of course, just pure talent isn't enough
to make a solid roster.
You need a well-rounded team.
There you do.
You know, with that, you also need a pretty good map
to play on the favorites of your playstars.
The Vito is up next to see where these two teams
wants to go and have a bit of a date.
You know, you think an aggression could be a map like Border, and it's actually still, ah, it's very in there, banned by Mammalifos, and not going to be there, it's Conchlet, or Nighthaven Labs, and Nighthaven will indeed get locked in, very even and grounded, very neutral, I feel like Nighthaven Labs is almost like your old school organ, or a slay at a point in time where every team can play this map, of course, some have like that 5% extra flavor on it, but generally speaking, it's a very standard map, how you play the bump side, how you play the attack and sides, it's about who's going to be best at the micro, so it's a very good map, so it's a very good map, so it's a very good map, so it's a very good map, so it's a very good map, so it's a very good map, so it's a very good map, so it's a very good map, so
of this map, and it's choosing a bit better than their opponents.
Yeah, this is really exciting for me for Manila Fo because we just saw them play
Chalet and Border so far, which are kind of the opposite end of the spectrum to,
I mean, I haven't lapsed, I would say quite a balanced map, it's not quite your
cafe or consulate, which is really like structured defense side of it. It's not
quite your border or your Chalet, which is a frag fest, it's somewhere in the
middle, which is really cool and very unlike any of the maps we've seen from
Manila Fo. Rival so far, I've played Cafe Bank and Lares, so a much more kind of
spread out a bit more. I don't hate the word strategy because even border is
strategic, right? It's just more fraggy, different kind of strategy, but you know
they played cafe, they played lair, more similar maps, I think particularly lair
and night havens sitting in a similar space in my brain. So just in terms of
a chaplain in playstyle, I do feel like maybe rival is gonna be a little bit
more familiar here, but of course it's very very much different case. I mean
let's jump into the game. Man, Esports, LFO have just had their win streak
broken and quite the opposite for rival eSports who have finally found their first win. We're going
in to Nitehaven Labs and Pengu realistically who takes this because on paper this should be a pretty
tight game. I hope it will be. Give me a bit of an OT to start off the day. I'm with you though for the
map. We do prepare for the next game. I think rival has like a slight favor in my mind as well. As you
said having played the maps, the cafe, the bank, the lair versus Manitou's double chalet and border
because that's going to be fighting fighting fighting versus they're
picking things apart step by step strategically going for executes so if
you will rivalry sports a little bit more warmed up for this map of course i see
how good they are on the day it's only about the next 45 or so minutes of
matters the previous match ups the previous maps what you've done in the
past does not matter in this very moment
a bit of munti and grim with kaiden mirror so nothing too out of the norm
here for Night Haven?
I'm really keen to see rival eSports finally with an organization like I said.
They were Team Anniós for the longest time and rival eSports as an org might actually
be somewhat familiar to people way back in the day.
I don't know if people remember, I'm not sure if you remember, but we actually did have
rival eSports the organization in the APL before or it was back in 2024.
But now, Daystar roster, some of the players at least on it,
you know, Jackie Wu, Azuki, they're all kind of all over the place now.
There was a moment there where Rival was playing in the Asia League.
So, fun to see them back in APL, but this time down under.
Just in this up here, left me a bit of clash to start off a game as well.
Just a bit of cheese, if you know, it's one of those operators that if you are either new to attacking like a new roster or you just struggle on the attacking side in general, you can find yourself very quickly stuck up against the clash.
We are seeing a bit of counterplay thankfully here though. Notably, the Doga B is a bit of a soft counter, you can of course call the clash and you've got to put down this shield, answer the phone, they're vulnerable for a bit.
all they got a tank to call
force them to leave the trail of fire beneath their feet
that plus the, you know, frag grenades, caps of fire arrows
you can do a lot of poke damage against the clash
and eventually it's burned down their health bar
and then try and shut them down
we'll see if that's gonna be their plan
Riley is supposed to have a couple different options here
they can go vertically, they can go move more than right
they're supposed to move right down to the entry
they do not have a shield operator
so it could be challenging finding the very first gunfire
and the very first gunfight on some
count what rafters, unless it opens
the door for a bit of good
clarity with Chef Chef
Onus is of course
on rival to figure out how to clear
some of these hard obstacles. They're
easy to deal with and it's army
playing rafters, being on clubhouse.
Nice nitro, big bang
onto a razor. That is a huge
amount of utile dismantled very
early on. Love that pre-ripped C4. That is what I call an active defense from that
elephon. Very much so. So they lock down and kill the C4, then they have Ela and Clash,
Beers and Hunter play together trying to bait and kill also towards the meeting side
of the map. They have of course Asami playing rafters. So generally speaking right now,
there are no gaps in Luka Ela's position. We see the outline. They're trying to bait
in the Ducati right now. Wedded Bulls. One of the most experienced players in the server.
One goes through a track, there's the Angel, no confirmation. Tries to go for a second,
get shot down by Wetherbulls, cutting off that flank, or cutting off the push rather,
Max was the bombsite. Still, a lot of troubles have been thrown
rivals way here by Manila Foe. Grox has now been picked back up, Wetherbulls is going
to target the warden of Elements, he's now going to be forced back after answering his
phone or risk 40 damage, it looks like he might, no he does actually answer the phone,
he's only taken a little bit of damage, as much of his HP as possible, especially if
he's gonna get targeted here by the Daemons. You know what would be a fantastic combo here is the
double and we do see it. The Dokovie and the Daemons at the same time. Hunter is forced to
make a choice. Tank 40 damage from the Dokovie and stands still from the Daemons. In the end
he falls to the Daemons. So well played, but Elemis despite being targeted is able to take the
fight onto Wettables and the Seconds. 3k on the round, but from down below Chef Jeff is able to
to bring one back for Rival. Problem is 15 seconds remain and now the gas keeps him at
bay at the connected door and at the breach on site. Proxy low HP. Good breach on this
wall but it does give a deeper angle to be utilized by Pluto. Not a lot of time to work
with here. Proxy has to hold the plant. The impact almost lands an active pitch from Chef
Jeff but the trade coming back and again! It's Sharky to clutch up and a big round for
the smoke sitting at the back line for Manila foe beautiful there so that to be
to they're realizing here we have impact grenades or plant denial we know that
the planter is likely known HP let's try and just bait them in use the impacts
and maybe C4 maybe get the injured maybe get the kill then they can force it to
versus one but the impact they missed have a very small explosive radius and
that's when they pushed together going for the trade game and they were very
successful man level with a strong round start but it was actually right at least
was controlling the majority of that despite losing capital early to that
C4 right here from element they still got in, cleared the clash, got the breach,
got in towards the bomb site but he didn't win there once and didn't have
that last bit of use of the pocket to get that round W. This of course double
kills minimum and kind of saved around again getting some kills to shotgun. What a close round.
Yeah, I mean it was a full house three for elements to for sharky on the clutch
You're absolutely right if elements hadn't gone as big as he did that round then
That would have been one for rival and I really want to commend them
But we talked so much about we know what is the power potential of docker beat before she was released
And then when she came out, let's be honest paying you obviously she's so good
We've seen a bit less of her particularly in APO than we expected
But as soon as you pair her up with Deimos on a side with soft floor like Hunter on the clash was so
So cooked and to be fair elements probably should have died as well
Again small things
Margin's
And it's very true one small things goes differently and you might just
with the losing amount of winning it, soft wall, left here for us to basement actually.
So I spent elsewhere on the road to enable the extension a bit more comfortably.
And now right wall is to bring out the bricks, they have to have to show the release in previous round for the entries.
Can get good information, can utilize of course with the demos of the dogby, both in action as well for this round.
And with that it should be able to take very quick and effective map control.
I love that. Like we were saying before, AcoG making his debut here on rival after spending
plenty of time on the Rock LFO. Really, such a good frag, it was particularly good on the
Blackbeard back in the day, but nice to see that he can take some of the mantle of the
shields. Unfortunately for the Chef, Jeff, it's the
Deimos the first to fall, my shot from beers on that roam. He looks to retreat as much
as possible and decides to just tank 40 damage from the docker bee as well so they can't
attract anymore at least.
Yeah.
Well that is a lot of HP.
He's gonna tank the damage and with Demos being dead because he knows he's gonna come
back to kill, he can speed like an infinite rumor.
Of course with respect to Grinch now 1v1 he has no impact on his pocket stack, he has
a beep boop, no position down to get and also to go to canister is in pocket so bit of a
niche there for a few years but he's got his one and now he can just kinda stay in kitchen,
open the ground flank, they would have to take him physically over the drone to figure out the
position, whereas the other four defenders can still be called by Tokubi, and because his
roam is still flying from the bottom side, he's not going to have any enemies in this area either.
He might have found a flank watcher at some point, but he's not fighting the full Tinker in the
roam, just one or two people at a time. Yeah, it's massive to be able to rotate all the way to
of the top floor on a basement defense.
Elements wants to hold on, he's handy.
Bit of a distraction.
I don't know how ACOG managed to get into a plant position, but it gets
denied by the nitro cell from Sharky.
He decided to also tank the damage from the Dockabee.
So Proxy's Dockabee calls not apps having impact the rival would have hoped.
2v5, now really their only hope, is to find a few consolation
frags here or there but if manila foge is refracted out
I don't know
in some positions hello
Elements, your Amy is making an inverted right above your face
but he's not scared, doesn't flinch
Proxyl has a flinch on our team just to know about this fling potential
they're shot down, Beers, Pluto found his team
in about six seconds and dropping down the hatch into a crossfire
Pluto gets both of the kills
and Beers is well played Proxyl
see. Very, very nice there on the defensive side.
A couple of difficult rounds here for rival. I mean, how, how do they find their way back into it after seeming a little bit
messy than you'd expect? It's funny, maybe it just takes a bit of time to get cracking. But yeah, a little bit surprised that this roster hasn't been as deadly
in their first two games as we expected.
They matched yesterday against Arcade with a sign that,
okay, we're finally seeing the rival that we would expect to see
based on the talent of this roster
and the history of Chef Jeff's legacy.
A lot of people remember that back in tier two,
end of last year, it was Aneos that managed to get a big upset
over a couple of different tier one teams,
despite being a tier two team.
maybe we just get a little bit of a headache or something.
And we see a name like Weddables joined the roster,
we see an upcoming talent like Acog joined.
We know the history of Chef.
Maybe it's just not me, maybe.
I just get a little bit too carried away,
but you look at the lineup on Manila Foe,
and obviously a lot of talent,
but not a single player on Manila Foe
has the same level of accolades to his name as Weddables.
Even Acog, in her last stage,
a really impressive finish in this kickoff
with Rock LFO, but this is something about man LFO being a better team as a whole.
That's not necessarily the exact same thing. I mean, this is a rust that did not make any changes going into Stage 1.
They picked that up for a good bit of time.
And again, while it hasn't been the hot start here or the night he should expect from Rivalry Sports maybe,
it has been again these small issues that have cost them around.
You know, for a restaurant, Elements gets three kills.
three kills one being a see-for-opening that I
shouldn't be able to punch it back then second round chef chef chef chef chef
chef chef time on the demos instantly on the entry they haven't had a proper
five-man round always lost a very important operator
so hopefully here 60 seconds interaction phase we see all five attacks alive now
it's a cock on the entry on the black beard playing it very cautiously check on
all the angles, I sent for the vermin, she's not on the software too much with the C4s.
She's done a great job, and it does look like to me that Gord is simply stay aligned and
try and play out a full round here for the attack of rivalries players.
Like I said, I've always really liked Acox Blackbid, I think he's great on those shields,
particularly the ones where he can still use a gun because he's a great mechanical player.
Not so successful on the Blitz last round getting C4 while planting, but hey, here's
Good start chef has found the opening kill for rival e-sports and now the best chance we've seen thus far
The attack fighting around that's not gonna help out though. What's going on there proxy?
Weddable's team killed in the back of the head
That LFO given a freebie
And it's the bark
I mean you don't want to have that really care to me it's taking top-log control fully which they've now done
So right a cock in the race or a proxy they trim and the top for it
and now they get nothing with this. They can still use the primary weapons to make a little bit of the structure on the floor,
but it's not going to do anything like a bulk even if it's a kind of shotgun here on Thermite. It's not going to do that kind of damage.
Meanwhile, they're Valkyrie looking towards their exact locations. There is two C4s, one right beneath the attackers,
and then one also in the basement, playing that late round win condition of,
hey guys, if you guys lose the bottom side, I can still C4 pat them out in the last two seconds of the round.
So trying to play that timer, but it's getting elements, it's getting some kills out of nowhere.
Oh man, how does he keep getting away with the 5-1 at the moment looking for another great peek,
but Proxy shuts it down. Little bit of redemption for Proxy after the team kill,
but unfortunately he can't follow through. A rival tactical timeout called very early on into
this game after the defense makes a clean sweep of the first three, and Beers gets
It's Lippy in the old shout with the NS proxy calling out that team kill from rival.
Oh boy.
I really like this man level though.
They are playing the game of disruption.
They are not letting wetables, call the shots or anybody for that matter inside of rivals
execute.
They're never getting to the thumbs side where they can go for a realistic plant.
They're not having enough manpower to just go for all their utility and all their ganketry.
Like I said, first round you lose the capitol.
going to counter those hard corners on top floor defense. Second round they lose the demos for
basement and they lose the room clear and now they lost the verticality on the tertiary bomb
side with the defenders falling back and surrendering top floor fully to the attackers.
So you get exactly what you want opening pick top floor control using just rain supreme from
the verticality and go for a late round plant. On paper phenomenal but then the tinkle happens
they lose the buck. It's three rounds in a row where Rival has had a very clear plan and a very
clear goal and not been able to get to it usually because Metal is photoshopping them,
doing a good job there, but this time it was an unfortunate team kill from Frost.
I like the way that Chef played that Solid Snake. Yeah, getting close, but perhaps it was just about
consolidating the advantages because you're right the disruption game for
Manila foe has been really impressive
time to kind of blame rival for what happened obviously you can probably
blame it for a tinker we didn't see it happen on Foxy's POV maybe Redables ran
past him or whatever like it's not no point dwelling on that that's for those
players to have sought out but you know elements of C4 in the first round was
top four you really can't blame Eraser for dying to that right he's had a great
Nitro, so and I guess the only learning to take away from that is maybe you don't stand anywhere near that connector window
Because you might get nitro it I mean that's such a good pre-rips lineup
It requires a lot of skill a lot of game knowledge, but also a lot of luck on the defensive side
Let's be honest. There is a lot of luck involved you just time that wrong you don't have info and you miss it
Yeah, I think if you're now
Picking up the pattern that man leftful they are reacting some of that right look you right if you put on a claim or onto the
window as C4 comes flying. They're playing all the sound cues for example. You can now
have your rival, you can use that as a bait, right? You can make it sound
somewhere expecting some sort of a spawn command left both and then your bait will either be
where they're supposed to go, like a guy holding an angle, going for a backstab,
throwing out a grenade, trying to think that now whatever you do is something
that you really need to succeed in this round. Expect the counter to happen and
try and think what that could be and then you got counter to counter so to
speak and then be one step ahead because it has been rival showing the cards
manly for having a better hand and then that's been wraps so I want to see now
after attack timeout can they try and take it into a bad positioning and try
and punishment no no they have IQ below so what do you have then have you have
hunter on them further below Morgan like with the full stop
Yeah, it's also so unusual. Hunter is the one who's running a muck down below. He's usually their IGL, their backline player.
He's a smart player. He's a support player, but he's happy to roam as well on a one-speed, no less.
They know that they've done a hell of a lot of damage to
Acre and the Blackbeard very early in the round because of that cheeky aggro at the start.
And Elements, he's gonna be able to hang up his phone. By the way, you'll notice he's staying in a mid-jammer.
But, saying the mid-game only stops you from getting targeted by the Deimos or the Demos
it doesn't actually clear it, you can't run into it to clear it like you used to be able to.
Well, if I don't, could be not at all.
They have to answer it all for me to take the time.
A bit of an unnecessary spin there from Beers, but good use of those grenades there from A-Cog behind them, I believe.
Just force out that rotation.
Gets them back to even numbers.
But, because they're targeted by the Deimos, I think they're not expecting a bonk or an IQ down there.
There's a wide of Hunts that was roaming there earlier.
That means there's a full Hunts that are attacking from Rival.
Nobody can let's see. Nobody believes them to disrupt this position if they're in a minst.
There's a ward with a shotgun in a close corner position.
He's going to be so hard to deal with because there are no more frags when it's left here for A-Cock.
Find ourselves again at a stand still waiting to see if Rival will make the next move.
With Manila Foe will continue to put that pressure on and lash out, Proxy finds a good pick on Hunza, but we know what a team damage there on a Razor as he tries to bolt on through, and eventually he finds a kill.
Could trade onto elements, meanwhile, Puto's phone will detonate, take a bit of damage, and be forced off from the fire.
The first chance we've seen from Rival to find a first round on the board, and Wettables seals the deal.
A sigh of relief, more than a celebration, as that first ticket has entered the scoreboard for Rival.
A very good execute. We saw the sit-up, they are waiting to get into the repositions.
They go for connector, a meeting breach, and it goes to that fourth talk of the player onto the IT breach,
going for essentially what could be kind of a backstab, attacking Kevok, attacking IT, etc.
And they found their ones. How do you utilize the flashbangs? I think it's a big saving grace.
Regards the warden was a player close by connect the door so they flashed
people to hit the other members who can't get flashbang since the ward is immune to it
and that's actually a race in the thermite he's coating on the breach
shocked it very deep then they said three two one push together and while they did
almost even kill one more player there onto the thermite they didn't okay they
only did a bit of damage everybody stayed alive in the server and they got
around victory but man level could be plenty happy with where they are right
3-1 up. Even if they were to lose the following two rounds here, it would be an even half.
Would your knight haven deep inside? You should be perfectly happy with taking.
Yeah, if anything, I think the 4-2 sweep could be deadly for Rival.
They need to make the most of that tactical time out. They called 0-3 down. Of course,
they also had the Deimos band against them, but they themselves got rid of the clash.
I feel like in a way those kinda cancel themselves out because as we saw in the very first round,
The clash was countered by the combo of the Deimos and the Dokka B.
But of course, for the next couple of rounds, it's really going to be on rival to make sure they do not miss any shots that they take.
And this time around, there's something cooking here.
Glaz and the three rival players out and ready, watching the vert.
The Thatcher there and Fendi C4s.
This seems to be a rush.
Now, they're going to continue the offensive, but anybody that's barred, they're going to smoke from the mid lane, after EMP this big Aussie 4.
They also need to make sure that if there's any warden on the board, they would EMP that too.
In this case, there is none. The smoke is the one that gets targeted, there is nothing whatsoever from Manila foe.
They were not expecting Ryble to go through the rush and Proxy kicks things off. Nice injury as well.
Chef-Chef on the glass covering the Razor as he looks to try and escape. He instead decides
tucking the corner is safer. He finds a kill on the post.
Manila foe desperate looking to get close back to site, but time has picked away and now they've just thrown bodies at the problem
Pluto. 1v5
Finally rival and built that momentum back up and a flawless round is one hell of a way to make a statement
It's beautiful. You're up against the mossy, the vigil that are going to be roaming and
trying to lock down the roam rather than the bombsite itself. They knew that there's very
little utility. You know, no Goyle, no Mirinda, no Warden, and there's also smoke, but not
in the right position to stop that plant. But even if the smoke had been in the better
position, that's why they brought the Thatcher. They can E&B, the Toxic Babes midair, the
C4, and like you said, even the Warden, if they had one, they could also counter. So
they just recognize that hey they have a pretty weak defense for the right
bomb side rush and this is a funny thing bandit is open but not played here
what's worth man level until this very moment you could just trick the walls
and basement easily because you just play even bandit and tubra if you really
wanted to there's no way to like grenade a drone hold or native off
reinforcement that doesn't work in basement here not even laps so it
weren't simple bandit or even a tubra or even a goyo that could have fully
Stop that bombsite rush.
The only way you can try and counter the bandit, aside from a Maverick, is to have two hard
breaches go for both walls at once, but even then that doesn't stop the bandit, it just
guarantees you get one wall open.
But if you get the single wall, say, a unanimous open, that doesn't enable a rush like that.
You have to go for the much riskier rush into tank, which is less likely to work and a little
bit easier to defend against, and also easier to retake.
a few layers into it, regardless. As we approach the last round of the half here, Pengu, Manila
Fove decided, let's go to the top floor. The bandit instead is going to be focused up on IT.
This is much easier to counter the bandit though, because you can do it safely from outside the
window. The Thatcher goes out and gets rid of the bandit batteries, but the bandit is not looking
atrick. Beez is actually getting called by the Dockery. That's another way you can try and counter
the bandit, but it doesn't stop him. It just makes him take 40 HP in damage.
Well, the race has been traded.
You can tank it of course, of course, but you will have to move if you're the bandit because of the fire.
Yeah, you'll have this credit for a few seconds, so I guess in that way it kind of does count as a bandit.
It depends on how much damage the bandit can afford to take.
Maybe just stack him up with a Thunderbird is I know you've been excited to talk about that.
Just talk to him healing man.
They wouldn't matter at all, taking 40 damage with a Thunderbird on your team.
They also talk Midder once. It could be turned for a Thunderbird or Rook.
even if you want to get really spicy with it. But for now, of course neither operator in play
and bandit's breaking during ineffected so far. I just slowed down the attackers a little bit
and thought I don't get to call, but didn't do too much in the end. Still got about 60 seconds
to work with. Both teams got one kill. Rival haven't really gotten full control level, as you see
right here. Still battling a little bit with Sharky on the roam and the smoke. But if Sharky
to fall with three toxic beams in pocket it's gonna give rival a ton of extra time
but time is ticking away meanwhile 45 seconds oh elements if he peaked out that would have
been a free kill surely for wetables but i don't think there's enough time for wetables to
continue waiting outside here he could try and dedicate to just holding this rotation
it's very risky to do so he holds the angle he waits for elements to be the trigger discipline
And Elements wins the fight!
Lot of damage that Wettables is able to achieve, but it doesn't matter because Elements gets the last life!
Nice shot from Chef, Chef through the drone hole.
And now there's a plant opportunity presenting itself.
It's Proxy who's got that defuse, so Chef on low HP has to be the single man to cover.
No Nitro seller, but three smokes from Sharky.
As a spray through that smoke puts Proxy in a hell of a poor position.
comes out with the keratos and it is a final round on the board at the end of
the half for ManLFO 4-2 on the split and Pluto says you've got to win those
tables old age is showing and the turns have certainly it's able as we close up
the half a 4-2 split for ManLFO
A lot of very serious faces on the rival eSports side, fumbling the harvester.
2-4 at the end of the split. We were hoping perhaps this could be a chance for
Rival to really show what they're worth against a top-level team, especially after
Man of the Foe struggled against Barbie boys last night, but not optimistic about
the glum faces on the Rival side. No, it's gonna be a tough path ahead of them,
and it has been Man of the Foe a bit of teamwork and coordination. I mean, they've
They've done a great job of trading each other when they're close proximity.
And then of course, elements, making hero play, if a hero play, hitting some gnarly shots.
Whenever there are even numbers, things like a 4v4, Man of Gold always gets confused out of nowhere.
It happened this round as well.
Now, here's into how the very final kind of 2v2 play-down, I love how it was Beerus and Shaggy working together.
So Beerus gets the smoke wall bang onto the glass, and then he just hides by his table, waits for Shaggy to do his shot running vertically,
and they make the 1v1 with the bandit and the attacker found stairs next to each other
into a 2v1 with shark and the shotgun smoke top floor trying to assist in causative distraction.
It's these small moments for me, for man and a phoenix, they are the better team.
Did they really clearly have excellent communication? In Hollywood's problem solving
simple scenario, and it brought them just a little bit ahead of rival esports in this particular game,
and that's how they found that one more round. 4-2 on the half, they go on to attack,
They've been banded in Kaedea, they can get through those walls very easily,
and rival esports, to big surprise actually, have also banned Double Heart Breach, Ace and the Thermite.
That leaves every single power up available, whether it's Grimm or any of the four suit operators,
the Capitao, the Deimos, the Dracadine, they're going to have so much explosive firepower in
order to utilize now on them.
Get ready, I'm taking them out, reloading!
While that pre-popping the mirror in prep phase with the thermite and the ace band this
becomes much tougher now for the attack to try and play the hard breach.
Every now and then we see teams look to try and make hard breach complicated despite not
having the electro-boys.
You know, obviously man on a foe, band, coyote and bandit.
So how do you get a headache to them to get hard breach done?
And the way you do that is you open up that door window, you threaten an impact trick
or a C-4 trick and of course we ban out the thermite, the ASC, force them to get these
really crappy little braches with the Hibana. But look at Monty, he's already double-coupled
after, so they can't comfortably in Petric's C4 the mirror window. This is genius, because
Monty can just go where they please, nothing to really stop them. So now that mirror window
strategy has been completely countered by one sole operator, and Sargeen has nobody behind him.
Of course now they're making a move, but he was the sole one to go on the longest time,
time to focus on misses.
Enemies with no mental strength injured by that garage door should be able to be rescued though.
You will get relived.
Unfortunately though, yeah, not able to confirm that kill means that Manila Fogli grew.
As we said, it makes sure worth of that delay tactic.
Could be a window.
Yeah, I mean would be ideal if proxy could somehow use a keeper barrier to then reinforce the wall
But obviously he's completely out of keepers. Oh, yeah, she gets a nice quick shot onto elements before beer trades it
Beers is such low HP, but so is wettable. So I think the warden is gonna steer away from peeking for now
beers is gonna have to wait on up because I
Just died to a
Yes, I'm afraid you did
Beers is kind of trapped here
There's actually a deniered tripwire on the floor, so he can't move before the multi-shoots at Sharky finally does that
Now they feel kind of threatening and entering the bomb site here
If Sharky walks in really deep and tries to make a play, you get fourth position in here from right at least
Maybe they can get a kill around it
But it does feel like Sharky as Monty has to be the playmaker in every scenario
There are no multi-force, no shoot-pounds, this is a gun from the server, but Sharky's up down, as is Hunter
They've been just beers and one HP sockets and I see he finds one kill. That's probably all it's gonna get
Against three not likely to happen. He's also about to walk straight into a razor and
Rival eSports looking a little bit more comfy on defense compared to the attacking side, but it's early days
Now chasing Manila foe just one round behind
That was a classic round example of why you very commonly need three points of pressure
to win that attack around.
Of course, step one for most teams is to get the IT breach, the main wall opened up, they
did that.
They didn't take Kairogato's control, that's two areas of pressure, they did that as well,
but they never had that third point.
Either you push Aqua to synchronize, you push from the front and the back, go for a back
steps towards meeting, only get a vertical upgrade like a demo so you're brought downstairs working
that soft floor, assisting your teammates who attack at the bomb site directly with that beneath
pressure. Only having two of those three possible pressure points means it's a very simple linear
attack that a rival have to deal with. Taking you with all guns, more or less face the exact same
direction, where you're going to go to from the carwalk and the IT door to the side right here.
That's the only thing that they had in the back of their mind, oh guys, be careful of this.
Because there was no pressure elsewhere.
It's worse than having to pull these people around, and in particular next time they attack that top wall bomb site,
to get more pressure on the building.
Because they are so good at doing that kind of speed pressure and they're defending,
always having a very deep roamer, always trying to disrupt the Rylo from attacking,
but on that very first attack around themselves, they kept it a little bit too simple.
I went in and out, I'm on tiered out, that's what they say, I know you were guilty of that
back in the day, Pangu, and some things don't change, even six years later.
I like that, this is a tier, man.
My new favourite old operator, my favourite new old operator, that 2-2 buff has really
just like, it's the classic thing that happens in the siege, a couple of micro buffs, you
they fixed her AR got the recall back on track they gave her tin can openers and then finally
make her a 2-2 and she's back in action the explosive charges have now made short work of
those castle barricades and with them as well also the Vulcan cast that was attached
so I like this as well and one hybrid as well lots of value
It's like a better ash if you're not against the mirror that is right and get a bit more for your money's worth
Technically not a three speed, but hey, I know people love the awful city's days
Where do you say on it because I genuinely
Know same I actually also I it's better than it was no some time ago
Of course, we can't get amongst it
It's not quite the F2 getting the good back situation because they have to know the beast of the guns
And the other city will still remains fine, but
G36 supremacy, speaking of the F2, here it comes, two B kills from Brutto, you set it
Pengu, and Brutto proved it in the server.
Now Bius, he steps up with the M762 and gets a double, imagine your poor chef chef getting
shot from all angles, Sharky confirms the final one with the Monty pistol, what a round
from Manila Foe, completely dismantling and obliterating rival.
They seemed much more pressured than they had in that round.
Though walking down the staircase, working the breach, drop a bomb vertically as well,
they're doing so many more things at the same time, and they just had the confidence to
push all the way in throughout the bomb site and lock in those individual fights.
We saw Pluto with the solid scenic, had information on three separate defenders, and they won
both of those confines in tandem with Sharky on the Monty, did really great work there,
a very quick baseman attack, that's for them sure, and all is enough to a big surprise here,
why wouldn't sports world go straight back at it? When you lose a round in that kind of fashion
where everything goes wrong and you get cut by surprise and lose some bad fun fights,
you can go again. That shouldn't be happening two times in a row. If man and a fool would attack
the exact same way, you'd expect a difference, and you yourself can of course make some small
teams of defense, where you put those reinforcements, what exact starting positions you want to have
and the round begins after drone phase. I do like that they're going back to it.
Terrier is very difficult here in Night Heaven Labs. You really ideally want to get a win
here in basement, then go back to top floor, and then it's working a 5-5 scoreline.
That's really what Rival and Nid at the minute.
But of course, it could change this round if Man on the Phone can leverage that
on to you one more time and get
match point that really does come
arrival in a top position of course they can always
ban it out after but at that point
you're already looking at match point against you
and you need to run three straight
especially after going straight back down
to the same bomb site look at this temptation
from Pluto he just sent it inside he knows
he's facing a mirror window and like you
said there's a fear picked over the ash
means you can't counter that mirror window
quite so easily there actually isn't
any utile here from
Daniel a photo to address this mirror window aside from just getting the bulb which requires a lot of steps in the meanwhile to take map control
Means it'll take a long time for mental photo to deal with that position and rush is pretty much off the table here
They had they had an ash they could just shut the mirror and pressure bombs and plant maybe four stack all the roamers with that kind
Pressure, but now they can't so instead a challenge upstairs
looking trying into the building which is shackling the roof rotating around us in
Monty as well they're not sure exactly where these Romans are and it's because
it's a bitch on the board so hard to catch but if I'm a cock instead on the
Valkyrie again elements play make after play make keeps on opening kills for his
team whether those dust trip and so hunter though but it's only the lion
huge yeah this is also was so patient he didn't get too freaked out by the fact
He saw that mirror window at the start of the round. He just patiently played this
He knew he had the solid snake so he could always scan and check that there's no one in the site
And he might be able to find a gap and so he does now it's time for post for a plant and proxy my friend
You needed to get right on to that much earlier with the electronic stand to know where the plan is going down
This is gonna be match point for Manila foe
No questions asked good luck trying to retake this a razor finally back to side with the boss G
But this Rome has been completely ineffectual and now they know they're staring at a Monty the Monty of Sharky
It's just waiting for anyone from rival to approach him and so we can call that out to Pluto and beers playing on the mirror window
Free kill to Pluto finds a second one as well
It's all up to proxy who can find one but I good luck in it finding the rest shark is still alive on the Monty
He'll just keep giving call outs
It's really just on Pluto to confirm it with the F2 and man does it make waves
match point three now for
Manelifo
Disgusting I'm from Pluto again such a good read they recognize there is just that mirror on the bomb side
That's the important thing very early on when Pluto was not looking to go for a Bumside rush
He's team he was joining for him and they scouted the entire side and they figured out it's only one
personally it will just be the mirror up so if you hear the gun in a certain
location or here's the forewhip that's probably gonna be from her so the moment
the munchies starts walking deep inside the building and you hear the mirror
sounding a bit more active that's when he's pushed on in avoided the mirror
window line of sight and just got the freebie and with that to get the full
block bomb sight control there's no really easy way back to the site is too
scary for a hatched drop which will make so much sound and you find four
4 kills and they're out there for 2-0. So phenomenal and Sarky has been so good in the
Monty as well. He's just walking in extended, getting info, getting plants down. He is getting
some nice free victories on the table for his team.
So at this point you have no choice, Robin. You banned that Monty. Get the hell out of
here. And they do. But Manila 4 also get rid of the Izami, which is so powerful for this
top floor. Obviously in the end it was kind of countered by the Monty anyway like there's no point
like you said doing that nearer trick no point really in doing the Azami when the Monty is just
going to walk up to the right. And I really feel like if Rival got a do-over they probably would
have banned Monty at the start of his half instead of going for the double hard breach bans because
like I said I think it was a cool idea and a cool response to the Kayi bandit band but
You get rid of it and it just gives Manila for the ability to play Monty and you could argue like in a way
We can kind of equate Monty and Thermite right? Thermite is doing his hard breach stuff
But you know he's got three charges to make two holes. Monty's got two charges to make small holes. Meanwhile, you get a Monty
Yeah, it's the most useful unique tool you could possibly get in Rainbow Six on the attacking side
No, it's pretty tough. I honestly will see I've not been a big fan of the ease in a through mine
how many rounds have we seen the walls not getting opened up sufficiently for
the attackers literally zero so it's been very effective against they get so
many secondary beating capabilities look at this example you have
Cabot tower and Grimm some of the strongest gadgets in the entire games
history right of attack and they also both get Harpies hand openers then you
could have had a Monty as well if you wanted to also gets the Harpies
destruction, and you still get Licky Bina for safety and a solid snake. So you have
such good primary gadgets, great secondary gadgets, and the Thermite and the A-Span,
it cannot be solved. So it's not very lackluster. Here's the reinforcement, the
air-touch to call up any rotation possibilities. This is rival setting, we're
gonna surrender, we're gonna surrender catwalk control, but we see the silhouette
there. We see both Hunter and Pluto actually go over that backstab towards
meeting at the minute, which means they are getting that pressure from three
different angles the exact thing they had to fix from their first
assault on board. Oh big kill though. Now one of the 5v4 nice nitro doesn't
quite land deep enough and I think it was heard just in time for elements to
dodge it. Elements has been on top today. Wettables traded back up that he finds
his. He's even at the moment. Seven seven seven as Pluto calls him uncle.
Areza says he needs to have an impact. He was struggling at the start of this
game, Acog is still struggling by the way. He's one of nine and dead for the round. He might go
down on the scoreboard at the end of the game with only a single kill unless Chef Jeff and
Eraser can win this in the 2v3. Big kill from Sheffy, but it's now a 1v1 for Eraser with beers
on the ground. Sharky's got to do it. He's got the DMR and also one fighter worked with. Pluto is
still smack talking in the chat. The suppressor is an interesting choice here from Sharky. No
Defuser he's got to go get it back instead. He's gonna go for the revive
Smart he knows exactly where a razor is all the way deep inside of electrical
But the diffuser is also within his clutch is it becomes a 1v2 again and beers pick back up
Finish is off the game for man LFO
Beautiful again, they get that three pressure point in the server they get me I see Kat Wanti
get a couple kills, they work together and then we see the criticality of the utility.
They got some fire, the smoke, the flashbangs, also very nice to be there in the 1v1.
Kind of figuring out how much space do I have to work with as the attacker.
Oh, do you think all the way back in connector on the door?
I can go and come back out to Kowloon, go for a revive to make that 1v1 into a 2v1.
Able to be very my side.
So, manly throw.
This is the smarter team today and having much better teamwork as well.
Just such a good game for Manila Poe from Daydart at the very start, 4-2 split on the defensive side,
Elements really having some huge moments in particular.
That active defense pays dividends and then they swap on to the attack,
They abuse the living hell out of the Monty and then in the final round they show they don't even need it anyway.
Beautiful. And I think rival eSports are just left with a lot more things to think about at the end of that game.
of that game. Unfortunately for them obviously that is the end of the road for today and you know
not the week that they were hoping for even though they did finally get their first win on the board
yesterday. Of their first four games, Pengu just a single win on the board for Rival.
Definitely a bit surprising but like you said in the beginning right maybe just a bit of hype on
there maybe you're thinking that on paper this roster is crazy and it is but it's all about
coordination and synergy. And that takes time to figure out in the server what kind of pace I
want to go for, etc. So I think give these boys a bit more time before you judge in them. But you
ask the right, it's been a bit of a sad start for these boys. It has on the flip side. It's a good
bounce back here for man e-sports LFO and we've got on the line, Sally there coached for a little
bit of a chat. Sally, welcome on in and congrats on such a big win, especially after yesterday. I
I hope you don't mind, but I do want to start by talking about yesterday, because obviously we did better after the game.
6-5, and then obviously Barbie boys, and I'm getting the better of you on board.
What happened there, and what did you learn from it that you took into today?
Yeah, I mean, I think for us, we felt like we should have really won that game, and those are the ones that hurt.
hurt, right? You're in control, you understand the round, you have the momentum, which, you know,
we've lost a few rounds, but we've gotten a good start on the back half. And then, look, it happens,
you know, you get a bit overzealous, we're here in the combat, he's one HP, you know,
you will just like, look, I'm confident in my gunplay, I'm going to swing it, and then they
take the momentum from there, we can never recover it, and we lose two rounds, even so after that.
But I think today what we realized is that at the end of the day, we got one point, right?
It wasn't the worst thing that could happen.
And we knew within ourselves that we were actually really have the depth of the team.
I think it kind of showed today with being able to bring out night
able labs in the fashion week we did.
So I'm very happy with the boys and the result that they have today.
Yeah, she should be. Today was a pretty big opponent, I would say, in Rival, you know, we
hyped up the match to be a super close series, maybe overtime potential worthy.
When you go out for a defense, it seems like it was a very conscious choice to go for that
disruptive plays, not that they go for executes, not that they go for plant attempts. Talking
through the game plan, specifically for Niven Labs and specifically for Rival today, what
was the stylistic choice you made trying to take them down as easily as you could?
Yeah, look, I think as I was saying, maybe in the first interview, part of what we did
in the off-season or when we, you know, not off-season, but we didn't make it.
So we just, you know, sat down and we wanted to open the range of what we had, the depth
that we had, and that was really just it, right?
We have that depth to be able to react to whatever team we have in front of us, right?
They're not the first team that is very step-by-step.
They're not the last team we're going to encounter
that's going to be very step-by-step.
So having that approach to be able to counter
all types of teams, I think, was really just a game plan.
We didn't do anything out of the Audrey that we normally do.
So yeah.
Just before we let you go, Sally,
I really would love to talk about a few things.
How much time we got.
Maybe a producer will cut me off eventually, but I'm going to take advantage of the time we've got with you right now.
Yeah, I think this is the first stage of the ad with you guys.
Yeah, it's been a while. This is our first playday of OCE for the two of us as well.
But the first thing I want to ask you, Sally, is obviously we have two spots to OCE this stage.
Very exciting for you guys. You came third in stage one.
There's an obvious top two, at least we thought there was, in this region with EP and Chiefs.
Huge organizations, huge pedigree, and then we have teams like Rival today, of course.
Of course, the former Rock Ella Fo Ross are now coming back in a big way with arcade e-sports.
You guys being the third place in stage one.
How do you really see me feel like you fit into the competition?
And obviously for you guys, you've never made it to an international event.
Is this the time that that can change?
Look, everyone is thinking about it in the whole league, like it's in the forefront.
AP did a good job for the region to finally get us two spots.
So it's nice to have.
I think where we place, we have expectations within ourselves, of course, but we try and
put it aside, especially when we get into that server, right? It's just round after round in
front of us, I think we won put forward. So the first goal for us, the first step is that playoffs.
This is the first time we've had only four spots for the playoffs. We saw EP go down and lose the
whole three points, we don't know if that's going to be like a big factor as we get closer to game
days. So we know we're bursting teams that if you look at in the past we've beat before, right?
So getting and racking up those points and even if it's one point here, even if it's two points
there, you take as many as you can and then just sort of everything shakes out as it is via one.
So anything could happen. I'm sure we'll see you still see some surprises in the coming next few weeks
Yeah, well you've only got one point in your first four games Sally
So congrats to you for that of course next week you got six targets
Then you got chiefs and enterprise your two toughest games in the stage
So good luck for those and I hope that we see you in stage finals. Okay. Thanks guys
I love hearing that and I do feel like Sali and Manila foe have maybe matured to another level when it comes to like where they sit within the region there for a long time Manila foe you know they bounced around they had the Ross with chef Jeff way back in the day where for a brief moment they were second best in the region but clearly overtaken by the pedigree of talent on teams like chiefs and enterprise but I feel like they have the right attitude to potentially not just make top four for stage finals but maybe even make top two and play in the final
go to AWC. I would hope so. I also want to say I love when a person takes as much time
to answer a question, kind of deep dive into it. You know, sometimes players will give
us like a yes or a no response. Sadly, we're going to the time to really deep dive into
every single question and really have a conversation, which I really enjoyed actually. And very
good head on the shoulders, like a mentality about taking it, you know, round by round,
game by game, everyone's in the forefront. Oh, two spots to O's, two spots to O's, that
could be us, we could sneak in there and take it, you know, but it can't control you because
you can start getting fear on game day. If you're like, oh, if I make this play and it
doesn't work out, maybe we don't get all three points, then you know, we don't get that
second spot and then fails. And just being very cool, come connected.
Yeah, I really love the credit as well to Enterprise and saying, you know, they did such a
huge thing for the region when they earned us a spot by going so deep at Salt Lake City.
So there is a level of camaraderie, even though there is incredibly tight competition, for
good to say, Menelofo lost yesterday in overtime to Barbie Boys, who are playing up next, it's
Barbie Boys vs Six targets after this.
Stage 1, where I played with Chiefs and that was like my first proper team of like playing
with like really good people like Odal and obviously with Cairo and like Tex and obviously
Quizz and I felt like that stage playing with like very experienced people kind of made
me nervous. I had to play to a standard. I kind of played worse knowing that Jigsaw would
come in mid-stage. I played bad and then obviously Jigsaw came in and took my spot but that was
all definitely a learning lesson for me. After that I was honestly done with Siege. It was
a really huge butterfly effect, me joining EP. Randomly I got shot a message by Harry
but too hard and he just basically said like, you play him, we need you right now. I was
like, do I really want to play Siege again? I don't know if we're going to make it, there's
obviously Chief still playing, there's GG, and we're like this sturt, I'm thinking in
my head like a third team, I'm not getting paid a lot of money. These are players that
I wanted to play with, like Fischo, too hard, and Bappin. And obviously Rilo is not fully
committed at first, but then I was really drawn to it, like playing CDN, you know, proving
myself. I think that was the biggest thing. I wanted to prove myself again after Chiefs
and show that like I can compete. I am good.
My first impressions playing like under EP in that stage, I knew shit was like serious
in terms of with Fisher guy, Tuhan, and it's like the seriousness of the team. I knew I
had to like put my head down and work. My first game was against, it was like a B-R-E-3
I think against Ludovico. I'm pretty sure on Chalet I proved to myself that like beyond compete
I can like beat these teams and I think that really put my confidence up
Obviously with the support of like with two iron batman and relays and fish like they definitely helped me a lot
Having that confidence for me to be the best player in Australia. I think with the stats
I was looking at it a lot obviously being a really
competitive team at that time being number one obviously meant a lot in
regards of like me only playing playoffs I wanted to stay there like I wanted to
just not go like this is just a one game thing like I wanted to stay there
came GG after Ludovico this is when we needed to really prove ourselves I think
this was like honestly one of the biggest games my career obviously being
international or going international but this is what it really meant like
this is what it came down to really proving myself with this like European
super team or whatever like and obviously being the rivals at the time who's
going goat who's going to go to the major like this was a game that was
really meant for me I'll share it to my friends to my girlfriend at the time and
all my family and we put a lot of work into beating them and we did and I was
really happy with the way I played and I remember it like very clearly like I
knew they were all watching my girlfriend at the time was in my living room
watching as well. As soon as we won, as soon as I killed Croxon in that 1v1, I
knew like this is like my dreams coming true. Having a 1v1 against Croxon to
win this whole series, like this is what I dreamt of as a kid and all of
Australia watching it at one time, two Titans versing each other. And I remember
I rushed out my door and I was like, we won, like this is crazy. I felt like I feel
Like a celebrity so many people in Australia watching and we beat the time that was kind of like where it started
I think for me I can be the best player in Australia and then obviously after that came the rematch against Ludovica for the finals
We won it for the EWC just winning it was just
Honestly didn't feel real to me. I am in the best team in Australia now
I'm going to like an event everything I've worked for came up to this moment
I finally actually won it. I stayed number one on the stats. Ejikso obviously deserved it as well
Having that name for myself and like proving that I can be one of the best in Australia
The Melbourne event just meant a lot for me. Obviously after like the upset
You know, you see obviously the run didn't really go well for us
The Melbourne major or the event was just definitely my favorite event 100%
Just after everything that happened after everything that went down and playing in front of like a crowd
I knew these people like from the community and like seeing face-to-face them watching me is like
Incredible I want to win for them. I felt like it was in my hands to represent Australia
We lost the first map against PSG. I was kicking myself and I was like, I don't want to lose this like we cannot be doing this
We're on the home crowd
We need to change something and I remember after the loss like I remember very accurately
I walked with Oda to the bathroom and he'll tell me like you guys really need to put your heads in and really
focus up if you want to make this major all eyes are on us at that time and we
we can't like just stay here and like not go to this major came to the next map
it was bank and we absolutely destroyed them that was just a big confidence
for us like we can lose some in a map and just destroy them in the second map
like and obviously came the last map on clockhouse I think this is Matt where I
I was really in that flow state, like, I couldn't even notice the crowd, I couldn't notice anyone.
And I just wanted to just do it and win it.
Came that round where I think it was passed over time and it was match point for us.
We were like in a really sticky situation.
P.F. she kind of had the whole map and needed to make a play.
I remember Blackbeard went through the church wall.
I think Harry killed him.
I got that 3k with the D.Eagle.
And every kill I got, that was just screaming from the crowd and yelling after every kill.
I was just so in that state.
And I remember the best feeling from like all of Siege I would say.
After that 3k and knowing that I made a play to win the round.
And when that last guy was coming down, I was very like, even before we killed him,
Harry started screaming and he died and then everyone just started screaming.
I stood up and I just felt like I did it.
Best feeling ever.
All my friends were watching, everyone was watching, everyone in Australia was watching, and we beat an international team to make a major.
I think playing internationally over the year, basically only one Australian team is going to the event, we're representing Australia.
We showed hints of potential.
Beating Waybo and taking McAfuro, there was this potential that we could do better for Australia.
And obviously there were peaks of happiness where it's like, yeah, I'm finally here,
I'm finally at this stage where I'm representing Australia, but the guilt of loss as we were
representing Australia, it definitely took a toll because what's the point of us making
it this major so we can't even compete.
I feel like it definitely took a toll on all of us in the team, having this regret of playing
bad and also this low self esteem and like do we even have the potential to even pursue
this.
I feel like that's like kind of what started in the roster changes for sure.
And we are back into it for our second game of the day with OCE.
Pengu, I really feel like as our first playday working OCE this stage, you and me,
I'm getting really invested in the scene.
I mean, like Sally said in the interview, just four teams going to playoffs now.
We have two slots to not just the major, but it's EWC,
which itself gives a spot directly to the six-invitational.
It doesn't get much better than this.
We have genuinely four solo teams fighting out for the playoffs, maybe some other teams
could upset them as we've seen so far, and even within those four teams there's no guarantees
of who makes it to the international events.
Let's focus on our game at the moment, it's Barbie Boys vs Six Tigers, the latter is where
we'll start.
Six targets sadly not having the best run in stage one, they ended up in last place,
These guys are back with a vengeance and Niko is ready to buy anyone like what the hell are these like all glass selfies
But why is Niko absolutely serving like look at that you could
You could get a paper cut on that shit. What's going on Niko?
Dude, I love Niko. He's done on my OTO scouts
I've been following this guy on YouTube and Twitter for the longest of times because it was for like mean content or whatnot
he still has a
a really really cool video like interest bonus videos where they did like the what's it called
it's a special artichoke game
yeah grand last yeah yeah it's like a super sick interest a grand last video i showed to everyone at some point
i mean i showed to you as well like last year actually that's my god niko he is a content machine
i'm so glad he's back in pro play but the team success stories so far has not been exactly what
you'd hoped for them they have not had the most success yeah look it's been a rough slog for them
not just in stage one now, but in this year as a whole, of course, they do have a win on the board,
which is exciting. It's quite a different story to what happened in kickoff. Their first two
kickoff games, they won a map in both of their BO3s, but of course, in kickoff, we had a double
e-limb format. It was very different. We didn't have Round Robin at every game of the BO3, so they
lost a shy Academy, but won a map. Then they lost to Rock LFO, but won a map. So far though, yes,
they lost the opening game to Enterprise 7 to forget about that one very
forgettable game then they beat arcade 7-4 and then they lost to cheese but hey
it's the chiefs next up you know they got Barbie boys and then there are a
couple other games I think that they could realistically say could be
winnable for them but it is a very competitive league at the moment and
making top four for playoffs is going to be very hard one of the teams that we
are expecting will be challenging for a playoff spot is Barbie boys of course a
a bit of a change up. They lost Wettables. They brought in new players, Pinkoo, an old
face from a couple of years ago. He was on that wild card roster for a little while.
He was on a few different teams in the OCE region. And at one point was kind of known
to be a bit of a goat player. I think it was against Bliss. Wait, way back in the day,
he upset Bliss or if it was gaming, I think it was when they were gaming gladiators. He
He got like a 1v5 ace to clutch up and be a gaming gladiator.
He was like iconic.
So a pick up of Pinker is massive.
I love to see that third or sixth time.
I'm sorry, third of Barbie boys.
So it's going to be a fun time when you have Pinker casting
Pingu, the E and the I.
It's going to be our best to pronounce it correctly.
Also, that you personally have huge bias towards these guys.
You're always about Barbie boys, this and Barbie boys,
that.
Do I?
Also, look at that Cidabee's guy, actually.
That's kind of slick.
I like that. I lost like a proper like tech bro, you know like tech youtuber
Why is he got a graphics card hanging up on his
YouTube
He got that sponsorship as well. What's that motherboard?
Oh, I think it's actually a nickel motorcycle case
Motorcycle something he's got the glass mouse pad on the pegboard behind him as well
just like show it off because glass mouse fans they look great and they they feel great for like the touch of a hand
We're playing with mouse kids on it. I personally like the scratch in the pan the entire time not a huge fan
So I love the pingo has it and he's displaying it, but not at least actively use it for what we can see
Love that super cool from pink here. I think let's have a look at the video
Of course to dig into what map we'll be playing today
We've seen Bobby boys play three different maps so far and we've also seen six targets play three different maps from fact
None of those maps overlap so between these two teams. We've seen six maps of the nine that we have in the pool
We're actually gonna play Lair now
This is where Barbie boys lost to the chiefs
But we haven't seen six targets played as of yet Barbie boys got the last pick six targets start defense
Okay, so I'm not sure what it is
But we see a lot of layer in APL this stage one already in both Asia
effect north and of course not also here in O's. I'm curious why that shifted. I feel that we've
gone away from your country lab night healing cafe and we've seen so much more fortress
chalet and lair but either way the game is ready so let's get into the action. Let's get started.
Hopefully we can get a barbie boys victory if you're a James F. Mada fanboy. Oh let's go barbie
boys. I don't know it's six stars game. I'm gonna root for the opposite. I'm gonna go to my boy Nico
and back him up because he's an OG, I'm an OT, we gotta help each other, okay, and there ain't
many of us left. Look, I feel you, I get where you're coming from here. When you've got players
like Niko, when you have the new edition of Karma on Six targets, who for a while was one of the most
up and coming promising fraggers that we have in the OCE region, and when you've got King as well,
formerly known as Quixi, like he was a really strong fragger in his peak as well,
You have a very deadly roster here on the six target side and one that has clearly shown that they can get wins
But just so far haven't challenged the top teams Barbie there one of the teams
It's hoping to make a case that they can be in that conversation for the top teams
Especially because stage one was a big disappointment for them ended up
Seventh place a far cry from where they were hoping to end up
But it's goodbye wettables. Hello pinkoo for Barbie boys
And I think this is an exciting time to be a fan of either of these teams
We just witnessed a night heaven lapsed previously where they banned ace and thermite we're seeing demos and do we ban right off
I like this so much more. I just think we're in the meta where there are too many strong attackers
You ain't got time to ban double hop is these days
Maybe I'm buying table CEO bombs at top four is like one of the few exceptions
But like generally speaking, you're just leaving too many nasty things open for the attack if you're gonna do it
Bobby boys in pretty common fashion that bend the kite and the bandit don't want to get through those walls
I have to worry about having to go downstairs through the clay or bringing the maverick or just getting stuck on an exterior wall
Because on a layer, there's a lot of things to worry about. Gotta get the exterior wall, get a lot of map control, get the back step going
Maybe we'll get rid of the cats, we gotta block our demos
So you remove one of those few things in the checklist so that a happy chicken
I was solo open the wall without any real assistance is gonna speed up the entire attack actually
Oh
Man another game of lair and another round where we have smoke and to chunk it in the first round and
Immediately, it's like usually the attackers get three minutes in the action phase
What what do we reckon they get now?
They just instantly get like a minute 30 instead of three minutes. Is that how it works when you're picking up?
Yes, exactly, right
It's uh, I think someone did the math
I don't remember it
But if you're to shunke and you just use your gadget on one particular spot and every time the fire expires
You should like another Molotov you can solve for like a minute 30 seconds like a single-handed league in one particular spot
so
Lot of stultanile here for Niko. A citizen man who has content on his YouTube channel.
So she also got her tricks. So him playing as a changa, he'll play as a team to me.
For those nasty lineups, so we could balance this if you will.
But every wall or stairs, Bok, Ars and you can get the verticality, can really support his team
to advance into this round, from your window, being pinged up by his team.
Perfect Bokking from below. And you might think, what about going for a kill?
Well right now he's still advanced, with the force of the push.
You don't want to start fogkining below without teammates above having a similar line of sight
because otherwise you can just look straight back to Burt and fight the fog maybe two or three versus one.
It's very important that you time it together.
Next you're gonna reinforce the other one and watch kind of miss the angle there.
They can get the free kill onto the reinforcement player, karma I believe.
So, bit of a miss but it's okay.
Still half round to play.
He got positioned.
I took breaths.
Nice shot out of mid air.
That's nice.
Quick kick there.
Still 6'7 to do with Walsh Dablow in the back, but finally Karma finds the shot.
He really did mug him there.
Bailey now looking for his shot, but he gets mugged as well.
Nice double from Karma.
He returns to the scene and he makes a bit of a splash.
Oh, third one for Karma! Just keep spectating this guy!
President desperately looking for a shot now with a Monty pistol.
And he does find him. So Karma put to an end.
Good shot from Prez, the captain of Barbie Boys.
And Pinku, the new kid, new old kid on the block,
is gonna have to join in as well. Out comes the Grip Thieves.
Giving a little bit of space here for President to breach onto the bomb site.
Well, I'm in combat from TD over here, he was stealing it, already got his 3 kills in the round, he's in up over.
Niko, no TP if I was shoving it around.
He got the top of the game, last of being stunned, tons of fire from the Dishonké.
Still see 4 prime here for a sword as well.
When he gets the sound kill, toss it out, hits the ball frame, doesn't get the kill though.
Yeah, I think he has to go deep, but hey guys, hiding behind his shield.
And yeah, Prez, you might find a second one.
It's just a consolation.
There's nothing to be said for Barbie boys.
They were well and truly stalled out.
As soon as Karma found his 2K, that was the end of the road.
Never seen that they never got a push going.
I mean, as I said, it's very important
that the box is doing the verticality with the teammates
up above fighting the same player.
And I don't think they had the clear indication
of where they got stuck.
They got into that small box room with a lot of rotate,
And they just reinforced it straight in front of the Monty and straight above the buck and nobody went for a punish play.
So they reinforced the wall, buck just kept doing his thing, opening more and more of the floor above him,
but the attackers on the breach never opened up the wall until after he died.
It was only at the very tail of the running 2 was a 5, or takes 4 technically, that they opened up the breach here.
So it does feel like Barabois could have done it a bit more in that round than what they actually attended to there.
um especially we got a month on the board but either way that's the first on a layer on the
attack inside done for bobby boys it is a challenging map to attack as i said there's a lot of
different moving parts that are going to be happening every single round and uh with the
doga b and demo's being banned away it is going to target a bit of that roam clear and let's go
for kills objective it's gonna get a bit better just step one step two step three and the fact that
they played the month he didn't get that successfully is a small bit of worry but as i said just the
the first round, but to track how they keep going, it needs up to a minute to do it.
Every bombsite plays extremely differently on lair. There's some maps where different
bombsites actually feel kind of similar, but lair is just such a different ballgame basement.
Completely different kettle of fish to the top floor, and again so different to the ground
floor bombsites which end up being mostly vertical plate. Most of the flexible loose
What's roaming happens on this place on the left side because you can utilize much more
of the map on the defensive side.
That's why we're seeing the Solar Snake from Quicks.
But just having a quick look, I mean, yeah, we've got three roamers for now from six targets,
but not a lot of hard clear from Barbie boys.
I mean, they're going from the top floor down, no one on the ground floor as of yet.
This is going to be a very time consuming way to try and take map control.
Very much so.
You're going to want to have all your attackers alive for a late round.
The IQ, the ram, the solid snake, the ying.
The only person that can really afford dying in a roach here right now
is probably going to end up being your ash, maybe your IQ.
Because at least in that amount you can check with the gadget.
But of course you lose your frag grenades if IQ goes down.
So if they can get this done while losing any bodies, it would be major success, but 6 Tigers are also only playing in one particular area, weapons, army, and they're not falling back, so it does seem like there's gonna be a 5v5 later on, no big losses right now on the roam stream.
It's surprising enough there's a solid snake, but the gacha is not being used to turn it
because it recognizes the mute gem, or maybe it's on the roam game, so when I beat himself
I go into a room and he thinks it's clear but actually isn't.
One minute to go.
Yeah, and again, it's kind of has really been utilized in favour of six targets.
I'll wear the press finder, open a kill there on Takama.
Maybe that changes the situation, especially now that Barbie boys are starting to rip apart
some of that sight you too.
He'll come down to in the late round, to the gas of King, to keep him at bay, and can be
Vulcan canisters from Karma, even though he's in the grave to lay a little bit more time.
Also that C4 from Niko, in that late round, I do wonder if he'll be able to use that to
try and deny a potential plan from Prez.
Oh, nice shots!
Well played, big gamble from Bayley!
Reza runs straight on through, but King lives up to the name!
Hold on to his ground, hold on to the stairs and fight a big 3k.
Now Bobby boys are left with so much to do, Walsham prayers to desperately drop down the hatch,
but it's a fourth for the king.
He stands on his throne, wash him away,
but a 1v3 he simply does not have the time.
He will save the KD, king in the old chat for a bit of a laugh,
and a subtle chuckle of 4k to single-handedly win the round for 6 targets.
Again, barbie boys very slow to get their own clear, don't have any of those power
operators to clear the staircase as comfortably. Nobody downstairs and on the window to cut off
King from the rotation had to toss the decandela mine, had to play on the window downstairs,
either King's gonna run back and supposedly die to the guy on the window holding him
or stick out on the staircase and get fully blinded by the yin container and therefore die to yin.
That's kind of how you want to play it. But Bobby boys, much like in round number one,
they're missing something in the coordination department. Right? Before it was Bog doing the
wrong word, we get Siemens above not getting that crossfire. Now, it's them trying to clear
staircase by three people individually. No trade, no nothing, trying to clear out that player's smoke
that was king. Big miss, six targets, very much discerned to win these rounds. They've been the
better team in the server, better individual players as well. Barbarian Scanner shows a bit
more young attack inside. You can't just crush teachers in a certain layer, you have to go attack
and defend if you're gonna be the best team at this present moment.
It's funny, six targets have been in the scene for a very long time.
A lot of these players are OGs or somewhat OG, King, feeling confident after that big
4K goes for a small pitch doesn't find it.
But yeah, big thing about six targets that sets them apart from a lot of these other
teams is they strike me as a team that's more about just having a good time.
Like they were relegated out of the league years ago, I think it was 2023 they played in the league, they got relegated out of it, and then they tried to qualify and then they didn't make it, and then they just every time we had the tier 2 circuit, they would play in tier 2, try and qualify back for tier 1, and eventually, finally, in kickoff, at the start of this year, they finally made it by going through the Challenger series.
It was a big moment, I felt. To see Nico back in Tier 1 play, I mean, I remember when I started playing competitive C-17, I'm gonna say.
Nico was already more OG than Nico, and he was under 18 at the time, so he wasn't allowed to play in Pro League when it came to APAC.
And here he is, playing through Tier 2, back into Tier 1, on a Vibes-based friends team,
but still able to look pretty solid here in Stage 1, especially compared to Kickoff.
I was going to say, it's certain isn't for the paycheck, it's certainly the vibes and the,
you know, grinding with the boys, as we say. It's kind of surviving through a storm together,
and going down through litigation, going up through promotion again. Not many teams have
the players have done that historically across any regions, often you lose your tier 1 spot
that's usually the end of your career, or maybe you'll individually try and get a new
home.
Finally though, bar boys distract first, the walls get picked onto carmen, with the green
staircase, only using a bit of health there and precious blitz.
The best round thus far for bar boys perhaps?
They have a good bit of map control, they got a fine amount of time to work with, but
they are up against the solace and the ward that can counter this potential plant rush.
But don't just yolo the guys, make it clean, make it good.
I'll do their best.
It's funny karma he's got.
Had such a huge 3k in the first round
and done nothing since it's been first pick every time.
Unfortunately after I gassed him up.
Orion goes down, here's the double opening for Barbie boys
and the best chance so far that they've had
of making a round look on the cards.
Pinky is the one to cover
Prez starts to force down this plant.
Oh, the fire from Quicks denies the verticality and King nitrocells himself.
So well played here by Barby Boyz, but Prez, a little bit too ambitious.
Sozera is traded back by Bayley though, so Niko, look man, he might be good in an OG,
but I think he knows when a deal is done and dusted, Walsh will finally find the kill
while Niko is busy talking to the squad.
six targets, cop their first L of the game. Very good run from bad boys, they finally hit all
their marks, opening pick, good use of util, didn't just rush the plant when it got to the bombsite
door, they are waiting for the capitol to rush it over, use the fire, deny the bit of vert,
then they smoke, they push, they plant the blitz, con with the glass and nothing goes wrong. I even
love that they tripled down there and when Bay got the kill onto Orion from the outside breach,
he actually went for his own back step in towards the bomb site and ended up trading his blitz
team made of press later on so overall that was a much better round but that is going to be that
tertiary attack on paper a little bit easier as it has a much lower win rate in percentage to the
other two primary bomb sites the biggest question is for this second bomb site rotation you know with
the warden being banned away with the grim being banned away can they now find victory upstairs
and afterwards on the base bomb site because the only win that tertiary site we are looking at
definitive four to half and if that's gonna be enough hard to tell.
Yeah, I think he knows.
Yes, I don't think only winning Tashry Bombs are near attack.
He's got six targets attacked.
We pair him.
If he has equally unfortunate attacking side, then there's all the time over.
Yeah, yeah, who knows, who knows.
Well, now that we've done three rounds in the half,
I think we get the final dance to come through.
I'm a little bit surprised I see the grab from six targets.
Honestly, I thought a shield, like obviously we've seen both the Monzi and the Blitz, even
the Capitao.
I really liked the way, like I said before, the way Quicks used the Capitao last round
to prevent the defenders from playing on top of that vert, because he just fired on the
vert, so you can't stand on it.
We've seen Grim play once, and Pinku did nothing with it.
We've seen the Capitao play multiple times.
We've seen tons of other power operators, like, yeah, I'm telling you, it's a pro.
the ramp I know it's only kind of useful a lump on site but it's an idea I just feel like the
grim's a bit of a waste compared to the value out of the warden band which I think is a mess
the scare thing about our warden band whether you don't read into it is that
you're not gonna ban the ying or the glass or the blitz if you're not gonna think the
warden band is happening and they didn't see that so now you have everything open so blitz and
glass this sound they were hovering for a bit they can just say three two one let's just attack
there's one solo defender that can find them somewhere on the map, but that's where this top floor
primary bomb site gets a bit trickier than that tertiary. It's a lot harder to find one solo defender
who doesn't have a crossfire and doesn't have a teammate because you're playing much close together.
You're gonna play here by museum window, you can play on the floor if you play the bomb site,
then you can play of course on the top rocket or top main lobby staircase. That's it. And if any
defender feels a lot of pressure, either they can run away and transfer it to their spot,
or if you make a run towards them and just double down on that location.
So, there's clear attack on number of cease and buy boys, but can they use them effectively?
Can they try and fight that opening pick?
As the nade comes out, clear is that keep a barrier.
Positions from six targets are exposed.
back up smokes on Bailey as well to try and help that glass but currently very
separated so not really in position to help out I feel like Bailey's kind of
got to back out move somewhere else not much point trying to go up against me
just gonna delay time wasted nitro cell from Orion that would have been really
nice in the late round against this blackbeard against the blitz and even
against the glass flash and push try to make staircase control
Oh wow, come on, what is that?
Very risky play, Walsh immediately followed as well!
Ryan has been massive holding on to this position with the keeper barrier from Miyazama to protect him.
He's worried about his backside as well.
Bayley and Prez are both low HP.
Barmy boys, he diastrates but a big kill from Bayley, ADSing with the Blitz.
Suddenly, he has left all alone a quick shot from Niko.
Another round for six targets.
And we're straight back to bottom boys doing something
that was not expected.
And there's a reason why that's a good thing
and what's a bad thing.
The reason why it's a good thing is
you might catch your opponent by surprise
as you caught me, because I'm thinking the best
in your strategy there, you flashbang the bomb side
to disable the crossfire, knowing that the count
side lost the C4 moments earlier.
You're going to push down the 90-degree hallway,
find the thin rear top of rocket stairs,
you get that kill with Blackbeard.
Now you have 5v4, you get all the control and you open up almost like a highway for the
attackers to rotate back and forth to help each other.
But by going straight in towards the bomb site, only Blackbeard, all that flashbang can
do so and the glass walking in the outside breeze can do so as well.
Everybody else, they don't have that highway, they don't have a way into the bomb site after
the fact.
That means even if Blackbeard and Glass were successful, which they weren't, their teammates
couldn't necessarily get into position to help them. So they don't gain a ton, except for a kill to
off that play. They don't necessarily get a plant, for example. They don't have any good cover or
nap control to get that clamp down either. Except for it being a huge risk play, of course. So,
all the boys, they went from having a phenomenal synchronized, very well-thought-out pressure
attack, to going straight back to a dumpster fire on top floor. And that's where I worried for them.
Because like I said, now we go basement and they cannot figure things out right here right now, the best case scenario is 2 for half for them.
Karma, on for a roam.
I'm a little scared for karma, he's been first picked too many times now, but at least he's not roaming fully solo.
He's got teammates very close nearby.
And King, last time his team defended the basement, was instrumental for six targets.
But we might need to put a little bit more early focus on clearing King off the stairs, burning away his util.
It's a quiet time in the server.
Nice and steady.
Again, Bobby Boyz, they've won their five attackers alive for the bombs that execute.
But if we saw it happen last time, Timer was getting very low.
King got the four kills and that one.
Timer as well here.
Very quickly stepping away.
Yeah, I mean, you look at the lineup from 16.
It's Goyo Smoke, Fenrir, and Thorne, but it's just so much easier.
I'm a sequel for me. So much time delay, you know, but they do just give up a lot of ground and reinforce.
Interesting.
Okay, so I guess, and he stopped reinforcing actually, I was gonna say, I think you sacrifice king on the staircase.
That's what you probably might do on paper, but I think that they're overthinking it.
Because that's what happened last time. King played the staircase, he got three kills, it should never happen.
Maybe he's thinking that, oh now that I have the count to play, now that he can just clear me, I'll just die free.
By the way, I was just talking about that here. We'll go back on the staircase, use the press B, see a blitz, pretty straight back down, maybe now reinforce the wall, yep.
And I think that's why I stopped, because the blitz on the staircase position is going to be almost impossible to deal with, with essentially not only 17 bullets.
So I'm quite likely to throw it, just stay on the floor for a few seconds, two toxic bays, I think still need one blue chemical, and still 84.
I think it should not be easy.
I don't know, I agree with you in theory, Nick,
but the way that that ram rips up the floor so quickly
and the value that we've seen
barbie boys get out of countering those Goyo charges,
King only has one EMP, smoke grenade lefts.
Yeah, I think we have to miss him on the third.
Almost finds one, Orion does get caught.
There's a smoke.
But King goes down and now, like you said,
no smoke grenade, good second one from Orion now.
He's gonna contest the hatch as well, but pink two shots him down 3v3
Nitro cell from Niko doesn't land! Big catch from Walsh as Ma
Karma is also quick to follow six targets fumble again
Barbie boys get themselves a second round on the board
Yeah, this time it feels a bit like six targets actually had the round victory
They kind of threw it smoked into with a chemistry that was made where it went in the round
They have two toxic babes in pocket still then they swing and die to the hatch afterwards
Felt like they had a bit more that they could have done around but regardless Bobby boys
They've been very unfortunate so far and play also has to go their way
They get that important second round and I guess the big decision then comes which bombsite do you attend here again?
You go back space then which they have or would they actually try and go for a treasure bomb side?
I think going back downstairs makes sense. I think it's pretty strong again
You have infinite plant denial, no real counter, but this is where we gotta see bar boys go for a different attacking approach
If they need the exact same thing take top floor, go down the staircase, take first floor, do the word, hit the bomb site
Now with the Monty, if President sticks it, they can do the opposite
Go for a garage attack opposite side of the map, just get in, pressure the bomb site
Maybe get a roam or upstairs, a little bit of a bit of a camp house, and just kind of flip the entire thing
Because Six Targets are heavily countering what Five Boss has been doing the last few times, they have even more plant denial seeing these guys are slow.
Let's just play denial until the clock.
Yeah, it's funny, we saw that at the game earlier today where Man on the Phone played such an active defense pangor, and I think about that and I see the way the Six Targets fell back so quickly that last round.
And just fell victim to a lot of vertical play and the hatch dominance from barbie boys
Very different map very different situation
Kind of like if you give Bobby boys what they want they're good at taking it unless if there's like 10 seconds to achieve it
But they fell back with a good 40 seconds left. Oh now comes down to the final round
Bobby boys end up a 3-3 here. That is
It turns the tables and I I think changes the narrative a lot for what's gonna happen the rest of this game
Let's see it right now. They are shown the same thing they start top floor the walk down the first floor
They do the very president went from the mountains of the ram
Again signifying that that's what they wanted to say the bird
But did you have pingu now on the IQ actually countering the echo drones?
knowing exactly where they might be exposed from here on the blitz because
Yoko-San would end him most likely. I'll try to think of something in combat, yeah
exactly, they're trying to do it. Now, our Bobo is gonna take the bait. King's been
playing solo here every single round. If you're not fall back, you can see, you know what,
that's not risky I guess, you get a time of 130. It's going away from all the risky plays.
When they get the sword back, they're gonna triple man fall back from the staircase together
off a single of such a thing saying we want to put in numbers, that's the game plan stick to it.
I like the play from Six Targets, they've been really shitty here delaying as much time as possible
and they're playing off each other so well.
They're gonna yokai.
The yokai is likely to come and stun up that blitz as soon as the blitz reveals himself
the yokai is going to sonic burst it, force the shield back, king will try and get a shotgun blast onto him.
to him. A bit more time now going to be delayed by the gas pipe. The problem is
King can't swing too wide here. If he does, he'll be exposed to the longer
angle and won't get a shot up onto the blitz before he dies. The big thing here
is the yogi has to do his job. The mate is gonna force him back but he wants to
fight a little bit longer. Meanwhile, Prez has fallen. That's the ramp. One of the
most important operators in a one-for-one trade. Six targets. Look better off, but no!
Oh, the CaliT comes into play for Quicks.
King desperately trying to at least take a body with him.
But Quicks on the vert finds both of them.
Redemption now for Barbie boys,
but they have to make good over the last 15 seconds
of the round.
And Orion looks to try and focus on Plantanile.
Niko just has to stay alive,
has to keep Barbie boys distracted,
and keep Orion safe.
But Orion forced off his Yo-Kai's big Plantanile.
Niko, thanks to damage, he's the last one left!
But it doesn't matter! Orion gave up his life, but it saves the round and the half as six targets.
I don't know what to do with you
Thoughts are wonderful in no way
With me today
Fading into grace
It's okay
It's okay
The pain doesn't fetch it's office
You know I do, babe
It's just blank, you're late
Loving it
That's my fate
Innocence and honesty
Signal of my brilliance
Living in this harmony
We're sinkin' and resilient, to drinkin' in my arteries and maskin' all the pain
I symbolize the vigilance, we need to rise above it
It makes our hearts and breathing, we're livin' in the flames
The main reason we include the youngest
That we promise to see the motion throwin' to the names
Lately I've been studyin' Ibrahim Treyori
What it takes to make change, nothing tells
The thing is showin' me, distraction, gun range
Money, bugs, and every door
Civil rights, the sustain, it's peace
Oh, a hard luck if we had to fight, we had to die.
That's why we ain't seen another comma, Sankara.
Who are you when you can change your fortunes
of your people?
I'm tired, too.
I used to blame Western forces of Piva.
I'm tired, too.
I'm choosing pain and let my hatred track and reach you.
I'm asking, can I really flex?
Forget the poverty we've been through,
poppies in our section.
Check the streets above, you know it's peaceful.
And I'm still collected.
I'll try to protect my own peace and break through.
So, it's so fun to play with me today.
The faith is great.
The city is so great.
I can't even picture some pieces in the way to die.
It is so great.
The half-time vibe chick was certainly a vibe.
If you're watching Kama, he's just on his little whoop-boots,
scooda-type thing, just circling with the wireless hands.
and the team is still dropping
down the communication talking
strategy. And like you said,
James, the vibes are high. If
you're member on the side of
six targets, they are very
vibe space team. Apparently, it
told me as well that Nico said
through interview. They don't
stream either. Yes. So just
rock up and beat teams and then
go back home. Yeah, apparently
sword said that in his
interview. I didn't manage to
catch that one, but I'm
And then they go out and play like they have in the last couple of games.
Remember, Barbie Boy is a hot off a massive upset yesterday.
Keep in mind, they were down 6'5 against Man LFO
and ended up winning the game 8'6
coming back with a massive 3K from Pink Cue to Push OT
and then storming through OT 2 down to Rory.
That was just last night.
And Man LFO, as we saw earlier today, are an incredible team.
Most people currently think,
Well, I would assume, and certainly what my bets would be hedge-joys, is that top-four for stage finals are looking like EP, Chiefs, Barbie Boys, and Man-Elepho.
Right, and now six targets, eighth place in stage one, by the way, are looking a whole lot better.
Four, two at the first split. Really nice couple of rounds of defense there.
And that is usually where a lot of teams they go to fall in a great defensive spot.
They get like the opposite movement that's going to be happening and then it wins.
There's still more attack around than in this case the Singapore fashion.
I want to see something from Six Tiger that's going to be unorthodox.
We're talking your glass, yin, shield, something rushy, something unpredictable.
I think if you match body boys once in a while and do like step 1, step 2, step 3, you're gonna pick you apart.
And look at the current defender lineup. They got the clash, they got the mirror. That's gonna lock down the frontal push.
And they have stuff like the solos that can deal with stuff vertically, turning the basement all the way down stairs.
But actually, I could be afraid of clash. You're gonna push into it when a single upper enemy, playing right around the corner here, is combat.
Definitely trying to mark the components and actually forcing back your class a surprising amount.
I love this press. Press always kind of play out the tap to jump on a shield and throw a spare in the works.
Or an attacking side on the clash.
This targets making their way forward. Niko has now made a rotate hole using the bay lift.
But there's not a lot of utile between me kill and carl is actually clear that class they can't just run at it
Yeah, they don't have a ton of things in general for the whole team you can try and don't get be called
But like we keep saying you can tank those 40 damage also press it on the class is mostly a medium
are for the mid like majority of these round so far and
No good in step for the lion. I really feel like press should solo carry this one as the class player
I could see it came playing for a solo backs because the barricade adore rest of what every step one step three step three
very telegraphed so this time is impacting the floor
So the night of reaching happening and
Not sure if food is successful or not, but I'm here in the ticket pop the meantime and now the attackers know that so this is indeed lingering beneath them
I'm helping out here by a little space for karma. This is be a plant
Angle is there especially once the
Maybe now after that pick, Barbie boys are looking under the pump, there is third from
down below.
Walsh wants to try and deny the plan vertically, but unfortunately for him he's revealed his
position thankfully for Barbie boys.
They found a good pick onto King and nice shot onto Orion who seemingly was unaware.
I don't know if there was a lack of a call out or what but Karmus has to just jump on
down the P90 has a massive magazine but still not enough for him to win the fight.
thing the Thunderbird trap is everything that six targets needed karma stays alive but it's just
him and Nico Nico forcing that plant down and shot by Prez he needed to fake that plant and now
karma has no chance whatsoever he'll try and pay down the shots but in the end it is the clash from
Prez that wins the round for barbie boys oh honestly a bit sad there for six targets so many things
went well for them forcing back the clash countering the mirror through my opening the wall but then
Then there's a bit of a bit of communication about the Solids downstairs.
You should have never gotten a kill from Lobby up to the vert onto the Thermite of Orion by the main breach.
That is where the round kind of gets lost.
I truly thought that a plan there would be possible, but again, small things can turn the tide off the round.
Baba Boy's great disruption work is well done.
As I said, different wind conditions.
Having the clash mirror above the Solids downstairs creates a multitude of problems for success to deal with.
and they were not successful
they're gonna go to the
tertiary bomb site on this second attempt here, which is very surprising
But I like it. They can get to utilize something like the clash that can stop down those pushes get the information
They got both the warden and the sun is open as well
I think if you go basement and let's see a loot based on the bomb site
You gotta make that decision to go back space before second attempt and skip the tertiary
Or they just go to tertiary and skip that second basement attempt
And that's a big decision here because barbie boys they have to impose one less defender band because only play
One round when you play that third round you're gonna have the third of our B band away, which will make a tertiary even harder to defend
So I kind of like the idea of trying to go here earlier in case you want to try and force victory immediately
I wonder how much this is just gonna be a clash hot clash
Clash quarter
We talked so much about halves, but really something we have quarters because of the way that the bands yeah
Is this just gonna be a clash quarter?
Because press I could see is win that round obviously big impact from
The room down below from walls, but like
Chris, I'll signal an athlete, push up that round.
It's just a phenomenal operator to have.
Again, there's not a lot of hard counters, right?
Like, I would say there's technically probably zero hard clash counters,
like close to, like, Kali or Sophia, either knocking back to shoot the Kali sniper,
or instantly popping with the Sophia explosive charge.
But even then, the clads can just play around with operators,
like, Jiggle Peek, Dolway,
don't put down the shooter for the Sophia operator.
It's not like it stops you from playing the game, so it's very hard to do it.
Nice! Oh, Karma! Double kill!
Nice shot, with the air jab to support him.
Deals a press on the clash, that's one way to counter that troublesome operator.
Hungry for more, and Karma mobs everybody!
Big 4k out of nowhere! Rips them to shreds!
And now Bayley has to do everything.
Nice quick double kill.
A little bit scary for a second, but Karma's looking for the ace.
Don't give it to him, Bayley.
Uh-oh.
The Thorn Trap almost gets the better of Karma,
but now he is tucked into this power position,
and King from the other side finally shuts him down,
not enough for the clutch.
Big 4k from Karma.
And with that, another round on the board,
finally an attack for six targets.
You know for a short second there, I thought they're gonna lose the round trying to chase the ace there for karma
It was a little bit dicey. Nobody getting down the diffuser. Nobody covering everybody taking the gunfights individually
But they lock it down they get their attack. I mean that's a solo round
It's literally an air jet that clash walks into
I think it's not the mere butt. Clash is teammate of Pingu here trying to make a trade play happening
They both end up with a double and after that commerce is in there double kill again
It's a clean sweep one of the easiest rounds you'll ever have is if you're a team member there six targets
And you weren't karma because you're just enough for the ride you locked in your operator. You're in the server
Oh four kills. I guess one boys. Good job
Very nice
Indeed
Well at this juncture for Bobby boys
There's no other player to look at rather than you got to start locking in man
Like you've just lost at going your tertiary bombsite before your secondary a risk. Yeah
Yeah trailing two rounds behind if you lose two rounds on here you are done you're out. Oh, that's unfortunate
Oh press to disconnect. We're gonna have a rehost
By all likelihood here for Barbie was to get their fifth player back in and
And six targets now have just another minute to think about this attacking rounds
As we go into my app technical pause
I can't believe there's some players they're playing like complete darkness like I just saw was their kind of rubbing his eyes
My eyes they just get they start hurting man. Yeah, so bad whenever I play in the dark room. I could never
I could never do it on the flip side Bailey is in like the brightest room ever and
Elements from our first game today on Mandela foe was in red literal hell. I don't know how he did that
Yeah, just red got the LEDs pops in for a
Pingu also a very bright room all the tech around his walls very bright walls. I love pink pink. You definitely wins the setup awards
So far though, I will say King having the Australian play. That's a nice little touch
Yeah, yeah bias bias
You know not to be that guy, but are we allowed to use our phones manual is this question?
Yes, I feel like it was playing chess
Vibing I swear this guy listens to music while playing I would ever cease the player came is always head bobbing
Wouldn't be surprised if he does
Have you ever done that before? Do you listen to music while you play?
No, it's psychopath behavior. Like, sound cues are so important.
And mind you, you're gonna have four screaming teammates, the in-game audio,
and you're gonna have some sort of song in the back of your mind.
No, that's not happening. That is overstimulation, my man.
No can do.
Have you ever played and, like, toggled off in-game audio just to see what it's like playing with the in-game audio?
Oh, it's awful, man. It is absolutely awful.
I used to play with one of my old mates, Raven, I believe you know, he was a pro player way back in the day and worked for Ubisoft for a long time as well.
He was even a caster for his shots a few years ago.
But yeah, I used to play a lot of games with him and he would say sometimes that he would just go in and play specifically like especially TDM or casual with no game sound.
and just see the way that it changed the way that you played the game.
Because you started focusing on listening to the callouts from your team,
the visual cues, instead of getting distracted by everything else that's going on,
instead of relying on audio cues, you know, like the classic crouch walk meta,
where you just crouch around and hope that you rely on an audio cue,
obviously is a disadvantage in theory, but it can change the way you think about the game
and the things that you focus on. And I think that for some players,
If you're in a bit of a rut, let's say,
science making a drastic change, like playing with no audio or something else like that,
to really get you to rethink the way that you play the game, can be massively helpful.
That's what I did as well, not the audio, but changing things up.
I would literally double or halve my sensitivity in game just like one day randomly.
I called it like conscious versus subconscious practice.
It's kind of how I coined it, where maybe the same settings,
sim operator, same position every single time. You're kind of like an autopilot and like subconsciously
you're playing the game. Things just kind of happen in the back end. When you're making a drastic
change, let's say you go from anchor position to entry, you go from a big donor guy to never
droning or you change his intensity. Now you're consciously playing the game, trying to like
learn it and go through the motion scan and and pick back up on it. And it's how I kept myself
entertained as a pro player because I was playing so many hours every single day. I would just like
lose interest or lose focus and then by changing my settings and toying with the operators
and stuff like that, I actually found myself being forced to be locked in again if that
makes sense.
I would do the same thing just after like, let's say I was having a ranked search where
I was kind of tilt queuing and you know, let's say I was doing a lot of lurking, like every
game I'm like playing lurking and you know sometimes you die lurking and you're like,
why is he there?
Like, you're like, you're like fast entering the map with like a day moss and then you're
going to play the like you're kind of soloing or whatever you're playing off
your teammates and then you just kind of get unlucky about something and it
doesn't work I would be like okay I am going to change quickly I am gonna play
thermite and I am going to like my win condition for this round instead of being
like I don't have a kill god damn it I need to get a kill it's like okay I'm
just gonna get all the walls open and then I'm gonna draw my teammate in I'm
gonna call my teammate and then you just have one good round where you're like
hell yeah I had an impact maybe I didn't get off the bottom of the scoreboard but
I had an impact next round you're suddenly more confident in your gunfights
you're more confident to make the plays that perhaps you were getting a little
bit tilted around before and it doesn't matter so much if you just die in the
heads-up gunfight because you're like well I don't really care because my
teammates are winning the round because of what I did to help them out so
sometimes drastic change it could be playing with no audio it could be
changing a sensitive it could be changing a play style with a position
Roll I'm a big fan of it if you're in a bit of a rut
Or if you're if you're using change your chest opening perhaps
Sometimes I do that as well. No, I'm a little bit of a little bit of an e4 main these days
I'm a bit of it
I do the Italian and then I've been trying to get onto some real low pairs
But not also on black man Kara Khan every day of the week like if it ain't
Whatever that means
But it's funny how there's two different kinds of people.
There's people that do the same opening and chest
or the same place for the new game,
and people who will try and do as much as possible.
And it's really a matter of mastering the same strike
10,000 times or mastering 10,000 strikes at once approach.
And it's the beauty of how different that we develop
as people, as players, and we all have different things
to be expected.
So it's a bit of the mind games involved
with the eSports, of course, as well.
a lot of mentality, mechanics, I'm sorry, a mechanical play, aiming, movement, etc.
But there's a mental side of things as well, and you've got to be the very best in the
world, and you've got to, I'd really try and master Go, or just be ungodly good at one
of them.
Like, think of your shy girls, right?
Bro plays like four operators in his lifetime, but Bro is like the best player.
Different strokes with different perks.
Well locking back into the server, thankfully our production team is so quick.
Getting us back in after that quick re-host. Everyone set again, 5v5, and the Rome game is well and truly alive for Barbie boys.
Six targets, looking to clear it. If they win this Rome game, Nick, that could end up meaning it's a match point.
Three match points, in fact, for six targets.
It's very, very possible.
A little bit more game. 10-2 by Pingu, it looks like. Yep, it's gonna go on out. This individual makes very good sense.
Now he can't get droned and can't be called so he is super invisible
Except for the gunfighting area, of course if he gets face checked by a player physically
But this is also exciting
Downstairs and upstairs look at the call. Wow and kill actually bit of a mistake there
Then we're not going for the answer. That's gonna even a lot more pressure towards the bomb site meaning that the room game
Might fall apart. They might feel the pressure to fall back before they should
Yeah, um, Rome game is the name of the game for this round for Barbie Boys.
They've invested so much into this Rome and now losing two players early on means that
six targets don't need to do anything fancy.
All they have to do is lock in, consolidate their advantages.
Make sure that if Walsh is allowed to get a kill, they're immediately traded back, but
not to be the case.
Finally, they know that the soloist is still up and alive, almost a good trade, but Karma
can't afford to lose this fight.
A second one goes for the pick, same for Niko.
Takes a bit of damage, Walsh takes more damage, in with the shotgun!
Karma finishes him off!
Four versus two, but 30 seconds and ticking away remains.
This is clutchable here for Barbie boys.
Karma's Coltsman is so affected this game, knitting two kills for his team.
He can't risk force his fingers to untie, that's the issue, the misclimbing, his team was ready for the push, now they drop the hatches, and we too.
This is where Barbie Boys can make six targets punished for their earlier mistakes, the future is on the ground.
Karma's down one, Karma has to find praise, otherwise it's over! Put the shock down at the final moment!
Oh my god, Karma!
He doesn't even crack a smile, he shows no emotion, and he has just gifted six targets match point over Bobby Boyce.
The Ferrari kick? I think we're talking like zero points, something seconds left.
The irony is that the attackers popped the glorify canister and ended up team killing their own member.
And they had such little time left on the clock, so many things went well there.
But 6 targets, they have been the more clutched team.
There is a 4th round out of 6 victories when individuals just win the round.
We got Kalinal with a big 4k, King with a big 4k.
Now we've had a 0.0 second clutch.
Look at this go from Walsh.
Getting Bokeh be called and chased by 3 different attackers.
Locking him down upstairs.
So 5 seconds.
Let's see how close was this.
Oh my god 0.11 I saw 0.06 I swear oh my god man Karma has been farming three kills so
far in this round but if I'm not wrong he's got 14 kills I think across the game so far
if I'm not wrong he had that crazy 3k in the first round and he did nothing like the first
for like three rounds in a row and I was kind of like oh I I said karma was a
really hyped up talent quite some time ago but maybe he's just a go pig or go
home type of guy well if you can go big like that the last two rounds have been
a 3k and a 4k from him let alone the fact that was a 1v1 clutch he also has
another 3k from the first round in this game the new pick up for six targets has
has been worth his weight in gold he has been 0.12 on the time of the year
0.1 remaining that's insane okay yep all right well if your body boys there is
two ways to look at this one is that oh my god we're gonna destroy it what is
going on or we go oh we're losing these rounds in close fashion this is so easy
the winnable, walks us out, gets shot through from the server, as in the Grim's taken up early, very vital pick.
The other solver that then supports, Dokka B removed and the clash, so the carry of last attack and Dokka B is gone.
Also, it's only the Mary standing in the way here for six targets on the entrance.
They got the mirror, they got the ass of the mirror counter, placed in front of the shield,
and could try and get Orion into the mix and try and breach open that bomb site wall.
After that, there will be 3 C4s, 1 Trouser, and now it gets a kill.
That could just be the round because then we got the exterior wall, all the internal wall, either end.
All of the attackers will still be outside the building.
Oh, it's time to go fishing for pigs.
But if Walsh keeps doing that, then maybe they will get away back into it for 6 targets.
Quick so able to take down King.
2v4 now.
Six targets.
If there's any consolation, they are a good pair of operators.
The Kali and Thermite can complement each other well, but look at what they're going
up against.
Mirror windows, Chanka fire, Warden is going to be able to peek through that smoke, potentially.
Or just do that for Bailey.
A quick little spray crossing and then taking down a Rion as he tries to get that breach
off.
almost a kill from Niko, but he doesn't realize that the virus has ducked around the corner.
Bailey has a great football, and Barbi Boy is back into it again.
I mean, that seemed like almost like a round of desperation.
Walsh was just peeking everything and thankfully winning those gunfights,
but I think they have to do this.
Barbi Boy's need the confidence, need to disrupt six targets earlier in the round,
perhaps because they've been so good when they get close to that bomb site.
So I like the approach, but we're talking high risk, high reward.
Had it gone the other direction, when boss goes to the peak and he dies,
that's gonna put Bobby Boyz in a much tougher position to win, especially with Clash being banned the way.
You don't have as many of those kind of clutch operators and kind of save around that up nowhere.
But it was both Walsh and his default base doing the good work in that one.
That's top floor locked in now for the remainder of the game until overtime.
So Bobby Boyz time to, they have to be fullest.
Top floor and basement and tertiary are the other way around.
They have to win both.
At least they're not lacking for Fire and Gusto. We saw it last round. We talked a lot in our first series today, Nick, about active defenses versus passive defenses.
Six targets. The two rounds that they lost were kind of because they played a little bit too passively on that defensive side.
of sight. Now Barbie boys in that round just gone by, they want to get active. And I think
that's the right play. But this particular bombsite scares me a little bit for them because
of how impressively Six Targets dominated attacking this ground floor bombsite last
time around.
It's kind of looking at Six Tigers attacking lineouts throughout the game.
They haven't really been line-up in turn of, I would say like the Mets operators, they're
like that, like one big granite, they'll be doing the Taiwan run of Grim, last round they
got basically spawnpeek.
They haven't been needing very specific niece ops to find success.
It's very much of the individual players working together in the gunfights, in the map clear
and helping to progress the server. Or Ryan, he's just in there, he gets a kill. He's playing
Hibana by the way, but he's become the entry from SkyBridge to go shut down from the other
side of the building. But thanks to a 4v4, and again like I said, I like the Fatherboys
and lashing out, trying to go through these destructive plays, not giving his targets
too much space in the server. But the broad double heart breach to losing Hibana isn't
I love all the smack talk in the chat between these teams.
Ah, I just realized, yeah, hard breach, not great, Kink can always come over and help
out, but very much still out here for 6 targets, Karma though, never doubt him with this AK,
might have a slow rate of fire, but he has done so much damage with it in prior rounds,
They're taking out King means it's no more hard bridge and a good crossfire from barbie boys with six targets again
The fact that sword tries to go deep eventually takes down quicks
But asked to quickly run out of dodge from that thorn trap
Bailey tucked around the corner is in a really tough position for sword to find
I don't know if he's aware that there is indeed another defender on this top floor
Game of captain mass between under half
Yeah, they assumed he dropped. Oh, he's the wrongest one to make.
They could be good for a double, he for three gets one.
Yeah, he's gonna do the second though.
Yeah, Niko 1v2.
50 seconds to play. Pink is just around the corner from him,
but Niko makes it a 1v1.
Can the old man clutch up the six targets?
He doesn't have a diffuser. 40 seconds.
Oh, Bailey's positioned, but Bailey breathes!
And Barbie, boys!
Take a sigh of relief.
Bayley have just given them a lifeline.
Oh man, why are you sprinting? You got the yellow and T-man, such a slow ADS speed, right?
They had the perfect yellow ping, but the adrenaline, Nico so desperate against the action,
just had to take like half a second more time and just walk into gunfire pre-firing,
or just at least not full sprint animation.
Bomber off around because they're in a huge clutch and a big upset, and now anything is possible.
Barbie boys one round close the close here
I didn't want to see how king of the thermite died but killing the hard breeches that round really helped barbie boys out because of the lack of
Breach that we've managed to achieve for six targets on that server wall
meant that karma was in a crossfire and
Barbie boys could really dig in on that top four
Six targets are gonna be careful like we said active defenses the more the barbie boys lash out if they kill the right player at the right
time even if it is a one-for-one trade like at the start that round it was right
was Walsh for Orion now you lose your solace I mean that sucks right but we're
not needing the solace because we're not turning to a practical position because
that role on the top floor is so successful Orion dying meant that that
role survived longer because you didn't have that hard breach
oh man the thing about six targets that do plays such a free style of siege and
And when it's working well, it's beautiful, but sometimes the way they can lose a round
is equally frustrating.
And this is a similar story.
King could just go stridges the bomb site here in basement, look for a kill, and that
can win you or lose you the round instantaneously.
Or at the very least, really sway the numbers of who's in favor based on who gets the kill.
There's the six targets doing the usual, just going to go for a little bit of an upstairs
clear, do some verticality, again, split the pressure around the building across, and then
Enable came to maybe find the gap later.
It looks like Barbie boys really want to play this slowly, nice and steady.
I can't believe these guys have fights!
What?
Nobody's doing fights against Karma today in a 1v1.
Yet he does.
Quick, so he immediately traded on back. How's the roam looking now? The barbie boys
Pinku and Walsh still supporting that run
But very much separated
Maybe Walsh can give some information to Pinku to go for a rerome
On that vigil 6 targets need to slowly figure out how to take him down
They're also tempted to try and find a gap on site. It's king on the buck. Yeah
Yeah, there's solid drone earlier though, so you notice that somebody trying to make it play down stairs
and you still don't know where exactly King is attacking from, but now they'll know, but those shots being fired.
There's six targets again trying to force movement, but King going down in the basement, that means that the back step is done
and also means that Solaris is completely free for the retake up a staircase now, a minute to go, six target, it looks like over time it's on the menu boys.
I have a bad feeling about this for six targets.
Both of the defenders roaming have now regrouped Pinko and Walsh together, but they have not backed off
They want to keep the damage they have garnered for themselves
Walsh sees there's not many
Drones watching his position for the retake and their three drones remain on the six targets side
They have failed to do enough verticality to try and flush out these anchors positions. They have still not dealt with these two roamers
Theory six targets could hunt the roamers in a 3v2 or push the site in a 3v2
But either way, it's not gonna be easy, especially with the playing ability constantly present.
Niko is aware of this. In fact, Niko wants to bait it.
Now the plant starts to go down from Orion. It should not be allowed to go down from Orion.
But Barbie boys, deny it at the final moment. Thank you, President!
The six targets might be able to get back into position. Sword has to find his, but no press shuts him down as well.
Overtime is indeed back on the menu.
Bobby boys have another lifeline. Oh
Boy, they really were trying to bait the plant they're expecting to flank upstairs
But it never happens there one person covering the entire bombsite with a right and trying to get down that diffuser a good attempt
I think it went in the round had the bomb got down you have the verticality have a strong position upstairs
But now the confidence. I mean by boys are feeling it if they're much more secure in the server
They've kind of figured out the play style that no king is going for a back step every single round
And it just got to worry about the funds will push and keep in the back of the mind
We cannot let King get side control and I think the dog could be really help them get there
It's really weakened Kings capabilities of seeking out those gunfights
And the sides will stay the same
Stockets to kind of figure out the issues and maybe change their play style slightly and the most predictable
Because they've done the same thing a lot of times in the road
I don't know man, I do wonder if Sixpah gets so fumbled this now, of course they had 20
match points, but now they have to go and continue to attack you know over time.
If there's any place you want to be for barbie boys, it's right here pushing OT again.
Remember what happened yesterday against Manila foe, they were down 6-5, Pinky clutched up
for 1v3 on 1 HP and then they won the game 8-6 in overtime.
Six targets are not meant to be in the conversation.
I think Barbie Boys made a pretty solid case
that they are indeed in the conversation for Top 4
for Stage Finals, maybe even an outside shot at EWC.
Six targets came last in Stage 1.
Barbie Boys did come second last, yes, fair enough.
But I think that was the surprise.
I think all of you expected more out of Barbie Boys.
I think we're finally seeing them looking a little bit hotter now.
The six targets are kind of a more expected bottom table team.
And the fact that it is how close they got to know, like, it's how they should have closed this out like seven four.
Yes.
And now they're losing the game that was winnable.
That's more like my big concern is that they should have beaten Bobby boys.
They shouldn't have needed to go to them, but, you know, it's not easy when it's hard.
takes two World Championships to get inside like that three if you're fomping you know
sure the mobile championships you have the more yeah the more profound the more clear
it becomes I mean six targets have been a big change they got some of the powers that
we've been missing from them like I said before they haven't been relying on a single type
operator running up over the bridge in the capital and the solids man. These are three
powers that I missed to see from them getting a bit more step 1, 2, 3. King is no longer actually
I'm not gonna say he's not lurking across the map anymore he's playing the heart reacher
being the man. So this looks really good but as I say it the trip blows one to one but a flank
is happening James. Big flank opportunity Bailey lands his shot onto Niko out comes the nitro cell
And another one!
Orion is down!
Barbie boys are looking to repeat their performance from last night,
pushing into overtime and now digging their heels deep.
Sword trying desperately to look for a trade as King, his teammate,
is locked out of sight and a 2v1 retake for Pinku gets him another.
King now 1v4, 6 targets have well and truly fumbled the bag.
We're half day, 1v3, K is on the main breach, but they got a decent frostfire, d4 to shanket to plot out, I mean this kinda tough, he can't go here, I think it was a 2.
And a rotation at this time in the round with 36s to go, I mean they're gonna hear him spring on the rooftop, dropping down the skylight here, and it was exactly where he's gonna be attacking from.
Oh no George!
Show a legal.
Little bit clean.
Not like this.
like this. Still to shine
this. So, the Walsh Stair
middle of the site wins the
individual fight. One more
round needed for Barbie boys.
The sixth tag is the first
time they're playing from
behind. The last four rounds
in a row, Barbie boys have
brought this back from three
six. But now they have to
attack. They only managed two
two successful attacks on this map. Neither time was it on to that top floor bombsite
which six targets can now pick for their defense. But as we look back at last round, I mean
this was such a decisive moment, Bayley unaddressed on their flank and we're only able to get
a kill but also to follow it up with the Nitro. Not enough for King to look for a 1v4. Barbie
boys are throwing everything at it look at these repics the glass the blitz they're gonna go big
this round you may as well go big or you go home i like that may as well
just being here about the setup i mean i like this in six packers i think the now we're in
particular can get a ton of value this round especially we gotta start to see like the blitz
interaction or a double shield now being shown what's other boys really going
through the motions of maybe glass maybe not a solid snake maybe not they're
really in the size of the guy with the face line in front of me but they locked in
this right here double shield a solid snake and of course they ash as the
mirror counter and a soul harper in the ace this can do a bit of everything the
only weakness is when you're playing those double shields you do have like less
gun presence in the server, but it does give you pushing power and you can also
split the attack from attack and pull up to him and the backcourt and just
take in one shot to each location. So very flexible attack, can six targets counter,
can they come out on top and bring us to a setting center. One of those shields is
the most impactful playing in the game post-rehost. Of course karma is
Fragging out like crazy, but after the rehost
Bailey is actually top-fragging. He's had two back-to-back three caves and part of that quest to push overtime including a one versus one
On that basement. I'm sorry. It was on the Bunk's briefing box. So if he had lost that to Niko, it would have been all over
So I'm gonna be looking out for what impact Bailey can have on the deadly blitz this round
Tempted to jump inside, but of course they don't worry about all these traps. So a lot of droning needs to happen here from Barbie boys
Reloading!
We have a 10-star. You get to feel it.
Bobby Boy is sitting up with a perfect execute.
It's one punch approach. Once they stop pushing, they're not going to be going.
It's going to be a further kill, and the round should be pretty decisive to one side in favor.
They want to make it perfect. They got three extra in the wall.
They haven't scored any field presence inside the building to the information of Six Tarkas.
So it feels like we're fighting ghosts.
We don't feel any push. We don't feel any attack really happening.
One is going off.
They're mirroring over the satchel. Here they go in.
Oh, what?
Oh, that was a little bit too close for comfort. Niko almost fumbled his chance, but Bailey goes down.
The most impactful player for Barbie Boys has been dismantled. Niko falls back to safety.
He also has a deployable shield he should probably put down and tuck himself into that corner.
The nade comes out to try and clear an avenue into sight.
As four players from six targets get detected by Walsh on the solid snake, he wants to make his entry.
No more nades to work with, and he's gotten shot from behind!
King patiently waiting on the mezny, bites his time, and here it is for six targets.
Finally the revival we've needed for the last four rounds, it's flawless!
And they have a fourth opportunity to finally get this game across the line.
Now one more round from either team will have a victor, but the problem is six targets
they go on to the attack.
Now they can take a page on a barbie boys book and go for a one punch strat, a rush
and direct or they can do the half pin so far of playing the one two threes.
The big question mark is what's King's role going to be now?
He tried playing the thermite, he tried playing the backstabber and with the last four being
won by barbie boys.
Surprisingly enough here, barbie boys who are undue things will hold the tag time up.
This will be a cook of a strat, a fourth bomb set being shown, or to try and talk about
one particular area that they might have missed, because this could be, you know, an internal
or external tactical tall, so to speak, whether it's a player saying it or a sports staff,
I'm not sure.
Well, according to this roster sheet that I was provided, barbie boys don't technically
have a coach.
Now six targets actually have Looney who I've met person before he's been around for a very long time
But it looks like Walsh is doing a lot of the talking here for Barbie boys
Interesting as though it's internal if somebody's in the server who's recognized something
Prez has always been regarded as a real a real brain and he's a real leadership figure
I remember way back in I'm gonna say 2022
He played for Fury when they had an Australian team in tier 2 and he qualified in for tier 1
It was a huge chance for him because Prez actually played Pro League all the way back in maybe 2019, I'm gonna say
for a very short stint and he was on
This is real
Ancient history very oh specific, but way back in the day
There was an under 18 team called sleeper gaming SLG and if you're an OG
Remember these guys they were like everyone was like if these guys were 18
They would be a top 14 in those but all of them are 18 and so many of like the current OGs and like
The even retired players like digital or remember he played for that, you know chiefs roster
The roster eventually became bliss so many other players were under 18 on this roster
Prez play with them. You know, he's been hacking it for a really long time since before he was eligible to play pro league and
And even though Barbie boys don't have a coach, of course, you're going to get players like Prez stepping into it.
And I feel like Barbie boys, despite being on the defense, Pengu, they are the ones that kind of need to have a chance to talk tactics here.
Because if you look at the previous defense half for Barbie boys,
six targets managed a successful attack onto both Bunk's briefing and the basement lab and lab support.
the only bomb site where barbie boys looked untouchable was the top floor and that's now locked
because they won it in the first round of overtime so if anything i think there is a reason now for
barbie boys to put their noggins to work and have a real hard think about what to do for this final
round of the game yeah quick rehost of course in progress they see on the screen with the graphic
this gives everyone at times just double check what they want to do like you said think about
how they can do it for defenders if they missed anything in their you know brief conversation
during the tactical timeout for the attackers you know now that you see that it's you know
downstairs and such they could also sit there and go hmm what would make more sense to do
of course the videos happened so early in the round there was like 20 seconds of live action
nobody had entered the building and seen like the bombs had set up except for the drone face etc
so not too much were given away but uh very intense moment here on 777 to sit there with your thoughts
just waiting. Sarah's to get back rehearsed, get back into the action. The Gold team's probably
still eager to finish this game and of course, come on on top. It means a lot this match for both
teams. It can't understate the value on the standings of course. Both teams will be getting a
point because we got overtime but who gets that second point? Currently the standing sits where
so I'm looking at the standings I'm not sure if they're updated after our first game of the day
but Chiefs of course underfeated at the top man LFO looking pretty solid now especially after their extra win
EP have a loss, but you know every other team except the Chiefs as a loss here six targets
Only have won one of their first three games at Barbie boys only won yesterday in
Overtime, which means they didn't get the full three points
Keep in mind as Sally said in our previous interview at the end of that man LFO game
We only have four spots in the stage finals unlike we had six spots into playoffs last year
Which means it's so much more competitive
Both of these teams are competing with the license chiefs enterprise manlify
I think most people would say lock those in as your top three
So who's your fourth team? Is it gonna be Barbie boys?
Is it gonna be shy Academy after their EP upset yesterday?
Is it gonna be a team like six targets who have already lost to the two top teams in the region in chiefs of EP and in theory?
Only have easier games from here on out
Either way, both these teams need to win this game.
There's a head bump in the can from Nico.
Also, seeing a lot of snacks going on, King was having a whole meal earlier during the
side-stop, I think it was, maybe it was a tactical.
We saw a car man spinning around in his scooter, Nico with the jam, the vibes.
There's been a lot of action happening on player camps today.
He's such an animated talker, like he's very bouncy up about his seat.
I love it.
Should we plug Nico's Twitch, sorry not Twitch, YouTube channel while we're waiting for this
rehost?
What's your favorite video?
What's the name of your favorite video?
It's the Grand Larsenie, which might have a swear word in there, let me see, I'm not
sure what the exact title is, but I can find it maybe.
Nico Grand Larsenie, let me see if I can find it, we get the exact name of it.
I'm not looking for my YouTube this PC so I can't I can't check cuz I'm soft so I wouldn't know
I found it I found it recently. Oh, I found I think I found it
I think I found it. It's called check the grand bracket, and I can't yes this enough close bracket. Loss of me
Yeah, everyone watching right now. This is a six-year-old video with only 4,000 views, which is about 300 million less than it deserves
I would by the way. I
every day but not now. I would highly recommend anyone who's watching right now,
uh-huh, BV, you are up for two, nice one, by the way,
anyone who's looking to kill a minute during this rehears, go to Grand Bracket, and I can't stress
this enough, close bracket, Larsonie, it's Nico's YouTube video, and at least enjoy the opening
sequence. It is so damn good.
Oh god.
He also does this, um, this old kind of angle on Oregon.
Maybe he's still there.
You can like proning main lobby and see like a pixel through the sandbags that
he showed in his YouTube channel and some nice for evil life.
But he's got a bunch of fun.
He used to put two on old consulate.
He went on, on the spiral stairs.
He was put to evil eyes.
And then he got thrown and picked between the evil eye and he was a bulletproof and it creates this insane pixel-angles
Yeah, he does stuff like that where he just breaks the game
It reminds me of one of my my friends from Europe, Ferrell, Ferrell Jackal
He used to obviously be able to IDK or to secret with like MewP, Lackey, Alemish back in the day
And Steezy, he's not retired for a while but he was also our analyst in G2 way early on
but they just have this mind for the game where they will do the opposite of everybody else and try to break the game apart.
Niko hasn't shown us any big brain, I'm gonna break the game wide open in this matchup because in pro play,
ASU is not more difficult, but what Niko and his team has done, they've gotten seven rounds against Vavivoy.
Their match-stead even here on Maxx is the final round, but it was actually six targets from Niko's squad in leading the majority of this.
Barbie boys, they've been surmounting a huge comeback and it would be a bummer, you know, to have this final round not go down.
To everything both these teams have put into this game, it's going to be a heartbreaker for whoever loses it.
If it's Barbie boys, after coming back from 6-3 down to then not even win the game, yeah, that's a real heart wrench.
6 targets, I mean 4 match point opportunities to fumble that.
Nah, you're not going to walk away happy, you're not going to be sleeping well tonight.
But it is Barbie boys, again going basement and they're going to go for this hard-roaming
strat.
Big question for me, is Karma going to win his engagement or not?
Because he has been so instrumental.
In a round where he goes big, 6 targets win it every time.
I see a lot of attackers when I was sprinting across that beach in Bombslide, it could
3 to 1 hit them from all angles which again worries me because every gun fight can be just be over so quickly
Orion's doing a little bit of damage here on the twist when we see it
And press is worried about all the enemies, so there is at the bottom side
They are the comma losers is an issue of fight Bailey's done a double and press has to read
He knows exactly where they are
Six targets have had four match points surely not to fumble it here. Orion needs to reload as the sword
2 of the least heavy hitters from 6 targets need to clutch up.
Prez takes a hell of a lot of damage but he tries to fortify himself.
This is a massive risk for Morion!
It goes deep!
He loses his life for it.
Choking on the gas, Prez has been massive.
Holding onto the site.
Now Sword has no choice but to lay down and die from 6-3 down for a second playday in a row.
Barbie boys, push against the odds and win it over time!
After opening six targets, they started as the pod steam versus barbie boys who closed it
So many highlight moments this game
Oh my god karma was a walking highlight real king had a few big ones and even Bailey that last rounds
Man, I cannot believe it went so deep and for six targets
That is a gut wrenching loss to lose after being up six three
even finding a fourth match point. Prez interview is coming right up. We're gonna
have Prez on the line at just a moment. I'm so excited for saving talk to our
good friends. Man, I'm so so keen to see that. Look at that. Bayley 17 kills in
Karma with 15 on the flip side of that. Even overtaken by Bayley at the end of
there. Yeah. I mean that is gonna be the the sore reason why Barbaros could
hang for so much time during the combat, driving 17 kills. And as I said, most of those happened
after the first three hoes. So we played like, not sure how many rounds it was, we played about
half the game, three hoes, and then Baylor started popping off. Sometimes when you use it,
team struggle, you got to have that one individual to step some of this guys. I got this round,
don't worry, and I'll get the next one too for me too. But then you got to start showing up with me.
You could argue, it was defense over time. That was not a story of defense over time. That was
a story of the incredible grit that it takes to beat down 6-3. Keep in mind 6 targets want to
attacks in a row to find match point in that second half. It was massive from barbie boys to
be able to lock in there and it starts to become a bit of a trend doesn't it Pengo in yesterday.
Six-five down against Manila Foe the individual talent from a single player gets them back into
the game and then they deliver on the back of the momentum and then Sali in his interview
After the Man of the Fogam earlier today, even said that, he said,
Look, we got a little bit too antsy. We, you know, heard that it was one HP.
We pushed him, we died, and then they just ran away with the game from there.
And sometimes little moments of heroism like that end up giving a team enough momentum to win the game.
Bailey had back-to-back 3Ks and a 1v1 in that second half.
And then he ended up being the player that stopped that rush with his 2K in the final round to give
what eventually ended up being a flawless round to barbie boys. That's a huge win. Let's talk to
the man himself. Bailey, we've been gassing you the hell up because that was a fantastic game
from you. Congratulations on such a win. First question, how the hell do you come back from 6-3
down? Well, yesterday we were 6-3 down, so once we got to 6-3 down, we mentioned that we've done
this before, so you know, it's nothing new to us. Our composure has been really good this stage,
so far so you know the scope really didn't matter to us okay um obviously the first half was a
bit different start from the second half but to start things off you guys struggle a lot on the
timer on your attacking side you know we're talking you know 10 seconds left 5 seconds left late
executes and also allowing so many hero plays happening against you guys is this your six targets
playstyle being very loose that you struggle with is this something that you're aware of from
maybe scrims going into this stage one because it feels like a very unusual amount of rounds
where you just let them get a 3k, a 4k and kind of running you over.
Yeah, they were playing really well. I've got to give them props. Their playstyle was definitely
flashing really badly with ours. Like just their ready playstyle and their aggression,
we had to take a lot more time on our clears and stuff just to be absolutely certain that we were
hitting every box so that's made the light round are really stressful then some things
weren't watched when they meant to be and they just got them hero players like that.
On the flip side of that I mean you guys have plenty of hero players you also counted that rush
really well in the last round and we thought like we saw the rush on the allies we were looking at
from their POVs and I was like damn if Baileo pressed does not play this perfectly you guys
would have been cooked so credits are both of you played that final round of the game uh flawlessly
Before we close up Bailey, I just want to get your thoughts on how the league is looking as a whole.
Of course, we only have four spots at the stage finals compared to last season when we had six teams going into playoffs.
And I think despite Barbie Boys ending up seventh place last stage, there is a pretty strong argument for you guys to be in that conversation.
The top four, especially after your win against Man on the Phone.
How do you feel like the stage is panning out for you and who do you think your biggest competitors are for top four?
and maybe even top two for the EWC slots.
This stage has definitely been a lot more competitive
than the past ones, I think.
I'd say that's because of the introduction
to the second slot.
Everyone, like, really thinks that they've got a chance now,
so they're putting in the extra work.
For the biggest competitors,
I think it would be Man, Elifo, and Rival.
Xerlac, the two other teams besides the top two
that are coming for that top four spot.
And we beat Man yesterday, so that's one of the people down.
So, I think our game against Rival in the last playday should be a pretty important one.
If they win all the games, that's supposed to win, that is.
I think the two points today really helps us moving forward for the playoffs.
And obviously, EP lost their game yesterday. Does that change anything for you?
If Sycannoby were to go on and win the game against Chiefs today, they would definitely shake things up a bit.
but I'm gonna pray that the Shrek win was due to Ethiopia having a sub and they're not the greatest team ever.
Yeah, but I don't know, if the Chiefs lose today, we really gotta lock in our last couple games, I think.
For sure. Well, you're gonna have to lock in regardless. It's a very competitive league, as you said.
We'll let you get back to practice and celebrate whatever it is, but lastly, congrats again on your win today.
Thank you. Thanks for the casting.
Lovely, very quiet, well spoken boy there, so cool and calm after winning an 8-7 where
he almost got rushed in a fight.
He just got given two more kills, he was a 17, he's gotten even stronger.
I feel like 19 kills is like that's worse than 17 because then you're like damn one
more win.
You're one of 20.
Yeah, something like that right James?
I mean again as you said before a couple of times, one thing is struggling 19 kills and
of things that you also got an individual 1v1 clutch and you shut down the rush there from your point on the very final round.
So not just a lot of kills, but also a lot of impact in this sort of a Bailey.
Here is, of course, today's current schedule.
We had a 3-7 and an 8-7 to a fast game and a very long game.
Third game, Chiefs East Coast Club versus Chacademy.
I would say from Bailey himself, they're kind of, well, not kind of.
They're really root for Chacademy to cause an upset here again, right, to further their own odds and numbers.
So maybe stay tuned. Don't go too far away because when that game begins, you're gonna watch it with us
Yeah, the last two games are really big today because of course we get to see like you said
Chocademy prove that yesterday wasn't a fluke against champs. On the flip side of that
We get EP trying to prove that yesterday was a fluke with their game easier game on paper
Against arcade who are yet to find a win. So it's a big chance for EP
but it's also a big chance for Arcade. Same for Chiefs, of course. They look to try and be
undefeated, continue their streak against a Grim Reaper of the Chikademy who are coming for them.
That is after this break.
It's obviously a team that's less experienced than EP.
I think it's cool that me and Relay now have the opportunity to bring our experience and
show new players what it's like to compete at the top level.
These guys are all my friends in this chief team.
It's a fun experience playing with these new guys and just like a kind of a new chapter.
So I'm very excited to compete with these guys to be honest with you.
I think that they have a lot of potential and all they need is time now.
The Sydney Regional Final was also a big memorable experience.
We didn't play the best.
Just having the home crowd, my dad watching, all my friends were even appeared there as
well.
And also like after they watched like my 1v4 on board I was crazy.
So having that rival experience against us and Chiefs was fun, obviously we lost but
those regional lands was definitely my favourite for sure because there was wins, there's losses
but it was just all fun.
I honestly don't think it's much different playing against a local rival.
I think we're all built with this mentality that it doesn't really matter who we're
versing, it's about our performance.
I would say the result was cool, just having that rivalry between us and seeing us compete
at like a local LAN, which has not really been done much
in Australia, so it was really cool.
Being in an event that kind of has oceanic community,
being involved like playing against them
and watching them play as well.
During Sydney and Melbourne, I was always on this side
where I could support Chiefs.
So it's also cool having this kind of experience
of being like a fan again.
So sick that we even got to experience that.
Being in an environment where I get to support them
them compete for a spot as well. I think the relationship between us and EP at the moment
there's obviously a rivalry right now
It's kind of in a spot where we're both competing for a spot in terms of the major
But definitely like our system in terms of OSIS that is like in a system where we've built it
So that we kind of have to support them in terms of our growth as well
So if they were to make the major I would also be supporting them
I do want to see them succeed
So it's cool to have another team winning as well.
This year with Chiefs, I really want the inexperienced players in our team to know like
how things can get serious and what it would take to win and be the best team in Australia.
So I think the end goal is definitely to make an event and really compete with other teams.
All we need is like time and effort and I think we can do great things.
They've come out wind-milling like an Englishman looking for a scrap, the talking of a scrap!
He goes!
If he goes uncontested, the kit goes cold, that'll be devastating.
The grenade goes through, that's the swing!
Cyber and Buddha are able to get one piece with the kit so far away, and Canadian down upstairs.
Wow, that was special.
It's a one versus three to hold and they're pushing it from behind.
He's found one.
He's got to get the vertical as well.
They get pulled off, Tim.
We're down to the last clear.
Four seconds.
Ryder's got a gather.
He's held off.
He's going to do it.
A B and a Q.
Take the two up win.
Both players spotted, but the Reds can be made successfully.
Oh.
Oh.
Got another one for Solotov.
Information from the Bs.
He goes, then shook.
He goes dead, shocker!
Goal in is seven ends!
They cement themselves as one of the greatest of all time!
He's starting to get cooked alive, Ollie, but he's using the stem pistols!
Look at this from the dark!
Surely not!
Brilliant!
Let's play the year in my book.
He plays the game, hits the old body, doesn't quite catch it.
As the...
Oh, it got chance!
The dash!
He doesn't have only the solution!
He's going back, he's not quite sure.
He has to die to go.
a few seconds, stick it Ness, stick it!
This is an angle that he might be able to contest.
No, unfortunately, he takes just a bit of damage there.
Waka gets the second one, he clips though,
Wilkhead one, turning it into a 2v2,
and I think push it on the side,
the bandit will lose out on this!
He clips the last alive on the Ella.
Spots the head, he takes up the ace, the ace for Waka.
He will down BC, Canadian positioning to pick up,
but that's gonna result in a double-stage.
Purple left forward for Ness around.
Necrox, the final defender against vertical, the A absolute domination.
You'll believe in magic, Michael!
Team one does as they win the Mexico Major!
I'm
You can cast it.
I'm breaking it from the body now.
I'm breaking this energy line out of this 90 knots.
I'm gonna keep it going till I ain't none now.
I'm breaking it next to the body now.
I'm gonna fill up all this stuff with my money now.
I can't make it down to this 90 knots.
I'm gonna keep it going til I ain't none now.
I'm gonna keep it going til I ain't none now.
two games down and to the go for the night we've seen some insane battles
of the mid-packs, Pengu, but it's time to see the top teams in the region, both with
on paper achievable games, but as we discovered yesterday with EP vs Chakadmi, anything, you
know, is still possible.
It is.
It is definitely the region or the sub-region of craziness, where any team, any player can
pop off where you think that they're going to go and defeat it or not, even the top dogs
aren't, you know, safe from a lost man down again.
That's what happened yesterday, EP, they can bleed.
They can and who knows who else can believe that Grim Reaper's are hard at work.
Chikademy have taken down Enterprise.
Next up they set their sights today on the Chiefs.
In future who knows maybe Rival could be up next.
Could they actually realistically be a top two contender?
Maybe a top four contenders on the card?
It's impossible to say and as Bailey said in that interview for Barbie Boys just before
that break, if Chikademy can get a win against Chiefs, that really rocks the boat here in
OCEA.
Now, and that's the one more important given that there's only 4 spots available for what
used to be called Playoffs, we've seen now a team that's called what?
At the Stage?
Spots.
Spots.
Spots.
Spots.
Spots.
Spots.
Spots.
Spots.
Spots.
Spots.
I didn't watch the match live where it occurred. What is the fact they made it possible that alone is the story?
Yeah, it's a huge upset. It's a huge
Impressive moment for a team like shy Academy to go be against EP
Obviously we have some history of players like cake in who's been in the region for such a long time
Sean and real is but up-and-coming players like
like, uh, Kynvix? I think I'm still, we're still confirming exactly how we say that one.
And uh, Rani or Rans, depending on how you want to go for it, the fact that these guys
stepped up so big yesterday is its next level. Um, and also I've got a shout out, they have
one of my favorite signatures in the replays and the player cans. We often see like the
signatures that these teams do here in APL. The shy Academy with the three fours, it's
Oh my god
You know this is the second time we see 444 in Oceania
We're coming right here the second one is do you know it's two Hans angel numbers isn't it?
I'm that's exactly it. I actually I approached him doing one of the land's reason now
It's like so are you a huge shaco fanboy like what's that about he goes?
No, actually, it's like I think my my partner is like an angel number thing
I was like, okay
This happens to be exact same as shy goes 444 slogan so that was very funny
he went to ease and see the performance himself. Maybe he was a little approach a you know, but not
But an exciting time for these guys. No doubt really fired up after their big win against the top
Togs of EP yesterday. EP very rarely bleed in OCE and of course these guys have shown that they can
but their opposition for today is another Titan of the region and some former enterprise players
in player and real is no titans gone
Titan's gone. Titan has left the race
But Jesus what's club this new look these guys have been really good, of course
I'm defeated so far throughout the stage and in kickoff they did get very close to making it to the Salt Lake City
Major of course in the end they lost it to EP
But they were within two rounds of making the Salt Lake City Major in stage one
So, never know what she's gonna change.
No, I mean, they're solid, right?
They are players who have made essential stones before and have good experience.
It comes down to the given performance on the day,
and of course, they can take down their biggest opponent, which is gonna be an EP.
But because the EP's own success story internationally, Osa is two spots.
That's gonna set T-Sop much, much better for a very, very high chance of making it to EWC,
that since two teams can qualify, instead of just one.
just one and it's why you want to root for your fellow countrymen even if they might have beaten you
and taking your spot at LAN if they go very far through a great job hey now you get two next
time you gotta beat already let's see if Matt we shall go too for this incredible game will it be
not upset will it be she's taking full control shall I oh shall I oh shall I oh shall I oh
Oh, balls.
And he's picked it.
They had there them massive balls.
So Chacademy had played Chalet two games in a row.
They lost it to Man LFO, and then they beat EP on it.
Chiefs, they haven't played Chalet yet, by the way.
They've played Cafe, Lair, and concert.
They could have gone to Lair.
And maybe Chacademy would have expected to go to Lair
after terrifying everyone in the region
with their Chalet yesterday.
But now, Balls from Cheese to go and take Chikademy to Shelly for a third playday in a row.
Oh man.
Also long term, you know, if you play the same map with a high frequency,
let's see you make it to the stage finals at the top four.
You have an insane map video advantage, been hiding maps, hiding strats,
and keeping it close to your chest.
On the other side, you can go to Shelly three times, lose them twice,
They are a bit of a silly group.
So I love the fact that they are saying we dare you to, you know, beat DOS in this map as well.
It ain't gonna happen.
Let's see if they can do it though.
Shaq had me will start on the attacking side, which should be here in Shelly.
It's the favorable side.
Solar Snake banned away.
A very common operator on Shelly as well.
Same with, you know, your opponent like Deimos.
Thor could be a Blitz or a Blackbeard, but I should be the ace following up.
So Solar Snake, an ace, and then the Asami and the Kaid.
both teams banning two very different kinds of operator. Of course Solid Snake is all about the
entry, the early fighting information, Asami, same story. It's about holding map control early on
and making an unplayable position much more playable. So very similar to those of these teams.
and abuse as many bombs as they can.
Loading, cover me!
Loading, of course. Chiefs get to set the tone on defense.
Shake out of me. On the attack.
Yeah, man. I am so...
I just publicly flame...
Every player who thinks it's funny to change their names,
and I happen to be in North America,
I just want to... I'll give you a glare.
Like, I'm glaring right now. Glaring at my camera.
Not happy.
the deaths there not happy about it and as I was disappointed and I think that
means I'm just gonna pull in podcast up chiefs for this game I think that's what
he gets so yeah lunchbox that's what that's what you get man your podcast on
my guy ah play your branding it's not what it used to be
dude dude dude dude there there are worse things in podcast it could be so
much worse yeah the only issue is that if you don't like if you didn't they don't
know like exactly what players and what roster you wouldn't know you wouldn't know who's missing
on this lineup you think Huck is just like the new guy on the block
he's messed up on Spock himself shy Academy got the duo of Tokobi and
They most on the board combine that with the blitz and the lion they are prone to go for an interkill
They track net you know, it's anywhere years, but they can't quite get in the building to catch him
They know they're a race of thorn traps on this little window. They don't dare jump into their own demise
So there's this being a small part of this whole player
You almost died there if you've gotten so on a little bit deeper. I like that play there
kind of takes down Gikena, who I believe was playing on the mezzanine earlier. Now he's
just sitting on the camera, the patience here being rewarded by the shycademy guys as they
continue putting the pressure on Neptune, the doka be called, and the track from the
Deimos. Plus the blitz to follow up while the Deimos of Rani plays on his window, perfect
obliteration of Jeeves on the defensive side. Two player advantage. Half around D,
Shai Academy have now found a third kill. Hang on a second, is this happening again?
Just far round, people going south with some planted damage,
some cleaning up perfectly, don't know when those nice ones are from player, needs a few more of those though.
No C4, English Coopers is 4, both Relays and Pair are up,
Oh my god kind of it's two kills at the end of it as the blitz runs in
Chikademy destroy the chiefs in that first round
Plenty of time to recompose and of course shelly one of the most attacker side of maps in the pool
But that was a dominant way to clear the room and a very confident execute onto the bomb side as well
Yeah, I think it's very important you're interested kind of feel your opponent are they're gonna bring you know your power ups like I mentioned before the demos
And just kind of control the ronkin completely because mind you the only real thing you can do here in defense
It's not paying more track operators
Leeson very successful
They don't show late because you gotta jump in all those windows straight into a good mind
That's gonna slow you down
Operators like your finger Lucy or the Nari much stronger closer towards the side itself aware
kind of putting up your big fortress of a hole. And then, for some positioning, you just can't
play too exposed very far away from teammates, because if you get one of those blitz operators in
your face, or Blackbeard, or Teimos, etc., you're supposed to use them. So now that they know this,
and they've shown their past with Shikadini, at the same time, those are the gathered,
you utilize those tech operators, and it kind of makes them want to use the same position,
and then they go for a counter play, or just lock down your own position.
There's gonna be a second mark here for Cookby Deimos, but no blitz for this one.
I still think that the Deimos stuff could be combo that Shakadamia shamelessly abusing here is just next level, like...
If you don't ban either of those operators and you get to combine them, it's just...
I just hate it, man. It's just... It's pain. It's so, it's so much pain.
You can double, you can either target two different people or you can double them on the same.
There's not a lot of ways to counter it.
You know what's possible though? As of today, you can now ban Dukubi in ranked.
Yes, that's what happened.
I think she's gonna get banned every game.
I will uh, say that as well.
And for good reason.
I do like an operator has a lot of pressings because it kind of means that whatever they did to them is a
success she's a bit oppressive at times but you know it is what it is and they
have always said on social media that they're gonna look into changing her in
the future as well so they are aware of her power level so we keep an eye on that
for pro players as well when that patch goes through for now though she is as
strong as she is and as I said here that was a game with these gnarly things for a
soul defender and you have to lie at one player and I'll try just dribbling down and then they
cancel fire do you understand still do you know no damage don't take the damage we're seeing the
group of camera sapping some drones comes out of the fire arrow to hit the ceiling and just kind
of dislodge the member playing by half wall it's going to be relays with the dm r hand and they're
just waiting for the perfect storm they're probably trying to time they cancel fire with
something else and the waitings that set up to happen before they make that 3-2-1 countdown.
Could you just hit the side looking? They're tempted, you can see it.
Rani wants to go in deep, make sure that the bulletproof camera is taken down.
I'm not sure if destroyed it. It didn't look like it was going to land on the absentee.
Hopefully. Oh, kind of it's though, waiting a little bit too long and as he peeks out,
Relay's targets him. Oh, nice shot from Rani! Jump straight into site, takes down Relay's on the
The Shycandemi know exactly what they need to get done, they need to go deep, look for
the kills and a second one now for the Deimos of Rani.
Vertical dominance still held by the Chiefs but Shycandemi are tempted to look for a plant
opportunity.
The wall is not open so the hatch is not going to have an appropriate avenue to deny this
plant and Neptune was not on his device quick enough to counter.
Now it's spam call time for Reela's podcast, he's going to have to answer his phone or
take 40 damage.
decides to answer his phone, that burns his time. Realiz is going to do it again and now
Lunchbox is going to have to make that same decision. Shot now backing all the way up
down into the basement and Rani can also look to try and pop a scan onto some of these players as
well. None of these players now remaining have a phone. All of them have been called by the
Dockabee and need to try and get active. Realiz quickly pops up for one but she can't
And it's holding off! Rani eventually does deny the plant, denial and shot to finish things off.
Chicademy are looking way too hot here on Chalet.
So well played. Like in that 3 vs 3, you get Bumside control, you're fighting all the verticality.
It is so difficult to find the plant location and also just playing out the post plant.
Because it don't know exactly where the defenders are, but they have a player hiding in Trophy,
a player going all the way back in the basement up to 5 players stairs.
Now he has controlled a long angle from fireplace through the breach in towards the defuser case.
It is such a well played post.
The fact that they get there though, that's the big surprise to me.
They lost the opening player.
It was relayed to get the opening kill.
That was a 4v5 perfect execute and it's 4-star T-Stockle talent effort just two rounds.
What do you have to say after two rounds, Nate?
a coach for Team Australia at Esports Nations Cup coming up later this year.
I believe players, actually players realise actually, I'm not a roster for Team Australia,
if I recall correctly. What can you have to say after just two rounds that you didn't already account for in your game plan?
It's gonna be about, guys, we know how they're gonna play this, we spoke about it and now you're seeing it.
We have to respect, you know, the demos, the dogabee, the gapfinding, they're gonna be watching,
You ready for those five still just let them walk over you guns up focus up. Let's go
That's my base state impression. I got for you
Can't afford to wake up too late against
Guys you watch them play this map already twice
Surely you're predicting a bit of this after this next round
They'll have a chance to band out an operator as I can see from Chica to me
we're seeing the double down continue the doccabee deimos combo
Lion was also picked up. Okay. We're getting rid of the lion on the banks
I mean sure there's a doccabee van. Let's say that they still played deimos line
I don't be like all theater bomb. I still think doccabee is like the most annoying operator
The Mount Trevus the strongest was impactful
That's hard to say but certainly the most presently felt by teams three people let the phone blow up until damage
F4 was getting called early in the round as well, but he throws himself as well as well
I don't know. It's just been a rough round, rough couple of rounds rather should I say
But the first thumbs up rotation, he played the first three rounds here
You guys kind of get a feel for things and then go for counters later on
Perfect counter there for example, repelling off the angle, using the Q4, he's not getting any free openings
Chiefs want to play more active on their defense.
Try and prevent Shakeatami from taking that fast control.
Kind of wants to get aggressive.
Almost catches, no indeed he does catch Lunchbox.
The Denarii is down, the plant is being confirmed.
Is anybody home for Chiefs?
One minute into the round, plant starts to go down,
but Relay decides to be the hero, plant is now confirmed.
He doesn't have another impact to make a rotate into the closet.
And now he's been traded back, the post plant is big here from Shikadibi, it took them 61 seconds to get into that bomb site and start planting that defuser.
Now the Chiefs call on out, Chikena shut down from the upside down rappel of Kakin, Neptune up against the world, two upside down rappels and a black beard.
beard doesn't get much worse than this the doggie call hits him for 40 HP and
Kakin locks in a dominant round for shy Academy get it gone man get the dog
about up here the amount of damage that was seen from one single operator it's
ridiculous the minute and the information game as well but then the
problem is even if you've been a dog could be the blitz the black beard the
The Deimos, like the Cabotile, the Grim, everything else continues after, but you don't even have a choice to...
They banned the Blitz!
Are you kidding me?
They banned the Blitz!
They didn't even play a Blitz that round, bro!
They played one round of Blitz so far.
They've been playing Blackbeard as well.
So now you can just keep doing Dokubi Deimos stuff.
And every round...
I don't know about this one.
That's not the angle, man.
In my mind, it was Deimos Dokubi, any day of the League of Legends rounds, and in response,
Why can't we ban the solos?
That is one of the only different like, win conditions that she's been playing.
You know, denying a plan from below, looking for drones, looking for a flank, that's gonna
be completely removed from action now.
I guess you can maybe stop playing some clash and try and cheese a couple rounds maybe?
But not for this round.
It's just a good old bar with pretty basic setup.
It doesn't matter what Chiefs do here, I feel like Shotcademy has such a Chiefs-Shat hook on the attacking side.
And also, their shallow, simple shots haven't been addressed at all. Realist is insta-locking Dockabee for the fourth round in a row.
Meanwhile, Shotcademy has the flexibility to say, you know what guys, let's bring the Sen.
Oh, they banned the Blitz. Hang on, we played Blackbeard last time. Hang on, we haven't even tried Monty yet.
Why don't we get that? Bring it in. Let's back it up with a thinker. Why not?
I didn't get the cincin' there for a bit of chaos, a bit of spice, another C4 attempt here on the same
window, nearby something killed, the Monty goes down in spawn. Don't know how that's possible.
C4, not successful, the first or the second time around, but they have gotten one of the most
important kills that you could possibly find in the game with the Munty being
gone. Now it's time for the rest of the Shite Catamines to go for Plan B. They
cannot go the main push, they cannot go with their attack, they cannot just plant
here on the double bar window. They have to go for a bit of map control at the first first.
If Jizz lose any more rounds, that's the most rounds that they have lost in a
single game this stage. Let that sink in. And it's the Shikadami who have just upset
EP. I think the entire region is getting a little bit upset at the moment. Keep in mind,
Shikadami, fifth place in kickoff. They were in the bottom half of all of the teams in our league.
Chiefs on the flip side with two rounds away from making Salt Lake City.
We're not seeing that story played out today. We're seeing a new look like anime. Something has happened with this roster
We've been pre-fired does not connect or podcast a key lunchbox gets the kill
Infront of third player, but Kagan strikes first
Podcast eventually confirms it meanwhile relays finishes off K kid finally around on the board
a messy one though for the chase. Then as bar defense I will say that I do think
that's going to be the strongest bomb site for cheves and they cannot go back
to it for the remainder of this half so they gotta start finding success elsewhere
and that was a monthly dying early that there was all the right things going
their way you almost never want that spawn peak to happen on one of the weaker
bomb sites statistically then play bar later and have like a real 5v5 round
play out but whatever you can find it a bit more confidence on their side where
are some missing take? it's Karin 0-4 gotta get in the action because you need all the
firepower you can possibly get against this Karin's Academy level because
they're in there and they are taking those slides happily.
I'm still bewildered by the Blitzcrank.
Yep, I'm thinking about it.
It's so troll.
Like obviously, yeah, when we had, I can't remember who was running, but when we had
the rendering bar stock on the net, yeah, net chip, right, soloing, yeah, he got cooked
because of the Blitz, but he was also getting got to be called, and Deimos tracks, at the
same time.
And realistically you can do more or less the same thing with a Monty or with a Blackbeard.
Yeah, well with a few shielded, that's always a big crickety thing to talk about,
banning Double Hopper each year, banning Double Shield, I don't know if this is the case in this game,
but it's about diminishing return and value.
Banning the Blitz in our minds and the outside looking in, which of course
doesn't have the full picture, you don't have the communications and the players,
but it doesn't seem to be quite of a ton of value compared to Demis or Steve's
He's one of the greatest like-it-damaged lion dog to be and it's not even like the blitz is playing very frequently
So you're basing it off like a one or two round sample size
Look at this and I'm a phone call going through. Hey, that's 40 damage. That's pretty good
Just cannot believe like Jake actually fell back the baddest position
So the answer the further they decided to
Sometimes you are better off tangy. You can't get caught in the future to be fair
Not sure in his exact location, but he's playing piano, so maybe take a damage now
He's gonna be in this front four position and he gets a kill. Cabot tower. Another big one
Lucy gets off the donut gets his first kill like you said a big one and also holds on to his position for a little longer
I know if you've noticed it's good when the docker be called brings on out
If you start answering it doesn't actually pause the docker be down
It actually keeps running down. So you might start answering it and then cancel answering it and it pops immediately.
I see the stuff.
All throws in the very last second. So if you don't, you know, actually it's the last two more cans.
It doesn't matter.
But they will get popped in about five seconds from now.
Oh, wait a minute.
Actually, I just want to walk into the counter. It's in there.
Are you kidding me?
I'm running.
Let's get past it. What is that nitro cell from Neptune?
Yeah, that's a rookie mistake meanwhile. He's getting his phone call. He's about to take 40 damage and
Pop move
Has to get out of that position that relays meanwhile unaddressed in his position finds one cake in though
There's my dog and now relays getting called out. He's about to take a hell of a damage
Relays will take him down before he's able to player trades with a nitro, but one V2
Now he's getting bloody doka be called. I think he feels like he may as well let it bang
So that he can't get caught again, tanks the damage, immediately moves away from the fire.
Now he can all be spat caught again by realas.
He's going to play this perfectly, no nitro assault, just the SMG11 in hand.
If you let him have this mirror window, he can use those advances of course, and lock down, dining, and, you know, kitchen, mostly in one position.
The question is, does he have to see the location? Oh my God!
They're just forced to go to fight on the hatch, doesn't matter, simple approach, great resolve, another round, a second enemy.
And what we didn't even notice until the die moments is that Kakin actually dc during that clutch, so that was a 1 vs 1.
And funnily enough, Kakin was far too far away to get back into the picture and as you can see he's disconnected.
Rani is uh on his head a little bit
But yeah, I mean real is had to clutch up. He did that was a 1v1 clutch
Not a 2v1 as it looked like real has been abusing the hell
Out of that doc could be for the last well every single round every round and and yeah
It didn't get banned by I gotta say it again not been my troll is one of the top five most confusing things
I've seen the PLB stage for sure.
HOT TRO. HOT TRO. HOT TRO.
I hate to say it, like often the players know better, but man, that was a hot troll.
Especially because now it's seen the aftermath of Dokka B working out continuously after the Bendy, though.
So it's not even like, oh, you know, now they're counting Dokka B and it's not really finding success.
No, no, no. Dokka B is doing so much damage after that.
So it's only looking like a worse decision every round that goes by.
I think it's really hard to argue like how much is the value of 40 damage because obviously the meta in most regions right now is that
you can call Batokobi, usually a player will tank the 40 damage, lose access to the cameras because when you lose the phone
yours cannot get called again. So is 40 damage actually a lot? Is it not?
I feel like in a DMR meta, well, so I'm thinking about it, in a DMR meta, I'll die and see what it does.
Depending on where you get hit, I'm going to tell you half as a 1, 2, 3 speed of course, but it could be 1, 2, surely I think most like a lot of the DMRs, some of them are 70 damage, high 60, low 70, high 60, I feel like yeah, 40 damage is from the docker bee is enough to make you one shot if you're like a 1, 2, or 3 speed operator.
Speed.
Yeah.
It is though.
I don't know it's just this one of those moments where I wish I was screaming
like you know you're back on an active team because you would kind of get an
idea from your own testing in a proper environment isn't worth it because in
ranked you can just take the 40 but like it's ranked whatever but you can put
up as like your Thunderbird or Dark and like not have to care about mid maxing
your operator lineup like in pro play so I truly don't have a grasp on how much
damage 40 years the book to be so what I'm hearing is that when your country
needed you for the ENC you said no you could have convinced Benja but he said
no because you said no that's the result you're now washed you don't know how
the game works you don't know whether 40 yeah a lot of damage yeah and I think
The view is a suffering because of the sleeper pics, that's the thing, right?
Like, if I was back in Pro League tomorrow, I would literally tell my team, guys,
I know I've been gone for like six years, but trust me, there's playbook, okay?
There's a world where you lose your A-Cod bro.
Yeah, probably got the Reaper secondary primary shocky, he gives 25 health to every defender,
your injured for twice the duration, self revive, you will never die first,
get forced into an injured state when you have Rook Armored. So, you really can't die
from explosives. Grainage cannot kill you.
We've had a lot of great insights from you, Pengu. Do you feel like you've still got it?
Do you feel like your word is still gospel in the ecosystem of Rambo Succeed?
No.
Don't say that. We've got it. We've got one to back you in.
Oh my god.
This is rebellion tonight. Guys, it's not easy when it's hard. Can we get that? It's
not easy when it's hard from you, Pengu. Say it like you're Morgan Freeman. Come on. Say
with your heart. It's not easy when it's hard. 20 seconds left on the clock. My name is Mr.
Thank you, Moritz. Hello there. Hello there. You're really getting Jedi in that, in that
so like city of taste. So that whole shoot was a once-at-message from my good old friend Benoit,
who has been doing most of the documentary and a lot of the shows we've seen for CD
these photos of the last like eight years and I made him as a player he was
doing like you know player interviews for the pen to size of G2 documentary
back in the day so he knew me as a player as a cast and creator all the way
throughout the years he just deems me doing the major like hey do you want to
go make a video like tomorrow and as Oly says I'm like what's it about where
when how who he's a very like on the vibe kind of guy and he says you usually
respond to strange Frenchman the text you'd hate you want to go make a video
with me well just him it's like you may not have that connection you know maybe
half of my time sometimes and I just says I'll tell you all about it tomorrow
it's one of those like you cannot say no because he doesn't give you an option to
say yes or no in the first place do you want to do yes or no not about the
context and I show him he goes this is my mission you are a monk you are wise you
you are calm, you're peaceful because you were, you know, in Pro League, you are master
and now retired, you are super master and you have to talk to the future generation
and speak as if you're still that guy because I was changing the script to, I think it
went something on the lines of, I'm going to teach you how to be as good as I am and
I told him, I think I should make the quote, I'm going to teach you how to become as good
at once because I felt it was inappropriate for me to say as good as I am when I'm not actually
that good currently and he said no no no you are the master you're still good uh so that was the
whole role and he got me that jewelry necklaces rings the whole thing to like give me the character
and we drove for longer than we shot the video I think we drove two and a half hours out to the
great salt lake shot maybe for like an hour and a half through two and a half hours back again
Wow. It was phenomenal. It was good fun. Sick video. I really did love it. It was very like Yoda in um which was the one where Yoda trains Luke. You know Star Wars right? I know Star Wars but I actually couldn't tell you what movie it's from but I don't know exactly what you're talking about.
It's like, you know, he's in the swamp
Yeah, Luke's running around with Yoda on his back and Yona keeps saying he's profound things and the young and rash
Yeah, I have confirmation of production. That's Empire Strikes Back
And Luke is like, what do you mean? You know, I want you to teach me how to kill Vader and all this kind of stuff and Yoda's like
Patience you must learn
Yes
Fear leads to hate
I got that.
Whichever order it is, you know, it was really given that.
So I'm glad that, you know, we have our very own man
right here in Siege from the Yoda of Siege.
It's not easy on its own.
It's not, yeah.
And just before anybody's gonna come out on this, right?
This is, it's not easy when it's hard.
It's me quoting Fabian when he became a coach
for the PC talent roster in Korea
because it was such a struggle in scrims.
Like we're loose, we're watching them loose
like a two, a five beat two in Oregon.
easy is cross-directed life, right? And Fabian would just sit there, instead of losing his mind,
he would go, you know what, guys, it's not easy when it's hard. And we made Fabian like a bet
that for this day, for eight hours straight, he could not see anything negative. And he would
just say that phrase all the time that day. It's not easy when it's hard. It's not easy when it's
hard. It's not easy when it's hard. He would just say it in different tonalities based on how
how frustrated he was.
Oh damn, here we go, another one.
Such a beautiful spot.
I love the clothing he got as well, very Jedi, very, very Jedi.
I noticed just before we got back into it,
Kakin was really having kind of a choice
whereas he said he was getting very animated.
4-1 up for shy Academy.
Chiefs, quite simply, need to win this round.
Otherwise, a 5-1 deficit is nigh impossible
them to come back and win. Yeah, if you haven't been watching this game in a week just two
and a day and it's been day most Stokey bee all day every day baby to great effect. We
just saw real us win technically a one versus one clock because his teammate DC right before
he won it. So a very intense moment. She's bandplits on the third rotation which is
that was all positive as to why he wouldn't do that. But this is indeed the final round
in the first half. Shycademy as she said, looking forward to it, but it really is thieves
I need a second to know
Is anybody actually standing on that rock in the pro play that is a surely not
Like I haven't been on that rock for like four years myself like it's still such a man. It's
Speaking of bad cases phone. You don't want to go there
Do not do it. I don't know if you
There's a lot of these warm people some jelly people are jumping out windows and going for little jogs
for their spawnpicks these days. People run out the snow in the build window and the library window, it's so cringe man, come on, go on, go on!
Get a grip!
Show em to get a damage!
I'm not sure if it was in the spawnpick or the gobbling or whatever that was, or if it was speaking with the mirror window, I reckon.
Yeah, I hope so as well, just on the library balcony.
He's gonna burn the Aruni gate first and then pop the mirror window after with the
second set of exkairos. That's why we see it in Neptune's now.
He goes into the counter. There we go.
Oh! Get on!
How low!
Right! To kind of mix much needed kill there for Neptune.
Chicaena's actually gonna tank the fire from the doccabee.
The logic bomb happened. Immediately just jump in and die.
Now there was a player downstairs in bar. It's realized he's getting targeted by the Daemons, so he's not actually in position to try and get him further.
Meanwhile, Neptune is trying to take advantage of the fact that the Daemons is distracted. I think really he's just gonna let his phone call and take the damage.
It's a second player tanking 40 damage.
Well, 4 plus 4 is 8, and we add a 0. That's a lot of damage, man.
I can't see him though.
Must be a bunch of kinas, 3 in that mirror window.
I'm going for the kill.
He's going to come to the spade, so look at this.
Nice!
He's starting to get lost to contact.
I'm good for 2 kills in this round.
40 damage!
Quick throw!
And more 40 dude.
If you do the math for every damage done for those,
give up the kill.
He's actually going to see them all.
It's enough to be a kill.
Meanwhile, Riloz goes and actually gets a kill,
but he is the last one left.
Oh, you know what he should do?
Jager payload coming right up.
audio cue as well onto tongue-cast no no he doesn't tank the 40 but I think the
off-angle here inside bar from real is could be big he wants to try to get a
thing people forget I mean yeah the J. Gopal now does that but it still has the
value that the gadget always had which is the audio cue
I didn't realize life it'll win this though indeed he finds the shots and
Finally, a second round on the board for Chiefs, but not a moment too soon. They will need to come back in a big way in the second half.
So, we almost have jumps earlier and now it feels like it might happen again but I said
almost earlier because the comeback did indeed happen from the side of Barbie boys.
Can she's East West Club achieved the exact same thing?
Well, they're going to the strongest side now on Shalei as they're entering the attack.
Warden!
And Warden-Band, hold up!
Now, there was a glass band actually, earlier on, so uh,
bit of a funny one if you ask me.
But Ying is quite strong on his map as his Blitz as we saw earlier.
Could be a punkstrap, about Pete.
Yeah, Chiefs do like their glass, I don't know if Xbox played a lot of it.
Yeah.
But I did notice that just for a brief moment,
to kind of jumped on the blitz without a warden obviously blitz is a lot more deadly
is this just gonna be more of the same like that could be daimos same or stalker and ying
and ying i mean you might when you're bad in the warden you gotta utilize that right
you could be crazy i don't know man like the defense lineup is not looking pretty
I mean if you've been wanted you've got to bring flashes of smokes and you're kind of trolling if you don't
Big agreement there
I'm trying to think here like if you're psychatic you have more than perfected the attacking style of the demo still could be fast in trees
And since you can play it at a high level often you can also count it because you know the weaknesses are
So I'm quite easy to see how they will deal with the defensive side
And it's always easy to try to match that kind of play style. They might have a good week
The Goyos are massive targets here from the Twitch
So the default camp as well default camps are really valuable
I like that Neptune's already been able to take down some value though.
You do want more than just one or two goyos for each twitch turn that you get.
Maybe two would be enough value but obviously with the thorn in play as well.
And the electrocores from the Kaid. There's a lot of targets here.
No EMPs on the board which means that you're not likely for cheeks to get that wall open
unless the twitch does blow at least one of those electrocores.
Of course, when you're playing the splits, you're having a bit of a slow start of the
round because you gotta wait for them to finish their job and then get 5 guns working together.
It's the same with Brava and Flores, etc.
It's gonna take you a good 30-40 extra seconds to make sure that the job gets done first,
because that is how you wanna play these operators.
Use the tristones early in the round and bring to the team so that when you get to that portion
of the map, you've already done the first step of clearing it out.
And now we're seeing a more active attack.
Logitech all going through here for Chiefs.
Up through stairs.
Wow.
Really fast.
Riles has the diffuser, but he goes in anyway!
Big kill almost a second, but he backs out before he takes down Riles.
Doesn't matter, because Jikema has gone massive in solo.
Down two big kills with the Ying, the Warden Band coming in and playing dividend thrillers.
That'll take 40 damage as Neptune peeks him on out.
It's shot up against the world.
Chiefs have shown us in this first round of attack that it might not matter that they went so pitifully on their defensive side
Because they can abuse these power operators on the attack as well
So it's 1v4 you're in the basement. You are very far away from the site
But the thing is there's no plan going down. There's no case being picked up by the attack
You didn't start a habit available to them at all or because they're just waiting two guys above two guys beneath
Now they're the user and now they're someone's watching the flame.
Being watched out by relays and another big round from a doccabee player every single round between relays and relas, we've seen the doccabee present and every round it has a big impact.
Chiefs, after such a convincing first round of attack, Pengu,
you mount a bit of a case for why this combat could be on the hour only one round trailing behind after all.
Yep, I mean the cap is certainly closing and I wonder how one sided that push was?
Yeah, it might just be the comeback.
Is it really a comeback? If it's just a side bit, that's a big question for me.
How do we determine a comeback? Is it a comeback just when you're starting from behind regardless of the
position because think of skyscraper back on this morning you'd usually have
like a one-five maybe two-fourth and that's how they're selling a comeback
it's a sightseeing. What determines the comeback? I think it's still a comeback like
even if something ends up being defensive favored coming back from 06 on your
attack it's still a comeback right like was the W7M phase grand final in 2024
a comeback just because FaZe was 6-1 up, even though it ended up being a really defensive
favourite game.
That was still a comeback, but there's something mental about it as well.
The fact is into it.
I talked a little bit with how our climate was on each day and I said, look, we won a
3-6 game yesterday, we don't care if we go 3-6 today, we'll play chill in this situation.
There are a lot of teams that don't feel that way.
A lot of teams that lose when they are feeling like the game is right away from the backing.
He gets the Blackbeard, which is a big upgrade to take down early.
Not big.
Cap, I can't even play Monty. He gets Bumpy.
And now that they've Blackbeard, he dies too.
But you guys are still covering your face.
Cap is opposite. That rappel from seemingly nowhere.
But that office balcony gets a nasty shot.
Traits back to even numbers.
Yeah, he's totally up there, my friend.
It's such a hard shot to land.
They're just battling it out. They are just fighting back and forth. No one wants to go
in quietly to a round on either side of the point.
The Shrek Academy are peaking a lot, getting very active.
Realism.
Honest and shunt as well on his rotation. This is so good from the Chiefs. However,
Kynanix has found a double kill. Where was that from on the bomb site?
decided to rush it a little bit too quickly. And now it looks extremely
winnable here for Trikabin. In a 2v2 like this anything can happen.
Oh that's a huge hit.
Oh that's a huge hit.
That was a really long angle.
Yeah, oh that's a huge hit.
The Dokkaebi died inside. So two of the players rushed inside and kind of
it single-handedly feted them off.
Changed the win condition.
Now Trikabin can just play for Bumside Control or just for the Giffuser Control.
It's run right by the stock door.
He said she's gotta walk all the way in deep to the building to try and contest for it.
Oh my god.
Top floor is completely clear though.
The issue is they have like no real verticality that they utilize.
Maybe the market breaks from the flooring.
And also bad, they don't have any smokes here on Twitch.
If they didn't have smokes, they could maybe smoke off one defender and fight the other.
But because they don't have that tool available, you gotta fight them head on.
He's got an angle on the player and finds the second as well.
What a brilliant two versus four from Shycademy.
It looked like Chiefs were about to tie the score line, but Shycademy come up big and
win a defense that they never should have done so, and now just two rounds away from
putting Chiefs in the bin like they did to EP.
let me curious to happen the 4v2 though because how do you lose two attackers in
the middle of the bomb site with the diffuser when the other two attackers are
outside the building?
I think somebody rushed without coordinating and waiting for the team
but I'm thinking like somebody saying guys it's clear you rushed the bomb site and then it wasn't clear
was it a fake call?
them just not saying wait wait may I stop because it's very important that you are
aligned and recalibrate this okay 4v2 easy round victory a nice
we play it wrongly and it certainly did. I'm just curious is a big call or a mis-input
either way it's really sad way to lose the round that was oh so winnable.
I'm feeling that it comes down to cheese maybe thinking that they were in such a
advantage they saw a gap and they were just a bit disjointed and some players see an opportunity
other players are not in position and so it is essentially a 2v2, not a 4v2 in that situation.
As soon as you don't realize one player on site, 2v4 becomes a 2v2 and then the game very quickly
runs away from you. Ooh nice name, this actually might catch the mirror player as Sean tries to put
that down. A little bit too late, but it doesn't matter. Second, oh, the mirror's near, it popped
open that thermite charge might be shot yeah you could just shoot the thermite charge because it was
exposed. Magicana is not likely to get safe enough to get back into that position to blow open that
hole. It's the only hard breach of that which he's abroad. And there's one thing that this shows me
is time for a backslash push guys you can utilize the open mirror where they just were and you can
just send in a tag and let you round the peep through it of course and kind of cut the bombs in
half then you go for back portion attack where there are some benedictories but we all know
he can't really actively trick the walls so once you bounce the grenade or give clear actually
they have no nades left they spend both their grenades in the front this could get tricky actually
they might have a hard time getting through the bunker
the problem is the wine cell at the way there's a roam hang on real is is still at the top of
a blue stairs from the display hallway he finds a kill, naturally you might find Rani
the soulless but you take that trade any day of the week. The thermite is gone, no more
hatches will be opened up, none of the wine cellar walls will be opened up. And the biggest
weakness of this bombsite for a defensive side is the fact that the high visibility
is so difficult to counter, not going to be the case now but thankfully player recomposes
for a big kill on the kind of ex. 4v3 now for chiefs and they have the ram still available
to get this vert.
I didn't get a bit of vert but they still don't have an easy way in so thankfully they
have mad advantage.
We can also use the raw ruts in this round to close us on the dollways downstairs once
they get to the site itself and simplify the attack.
My name is Janky Delas, Smoke Renes and they might just skip reaching and just get inside
decided it's not. Problem is you just have to funnel through two different
entrances maybe three if you count the main stairs into the bomb site. Oh wait
no there's already an opening. They don't need to hard breach this boiler
because there was already a breach over by the defense. My player falls! This was
another 4v2 but it stumbles into a 2 vs 1 caker now has a chance to clutch up
Relays has to cover. He's watching the angle and a good pre-fire
Chiefs
Thankfully find another round of attack and stave off match point
But they're fighting so hard for it to be challenged all the way from the beginning of rounds at the very end
Even in those like 4v2s 3v2s very advantageous positions
It seems like Shaikhaedim you're always finding these skills out of nowhere and making it look so scary
where if one more gunfight goes the wrong direction, all of a sudden cheese will go from winning the round comfortably to losing it in a clutch moment.
Solace ban, Ying ban. I'm actually so surprised that Deimos and Broke of B are surviving all the ban phase that we've seen so far from pro teams.
Neither side is thinking that it's that big of an issue, but from the spectating point of view, it seems so strong.
I feel like on paper, basement should be the easiest bomb site for Chiefs to be attacking
inside.
But, they had no redundancy about which, which just really locks up your chances so
much.
Thankfully, they got the win anyway, but it was way too close for Comfort and way too
dicey.
They're thinking, okay guys, come on. We know we've won baron games than before. We need to keep mixing things up.
That bombsite is still locked. So they go back to kitchen dining. This was the first bombsite they tried. They were obliterated by chiefs on this defense.
And it looks like for the most part they're going for the same lineup. The Valkyrie has slipped in here instead of the Solis.
Solus but aside from that it looks like almost exactly the same lineup and if you don't smoke instead of a thorn
now
They are giving up a lot of ground early the chiefs look at relays. He's using solid snake and he's in the building fast
I don't think getting up some map control here's a bad idea because he said you have less map to play on which means you're closed together
I really think that getting caught off guard early by one of these like DMR players on the attack
Just cutting the crosses will be the end of them
So they're gonna start the round and lock closer together giving up library
Giving up bar to the attack and then making the side itself and the opposite area much stronger
Playing around the kite to brow playing out the go to fires the Valkyrie
Playing off that triple C4. I quite like this approach, but we have to see the pace off
It also will just be a stretchy go to the top between cheesing and over counter plays because the space tile has not shifted
There's a good Val'Kam from Carnivix there as well, at Pebble's pool.
Almost a free kill!
No!
Shake!
How do you fumble that?
It might be enough though, to buy time for Chiefs to get an Infuser planted.
Podcast is forcing that Infuser on the ground.
4v4 into the post-plan as Chiefs evacuate to bombsite.
But Sharkadaby still sucks so much.
Firepower up with the cover.
From all the way outside from player as he doubles down.
Tonevix and Ronnie hit the floor, taking the realers by themselves. It's a very
unfortunately familiar position of being in a 2v4 that Chiefs have made that
look worse, far worse than last time. Taken unfortunately the two rat does not
counter your phone once it's already ringing and Chiefs have well and truly
dialed the number. We're back! Five rounds apiece! We really gotta see both of these
to the squads making the shotgun hold to that default plant location because now they've
both on the attacking side planted in an exact spot and the other defending team just hasn't
made the correct hold and prep face to counter it. To be the bomber they have such a strong
top floor hold to forgot about the side itself. Attack time are called shy academy. This game
is slowly slipping away and they're on defense. It's not going to get any easier. There are
They are against such strong attacking operators.
Every side feels unplayable.
Every round is so hard.
It feels like they got a fight for the kills,
but if they lose those,
then they gotta just hope that they can win from a 4v5.
So instead they try this kind of bonkers down anchor strategy,
to try two brawl, play close together,
and yet they still just get lids rushed on the side
and they lose around regardless.
Looks like Realus is doing a lot of the talking as well.
I wish I could,
I didn't necessarily expect that. I thought it would be cake in a shunt, but it goes to show.
I guess I didn't have them all figured out. Real is plenty of insight.
On the defensive side, Chakadmi are desperately looking for a bombsite that they can successfully defend.
Bar and gaming is now unlocked again, so we'll see them return to it.
If you can remember, this round, Pengu, was almost the Chief's win. It was a 4v2.
And then chief seemingly ran two players into the bomb site gave up their attack
And then we lost it, the 2v2
Shycademy
Oh well, nice try there
This is a really deadly dark camp we saw in place that last round, that's almost impossible to see
The Shycademy, the big thing here right here is what he said
and can't afford to expose themselves to those long-range PMR angles like the one they take him is contesting right now.
He died to this angle from an upside-down rappel from player last time they played this bombsite.
So ready for it?
It is in the back of the mind that they're bringing the possibility of this angle existing,
but it might not be the same push.
We've seen it to Kenner and Lunchbox, probably down here to the left of Spingar, wherever they want to go.
They can go extremely quickly, especially if Kenner was a lion, but he's dead.
Depting the grave from Westman Window, from inside the building all the way into spawn.
Despite the fact that he had a T-Maw, he actually lost the gunfight to a Yeager.
And play it doesn't have an echo, which means he should not be contesting this angle against K.K.
He can contest the shorter range angle, but if he tries to contest Kayken, like that is just a blatant strong.
Surely he doesn't be Kayken with all that hollow sight.
Jakenna finds one, Sean trades him back.
Relay really needs to get on his phone and call out Sean, nevermind.
Podcast is taking him down.
I don't know what happened there for Sean, caught off guard, especially while the player was on camera.
Shoulda had Rani on that calling info for him.
Relay's finally a size of cool Kayken, who's now in a real spot of bother.
He's trying to kill the Blitz, and while his phone is ringing,
when he's not real, this helps him out.
You're right, Kakin is there to back up.
Real is, he's under the pump.
They should know where Kakin is now.
Big chance for Relays, but Karnivics again!
And Shycademy, for the second time,
have a match point against the top team from OCE.
Oh my god, they're actually doing it.
They just doubled down holding that by a very small adaptation.
instead of the sound of chiefs.
They're playing a very simple game.
That's not a bad thing.
They want to play the gap find.
And sadly, they lost the player early, right?
Neptune on Lyon went down to a spawn peak
about 20 seconds into the live action phase.
That would have been an instrumental operator to have
because he pops the scanner.
If the vendors move, they get ripping.
If not, you know exactly where they are
based on the glitch information.
So when they make these mini-executes top blue,
that could have been so much stronger
but that one operator alive, it really is a matter of who gets it over in pig and can you find the very important target?
That's the thing I'm saying is kind of a second lineup, no matter who you use to defend dirt, you're getting insane value, right?
Whether it's lying, or the shield, or the only character on a finger that's buffing the blitz, there's no redundancy of the operator's attack.
Everybody's crucial for it.
I'm just I cannot begin to fathom what Chikademy are looking at right now
Coming to the stage
They were obviously for
Two top teams everybody everybody knows EP and chiefs are the top teams in OCE
The question was could anyone challenge those spots? Could anyone challenge particularly chiefs nice shots?
From lunchbox kind of ex goes down. He had a big round last time
Can anyone challenge them? We looked at teams like Barbie Boys and Man LFO. Both of those
teams have looked really solid so far. Chicago's first two players, they lost to both of those
teams very handily, 7-4, 7-3. Then they played against the Kings, top eight at Soul Lake City,
Enterprise, who even were one map away from making it to the semifinals and they beat them 7-5.
Now they look to do the same against Chiefs.
It would be unthinkable and it would have massive ramifications on the rest of the standings on who makes it into that top four.
If Chikademy are able to beat Chiefs here.
feels like every round that takes turns on who's down in the 5v4 last time was
cheese now it's chai cataly they lost about it was a permanent cam watcher
which you will give them a bit of information we see a push into west main
it's in trophies lambs there's the cannon walks that pipe who's on it and has to respect the
percentage of our lurker though wants to double check out the blackbeard that's
a bit of map control game without taking too much damage they got so much time to
work with taking routes down over, start playing on the repels, and things about layer by layer.
So that's what's happening. Successful.
Much needed. And now Kayken desperately tries to take his fight. Three kills on the round for
Lunchbox. Make it a fourth. Much needed for Chiefs. Overtime is theirs to behold. And now we have
three rounds to determine which of these teams walks away with the win.
Oh boy, you know starting side an OT is rarely a conversation that's like super important to talk about
But if you get double attack here, you're gonna be very happy with yourself at shy Academy starting on the attack over time
Works in like a best of three in terms of round. So you'll be attacking for Academy and look on the defense and then for course
The team wins around each you need a third round to decide it shy Academy goes back to attack you swap every single time
Statistically, you have the Vantage. You get the stronger side twice, only down to here.
You've been playing Ethan's for the previous six rounds.
Now you've got to shift everything back to the attack and mindset, and then you just have that one go at it.
Of course, the upside is that attack has just been a stronger period, so there is that side.
Oh, man. I'm trembling. I'm seriously trembling.
But Chiefs have a chance. If they win here in overtime, obviously it's still a massive credit to Shaqatomy.
But at least we would feel like all this right in the world.
You know, Chiefs, they've been undefeated so far that haven't even dropped a single point.
7-2 over rivals, 7-3 over Barbie boys, 7-3 over 6 targets.
And here, overtime against Shaqatomy.
So their perfect record has been broken.
They will not go 12 and 0 for points after this second week of play, but it would be
a very different story if they lose this game to me, that's the second point on the board.
And it's all about the opening pick, so who didn't get that first pick?
I'm not sure.
We're seeing a brand new glass.
The capital.
The very hot.
Fire is spanking the corner.
Fly, Brian. Didn't join it first.
Actually, clear already.
So don't gotta waste the youth.
They're thinking.
There's a miss.
There's a certain that someone's in the corner.
But there isn't.
And they also, that fire is the point.
Miss, I know what I can do.
Show me your drawing first. They still think he's the guys the first
This is second time he's on this he just walks the library knowing that they're out there you'd heard of capitol
You'd heard a rappel, you know at least two of taggers route. They're waiting for you, and he's still for your life
Oh, wait, especially the same kind of fall to lose
You just fall for it your main message
I don't understand that.
Jesus, you're not...
No, winning the round.
Well, I actually can't even re-stole it so much time.
And once you get it, it says, hey, you guys want to watch one?
There's been two fires and nothing.
People are holding an angle for nothing.
Call goes through, spam smokes, come around to the map, there's a building.
Try not to plant and cover, and maybe we'll just get people.
Oh, the gas is good.
Charles is going to take so much damage.
He's not going to get out, he's going to die!
He chokes in the smokes!
he does survive, but he's on the floor. K Kim doesn't have any more smokes. Rani is
gonna have to come in and support, but there's still a mirror window inside of
Starr, Neptune falls, and now numbers advantage for Shai Academy as player
continually harassed by Miss Dockabee. Still has answered his phone every time
the spam course continue coming through from Rani. He's got three more, the player
finally finishes off. What was left of Sean on the Montaigne?
Realistically there was no way to revive that Monty, but Ronnie falls, which shot from Relay's much needed to bring it back to an even Steven.
They got them here into the stalks in a very strong position, so it has one, actually no one is supposed to have come out from Cabot Island.
Oh no!
They're going in dry, but they're kicking those long-range kills, and now they're like DMR kills them with the glass, and no one player is going to be in stock.
The gap and arcane and real is now together. It's a 3v1 and shy catamy
claim yet another match points. I
Not sure about this round. I'm looking at cheese game playing thinking they're doing so well and then they're just completely
Bottling it mind you does a 5v5
It turns 5v4 because the camera walks into the library and dies and then late in the round when they're stalling out after
denied the plant on the monkey as second player walked into library also dying to Neptune just
holding the angle upside down rappel it feels like she's kind of overthinking their defenses
feeling a huge urge to make a play then to stop them from doing anything well they already had
the counter they had a mirror window toxic babes they've injured the monkey whether they were
not i'm not certain but they knew for a fact that the plant wasn't happening because they can see
Nobody was back in front of them down your window
So they're doing too much in that server at least in that particular line
I can't wait is there a tentacle of bar?
What will she do in this case? They tried the rushes. They tried to get finding it
Try to roam clears. They haven't done a full clear, you know mask bedroom office deal with top blue hold
It could be the time to try it now, but it would mean a big sadistic change
So you haven't done so far and you are
And that round just go by pay you the check out me winning that bargaming attack is the only time out of the four picks of bargame
in this game
That's we've seen the attack actually break through that bombsite both times. Sheikani played on defense
They want it and in the first half of the one time that she's played it. They want it
by in-kind by breaking the streak in their own way and players braver
Kludgejorn has been spotted so he's not going to get maximum value out of those
he really needs to try and prioritize hacking one the bulletproof camera that's
on site there's actually two bulletproof cameras I don't know where the second one
went and also those are Rooney gates otherwise they can keep getting
re-enabled
We're seeing the players in the same spots so many times in a row now getting more and more experience against their opponents in positional counter plays.
60 seconds to go and buy, not much happens so far.
Here you see the red, there's the Rackal angle
Oh!
This time he can just wait for a grenade or it's just movement
Oh perfect!
This guy is mid air!
This time an AK on Kimar but his enemy is coming back
Net is down one scan but this time then the gridlock not the lion
Kavik really wants to take this fight, play it if he finds this kill
He should have won too though
No, Kavik's just, you're right, especially with the holo and on that angle he's not going
to find it
player doesn't want to overpick either. He knows how much his team has failed
in so many of these dire moments because they have disjointedly pushed
individual areas and players. Nice for each other. Stop though from Relay's
bulletproof camera on the bombsite is a real problem. A minute 20, there's lots
of time left, but I don't know how Relay's has been injured. A second one now.
Kind of X! Triple kill on the round as he hits double digits and chiefs may well be
at the end of their rope, Realers rubs onto the lunchbox.
Jakenna must 1v4!
A psychademy are on the verge of going back to back
against the two best teams in OCE.
First, they came for Enterprise,
and now the Grim Reapers are hungry for yet another scalp.
Jakenna, nice inja, by guests who's waiting for him,
goes for the second kill.
Rani says left, right, and good night!
The Grim Reapers cannot believe it, but they have found a second notch on their belt over the Chiefs!
for the long term, they didn't think so much,
Chalet, they are hiding on the map,
they are hiding on the strats,
they are sitting in front of a prime position
to lock in top 4 and being in conversation
is of course far as possible.
I feel like at this point,
every team that goes up against Chalet Academy
has to ban Chalet.
They've beaten both EP, the Panchees,
and yet they've even banned that Dockabee as well.
Do not let realers play it every single round of the game.
unbelievable turn of events, the
Chiefs to go back to, sorry,
back to back against EP and the
Chiefs. We heard it in our
interview earlier today after the
Manila foe win. Obviously,
Chacademy, if they can get it done
against Chiefs, that really shakes
up the league. It's exactly what's
happened. We're in the most
cursed timeline, Pengu. And yet
it's here. Chiefs undefeated
streak has come to a close at the
hands of none other but Chacademy.
Also, it's like back-to-back overtime games too, and it's super exciting playday all of a sudden because you're thinking
You know this game could be one side, you know
This team's supposed to win
The storehouse academy being the Grim Reaper's ended up really paying off
But you never know what's gonna happen of course before the game plays out. We have an interview as well
Of course with the winner, Mr. Sean. Are you here?
Yeah, I guess. How's it going?
Good day. First day. First of all, congratulations
Congratulations second of all. Thank you. What the hell have you guys been eating in the last 48 hours?
You guys I've just beaten enterprise and now you've beaten chiefs
You guys were oh in two in the first week and now you're doing nothing against the best that OZ has to offer
Yeah, we just
Mentality if we've gotten off into lose to the fullest extent and this I don't know just matters to do it
Yeah, I mean you did I have two questions right first of all what's up with the blitz band that she's went for after the third option right you guys spamming dokeby spamming demos and did you guys have any reactions to that yourself like how do you feel about that particular operative band when it happened?
Oh, we're pretty happy about that. We definitely thought we'd um, yeah, yeah
Yeah, I mean I played blitz like one round and then yeah, then better and we get to keep spending doka be so
And then a similar story right shelly. I was sitting here thinking what map would she's was a fight you guys on
We're thinking there's no way they go back to back shelly, right?
So they probably boss you guys this game and went like they're not actually that good on it
Obviously you guys are phenomenal in skin in particular, seems similar question, was it a big surprise to you that they were happy to take you guys on this map or did you guys expect it to be before somewhere completely different?
We were a little bit surprised by it, but I think we just thought maybe they did some counter prep or something like that, like these guys obviously do their work so we were expecting some counter strats and stuff so which I mean they did they've been the ace they tried to sort of counter our library takes a little bit
but then I just brought out the blitz and it worked pretty well, so.
Yeah, I'll be honest, Sean, we're still kind of coming to grips with what you guys have done this week.
It's unbelievable.
Valley.
Most people, I think, look at the league at the moment and say it's maybe the most competitive that OZ has been for quite some time.
We have two slots now.
We have four slots in the playoffs, which is your first hurdle.
Of course, out of your first seven games, you get enough points to get into that top four.
Then you need to play that bracket and hope that you're the top two.
We kind of thought it's Barley Boy, it's Manila Fo, it's Chiefs and it's EP, right, who are in that top four discussion.
After you beating two of those four teams, it hands down like you're in that discussion now.
So where do you guys look from here?
We just looked to, you know, not getting our heads about, getting these wins and just keep rolling.
Still nothing to lose for us. I mean, like, we're just looking to grow this stage and this year as a team.
team it's sort of our first is this full five and we had the four kick off but
you know you just got to keep our heads down and keep working not get ahead of
ourselves. Yeah well we're casted so it's impossible for us not to get out of
ourselves but like I said we're still coming to terms with what you guys have
done. I want to give you the mic shout outs anything you know you guys don't
always get a chance to do this but if you keep playing like you have you'll get
many more chances so the stage is yours please. Yeah once again thanks everyone
watching shout out to the boys like great work this week we really turned
around from last week really proud of them and well your next game up is
rival and you got arcade and six targets good luck in your upcoming games and
maybe you take some time to enjoy the well-earned victories from this week yes
Thank you.
Thanks guys.
He's strong.
Thank you.
Then I just looked at us like they're we won.
I love his like such underwhelmed reaction is like, yeah, I mean us too.
We're still coming to terms with it, but I think it's really wise to not get too ahead
of yourselves.
I like that he says we have nothing to lose because honestly, I look at the standings.
I look at the like the fixtures that we've had so far and the ones to go and like, check
out even had their four hardest games already done.
And they've beaten 2 of those 14, so that's insane.
In theory, they could ride out and get all the remaining points from here, and easily
be in our top 4.
And if they think about that too hard, maybe they're all cursed, so maybe you just relax.
And it's the same story for 6 Tigers, or as we're from the mainland, when we've heard
from any Barber boys, Jesus, anyone who's spoken to today, rather, all the interviews,
they're always each saying, because there are 2 spots available, we're always giving
I head down not thinking so much about it playing round by round and game by game because this is such a unique position to have two spots for
O's to go to an international tournament. It's anyone's
breathtaking, but anyone could really see you go there. The top four, the top five, maybe even. Yeah, this is so stacked.
Yeah, that top four is definitely a top five with what Shackademy has done today. I'm gonna have to update my notes.
I had under Shackademy, E.P. Upset, what? Now, I'm gonna have to add E.P. and Chiefs, Upset, WTF.
We have one more game today. It's Enterprise trying their best to get back on top of things
They're facing up against arcade after this
It all comes down to our final game of the night here in OCE League for the APL
Pengu. I said this when we came back from our last break but again the upsets
and the crazy shenanigans in OCE continue. It's like you give throwing like
an extra slot to the international events to OCE was like dropping like a
dead fish into a waterfall of piranhas. Everyone is trying to get it and
and Chicademy have now upset the two best teams in the league.
It all comes down to our final game of the day,
which in theory should be our most clear cut as well.
Yeah, it's Enterprise versus Arcade.
It's going to be one of those games where it should be simple,
like you said, but games today has been a day of opposites
of real storylines of things that have been happening.
They have no basis happening.
I wouldn't be surprised if this would be the exact same story
where it should be easy, but it won't be easy.
Yes, especially for a team that is yet to find a win.
We once knew them as Rock Elepho.
Now we know them as Arcade Esports.
They are winless, thus far, three games deep into APL.
And unfortunately, it doesn't get any easier from here on out
as they go up against.
Historically, the best team in OCE
brought off a loss as well from just last night.
Arcade, of course, made a few roster changes.
they lost ACOG, who was arguably one of their best players in the past when they were rock
LFO. Of course, 4th place in kickoff was pretty impressive, but yeah, it was really just getting
worse and worse with every player they had so far. Obviously, 7-4 loss to Man-LFO, 7-4
loss to 6 targets, and then a 2-7 loss to a rival. They really have struggled to fight
Yeah, I mean, I feel like nowadays with Oskay more and more competitive, it's actually all
right to be struggling.
There has certainly been moments in the past where, you know, it was a two-team region
and the rest is kind of whatever, but because we have like, you know, four or five, maybe
that's what one of the six strong teams in the region are, now it's okay to be struggling.
It's okay to not have any wins because there are no freebies.
At some point in your career, you've got to be that one freebie.
And that you might just be this far by now,
we're out here,
they're just not one of those statutes
that are taking those wins.
And today against Enterprise,
yes, they can close up,
but realistically, it should just be a loss.
The question is, what can they learn from this?
How many rounds can they take on the board?
And how comfortable can they look in the server?
This is a coordination, you know,
play style and also communication.
Yeah, but there's two sides to this,
go on one hand, okay, they're going up,
I guess an enterprise that's maybe a little bit more
vulnerable after losing tomorrow.
on the flip side, EP will be hungrier than ever.
And guess what?
Brendo is back, baby.
He's back in the server.
Unfortunately, he was unwell yesterday
and wasn't able to play.
We had to get supremacists in to sub,
but Brendo is back today.
And obviously we're all hoping that he has a speedy recovery
that he's feeling well.
But in theory, this enterprise should be back at full power.
Yeah, very much should be the case.
I mean, you might think about like, oh,
You know, you got so many star players in, you know, your titch show, your titch show, titch saw, your titch movie, etc.
Sure, but Brenda was like that backbone of his roster.
He is like messed up consistent. He is the foundation of how much everything else gets built from.
He is always there as a backbone and I think Enterprise not having him inside now yesterday will have a huge impact on their performance.
It's also not known to us at the current present moment how much time they had in advance whether Brenda was gonna play us today or not.
Because that was like a last second stop in that's gonna throw everybody for a bit of a curve ball thing and oh my god
We're missing one of our players. What are we gonna do?
But we do know the fact that he's in camera. He is back. He is here and there's only one thing missing James the veto
That's where are we gonna go? That's right?
Of course if your enterprise maybe not back to shall a where they lost the shy Academy yesterday
Or no, okay, so it's not gonna show it could be bank. We've already seen enterprise win twice on bank
Yeah, okay. So no, it's been a 7 to against six targets and a 7 to against rival on bank for enterprise
So the arcade giving EP a choice between bank and clubhouse
It's a no-brainer for EP you go back where you're to know so far and as you said thank you
It saves them from having to reveal an extra map
They don't need to show clubhouse yet, especially against a team like arcade where realistically they think that they have a chance
It's just playing to their strengths here on back
So let's get into it arcade e-sports have a mountain to climb and that mountain has a name
Enterprise are back at full strength and ready to assert their dominance over the region once again
Arcade new organization, but struggling to find their footing at a single win on the board over three no points either
And today may not be the answer to their miseries
I feel like you low key when I go to map was a bit more simplistic, not going to be about
the best strategy in the most amount of stress adaptations, you know, I'm thinking stuff like
your border, your chalet, your layer, maybe even a banking clubhouse is the complete opposite.
all about how many different ways of attacking the same bomb site and how many small micro just
means you can make when you start seeing some different operators being brought by your opponents
and counter players and such. Demos and Monty, Asami and Kaid have been banned away. Very happy
about the 8 Demos banned play finally. It has such a high presence today in all of the
host and has gone unbanned for all of it until this very moment and seems like it's going to be
not been banned at Alteney, well actually once, but played like every single round that he wants
and banned away, he's been wiped the day-to-day, he was particular about that.
Also notable that Arcade got the start side choice and went defense. Historically,
Dank has been one of the most attack-assided naps in the pool. It actually, I believe it's
six invitation was the number one most attack-asside. I'm gonna see if I can get the most up-to-date
Results from Salt Lake
If you can you like to do a little sing song or something for me
All right, perfect 52% attack win rate for Bank on
At the Salt Lake City Major, which actually is lower than Chalet and Cobhouse and lair
Interestingly enough, so it's interesting. Yeah, they're looking the most attack-assided, but it is one of the most playgrounds
However, Enterprise have been really good on both defense and attack so far this stage.
They went 5-1 on their defense against 6 targets, 4-2 on their defense, and then 3-0 on their
attack against Rival on this map already.
Kind of as expected as well, EP being strong on both sides of the coin.
I mean, they are an international level roster, got a ton of experience in the recent history.
We need support staff with Magnet coaching the boys as well, it's a very significant improvement I would say.
An alignment of how to play the game, the current meta.
Snotes giving a damage step in the DMR, a friend though, locking down the rotation.
We have let all the defenders fall back.
We see BBBBB in the bottom left hand side, that means the basement.
That means that there is full map clear here for EP and in a minute and fifty seconds
That is actually ahead of the usual pace now
They can pop the hatches one player was the server stairs one player was the main stairs
We have a few people to start setting up the next bush
And of course see that it's gonna be smoke on the silver stairs a classic problem
But the moment they pop the hatches, no straight back in people on the bomb site
They are giving up everything and even reinforce that red ball around
meaning that when a minute and twenty seconds left to go, Enterprise can take full server control,
please relax, few walls and then start the shooting from the wall by the site and start threatening the place.
It's just two arms, six ex-cars left though for hard breach and we do need to open up that default plan spot.
I mean, it's just enough. You can get a crouched plan spot, but it's not great.
It's a tricky wall to beat, boy, in my opinion.
I have no feelings.
Yeah.
Oh, they actually didn't go to the plant spot.
They did the long angle and said no plant spot.
Oh my god, he sees three flankers.
Oh, that's scary.
Funnily enough, he's not the only flank watcher.
No, Baphen is also there to support Jigsaw.
Baphen can sit back, Snow is edging on up.
It's gonna be a crossfire as soon as Jigsaw finds contact.
Baphen can swing as well.
Snow is just gonna wait there patiently
while Enterprise are trying to go for their plant.
It's actually too high he finds that killed.
Temptation to go for a plant, surely 20 seconds to play for Enterprise. No more gas remaining, Wizard.
Oh, no, he missed his gas! 2-Hand drops down, finds one! Wizard tries to get active with the gas and finds the kill eventually, but Cairo should surely find his plant confirmed.
And the backstab from Jigsaw means that Loyalth is now in a 1v3. Can't even find the first kill. Great shot from Jig, and Enterprise are back with a fire.
I really like how they are playing the flank watch. I mean having the solid snake almost like a pulse in the attack not showing the presence is scanning
How many people are thinking means there's okay three people Brenda time to peek buddy and they get one pick then Brenda will stop swinging
Jigsaw who's been a solid snake. He will hold the passive angle for a good while
Julie gets the second on the flanker and then it's back to Jigsaw checking the solid snake scanner again
Just triple checking if the flank is clear
So they get a lot of kills, and because they got such quick map control, they could just sit there and wait.
That is only because they got full roam clear within a minute and 50 seconds left and then server right after.
And it's also thanks to RK just surrendering so much map space.
Against a weaker opponent, you can totally do this and it might just work.
Against a base in the region of EP, it's not gonna work.
They got the time and they got the tools, which means it's a recipe for disaster as a defending team.
You have to either disrupt them or burn enough time by staying alive in the room to then win on the clock
So actually the two inhibitions didn't find either of them
One is really exciting about enterprise is they can fight so much variety you talked about the solid snake
You see like a pulse on attack. It was beautiful now. They can say
Let's play a different shield, you know, Kaira obviously he's the main shield player for this team. He played Blitz last round, now it's Black Blitz time, you know, a completely different ingredient for a completely different bombsite.
So much variety, that's the thing that sets Enterprise apart from everybody else.
And that's what Bang really likes, he's lost and he's bringing all the different types of operators.
I'm sure it might have been a bit of a monkey round, he's not been bended away from RK,
because monkey on top floor is like the number one shield operator,
because there's so many long lines of side, cross fires, and monkey can just kind of stay alive throughout all of that,
even tank and C4 if you need to.
Love the IQ from Jigsaw here, can find the Val'kem, so that's gonna be the first step.
Nobody go toot me into building yet.
They're trying to get where they came from.
If we can try and get him.
We'll do this struggle here.
We'll do a bit of a loot in the cabinet.
I think we got him above now.
Speaking about cabinets,
Tuham really does not like that bookshelf on fire.
Brendo helps out.
I think Tuham's fire assisted with Brendo finding that kill.
I like that Jigsaw is so patient here.
Just making sure he's doing his due diligence clearing out all those Valkyrie cameras and the other U2 here around
He's really gonna triple check and everything with the scanner
It can be easy to drag if you flick too quickly through a rule with the IQ scan, you might just miss it
So he's really being thorough
Now with the smoke to get all the damage, now injured and dead, do these DMRs bang?
One, two, three, many DMRs. So, so many DMRs
Sometimes these bombsites come back off and the upside down repel with the DMR is so lethal
because you can see their feet and they can't see your head and the DMR just misses you.
Another player on a repel is disgusting from Enterprise.
Time to repel on inside, Dappin makes it a 4v1, Snow good luck son.
His phone's already blown up in his pocket and Brindle, a long range shot with the SMG-12.
He certainly looks better and back today.
Nicely, he's got a hot drink to sip on as well.
Nurse himself back to health.
Nothing you can do, says Bappin.
O2, says Jigsaw.
I mean, they're taking little prisoners.
This is all about having a decisive victory.
What I was talking about, you know,
a team that's kind of like kings of a region,
to basically, when they lose one of those fair matches,
it's almost like more people have to fire.
Because, okay, we can't beat, we can't lose, we can't get caught lacking,
get out of the keyboard and heart, state discipline.
And it's the same argument we're making for Weibo, gaming over an h7 a lot of the time.
Despite going to a lot of international tournaments,
there are still destroying most of their competition in domestic play.
And I know people are going to say,
of course they'll destroy the competition because they go to national,
they get experience, they have like input codes that stop players.
Sure, but if you find the region too easy or you stop lacking or don't care enough or whatever,
That's exactly how each and every single mistake team can start falling apart.
And, you know, the way we're going to go through roster change recently,
the first time in their careers as a full-man core, minus Abbey plus Scotty,
and I think a roster change, or in enterprise's case, a support staff change,
getting magnets and coaches in addition, it just brings you that bit more motivation.
Like someone swinging a new set of eyes can help us look at the mistakes we've been making
and bring something new from table because EP and they have a really good like a better team and a different team ever since MagniJoint.
Of course that happened at the same time as we saw a lot of the other changes with the roster.
EP only have two players in common with the EP that we saw at the start of this year at
Six Invitational in Paris, there's two on him back there and we've got Brando, Jigsaw
over from Chiefs, you've got Kyra over from the other, the Viko Roste, those two Poteem
things and when you have a solid leader like Magnet filling in the shoes of Fischer, I
think that's exactly what you need. So I have confirmation it was a 5-2 advantage yesterday
from Enterprise and they were smack talking like crazy talking mad shits
against the Academy before they got swept
1-0 up, 2-0 up, they're already talking
a whole ton of smack
I sure hope that they'd be better be careful not to curse themselves
I'm looking good doing so
Brendle on this scene with this intense round
cutting off the main staircase rotation takes down Snow
another round, another DMR
They are so present here and thank to those long battles and the repels.
You have Cairo from Blitz to Blackish to Blitz, and over there on top.
Now they're going to be a lead frog in that drone duty so that everybody can get inside the building and do their responsibility.
As you see, Bappin already spending all of these ram booby drones extremely quickly in the round.
They're still a minute and ten seconds and they've all done their individual jobs.
You got some hard-booting here at 8 of Tullan, basically all the youth are left in pocket,
so they have archives, they have tellers and controls, they got almost everything on the map.
We're still playing blue stairs though. Spaces for Arcade, which means the crossfire onto
bottom square if Enterprise look for an execute there. Thing is, having the Blitz makes it much
more possible here, the Cairo, to go for a plant. He's got smokes to assist him,
He does have to worry about zero on the main stairs
Oh, sorry, he doesn't even have the fuselage to one with the fuselage Cairo instead going on the offensive
Trying to plug them out of positions aces force back onto the bomb site. You might find one on to Brenda
This should be a done deal here for enterprise a 4v1 cheek sources
See you later alligator dominant start three rounds in a row as arcade call that tactical time out
This will be a tough one because what are you gonna talk about you're just getting a run over you tried various
Bum size different operators with the exact same results
And it's a matter of like if you don't move enough
you get stuck in bad positions and probably die to a bitch pushing you or a Blackbeard.
And if you move too much, then Brando's in a rappel somewhere, just watching you waiting
for that to happen and then who should you anyway. So it looks like a lose-lose. And I guess we can
kind of go back to the conversation of choosing starting sides. And you pointed out, RK chose
to start on defense, which is the less favorable side. And this is why. Look at this gameplay.
It looks so unplayable for the defenders.
The only thing I can really talk about right now that Arki could change the round immediately
is fight for more map control.
No matter what bounce they're playing on, they are surrendering anything that EP gets near.
You know, on that top floor defense,
Arki's tellers, they didn't hold it.
Top floor, they didn't hold it.
Or it's like in basement defense, they never held server.
The second they broke a hatch, they would sprint straight back deep into the bomb site.
You need to find somewhere on bank.
The site itself isn't the strength, it's the shape and size of the map that can work together with the bomb site that enables those positions.
So they have to actually start fighting somewhere in the map before the site gets found, or before they get to the site, should I say.
much needed to get back on the horse here but like we were saying before there's so much
flexibility from enterprise on the operators that yeah you ban the solid snake and especially
on the basement it makes it easier for arcade to go for those but EP having last round they
three people watching flank. That's how committed they are to countering the
retake from Arcade. If Arcade really want to go for those flanks, maybe instead of
being the bitching, you bring a pulse. You're on the shotgun, you win the fight
against someone on those stairs, or you bring the UMP and you take longer-range
gunfights, but you can actually scan out and call for your team on that retake.
And I guess Vigil is gonna fight for something, so I like this style choice here in terms of operating a paper.
Morel is gonna take all the confidence we can possibly muster.
He has to stick around and fight for Mappin' and slow the F and help him do so by giving information.
I do not want to see any early headstrops down to base when you need to fight over an area.
If you're in the list, you have to fight him.
Can't afford to just fall for it, but Cairo wants to take the fight, the confidence, from this man, for playing shields as he makes him more and more under pressure.
He wants to go for another fight. If the mid gets too close, he will engage his flash, but no instead, he sits out the door to be called.
The danger here for Cairo lies in the Echo Drone.
A little bit of sassier glitch question Mark. I don't know about you, I didn't see any glitch, but of course we'll leave that to the admins.
RK don't need to focus up on winning this round and that relies on the Yokai Drone knocking away the Blitzer Shield.
see what's the point of giving up open air control only to fight for the
read signal the main stairs. The matter is this fight will be able to 2 or 3 people and it will remain that into your control.
So it feels back with luxury here from Arcade, the only thing that's done is to stun the big-style coward and know it's the exact counter.
They also can't shield us shortly after, great job from Baffin. And because they have coward on the shield, you can just, if you want to,
be the flank watcher and sit there, shield up.
Or if you want to put a bomb on that secure, you can do it the day before.
Have a Brando lean bag or a Fapin or a Dicks holding bag.
There's so many different gadgets that they can just use in long range.
Look at B is local, Lyon is local.
IQ was done scanning some grenades.
Also, like, it's a gun.
There's Fapin, I should have kept it.
Now that's a little bit of a flank while they're pending.
Yeah, that's the thing, the plant's going down.
Fire is happening to take a little bit of damage from that fire and smoke doesn't matter that he's down down
It's still a numbers advantage after Jigsaw finds that kill. He's five and one right now that Jigsaw
No more doggie calls. They've been using the mid-round which is plenty fine
Meanwhile snow doesn't even have access to his Yo-Kai droning all because of that doggie here comes another kill from back with the DMR
No choice but to retake now the two remaining arcade players enterprise fully for the control the main stairs
Locking in open area meet Casa and Bapin its jigsaw and his new teammate of Bapin to lock it in enterprise
Continue their reign of terror over bank four rounds in a row
And this is a tough look again
I think I can use both is company backwards having one player no binariya
knowing that they're gonna play shields everything around like standing still when the lion scan is coming out
It's one of those small things where you know
Lion bookabid demos they kind of show you when the attackers are looking to make a play because there's a warning
They're gonna be using those gadgets when they're looking for information or looking to make you stand still
So if I'm vigil on main stairs and my teammates getting run down by bits in open area
I'm not standing still like the same if I'm the Goyo
I am just going into open area. I'll get pinged by the lion red ping and I will help the thorn in the confine
Because we all know that the most important area of the map for the room control on a basic defense
It's gonna be okay to defend it. It's the fact that you have one player that I immediately box and then the round will end
You cannot reach the main stairs. It just doesn't happen. I
Really feel like enterprise are doing their best to become the villains
Everyone loves that they did so well in Salt Lake City that they earned back a spot from Asia, but can I just say, back in the day, when we had Chiefs being the best team in this region, the old Chiefs, 2022 Chiefs, they were not the villainous.
Not until they dropped so many of their core players, they were the heroes of this region, same thing happened with Blizz. They were the heroes of this region.
They were always so nice they didn't really talk much smack. They were so well for a they got top eight at six in the
Facial it was only when the game and gladiators change came they started cutting beloved players that they became the villains and that
Ended up being the downfall of our team. I love a bit of smack talk, but enterprise. I
Don't believe I'm not the most superstitious person, but I got a south seen a trend
In history when best team and hosts starts to get a little bit toxic
They start to drop off and we've got to be careful because we have yeah, this is an easy game
But EP we're only lost to shy Academy you're now also point the scalp of chiefs
We have five really solid teams in this region and your squad at EWC is not a given
I don't know if you can see off themselves and they start getting lippy in the chat now
didn't work yesterday but you know you can change a player like you know you jigsaw you
too he and Cairo I think he's a part of who they are players at this point well there's
This of course, magma is a good thing. I thought it had to come from the higher up, but guys, boys, listen, you guys are great players, okay?
The fans, they bloody hate you. Okay, be a bit nicer to the server. Okay, we get more fans. Okay, it's better for us all, yeah? Okay, good.
Did, did Maggin and Steve ever smack talk you back in the dead?
Oh, it's okay, it's okay. Nice.
We spanked the mags, more than any other team in the world back in my day. They were stupid.
I said!
Where did that get on top 6 at 6 Invitational so that's pretty good I'd say, maybe there's a bit of a pattern.
They were like a yes man, we said hey can we scrim clubhouse, bar attack 20 times in a row?
Or just like yeah sure they would do anything with our stones.
We said great swim there, finally shot down Brenda on the far turn ATM, it's nice and lobby.
And maybe just maybe it's been talking and sketching up to them 4v4.
One of their main cut players is taking down Cairo, it makes a play inside, but Bapman has found a gap, taking down Snow, almost a chance there for Cairo.
We need some kind of explosives to deal with this shield, but I don't think there are any available now unless Picasso, Jigsaw, can rotate over.
He's busy killing Aces. 4v2 now. Very good position for Enterprise, but this bombsite is very hard to find a safe plan.
The response comes through so quickly, where's it now? 1v3, he finds the first, the smoke engages, and Jigsaw is there to cut him down. It is another cut and dried open and shut case for Enterprise. 5 attacks in a row.
EC does it. Just looking for that sixth and final and a half.
It's, uh, what am I reading?
Crapodactyl.
Crapodactyl.
That's because I'm supposed to like a pterodactyl.
I heard that when they were saying 0-2 Hanmol, apparently Hanmol is Zero,
who looks like he's gone 0-5 at the minute, which is a rock's load for him,
So the smack talk seems to be working on the flip side. You've got Cairo five or nothing
And trams of Sydney, I'm thinking big thoughts
The only thing we arrived at is is our kid are doing the same things right they're fighting for the wrong area of
Map space and deep ends and they put themselves in very disadvantageous gun fights again
Didn't fight the Scott control last round, didn't fight properly for general control either.
Once you lose certain areas of fame, the rounds just becomes very unwinnable.
It's a surprise to do all the things right.
They're strong operators, strong positions, they're good teamwork, they're able to do almost
the man almost, and they're just winning.
It's just they still get this game, honestly.
E.P. are playing it well from a team perspective, right?
They're playing to cut a lot of angles, they're playing to force Arcade to move around and
then find the kills.
But they're also backing themselves into taking an individual fight, they're not disrespecting
Arcade in terms of the gameplay, you know, they're not just run and gunning, you know,
everyone go make a play, they are still playing this like a team, but they're certainly disrespecting
Arcade in the old chat.
I'll check you to know what that is.
Cyro down, confirmed, 0-6, and it's low.
It is a huge loss in this round.
It is, of course, going to be down stairs.
And there's a trade back on the 2E, which will actually be quite beneficial, being the
Yvana and only primary high-beature, and a second one as well.
Wait, this is Akis' best look at a round so far, and it didn't even get the opener
heads.
They get a third!
just get on the board surely that do not bustle did for me to yeah one before now
jigsaw if there's anybody to do it it would be jigsaw perhaps the greatest
player that Ocey has ever seen is certainly in the conversation but he is
a massive beta 9-in-1 Jammer on the hatch go find him
What are you talking about?
They want to click.
They want them to walk into open area and then he gets his one kill.
What is he saying? Mute jammer on the hatch?
Was there a mute jammer that was on that hatch upstairs, which is why some of those exklyros have downed?
That's not even muting the rounds. There's no jammer anywhere.
Then how was some of the, how's there a hole in the hatch?
I mean, all like two pellets and then put some more down.
Either he did two pellets, copped them, two pellets and died, or he spent four and it
just glist out.
I'm not sure which one, who didn't see his point of view, but...
But Kyra just left the game.
For some reason.
Fair enough.
Maybe that's why he's AFK.
Maybe Kyra was crashing the inside zone.
I don't know.
I'm about to crash out if Jigsaw doesn't do anything aside from bait.
It's like he heard me.
No, no, he's still doing it.
You know what? I'll keep doing it.
Rainbow's left now as well. He actually gets one. Okay?
Christian?
Well, as time goes by, there's a millionth of this player in the EP receiver and
Well, except God, he's one.
Fight like a man.
Valor, Valor.
Max talking right back, come on fight, fight fire with fire man.
There's 10 and 1 but he's surely gonna die, he doesn't get another one, there you go.
One kill in the bait but also eventually dies so that's a net 0 for Jigsaw, we're gonna
have to get Cairo and Brenda back into the server.
It's a 5-1 half at the end of it and of course that means it's time for our halftime vibe
check.
You're gonna have to find out
how long you can walk off.
Can arcade come back? You'll have to find out.
And we're back into it, it's a swap of the halves, Enterprise go onto their defence arcade
on the attacking side. Now, Pengu in Arcade's first game of the stage against six targets,
They went 5 and 1 on their defensive side.
They only need 2 out of the next 6 rounds.
But I have the feeling that Arcade will be very hard
pressed to find any more than maybe 1 attack.
I personally think that this is where the comeback begins.
I think it's going to be 6 rounds straight.
Defenders protect your bar kill women.
By the AP, we start crying on the camera.
And then the villains will be the villains one more time.
can you imagine the 5-3, 5-2 come back, reverse swept by shycademy into the 5-1 reverse swept
by the team that is 0 and 3?
yes
imagine I'm in my mind I'm envisioning this exact thing to happen
will be three seconds two seconds look to lock it in lock it in boys
hold up we'll see a few shield plates nooks and so fiat I don't see a pick
plus respect but Zephyr claim was instead of hard breaches minus respect
I don't think I've ever seen this combination of fire, attack and albreeders together ever.
Like they actually might never have seen this.
Oh, there you go.
And oh, it's on the window barricade that's presently outside.
It's so low.
That's rough, man.
Well, Lucid will start with a low health shield on the fuse.
They're looking to Sophia, open the wall, just rushing to kitchen, I reckon.
I reckon, which is kind of a spice problem here, but I dig it. Here they go.
Where's the blitz? Get around it!
The blitz fuse combo. Time to get active.
Remember that the fuse is the only hard breach arcade I've brought to the table here.
They could've brought it on as a fear, they could've even brought it on.
I think Nook still has hard-boots, that's a good answer.
But also notice there's a...
I really get on both of the hatches, which is gonna have to be cleared. Thankfully the concussions can come out from oil.
They can trick it though. If it's down, then they can actually.
Yeah. Okay.
They have so many throwables.
Sophia's stuns as well.
Well, never seen anything like it.
They can open it. Hatch open successfully.
Oh!
Frozen for now.
now fun fact about you from super interaction you can actually not freeze
the fuse gadget once activated so the second you pop it you cannot freeze it
in response it'll keep going through so few
I'm too proud of you.
Genius, I'd love to see you.
Didn't work though.
I like this though.
Once you start drilling, you can also.
It's gonna double down as well, interesting.
You would've thought after the first fuse charge, you're not gonna get much value from the second.
It'll crickle in any Vulcan canisters.
Why was he doing that? I don't quite see the vision there.
Let's see if you can see why not.
That's an angle actually hold up
Yeah, you are not laying that
Nacho crevice down door
Natural will destroy the sense wall. They know where the plan spot is how do they know?
For some kind of information whether it's a bulletproof camera or something else
Enterprise have a full read of the arcade setup and now Cheeksaw is holding down
the forward to DMR 10 seconds for arcade to get back into the round. They are locked
firmly out of the bomb site as wizard, murdering and server on the fuse and
the round will be won on time with eight players still alive in the server.
Okay, I think Christian Marcus the fairest ones, they even did try and
salvaged around once the blitz died and I mean they did it well right so they were trying to
firing the default plant location they were actually toxic babes smoking the chassis position
so it's c4 the third plant spot which is going to be that booze spot by the desk now they could maybe
plant it exactly on the red wall but it was soft plus they would maybe get hurt so it's just like a
pretty good understanding of which operator is the nine which plant location they're from the
the start of enterprise and it's why having that conversation saying hey if this happens
you fire that I smoked this you see for that now everyone knows what to do if you don't have
that conversation beforehand it'll get very messy once that sense law goes out because everyone's
going to try and desperately try and start to plan it not knowing what other people are doing
as well. Yeah that's a great point sometimes you don't need the info directly visually and where
that plant's going down you just need process of elimination well yeah we can't be planting here
because we've smoked it they can't be planting there because with the chankified it why don't we just see for the desk
and that's the thing it is worth expending that extra util if you guarantee that that plant does not go down
because if the plant goes down there round is over but you do not retake that
no you do not that is the thing about a couple of maps and a couple of bombsides uh in sieges
it is quite literally like a 95 plus percent win rate in the post plan even if you're like down the
player like 1 vs 2 1 vs 3 etc it is so winnable 7 second defuse timer you can hear every single
take you got drones in the post plan of course get your tree but imagine you're like a cabot on a
1v1 post plan for a month right you just use your cabot of fire you will win in the 45 45 seconds
to the beginning of the plan going down, you get this double fire, get a normal take away 26 seconds.
So you just wait for a couple of takes, then fire, wait for a couple of takes, then fire,
then there's no time left anymore. It is insane how much can you get done with single operator.
It's crazy to see that that is the play style that these guys are bringing to their very first
attack. Arcader like the 5-1 down, what do we have, what can we bring out, and the answer is
Sophia sends blitz, nuke, and fuse.
That is, uh, what's the Danish number this move again?
You see, you can say it as the only non-Denius costume.
I was like, where did Gus go?
And he was saying nuke, nuke.
And I was like, I'll give you the pass.
It's not fair to you that I'm like, what the hell man?
But it's nuke with an ur.
But you're a linguist.
I like that.
I'm doing my best like I grew up as a castor around Milash and nobody puts on the accent for the local languages like that
He knows everything. I've also I told you I've been on my Duolingo Portuguese
And I've been going to weekly classes as well trying to learn Portuguese
thinking about moving on to Spanish next
But yeah, Danish is not on my
I've never met a Danish that does not speak English.
And also, if I had learned Danish, then I would have to know what all of the
the Danish production team have laughed at talking about when I'm trying to tune in and have the
production exhausts not working.
If you could learn another language, maybe, of course, you're already bilingual.
If you can call it that, I don't know. Well, you like to say you're 1.5. You can speak English
Half speak Spanish
Which of the next language do you guys speak in your language?
I feel like I don't really have an interest in any language in particular
I was always like I learned English, I can speak to like anybody in the world more or less
So I would pick it out of convenience
I would just pick a language that's widely spoken
Or the language of a country that I would love to live in or visit for that purpose
That's better
I wouldn't...
I'm doing a Chinese buddy
I'm definitely late
Honestly, if we were to go to a major in China
It would be very hard to speak Mandarin, for example
But let's say I wanted to live in Spain
And I wanted to learn Spanish for my selfish reasons of wanting to live there
But I don't have like you
Oh, I want to learn Portuguese, I want to learn Spanish, I want to learn...
I don't have that interest in me, unfortunately
I'm just a gamer
Look, I've just always had a chip in my shoulder that I'm bad at languages, and I want to change that,
and I figured I may as well start a language, and look, I hate...
I hope that one day I'll live in a country where English is not the primary language,
so I can really have the training rules taken off, and I can, you know, try and learn a language.
I did originally, 2020, I was going to move to France, I was going to speak French, but of course...
I'm sorry, that never happened.
But yeah, it's nice to just at least learn a few words so you can order a cup of coffee or something in a local language, right?
If you had to learn a language for like a place that you were going to move to, I know you lived there.
I know you lived there for a little bit.
You lived in Germany for a little bit.
You never thought about learning German?
I did speak German. I took three years in school and I moved to Germany of course a bit later in my career.
And I could navigate like, you know, the grocery store, restaurants, I could like do very basic small talks or very basic like, introduction and stuff like that, but I couldn't hold the conversation in detail and I couldn't catch what they spoke with the best.
But just like that, like most Germans speak English. So even like, their English would often be better than my German. So even there, me trying to bother with German just didn't really make sense to me because they spoke my language.
English.
It's Berlin.
I work in G2 where despite most people being German employers, I'm also kind of lucky
that we're in but everyone spoke English because East falls is so international.
You literally cannot fare in like a C1 or not speaking English because you're so multi-cultural,
multi-lingual.
Then I went to a piece of talent with Fabian in Korea.
We don't speak Korean but they spoke English.
So I can, English gets you so far, whereas in niche language, only work in a niche area.
I think the exception there is China, obviously, with the teams and players who have moved
into living in that country for the CNL.
I know Eden, for example, he's French, he speaks English very well, as well as French,
he's been living over there and coaching his team at the CNL and he's told me that in a lot of places
it's very hard to get by with just English. Okay, I mean I understand that I do but it's also a
matter of like if I've already learned one or two languages would I really want to learn a third?
I think that's kind of where as a younger version of myself that's where my decision was made because
I knew Danish, I knew English. I was learning German in school and I told my teacher I do not care
because I already learned English, like the language of the world. So I feel like maybe I
just got kind of burned out and thought why learn three, four, five, six languages when in the end
I will probably use two of them. And also spoke, you know, I spoke Swedish Norwegian because it's
very similar to Danish. I was supposed to say that's like saying it's like saying I speak
Canadian and Scottish and Irish. It's not that, okay, no, it's not that, I know.
Have you ever tried to talk to a Scott before? Come on. Have you ever tried to speak to Demo
from Northern Ireland? Man, that is like, that's a different language. The accent is the problem,
that's true, okay. But that's, that's, Demo nowadays has like softened his accent for casting purposes.
When he first started out, when he speaks in private, I'm like, what, what, try again? Like,
what was that? Oh, you're lucky I don't use my full accent. You would be cocky.
completely cooked but of course we're gonna go oh yeah sure it is cheers mate
we're going to a real quick break while we sort out an issue but we'll be back
on the other side of this to finish off this game
You won't leave my mind
You matter how I try
You won't leave my mind
You won't leave my mind
You won't leave my mind
You matter how I try
My name is Revilien. I play as Fooly.
Since I was born, my parents and I have been playing games with them since I was a kid.
I played games all the time because my parents played games.
I was the one who liked to play games.
When I went to play games, there were people who joined the team.
That's why I started playing as a player.
At that time, when I started playing the game, the first game that I played was the PB game, which is the first game that I had to compete.
Actually, I played every game. I thought it would be a game in the game, but most of the time I like to play games in the game.
Because if I didn't play this game, I wouldn't be a player or maybe I wouldn't play games like this.
At that time, I saw the competition and I saw that the players were cool and the players were good.
They were good at the competition. They were good at winning and winning.
I felt that if I was a competition player, I would be able to win and win.
When I was in the competition, I felt fun.
And I was very serious about it.
Personally, I like the competition.
So when I was in the competition, I felt really fun.
I'm happy to be a part of this competition.
Before, I played a lot of games.
But now, I'm not as good as before.
When I played as a set goalkeeper,
my friend invited me to play Rainbow Six.
When I played, I felt like I was having fun.
And when I broke up with SETGO, I played the game in M6 and I was the only one who played the game, so that's why I started to know M6.
At the same time, I still enjoy playing the game.
Even though I'm getting better at IOU, I think I'll keep playing the game until I feel like I can't anymore.
My parents have always supported me, no matter what.
Finally, at Paris, I bought my parents to share with Paris.
I think it's good that my parents support me.
I feel like I want to see my parents in my life,
that they are a strong and strong nation.
Even though I'm not a winner,
I want my parents to see me strong.
That's what I want to live.
I feel good that I'm a fighter.
And when I win, I'm happy that I have a son who will lead the fight with my parents.
Thank you to my parents for watching and supporting me.
I will do my best until the end of the year.
I love you and your parents.
How do you feel about the music?
I feel that there are quite a lot of characters in the music
and I feel that those characters have quite a lot of guns
but if they are in the same style, there will be only a group with different guns
but there are a lot of guns in the music, there are various characters
so I feel more comfortable playing the music
I like to play with the sound of the game, just like with the OGS,
I like to play with the team, so I like to play with the sound of the game.
It's something that has a lot of playability,
and has a lot of gun and ability.
It makes me feel fun.
I think the good thing about this game is that it's often updated than the Houter.
Give time to the day, give time to the competition, give time to the stadium, give time to the team, stay with them and stay with the team.
There is something to say to make them stronger, stronger, stronger, and become a champion.
an admin query, but it's all done out. We've contacted the CIA, the AFP, and the FBI, and
everyone is now aligned. We're all set to resume the game, Arcade vs. Enterprise. Unfortunately
for Arcade, Pengo, it hasn't been everything they'd hoped for. They have so far this stage
not found a single game win, and I think it's likely to continue. Enterprise up, 6-1.
you know at least they got to one round sometimes we can get you're gonna try and
battle for a second but you know it's nothing scary
remaining did the memes as a result of this effect I'm sorry federal police
with us never be not funny dolls they will always be funny I love it okay to
being such good sports. I'm sitting there, they're hilarious. Love it. Anyhow, it's time to continue
its defense for Enterprise, which is exactly where they want to be. Like we said, they
played a bank game already in the States where they did not lose a single round on the defensive side.
Watch as they watch. Just one. Just one.
Let us see. Kairos, doing his down things off. Hop, C4 on hand, trip for ATMs. Just waiting for the
Sound cue, here's a drone go by most likely, cause it'll come out, and it'll go wide, big miss.
It's a Monty downsetting lobby, and they won't be harmed too much by any potential throw in their way.
But I like the fact that the Wizard is free at the Monty, you just walk off the red staircase, take some control,
get some information, and then they can play off of it, but we go on tap.
That's my goat, that is my goat right there, look at Cairo, he is insane.
The Aussie on the Aussie doesn't get much more poetic than that, however,
He's about to get a taste of his own medicine. The shield is inching towards him. Come on, Wizards, show him what you got.
Kind of has a hell of a lot of damage for the VCs. The Deimos is certainly not giving him a helping hand.
Oh, he's even taking down low HP, but it doesn't matter!
Wizards finally puts the shield master down with that Monty Bappen. Also on his escape is Injured.
Two Han decides, I think I'd better get out of dodge. I'm not likely to win this one, but Enterprise can't realistically fall back now.
Timing here, could net two Han, a kill. Keep in mind that Monty is still very low on HP.
You think you heard the grapple on in? Yep.
That's a freebie.
Monty, you wanna team into one?
Yeah, I should be enough to kill him, like any small thing of thorns, that damn it.
But I think he's gonna get out.
Come on.
They're gonna keep fighting? Okay, good night, Morrow.
Oh
And the second one to follow up and finish him off wizard one HP
Oh, he's got four trap. He's now negative one HP and finally finished off choked out by the gas
There were a few delays, but it's time for enterprise to finally put the nail in the coffin
They've been playing this arcade like a game at the arcade snow now
Desperately looking to unfreeze this round one feet to Kara with the early GG call from the grave
They give him the defuser, they give him the sight, they don't care one bit.
If I have a chance to force this down, because he wants to bait out a shot, he can track
one, but that just tells him exactly where he's planting, it's not worth it.
Instead, he looks to try it.
Have you heard of the Snow 1v2?
It was a very slim chance, and Jigsaw missed both of his shots, but Snow, at the end of
it, is not able to get that defuser down.
The GGs come out and Enterprise bounce back after the troubles and tribulations against
Academy yesterday, the Kings of OCE are back on their throne.
Well, with Brindle to get around victory, without Brindle, it's been harder than that,
but I'm happy to see that they were very much confident today going to them and they're
playing at a very high level of seat.
I will say that this was definitely the match today where their opponent ended up just not
I'm back at 100% capacity. I don't think I can do sports at all.
He's set quite a strategy here to bank, and I mean, that was kind of my biggest
assessment of the map we do. I did expect that Clubhouse, Bank,
DOS and Cybers would teach me a map to be a struggle for IP sports.
Nice experience, did have a shaky start to stage one as well.
Dove bounced back with some hopefully new gained experience by having this
big of a loss against a very formidable foe, and hopefully future.
They can get themselves a bit worse or if they want to expect it as well.
Of course, if you're going up against Enterprise, it's always going to be hard, even harder when you're going up against an EP that is trying to bounce back after losing their first game of the year domestically yesterday.
So for Arcade, they got their one round, they made sure not to get 7-0ed. Enterprise did what they do best.
A great game for the squad, particularly Jigsaw, doubling Kyro's kills in the next competitor on his team. It's another day in the office.
Yeah, I mean, it's really a simple stat, it's always going to be somebody to me peace stepping up to make the hero play and get some
Decrease the storyline. It's very often jigsaw
But if it isn't a bit tricky, it's gonna be somebody else
I mean, this is such a stacked roster and it's why they're the best in those and this why those now have two spots for
EWC because they got the best international assault in recent history for the entire team of APL and that means that
small teams can now fight for an international spot.
And they're spending this entire region
so much more exciting.
And like we heard that interview earlier,
it feels like everyone is trying just like 10% more
because people feel like they can actually qualify now.
And someone has to be VP in the finals to qualify.
They just kind of go into that top position
to get that second spot.
I really feel like it's not even 10%,
it's a lot more than that.
VP earned that extra spot for this region.
And as a result, they're kind of helping themselves
in a way that makes it harder for them now to qualify.
on the flip side of that the biggest curse that OCE has this is for the whole of a pack but specifically OCE because if you look on a map
Australia and New Zealand are
Very far south of Asia and it's hard to scrim even a pack teams
The now the ability to play against more competitive teams in OCE thanks to EPs and incredible result
SLC is surely an advantage to them big win for EP. Let's have a chat with their coach the esteemed legend himself
It's been a while. Welcome on in. Congrats on a 7-1 today. Must be feeling a lot better after such a dominant win back where you guys surely should be.
Yeah, of course. I mean, obviously speaking about yesterday, Brando couldn't play. We actually didn't stream the whole week leading up to that game because Brando was sick.
sick. He ended up actually going to hospital for a bit, which is not good, but he's feeling
a lot better now, which is the main thing. Obviously, you know, the main thing is, you
know, health, of course. Big shout out to Supreme who did play yesterday. Dev Marder,
you can't be saying cope, brother. All right, listen, you had a sub plate, we didn't have
practice and look what we did today. All right, it's just what we do.
I appreciate the call out, man. I hope you know I'm good up for the plot. Like, I love
I know you don't want to be well more than anything else. It's all for the plot.
Also, Suprem is such a funny character. He is like the funnest person to post gifts about, so come on.
Yeah, no. He honestly, look, he didn't have any expectations on him. We throw him there
and he did his job and that's all we can ask for, so.
Yeah, there's a good mentality about it because, you know, it's never easy playing with a sub,
but it's also never easy being a sub that has to fill some big screws up right now.
You guys did phenomenal obviously at the major and Osna has two spots
It's been a talking point of every win interview of all of our coaches and players people saying
Thank you guys so much to make it. Oh, it's had that extra spot
Does it feel like there's any more pressure on you guys now to represent os obviously?
internationally to a high level when you qualify if you were to but also the final pressure to one you guys now to
You know really lock in that one or second spot yourselves because it would be kind of embarrassing to
get those two spots and then not get one of them yourselves, right? So any pressure feeling there or is it okay?
Is there any extra pressure on us? Absolutely not. We take it one game at a time, one round at a time.
It's just better for, I guess, everyone, obviously everyone else. That there is, you know, the second spot for us.
Good for us as well. I don't get me wrong, but no, no other pressure at all.
You know, where, where? Coming into these games like today, just like every other day,
You just take it one round at a time. So no, it's a push out all
Nice. How do you feel like?
No, you you I was gonna say everyone's impressed you guys so much and being so happy for you guys performance
It's gonna give you guys some glaze because the whole region is back in you guys all you did. Yeah, I
Appreciate it. Mag of course. I always has changed a lot with that extra slot
There are a lot more teams really gunning for it. APL as a whole has changed a lot
You know the new fear X is looking more promising. There are some deadly teams of north of B
last CAG, Asia as well has been shaken up a lot, Weber making their first roster change.
However, how do you feel like the state of the APL is at the moment and where do you
think your team sits, not just in relation to OCE but the rest of APAC?
We are definitely the best team in APAC. We scrim, you know, ERX, all the other Asian
teams, we are destroying them in scrims as well. And that's not much more to say really.
We're still going to be the top of APAC, hopefully into the major as well.
Obviously, Goddy playing for Weber as a talking point.
Will they make the major?
How well will they do at the major with a player like Goddy?
I'm very interested to see myself, but no, we are definitely still the number one team
in APAC.
And just before you go, I'd love to get your thoughts then globally, of course, Salt Lake
was a huge shake-up.
No one expected Brazil to do so.
Pauline, no one expected, few expected NA to do so.
You yourself you've got to win over Falcons and a bunch of other really solid teams
How do you feel going into EOBC if you make it against not just APAC teams, but global teams?
I think we've got you know, really really good team going on right now and to be honest
When it comes to international tournaments with our team particularly we see you know
It is the one the trooper centers in the games that you know do win or lose you rounds
rounds. We've actually brought on an analyst, shout out analyst,
a 20, I hate saying it with a W, I'm going to call him Trent. So
he will be now helping us. Obviously, we're keeping it one
game at a time. But if we do make the major, he will be helping
us with prep work at the major. So it's less work on like, say
Cairo. So he can just, you know, focus on being more of a play
more the player side and, you know, not have to, you know, be
up for super long hours doing prep. So it's honestly,
you know looking forward to play the international teams again it's just you
know the best practice we can get to and I don't think there is a big a big gap
right now between the international teams as we saw you know at Salt Lake so
now we're looking forward to it. Very very exciting. Mag thanks so much for joining us
the interview always appreciate your time congrats on the win and good luck in
your games next week. Thank you. Really cool to hear from Mag as always.
I
Very much so my eyes it up when he said they got a new analyst and it's twins. I remember to ent. He's a real oh
So he's played for so many different teams legend of a guy many times at LAN events
I didn't know he was still hanging around so that was lovely to hear great game from EP lovely interview from mag
Let's reflect upon across the night as a whole another a couple of big contenders for our MVP of the night penguin
We have to give some credit to Bailey
so many back-to-back 3ks and big impact rounds in his game with barbie boys
trying to make that comeback happen six three down against six targets and in
the end it was him on the Goyo putting that rush to an a stop that led to his
team winning it in overtime yeah it's all right he's up like 19 kills yet a
one-to-one class won the final one he individually is the reason why barbie
boys came out ahead when they were in a losing position. So many small moments that just goes
into this MVP status. So it's not because like he had decreased from 5 of all time. It's like no,
every single round, do we start with two or three kills? Every time he was left alive in a round,
there was still hope for Barbie boys. And you see the kill here, there are so many moments,
it was well deserved. And honestly today, kind of hard to pick an MVP because there are so many
outstandingly good players and we had two over time just made it again most more challenging.
Totally, I mean look if Six Targets had won that game maybe Karma would have been the MVP.
He was pretty powerful in that game. Of course we had some massive moments.
Chikadibi with the upset over Chiefs probably the most surprising result of the night but
despite that I would say that NaNLFO beating Rival so dominantly and Bobby Boy and Six Targets
pushing barbie boys so they also equally surprising so let's have a look at where we sit on the
standings no team is undefeated anymore here in osu!
oh again the conversation this entire sub regime being super competitive it's just
gonna be more and more true as time goes on it looks like super key for what happens in the top
four we get to the stage finals and kind of entering the level three territory and the
qualifying matches because it's not going to be about oh you know it's going to be EP qualifying
one they have two spots and even more so we have five super combatant teams once you know
freaking to watch more of this region. Yeah of course Enterprise will be looking at gun and
retake that number one spot that Chiefs of Mental Alpha have been so good so far can't count out
Barbie boys in shycademy as well and who knows what happens down at the bottom six targets
get some rival might wake up eventually, even our Cape hoping to get off that
donut. But holistically, of course, we're playing through our group stage. Each
team's playing its seven B01s in our round robin before we move to stage
finals, just the top four. So right now, the teams that are really sweating are
the ones that on the edge of those top four, like your Barbie boys, like your
six targets, a shy Academy. These are the teams that have a chance, but if they
drop the ball, they will fall behind. That wraps up OSS for the week. We're
done. We've had four play days so far but guess what? APL is on almost every single day of the week.
Peggy will be back tomorrow with Asia and of course then APAC off to follow. Until then,
I hope everyone keeps enjoying more APL and have a lovely night.