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Fnatic, a third place in EML. I don't understand. Leo, Ann, can you break it down for me?
Break it down?
Yeah, sure.
It is EML Super Week and that means we're going to break down all the siege action,
literally like we were just doing there. We will be talking lots of seats in the upcoming
three days. What a way to better start your week than having so much seats to look forward
to on a Monday. My name is Annelby, you're host for these days and you too, fresh? Alphama,
fresh what do you want to say?
What better way to start your week than the amount? No, what better way to start your
week than seeing Fast Down through the Warm because that was astonishing. That was actually
insane.
It was funny.
I like to say I love the idea of doing a dance move for this. I just thought that I was
going to actually be next to a good dancer. And so I look really dumb in that one and she looks perfect just like, yeah.
You put a good effort and I like that. I think that's what I was all about.
It was all about the quirk. I enjoyed it.
But let's focus on what is important here. That is not the dance that gets us all the siege action that we have over the next three days.
15 matches in total because we can have a look at all of them.
We'll flash all the schedules for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday on your screen to get a glimpse of the good matches that we have going
because it's so action packed if you have a bad time here you're gonna be
slacking it's always so critical for ML because once we're done there's only
two play days left and so it's basically make or break woman for a lot of these
teams that maybe will forget all of the play playoff chances maybe some of them
will love themselves for top four maybe in a summer ready look at bar bracket
who knows it's a really important one we're going from like early stages you
know only four out of nine play days to seven out of nine being done by end of
the end of this week and realistically there's not too much wiggle room going into next week so it's very important.
It is, it is. Before we dive into all the action though for the upcoming week we'll have a look at everything that happened last week's Tuesday by jumping into our panorama.
Starting off with our monster, the player that impressed us most last week's Tuesday has to be Feno.
Yeah, he was absolutely incredible for Rebels. He was dropping multiples upon multiples.
Over what I felt was a really good game plan on Shalie trying to be super aggressive on the defense as you can see here
Trying to zoom up all of the entry points, abusing the traps as much as possible and even in attack, Jack.
When it wasn't on thorn in defense, look at that round with the KD.
Yeah, a great showcase about a new S3 worktop right here.
Using the calls to finish off an injured player, of course, when the phone does eventually ring out.
It will explode and do that damage as well, so any injured player picks up the kills and then uses it in a really smart fashion here.
in the game. He was incredible.
Well, nothing's that I wanted
to highlight. Actually is the
M. L monsters from play days
one through four. We asked no
well, of course we know about
Noah's capability, but the
team that he's on deadshot and
then Feno as well. I think
realistically, the biggest
person me, Leo actually, is
the player that he's been
playing with for a long time.
He's been playing with him
for a long time, but he's
been playing with him for a
long time. He's been playing
with him for a long time, but
he's been playing with him
for a long time, but he's
actually is the teams that all four of these players represent because these are not any of our big teams
These are all teams from the lower half of the table generally speaking
Yeah, if you think about it
You expect to see teams that have been dominating in the stage and you expect to see VP Falcons G2 and in reality
You know you're not looking at the best performers in those teams in a sense that usually when a team is struggling when you have multiple
teammates that are struggling
Then you need one big carry to go and find us multiple multicolls and that's why it only happens in the lower team
Yeah, you need a hero in in that case, but for that matchup in particular Fena wasn't the only one to be getting multi kills all around the board
We also saw LMS for our moment of last week's Tuesday rolling back the years all the way back to
2016 LMS back on plain ducks. That was him. He's not 30 years old these 16
And he's just a good player right now look at this at first two kills
And then the third one here with the swing and then they tried to get the revenge
She misses the air jab because it was on the other side, and another free kill for LM.
Honestly, what a way to bring back memories.
I know everyone says it when a kind of historical legacy fly gets a big fly, but we really went
rolling back the years for that one with the LEMs, and it was so good to see.
We were all just like, on Ash, things like that really just happened.
Like, yeah, Rebels were feeling themselves.
Obviously, they've made it to the moment, and the monster now.
I hope more of that this upcoming week with the three days of season that we have for
ourselves during the EML.
But one more thing we need is the must-see for today.
We've been putting pressure on the shoulders of these players.
There's two teams in particular for today that are really going to feel that pressure.
No second chances for these teams.
This matchup, given their position in the leaderboard for GK and shifters, is such a big one.
The 18 versus the 9th team, I mean, for two of these organizations,
on one side you have an organization that has invested massively two imports,
bringing one from Brazil, the other one from the United States,
that are, you know, securing stocks, for example, who was the staple player from Fnatic.
So they've invested in this game and in this roster.
On the other hand, shifters also investing quite a lot,
getting there, investing into a bootcamp.
It's an organization that are putting in the work
and the money to back these rosters,
and yet they're all the way down, they're standing so far.
So there is a lot at stake right now,
as we see behind me on that side,
eight and ninth, this game is gonna be super important.
But why is it so important?
Because actually Super Week is massive
for every single team.
Now, if we take a look at the points and things
that the teams are currently on and their potential,
you will actually see that the teams that are currently playing out, you have between 12 and 0 points.
So there's a big disparity, but actually you can get a maximum of 9 points from the super week.
We drew the line at stage 2, 25. 11 points got you into the playoffs.
That is the first goal for every single one of these teams.
So we can confidently say, I think it's worth saying, that Virtus.pro will be involved in the playoffs in some capacity,
but they can get up to a maximum of 21.
Now nine out of the 10 teams outside of secret could pass that 11 point stage in super week alone, which means it is all to play for for everybody.
In the context of what we were just saying were shifters and GK, one of them has to win, one of them has to lose, so they will buff themselves and significantly nerf the other.
But it's not just that Leo actually, I wanted to take a look at the fixtures.
And what I did is I looked at the average position of the three opponents inside of super week and who they were playing against.
So that is pro of the three teams that are playing against, of course, the start-off against Secret today.
The average position is 8th place, which means we would expect with a decent amount of confidence
that VP would pick up a full 7-point, and for Secret it's basically the inverse opposite.
Yeah, it's basically a pass of who is going to play the weakest, all the strongest opponents,
and based off their placement, VP right now, they're in the perfect position to retain that first spot
and make sure they qualify to play off.
If there's one roster that I can trust after the super week will look in their place, it's VP.
the game. We're going to be
the first game of the day. 100%
We do expect them to stay at
the top. The only flawless
teams so far, and they seem to
have an easier run through the
super week here, but we'll get
to VP's game later. Our first
game of the day is going to be
Fnatic and Falcons. And as we
were talking about earlier,
given the standards and
everything, this game might be
an accidental bang or something
that you like to call our games
because the positions of them on
the leaderboards is really close
to each other. Fnatic are
having a great time, but the
That's exactly it. We're in a kind of strange situation, realistically, talking about Fnatic.
They're sitting in third place, they're going up in their top four engagement,
they actually think this could be about Fnatic's playing well, yet the opponent they've played against,
Falcons, who were previously known as Team BDS, they've lost every single time.
That being said, Leo, they have made it close as well in free out of those four fixtures.
And the last fixture was actually super close, although we last year, 7-8 loss.
And if there's one moment that I can believe Fnatic can take down Falcons,
It's probably right now. You know, it had taken years for Fnatic to finally be able to win multiple matches in a row,
as we see here, than defeating Geekay in a convincing 7-2, and also beating Heretic's Unclebouse.
It's a team that has put up nine points in the last three games. It's something that never happened before.
And on the other side, we're looking at a Falcons that is maybe struggling a little bit, maybe doubting a little bit,
at least who have suffered some loss of points.
So if there is one moment for Fnatic to try and keep his momentum and prove us they can take some big teams and take them down, it's that moment.
And you know what? It must be nice for them as well because because of what they've done over the last three hours of the four play days, this game must feel like a free hit.
Imagine they'd maybe struggled as they did in previous stages, as they did, you know, basically the last two years.
If we've been brutally honest, they maybe would have felt a little bit pressure right now.
right now. They're kind of
expected to lose the game
because Falcons are the bigger
team on paper, but also they
get that free hit because
they've already accumulated a
lot of points, you know, nine
out as well. Put some in a
fantastic position going into
the Super Week. Yeah, exactly.
And you got a strike when your
prey is wound in this case of
Falcon. We can talk about this
roster a little bit as well.
They're opponents for today as
you mentally some startles,
right? They play two teams
inside the top four to teams
outside of it. But so far to
wins and two losses. It's
probably not where Falcons
would want to see themselves
after four matches. We used to
used to know them especially last year as like the ultimate favorites of the league.
They were still head and shoulders above everyone because of that reputation of reaching every
single grand final.
I think slowly but surely I'm starting to see that reputation slow down and I think that's
because VP is looking so consistent.
I think that's because G2 actually won the game.
So like I think I look at these guys and I'm like I'm thinking Falcons, they're slowly
losing that confidence a little bit in the eyes of the viewers.
I think that's the symptom that happened to Salt Lake City as well. If we go back to the Salt Lake City Major, nobody was talking about them.
Nobody was really fearing them.
They had that fear factor for so long and it's kind of a beautiful juxtaposition really in that you've got Falcons who are always at every
Event. They will make playoffs. They will make so far.
I would probably put my house on the making in the Lucy even being honest, but at the same time speaking about them as if their failure
Because we know their level can be so high
So the fact that they're not currently sitting or challenging for the top of the table top of the league and don't really look like they're going to
I didn't want to go into off the back of the form this last week is a little bit of a concept.
And we hold them to high standards as well, right?
We expect that from this team going into here, but for this whole matchup, I want to see our map fader,
because the lobby is almost ready. We just need to know what we're thinking before we can dive into this game.
Border is a map selective.
I thought that was an interesting choice on the side of Natic.
In the sense for me is, if you just look at the traditional playstyle of the two teams,
if Natic's trying to play the better fundamental game,
So going on a map like Consulate, like Clubhouse, like Lair for example, they will struggle because it's a map that requires a team that has really good defaults and clearly that's not a strong suit for Fnatic and it is a strong suit for Falcons.
So what do you do in that position? You take them on a gambling map, a map where everything is about the TDM, the multi-kills, border, mix and fund paper, higher-heur jack, strong one for Falcons.
Yeah, it is a strong one for Falcons. We've already seen them beat Swiss Mines on at this stage. They do play a lot. They do love the map. Just quickly on a Fnatic point.
I mean, it's a free hit for them.
You know, they've got the nine points.
They've seen this game as a complete free hit.
Play a permanent ban.
Play to individual terms and just see what happens.
Thanks for an exciting game, though, hopefully,
and a lot of chaos between these two teams.
But as the lobby is slowly getting ready,
we'll talk to our casters for today.
We're once again joined by Ace and Des for today's matches.
Guys, it is a super week.
There's a heat wave going on.
How are we feeling?
You're telling me?
I've got a father right now.
I've washed my hair and the camera is through this all the time.
I'm not sure if we can show
that on broadcast. I think we
should stick with the with our
state action for today, but as
the lobby is almost ready, I
think it's time that we send it
to you two for the first game
of the day. Thank you very much,
guys. Indeed. Hello. Welcome to
the casting desk. This is Tim.
This is the ML. This will be a
fun one. Actually as well
because we were looking at all
the games today. This is the
one thing that we were talking
about. Yeah, I think we should
stick with the with our state
action for today, but as the
lobby is almost ready, I think
a lot of players. They've got
three wins in a row. They've
got some serious momentum, and I
would not write them off in
this one. And the third in the
tables in this table Falcons,
which is very interesting. Of
course, I've got some challenging
games coming up this no doubt
being one of them. If they
overcome this game here, it's
going to get very, very
interesting to see where they
finish it could even finish
inside of our top four, which
gives you a good placement
going into playoffs. Of course,
you're not going to be able to
get to the end of the game.
You can describe it. So the
high you finish the better come
at the end of it. And again,
maybe you're hearing us talk
about this and thinking you
guys, the heat is going to your
head. There's just no way this
goes where you think it is like
fanatic are not beating Falcons.
Well, let's also talk about the
map a little bit in border
because that has been a fanatic
pervan for the longest time.
You don't bring this map out
unless you have a game plan plan
to beat the team that you're
coming up against and Falcons
the last few months or so. They
are definitely, you know, God's
complete. I think there is a
world here where they do genuinely
lose this game. Obviously I want
to see them push on and keep
performing at the level we know
they can for a long time. They're
our team from Europe that will
make it to all these grand
finals. I want to see him back at
this level. But the big question
everyone's mind is how long does
it take to get back to that
point? I totally agree with you.
I think the only the only word
of caution that I would give
I think that's why I'm not
sure what I would say is that
fanatic have likely been
cooking something up. Um but I
would say that border is. Is
it the map to be cooking
something up on because it's
rather simplistic. It's a very
small map. It is a very old
map. There is nothing new on
border. There is nothing on
border that we haven't and the
you're going to have to come
in and win gunfights rather
than have this big tactical
plan. If you were saying that
to me about layer fortress
not even happy. Oh, yeah,
let's see what they've got.
Let's see what they bring into
the table. I'm a little bit on
the concern side for frantic.
If that's the game plan, if
it's like, right, no, we've got
a border that we're going to,
you know, blow your minds with
this border because I feel like
we probably will have seen a
lot of it before. You know
It feels like the kind of music you get at a beach club somewhere.
I've got a tango zeroed, cherry sugar free drink in my hand.
It's not quite a cocktail, but the heat's there.
Even though I'm missing your son at a beach.
We've had a great time so far.
I did think ahead and I did put some water in the fridge earlier.
So I do have an ice ice cold drink.
I do have a fan on me.
But this isn't our first time.
You know, we've cast through heat waves before.
We're well prepared.
We know what it's all about.
And the question really on everybody's lips
I think it's also a bit of a
target into war spatter, because
played an awful lot of game
on flights. This is most paid
operator. It's his most paid
operator. Deep playing on it
last week as well. I'm there
like all people to play them
I think it's also a bit of a target in some wars, but that's because played an awful lot of Amos players.
This is his most played operator, this is his most played operator.
He had a deep head playing on it last week as well, on rare, like all people to play Amos.
Deepfuck wasn't the player that I ever had in mind, so that makes sense.
And I think taking away the doctrine moves that pairing, right?
You know what Leo's like, he gets a little bit sensitive when you see bombs coming the way that aren't in pairs.
very happy to see that. It does mean the Staker left online, which the citizens go to for the
majority of their games. He's also his most paid operator, but I'm looking down his list now actually.
Staker at the top, then Davos, then Dockabee. Gee, I wonder what's coming as their third potential
band team. Of course we'll see if that's a very early point in his first few rounds. They are on
the attack team and I'm looking at their line-up, seeing the Amaro onside. I'm seeing the Candelas,
I'm seeing a shield. That's the means screams that we have got a set-piece plan in mind.
Yeah, absolutely. They're going to be
shaking up. We will get a better idea as
the first sort of minute, minute and a half goes by
exactly where that attention is going to
go. Deadshot's actually going in
underneath. So I think it's maybe
going to be a zip up a hatch. So this is
going to be to deal with and get them purchased
inside of CCTV.
We're going to have utility going in. They're
not messing about here. We've seen this before.
Razor Blooms are in position.
One is down. Well confirmed.
Well done for a fanatic, but Leica
back stands tall manager to
take out dead shot June onto
citizen and I don't want to say
it too soon but I come back to
what I said there's border. We
have seen it all. There is very
little new that you're going to
bring to the table. It was a
great attempt at clearing CCTV.
It was a great execute of going
in there behind the shield, but
we saw it at Salt Lake. We've
seen it at other places and
Falcons were ready for it. There's
four versus two.
was really good for fanatic, but just when they take that little moment of
pause where things start to go very very wrong. One freebie coming out as a second
one. It's on through. Smith's also going to talk about it after the round, Tim.
But now he's left a minute of one versus two, still not a bad recovery.
Now he's a one versus two to come out, but there's a C-4 from Breeday.
Falcons will get round one, but it wasn't a come on to Smith's and say the fact
that he survived that jump in the first place is pretty miraculous.
And I said this last week, watching them on there, I'm watching him week on week.
And given he was a rookie a year ago, it never really played siege until a year
the league, but I think it's
like this. A few years ago, he's
growing in confidence with
every single play day, and yes,
that first round has gone
against them, but you can't
ignore the fact. He's got a
three K out of it. And I think
it again speaks to kinda what
I'm saying. Tactic like
strategically is difficult to
surprise anybody. How are you
going to win rounds here? But
I put yourself in a position
like Smith to win a couple of
gunfights that's border through
and through, and I think that's
as it was they struggled to get themselves any real map control that time they lost too many bodies going into CCTV
Falcons stood at where it was like a fact particularly in his movement getting that first kill dipping away not really
You know committing too much to the fight and then it just took a lot of this thing out of the push from fanatic
So that was really well organized really calm and collected from Falcons
I'm impressed with that from their side attacking clay. I like that from fanatic. It was explosive. It was exciting
you know, it's not like you
can't get it. You can't get
it. It was trying something.
It wasn't just sitting outside
of the map hoping to get picked.
So I like it. But also, all
kinds are going to be prepared
for those sorts of place. We
love an underdog team. Didn't
we? It's built into brief blood.
You just love backing an underdog.
Of course, it should have been
to the end there. You can't
ignore Falcons response around
that. You know, quite a bit of
pressure coming in on towards
this, especially to try to
the game. They're not
going to be able to get the
ball. They're not going to
get the ball. They're not
going to get the ball. They're
not going to get the open hell
one coming from break one
coming out from main breach
one coming into the 90
rotate. That's the sort of
play that you'll see top
teams pulling off repeated.
They'll always make sure
they've got the basis covered
even if they lose one. There
is someone there ready for
the trade now. Smith did get
to before he got traded, but
they knew they had quite a
superior man advantage in a
four versus two. They could
still come away on top. So I
say no massive complaints on
that side. Also we're
the game. We've been playing
last week. For those who don't
know. Last week we have what
probably will look like on
paper is the most like balance
match, which you could
possibly ask for the best
protested minds. We had G2
Valhkans, never kind of our top
four teams. That's it versus
shifters. We've often said around
56 place teams is kind of
deciding who fits where the
rebels secret GK versus heretics
for who the bottom four that
was last week. This week every
match of the six that this one
looks quite dominant because
later coming up, we've got
the game. I think that's the
game. It's the game that's
twisted minds against secret
and versus pro against
heretics. Last week, we nearly
had seven fours the whole way
through. I think if you kind of
took those score lines and put
them on this week, you say,
yeah, that feels probably
about right. Do you think we
get more dominant score lines
today? Or do you think we
actually see some surprises in
there and games get even closer
than last week? I think they'll
be. At least one surprise in
there. I think at least one
I'm looking at that GK shifters game and I'm thinking yes, you're looking at and you think yes shifters should win that and they should do
Realistically, I'm not sure it's going to be quite as clean cut as that
So if you're looking for surprises definitely look towards game two
I would also look towards game four never really sure what to expect from twisted minds
I think they are definitely the better team than secret we've seen secret struggle week after week
it's not. It's not. It's not
unique. However, it's twisted
man. So you just never really
know because they're placed
that is so unique. It goes in
and it's kind of a test every
single time to see how teams
will react to it and how
players will react to it. So
that's I still think I don't
think they'll be surprised
there for me. I'm saying it's
a twisted man's win, but
equally if at the end of the
day, I look at that and it's
you can play in. We've got one
that's got a bunch of talent and
never calling it talent list
because that's what we all are.
Who's currently top of that
fresh is of course is fresh
completely forgot to I
completely forgot to update it.
Oh, well, that means you lose
to me because you're only 12
points ahead. Mate on. No, I'm
at it. Yeah. No, my team should
be pretty solid, though,
actually looking at it. You
tend to pick players from these
top five teams anyway, right?
I've got I've got the Luna's
to be on that as well. I
think I've got two minds about
those two of my mind was
twisted, you might say, because
I think those two are
brilliant, but you never quite
sure which play and which
game is to be the one that
performs better. So it's a bit
like. I can't put it on. Dove in
case you can't show up again. So
I can't put it on him. So we've
got a pixel one else. I thought,
you know what? I'll just take
both. Forget about it and
captain, but our coach have gone
for Mario. He gave me big points
and we want to look 103 points
off him or something crazy
daft in week when it was really
good. I'm hoping this week with
your mess up. I'm going to be
I'm not sure what to do. I'm
catching up to do to get to
demos in fourth place and just
ahead of him. And then
fresh. You put the topics about
nearly 200 points ahead of me
at this point. I got work to
do. You do. But, uh, yes,
for me. It's just over. I was
gonna say I'm second in N. A,
but no medicine, just over me
by like any of the point. Any
I'm doing better. You still
the game. It's very cool. It's
very much. Just by quite away.
Yet is the NA cast there. Don't
think of it Jesse. I do love
him. Project Prisma, I think
he's very deeply involved in. So
again, reminder, guys, if you do
want to play along, you can even
make a group and get your mates
involved is project Prisma dot
org slash fantasy. It's very
cool. Very much enjoying it,
though I do want to see it in
some point in the future like
players have a value associated
with them, and you have to build
a certain squad. Otherwise
that. I think it's a good
point. So maybe next stage. We'll
see. It's currently top overall.
That's considered the overall
leaderboard. The top person has
got 1154 points. Damn you.
Points. Uses getting the most
points per match. I had him in
the squad last week because I
did think that very because him
and Benj are I think especially
been very, very consistent. So
I've always been watching out for
those two. Well, Alkins are
What?
Falkins again.
First place 5000, 10th place has got 2500.
How does that happen?
Falkins can't use us to show up
to beat Fnatic if they're going to come out
at them aggressively as they have done so far
if you've just joined us.
We are only after, you've only missed
one round. We've just got a little bit of a tech
pause as you can see. We're getting that resolved
as we go. I'm reading chat now.
You have a little read of chat there.
But we are delayed, can't we?
that's all you missed. And
Vulcans actually stood up to it
really, really well. And as a
point, you know, so the border
is a perma ban for fanatic. We
explain this at the beginning,
so we expect that they've come
here with a real plan because
normally they wouldn't play here,
so they've kind of been saving
it, but we're looking at it now
and like said, it's very
difficult to bring anything new
on border. And we did kind of
see that in right one because
they still got punished even
though they had a very clear
game plan. So we'll see how
things go, but it's currently
Falcons one zero for anybody
who's turned up and is one.
is one. So I scroll to the
X Papa Smurf it's so hot and
air quotes. It's 90 degrees
Fahrenheit in the UK right
now. It's 109 Fahrenheit in
Arizona. Heat wave. La Mal. Yeah
we've heard that one before. We
know we know, you know. But
trust me when you've been here,
it is different. It is
different. It's like I said,
it's mostly down to the
construction of the buildings
because we don't have a lot of
you know, you can do a lot of
things around the world. I've
flight. They'll call it central
air or you know, so you can do
heating and air conditioning
from the call the central air.
I guess they have. Yeah, you
have central heat. I could
stand corrected if I'm wrong,
but I'm pretty sure that
central air is a term that's
used because it's basically
like it will do heating and
air conditions so it can do
both. Um and it's controlled
centrally from a thermostat,
which is where the central
building. You know, it's
been a lot of places around
the world. It's not uncommon in
your domestic properties,
particularly to have the ability
to cool heat, whatever else, but
also in line with that, it's not
just about having the gadgetry,
the technology and being able to
do air conditioning and things
like that. It's about the
construction of the houses as
well. And what you're doing to,
you know, obviously in colder
places in more moderate
climates like the UK generally
you know, our attics are absolutely full of insulation,
stopping all designer and keeping this heat in.
So the problem is it does get warm,
but you'll notice it yourself does that.
You go out and you think,
oh, it's cooled down a bit now.
It's like, you know, about to get to 7, 8 PM
and you think, oh, it's actually cooled off a lot now.
So people see it and they're like,
oh, it's only 20 degrees Celsius.
It's like, what's the problem?
But it's in, you would then walk into a building
and it's just, ah, feelingly hot inside
because it's just been heated up all day
and it holds onto it all.
that's the main problem for us,
especially when you're sat in a room like I am with three screens on,
studio lights, and a PC that's been running for half of the day,
really does not help matters.
I've got a really good one for you.
A mini air conditioning unit, won't you?
Well, what happened to me?
When you say mini, because I made this take early on,
I bought one, very stupidly bought one,
well, like you meant to put ice in a tray,
and then obviously, like, you put it at the tray at the very bottom,
and then the cold air rises into the fan,
and then it blows cool air over you.
Don't bother, it's the biggest waste of time.
I mean, I'm so portable, but I'm
portable. It's probably the
problem with those that you've
got to worry about the exhaust
hose window and that's that's a
real nuisance. But we managed
that. Okay. Maybe maybe I just
get him to cut the window out of
my office and just get a proper
fire. Yeah, I'm sure everybody
where I live will be really
happy about driving down the
street and seen a big industrial
air conditioning units stuck on
I was like, it's quite an investment to me if every summer is going to be like this for two or three months. I'm like, it probably just start becoming worth it at some point. Just right now. I'm like, Oh, I'll hold off a little longer and then I'll crack and finally decide to do it. I'll let you know I get on what really made me left work earlier.
I speak into one of my guys and he's got an event he's going down to on Wednesday in Bournemouth. And he was like, Oh, I messaged to organize early. We're sponsoring it. So can't back out. And he's a bit like, I've got to go down. I'm going down by myself. I've told you the person that's come to be really hot.
and I asked them, you know, what's the game plan? They're like, Oh, we're going to like get this
and bear in mind, this is a business networking event. Oh, we're going to do it on the beach.
And he was a bit like, okay, he's like, have you got an alternative plans in case it's hot? And
they were like, oh, we're spoken about it this morning, we're going to go ahead. It's going to be
35 degrees. Oh, that's it. And I was, and I was just like, if they're not all considered,
might have to be inside somewhere. It's like, no, they haven't got anywhere booked and it's too
late now. They're just going to give it a go. He was like, I'm coming back like a lobster. I was
like, absolutely. Please take a lot of liquid with you. Okay. Now they're like, they're like,
you know, the next two to
one. They'll turn up now and
they won't be providing water
for anyone. It was like beer
or something, which sounds
fantastic. Except it's
dehydrating and that will be
the most insufferable few hours
of your life. It will suck.
Yeah, some cream of water by
the by the bucket full. I
think by the sense of that
10th place is made to 991
points. Actually, it's not
like maybe I read the scroll
over to the next one. Maybe
I think it's a good start. I
think it's a good start. I
think it's a good start. I
think it's a good start. I
think it's a great terrifying.
But I'm realizing is just
grab the top teams and just
win. Maybe for join late. I
can still catch up. Saying
that. How many days to see an
odd been played now? Um, I
want to say a few more. I think
this is like the week before. I
did look at it. So I've been
keeping up with CML. Um all
game as a quick heads up for
those wondering, by the way,
we understand a waffling for
absolute no reason. Apparently
the game. We're going to be
back in the game as far as we
know where everyone is
connected with waiting to get
ourselves restarted again. So
hopefully very soon. Tim see you
now go. So all gamers have just
lost their first game. Uh of
the stage. That's going to be
one of the teams that everybody
knows because they were at
Salt Lake, of course. So all
gamers have just lost their
first there. Five and one. So
yeah, the six games in so they
just slightly ahead of us only
by a couple of games, not by
too much. And then Edward
gaming. The other team that a
not only 5 and 0 at the minute. They're also 10 and 0 in terms of maps. So in CNL, they play
best of three through the stage. I'm pretty sure I'm right in saying that. It's not too
like it used to be in Brazil, is it? No, no, it's best of three. Sorry, for anybody who doesn't know,
a little bit of seized low for you. Back in the day, 2021, we used to play in Brazil the best of
two maps. So you could have a 1-1 draw. But I think that's the only area that's ever been used in.
So, no, it is best of three. Edward Gaming 10-0 on maps, so they are absolutely flying.
But interestingly, we've got some new teams coming through that we didn't see in Salt Lake City that we haven't heard of.
So, four angry men who you did see in Salt Lake, another one that you're going to be familiar with the names of,
they are currently one and five. They've had a real drop off when they've gone back to this next stage.
Really, really struggling to get themselves going, which of course opens up opportunities for the other teams.
and we've got Tyloo who have climbed up into third and then that we haven't heard yet and who knows we may be seeing them you know at an event in the near future.
We've got King Zero Esports, they're another one that are kind of coming to the fore, one coin as well.
So yeah, it's all going on in CNL at the minute, all going on.
Someone has asked him and almost regret asking the question, how's the garden in this heat?
the garden's fine. Um so I make
sure that it's if anything
actually. All joking is that you
know, I know we have we have a
bit of fun around the garden and
you know, genuinely the vegetable
patch is being great for. For
what? I don't know if I'd go as
far as saying like the mental
mental health, but just
honestly so relaxing. I get up
We kind of get up and we're active in the morning getting ready for you know
My wife going to work and daughter school and all that sort of stuff
So we kind of active from maybe around 7 a.m. On which we're getting up. We're getting sorted
So what I tend to do is once I've kind of got everything in motion
And I make sure that my daughters on with whatever she needs to be doing to get ready
And you know roll on top of stuff and I tend to just go and have like 10 minutes
I'm days like today where it's nice and warm in the morning and it's not lashing it down
I go outside and I'll have like 10 minutes just looking after him and I'll do it
you know any little bits of weed in that you know if anything's like kind of cropped up or
I'll straighten stuff up or and I tend to when it's warm weather like this I'll make sure that
they get a water in and so that they're nice and nice and good for the day ahead of the heat and
then if it's really hot I can ask them if they're going to be fine during the day just to make sure
that I'm keeping on top of it. But it's actually been fantastic and the potatoes and the onions are
I've got a scoop for you, not only the potatoes and onions driving. I planted my daughter want me to plant a sweet corn plant as well. So I planted corn and it looked like it was doing nothing. It looked like it was dead, to be honest. And I kept saying to her, look, I'll just keep walking. I'll leave it alone and we'll see what happens when it's coming through, guys.
It's been resurrected and it is absolutely thriving.
It's rocketing up right now.
So we might just have Corn added to the list as well.
I'm rocketing up at the thoughtless being back in game, Tim.
We're here now, I'm ready to go. Let's do it!
So if you missed round one, it was last year at this point.
It was a nice step back from Van Asic.
It was like a nice little rush in to begin with.
We did in the mile on side, the beginning on side,
just lost team very, very quickly, then couldn't push on full
from the three versus four to see the round out.
But we'll see if they can change things up here going into our next round.
Falcons meanwhile, they look pretty solid in round one,
Tim, a real good 3v1 swing on one of the last remaining two players
when it came down to a 4 versus 2.
I can't imagine they're too concerned right now,
Juno was losing his life.
The Smithers, they're asking questions.
I really like that from Fanatic again.
Great intel, we saw the Twitch drones spotting him out.
They knew Junes' position on Catwalk,
and then they've gone and challenged with, I would say,
probably the most appropriate operator there.
the barricades. Very difficult
to deal with and they take a ton
of health off of June, and that
was brilliant for them because
he's playing on the century. So
yes, he's got those two barbed
wires out, but he's still got an
nitro in pocket. So still a lot
of value in taking that utility
off the board if they get the
opportunity still five versus
five. But as a speak citizen,
you said that he's been enjoying
playing with solid snake and he
continues to do so manages to
as well. Smith finishes shooting off eventually. 4 vs 3, not looking good for Balkans.
Smith's got a miss man. His 3 kills back in the first round, he's got a good one now,
waiting room balcony to stop the C4 being pulled by Rideg. Not a Rideg star, I know,
his shooting was underneath. Either way, 4 vs 3, surely Fnatic field, they're in a pretty
good spot. So not to question it over the line, but at least get good map control. Rideg
has to drop away, but a C4 here could really play spoiler if Fnatic aren't careful.
Yeah, just waiting for his moment. I think I'd like to go back in pocket. If I'm honest, I'm not sure he calls it. No, he is going to go for it.
He knows he's there. It comes and it's a double! Beautiful stuff from Breeday finding his way outside of the window.
And that really does level things up two versus two now. But there is a little bit of a health advantage Breeday now.
pretty low after all that chip damage so for 40 seconds I have to go what are you gonna do with it
again it's just one of them where you've got a big advantage them a little bit like
does it still hold 3 days was flirting with that c4 so many times over and now they've only got 30
seconds of which could work popping out the base of loon behind him they had at least a yellow ping
for a second onto a player downstairs but they have already moved away they shot at the upstairs
and joined him here because someone has got to provide cover from this hatch it has to be Smith
that makes the drop. I'm a little bit nervous for him though Tim and now we go once again.
Not quite seeing his man but Smith's told you we don't miss the date Tim.
Breed is going to find four kills in the round. He drops down now working his way behind it feels
like they know about it at the same time. Angle beating out and Deadshot's got the kill.
Fnatic recover and take round two. Yeah it was a great effort from Falkens fighting back in there
but Fnatic not going to be rattled, managed to dig deep. Smith's onto users was the most
important kill in that 2v2. It just opened things up because users was the full health operator.
Breeder, low health. When he has to make a push, you're then looking at it thinking,
even if Deadshot is not up in the right way, the chances are he probably comes away with the kill
here because Breeder is so low health. He's only going to land one bullet. So that there is your
moment where Fnatic win it. 2v1, they lock it out and they get themselves around. 1-1, they are on
the attack so we expect them to be taking rounds here on boarder and that is a good second round for
them. Yeah I was a bit nervous when they only had top floor control and I thought well surely at
this point you're just going to find Falcons dig themselves in, hold the cross on the drop and it's
all going to be over before you can blink but I think initial spray that came up there when Smith
got his second kill of the round I was a bit like ah that's the kind of challenge you've got to be
careful of but had Falcons walked away the way off the back of a kill onto Smith in that position
similar to our geniuses.
They're just getting kills from downstairs.
Constantly, the WC4 from Breidae was beautiful.
Both teams showing quite a lot of nice background.
Now we'll see how things develop in the third round.
Yet again, no big surprise.
We've got Falcons upstairs
trying to hold up around office, around archives,
but it is going to be a batter and tellers attack.
The batter and tellers looking across the line
are again relying on Smith's widow shields,
rather than back here this time,
bringing along the Blitz which is...
By the way, Seth, the corn is going to overtime.
I hope it is. It's certainly activated in overtime, put it that way.
I hope it's got a 15th round in it.
I respect that, that's a good comp.
I hope it's got a full 15 in it, there's.
Snake is going to spot out... No, it's not citizen, sorry,
it's deadshot rather than citizen.
It's going to spot out the player on each.
The Blitz has been brought to deal with this position.
I was going to say Blackbeard previously has been the gore too, but this time they want to be able to get aggressive, go up in the face
and that's exactly what they are now going to do. Clear out the utility.
Trying to get down there, but the smoke was not well placed.
User still gets his line of sight that he needs.
Ticks down the shield and fanatic.
How do you respond to losing the tip of the spear?
And it's hard, but it's like, you can't eat a thing.
You have to never mind, they're turning it around.
What? I'm throwing a kills then shot again. Almost got a third, but no.
He's got a couple of kills so there's no way that he's like slipped the net.
He's gone under the radar and they're not sure where he is.
One minute 25 left on the clock, so they've got an absolute age of time to play with as well.
And users, you know, by contrast, just kind of has to sit and wait for his opportunities here.
Are you going to be able to get into the lead in this game?
I'm going to be able to get into the lead in this game.
I'm going to be able to get into the lead in this game.
I'm going to be able to get into the lead in this game.
he knows that there's one pushing
above. He knows that there's one
down around passport somewhere,
but he just needs to wait for the
chances. The next gunfight is
absolutely critical. Either
fanatic win the round or they are
in a 1v1 and I wouldn't like that
against users. I don't like this.
I don't like that. Where I stated
here, that's my main point of
worry because you give you a
chance to be now separate one
versus one to drop yourself away
here, but no wizard a little bit
too quick. I'll catch him out
finally sniffed out the rat and
said fanatic erupts two and one
you. You're going to be able to
do it. One on the attack of
border. Nice. Yeah. Good stuff.
Good stuff. Fnatic. I think, you
know, again, I say there's a
moment there with that to be one
where you're come on, guys.
Catch up. You've got one upstairs.
One downstairs. That's a bit of a
problem, but they did. They
connected. They got themselves
together and they created an
opportunity where one pushed
users out of position and they
have a got the kill brilliant
stuff coming in from fanatic to
I think it's not as easy for
Falcons as many might think and
fanatic approving that that is
the case right now looking good
in the first three rounds and
the pens come out. It's not
will be the last as you predict
the deaths and Nomad will be
the.
No, so listen to now.
I wasn't so less.
Of course, the logos are too
similar, obviously for my
eyes.
The heat is in front of my screen.
I was going to say then, I was talking to the coach who was there yesterday, Tristan actually,
and one of the, if you do this thing over the last week, just to really take the piss and windmill,
just to drop in headlines about it, the people aren't saying on social media, it's just like,
ah, you know, for that to affect the, the only team to take X many rounds away from VP,
it's like the first and the last week, so yeah, sure mate, whatever.
The one thing that actually came to be yesterday was genuinely quite interesting,
He was looking at the 5v4 conversion percentage and the 4v5 conversion percentage of all teams in Europe.
For that sake right now, our joint top of G2 for converting 4v5 rounds.
Look at the previous round, what happened?
Mr. Thur entry depth and they still managed to push on and win it.
Which I'm pretty sure now pushes them to top of that table, at least for now.
Either way, the point he was making was the team aren't half bad at winning from Manda's advantage situations.
Third Context right down at the bottom is Team Secret, just 15% and only 3 of the 20, 4v5 stepping in.
But it does show you can't really count when that's hit or she too, out or around even when they lose the entry.
They will of course be looking to continue getting the entry if they can.
We've had two out of three so far.
He was just managed to get it last time but it did not result in a round win.
around when Camdolli going in very early here from VPK, on with some utility as well. I think it's just
a bit of a bit of a bait and switch, trying to create a little bit of noise. I'm always
a little bit conscious of it. It's not really paid off. Deadshot loses his life to a Nitro.
The five versus four, and it's some hefty utility to throw in, and not really getting too much for
it in return. I'll give a shout out to Fett for this, actually. Did a really good video. I recommend
I recommend watching it as well about Shuffleforia Bay on this map and how they make use of sense of the bait and the 18-1 of their games into flew back towards site
and then cutting them on the rotates back towards site and getting kills that then saw them ultimately win out the round.
I think Fnatic of Half tried the same there. Just in trying to force players to try and move back towards site.
Or maybe they are actually hitting us here. Maybe someone is going into Sandwich Window.
We've got a swing. They were looking to try and get a free kill, but ultimately no one on the side of Falcon's move.
They're playing this game a bit too often now, I'm afraid, Tim. They know what it is they're trying to do and aren't going to fall baits.
simple ploys. Either way, Ibiza Falcons are in a four versus these Anastas.
Tim looks around one and now a little bit of an impasse. They're a little bit stuck
in trying to figure out what the next game plan is.
Next one to keep an eye on, of course. Already worked a bit of magic last time
they were in this position, got himself three kills off the back of it.
But do they know about the sandwich player off towards the dry sea floor
from swinging over and the player then drops down through the hatch.
As soon as they've bought the back of it, they're going to find no one.
But Falcons are making it very hard to punish them here, Tim.
Yeah, there is this absolutely ton of utility being thrown in either direction.
aware of his position and could well work into a real flank.
Manchester rotate all the way over here, you're just going to have to drop away and now that
means a couple of players have to drop downstairs over all from the side of Falcons. Now, 3D at
least has worked his way back up top. It's the main breach, just to focus those stairs. It's good for
what? In goes Smith making the cross with the shield as you just get one more back. A lot
of work has got to be done here by Citizen to hold on, but they're going to try and make the plant happen.
Instead, Shepple killed for Citizen, could he hold on towards the cross, but he knocked away? And just the
time and cost his team unfortunately, but that is a siege timing moment and a half.
That's absolutely heartbreaking from citizens perspective there. I think he's just unhappy
with the cover that he's that he's offering for whatever reason. I think, you know, very quickly
thinking, I don't want to be criticised, look, these guys are way better. I think the angle of
cover is pretty good. Nobody can cross unless he was worried that maybe he'd already crossed,
but no he can't cross because he's holding him from there and I'm just off the top and I'm thinking
what is it that's causing that discomfort for him and I'm wondering if maybe it's his position
because he's on his on Armory Dora so if there has been a flank and again this is very much
ifs and buts if there's a flank happening through CCTV he's then easily killed from CCTV because
he's like so it's almost like he wants to get inside if you're he's really what he wants to get
inside. It's so difficult, not critical, it's one of them. We can see everything that's
happening. It's a real shame for him, an absolute heartbreaker, but it's well played
by Vulcans as well, just using that impression. He knew he had to go for it, Breedane. He
managed to win out a tricky 1v2 for his team there to bring it back to 2-2, but what an
end into a round, and that was...
Okay, well let's stay in back and net between both teams so far, so you won't complete it.
Round one a good attempt, but one that ultimately Falcons shut down,
two really good rounds from Fnatic to see it over the line, even from a four versus five.
And that last one, canowns for a matter of pixels,
otherwise, Edvin gets the closing kill and is free one to Fnatic, and I imagine the alarm bells
start to go off of Falcons HQ as a result. Look, it scores deep back in this round though,
I'm looking at the glass team and we're seeing glass used by many a team,
very, very good for dropping down, the smoke stepping inside of it, and just giving good
cover knowing that no one can easily challenge you back, so it can be very good for taking
ground in the first place, or of course, very good for an ex-fuse itself.
East stairs has been taken quickly, we've seen this repeat of different fanatics in
Method, and lots of other teams, to be fair, using the shields to get into top-east, and
just pulling offenders out of position is nothing new. Neither is the position inside
to see TV holding this is a nasty one. No one that we don't see too often just
sitting right on that threshold here is June waiting for his opportunity and if
he's patient he might just get it is a little bit of drawing going on from
citizen I think it is on the twitch he sees in pass doesn't quite get the
chance will he come back for more I don't think so at this point but June
showing great patience here.
Still a player that we spoke about a few times over the last couple of weeks
on broadcast, on the podcast, you know, what's, what does he look like in this team? And I've said
for a while, it feels like he's sort of playing in the middle of the team. That's a freebie for
June, citizen paying the price. And I like a drone work, biting the team in the back side. But yeah,
June, not really an entry player for the team. It's definitely been more of this midline player,
and it's given them a nice bit of structure. Would have to really wait in for that to shine,
because now looking back and Solis are playing as a double entry is good. It just hasn't quite
clicked in the right way just yet. Great start then. For Falcons, it's been, as you say,
taking off the board, maybe just a little bit
lacks on the drones for trading for him,
has he been the person droning and though
they are now going to be pressured by
Smith on the Blackbeard, looking to move forward
take second mirror window, going to take a little
bit of damage on the feet, though I like
that from Breeday, not over committing
switching up his angle of attack
Nitro goes out from below, hasn't triggered it yet, will do
doesn't find his man
Breeday as the 3, as Smith and Deadshot got one
a piece in the melee there
solo top, low health as well
right now you've got to say thematic on top of things they have top floor control completely in
their possession they are a little bit limited in what they can do with it though all they can do
is really spray through the floor no soft destruction available no selmas left anymore
so they are going to be having to work larger with what they've got. Too easy there as well Smith
pinned in the corner no support for the bullcull of nosy isolating gets the kill leaking back into a
a good one himself and this time around the clock is going to be their ally. They're shot
on a seven a great game so far up with five to two teams but I'm afraid that's where this one is
going to end and Falcons will go up to three and two. It could run from Falcons there. I like how
they played that. They didn't crack under the pressure. It wasn't an easy round for them.
Fnatic did a very good job of pressuring those key positions, getting themselves CCTV, getting
themselves off his take in top floor control. Did a really good job of it but Falcons, like I said,
they weren't really scared by
that. They dropped back when
they need to. They were happy.
You know, sometimes and
sometimes it's valid to give
absolutely everything to keep
hold of top floor because that
is your hold. And if you lose
it, you know that you're going
to lose the round, but they knew
that that wasn't the case there.
So they were happy to kind of
fall away once a bit of damage
was done. Once the time was on
their side, dropped back to site
and gave themselves the
opportunity to fight later in
the round and it worked out
really well for them. And by
about a minute and a half for that. And then got his just through just reward as well.
Okay, well, I've done this before how I can speak to coaches after a game and they'll
normally say, you know, the score is the same for but there were three rounds in there that
would really ask to win. We didn't do wrong. And therefore really the score should have
been x, y and z. And I can imagine for now looking at this now I'm thinking, well, there
are a couple of rounds there, especially that one by a citizen. And I can't look and blame
It really was a nice timing moment, they'll look at that round and think, had that been half a second earlier or later, we're having a different conversation right now, it really will be one of those rounds that I'll look back on and lament at least a little bit.
Either way they could still get a 3-3 split, my only nervousness then turns to when we get on the other side, how well could Fnatic defend it, how well does Fnatic actually confound against the attack, because my eyes will very early be on them and how well they can put together attacks at a bit of pace to try and catch Fnatic off guard,
because what I think that happened while this half
is moved at pace a lot of the time.
That pace has kept Falcons on the back foot.
The bats always be reacting.
And what it does slow down in the mid-round
is that initial burst, I think,
has caught Falcons off guard
and given Fanatic the advantage in the majority of them.
Yeah, well, I think the growth from Fanatic
through the stage has been really, really good.
If you'd have said to me, after player day one,
this was what we would be seeing.
Ooh, Falcons might have been this competitive.
I wouldn't have believed you.
I wouldn't have thought that we would have got to that point.
But here we are, and they are doing fantastic,
Well really really impressive almost they've almost got me to forget the previous burns
There's leek effect managers to take down with the solotov on to citizen as well
But there is a response to the mirror is gonna be taken down
I don't think sorry it's the Fenrir actually of solotov
I don't think there's gonna be an opportunity to collect him if I'm honest
He's gonna have to crawl an awful long way to get to any kind of safety
I really don't want to be throwing good after bad by trying to get in there
There you go, solid top taken down.
Four versus three, Fnatic get themselves back into it,
but they haven't dealt with these stairs yet.
Natural course out, not going to do any damage.
Desperate by Smith, and Jim Olsen manages to make the cross.
That's pretty crucial, but now, of course,
he's got to worry about the other angle.
He's still much to the distance from the fore,
he's got to kill back in the round.
They've won the two versus one,
and Smith gets yet another,
leaking back himself though, matches that tally for the round,
and gets the second two.
Deepak and Smith have got it all to do,
but that's a great shot.
Great reaction, down goes Youssef, yet again, we're in a two versus two sim.
Yeah, these rounds are just so back and forth, aren't they?
So competitive, Youssef's just giving them the opportunity there.
I think sometimes as a defender, you want to take those parts on your own terms,
you want to know what's going on, but sometimes the right answer is,
I've got an angle, they have to move into my crosshair,
the clock is working for me and Youssef's just falling foul with that a little bit,
gives them an easy opportunity, already ADS on that position.
and they get the coastal two versus two as Smith moves into office but again
Volkins are trying to control the rain by dropping back to the side and by
holding things from down there rather than above. I'm not sure they're aware about the
position inside of that cubicle if I'm honest. No this is what the nature of Smith would do
there's so much good work but they have like you say they have absolutely no idea that he's there.
The smokes are going to help either they'll drop them maybe try and look for a plant here
but they'll be a C4 at the ready. Watch as they recover here. Jesus Pete but no!
Managed to shoot out the C4 and I meant to speak up and again though Tim because now they're out of utility
They're a little bit stuck here, they need to move but he refuses to do so one on the door one inside the cubicle
They get rid of at least one that's just falling down
Keep up with it all to do again another close round
But it's one the Falcons walk away the winner of 4-2 at the half
Yeah, perfect position from Leakey fact there just holding them up there wonderful stuff
And let's go to our studio. No doubt. They've got a lot to say guys. What a brilliant first half
Yeah, we do and there was a lot of equating from what you see we're saying about this in the game from the guys here on the
Coach talking about how close these rounds were getting and it really came down to the mid to late round exactly
I mean you've got Falcons one of the premier teams
You've got for Nassac who you know struggled over the last couple years go and head to head
Yes, it's for to the result is kind of maybe expected
I would say on the balance of histories and now we thought it's not history quite a lot
But we've got a couple of clips because for Nassay. They were so good at bringing those rounds back
I would say this round they were 4-2 up, but they suffered a devastating loss.
They suffered a C4, they killed two people, put it to 2 vs 2.
What did they do? They found a killout and played out the 2 vs 1 to win the round, but it wasn't just that round, Leia.
No, it wasn't just that round and that was the fnatic that we used to see always fail to win this kind of round.
So look, this was a 3v4 citizen. He finds the right pick on an isolated player, ECC,
you know, he's full for going there. He came down to a 2v1 and eventually they lose it.
But eventually, you know, it was a 3D4, it was a 3D4 initially, they make this round much closer than they what they should be and the old Fnatic
They were not able to do that whatsoever. Exactly, they're
Nobody ever wants to lose right you literally never want to lose around the stage you want to be 6-0 up
But if you are gonna lose around the stage
I would want it to be the way Fnatic have where they've been competitive in every single round
So yes, Falcons have been up Falcons have put a very strong defense
We know they're good at this map
But Fnatic bringing the rounds closer even if they're on the right side of the score line has been encouraging to us
Oh, yeah, they were on the attack inside of force as well
Right, that's where you're gonna see so many different things from Fnatic from who we haven't really seen this map so far yet
So going into the defense thinking about potential operator bends as well
What do we maybe hope to see that can help Fnatic at least bring a few rounds back?
I think on that map it
There aren't you know that many big important package of apparatus you can remove
I think a lot of we've seen so far on border and it was the case here for the set of
Falcons when they banned attackers it was removing crowd control operator because
All removing shields really because it's a map where a you struggle to get into the building because it's so hard to defend that everyone
Will go will train prevent you to get that is tears control that CC control
So it's probably one thing that we'll look at on the other side, you know static
Maybe they don't want to shoot deal with the shields on pretty or it's gonna be the crowd control
So either or one of the operators that may be looking to see falcons will ban is the solace they do on a lot of other maps
They know how good it is particularly on border you can see their plants from both borders got so much off
Well, so I was wondering see where falcons would bring it out in the end. They go for the Ella
They might want to play a lot more shields then then used to get rid of the Ella
We see a lot of Ella and a lot of falling in shields particularly
I mean there you go
There's a shield already selected in in that first round here for Falcons second half any predictions
What do we eat?
I think Falcons take it, they have the experience, they have the momentum right now, and despite
Nadek making it closer than we expected, I still think the experience is showing right
now.
Yeah, as soon as you got that fall too far off, depending on the border, you go into
the more favorable side in an advantageous position.
It would be a monumental effort for Fnatic now to take this in regulation in my opinion.
Take points for Falcons, it would be very good though, in the context of the top floor,
let's see how the second half plays out.
because, well, it depends, I'm going to put a cabinet on it.
For me, it depends how Falcons play here.
I don't think they need to do anything crazy.
I don't think we need to see them going for like big rushes
into sight, all right?
I think they can just grind Fnatic down here.
I think they can use the Monty.
I think they can just push into East Stairs,
just take that ground, move forward, claim something else.
And I think they can just make it very, very difficult
for Fnatic to play inside of the map.
Just dump utility in on top of positions like this
with dead shot and just make you know don't be in any rush use all three
minutes of the clock each round and I think fanatic might find it quite tough
to stand up to that okay well here we go three day on the shield no doubt we're
gonna be somewhat taking the role that we saw coming out of Smith which is to
be the main entry into the building lots of angles you're supposed to Monty's
always a good shot to help you get control of parts of the map that otherwise
might be quite difficult he's gonna start things out at the top of these
stairs but of course at the same time we'll see pressure being applied in
towards CC, which is exactly where Deadshot has gotten set up.
Typically, when you see a DMR being played here, like in the Runeo or something,
obviously, we've got Deadshot playing on the Thorn here, confident in himself to still hit these
shots at long range. Falcon's being very cautious to start things out.
That draw comes out. It does hit our free-camber, but it does not hit the Nomad of Sower Top,
and it just gets up onto the opposite side of the Thorn, and that is not ideal.
I say, Falcons, take it easy. Take your time. Take some grounding. Instead, they take each other out.
Doom is going to take down the daemons with a nade knot.
Ideal whatsoever, Falcons.
We know love to work underneath, use that trackers.
Oh, it's beautiful, mom!
Deadshot gives your car peek into a little tap fire like that.
Take his head off and explore Nurses 4.
I don't hate that because one of them was going down
in the similar fashion, you had a couple of reverse one taps
coming out the other way from Deadshot.
So one of them was going to lose it, just so happened
in the moment, he was a little bit worse off on the exchange. However, the exchange has come back
the other way. Fnatic has got the man advantage, now Brie day is looking to take control of security
at the same time. Citizen with an S6-5000 towards 9, he's going to take just that,
the hatch and get out of there, no one's there to cover him, so he'll get away scot-free.
Yeah, I love this symphonic so far, this patient approach that I kind of wanted to see
out of focus isn't really paying off, but the minute they're having to take risks,
and fanatic are a soaking up the pressure well and that's something I thought the fanatic might
struggle with a little bit on the defense was absorbing that pressure but not whatsoever.
They have been absolutely fine on top floor there despite a Monty in their face despite
losing their position inside a CCTV they've still done a great job of it. Beautiful defense from
fanatic and I tell you what could be a closer second half once again we might have just got
in by Falcons thinking that they would power on to the result now.
Very critically, you know, a big 3K for Wooten in the round two who is probably worth racing.
He's like currently our fourth lowest rated player in the league.
He's had a real tarot type. Well, if you're going to move Keith in the standings anyway,
listen to the stands, he's four post racing. He's had a really tarot time of things so far.
Which is weird because we so come at this a little bit last week when he first got picked up,
there were lots of conversations about, oh, he's like stomping, you know, like he's a
the game, like, he'll get picked up straight to the top team,
and sure enough, he did.
Anyway, have a pretty good stage when he first joined.
And then, I don't know if it's a confidence issue or what,
but he hasn't been at his best throughout the stage.
However, I think having a good round like that,
having the teammates who'll rally around,
yeah, go on with your good shit, let's go.
That's going to hopefully give him a little bit of confidence
when we see him keep on delivering.
He's up to six and four, he's playing positive.
Him, you know, Spets, Deftops,
it's all having a brilliant game so far.
It's not so deep, I guess,
it's playing a much more supportive role,
but I like how we're seeing a really good team performance
that up and after today, whereas in previous play days,
I feel that's been missing the times.
Yeah, that'd agree.
And I think things like teamwork is something
that's going to improve all the time, or at least it should do.
You've got new players in here.
You've got things that have been switched around.
They're obviously putting a lot of work in behind the scenes
to get things polished as quickly as they can.
And the work is joy.
The work is definitely joy.
And it is in things like teamwork
that it is going to be visible.
I'm not sure that shot is going
to be as, uh, you know, he's
saying that he did cross over a
second. I'm going to be scared
of anything to know that all
day. Maybe you should look. Maybe
you should be a little bit more
scared. We're getting afraid.
should be a little bit more
scared. We're not early deaths
yet. A minute into the rain,
Breida once again looking to
bully Top East stairs. They
have it back deeper into that
corridor position that we often
see, but I think it's Smith that
is playing there on the one
mind. And that's half of the
time being just halting Breida's
progress.
Sure again, Top East going to do
his poker, doesn't move across
into the water, breaks, swing
swing from Smith by finding his man, but there's a couple of warning shots onto his shoulder,
not quite the happy and found, but he knows now that he is in hot water. A difficult spot to get
to push out of, so on his belly he goes, making the cross happen, and sure enough he gets out of
there. I'm not really seeing too many players making this happen if he's completely fair to him,
but that does mean he's escaped danger. Yeah, he's done very well there, and again this is
something I said, wasn't it? I thought Granatic might struggle with, you know, a slow steady
approach grinding them down but they're not they are just working really well
they get in the cover the game in fact they're not dipping too soon there's a
minute 50 being worse today there's no top floor control from Vulcans yet
instead they've had to move down East End and Breeder is gonna get into a
position to try and put the diffuser down there's nothing really much that
can be done from above here so this is actually good workout is a very good
attack for Fnatic and as Fnatic tried to respond a couple of kills
come in four versus three and they're now in the post plan.
Well, it was just about to say that Falcons look really
unconfident. Three players outside the building and
leaking back on you, really getting himself in with 60 left,
but it was all for what you've just seen. The plan goes down
from breeding, basically solo walking into wars to slightly
be de-pecking a three versus one, but they didn't need to be
inside the map. All they had to do was wait for players to
make their crosses to respond to the plan going down and
that's how they would have got their kills. So a lot of
writing on breeding there to get it right and that's exactly
that's the way it is. It's
the way it is. It's the way
it is. It's the way it is.
It's the way it is. It's
probably what he gets away with
brilliant round for Balkans up
to five and three. Yeah, the
slow and steady does do the job
for them that time. I say
maybe just a little bit more
focused. Actually, we don't
need to waste that time on
office on CCTV on Armory
archives of all of this map
because all we're going to do
is get East there's and walk
on into sites. So so long as
we've got way in areas
secured and so long as we've
got that balcony under control,
just very, very focused, surgical precision as to where they were going and what was going to happen.
And they get the job done. 5-3 and this continues to be a great game between Falcons and Fanatic.
It does. This is where my slight worry comes in though, in those crunch moments where it really
matters. Like I thought Falcons would have the expertise, the experience, whatever else you
want to call it, to be able to hold on. And like I said, mid-round, I was a bit nervous for a moment.
They were lacking a bit of confidence and didn't really know their next action. It was Brinego
you know, it's a great way to
get away with it. It's a great
way to get away with it. So
far, paying them dividends. They've
got that two round advantage as
quick as we are into a rehost,
which Tim gives us a wonderful
time to answer a question that
someone did ask earlier on, but
we didn't have time to. What is
the UK equivalent to sweet tea in
the American South like a love
hate it or love it regional
beverage? Well, it's a bit of a
difficult one that because I'm
I'm not sure what would be comparable. Um, you know, we do have like ice teas and stuff here
It probably falls into a similar bracket. Um, you know, we do have ice tea and things here in the UK
But I would say it's not like wildly popular. It's like, you know, it's not something that you see too much of you'd have to kind of go
Looking fairly specifically for anything
Actually replay around seven up and told
Oh, this might be that self-made, not the self-made, but the friendly name that we saw.
Tell you what, this is some mad techers. Oh no! No! Oh, the timing!
Honestly, that is a death that I would take.
That could have been me down there.
They are full sympathy, because that could have been me.
Oh, that's so good.
I actually put a clip on socials, and it was very similar.
remember I was nomads running towards trench on shally and they had castled the defenders had castled
double window on shally and the knock that was playing with us decided to launch a need at this
castle from the other side of the map I had soft breach by the way and as I'm running down the steps
to trench predictably they made very much like that just bounce back off the castle and because
it's then got the four second detonation just as soon as it got near me I didn't have a chance to try
you know, I'm not going to be
going to be going to the
next round. You know, evade it.
I just died. So yeah, absolute
full sympathy for that. Full
sympathy. I've also heard the
entero turns 36 in two weeks, and
he expects to be wished well
rather than wishing him well. I
think Tim, because you've way
past that milestone now. That's
the best advice to remind me. Um
what's the best advice I do? I
don't think it's really about
the time you're passing 35 you kind of know what's going on and you know you've got your
direction in life generally if you don't please don't worry that's one piece of advice I would
give you know those directions in life come at the funniest of times believe me I wasn't involved
in esports until I was like 35 years old so and you know I think it's done me pretty well so
sometimes you know those directions come later in life and you've just kind of got to take the
chance and you know be willing to to make a change sometimes if that's you know the right thing for
you. But I think the funny thing to me about getting older is there always seems to be like,
it's almost like, I don't know if you'd call it worry or not, but it's like these miles,
oh I'm gonna be 30, I'm gonna, like people don't want to be 30, they don't want to be 40, they don't,
and you know, I get it, it's like there's a little bit of a feeling of you know, like, you know,
life's ticking on and we're getting it, but honestly, I would say every one of those milestones,
what it was. The first one
was particularly 30 and 40. I
have felt better than I ever
have or remembered doing
previously. And it's I think
because I feel I've always
felt more secure. I know what's
going on now. I know I'm so
when I got 30, honestly, I
didn't care about it. It wasn't
like I wasn't, oh my god. I'm
30. I don't care. You know, we
bet loads of jokes about me
you know, I'm very fortunate
in life. So yeah, I think you
know, sometimes it's easy to
get wrapped up in that sort of
stuff of, like, oh my God, I'm
getting older. Right. But it's
all good. Obviously these
sports have a lot of people are
in like young in like either
just before the turn 20 or up
to the mid 20s and they do get
worried about going towards being
30, but I would say welcome to
the golden decade. Like it is
a time where you feel most of
peace to yourself. You still got
energy. Yeah, you know what
You know, it's not a bad thing.
It's great. It's not the worst
thing in the world when you
realize how bad you are. It's
funny. It's funny within one
round of golf. How many times
golf can be great and terrible.
You know, that's just within one
round. You can be a good
person. You can be a good
person. You can be a good
you can be done with that game
and then you can love that game and that will, you know, flip
back and forth through. Right?
Talking about seas. It certainly does, isn't it? But yeah, you
know, joking aside, I think there's obviously there's often a
lot of anxiety about aging and specifically, you know, getting
to certain milestones and I thought I'd have done this or I
thought I'd have achieved that or maybe you've done a bit more
than you thought or, you know, you compare into other people
I think as soon as I realized
for me that wasn't, you know,
important to me or what it was
about, um, I was, I was a lot
happier and I thought, you know,
what's the, what's the saying?
Um, comparison is the thief of
joy. And as soon as I really,
you know, sort of bought into
that and realized I thought,
actually, it's all right. It's
all right getting older. It's
fine. I'm comfortable with what
I'm doing. I'm comfortable where
I am. I'm happy. I've got good
people around me. And yes, that's
something you need to worry about
need to worry about too much at all. Exactly. I've heard we're almost ready to get back
into games, so not too far away now, which is always good news. I haven't actually analysed
any backgrounds so far to have just realised, and I feel like I've done myself a massive
disservice like the R2-D2 from DPEC. Like it is a Star Wars fan. Also got the helmet next
to him. You'd have to expect so, wouldn't you? I've got a guy at work who's obsessed
with Lego, and he's got a massive Star Wars Lego set that must be a couple of thousand
pieces is ridiculous how big is and I'll just look at it and think I can't imagine how many hours that must have taken to do
Yeah, it's it did there's some fair work
Serious obsession if you're doing that I'm not gonna lie the big big eye for towers
I'm one that's always surprised me the size of it
It's over five feet tall, I think it's absolutely huge
I'm reloading!
Alright, you know what, I'll excuse Tim, this game has been brilliant so far.
Very back and forth, very close across a number of these rounds.
It could honestly be 5-3 to Panatik at this point, but it's Falcons who have held on and
currently have the lead.
A couple more rounds and they'll see this game over and done with.
It is one of the days that we think might be the closest or have the most potential
to go either way.
Falcons are trying to do what they can to shut that down here and now it's going to be
a Vents workshop defense.
second remaining. We'll see how they get on. Once again, Brideh jump in across them towards
playing that Monty. Wouldn't it be horrible shot if that gets banned away in the next round?
No, I would agree. But it's like we often speak about unlikely or speak about quite a lot with the
bans, isn't it? You've not bought into it. So how much value is there in taking the Monty?
Because what's going to happen? Brideh's going to play back there, I guarantee. Three rounds of
black game instead. So it's one of them where if you want rid of it, you've kind of got to really
into the strategy like we saw with, you know, Deimos,
Dukkabay, Snake, that is, I would expect to see Fnatic
just take Deimos away and continue on rather than Fante,
one shield away and just face Blackbeard instead.
Absolutely. I mean, admittedly, I'd rather deal with a Blackbeard
than a Wood with a Monty because, my God,
Monty can just get up in your face with very little impediment.
A Blackbeard, at least, chances you to do a little bit of damage
on towards his feet or a C4 and towards him will do more damage
than it would in towards Monty.
We heard the death speaking a little bit about Solis as well.
In fact, he was speaking about it earlier on.
I want to say maybe the death spoke about it.
Yeah, it was. It was Jack speaking about it on the death
and saying, you know, they quite like it.
Maybe it'll get banned away from them.
But it being available here is Wizards will jump straight onto it.
Deadshot the first to fall.
I mentioned earlier on some about playing a DMR in his position inside a security.
Also, Deadshot has tried to do, but once again, it's been chewed up and spat out.
It's always the problem against the top teams, isn't it?
You know, you come down to us, you have to win your gun by.
It's an FPS, first and foremost.
And it's difficult. You're going up against players like so-and-so.
We've already seen the sort of shots that he's hitting tonight.
So, regardless of what you do, it's going to make things very, very tough.
As it is, Vulcans are trying to extend through now.
Get themselves established inside a CCTV second kill.
Breeder, as you said, just lethal on the monitor.
Continues to be so. Five versus three.
Vulcans pretty comfortable inside of this round.
One minute, 15 left to go, attacking onto ventilation and workshop.
They don't quite have top-floor control.
there's only D-Pack downstairs so wizards, citizens still holding on above.
Falcons need to make a decision. Do they go for that clearance or do they think
they've got enough inside of workshop where they can get in and put a plant there?
You really had to win that gunfight on Tobredae then you can't be losing to a pistol like that
but now in a very precarious situation. Let's see everything coming out the back of these C4s
as now Falcons and Fields have really got into their groove and are looking at a 6-3 here against
Fnatic who was struggling to get much on the defensive side. This could be an outright floor
the team. We've got a lot of
players in the team. We've got
the ball trying to carry on to
the space as well. Sure enough.
There it is. Two kills in quick
succession. Falcons about baby
63. Yeah, Falcons have just found
that little bit of extra juice.
Haven't they've got that extra
20% They've got up a gear. Well,
you know, whatever. However, you
want to look at it. They are
just extending that. There's a
bigger distance between these
two teams. Now that Falcons have
got on the attack. Jack said it
you know, it's just a
bit of a game. It's just a
bit of a game. They've hit a
higher gear and hasn't been a
gear like you say. That's one
built on aggression or rushing
or anything too crazy. It has
just been solid fundamental
seed, which is often what they
do well in fact, even argue
that the lack of the extra
edge of their game that the
aggressiveness, the ability to
just turn it on a diamond
suddenly everyone is all guns
up and dragging out. That is
something that kind of almost
hurts them. I think when they
go international and is why
we've seen them struggle a
little bit as of late and
probably also why they're
that's why they've got the six
three score line that Tristan
step in to have his words there
as well. Same on the Falcon
side. We've had the coach step
in. See what needs to be done
to get this one online or
in fanatics case back online
because it's got a three round
deficit to close. Yeah for
Falcons coming off the back of
this. I think it's just more of
the same. It's just more keep
applying that steady constant
pressure. We don't need to play
there again. We know what we
need to take whether that be
office whether that be CC TV
the game plan in mind. And they
are just very slowly going about
that business. I love it from
them. Great control fanatic. How
do you disrupt that? It sounds
crazy. Maybe against the team
like Falcons, but I think you
just push forward. You know, I
get more aggressive with
anything. Get up and you know,
maybe a little jump out. Maybe
you know, you've got to give
yourself that advantage. Just
trying to get yourself into the
round with a bang. You know, as
I suggested, Monty's gone. We're
going to have the blitz brought
along instead, June rather than
of course, but you've got to get three rounds without response now. The Vulcans have just been
grinding you down through these rounds, so I think you've got to give yourself that
advantage, just try and get yourself into the round with a bang. You know, as I suggested,
Monty's gone, we're going to have the Blitzbrot along instead, June rather than
Breeder, but Breeder is going to bring the Stens, so yeah, I think the same problem,
a slightly different skin for Fnatic to deal with.
Let's say at the very end of this game, I appreciate one of Fnatic's most recent videos
was analysing the use of sense on this map for how Strict on Fire Rebellion
using it to essentially bait MAT out repeatedly into digging an execute
what's happening and then want on the execute what's actually happening and it
just always made sure the other side had to respond to what was going on
because the light screen you have zero idea what's happening on the other side
a warden can't think he's safe of course you can rely on things like bulletproof
cameras but if they're taken out then you've got an issue to deal with
so I've got my eyes very firmly here on what Brie is looking to do with it
right now of course focus on main breach
Yeah, okay, and that's trying to see.
Dude, he's been here every round.
That's a little bit of a mystery, but I won't lie.
I made it his feet, but he's still standing.
We've still got him being watched by a solace,
but I can only imagine.
He's probably thinking,
June, my babe, my boy, what's going on?
You can't be letting that happen.
Yeah, there's no two words.
That's a huge myth.
I don't know why they've thought he's not there.
You know, charging into that,
that's what I'm saying, you know,
trying to get through there and towards the hatch.
I'm going to lost words for that one, but 4 vs 5 it stands with Falkens having taken
that open in depth. They've also lost their shield. Could be a big problem for them. They've
got a lot of utility to play through as well. SenseParrickade is going to provide a little
bit of freedom to push forward. DPEC will be down but not out of Smiths. Manages to
find Solotov though. 5 vs 3, Fanatic have the advantage. Effectively 4 vs 3 if they
It's it. The next step, it could get interesting.
Leak it back, finds one, levels it out.
Three versus three, Falcons are back online.
Dez, three versus two, as user scores big.
And this is the problem with playing this side.
They will always find a way.
They'll always win those gunfights.
It's three versus one.
And it looks like it could be over.
We have the thinkaboo's come in just to give
a little bit of extra juice in the HP department.
Final kill from users outside of the window.
and it's going to be a win for Balkans.
Great
We'll go and say, break, when we come back, God damn it.
We'll break it down for ya.
See you in a few.
I'm breaking the brakes of the door, they finally tell me to cut and be done!
You're all I have left here to take the ashes!
You're not in here, you're in here!
You want the ashes?
I'll fight, light, camera, kill!
You want the ashes?
You want the ashes?
I
to the top four and that means
we get to speak to them. We
have a league effect on the
line to ask them a few
questions. Good evening and
congrats on the three points
here. How are you feeling? Hello
guys feelings good. Long game,
but. We need to answer feelings
good. How how happy are you?
Look about there. You
managed to see out a lot of
those close rounds,
particularly on your
defensive half because it,
you know, there was
sometimes you was looking quite
close rounds, particularly on your defensive half, because you know there was sometimes
he was looking quite dominant, they were bringing it back and then he was just managing to get
over the line. Yeah, like a border it's an attack set in map firstly, so this kind of
round it's happening every border game, but the way they played like just waiting for our mistake
and us making the mistake every time was like a bit annoying you know, I can put like frustration
ourselves. At the end we did good difference in Jolly and even like small retake and stuff so
you know good game, good team synergy and yeah happy for the win.
Liquefac, I have one specific question for one of your teammates. We all know him as an amazing player that is
Jume but today he was not the best teammate and let's roll the clip one more time of what just happened there.
there. And good night, Ligefac. How do you react? Oh god. I did not see this one. No,
like, I'm just saying, yeah, it's fine. There is, you know, I don't want him to put too much
pressure on himself. I think this never happened in a stream. Like, this kind of thing, we do it.
Yeah, you know, it's happening and I wasn't mad at all and at the end, like, that was the only round we lose, so...
Did you know where the Nape came from, by the way? Because we had to go re-watch the replay to understand where it came from.
Yeah, yeah, no. Like, I knew, yeah, I knew, because you mean you, me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I knew, because that's the common thing we do in scrims, so...
But the fact that he missed, I was actually surprised.
I love it. Well, in fact, it's a busy week for you guys. Three games. How do you go and prepare for a week like that?
I think match per match. I think we all know that the Super Week is really important.
Now after the fifth day, we're on the middle of the stage one, just a bit after.
It's the important match you have to win to be on the top four.
We have time to do some mistakes still.
but that's the best training we can do.
We do our best during the match, during this week.
Get as much points as we can.
And yeah, having fun.
Great, awesome.
But Sans, really good.
We won't keep you here any longer.
As we said, it's a busy week for you guys.
Thanks so much for your time,
and good luck with the rest of this week.
Thank you.
I'm glad we got to speak to the League of Tech as well,
because not only did he die to that grenade there,
but also later on in the game,
he had some really important moments
that helped his team get the victory.
Yeah, and one of the staple players already on that roster that are you know making the difference in the important games
I think that's like, you know, although it's a
Huge gap between the two of them in the four line
I do think that they made the game closer than looks this could have very easily been a 3-1 on the side of medic
Check I think just a little bit of an experience a little bit of indecisiveness in the attacks as well
And then you know at not capitalizing on on the man-opening advantage here on that last round incredible 3k from League effect
I mean this in the nicest the most civil way possible, but me and you both lost quite a lot in our careers Leo
Yeah, but when you lose in that way and you can go back and bother you and know if we just tweak tiny little things
We'd have been you know closer got points more competitive. I think it's encouraging. So I'm not necessarily discounting fanatic
I think Falcons came out and did what they needed to do. I think they
likely when they made the mistakes on the defense, they then managed to go and retake
and close out some very, very close rounds that gave them the advantage going into the
half.
And once again, so tough being the best rated player on the side of Natty, on the side of
Falcon story, a player that struggled, that's Alexity, that was trying to find his footing
back again.
Even in this stage he was quiet at the start.
And now he's really back at it, so it's a great thing to see him gain momentum and
confidence just at the right time for Super Week.
Yeah, it's good to see that here for Falcons three points. Like we said, very welcome into our set race for the top four
which will give them advantage going into playoffs.
But as you've been saying for all of the super weeks so far, it is really important for our teams, for some of them,
it is even do or die. And that's the exact scenario we have for our next matchup, GK and shifters go up against each other
and they find themselves on 8th and 9th in the position of the leaderboard. As we said earlier,
We painted this as the must-see for our day today with a beautiful poster as well for these two teams going up against each other because after this week, no more second chances, it is due or die.
And we like to talk about matches in six pointers. This is definitely one of them, especially for GK. They got their first victory last week, but we want to see more from them.
In fact, if we measure this team against a top team in the league like a G2, how would they hold on?
Well, I'm glad you asked them because I've actually got a clip
Oh, I've got two clips and it starts off with a game that G2 played at the six invitation now
No, who they're playing against they're playing against black dragons
Why is that important because who was on black dragons ask was on black dragons?
And this is really because it is on night Haven labs and this is a map that GK played last week
And you'll see in this clip you'll see G2 actually they use the doke we lawyers here on the doke of a and they use
It's the first time they've seen a
Roma's on the top floor, up on
the middle floor, so they want
to hit site directly and then
they use the breach. As soon
as they do that Leo, what
happens is it causes carnage
and when that carnage happens,
the back stab comes in from
Lora and absolutely wins G2
the round. So we look at the
ingredients here, we see one
breach, that's the distraction
and then everyone can follow
up on the breach, not actually
trying to plant the diffuser,
but no, Lora here coming to
backstab with Ducati getting
coming to backstab with DKB, getting a double kill, and the shield at the same time of Alemao pushing through the site.
Now, if we think of DKB, we think of a team that is trying to play like G2.
And what do we see here? That was their game on the same map against Eretix.
We see a full extended rune on the side of Eretix. Two players upstairs, two players on the ground floor.
And so what do we see Ask2 in this situation? He reverses things. He's using what he fell to against G2.
He's breaching the bomb site, he's trying to be aggressive, he's trying to be a distraction.
What for? Well, for all of his teammates, Yupor, Grevy, and Dukéby here, all three of them are on the ground floor,
trying to Cull Romera, trying to create a distraction, trying to backstab here, Jack.
Yeah, exactly. They ask the sort of pain and he wants to have the same attack go against him, Hero 6.
He sends the Dukéby in, but ultimately here's the problem, and here's what went wrong for GK.
Both of their backstab players ended up being death number one and death number two,
and that puts a lot of pressure on Leo when they're trying to hit the side.
Yeah, this moment is a 3v5, they're trying to plant, the volume is delirious,
They've not done their job, they're completely dead, or most of them,
it's Dokei B is trying to go back up, but it's already too late.
And so, what do we notice here?
The same ingredients, we've seen A, a breach,
and B, we've seen Lurkers trying to backstab and a well-spread-out attack.
It's the same ingredients than the G2 play stack, but not the same success.
And that's the big thing.
GK, they're trying to beat the G2, but they still don't have that experience,
still don't have the same players,
and that's why sometimes it just appears a little bit disjointed.
Yeah, imitation is, of course, the best form of flattery and GK asked stuff against that attack.
He knows how it works. He knows the strength of it. He tried to implement it with GK,
but ultimately this is what we say when we say they're a new team. The idea was right,
but the excuse was just slightly off because the players got their timings wrong and it cost them
the round. That was systematic across a lot of their attacks last week, and it isn't necessarily
something they're going to be able to fix within a matter of days either.
No, but in general, looking back at that game, it was rough on the attacking side for both teams,
for GK, for Heretics, for GK eventually come away with the win. As you mentioned, that first
big win for them, super important. Fortunately, we can't say the same for their opponent,
Shifters. No win at all last week in two games. At this point, inside of Shifters, a crisis has
to be going on. Yeah, the problem is there is only one win condition with that lineup so far,
and that he's to be Robby, the guy on the screen. He's the one that's pulling up enormous numbers.
I'm thinking all the way back one year ago, that was Frank, and now it's Robby with this enormous
back and all of his teammates in there. He's doing an amazing job, he's roping
through the right amount of kills, he's winning so many opening engagements, but
the problem is the rest of the team are not following up with it. It's a one-man
army that can only carry you so far. And I unfortunately feel like we've been here
before, we were here before probably this time last year with Frack as well.
And we said, you know, if Frack is doing it last year, when can Robbie step up?
Alongside it, when can Larsen step up? Now it's Robbie who's been the one stepping up,
they're not going to be able to
break. But ultimately, we still
have it feels like the same
fundamental problem inside of
shifted. We see them do good
stuff and they consistently do
stuff even inside of games, but
very often they fall on the
wrong side of their skull and
the side of that performance
that puts them in the situation
that they're in. Remember there
in what eight man play it's a
battle to get inside of the top
six right now. That's the big
problem. That's what's really
going to matter at the end of
this. This face here really
to get anything done this match is important. We set the stakes on to see what map we will be heading to for this best of one as well as I'm sure the players will be feeling the pressure. They're going to make it happen on Shelly. Absolutely lovely for shifters. It's probably their favorite map out of all of them. You know, over the last 12 months, they've got a winning record. In fact, I don't actually help them lose next time to you one for a long time. So for this call for this team, it's a strong, strong map for GK actually would not seen it. They've been banding every view. So that they've had since they came in from kickoff. So it's a map that we don't have too much of an impact on. So we're going to go ahead and do that. We're going to go ahead and do that. We're going to go ahead and do that. We're going to go ahead and do that. We're going to go ahead and do that. We're
much on them. The same style of map veto that we've seen from them before or
they're trying to do is one week before the match they want to predict
basically where they're gonna land. They know exactly that if they leave the
preferred map for shifters they're gonna end up on it so by leaving Shalio
open they knew they were gonna land there and that's probably why they've
been prepping something that's why we haven't seen it from them as well so
we'll see that was a questionable choice or not. And secret are the only team in
what the top three leagues Leo that you said that have got zero points maybe
even in all of professional
Rainbow Six seats right now.
Secret went 7-4 with shifters on this map.
So whilst it is their map,
they did come close to not losing it,
but very competitive with the worst team.
That was the backup. No, I'm dropping amazing.
It was. So there is a lot of unknowns
for both these teams when it comes to like
not having played it, not knowing what you're going up against,
and that when we put so much pressure
on the shoulders of these players
in the context of this matchup,
but it is ready to go. So we'll send it to our casters.
the game. Thank you very much.
Indeed Game two is upon us Tim.
And the last time we saw shifters
playing on this map. It was
pretty good. They look pretty good
against secret read previously.
I'm thinking we'll see the same
thing again today. Hopefully
other solid performance coming
down. You don't need to convince
readers. You don't need to sell
shifters to me. I keep saying
they could be a top 14 and they
keep not doing it for me, but
I'm going to keep saying it, they're my mystery team, they're so new, there's so many different
styles coming together in a brazil, you got so many different things going on, even you
know there's a bit of tier 2 play thrown in there on occasion, there's all sorts of stuff
in the mix, so you just at the minute at least until they get settled we never really know
what we're going to get, and that makes them I think very difficult to play against because
how do you prepare for that realistic play, so let's see how shifters have done, if anybody
We can't prepare for that, I'm sure the Loon,
helping the rest of the staff that shift us,
you know, other ones who can do it,
but we'll see those bands coming on through for Shallay.
It's going to be Snake and Castle to kick things off.
Will we see the continuation of player styles here?
Will there be a Doc or be a Game Boss?
Will there be a Mirror going?
Are they going to double down on those as it is?
I think on the defensive side, you could argue a little bit.
You've got that area denial with the Nari coming in,
as well as Castle's slightly different methods of achieving that,
the game. And that's where
it's really important to be
aware that. Montains make
obviously very very different
person. The castle. The
interesting ones. It was only
played by shift is once and
they played his map against
secret a couple of weeks ago,
but there's not there to say,
well, I guess all that more. It's
going to be a nuisance. We want
to be able to move through a
fight some pace. Last one we're
here is probably worth
stressing. It was only really
no on the side of secret that
gave any fire over towards the
side of secret. I think my
shift is distraught at least a
little bit, though, was on
that attacking side. That's
where my eyes are going to fall
defensive half. I think we're going to see them defend pretty well here against GK2 unless GK bring
out more guards, stuff that the street shifters completely reeling from what the hell is they're
facing off against. Either way, it's that second half that I've really got my eyes on for the
shifter side to see if they can secure all three points. And it is critical they do,
given how competitive that middle of the table is starting to look. By the way, let's get ourselves
into it, Tim. It's going to be Master and Office up towards the top side to see how we go. That
probably means on the attacking side, we keep things off on the library side for a clear or you
You focus in on solar and double window either way
There's a lot of options to play around with here. I've given GK got a few spawning out towards the west side
I currently expect the foreign looks towards going topside here getting sort of on towards the library window
Maybe trying for those players inside a library further out and back the group is the one I end up double window
For droning at least for the time being there's a player prone underneath there
So I don't think he's gonna see too much as soon as I don't get it
There we go. It is however gonna force blast out of position
He's gonna go back to plan B there getting a little bit closer to the solar side to be able to hold on now
That is a mistake coming in from GK letting that cell my go putting it on the wall too soon
Not aware of what's going on. I'm messing in and you just lost a very important piece of
Utility you've also lost a couple of lives as Blazor may have managed to pick up one a piece you put does find one onto
plazas are response at least but a lot of damage done there we've lost the book
lost the Blackbeard and have to be plan B plan C who knows for GK
absolutely already in a spot though where they've got to try and recover this
in a three versus four lots of times let's do it quickly there's still a
world where they see this over the line but it's already looted so earlier on
Schiff just had a great defensive showing on shallow they're not the kind of
team I think that will let GK back into this round outside and pulling off
something particularly crazy here the Schiff just just have some complete no
way of expecting. You see this little quiet spread, we had Duproff towards Trophy Window,
Yogg off towards front door slide and also starts looking to get himself involved in
the mix. They're really there looking on the ground floor, that means trying to get a pinch
on towards Frack. They want to bring it down to a three versus three, give themselves a
little bit more of a breather move. So I like that they've identified an objective that makes
use of the time they've got. They're not going to try and hit the side for example, but now
I've got to be really careful about the death through above that can still hit them. Frack
pops up, gets for the one. A little bit of this timing really in the GK side and it feels
like this round is only going from bad to worse, unfortunately.
Yeah, certainly does look like that.
And I think the next kill is particularly important
and Sark's manages to get it.
That just throws a little bit of excitement into this one,
doesn't it? Because it now comes back to a 2B3
and it starts getting very winnable.
GK working together.
They're all we always say work together.
They may be a little bit close at the minute.
They kind of in each other's pockets and the, you know,
the risk you run there is just getting hit with a Nitro
and Nerf, for example, text both of you out.
You've got to be in touching distance so that you can challenge on to each other's, you know, make sure you're getting those trades to the gunfights, but just need to be careful.
They have just separated off a little bit, so better from them, but 24 seconds left to go. They're running long time and shifters, super organized as we would expect.
They're playing this really, really cautiously, and they're just going to hold the lines aside until they have to be pushed until they have to move it.
There it is. Last more, gets one. Can you get a second? He's fine to be aggressive.
Now just pick it up and that is going to be the round for shifters pretty comfortable
Absolutely, and all started in the very early round there
What 45 seconds in you've already got yourself two kills that really sets the tone for the rest of the round
It's a good way of disrupting them
And it's something that I spoke about what many times throughout the stage now across SL and also across to you
Was the teams that aren't as quite structured or teams that aren't quite established and got the signature down
Where you can really upset them is by being aggressive on the defensive side because on the attacking side of things these more
Unstructured teams they need a little bit of time to make things work. There's a checklist. They're working through okay
You're taking that part of that. I'm gonna do this we'll get a crossbar and towards that guy
Then we'll do this you've got it all planned out
The classic saying is yeah, no plan survives contact with the enemy or everyone's got a plan until they get punched in the face
They quite literally have just been punched in the face
They're outside the building and then you get forced to think on your feet and that is a lot harder than going into a round with
The preset plan so good response love response a good start by shifters
to be able to do that. I'm
just looking at. This GK. Got
a slow things down a little
bit near around the thing. Get
yourself some abilities. You
can at least get inside the
building. Then worry about
looking for the more aggressive
engagement that might get around
really moving for you.
That's something that is
figured out, taken on board
into this second. I'm just
looking at socks on capital
particularly going to be
important. No bliss. I don't
to be able to find that space
to get the diffuser down. We're going to have the quick entrance in through garage. Nothing
unusual here. The reason for this is simply to open that wall into the start, like the
stock area, the storage area, whatever you want to call it on the side of the site. Open
up that wall with a line of start from the maverick and it just prevents players from
holding that to a corner. So, that's going to be a good start. And that's going to be
Open up that wall with a line of start from the maverick and it just prevents players from holding that to aggressive
All right, well, so starting to the round now, that's about how you move forward from here
This is always that's a put you have to go back to the game on club that we have a furior over an SL
Like oh, yeah, it's always basement. It's perfectly safe. I'm a tracking upstairs
It was not two players downstairs giving immediate challenge
It's just not quite doing the same here
So it has given GK the ability to get themselves at least established
It was that key thing I really wanted to see in this round was a little more caution about their approach at the start of the round
It's okay to be slow at the start if it means you can go fast later
And that's at least how things have kicked off to ask who is in looking to get this
Maverick on towards a single wall here cut out the players that are sat back inside of stock
Very mindful of the verticals at the same time and there we go now with the floor being completely smoked off
Obviously a navy model there are something on those lines
It does mean they can force any players out that would be inside here almost trying to massage the ability to go for a plan inside
Of the fort behind the half wall, but as you've just seen there is a player waiting there
they need to make sure they've got eyes on him else he could ruin everything for them
I'm like this from GK so far is organized they've got a plan in place you know every element that
they need to concern themselves with for example getting that map line done to force the defenders
to move up their positions they weren't quite ready for that one though I don't think they
necessarily had a plan for Blaz shooting ask as he jumped in through the window but Ruby was there
for a trade at least you'll put does manage to find last one but the problem here for GK is these
are all trades there's the first kill is always coming for shifters shifters are on the front foot
shifters are the one able to go in there and really drive this round forward even on the defense so
three versus two it's up to you poor and sarks to get this done no smoke cover left just two as
fixation bolts for the capital i think at this point shifters are gonna have a good idea where
they're coming from and i dare say i thought i was right the diffuser is down on the double window
windows here, so they have all kinds of problems, Shike.
Yipa really should be dead to the right here, but not quite finished off.
I was going to say for a retake, it was really smart from shifters.
The overall strategy was, there's a kind of a lunacy of play for the retake.
Let them get the control they want, then we retake a little bit later.
You've got some on the map to fight back for it later,
and it's going to look a little understarch.
Really had to be getting a kill there, but Robbie has got it back on to him.
It's a three versus one.
Shifters continue to show they can defend pretty down well on Shale and Shike.
still left looking for that
lose his win. Maybe he gets
where he gets and we know
exactly which way this round
is going to go. No time left.
Shift is going up to zero.
Yeah, shift is playing that
smart. They're not giving too
much of themselves away and,
you know, making it a close
around and it needed to be
pretty comfortable for them.
The thing is, I like what
GK did earlier. I was being
very, you know, complimentary
of them. I was praising them
at the point. So I like the
way they've got him at the
capital underneath as well to
deal with that vertical
to open up the land that he needed. They've got away without any damage done. Great stuff,
brilliant from them. And then they just launch themselves in through a double window with
no idea that Glass is next to it. He's like, you know, come on, you've got to see it through
the, you know, the entire city. I don't know if they were just hoping to win the gun fight
there or maybe through, he was just a second late and, you know, he was maybe to pick up
the, the kill on Glass before the Maverick went in through the window. But, you know,
ultimately something went wrong. Good. For a start of a round that actually worked pretty
well like hot kick was you know a little bit of a shame for them really to put people like that.
It was yeah it was again this is kind of the challenge we saw from Matthew back on our previous
match with so I think it's not well and then it's about a game of recovery at a certain point.
If we do grief I'll put that same smother around too and it's really going to take I think the
sureties of seeing you to figure your way out of those difficult positions where you've left
mental ill too what do we then do when we're down to your players on the game's moment we're
trying to execute. At the same time our points will shift us there who played that beautifully again
looking towards the same sort of wing condition, how can we unsettle them? They gave up map control to GK,
made them feel like they were secure, almost like lulling them into a pulse and security,
and then when the time is right, they've bought up that retake, got two kills,
and just everything descended into chaos there for the side of GK. So two very different styles,
defending out of shifters so far, one being hyper-aggressive, one being very passive and
then playing for a retake when they got map control in the end. I think that's going to keep GK asking
questions on okay then, what are we facing in this round, how do we deal with it, really like what
seen from shifter so far. It's almost as if it could be a top 14 if they could just get all these
things to click regularly. Like I said as a team I feel like they are the closest on that sort of
verge to challenging those top four that we've currently got so we'll see whether they're able
to continue particularly on the other half as well as this game continues but right now
looking good needs to be careful of this bathroom window being watched very very closely there but
I think he's absolutely surrounded at the minute. He's doing a great. He's wasted a minute. He's burning all sorts of timing utilities.
Got, you know, a little bit of support from Blast as well. He's now being trapped by a bare monster. Just again, proving to be an absolute nightmare.
But well played from GK. They get in and they get both of them without losing a life. And that is a great start for GK.
not bad they lose one off from the back of it but I think the way they played around that
although it has been slow I said earlier on I'd rather them play slow and go fast
later rather than brushing it early on and paying the price and someone paying the price here
asking the other one falling down as Askez is second in the round the kill confirm I guess
really means one kill for the round but you won't complain too much another odd shot out
of nowhere means there's two kills here towards Duprestein they're far from out of this round
well those two kills are realistic they shouldn't have been getting away with they make it a third
And now it's been swung again, almost gets away with it, but no!
Groobie comes out on top, Robbie, against a very low HP Groobie, and a pretty decently healthy Yacht.
That's the problem, is it? Those two just kills that they needed were just wrecking Robbie.
You know, two of the best players that we've seen on the side of shifters so far,
Fretch really giving Robbie an opportunity to win this here,
but not being able to get in to stop that diffuser going down, that is a big, big hit for Robbie to take here,
you can see the day most of
groovy has gone out of the had
a tracking pocket as well as it
is. It's not needed because
yoga managers will find the kill
before Robbie can really make
any inroads on the retake, but
well played round by GK got
themselves the man advantage.
Kept it. I like the way they
talk that clear that top. Nathan
Bars were making it very
difficult from them up there,
but they just committed to it. I
said didn't that make look like
he was completely not only
surrounded. They had him on
every single side and then the
net just tightened and tightened
you go. That's it. It's like a game of chess, right? Where you think, oh, it's a four versus
one. They can destroy this guy. What wasn't always, obviously, you would always see it
on camera, but there were two players playing in library hall that were there to give challenge.
There was one on mess as well. There was a lot of support really towards Nate that made
it really hard to challenge on towards him. The player that was on battering balcony, for
example, you saw the fear of God and ask, he was aware that as soon as he stepped up
to try and challenge Nate, he was probably going to find himself getting swung. In fact,
this exact moment here, but all the utility that came out, the lion scan, the duck would
the track that came out from Groobie.
All these things came together to let them get away with it.
So it was really well executed.
It was very, very considered on their side.
And again, plays into what I was thinking about.
And take it so early on.
Players are seen be methodical.
Don't worry for me, if you're going slow,
then you'd like to be.
It's about getting rounds over the line,
and they've finally got themselves on the board.
I think it's easy sometimes to think,
to get stuck into that early round aggression, isn't it?
You know, if you've got in and you get yourself a kill or two,
you can start taking ground,
but as we see, you know, you've
got to remember what stage is at
its core, and there are so many
options. There are so many ways
to solve problems. Sometimes
just having that little bit of
time at the beginning, that
little bit of extra patience just
leads you to the correct solution
instead. So, 2-1, it stands now
in favour of shifters. We're going
to see the vans come in. It's going
take away some normal loads of hits and normal of those tracking helicopters flying around
the map making it difficult for roamers or to be fair difficult for anybody inside a
site on a soft surface to stay where they are and we're going to go back up to that top
floor.
Alright, again, flow and control, don't need to go too berserk here, look at what we're
informed of last time around, I mean I think you can say what I'm not last time around
obviously a lot of the focus and nearly every single one of these rounds unless you're attacking into the basement is really going to start
Around master in office anyway and getting piano control and putting focus into all solar and various of the things that all build in together
So it's more what you see across the last few rounds
It's really a master in towards it. They're initial focus
I was going to say is getting control of lobby and group you could have gone away with a second there escape
But it's got rid of freck and nice early kill to find feels like one of the first times in this game
GK have got a man advantage in the rounds
that's going to be the mirror
off the board and likely a
natural gun with him as well. So
that is now five versus three.
Last one is holding on to this
mezzanine position. He's got
Robbie in support as well. It
means there's only one on site
at the minute. If GK
recognize that there could be
an opportunity for them to
get the shot. And that's
going to be the mirror off the
board and likely a natural gun
that. They could be an
opportunity here for them to
go a little bit more direct or
maybe get themselves into
solar and just mix this push
up.
So look at the never hobbies on
Main Stairs. They had the call
come out, which of course is
like explode. For those who
haven't seen it is the done
thing these days is you just
take the hit. You take the
damage. It's okay to lose your
gadget there rather than
constantly being spam called
when you're actually being
pushed in. So Robbie here is
invulnerable to the docker be
outside of a gun, of course,
still do a lot of damage with
that. That's exactly what
ready and waiting for him. I'm looking I'm seeing a bit of patience coming up
from GK Jesper down to the last 60 and they've got to figure out the game plan
from here onwards but they've got a 5B3. They play this control this is theirs to
the win.
Paul will come in. How coordinated is it going to be? There's an opportunity I think to
to deal with that and they will do. Robbie just takes a little bit of damage as
he said chooses to just lose the phone so he doesn't really need to worry about
it too much. That's what the red circle for him is showing. The calls continue to
come in, but Nerf is gonna do the same now. So anytime you see that red circle, if it's
not ticking down, it means the foreigners with the stride, Doc, if you cannot hold them,
so there's only last one left who can be called the wish they had, as he manages to find
one Nerf with the Nitro. Three versus one though, as the fight pack is put down, shifters,
they try to do something. Nerf continues though, 12 seconds, they're gonna have to do something
here. Big shot, little kill from Nerf. The p... defuses, down, Desk, but this is a 1v1.
that's the kind of progress
they're looking for that round.
A bit closer. Maybe you'd like
him on your five versus three,
and I'm sure they know, but
they won't care the down this
that brought things back to all
level. And again, a really good
round as slow as composed and
control. They don't really give
much room for shift is to do
anything inside of the round
itself. I was a bit worried
admitted in the five B three
when we saw that they had two
players pinned up by solar. You
knew the piano had to be the
angle you wanted to push in
from and sure enough when it
came around to the execute.
That was exactly what I was
that came round to the execute. That was exactly where they sprung in from and played the post-plant.
I'd say reasonably well, Nathan also playing it incredibly well with a shot going to close range.
He's had a QHP left to his name. A single bullet would have been enough, but as we get the headshot
of the very end, and that sees them over the line, as said, to a base, shifters. Maybe we're going to
start feeling a little bit nervous here, so that maybe this one goes quite smoothly, is the game
against N'Krit here. GK, the mystery team continues the surprises. I think, you know, GK set themselves
up really well in that five versus three because at the point where shifters took the risk and got
those couple of killers yes they got the couple of kills but what happened immediately went to
three versus three and then blink an eye and it's three versus one because gk had set themselves up
in such a way that shifters had to put themselves into risky difficult dangerous positions in
order to get those kills and as soon as they did they were exposed to other angles and gk were
able to take all that baggage and keep that man count in their favor so it was great stuff.
Okay let's see how this one plays out and see if anything changes because it is really the
owners here on Shiffles I think to figure out how we're going to adapt to the wars. I liked the
approach from GK last time that we were on this site. It's not being messed up. It's being used to
smoke up onto wars mehs, being able to get the pressure then into wars, sparking from there.
Well they tried to make an execute half-burn but it's confused with the retake which is a little
bit too hard to deal with, but that'd be my problem this time round, but I'll be that little bit more careful, that's why I have a middle line and the doctor behind me is a pretty big one.
And given us sitting in chat some I think it's worth noting Masseus scored his 17th World Cup goal and missed out the old-time top scorer at the World Cup.
Yeah, I remember Miroslav Klosch again and previously. Was it Klosch that he's taken off from? It was Thomas Muller.
In the 1960s.
No, it wasn't. It was in the 2000s.
But, yeah, it's a fantastic accomplishment.
Let's see if GK can watch them match the accomplishment,
because it might not be on quite the same scale,
but it will still be a hell of an accomplishment
if they're able to come in here and take shifters down.
It's been a quality outfit so far,
and it is 2-2-5 versus 4.
They're doing it again, diving through that door
when the opportunity isn't there.
The landscape was shifting,
and they just weren't aware of Dave dropping the hatch,
the hatch and he gets the kill. I think they were hoping to be in before he did that. And it just
leaves him now in a 4v4. Obviously a really smart call from Nafe. You normally stay inside
the library there, you get yourself fired out, naded out, everything else. He knew that his time was
up and they were coming for him. So I think a really high-risk move of just high-tailing it for
the drop. They don't expect him to drop at that point. You would. You expect maybe to see someone
sat on the hatch yourself, but that's why you have the fire and the nades coming in upstairs.
He's taken a high risk play. It has paid off for them. Now GK have got to adapt with 60 seconds to
to go. Just giving away the
location. If nothing else, four
versus four, I think shifters are
going to be happier of the two
teams coming into the file.
In a minute, that's really not
going to help you. The nade just
bouncing away there and causing
a little bit of movement. Look at
the health on the side of shifters.
Nick, Breck, neither of them are
going to be too confident, too
keen on getting themselves into
gunfights. This is going to be
untenable as last more drops
over the handrail. Yoga manager
Real yoga manages to get threat through the another as the net continues the title for GK here for it versus
Nathan law health
I'm not sure that shifters are gonna hold on here because they are just dug deep inside a site very
Little they can do to get themselves out of it now. They're very much pending out made. This is not looking good for me
Need a kill from some whatever
I don't think it's gonna come final 10 seconds you put it's good for one
I think it's going to be a
big one. There is a kill from
Robbie, but there's an immediate
trade. GK yet again, Tim, showing
some teeth here on Shelly. Lot of
fun to watch. Lot of fun to watch
at the minute. That is the other
thing that I would say about GK
because it is the team that we
never quite know what we're
going to get. There's always
surprises. There's always big
players, but look, I think the
stage of the Oscar pool around
that. You know, it's just
it's just been really solid.
You know the amount of times
that we've seen them basically
recognize right? What's the set
up here? Where are the outliers
where you know, where's our
initial target, and then they
just swarm on them as a team.
They just surround them and
they push them and shift is
coming under immense amounts
of pressure, and we can see
them constantly. We saw it in
the five V three where they got
a couple of kills, but then
they lost a couple of bodies
immediately. We saw it with
that they've been able to
play in a good way. They've
been able to play in a good
way. They've been coming under
so much pressure that they
having to put themselves in
bad spots. And you know, it's
great stuff from Chica.
Definitely again. They've made
the really good play. High risk
play that definitely wasn't
something that she came
planned on happening, but
that's good on the side of
shifters. It was in the
collapse. They had upstairs
because it would have been so
much light. Look, they know
real library cover. GK flood
take out the two players
upstairs and from there, it's
quite a simple march towards
the end of the round. But to
me, if nothing else shows
a plant down. Maybe look at, in fact, no, that's even a lie, because G-Prem was the one that was
upstairs in the Capitano, I think about it, and he had the future. So it wasn't in the game plan,
it was getting underneath. Probably try and punish Nafe as he comes to war, perhaps try and get to
a better angle. So it was more of a go kill moment for them. Either way, GK managed to recover well,
even though they didn't have any idea what was going on inside a bar because of Nafe's kill coming
out. And as I said, I called for it in round one and two, gotta see them adapt better. Are they
showing that now? Shifter's Field, that Attacks on Art was working after round five, which always
I can see exactly why that that timeout has been called. It's, you know, often talk about timeouts. Is it, you know, a general vibe check? Is it just trying to manage the energy in the team? Is it a prescriptive timeout? And I think that one would likely have been a very prescriptive timeout.
timeouts is it you know a general vibe check is it just trying to manage the
energy in the team is it a prescriptive timeout and I think that one would likely
have been a very prescriptive timeout of we need to get this round here's what I
see you know here's specifically what I want you to do to go
you know call in a play it'll have been that kind of quarterback moment from the
coach saying this is exactly what I need you to execute here in this round so
that we come out of this retreat.
Oh let's see how things fair now because once again it's going to be a bit of
focus on towards the library side to start things out. You've got
Lazmo and Robbie playing down here, looking to waste a bit of time,
freck hanging around underneath the wall, the other two
playing and dancing around at size itself. Some way they need to either
negate these two players again, they did really well earlier on with the line,
with the duck could be this time round, they haven't got those
operators to play with, they're going to have to try something a little bit
different. Either way they need to stop them getting on this window so they can
can apply pressure itself inside of the bathroom to keep an eye on how they approach that.
That's what I'm not here to certainly help with.
Yeah, exactly that. It goes through there. Just going to get aggressive up in their face.
Now, it has to look down towards the ground. If you wonder why the shields do that,
let's say in Black Bay in particular, it's because it just helps cover the feet with the shield
by changing that perspective on their screen. So something you often see them do
when they start to damage towards their feet. As it is, Lascaux is actually holding on really well here.
here is absolutely beautiful.
He's using those keeper barricades keeping them guessing.
I don't know which side he's put a push from.
He's having his keeper choose against him a little bit here about black here.
Beautiful stuff from Groovy.
He jumps upon the display case.
Just switches up the paradigm, just changes the angle.
Beautiful stuff. Takes out his man and GK can get moving.
They have some other lobby like surely we can't believe some black people free here.
Now at least that edge came in a good time.
in a good time. It's not so much fear, just didn't go off. It's more the fact he had to shoot it.
The sound effect will give away where he is and there's Sarge, the pop up underneath and punish him
as well. Yeah, while we're seeing good play from players like Lazmo in that position, there's not a
lot of team support going on right now, so it's hard in that spot granted to give support, but no
one went to back away. It's as important as going when to stay. I think Robby there has just played
the point. It's more overstaying as well. Probably from me, at least gets one back, but GK, yet again,
their force has started to mount there. It's about to mount up here. Naste the one who's currently
be impressed enough for a couple of angles as the plant is going on down at the same time.
Him and Freck, they're left in a 2 vs 4 post plant. There's to be a little round going away with GK.
Yeah, very little that they could do here, realistically. Sarc's manager's to find one.
Nerf goes for the fire. He's also taken down and GK proving that when it's do or die days,
they might just be the ones who come out and do.
Wow. What kind of confuses me is off the back of attack time out there, things still fell apart?
But, let's see what our death thinks about it, guys.
What did you make of that?
That was a good first half for GK so far,
and I think we're seeing the on their attacks as well,
just zooming in on their takes,
the things we're hearing from the player
comes as well as what we're seeing.
Yeah, it's the same playstyle that we've been pointed with,
Jack, which is basically that ability
to spread around the map,
try to have multiple points of pressure,
and then they have that.
And I have a great example of Whites working,
but also why their limits do it.
So round four, you can see here,
alert comes from Gravy, they get the opening kill,
And slightly later into the round, they will actually go and try to find a second opening pick.
And it's only because Grubby went up from the base inside.
You see Dokeady here calling, getting a little bit of information.
The goal here is to lurk around, create some pressure, use the traps to reduce the crowd control parameters, and try to find a gap.
And so, based on the open kill, they get a second one.
And that's on the back of Sark's, again lurking with Dokeady.
Now, interesting, that's 40 seconds later, there in the 5v3, they could just continue here.
But there is a lot of hesitation. Look at this.
Everyone is still completely spread out around the map.
They're not figuring out how they want to attack this.
And eventually, they go for the execute.
But everyone is isolated.
And suddenly, it has become A through B2.
And so they managed to have the execution on one side.
But the game is much closer because, again, here,
no trade potential.
Nafe is by himself.
Here, the cover is going on.
But it's a little bit too late.
The pent was going on at the same time.
So it's another 1B1.
So effectively, what was a 5B3 became a 1B1 in the end.
And so that's the biggest problem
Let's see with Geekies, please, tell us so far.
It's been interesting to watch and observe both teams.
We've been fortunate enough to listen
and the team comes as well.
And I think realistically, both of these teams
have got quite good reads on what's going on in the game.
But the way they're reacting to those good reads
is completely opposite.
KK, very, very slow as you've just shown in terms
of how they're reacting, getting themselves set up,
giving them shifters the opportunity.
But shifters actually are probably reacting too much.
They're probably moving a little bit too much.
Maybe a little bit panicked, dare I say,
a little bit stressed as well.
And I think that's why we saw Laurie take the time out
at round 5 to try and get a final round of the line, and even then the same symptoms still happen.
It's the lack of decision on the side of Gike, and it's the overreaction on the side of shifter.
Now, the thing is, both of these things, they can be swapped around, because it's very easy to be decisive when you're in defense,
and it's very easy for shifters to stop overreacting when they're in attack, because they're in the lead of the pace.
So we need to see a swap for the two weaknesses of the two teams, now that the side swap is happening.
Alright, I like how you're putting that so that puts prospect for both these teams looking at the beds so far
We see two shields being removed
Yeah, and the one kind of control parader
I think really just met the operators right as I'm just so strong on Shelly so many strong goals
Yeah, and then and then get rid of them on T the other shields
We can deal with them with other things impact T4s and stuff
So yeah mix in so far ready to do
There's only clash two of the best operators on Shelly you think for the basement
But you think bar as well mobility of clash to get past all of the cutoff points on Shelly
Plus it also means then you know realistically take the clash away makes the shield stronger if you want to play into them
There is still two on the ball as well. So yeah pretty pretty standard bands also
All right
Well the big question for shifters for sure is to stop overreacting because we put a lot of pressure on these players, right?
It's it's do or die eight and nine you want to make it into playoffs?
Yeah, that's the big thing to me is that we're looking at two direct rivals and you know on one side
We had the decay that we're completely frozen as this game is apparently frozen as well
at the beginning of the attack side, and I just feel like there's a lot of nerves and
pressure in the game, in a sense that, with Fnatic overperforming as they have at the
beginning of the stage, realistically, you're in a scenario where there is only a few spots
available to play-offs, and these two, they're battling for it directly.
It probably feels right now, we call it a do or die.
It probably feels right now actually that regulation, when overtime for both of them
would probably be the wrong result, because whoever wins it really needs a 3-point win
to really start making a run to lost playoffs. So, you know, even for shifters to the side
of the more established team, that means five out of the next six rounds realistically
on the attack.
So they want to get it done as quickly as possible. We put a clear ask for both these
teams what they need to be doing in the second half. Let's see who does it better.
Thank you very much, guys. Indeed, it's proving quite an interesting conundrum this game.
We've seen, GK, struggle, it's better to say over our first few play days, but today we are seeing a team that is playing with confidence, even if it can be a little bit risky sometimes playing that very spread out style that we're referring to, but I feel this map kind of demands it.
Yeah, I'd agree with you. I think we'll see whether that's what we see going on.
Oh, we're going up. Right now, GK.
I think they're going to be thinking of this in terms of momentum as well.
They are well and truly on top of shift. There's four rounds in a row,
so round seven is really, really important.
Usually, I'd save that for a couple of rounds time,
but I feel like it matters more than ever right now,
because you've either got a 4-3 or a 5-2 score line.
It's a huge one of those swing grounds as I often call them, but also it's that momentum carrying forward.
Does four rounds in a row become five in a row?
Are our shifters able to put the brakes on now that they've got themselves onto the attack?
They're going to have a very widespread defence to play against the agroobies playing.
Oh, he's got a wave!
Stop having guests away last month!
Does take him down from the window.
you put finds one on the way,
and that's the doc could be offline.
Big loss for shifters there,
but one man each at least.
I think I'll see three
made indicators on the screen at once.
That was all from two players as well.
It's worth saying,
but I still got both set in bad pocket.
But it's a lot of aggression that piled up.
But if it didn't really help during all that,
there's a doc could be cool coming on through to guarantee
you take 40 points of damage as well.
Really well handled by shifters.
I mentioned again,
back in that first half,
the second half is where I feel most nervous for them
because they're attacked
against Secret, despite the domination throughout the game in general, really was a little bit
nerve-wracking at times. They were relying two players to have big multi-kills to get
them through, but I'm emboldened by what I saw at the start, maybe a little bit less
over what I've seen since then, Tim. They've lost the doccaby and they've lost the shield.
At least now they've balanced things back out into a 3v3.
Yeah, pretty easy for Nerve there to pick up the mute, but the question is as well,
how prepared our shift is now to push towards site. That's the other big thing for me.
It's yes, you've got a couple of kills, yes, you've got a little bit of utility offline,
have you done enough to be able to now get aggressive? 55 seconds you've just
tracked somebody and found out that they're down in the basement. This is a
big problem for you because you can't spend all that time pushing it
necessarily. You certainly can't lose somebody to him down there and that
honestly is a huge blow for shifters in this round. Askers played that beautifully.
They have to start rushing. Nafe just gives the opportunity to Yoguru who is
I'm so happy to accept with the
DMR and that no leaves Robert with
it all to do. Very little health
big problem shifters round seven
looks like it will be going to
GK which will leave them 5 to on
the scoreboard. Yeah, they played
it so well this round like I
know it was a moment of point
where I was like, okay, they've
been hard punished here. So it's
got deleted off medicine and
thought, all right, shift is
looking good. But ever since
then, GK responses just been
absolutely brilliant down to
I'm not sure if I'm going to
be able to do that. I'm not
sure if I'm going to be able to
do that. They've won. They've
four shifters into not being
able to play as a team. And I
think especially stripping away
the shield and the dock will be
early on just gives you even
more freedom to play with
really good round, and they are
quite comfortably in the leads
and now five and two. I feel
quite nervous if I was
shifters who were talking about
you know, are they have fourth
place team for the stage when
we were coming into things. At
this point, if things carry on
the way they are, they might
not even be in our top six.
I really did look at the team and thought that they'd be doing more work than they have and I still will argue that I feel like they're kind of close, they're kind of close to it, but it's always close but no cigar unfortunately.
And I think, you know, now is probably the time to be saying, well, you know, the top four fight is off for me. I can't see shifters getting to that sort of point.
GK, they're doing a great job of playing this, shall we? I'm really enjoying watching them, asks gameplay there, down in the basement.
Once they get that track, you can just feel that moment in the shifter's team where it's like,
he's down first.
And we can't push towards that now because we have to go and deal with this problem.
And they get forced into it on asked terms.
He's there and ready for the fight. He's watching for that coming because he's got himself in a position he can't be challenged from stairs.
So he knows that he'll hear them from stairs before they can challenge him.
So he only has to watch connector. It's perfect for him.
and so they are fighting on his terms. Did it brilliantly. GK at the round, 5-2, shifters,
how on ever, you know, we spoke about do or die coming into the game,
it's do or die within the game. They're going to be in big trouble if they don't win this round.
Absolutely, I think the problem has been looking at the table, they're losing stand there on what,
four losses, one win. Yeah. Obviously, you could travel though.
Yeah, you could travel.
Pretty good against 50 mines, they were good against secret, and okay, we seem to be trying to,
It's time to click now they're coming together even messaged the alien blaster on Twitter and said I tell you what you guys are looking good against G2
They took him to OT arguably should have won in regulation
It's a look a bit ropey. They weren't great on land and looking
Definitely up against it here today as well and dare I say teams like fanatic and teams like gk
If you wanted to be a top five top 14
Those are the kind of teams you need to be getting good results against
It's going to be holding that angle from ivy window shift
I think maybe just need to, you know, try giving GK a little bit less time to be settled.
There was an age to take the shots there. Frank didn't.
And actually nearly pays a dry score. It takes a lot of damage along the way.
Just didn't really seem to, and I know he probably stepped up on the eyeball, but I would be as well going,
he had about half a second like one of them.
But these players' standards for their reactions are, you know, a lot higher than your average player.
And he really should have been making a challenge there.
And Tarot drone is going to take the shield off top blue.
So that leaves us now still by versus five, but a minute and a half into the round days and shifters aren't even really
Confidently inside of the map yet. They're only just about getting themselves established in there
This is okay
Let's be at the point now where you've got eyes on Mayors when you start to ask questions around top library as well about a minute and a half to go
That's not too bad
But now comes how you execute because look, every single player is going from this one side of the map
the map. So you know where the lines are drawn now. It's like a diagonal line through the map here
where we've got a defence steps up from the side of GK and the attack times line for shifters,
but it makes it predictable it's my main worry and look who's now behind them. You've got groobies
words as we're underneath them. Now I'm come up solar, suddenly things aren't quite so clear.
That was his spot, now he's off the board, so any hard breaching that they needed better be done
already. Given that we're at 40 seconds, I'd be saying that anyway. Last mo- he's going to work
the game. It's going to be
a lot of work in above so we
can start pressuring from the
hatch, but you just have to
wonder how much is that really
going to give shifters here. Is
it going to give them the
opportunity to get in through
the window? We can hold the
door at least so that is
something and the play is all
going to come down to that,
but are they going to lose too
much along the way? Groovy
finds the fuses down. Nathan's
dropped it as he dies to
Groovy as well. Five versus
to go. This is another round
done and tested with GK, putting
themselves now onto that point.
Look at the confidence that they
are playing with out of the
window fighting for the kills,
chasing everything laughing,
smiling. GK are a dangerous animal
right now. Shifters on the other
control down stairs. Wow.
Groupie was running around
through kitchen, through dining,
doing as he pleased.
And when he knew that
Sculptor started to build up,
he moves in towards 90.
And then he's in a position
where he controls
glasses trying to get
control of lobby.
So you can't play inside a lobby.
You can't really play
anywhere downstairs
except the window itself.
Didn't really have enough control.
Nothing.
It was just top floor
that they were working with there
for all four players
that were up there.
So lacking a bit of bite.
I'm afraid keeping things
a bit too simple,
a bit too direct.
and GK just ran circles around
them. Six and two, the shifters
it's looking like a foregone conclusion.
This one is going to fall by the wayside
and GK is just seeing very
jubilant about the fact they're about to get a big three point.
Yeah, they're going to need four rounds
in a row now, the shifters without mistake.
Shifters have five rounds,
sorry, six rounds in a row just themselves.
So, you know, that's
shifters at this point, man, I even remember
what it feels like to win a round on, shall we?
That's a tough feeling to go up against.
that's not to mention the fact that every round so far has converted based on the entry
kills, so whichever team has got the entry kill has gone on to win the round. So that
means that the last six rounds in a row as well, GK have got the entry kill, so shifters
are just constantly playing this in a 4B5, they were nearly doing it again there as the
Nitro toss comes out of the way. I don't hear that by the way from shifters. Sometimes,
yeah, you're back to the wall, you've just got to throw the dice, see what goes, see
you want your land. It didn't pay off this time mate. You nearly lost your life. But
I think you know sometimes you know you've got to take those chances but yeah GK looking good.
Very very difficult to stop right now and they're playing with a lot of confidence and it is giving
them just rewards. Keep an eye on shifters though because again it's the attack I want to see mixed
up a little bit here. The big difference was how GK were playing very surround focused whenever
they were trying to hit into walled sight whereas shifters were kept very very narrow
And that has given GK a bit too much freedom to be able to work with.
We were here back in his first half, in fact, he sees two players cross in front of him here, Robin.
Unfortunately, confined. Absolutely neither.
Now, that means Cinder a lot of throw in the window at the same time.
He's got to be super careful here, he's asked, gets the entry, Tim.
Is that a sign of the times it could well be? Is that a second?
He does get traded out.
All the damage is done. The Deimos has gone.
The Shield has gone.
It's the same as when they lost the Dockabee and the Blackbeard in that early round.
This is not utility you plant behind now.
You've got the Capitao.
You've just had both smokeball shoes. You're not in a position to put the diffuser down.
It's granted, can put you a little bit of space. You've now got Freck and Blaz walking in and around.
Start going to bring the diffuser on in as well. But, Giga holding on from above. They've got all four players above.
So, shifters need to take the warning from that. And that is we are confident that we can hold every angle.
We can hold every spot that you could plant in. This is part of the game plan.
And right now, shifters are playing into it.
They're trying a very risky pattern to the hatch here, but knowing they've got Kappa from the window in the matter just proves to be enough.
And we're going to chance to stick it, and they get a kill off the back of it as he falls by the waistline.
Sarkz, and at least one bat the other way at three versus two. This is still doable for shifters.
They're just going to make sure they get another kill to bring things down to a 2v2, and sure enough, that is what they do.
Sarkz knows that he can't stick it, needs to go for the kill. He knows where his teammate died from.
They know they've got a punish on towards Blast. Nath still sitting on the window here, of course.
can rappel in at any time and go for the exchange.
But he was trying to get rid of yoggers off towards his left.
They get one more. They have to know that he's on big window.
He's going to have to rappel in, lock himself into the animation.
It's the easy swing that comes out, and they're on the diffuser.
Tim GK have done it.
7-2, an impressive victory.
Three points, and that puts shifters down to second from bottom.
Not the playday they envisioned.
As it was through the entire game, GK finished that one off.
So calmly, cool, collected.
Absolutely no fear, even with the low health Kai'i, they get the job done, wait for the repel, and they just play it perfectly.
They just break in from GK, they deserve every bit of praise.
It might have been that perv back before today, Tim, but I can only imagine that is going to change a fantastic show in.
We'll go to a break, and when we come back, I'll dance. We ready to break it down for you. I see it a few.
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I'ma keep it going til I ain't no nuts
I'm going til I ain't no nuts
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We have Grube joining us here for the interview.
Grube, congratulations on the three points, but a 7-2.
Were you expecting that result?
Yeah, first thing, hello.
I mean, I would lie if I would say that we did not expect the result.
I'll be honest with you guys.
It was a good game for us as a team, you know?
Grube, I would say we spoke last week.
The issue last week was that the attacks maybe weren't functioning so well.
And then today, they were absolutely brilliant.
So what's changed in the last six days since we spoke to you?
I mean, we've been working very hard on the attacks, like how to fix the issues, like with the small over peaks,
like with the miscommunication, we've not gone with the timings.
Well, the first two rounds that we played, I felt like the same issues I felt again.
But then we said, guys, we have to switch over, we have to try maybe a bit different way,
let's punish them for standing still, like let's be more compact as a team,
and yeah, we changed the way we played the game, and I think it worked well for us.
We started playing a bit more of demos, like the Dokebi, so us could get the space,
or us could get the space, or I was taking the space with BB, so yeah, I think we've been working hard on that
and slowly it's like, it's getting better, it's still not on the level that you want it to be,
but at least we can win some attacks and make them look like we are a team, not randoms, you know?
Yeah, I think we've seen that in the attacks, where the fact that you guys had multiple moments
where one guy was, for example, in basement lurking out, one guy just got into bar,
another one was poking from the windows, it felt like you were trying to be everywhere,
and it worked like you created overpeaking on the side of sheathers was it part of the game plan?
Yes, kind of we went through the plan before the game and we kind of knew how we should play against them to make them a bit
like uncomfortable on the either like the defense side or the attack so we kind of like
Forced it, you know, it was not like the whole idea, but yes, we did kind of
Is it something like a playstyle that we're gonna see more from you guys because I think we've seen that with Jack with
in general, that you like spreading around the map and giving space to Sark to ask and then having
multiple pressure points. Is that a place that I think will be your identity throughout the rest of
the stage? I'll be honest, I don't even want to say too much about the attacks, but yeah, let's see.
I mean, let's see. I don't think we have like sticky one place that we want to focus on doing the
whole stage. I think we want to develop and play a bit of everything, you know, like be a bit of the
VP, the new one, the old VP and maybe a bit of face. So really see how it's going to go. You know,
It's a hard time, to be honest, to be a team that can do a bit of everything
because it takes time to develop and understand everything.
So we'll see how we're going to end up after the stage or in two seasons.
OK, well, I understand you can't be giving us too much information
on everything that's going on behind the closed doors.
But maybe you have information about the game tomorrow, big one against Falcons.
Oh, yeah, I mean, it's going to be a good game.
I think we but for us, it's a normal day in the office, you know,
like, I think we just have to go and play the game that we want to play.
Well Falcons is a really good team, so no matter which map you're gonna play or how you're gonna play
It's always gonna be a hard game because they just have like five players that are really good
So they can always like you know show up as a player
So it's gonna be a tough game for us and we just everyone from us has have to show up as a team
Basically, you won't win the game by individual like level, right?
I really respect that view. I feel like that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for your time, Groobie, and good luck tomorrow
No, I thank you guys see you guys tomorrow
Good points to both of them as well. And hearing about the attacks they've been working on,
I bet it's been working out for them too.
Yeah, and it really did. They were really good on the attacks today. They really, really forced that over peeking from shifters.
Basically just through applying pressure, like you said, Leo absolutely everywhere. I felt like they were everywhere at the same time.
I will say, I really liked that point. Right at the end of the interview, that's what we said.
We will only win rounds by playing as a team.
And I think this is why it looks so peaceful family with this team because when you spread out when you play separate as we have seen in multiple different
Games now no matter you know probably won't stress it up by the play like old VP new VP or phase
We have seen them spread out and they've been all over the map
That's really hard spotting play at the same time because it relies on communication and not being in close proximity to each other
So you can see why it's been really really bad at times and really really good as well today
I think for shifters and starting to be worried for multiple things
I think they really struggle to read the playstyle of I think they're struggle to read it
They struggled to adapt to it. I think it was really clear that they were over picking
They were moving too much and I think you know in this kind of in this kind of scenario
You have multiple ways to fix it you you bring a lot of traps so that you're more aware you bring Intel
So that you make sure that you're not surprised you get closer together
Maybe you turtle behind some utility to avoid that that the gaps that the GK are finding and then last thing
You know if you get are gonna start spreading around the map
Then you know that every single time you see someone he's isolated so then double up on this guy
And I felt like I did not see a reaction from shifters there when they switch to attacks
Be a little bit closer to each other and be a little bit more proactive quicker than that because they were playing so default
So basic so slow that they were predictable on everything they were doing and ultimately for me the book stops
Ultimately with that to support players that they brought in they brought Blasio in from G2 really experienced players played at so many events
and he's unnafed the new IGF, they need to be reading that.
They need to be communicating that.
Part of the master of the Scorpion.
That's in G12.
Ella and Vinare's captain.
Slept on operator.
Sense.
Sense.
Both.
The most in-state one solid snake.
I would say...
Oh, maybe solid snakes.
Solid snake.
A team that won't make it to the playoffs.
Secret.
Team Veritas.
The red leagues.
The best player right now in all the world is probably Cypher.
Basher.
Basher's my opponent.
Me.
Well, I think it's possible.
He said me.
Oh, well, I mean, fair.
That makes a lot of sense.
We always saw earlier that he has to well.
Basher with the upside-down glasses.
Makes the picture.
team. Yeah, exactly. No, I
love these little bits that
we're doing with the players
asking them some questions as
well. We were also asking about
players or teams that are
potentially going to miss out
on the playoffs and with the
stupid weekend with the
importance of these matches,
every single one is going to
matter so much with the amount
of points that you can get from
this, even for the next message
while G2 versus rebels G2, you
know, suspect that we expect to
be in the playoffs in top four
even rebels will have a more
difficult time. They currently
find themselves in six
positions. They're going to
in 6th position and when you two are looking at these two teams, you can notice that they
play with a similar kind of play style but they tend to get really different results
from it and I wonder what makes it that they get these different results from it.
I think they are trying to find the same ingredient for success in the ability to frag and having
this big multiple trying to play really aggressive for second fights.
It's the only way we both really have found a way to try and break the default play style
that we've seen.
However, we do tend to see a lack of results here in the opening engagements, where G2
absolutely thrive in playing aggressive early and getting those opening kills.
On the side of Rebels, it is a consistent problem of trying to force a gunfight, but
isolated without the right intel, turning you back to your opponent.
Like the amount of opening deaths that Rebels get is insane.
They are the worst team in entry, despite Secret being on 0 points right now.
Rebels are the worst team in entry in the whole tournament, in the whole league.
40% and then on the side of G2 they're the second best team at it and so if the
main character after play style is those gunfights especially fighting early on
yeah and yet you lose most of them that's the big difference that I see
between Rebels on G2. It's not necessarily sustainable to be fighting from behind all
of the time you know you will basically only have a win for like 20% of your
rounds when you're starting that 4v5 scenario. Yeah that's very rough for these players
that say there's opportunities though because well it's up to other opponents
for G2. It's a classic G2 thing that we've seen so far. It's round 12, they're about
to give you a hard tag, they look like they're about to lose the round and then somewhere
a big player pops up and they save the round.
So that's what the best teams do and ultimately I think when they go up against their opposition,
when they go up against other teams, they know that they have the big game players at the
core, the game winning moment and that's exactly what happened. G2, round 12, they're
against GK, all the way back to play they won and Shaiqo in it, the pops up with a 4k.
Now, Sheiko's not had a brilliant stage by Sheiko's, you know, stats, by what his standards are.
Not had a brilliant stage, but he got him at least one point, maybe even two, in that one singular round with a 4k.
But it's also not just Sheiko that's done it.
Wenji two have then been facing up round 12 and they're playing now.
Who's it gonna be?
They're gonna shift us.
It's been an adventure inside of this round that ends up coming up with a massive 4k and winning the round for them.
again, dragging them over the line in round 12,
another game where they could have got zero points at it,
that they ended up getting two points out of it.
And that ultimately at times, yes,
each of us touched it, yes, it's about team play,
but it is also an FPS game as well.
And G2 have got five of the best fraggers
in the world on their roster.
And at this moment, they're gonna play a team
that is trying to play like them,
is trying to imitate them a little bit like EK does.
And realistically, I think that you two
are just the real masters in the ML at this time.
And so if that is the game plan for evils,
I just don't think that's it.
I think they will need to find something of their own if they want to take down Jitsu.
Exactly. The map might be really important in that one too, right?
Can you really replicate that kind of playstyle from your big brother in this essential?
It's the map we saw during the clip. You're going to go back to Fortress.
Wow. That is a... That's a bold move for Rebels.
We saw them play once against VP and to be honest, it was a great showing in a sense that they made it close.
It was a 7-4 loss. However, one big problem here is that they didn't win a single attack on that map.
They haven't won a single attack on that map at the 1-1 level.
And so they will start attack here, which is a real one for them, a real problem.
On the set of G2, they're on a five-win streak on the map.
They feel really comfortable, they beat heretics on it, they're big geeky on it.
So, obviously, on paper, still very much a damage versus glass.
For me, those first six rounds are so important,
because it's about which team can improve on their first half.
G2, quite famously, a few players have spoken about it now.
On defense, I start in that game's log, but particularly on that defensive start.
They will be starting defense today.
But the same, Rebels will be starting attack where they, like you say, Leia,
they didn't really show any promise going up against CT on this map. So whoever can elevate
their performance will be the one that will get a massive advantage.
I feel like that first half really is going to set the tone for this matchup, though. Pressure
on the shoulders of both these players, but the match is ready, so we'll send it back to the cancers.
Thank you very much guys. Here we go with the fortress game, Tim. Looks like it's been a little
bit of a fortress in how different teams like to approach it and seeing G2 on it. Well, we're
I get to see one of the more aggressive variants rebels. I'm looking at I'm thinking and one of these
It would point into being side of our bottom four. Can they have a chance here today?
I think they've got massive keyboards though. That is
Everybody's got a chance. Do I think it's a big one? Unfortunately. I don't I think G2 have looked very very good
There's almost felt like there was not a wobble. It was against Vulcans, but last player that looked at you to begin
I was like, you know, is it going to be close to the road that we think we were kind of thinking we're just going to dominate everything.
But then in the second half, they were really quite dominant and they showed the difference there.
So, yeah, I think that Rebels are really going to struggle.
You know, if Falkins can't get it done against G2 right now, I would have to say I don't think Rebels do.
I'm seriously off for G2 today, but I don't really see it happening.
Alamo is one to watch from me as IGL has been putting up some big, big numbers over the last couple of players days.
Obviously the question is, does that continue?
You know, we often have this conversation in modern Siege and the contributions from and around IGLs.
Let's see if Alamo can still keep putting up those big numbers.
That's it. I mean, his first playday he was watching through at 9 and everyone was like, oh my God, Alamo again, letting the team down, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
then comes out and drops a 17 and 9, and it's like, out!
And it's like, this is work!
He can be that guy when it's required.
And although I'm not really mandate that he does that again today,
because if Alomar's the one dragging out,
there's typically a problem in the entry line.
That more turns towards players like Shoko and into wall's Dakey.
It's somewhat towards Benja.
Though Benja is typically playing more of a supportive role alongside Stompin,
who's kind of their very much hard support, their anchor player.
So if Alomar's popping off, it means something needs to improve.
And that's not to say, oh, it's a bad thing that he pops off.
Of course it's not, it's great to see, but the way this team is structured, really you want your front line to be doing a lot of work
and you're more of a line on Alamal when the front line collapses down. If that's too heavy a reliance, that's not to say there is a problem.
But that's the other thing, we're going to start things out up here inside the box, and bathroom, which means on the attacking side,
they're probably going to have to worry about tearing that down towards the south side.
They're saying this every time we cast this map, Tim, we'll move across those top four sites.
Typically you'll have to attack from the opposite side to where that site is, really a full top four clear to work through.
and then up from there. Yeah,
for those of you around when we
used to see villa is very much
a villa vibe on the top floor.
How many years it's been
because of villa? Good while
a good one. But yeah, very much
a villa vibe up on the top floor
that you tend to see that push
coming in from the opposite
side. But there is also very
close by like direct access to
the side should you choose to
the game. We're going to be
going to be very close by like
direct access to the steps.
Should you choose the team?
Right now we are going to have
G2 holding out in the games and
lobbies. This is an area that's
interesting actually courtyard.
So courtyard at the beginning of
fortress. We never used to see
teams were just like, Oh, don't
go near courtyard. It's an
absolute kill box. Like you just
it's a death trap. You're going
you know, the necessity is the father of invention, isn't it?
You get to a point where the defenders get so used to the attacks
that the attackers have to start looking outside of the methods that they have been using
and we start to see new areas coming along.
And I feel like Courier is certainly one of those areas that's picking up
a little bit of favorability in terms of the team choosing it.
Absolutely. Well, the halfway into the round is still figuring out
what's to stay through in here.
For Linkley, that's going to be in through the front door
and likely up towards Top Eagle.
He's on the right side of the building.
He can use it with a KB to slowly massage his players backwards.
Certainly no complaints about that.
It's what the operator is very, very good at.
It helps you make space,
admittedly under the older version.
Very good at it because it affords every one back,
whereas now it's just the one player that tends to get pushed.
The ball comes on through.
Al-Arsh, ready. He knew the challenge was coming,
and he's just about with it.
Al-Arsh gets linked to a great 2v1 swing.
And once again, Tim, it's Al-Arsh popping up in round one.
I love that double swing onto courtyard door there.
Just that movement before.
It's enough to draw the gun away from the side that Alamo is actually swinging stomping managers to pick one up
He's been playing on eagle through at this round takes down fed all these is now in a four versus two
Let's be careful though. Alamo low health doki low health make your half health
This is not you know all seven done
Let me tell you that rebels do still have an opportunity with that black beard on the board
They need to get more sort to work quickly though
It's not gonna happen as stomping managers to find him Alamo with three in the round and G2 take a
that. They're not going to be
comfortable. They're not. Very
comfortable round one. They did
lose ground along the way. They
did lose my control, but nothing
that they didn't want to give up
at that time. They weren't forced
away. Nothing was taken. It was
just very well structured
defense from G two. That's
exactly it right. I think it's
very easy to look at a team like
G two and go, Oh, these guys are
like almost arrogant. They're so
cocky. They're so like sure
themselves. I get it. But at the
look to be air quotes aggressive, shoot through drones, consume utility, they have 3-4 dracobi
calls coming on through, there's only 4 some players back from the extension in towards
site, and actually thinking in a way that dracobi call that came on to alama inside
of site was more harmful to rebels than it was helpful, which sounds weird to say, helpful?
We're gonna show the S.F.A.S.T.E. right?
Cheers, okay.
Always on one of the kits from Jack, but again what it did is, it said to alama, okay, well
I'm not playing on the extension, I'm not playing aggressive, which means they're about
to try and hit me, if it was somewhere otherwise why would they be calling a warden that they
and he had to read into your clues what was going to come next and got that current towards
Linku.
He converts into a second with a 2v1 swing.
That was the level of confidence where people might look at it as their eyes, it's arrogance
is.
It's just confidence honestly in my view.
You get that first kill and immediately go for a 2v1 swing on towards Portion, most of
you just get that kill and then go crouching behind a half wall somewhere, get a reloading
for example, reassess what the situation is, what's the action in the team now that you've
got that kill.
I just like how G2 always play very very flowing, it makes them very very hard to deal with
They always seem to be in the right places at the right times
No two rebels will think try to disrupt G2 maybe a little bit more. That's gonna be the key here
G2 we saw them towards the end they're able to play in those power positions who have never moved out of court yard
Coronel for example spoke about a particular approach from rebels
But they never really gained any ground this time they need to get themselves more of a foothold immediately attention
It's paid towards the breach they're gonna get that open look with the Selma charge
So that puts the phantom pressure on the side
I would expect Rebels to come back to that later on in the round, but Alan out
He just continues, picked him out at the beginning does and he's just putting up the numbers
He's four and zero and he's taking Deimos and Snake off the board. Even those two can't chase him down with all their intel
It's mental isn't it? It's honestly mental that he's getting away with daylight murdering feels like and I know what I said earlier on
you're not going to be able to
get into the middle of the
team. You're not going to be
able to get into the middle of
the team. Typically, some things
are going to be great if you
get involved. Just what you
normally expect. Okay, but what
rebels are trying to do a couple
of times now is go for these
sidestabs, not really a
bad step, but a sidestab of
that for sure. Go as well. They
try and go for these side
steps to try and break up the
middle of the team a little
bit. But Alamo is just so
reliable in those positions,
and it's almost like you're
saying, Yeah, let's try and
target the guy in the middle of
the pack who's been absolutely
frying the last couple of
weeks. It's almost like that
I can't imagine that. Hopefully they'll figure it out quickly because otherwise they're going to find themselves behind by a long way if this continues because at the minute Alamo 5 and 0, stomping 2 and 0, everybody on G2 has at least the kills so they're all getting involved and whatever Rebels are trying to do is not panning out for them at the minute.
So last time the snake and the day must go in and I would be interested to know if linko and Marta would both actually chasing Alomar at the time or whether he's had an opportunity.
We're chasing Doki. Look, they've got a track on Doki here. They have a track on there, cool on there. Really one of him gone and you saw the outcome.
Again, it's nice from G2 though, because it's that sort of team play to say, yeah, this is what you're chasing me. This is where they are. This is where Alomar who does the business.
game plan of let's bait Doki.
That sounds like a great
game to play. Because the thing
is, if Doki's in a bit of a
weird position or a bit of an
off angle, he's getting a bit
aggressive. Nobody's going to
take twice about it. Nobody's
going to think, oh, that's
weird. Maybe you know, this,
this, you know, food I've seen
on the floor, it actually
smells a bit fishy. Maybe I
shouldn't go and try and take
this. You know, I was going to
avoid that bit. They're just
going to go for it. They can
get the kill. And then G2
and then G2, spring the trap and it works beautifully, a couple for Alamo, a couple
around for G2, it's 2-0, looking to get into round 3, where we will move downstairs for
the defence.
Alright, now we go into that typical conversation about fusing, like, oh you're bringing it
for the gadget, they're bringing it just for the shield, obviously they've still got a
shield they could run around with in the form of a blackbeard, but I've opted not to bring
it, which makes me think, maybe, just maybe, we'll see the gadget being used at some stage,
not going towards breach and charge to help them get the floor opened up.
So you've seen the Titan a million times over, if you've watched Fortress any time recently,
you want to make sure they've got top floor control first and foremost,
you want to make sure they've got mesh control, and then they can start asking questions of the
site itself. But naturally, GTSU are not going to make it so easy for them.
Loki, once again, the target of their Intel-based operators in the early ground,
my question will always be, all right, then it's open to the entire team, where's Alamau?
He's going to be skulking somewhere nearby.
I'm going to go back a bit. I
have. Marta just taking ground
on the top floor, bringing the
fuse along so verticality is at
least going to be part of the
play here. It's an ongoing
conversation about attacking this
site is that verticality. Certainly
seems to be part of the play at
least as it does manage showing
I've got a lot of options, so
the map would be a little bit limited so a bit of a hybrid but G2 just needs to be careful there
as those verticals do start opening up there's a lot of teams won't play directly inside of this
site which is why there's this conversation about verticals because it's not always too valuable but
G2 are quite close to that so there could be some value here. Yeah I mean it's getting a lot done with
destroy utility in below it is making sure players aren't in these key positions it's actually a
really interesting way I suppose of forcing certain parts of the map to be empty but there he is again
Look it's how about collecting yourself a freebie with the shot and that's how in the main hall of glass off towards their side
Will the focus of rebels still look into water verticals utility being staffed in not just this time on the few balls
Of course looking into water as grim bees to try and find what they can and now they start their march on forward
They surely need a couple of kills here
And I really do need to make sure that they get the numbers
But they're not gonna be as because the lambs gets taken down
and Benja manages to find him 30 seconds and again G2 is breaking the trap, Alamo, Stomp and Dorky, pretty sure that was a team ace.
Brilliant stuff from G2, they look electric tonight, Rebels could be in real trouble.
Well, the other hard thing is Tim, this is a fun little behind the scenes, there's a bit of thinking for you.
Normally after a game two or three is when I'll try and arrange dinner to be ready, my lovely wife bless her heart and soul,
you know, it's a really good
game. We're going to start and
soul when I'm casting will
prepare dinner, and we're
always trying to navigate
times in games. And I tend to
assume a game will be 45 50
minutes long. You assume
there'll be something else from
close rounds in there or maybe
drag us towards like a 74. You
can predict that with how it's
going so far. I think I may have
way over shot when dinner needs
to be ready by because G two
look absolutely electric rebels.
They've got the right game
plan. They're going for doki
to try to push the entries of
players are playing out around
the map. But again, you just
get sidestabbed by someone
I'm not at all surprised to see
the taking attack timeout.
Otherwise we are on route for a
six zero because they haven't
really the particularly close.
It's funny that you mentioned
having dinner ready. I absolutely
nailed it in the Falcons game
does to cold it in a clean 25
minutes before we were finished
ready. It was ready as I walked
out of my office. Absolutely
beautiful stuff shout out to in
this case, my life as well. Who
the game. I don't think it's
going to be a hell of a tactical
time. I would say that way
because right now, you know,
this isn't even about strategy.
I don't think G2 are just in
complete control of every facet
of this game so far. You know,
I think rebels have done the
right thing at times
strategically round one, for
example, we saw them move in.
They took dogs. They took game.
They moved through and took
briefing. They tried to push
and then have a little bit of, you know, alternative pressure elsewhere with courtyard as well.
And it didn't matter, you know, they forced G2 back, G2 dropped back because they had two at times
and I think there was even a push onto Eagles there as well, White's there and Stomp and shut that down
and G2 just had all the answers and that's what we've seen round after round, to be honest, Rebels have gone in
and they fought over the, you know, they're fighting over the right places, they're fighting for the right things
But G2 are just winning those fights almost every single time, if not every single time, like in the last round.
There's only been two kills so far, on the side of Rebels by the way, in three rounds.
However, past my 15, there's been two kills.
And it's all on one player.
And it's just Fennel.
Attackers must locate and defuse the bomb.
It's not pretty, though it is arguably the outcome. Many would have expected to come in.
Many of you are at home, I think we saw 90% leaning towards G2.
and the only question is towards 10% here saying what the bloody hell were you thinking?
This level of side hearts maybe, I don't know, either way it's not looking good.
Let's see though if things can turn it, they can transport their fortunes,
after attack timeout they've still got three more rounds in this half to at least get something back.
If they get a couple of attacks, I think they'll feel okay with that one,
but it does mean winning two or three that I'm sure and I can guarantee G2 are not going to take line down.
I would agree with you there, there's G2, the Royal Ham team has blood in the water,
they know it and they're just going to keep pushing and getting aggressive, they're just
going to keep playing their game and just grinding Rebels down. The one thing that I would say
to remember for Rebels, of course, they have struggled on their type, there's no two ways
about it, so they are going to be stronger in the second half of this.
Now, Trough goes out, the Blackbeard does manage to avoid it, we're going to see the
Dock of the call and actually absolutely fine. Okay, he's taking the damage. We discussed this already
We're actually just briefly saw the flames in front of us as well from his form detonating
So he doesn't have a phone to be called anymore also means that he can't access the camps and stuff
So he's he's taking that choice and taking the point
Yeah, I guarantee you won't care most players don't like I said it is keep the damage
Explodes it's a touch way from the fire afterwards and there we go
On a variable, but it also means you can't be called a second time
So maybe now you're turning in towards the line you're turning in towards link who admittedly isn't all that much use when you're looking at
Cheeky cheeky
Below you then obviously it's a whole conversation mistaken
But he only really works laterally
That's the idea here one of the stairs at the very least Salamence steps out looking for a shock from blast dodges away from the
Nade and now underneath is coming link you but needs to step across them
I don't think Alamow wants to give that one up to the card. I'm actually goes. Yeah, here you go
Here's my head for free. Absolutely not. Oh, no, not a chance
He's he's gonna be challenged again. Benja manages to find Martel. I almost wasted two minutes down here by the way
That's absolutely ridiculous. Just bits out a little bit more of a challenge. They seize the foot
He's just holding weight and he gets they could do nothing about it
He's managed to get in the backbeard don't he finishes him off and retakes the position again G2 masterful in time wasted
And he guaranteeing kills stomping onto LMS
this is just as butter from G2 right now. Lincoln manages to find one at least, but look at his health. 30 seconds left to go up against Dorky and Shaco. He can do nothing. Shaco takes him down and G2 or 0. And we start looking at that 6-0, half here, I think, at this point. I don't see anything from Rebels on the attack that convinces me that they're going to get around at the minute.
I think he was kind of promising.
That's all I've got Tim.
I was waiting for more there, Des.
I couldn't be honest with you.
No, he can't just mean that Lincoln's going to be enough to stop G2 with the way they're playing.
I'm not saying he's playing bad.
He's just not going to stop the G2 team.
The fact that there were some three of them all gathered around Blue Tower
were the best part of a minute and a half to force all of them out.
And even then, they still lose numbers in doing it.
This is a nice shot granted.
But as part of that, it was again just more G2 dominant.
I was going to like when it's Tokyo and Shikoh,
they had a few players left alone at the end,
and they are meant to be the entry sporters team.
Alamo has had three entries, Ben just had one.
They're just having a lot of fun right now.
Yeah, they really are.
They're really are.
Right, we move up, it's going to be games and dorms,
so I would expect to see similar from Rebels
that we saw last time.
They didn't actually make too much progress
onto this site, unfortunately, for them.
We saw them open the exterior breach,
so we will, I would imagine that we will see that again.
the game. You're looking to
get off this. You're looking
to get master bedroom area. You're
looking to get briefing
particularly and put a bit of
pressure trap the team in between
both sides. You can play
externally through the breach and
you can maybe hop in through
bending with going. You can
challenge on through the north
side as well. But I never really
felt like rebels got themselves
established inside of the map
really in in round two. So let's
So let's see how they do this time
Okay
Now whatever boys
I say now we're never around six to point away in front of the most to get around
But here's the offside
Let's tell you what, Linky was playing
Bro, you think
He's playing with fire there
I'm sorry, he was lucky he didn't die to the player on the eagle
Like he knows he's still there
He had the little mid-left catch competition there
So let's go and actually get away with it
And his charge is vastly forward here
Trying to get cut off from us on the other side
But they won't be rewarded with a kill
A little bit too stupid that I'm afraid will not be getting Doki any time soon.
Maybe the information will be fed in, but again, just not really gaining too much from it as G2
continued to move, continued to be slippery, just always holding difficult angles.
The challenge always just seemed to slip through the net.
Benja manages to find Asa, Doki, and it's another double kill for G2
in rapid succession. Mato manages to get the trade.
Can he find another no Avenger? He's just having an absolute season, he's Avenger.
Triple in the round, unreal from him, 4v1 for G2 and it is all up to LMS.
He's on the game, he does have one track left, does not have much HP left as he will take more damage
and he's going to drop away, maybe just take a little bit of time to talk with the team.
Might be a pretty long time out here for sure, unless they go home soon for him, it appears to be the game plan.
I want to say it's a good attempt. I like how Link has been super aggressive there.
I've tried to punish G2 before he had time to cut back, that's just too easy, that's ridiculous, all right, fair enough.
He's tried to punish Doki on his full back there, not a bad shout, almost got a pin on towards, um, horse.
Also knows someone's inside a bathroom, but look at them, what happens? Doki manages to get himself into the corridor behind him and kills Linky.
If I was Linky there, I'd be screaming like, guys, where are you? Like, I've made space, I've pushed up, we've got Eagle control, I'm inside of office but I need someone to be at top Eagle, watching my back at the same time.
I don't know what happened, but I think he got shot down at some point by Benji quite early on.
Either way, I was a little bit like, guys, like, nice attempt, but they weren't doing it as a team, and that is what punished them.
Yeah, that was my reaction as well. I don't know how our last match to get that is ridiculous. Shotguns, bro.
That's the era for G2 as they continue on. It's going to be back down to the bottom floor. We saw this in round three.
I'd love to say that it was maybe the closest that Rebels have got to winning an attacking round, but I don't feel it was really.
I don't think they've got particularly close anyway. That's the problem. You know, the round four was probably about the best where they managed to get that link of 3K. That was about as good as it's got.
Otherwise, it's been pretty dire for them so far. Across the board, they've got, what, six kills? So they've got just enough kills to win one round in the first six, which is, yeah, I think that sums it up.
Every single entry has gone to G2 as well, by the way.
None of those six kills have come as the first of the round.
So they're playing on the back foot as well.
I keep... I hear some swaddim.
I keep saying we are expecting better in the second half.
But the problem for Rebels is they may be only going to get one chance at now
because they're going to be straight away on match point
if G2 win this round.
They are better on defense than they have been on attack.
You're trying to get him aggressively. It doesn't work.
You're playing steak.
Linkus on it, on his own, and Doki's got the kill.
You're playing steak.
You have shields! You have to get me onside! This shouldn't be happening!
There was three players all around in them, one of them was guaranteed to get him.
I don't know if this bit of tilt is moving into the game can now or what, but it is in its useable.
That as a stake you can go down so easily.
Docby is going to be accessing the camps there just to get a little bit of intel.
No, they want me up to actually, nobody's dead, so it was thought of a call or drawn in themselves,
but either way, G2, they continue to hold on quite nicely here, pulse of stomping,
just feeding so much intel back into his team.
You can see the pings coming out there of all these locations,
he's almost trying to lay the guy, this Nitro, into position to try and get them another kill,
but G2 just not overcommitting to anything, and again, it's something that they've done well.
You feel like it would have been easy for GT to slip into aggressive plays and, you know, trying to move forward and find these good, fast hip hops here.
Oh, why not? We'll take the fact, we'll get confident, but they're not. They're just focusing on professionally getting this job done, you know, in as little time as possible.
Losing a few rounds and just really putting a message out there. Right now, this message received.
I like at least that the Sunrises have brought the round. They've actually got vertical destruction that isn't just the breach in charge to come out.
So hopefully they can massage GTBAT, they can force them away.
They've already used all their C4s here.
So if you've got any chance of seeing something over the line,
it would be now, but dying to a raise of bloom
is certainly not going to change that, I'm afraid.
Just trying to use the verticals of the glock here,
see if they can find anything.
Get something going, a foundation to build on,
but they will not, as Benjy gets one,
Alamo, another, Astoner taking down,
Flo was trying six kills only for Rebels,
Remains six kills only in the entire first half.
It's been tough for them, Dez.
Very tough.
And I imagine, I see you, we're about to jump to you.
We'll be back with us again in two minutes' time.
So guys, what'd you make of that?
Well, thank you.
I think you should take that two minutes
to have a bit of a breather.
I sense some frustration in the final round.
Taking example of Leo, a little quick drink as well
to replenish the sources.
But no, I understand it, though, because the frustration
was there, the room clear.
It was not happening.
No, that's the main thing.
And we noticed it early on at the map, it's the weak side, they're going to start the attack on a map that's heavily defend the side against a G2 that's going to be super aggressive here and they're struggling in opening engagements.
And if we take a look at one of these rounds where they're struggling to run here here, so we have Sweet Snake as the spearhead of that attack.
He's quite isolated, look, Tokaibis on the other side and she's not pressuring at all.
And so one player falls behind him, Linko falls after that, the player that was supposed to run pressure on the horse, the Tokaibis, she's nowhere to be seen.
It's completely disjointed in a matter of what like 20 seconds. Look at this. It's a 41 in a matter of 20 seconds
And that's the problem with the room here right now. It's disjointed isolated and they're not using their utility at all
Absolutely crazy. Doki said because we had the voice comes he said about three times that I'm on guys. I'm gonna die
Oh, I've got away. Oh, I've got away. Oh, I've got away and then he pushes back in and gets killed absolutely crazy
But it wasn't just Doki that was farming. There was one man in particular that was going crazy from the very first round
That man was Alomar. He ended up 10 and 1, big double kill to start us off, then a second double kill in the next round.
And he's the brains behind the operation, let's not forget that. He's the one out here only, but he's the one that's dragging people around, you know, making many plays, finding those kills.
It all starts in round 1 here, and realistically, this was, you know, he benefited from the fact that Rebels were just so disorganized, offering 1 vs 1 vs 1, and Alomar was cooking with it.
He played Warden five rounds out of six inside of this defense, but also another guy who was very close behind him in the scoreboard,
Benja, this strong killer. How does he get away with it? How? How does he get away with it?
But also Benja played a runic five rounds out of six.
K2 weren't really changing a lot with their defenses in terms of the areas that the map they wanted to control,
and Rebels just, at no point, literally zero point if they found a way through.
It's the G2 World. They decide where to fight, when to fight, and they do it so well,
and that's on the back of their incredible individuals. Yes, I remember, but also really,
on the back of Rebels, not using utility, team play,
not doubling up on certain rumors, that's the problem,
because G2, they're playing super extended,
so you had opportunities to pick up these rumors
and isolate them.
Now they're gonna switch, they're in defense,
they need a huge mental reset, that's the big thing.
I'm, and G2 just needs to be right once, right?
Yeah, that's it.
And you know what G2 are like?
They will keep forcing things,
they will keep forcing until it works
or until it doesn't work.
Form BAM, Goyo BAM screams some kind of execute,
I mean, that's what I was going to say. One round is all they need to end this game and secure the three points from it. Can they do it in one? Or will we need more?
I thought we were going to stay for a mega cast. I'm not going to lie. I was going to say, I don't want to be harsh, but I'm just not sure there's really any fine tests to be honest with you.
They had the chance to go to Chalet, which is their favourite map.
They love playing that map, they've not found it once so far.
In 2026, they always want to play Chalet when they get the chance to do so.
It's G2's least preferred map, but one map they'd rather avoid out of any other is Chalet.
But instead, they said, you know what?
Now, we won't take our favourite map, we won't go to G2's worst map,
but go to Fortress, which happens to be a further band of ours.
Look at how well that works out for Fnatic in the first game of the day, earlier on, on-border.
clear the path for any later push should they need to be going down there. It's one of those,
just take the opportunity as you pass him. All right, they're a little bit on courtyard
floor, they see the opportunity, sending the drone, see if anybody peeks, they don't.
Bencher goes in, does the damage, and that's the chancre off the board. What's your plan
for defending now? Well, Penhall says, I'll tell you, it's going to be getting some kills.
Manages to tear down Alamo, but Bencher another dorky on the one after four versus two. G2
just proving they are fortress masters right now, does? They're having an absolute field day,
out there and again the crucial differences when one player goes down there is a second to stepping
and guarantee a trade or something like that off the back of it good 2v1 but again there is
someone else there for the trade again. Twice in this round we've seen G2 do what rebels struggle
to do throughout the entire first half after at least game one. Who's still to find the four of
Stompin and Doki? Two strokes to play with a minute 15. It feels like it's cooked but hopefully
They're gonna need nine kills in a total game, I've got a bad feeling it could be a new record, not one that you want to hold.
Defuser is gonna start going down, it's gonna be Dorky to put it down, at least a minute 1v1 on him and it was stomping low health after.
Now is your time to push but no, he's allowed Dorky to get back down so Flash comes in and he finds himself now on the back foot.
to the left. He's going to keep
stomping at least out of the
way. There's the peak. There's
the kill. There's the win for
G2. It's seven zero and it is
dominant.
Expect it after how that first
half went, but you two walking
here seven zero. That is the
way to go.
0 and it is dominant.
We expected it after how that first half went, but G-SOO
we walked in here at 7-0, that is domination from them.
Outright domination and Rebels will rue the day that they dare
to take G-SOO to Fortress.
Maybe mistake that after a review for their playday tomorrow
to see if they can do better then, but now we'll cut through a break.
When we come back out there,
what a breakdown what you just saw, blinking, you missed it.
We want the action!
You're not a threat to me!
We want the action!
Lights, lights, cameras, cameras!
You're going to action!
We want the action!
I
I
I
and
and
and
and
complete, utter dominance for G2, a 7-0 very fast game, and that means we get to speak
to the winners. We have LML on the line for a few questions. Good evening, LML. Congrats
on the three points. That was quite the game from you. You've been 10-2, shocking kill
outside. Like, what was happening?
Hello guys, yeah, it was a shocking game actually. We thought it actually would be a harder match,
but the rivals stick to surprises every day.
It surprises us in a good way, I guess, for you at least.
You know, one of the things that we noticed and we discussed during interviews with you guys
in prayer games was maybe a slow start in defense in general,
compared to your attacks that have always been good.
Did you guys put a lot of work in your defenses because you just went 6-0?
Or is it only due to Rebels?
To be honest, recently I think every team is trolling the practice against us,
so we can't really work on our defenses or our attacks.
But yeah, I need names I guess I mean all of them all of them
Just a bunch of trolls nobody takes serious apart from maybe VP and yeah
Let's make it back. All right
Good to hear Carl. Um, I think you've got a favorite player on the team
Maybe a player that's returning to the team mr. Mr.
Bender master and in fact both of you had a really really good performance today
day. If we pull up the stats, it looked like he was going to outdo him slightly and then
he gets one more kill. So I know you've been having a lot of fun with him on social media,
but how much of an impact has he been having on the team?
I mean, the impact that he has on the team is like way more than just, I think, his individual
performance. I mean, he's really close friends to me and Doki from like eight years ago.
So I think that brings, I don't know, like, I think that's a caster, the French caster
who said the Falcons would beat us, and he mentioned like the team of friendship.
I guess that's actually what we needed in the team.
We actually needed more friendship on the team.
And now with Banja, we have that, we have like a very good mood and friendship wins
games.
I like it.
Just putting targets on everybody's back here in this interview.
All the email teams, the French classes, everybody's getting a bit of it.
Instead of coming for everybody, do you want to maybe say something to the fans as well
for all the support, especially with the 7-0?
Yeah, I mean thanks for all the fans guys.
A lot of support coming from all the fans in the chat, like we are all streaming like
almost every day.
Besides Doki, Doki is quite unfocused playing daisy, but the rest of the team is streaming
the whole day and the fans are always supporting us on our streams and having fun with us,
even playing some other games like the mag-chakamal games are so fun.
Yes, we were playing together in Mishiko.
And yeah, thank you for supporting us every day.
And yeah, we're our happy family.
That's awesome. Very glad to hear that.
I'm glad you thanked your fans,
but still also put a target on the doki-sak for slacking a little bit.
But thanks so much for your time, Alamo.
It's a busy week, so we'll let you go for now,
and good luck with the rest of the shibu week.
Thank you, guys. Good night. Enjoy.
A lot of worries there going on.
Putting targets on everybody's back.
But in general, this game,
putting targets on every back of the Red Bulls player
because that was one of the fastest games we have ever witnessed.
And I mean, Rebels weren't playing a target on anyone, by the way.
Let's be honest, G2 have pretty much had a drive-run there in this game and in an official game.
There's not a lot to say about the stage. I think we covered it off at halftime.
But I think a very important point coming out of that very, very serious interview from Alomar,
power of friendship may be a meme.
But actually, when you've got a team that's functioning that wants to be present with each other outside of the hours that they have to be present with each other,
which is scrims, which is, you know, drier runs, which is favorite sessions,
When they're getting off work and then still playing with each other, streaming,
playing other games, creating that brotherhood and that trust, it does show inside the server.
So yes, today wasn't a lot of opposition, but there is a lot of good science coming out of G2.
And when the system rewards close friendship, deep relationships in the game, it works out.
You know, if your playstyle is relying on multi-kills, on huge, strong individuals to win,
then having players that you're close to, that you develop personal relationships with
will definitely help you and today we've seen how much it means for J2.
This is ProTest of Noah cut one.
As an entry fighter it's very important that you're comfortable with your own keybinds
and in the beginning I kind of fell into this trap of following other pros and listening to what
they're doing and trying to copy everything when it comes to keybinds, sense, all those different
things but at the very basics when it comes to entry-fagging you have to be comfortable with
what you're using. You have to feel like you're really in your own setup. So I just recommend
going through games, custom games, real games, ranked games, whatever it is and just feeling out
different keybinds that make you feel like you're at your best and don't listen to what pros are
using. It might guide you in a good way but try to use what is best for you whether that is weird
or whether that's normal, it doesn't really matter.
It'll just be your own style.
When you're in a game, whether it's bad
or for other people or not,
you just do what makes you feel comfortable
and that is leaning on the side of my mouse,
which makes me, I don't know, it just helps me play.
It's not really the ideal for most people,
but it does help me play a lot.
There's a lot of pros that are gonna be flashy.
There's a lot of, you know, ranked players
that are gonna be really good
and use their own settings and mechanics
All of them had to work out what's comfortable for them and I think that's the most important thing is just finding what's comfortable for you
I'm not trying to be anyone else
Some good that they're from from Noah about finding your own sense finding your own kind of way to play the game because yes
You can copy from any player in the world the best player in the world
But finding your own is is good. Do you have any interesting key points? No
No, I do have a more secure mic stand than now, he had to find his own personality in his own keyboard and his own standing mic.
What a weird stand.
What a weird stand it is.
I'm glad that was your main takeaway from the Spongebob.
I'm pretty sure everyone else focused on the standing mic.
I think like what kind of mic stand is that?
And now back to the question I asked, do you have any interesting and crazy keybinds that you guys use?
No, I'm pretty useful I think. I'm pretty, yeah, I mean it's close to my place that right, pretty bland.
Pretty vanilla.
Yeah, pretty vanilla.
I swap crouch on crouch, that's literally the only thing I do.
But I did when I first started playing this game, I played on 16,000 dpi on my mouse and I have no idea what.
16,000?
Yes.
16,000, not even 100.
Yeah, I remember a mouse like this and it was like, reaps, but 10 times.
Wow, that's thanks so much.
You're sure you still won't have the same sense?
I am sure.
Are you judging of the games you play together in the water?
Yeah.
You always win.
I don't want to get too much of it.
You get scariest and high-jail as fuck.
And then I fall into sight and die, it's fine.
I could talk about this forever,
because it's fun hearing from people what kind of keybinds they have,
and what they got going on for themselves in the game,
but I think we should focus on what is important here,
and the game that we have ahead of ourselves here.
They are Secret and Twisted Minds,
and before we head into this game,
we dive into Twisters Mind,
I think it's a good idea to have the Twisters mind ahead of the Twisted Minds game.
What do you have to say for what's better going on with Secret behind closed doors?
He came out on X and you can read the full tweet. This is a snippet from the tweet that says we are not being able to do the basic stuff of the game.
And it's cost us rounds that cost games in the end.
And I think, fundamentally, Secret haven't won a game yet. That is evident to see they know they're working on it.
Twister's always been very open and very honest about his communication.
There was a wobble that an old secret had, and he said,
we'll come through this.
And I do trust him that this team will come through it.
Looks like they're at home now.
So the Lubina bootcamp got home.
Maybe, you know, arguably, yes, bootcamps are good,
but playing on your home comfort setups with your mic stands
and everything that's going on can be helpful for a player
in individual circumstances as well.
The biggest worry, if you look at the standings on their side,
is that they're the only team in the world,
at least in all major regions, to not have one single point at this stage.
And as much as I understand the argument that they are completely reworking the entire team,
that they've added three new players, that they're trying to find their system,
realistically, it's four playdays in, and at this point...
And I think, you know, if we look at this roster in general,
I think that we need to see some kind of hope,
and if there's one moment to show it, it's that super week.
Because that super week, they can save themselves,
We need to see some spark here. We need to start today.
Problem is they do play three teams out of the top four at the start today, inside of this super week.
So it's not going to be an easy feat at all.
So you mentioned that they probably have the most difficult fixtures actually out of all the teams in regards to the opponents that they're facing today.
I mean, with Dark Rock Twisted Minds, their analysis themselves sure may be a tiny misset when we saw Twisted Minds last week.
But when we look at that roster as well, they couldn't play with their main line.
They had to play with the soft against Voterspro. It's not ideal.
Now they played the best team in EML right now, the most consistent one, and like you said, with a sub that clearly struggled hard, he was the worst rated, I think he was 3-10.
He costed them quite a lot also in the entry department, I think he went 0-4 in the entry.
Not to throw any shade at XK, but he was just being broadened at the last moment in the team, probably didn't have a lot of time to sub with them, so realistically, now is the time where we're starting to see the real full lineup in full strength, like we saw in the first few weeks.
I'm just going to show you the
game. I'm going to show you the
game. Looking at this line up
and you can see the stats on
the screen. Just one player
pops up to me immediately. That
player is a Sean because he is
probably one of the star players
of this roster, yet he has any
PS of 84. If we take a look at
a Sean from this stage versus
kickoff as well, you will see
that it actually has been quite
a noticeable drop off. Show him
again. One of one in any best
not didn't set the world light
to fortresses and two borders so far in their four fixtures. In fortress in particular,
Hashom was being forced, I'm not forced, they probably reworked it a little bit,
but he was on a lot of roles where he's much more in the front line. We know Hashom as a
kind of lurker. He likes when there's action going off on shields and an entry elsewhere and
then he'll just walk inside and just do something crazy. And actually in fortress he was playing a
lot more of the Solid Snake, he was playing a lot more of Deimos, being on the frontline thing.
I think that's maybe an adaptation to his game style that he needs to improve on,
maybe to become a bit of an all-round better player.
What I'm trying to say with this actually is,
I don't fundamentally have a worry,
even though Huzham's not quite hit his peak yet.
I think the interesting thing, if you look at those stats,
is the KST that's pretty poor from Huzham in general,
and never not kickoff when he had quite a good stage,
he had plus 15 in kills.
I think it's because he's so unreliable in the sense that
he's a bit like Hertz, you know, he gets super aggressive,
and then he can get punished quite often,
but he's also the guy that's going to be willing to take the most risk.
He gets punished, but also he's the one that's pulling the team to get aggressive and to get
things.
Yeah.
In a weird, wonderful way, sometimes it feels like it's a 4 plus 1 system of a team, and
I think they're trying to force him into that 5, and maybe his individual game, he's
still finding the balance on it, but I think it will come good because he does have a lot
of color.
We have seen a lot of fortress, a lot of border from Twisted Binds in particular.
I wonder if Secret would also allow them to play on that map, or if a different map
was selected here, it didn't look like we're going to go to Border Secret Band out as a
final one.
Can't they?
We don't see Can't they quite often anymore?
It's a surprising one on the side of Secret because it's a map that they showed us a little bit of kickoff.
Of course, it was a different roster, but even with Savage with them, they got absolutely destroyed on the map.
Two times a kickoff, they haven't showed it since.
Now, however, they ended up in this map D2 in a position where they would have landed a heavily different sided map
that is before whether it is Consulate, whether it is Café.
However, with the current form of Twisted Minds, with now their full roster,
It is a scary team to face on the map.
I agree. I think the defense start is good,
but I think if I'm Seafra, I'm bringing a lot of operators
to control the lurks, to control the entrance points
from Twisted Minds, because if there ever is a gap,
Twisted Minds are one of the best teams that find in a gap.
That's available on CAFE, particularly as well.
So I think for Seafra, it's important
that they get off to a good start on this map.
I think one thing worth Twisted Minds is actually amazing
also in attack is the pressure points.
They're amazing at doing that and having one lurk,
like you said.
And so on CAFE, you can do that on all of the windows.
Think of piano rappel, enough cocktail rappel, and the pinch between the two.
Think on the basement, the rushes that you can do on the first floor.
Think of all of these things that are available, and as he says, yes, he's agreeing with that.
Exactly, so there's so much they can do right now on the map that really suits their playstyle.
Thank you so much for trying to signal to us that he's ready.
The lobby should almost be ready.
One more thing though, since we don't see Café so much, we talked about the pressure points on the attack and shields on this map.
Given we talked so much about Dove, now going back into the roster, being that main shield player.
I think so. I think weirdly,
cafe was always considered the
most defender side in the pool.
I think statistically, it might still play out quite
defender sided, but I think teams and the general
meta is playing out better and better
in terms of favoring the attack on it.
I don't think Swissman is going to be too upset
because their playstyle actually attacks cafe perfectly fine.
I think like you say, dove on the shields,
playing the shields up behind, you know,
going in red stairs, going in the basement,
whatever it may be, I think it lends itself
to the way that Swissman play.
I still do think that the shield's meta is very much there on every map and on Cafe it's no exception.
I think it's very useful.
Early on when you want to attack basement and do for a roam clear, so it's useful to do it behind the Blitz or Blackbird.
If you want to go and push and take a Cigar and panel control, having your shield to bridge all of those lines of sight,
a mountain for example, is also super interesting.
So it is, you know, as much as there's a lot of window crossfires, it is very important to create movement.
Just the biggest thing you want to do when you're attacking Cafe.
Okay, so we talked about the cafe, the cafe attacks for Twisted Mindsake here, then for
secret starting out on the more favourable side here on defense, what's going to be their
one win condition here?
Maybe specifically against Twisted Minds to finally get a point on the board.
I think just playing off the back of each other, I know that when we get to A-Sum Des,
I know they're going to talk about playing our team start on the top floor bomb site
and Ace hates it, but I think like when, if you play in the top floor bomb site, don't
be lurking out down on the basement, don't be giving a 1v1 against any Twisted Mindsplayer.
close, get compact to each other, play off the natural crossfires. Cafe is a very tight
compact map when you think about it, it's just that free thought, it's just one big
square and that's what you need to create those crossfires, create those power positions,
you find what is available. If there's Army and Mirror a band which is very common like
Cafe, play the Aruni, you know, play the Fenrir, play all these little traps that can help
you just manage positions and create crossfires with each other, that's what I want to see
from secret is them playing together.
Yeah, you have multiple options available in that toolbox of yours when you come to
the defence.
If you think about it, when you're playing a team such as Twisted Mines, you can force them to problems of utility.
You can force them to go into a default fundamental playstyle.
It's so annoying to face by bringing a lot of these utility barriers.
But also, one thing that you need to not do is overreact.
Like we've seen do shifters against Geeky on Chalet.
It's a playstyle that Geeky had on Chalet that Twisted Mines has also.
It's one of those things of like, if you start to think pressured,
shirt. Just not moving and keeping the control that you have very often. It's
one of the hardest thing to do, but one of the best things you can do because
you're still close to each other, you're forcing twisted minds to go into you,
and then you can trade each other. I think that's one of the things that are
a couple of elements that they can use. There's a saying that gets said in
ProPly a little bit which is it's more used to scrims but it tests the execute
and what that means is scrims is don't die early, don't lose the round in the
first minute because we want to see what we're like in the late round and I
think it's a quick little secret here. Don't do anything stupid in the late
round, you know, play the layers, play the utility, play the crossfire, test Twisted
Man's x2, that doesn't mean give them the map, allow them to just get a blunt down,
but actually win or lose the round in that late round because I think that's what lends
itself to the defense of Kafe.
We're waiting for the final players to be joining us as well on the clear camera, so
we get to see everybody's reactions because let's balance, even though not today, we've
seen some incredible things on the play against us, how Jume's upside down glasses.
We saw the orange juice from Ducky.
Yeah, big glass orange juice.
He's trying to stay healthy as well, earlier.
It's also just like the glass and then there's no key, so like the glass will always be here.
This is why I'm talking about interviews with us.
Yeah.
No, no, just love it.
He's not even taking the game and he's still getting slapped from outside the Hades here for him.
We've seen crazy things as well.
The real estate should start getting from Dora.
Petition for more pets, please, on the player camps.
True, true.
Well, are you looking at me because you want me to show my cat again?
Yes, please, no.
My cat is too far away now.
Now as we said we are waiting on the players to to join all the lobby and to make sure this game gets going on because
It is important why it's only the start of super week
There's two more matches out if you started with a bad match here
It's gonna look really rough on your mental for match two and match three later on in this week specifically for
So I mean they have the safety net of making it to EWC
Yeah, I want to go there and get bummed out on day one of the tournament
I think just thinking back at the graphic you showed early on in the pre-show Jack the moment we were looking at the potential from
from the different teams. Secret, they have to do it now, right? It's super weak. They
need those points. They have to do it now. They need all the points. They can get any
points to get them off that zero on the leaderboard. Can they do it on Cafe? Let's find out.
Thank you very much, Anne. Indeed, we will find out. Now, there's been many a question
about Secret over the last few weeks, Tim. Namely, that they are, I think, one of five
teams globally that have zero points right now. It is not a pretty spot to be in. Do
I'm just a guest. So true. That's so true. And not team secret. The problem is it I love, you know, to come in and shout about teams and get excited about them and talk about how they can do it. And I love to be the one believing when, you know, maybe other people aren't, but.
I think it's going to be
tough for them to get any
breathing space against this
demands, especially with over.
That's the problem. You know,
they've had these moments where
no one and Mowgli maybe will
come out and carry for a game
and put it still not enough. It
just goes to show so quickly
that this level is really got
to be five feet five. You know,
there is no room for the
carrying. So everybody's got
to be chipping in. Is everybody
capable? Maybe Are they going to
with the other being back in that is a big, big boost towards the man's and secret
They've got their work out for them today
Yeah, what do you still be stepping in and saying I had a dream about playing a shotgun last time
So I thought I had to play it
It's probably a sign that things aren't quite gonna go according to plan and showing off they didn't last week
But twisted minds but now the dogs back as you say I imagine they will be all guns firing
That's it. I couldn't pick off my fantasy team
I would have normally thought I said no who's gonna drop out again
Unfortunately, I think he had exam commitments last week, but either way, he's back!
Which means his demise should be at full power,
Let's see how they fare on the attack inside a cafe,
And you know what, I'm gonna give that's what he was saying.
We're not gonna talk about Top Floor, we do it every time.
Today, we're gonna just let it be.
He's already messaged me.
Erm...
Ha ha ha!
He's already messaged me, I'm not...
I'm not...
No, I'm not gonna... No, I'm not gonna do it.
Erm...
I'm gonna do it a little bit.
I've extended what I've said about Top Floor, and Caffe is the prime example of me not liking
a Top Floor site, but I've extended it recently to include banks, to include Nath Haven Labs,
to include others, and we are seeing it, and the reason is that I'm not going to talk specifically
about the site, but I bring it up because we are seeing a trend from teams away from Top Floor
sites where historically they've been the favourite, so Bank Top Floor, not necessarily been the favourite
on the map, but it's been like a second choice, but we're now seeing it go to third choice,
night haven. We've seen more teams go into basement first and not taking top floor straight away to begin with. It's creeping in slowly. And I think, I think part of the thinking is the same as what I'm saying is, top floor sides limit your opportunities as a defender because
and he's peaked into it, plus his life, good start, four,
Mr Man's. Yeah, I don't know, man, like, why repeat it?
You know he's on the window, you know he's being a bother there.
It just feels like a bit of a silly death to give away so early on.
I don't know, man, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know,
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
It just feels like a bit of a silly death to give away so early on, but that's not the good grumble sometimes, so be it, maybe they can recover off the back of that.
Noura has been loaded out to stand out, playoff is secret throughout this stage, even one of the last games, dropping double-digit kills quite consistently.
Just have free Noura's been a thing running around and all that, I've seen on social media, and inside a Twitch chat, maybe he can do some work here, position inside a bathroom, of course.
How's those keel of barriers inside a bathroom? A blast followed up by a frag grenade coming in through, though not quite going to finish him off, but at least pushing away temporarily.
And before you know it, he's back into the same position yet again.
Yeah, he's gonna continue getting this wall open,
but at the start of him, bullet by a shield as well.
No one will lose his life as does V-drills.
Tricks managing to take down both. Beautiful play on the Monty.
You know, we often talk about the weakness of not having a gun,
of having to take the facts with those pistols
and just showing that it really does not matter
as he manages to get a third.
Flexi did have one, she'll add finishes it off,
and I think my point is proven about Top Floor.
you. You know, I'm not
going to be able to do that.
Or I could just be this a very
good team attacking it, Tim. Um
this to finish the point of what
I was saying to finish the
point of what I was saying, the
defense to me is far more
limited on any top floor site
because the Rome unless the
unless the top floor was
absolutely massive, which they
rarely are as in big enough to
a big top floor, or maybe the
layer is quite a big top floor.
Your roam ability is really
the best you've got is kind of
a mid-extension because it's
so difficult to fight upwards
as a defender.
Who can do it realistically?
Pulse?
You know, you don't have a book,
you don't have a damage, you
don't have, you know, these
sort of operators that can
fight upwards in the way that
attackers do.
So I always feel like when
you play top floor, you're
going to see a defense which
is basically turtle, maybe a
slight extension, and it allows
the attackers to do it.
So I think that's a good
thing to do.
You know, if you're going to
play top floor, you're going
And it allows the attackers to focus so much in onto that site.
And I think that's why we're starting to see teams just step away from them being a higher priority.
And they may tend to be a third priority at best.
Well, regardless of priorities, they're going to have to find around for somewhere here a secret.
And they're going to find maybe a bit of joy inside of mining.
Butch C4s, they can toss Skyward. Oscar running around on the pulse.
on the pulse hits. Pretty bread and butter to how we've often seen this side defended.
And by the looks of it glass on the other side, a window pan could be on at the cards.
So this side is so commonly used in top four, but you get the initial point of focus. They
don't have much in the way of vertical destruction outside of secondary shotguns, as you've just
seen P9 pull it out right there. I'm going to be demonstrating. So that's really all
they've got to play with. I think more on anything else though, you want to stop being
denied from a boss. You are going to need control up here, even if you aren't then playing
the verticals off the back of it. You can see a few players in the secret are up here
ready and waiting. As I mentioned earlier on that poster in all the work here I'm
feeding out exactly where the pressure is building up from.
You can see my point already, there's an extension onto the top floor now becomes
basically, even if the defenders drop away quite quickly, they have already bought
themselves probably what a minimum of one minute in the round. Maybe more, we
would expect maybe a minute 30 on a good roam, two minutes and you're buying that
time by going to a site that is not the top floor. Obviously you've got to look at
the other elements of viability around the start on the mid-floor here of cafe particularly on the
training mine where we are now you've got that external access that can be a big negative
but yeah for me I just think giving you roamers you know don't limit your players if you've got
phenomenal players like Nora who are great at taking facts out on the road what are we doing
with that? Get the start that allows it. Now he goes and sure enough Oscar release will get away
with one on top of those. Now I've fallen down the prayer that I mentioned I've got to keep standing.
However, a V-drill stepping up for two in the round inside a bathroom.
Same as in the first round, they had to attack into this spot.
The player's playing in exactly the same positions,
but this time round it's working out the secret.
It's almost as if there are other things that are stretching Twisted Mind's focus elsewhere as well.
And P9 is going to swing around this corner, won't get the opportunity,
both inside of washroom at the minute.
It's going to need a really big player from one of these Twisted Minds places,
he's just given himself away.
Vigil sets him on a beautiful
Pete Morgan managers to find
over as well, and that is going
to be the round one for team
secret on the mid floor. Yeah
and really, it could have been
mistaken for being the top floor,
given where all the focus was
going on, but it's again they
saw it back in the first round.
It was a very similar set up
there, but I think secret
just caused corrected not gone
aggressive in terms of
creeping on towards the window
and losing the player for free.
Played pretty well around piano
and played more aggressively
inside the piano. It's worth
because of the window cover they had from the potential jump out from the pulse.
So all in all, the pulse there for me was what fed a lot of the way that they played around that top floor
and has helped them get the win, even with a kill on the jump out of the back of the two.
So while I play by Oscar.
Get lost. It really, it broke it down. This is, this is the point when, you know, you're doing something that's maybe not a top floor,
where you've got multiple areas to walk after. You need to recognise where that immediate threat is going to come from.
to come from on to site down you know that site's weakness is that external window it is that
potential for a hop in it is that potential for direct pressure straight away into site
and oska's dealt with that and has removed that brilliantly and what it's done is it's a
way to stop for almost to just hold their positions and build more and more time more
and more lives really well done from secret impressed with that and that level sings up one
One, does the blinds now attack him onto the basement?
Wunder is more the same, worried about that top floor,
or it'll be more of an lateral direct towards site one itself.
I'm looking at, of course, immobilised stairs on the second floor,
which isn't really that much to worry about.
It's one player around, Pillar.
He can dip his way down, brown,
and get challenging towards restaurant area if it comes down to that.
Otherwise, everyone is set up on site itself.
And again, there's not really much of the way of vertical destruction
for the attackers.
They're going in towards the centre, looking in towards the centre.
It was focused on many a time, insane.
They were focused on electrical detection rather than going for vertical.
And Dolph, oh what a surprise to him, he's on the shields, as we so often see him do.
But he's got the tag on towards red stairs.
Now the question is how do they force him out?
Because he's supporting coke downstairs and the invisible force may be away,
but guess what, it'll do sim.
It'll just step straight back up because no one's there to take the ground.
He's going to get himself away from that fight.
he said most of the job is done by presence.
And I just rest in that little bit of time.
So I go to spray through the wedding window there.
Not going to have an immediate fight coming his way.
Instead it's going to be Dover taken down by V-drills.
That is going to be Aerith Fogg.
He's coming in. Tricks manages to get himself in behind that bakery counter.
Vans himself as we treat as he goes in for a second.
And that's going to be P9 actually picking up the kill
and leaving us now in A4 versus 2.
They don't require the right read there, because yeah, Trixa in a very dangerous position gets two kills.
You think, okay, Morgan is swinging for the trade. It'll be fine, they can course correct, but no.
P9's being dangerously patient. Start on the door, waits for the swing through the breach, and is rewarded with a kill.
That now pulls us straight back down to a 4 vs 2 and Twisted Tone's favour.
Half the rounds to work with, and they've got full bakery side control. This is looking brilliant for them.
Yeah, it is at the minute, and they're just using their time well as well.
not getting carried away here, utility coming out, doing everything they can to make it
more difficult, putting the diffuser down, forcing the challenge to come on their terms,
tripped managers to confirm that, so three versus one now and more. Anybody can do it
with Norbert and Tim, but they know his position, talking the damage there, tries to come back
through, just goes for the double bluff there, but it doesn't work. Sean picks up the final
kill, and that is going to be the round calls. Now, two very convincing rounds from Twisted
the ball, and that's what
we're going to do. We're going
to have to go back to the
bottom of the line. You might
look at that light screen that
came down at the end and think
well, why place it there? Why
not in front of the wall so no
one can see anything? What it
was down to position for the
sense, but the fact they rolled
across there means anyone
playing on sinks or playing
inside a freezer can't work
off the window can't work off
things themselves to challenge
on towards red stairs. I
believe it was a show that we
saw and was playing on the
head. High holes have been
opened up on towards that red
wall. He can then give full
coverage and get into a very,
very comfortable position
known one. No one's going to
swing in from sink sides. He
to keep the cover in towards
bunker side itself. So it's
effectively eliminates two very
powerful angles that could have
been used to try and stop
anything going off there or to
stop twisted minds getting into
key positions. Really rough
all through really good stuff
twisted minds brilliant cover
here from P9 like I mentioned
because at this point it was a
perfect play. It was a
brilliant time to view one swing
from secret twisted minds were
just one step ahead and they were
ready for it. Let's see whether
secret can dig deep again and
find a response or not. Glad to
to see that they're going to go to reading rather than back up to that top floor site.
It wasn't really close for them in round one. So I think definitely if you've got another
viable site available, which reading certainly is, get yourself up there. And it leads into
the strengths that they've shown us so far, which was that top floor holder. End of entry
and mining. When Twisted Binds had to have a split thought, because Secret did a much
better job of holding their ground up on the top floor. So they'd be looking for a little
bit more of that. What can Twisted Binds do differently? Well, I would argue don't
you for this. There's no real
need to at the beginning of the
round. Get yourself into top
floor. Treat it like a top floor
site. Go through. Get a couple
of kills. Get the ground force
them back. Use the verticality
and then worry about side. Yes,
they have to be very aware of
the clock. They have to be good
on that time management, but I
think they'll just find a bit
more success and losing the
bodies like they did last time.
Okay.
for what they've pulled up in round one and pull it up much better the second time around
in terms of the top four hole but we need to see a little bit more from them in other areas of the
game. Stodore going to be the initial focus here for Jolad as he gets himself ready on the stake.
He's making use of that gadget, he can see an awful lot about what's going on just inside a site
off towards the left-hand side at the same time but as we see very frequently on this map starting
point for the defenders will be up on that top four, there's three of them playing up there,
a round cocktail, dug in relatively deep, still one or two round storage, you probably come to
to expect, but they aren't able to control it as aggressively as you might do, depending
on top floor, because they know at some point they need to fall back.
That comes into top red, I'm going to see P9 just looking to aggress forward, but having
a look at it again, it's all very, Twisted Mind's kind of one by one, we've got P9,
he's dropped in, nobody else is inside of the map at the minute, you know, this is
what, if we contrast that to when they took top floor to begin with in round one, they
They had the play right on Hellwindow, they had Monty coming in through Piano, he was
backed up by, so you know, they had three or four all pushing together at the same time
rather than this one by one, and I just wish that we would see Twisted Binds do things
in numbers a little bit more, but that said, they have forced all the defenders away, so
they can now start thinking about the site as well, and maybe just creating a bit of
movement that they can benefit from.
Sure, they've kind of done the necessary checklist stage of making sure they've got vertical
Well now they're down a man, I've seen Secret are looking at this and thinking, well we've got you, so let's take your hand, we've got 3, 2, 4, we've got Moe, we can play this game all day long, let's give us what Oscar World's mining time almost tricks their losing his head to him.
But for now keeps himself standing, just waiting for anyone to get anything over, but Secret aren't offering them too much.
Exactly as it should be, you know, Secret don't need to offer them anything realistically, they certainly don't want to be giving them away.
I think with the toxic bird or two to go with him as well more clean does manage to use utility for one
And that's going to be an explosive end to the round from team secret to two
It was a nice attempt drop in flood surround punish off the back of it
I don't mind what they tried to do there and obviously it's come out
But actually space is secret to really well defended very very patient as a noted they weren't peeking head into a doorway
Oh, they're still pushing that angle. Where are they? What's going on?
They're waiting to see if twisted mines tried to play anything off first and then wanted to respond
But what I like most the secret said okay, we've used to see for we've gone through all of our smokes here
We are now limited on the utility to just a couple of C4s
If we're gonna pull off some kind of aggressive flank now is the time to do it and when they pull the trigger
Things look absolutely beautiful two or three players constantly dancing in our shadows
Given challenge twisted mines, we won't let them be comfortable and very well managed round. Upslaps off before we go again
We'll see a secret and get it done this time round and get away with the three three leads
I think that's a big risk. A
big risk given the way that it
went back in round one, but as
you said, there are things that
they can change. I don't want to
be, you know, a negative Nelly
about it. There are things that
they can do differently. Not
peeking onto hell window to give
that opening opportunities.
We've seen the monty taking away
as well. It's just going to say
that's also the big one. I
can see the team struggle with a
specific site. They just move
away from it. We used the ones
a real problem. We got three kills. We didn't like to deal with it. So we'll go back there
when the Monty is banned out. Let's see how much of a difference that makes. There's actually
there's the blitz onside this time. So a very different vibe attacking wise if you're going
to try and push up to it around with the blitz. I think it's more the risk of staying there as well
just in case you were figured out or there's some drone that has been here. It's okay to remove the
drone and move away because you just slowly chew through that utility that's available to the other
the side but they've only got a few drones left here. Mowgli is still running around in Narnia
down in the basement and they've got no idea where he is and what he's doing right now.
Working his way back at White, there's the answer. We'll be able to rejoin his team quite safely
and securely. Now we finally see the shield getting inside the building.
I'm just waiting up there for who tries to put a small bolt in but we'll find the fire
out. We'll get it up to the beginning, the small bolt is still viable. P9 does pick up
No, I always a great start four versus five for Sean waiting to move forward
I think just playing thinking that somebody's gonna be playing underneath skylight
But I'm not sure that's actually the case at the minute two kills coming for secret four versus three
They need to get the blitz going careful though because that's the word and he's got the glasses that can deal with you
And the fight will become nasty tricks managers to pick up the kill 3v3 book
How about that player just under new balcony for Team Secret under new hatch? Sorry need to be aware of them
They know that the player below them they should well do is a shawm is asking the question from bottom white
To play for it's thingy and be aggressive and I come to shield
I'll tell you what tricks it's been a bit of a demon this round in the blitz so far
It's got a down knock way into a finish
But it's looking good for them to now that's what's going to get one back and a bit too quick on its heels there a shawm gets finished off
Dricks has got to find a poor key in the round and the blitz here over the line.
He's got 40 seconds in which to do it.
He's gonna see if he can find his first man.
Does a little bit of chip damage, not too much.
Secret not keen to take the fight here if they can avoid it.
The blitz is so deadly, especially if he can get up close as well.
The movement here is good from Dricks.
He's giving himself every opportunity.
He knows where they are.
Flashes around the corner, doesn't catch his man.
Flexi manages to find the final kill.
Team Secret take the top floor.
it's going to be three to. Yeah, I mean nice attempt fair play tricks giving us a little bit of a show there on the
place. I've touched on it a few times, but Dolby's always normally the go to shield player for these boys.
Obviously a bit of a change in this round was more than justified. It's not quite enough to get it over the line, but secret
quite crucially managed to keep themselves fighting. I was very worried coming into this game that we would just see them
roll over the doubt. I just want to talk about one with that second beat from Moby on towards the windows a bit like you
know that's never gonna go your way like why I'm trying to make this happen
almost paid the price for it however they're showing that they can get
let's eat a little bit they can stand up firm and do a pretty good job and
shombie maybe a bit too keen let's step up boys that TV2 could have played out very
very differently but secret stay competitive anything's like this half
down inside a kitchen I think this is shit pretty well for team secrets or
five they can get a four to half I think they'll be very very happy with that if
If we have a look at their prior stacks here on Kaffy, a little bit difficult because obviously the roster's changed quite a lot and some of this is going to spill over into kind of old rosters, but we can still say historically that defensively rate hasn't been at least, it's usually about 40%, which is a little bit lower than some teams on Kaffy.
you know, so given that, obviously, Twister's going to be at least working with a similar foundation in terms of strategy and everything else, and then they'll build from there, depending on the players and how everybody develops, I'm going to expect that it's going to be similarly similar.
So yeah, four to half really does give them the opportunity to push on, get an overtime, get a win, really be in the mix.
Now let's start things out. Gadgetube is snatched away by the braver.
Typically when you really see braver come out when there's like a maestro on side or a ton of bulletproof cameras to work with,
and there are none in this round, but I think what it's going to enable him to do is start thinking about the execute,
because I'm looking at the line of especially with the ROW one side, once you check that deploy down you need to move fast,
that's a certain bit of aggression being shown there for ROW.
Flexi I think he was trying to see what he could snatch out, not getting away with anything,
like I was saying, once you've got those Rouros going down to Torways, you need to move quite fast to the attacking team.
What's going to slow you down? Obviously going to be things like the Malusi if you need to go down.
And what lies in the get-in-the-way, so I don't hate the Brava here actually, I think it's quite far,
despite none of the usual suspects being available to hack away.
I always think there's a good bit of value in Brava, even if it's just for grabbing default cams, bulletproof cams,
any of that kind of intel, anything that you can get your hands on really,
it's always going to be a net positive for the attackers, especially if you've got somebody who's good with the gun as well.
So, yeah, then, you know, stick something like banshee's on the list as well, and there you go, there's your value that you need.
So, we'll keep an eye on how much work that brava does for the time being.
Things just slowing down and see put taking advantage of that morgue.
Steps don't have anything to get a kill on to P9, and that's the damos off the board as well.
A lot of the work that can be done onto this ground floor site kitchen, a lot of verticality in there.
Those tracks could have been deadly. Oscar manages to find tricks.
That's the glass gone as well. Two of your real pain points have been removed, just to give you a team secret.
All those two Gilles, just didn't want a full commit towards the swing if he had.
He probably wouldn't have rewarded with the kill on some Noah, who was the one that sat looking to be a bit of a nuisance.
He'd be impact off this rower now and managed to get a kill onto a Sean.
And you'll find Gilles kicking himself. Sure enough, the impact comes on through and the swing might come out as well.
Look at that, there's three or four players just ready to swing onto the Sean.
This is not a nice spot to be in the middle league.
Now looking for the code player, he's able to get the kill, Noah gets the reverse.
Looking like a great Val'n is off. His return has not been fantastic.
It's going to be a 0 and 6 half for him, but a 4 and 2 for Team Secret.
Yeah, Secret just looking like a bit of a different beast to the one we've seen so far.
Electric and clinical. Love what I'm seeing.
Well, let's see what I best think about it. Guys, what do you make of it?
Yeah, maybe so far, Cafe was the key to their questions that they've had.
I'm impressed by the secret of force you have you kind of expected but okay since we've what we've seen from secret so far
This is at least a very positive thing. It's it looks like you needed a cafe to wake up. No
All right, you're doing the rest of this
I wanted to leave like a long long silence after it. Sorry. Yeah. No, no, that's fine
Well, okay, let's let's move on to actually what makes you credit a good team right now
What's the waking up moment that we just mentioned?
Alright, let's take a look at round 2, when actually finalized the right win condition.
And I think you just pay attention to the position from round 2 to round 9 here.
Look at how spread out they are, the key is trying to get piano control.
Look at the reaction, Oscar runs out at the same time, and who gets aggressive?
The player in bathroom, Vidrios, who takes the gunfight on the stage player.
They are coordinated, they are picking together, they are getting the right kills,
and most importantly, they decided to make a collective stand.
They decided to stay in bathroom to commit to the play here in piano.
And what do we see in the round on Basement that we just seen here in round 6?
They decided to commit to the push, to actually deny the push onto the Bakery side
and play all together aggressive to try and retain the main advantage.
That's what we were liking for Secret, a common vision, a target, and all of them executing it together.
You could set them walk up and smelt the cafe.
I think mine was already four, but that one is just like, that's a new load.
Okay, Bob, I think really good, really positive from Secret.
I think two rounds that they got wrong.
Well, they got the first one, when Mowgli's out there peeking, you know, the heaven window
with a 30 seconds gone, sets them up in a bad stead, and then they'll move around that they concede
it and lost, ultimately, was a rush play from Swiston Mines. There's a tricky one to deal with,
especially when you don't know what's coming. Other than that, they've managed to stop perfectly,
and I think that's night and day improvement from last week.
One main thing that I will say though is that that was on the back, for example,
the last round of Mowgli just taking a 1v1 and winning it. Some of these rounds,
the visual speak on the stage there was a 1v1 and no one was behind him, no one could trade.
So it's still though some problem of like being a bit disjointed, right now it went well,
it could just as well went wrong, you know, and now they're going to switch to attack.
And so there is one area where you cannot afford to do these 1v1s and play by yourself and not
play as a team, it's the attacks on Kafe. So I do believe that the real test comes now and yes,
it's a good start, but that can already like that lead, it can disappear really quickly.
find some of these bands interesting castle bomb, particularly the windows for cafe get rid of them
it allows you to play on any of the windows any operators you don't need any kind of soft breach
or sledge to deal with them but also the Monty and the snake because Oscar was pretty much going
to play shields for team secret they've taken away the Monty they've seen that maybe his most
effective shield they're going to leave open the blades and the blackbeard should he want to play
them as he is it's actually flexing the floating the blackbeard but they're going to take the Monty
away from him obviously can be used to take so much space. It is a good start for
Team Sheikah with the difficult part on the attack comes now get they finish a
job or we'll twist the minds bounce back on the defense. I guess we're gonna find
now one way haven't we and it's to see whether or not Secret can pull it together
on the attacking side that's the most important part for me team and the
biggest concern that I have I've said it many a time throughout the weeks I said
it in one of our games early on I do worry that some of our teams that are
lower down the table and right now so you are at the very bottom attacking is
where things start to look a little bit difficult. But Secret for a time would be the best attacking
team in the world. They were consistently at the very, very top of the rankings when
it came round to attacking round success. So if anyone knows how to turn their fortunes
around and get them moving, it should be Mowgli, it should be Nella, it should be Twister. We'll
see if they can get it done here on Cafe.
Straight away towards the bottom, white. They're going to go here, see, which is interesting.
They don't seem to be paying too much attention to those upper floors. Not worrying too much
They've got verticality, they've no sledge, they've no ram, they've no options there to go and attack them, despite those operators particularly ram being available and it's not going to be something that they go with it since they're going to be a direct challenge onto VIP.
They need to be careful because there are players on the defense that are up there, instead they're just going to go straight into site, push through the smoke, they think they've seen a gap, are they able to get in deep and put a plant down?
No, it's less of an aggressive.
Managed to find themselves four versus three with a big double on the blade.
Master play for Flexi, but gets taken down.
Noah manages to find the kill-hung to a shomb
and twisted minds have crumbled under this pressure.
Love that for Flexi.
Now, we haven't seen the sneaker for a while now, it feels like,
but they have absolutely ruined over twisted minds.
A lot of aggression, a lot of pressure, and twisted minds had no idea
what to do about it, how to react, and they have paid the price.
that. I think that's absolutely
love that from secret. I think.
Well, a message has certainly
been sent to us in minds. We
were good on the defense. We
are even better on the attack.
Team secret. I'm not going to
say that they're back just yet.
There's a quite a long road
ahead of them. I think can, you
know, given what we've seen so
far through the stage, but look,
every journey starts with a
single step and team secret
certainly taking that step
today. They look nice and
They're all playing with confidence here.
They're all going in and taking the fights
if we look across the numbers that they've got.
Drills, Vexus, Seven of Peace, Morbler, Seven of Noah.
If anything, he's got the lowest amount of kills
alongside Oscar at four, and they really don't need it.
So where we always say you've got to have a team
that can step up around you,
take secret really delivering on that today.
Impressive stuff, especially to say Dovers,
backing the line up for Twisted Mines.
They just cannot get anything going so far today.
Oh boy, I mean, I don't want to point to individuals either, but at a dog, as we speak,
about how many, many times it's been the dominant force of this team, putting up some serious
numbers in previous games, but here is 0 and 7 up.
Not far from being a James Bond, are they?
It's not for that singular sister currently sitting onside.
They need someone to wake up and smell the cafe, start doing little...
I can't believe they made those shows, and I can't believe our show's to join in either.
Why not?
It's for the best, there's...
Come on, you got a good dad joking, what you thinking?
I'll drop it when the time track all right, okay, okay, I'm the topic when the time track
Pressure towards the top floor then incoming it's gonna be reading room that
Team secret are attacking onto last time it was definitely route one straight into sight no messing about this time
I think we're gonna see a little bit more CJ
Secret are very aware that there's somebody playing inside of that red window
I think why are this they are gonna die and it just depends I really wouldn't put it past them
They're just waiting for the moment, they're just waiting for that bit of information.
Dragsting, this might just put Jolad off a little bit here.
Is it just what a screams that we know there's somebody around there?
It doesn't matter though, because it's a shot who actually steps up and takes a look,
manages to find his man, lower cuts him down in a trade,
before he can drop the hatch door.
Four versus four and this game continues at breakneck pace.
It does. I mean, one for one, it's not the end of the world.
It's much to get rid of the round.
It feels like a crucial approach to a new back here.
The points in the ground before the battle,
if you're able to get those gadgets rolling on through,
tricks, it gets one back and it's flexed forward.
That being a losing out to a girl like that,
that's gonna really be happening to him.
No, not at all.
We're gonna see that ball-proof camp just feeding,
Intel in as well, no way taking damage.
And it is becoming a bit of a cauldron,
a bit of a pressure cooker for them up there on the top spot.
No, I don't know.
Back door manages to find over,
leaves themself effectively.
the first attack. He's going to
be the second to versus two with
mostly down at the minute. P9
takes that Oscar and all of a
sudden what could have been an
option to pick more Glee up
disappears as it is all now on
the shoulders of Noah, and I
tell you what there's. He is not
going to love that a lot. He
gets taken down, and it's going
to be round to twisted minds.
Yeah, interesting one because
this demands offered up a lot
more aggression this time. Look
We'll just charge them on the entry into the building, had C4s to fall back on as well.
It was much more layered, much more considered, they didn't really give secret the ability to just
charge and barrel their way through top floor and mow them down.
So much better, much more convincing.
The main issue I've got there is secret can pull out an aggressive play like that again.
You know, I dare think we're going in towards a mining site.
That's where you typically see that kind of aggression coming out, but at least in that round it wasn't quite the case.
Either way, you've got to be careful. We know that like a sport on people.
We know that up running at a door was a shum, looks lying down under every window and possibly find us,
in rat corners.
And remember speaking to a player about it a couple of weeks ago, May said,
the problem is, you know a shum's gonna do it, and he still gets away with it.
It's so difficult to deal with.
It really is.
It's all, you know, you will call the way back to Empire, don't you, in the days where you could say exactly what strategy was,
exactly where they were gonna play, exactly what they were gonna do,
and it just didn't matter, because it was better than you were doing it, so you couldn't stop them.
and it's much the same. A lot of
time for twisted minds. You know
it's coming. There's nothing you
can do to prevent it and you've
just got to try and win the fight
and in nine times out of 10, you're
probably not going to win the fight.
So twisted minds get themselves
around. It is three five on the
scoreboard. Now they are trailing
by two to team secret who are
looking for their first win here.
I tell you what, it really mixes
things up in the ML as well. If
a brilliant graph of, you know, what could be scored over the next three play days this
week and how that affects things, you know, what's the potential points teams can come
away with, what do they have already. We're looking at a threshold for playoffs of about
11, that's what we've seen previously in this format. So that's kind of, it's not a hard
and fast that might change, but it just gives you an idea of roughly what these teams are
going to need, secret, purpose, and zero. Anything will help them, but really throws
it into mixed, wasn't it a good five games to go with secret, start picking wins up,
you start thinking who is that 11 gonna change you know they're gonna get over the 11 who knows
and that'll only mean that just as well as get greater and greater earlier on they currently
fixed it just above team secret in ninth place there only a single win to their name it will
at least make things interesting if secret do start getting wins because at least as it stands
it's zero points down in tenth it's only six points in fifth place it could be a real battle
over the remaining playdays to see who gets those spots about teams that are a bit lower down
suddenly start performing. Flexi looking to move quite a pace here. They were hoping to catch
someone outside in the corner waiting around. No doubt Trom would have been one of their go-to
targets but that simply hasn't materialised. They've been worried at least for now but have
got the vertical control they need. Around about that halfway mark. Perfect timing for the side of
secret. Sold in this tight angle inside of them. They'll do their tricks I think. He can help
with his mind behind him, but also maybe just catches somebody out on a hot pink.
Secret just struggling to kind of generate that same sort of pace as they did in the first round.
Obviously, you're not always going to be able to do that. You're not going to get away with it over
and over again. Razor Bloom just being defended there, and it just shows the value of that utility
at the moment. Keep somebody in and around it. They're going to be taking out, impact there goes
out does a bit of chip damage to Oscar on the book. Flexi taking damage, just manages to escape
from the toxic beer can. It's the great work being done by P9 inside of VIP.
I keep watching the show and to see if he's going to teleport away to use the shell at some point.
Just because I noticed the kind of play that he would make. So far hasn't done it.
The system is going to start waiting. We're down to the final 25 and like no one yet has died.
The secret, this frame is going to all or nothing man. P9 is the one that's ready and waits and gets
chill for free, can ease this intro towards the shotgun here and look for a second if
so desired, but they're paroled their way in towards sight, a couple have stepped their
way through, they knew they couldn't afford to wait for the kills are going back and forth.
So if he's trying, he's doing his best to do a Marto impression.
He tries, I'm afraid he's right in him brother, he ain't gonna quite work out there, he's down
to a 1v2 dove, there's gotta stop them somehow, plant is going on down, Noah is on the cover
and it feels like they might just about get away with this but he's looking in all the
all places will get rid of one, but has to find the last
it's him up against Oscar and he knows exactly where he is.
Does he? Surely he does. Fires the shot but misses.
Oscar wins it out and Secret get round nine.
What a kilometres end to that round.
Oh, it was the flip to the pistol at the end.
He kinda had to do it, but it just meant
he couldn't put the damage down.
Oscar was on his primary and gets the fight won.
Secret, like you see, limping over the finish line.
It ain't gonna happen again.
They're listening to that start on the drone,
and early on in the round, they're just being like,
right, we know exactly what he's looking for,
we cannot let him get away with it.
I understand what he was going for,
perhaps what's going on down, fine.
Oscar, just a little bit too wise with though,
he's not gonna let it get away with it.
And I really thought here,
Dove should have had his number every single day of the week.
When he sees him here, I think he just panics in a moment
and ultimately, last he's seen the round,
but well played by Oscar, he keeps on going.
Six reads the secrets and they might be about to get there
first win of the stage.
I'm sure the energy is going to be
high, the columns are going to be up.
You need to make sure that they're focused on getting the job done and getting themselves over the line because the team might twist the minds will punish every small crack every small weakness that you offer them.
They will make sure that you pay dearly for it. So secret. They need to keep that teamwork that we've been seeing. They need to keep themselves. And they need to keep themselves.
weakness that you offered them they will make sure that you pay
for it so secret they need to keep that team work that we've been seeing they
need to keep themselves nice and close nice and tight and make things difficult
for to us the minds who if you ask me I've offered them a real opportunity
if I go in up to top floor on the defense
okay they're one round away to from doing it which is pretty special and
pretty spectacular given the start they've had to the stage and what it's
We started the stage out so strong they were locking out top 3 for a while.
These boys could be a serious contender towards our top 4 here.
Not pushing in towards our top 3, top 2.
Last bit missing Dove. This week I'd say still missing Dove.
Last round.
It's looking a little bit rough and they need to find their way back on the horse themselves
because now eyes will start turning towards just in minds and whether or not they could be the team
that's slowly beginning to stalling it down the table.
to be a tough shot. If you dropped down that hatch and have to shoot up behind you, but
there's not really too much of a way to deal with it otherwise. Unless you want to commit
one of those nerds down there.
I think he's going to win no one taking the shomb down. He's going to wish he's fair behind
that keeper barricade. Only the shomb would try and make something like that work. That
is balmy. Pay surprise, but I think he equally knew that his days were numbered playing inside
a piano. He was dug in very deep and very little support from his teammates and secret
were committed to ensuring that he came out of piano.
With that entry, they're in a good and commanding position here.
As long as they're on retail's piano,
they could pretty much step away from here.
That's exactly what they were going to do.
Into war cigar, and just in time,
gets rid of that razor bloom.
Otherwise, he would have lost a good chunk of HP there.
Dove, under the window, waiting and ready,
and he's got the right idea.
There's two players here, but they know what to expect him.
They've seen twisted minds and how they play.
Two more kills flow their way.
Trick's done his ass.
P9 has got it all to do in a one versus five secret.
to get their first points of the stage.
Tricks nearly got baited into a razor bloom there.
Needed to be careful going for that kill P9.
As you say, really does have it all to do here.
The fuse going down and he needs to get back up to site.
Top one.
It's so, so difficult now when he's underneath to do anything
about this.
They've got four staircases locked down,
three on the same floor as it.
Oh, no.
And it's just a fine one.
Cut down from the other side.
And Team Secret are going to take their first victory
in EML Stage 1.
It's miles across the board, it's been a transformational performance for them, and they've got three points on the board.
Is it the start of Sinkers stage? Is this where we see them starting to climb back to water top six?
Well, we'll have to wait until future play days to find out about that.
And of course, for sure, I guess we've got tons to say about that magical performance back with you in just a few.
I
The secret finally managed to do it.
They get a point and not just any point, three points go their way as well.
They get their first victory and therefore we get to speak to Swister, the coach of
Secret Joining us for the interview.
congratulations on three points. I think it's fair to say that the stage one is
not that easy for you guys, but this victory must feel very good.
Yeah, it does a lot. It's a relief actually. We've been working so hard through
the past weeks and it was very frustrating to see the results not
showing up, so many trolls, so many like misplays and
stuff like this, but the the potential on this group exists
It's just like a matter of time for me for them to develop and get more comfortable with everything.
Twister, the last time we saw you here on EML interview was in Stage 2 of 2025.
You guys had lost three games in a row. It was a really difficult time for the team after AWC
were in a slump and you told us something which was trust the process and on Twitter you went and
actually made a post about the fact that you guys wanted to fix the basic fundamentals and
and hopefully get better results.
Do you think this is the pivotal moment
in your journey in EML, where with this new roster,
you're going to start putting more points on the table
and eventually reach playoffs?
I think the situations are a bit different for sure,
because last time we had a team that we're playing together
ready for seven, eight months,
and we had a slump in the beginning,
but for now, it's just about building up confidence
for the players.
We're building up some basics about the game again,
but it's much more about getting those T2 players that already play the side or not,
but to get used to this environment, you know.
And it's something that you want it or not, it takes some time, you see things like erratics,
some players from Geek A and other things that are having these hard times as well,
or even Panathik were having these hard times,
and then getting those players, getting comfortable with this main stage kind of.
I couldn't help but notice today, it looks like you made a change in the way that your
team attacks.
I'd notice that Oscar had played basically only shields for the whole attacking stage
so far.
Today that was flexi.
Was that just for cafe or is that something that will be a change going forwards?
No, it's a change we decided to do.
That's the good thing about losing every week that you are not afraid of making changes.
You're good to go and try and things.
And honestly, this was something that we tried to do, because Flex is helping us being kind
of the main GL right now.
So being hidden as a shield player is always helping us to put on the same focus over there
and make the wrong progresses move.
And Oscar will also be shooting, so let him free.
I promise at some point we'll stop comparing this roster to the old roster, but does it
make you more comfortable as a coach that when you had Savage, when he was the IGL,
he was the main shield player, so that you could have Flex as the IGL as the main?
Basically, does it make you more comfortable that you switch one Portuguese IGL playing shields and one Portuguese IGL playing shields?
We tried. We had the best of intentions with everything that we tried to do so far over here, but it looks like nothing was working out and just made sense.
It seemed like the meta is going right now to have the shield in the IGL position, you know, and Klaxi plays this decently good as well right now, getting used to it and getting better.
Thank you to who makes sense, you know, matter of the time.
Awesome. So, sir, it's very good to hear from you.
I'm glad you guys got a victory on the board now.
For us, we've got to manifest another victory,
because I think there's many more questions that we have for you,
and hopefully we speak to you again soon.
Good luck with the rest of the week.
Thank you. Bye-bye.
Good to hear from them and the whole process of the team.
Some changes on the attack, like you guys were noticing as well,
but let's be honest, it paid off.
And again, it's the top four team that went very far in Stalmik as well.
Yeah, I think so. I don't think anybody really could have seen this coming on paper.
Swisted mines for the most part up until the game where they had a player sub-in last week.
Looks really good. They looked like a top team. They were at the semi-finals of the Major.
And they come up against a team secret today who were really resilient.
I think that's probably the biggest word, you know?
Swizz talks about we keep working hard. We keep going through our processes.
Yes, we are changing things and we saw it on the site most dominantly with the shield change.
But actually, they were working hard for each other.
They were playing crossfires, they were playing in their power positions.
They were doing all the things really that we asked them to do there.
Yeah, and one thing that you notice watching the highlights is, except for that last round,
most of the opening kills actually went on the side of Prusen Mainz.
And I think that we do agree, you understand, that the resilience from Secret.
Maybe there was not an intense trade, but later in the round there was a trade.
They managed to grab back their mana advantage,
and they managed to pull rounds away by playing well together as a team,
by coordinating, by making a real goal at every step and all committing to it.
And I think that's something they were lacking before.
Before this game, Oscar was one of the worst-rated players in the state. He'd been playing on the
shields. He'd been having a torrid time. So, I think from a confidence boost, again,
another thing Swiss had mentioned, the players needed the confidence. The change has gone
really well. Oscar went positive today, did well, positively, yes. Flexfields did the same
whilst playing on the shields. So, I think for Secret, yes, it's a journey. It's one step on
the journey. But he's a massive win. He's a massive victory for the big confidence boost,
on what he's going to be, ultimately, a very, very test in the Super Week. We mentioned how
how hard it was. All three points in that first game is very, very good.
Yeah, because they still have Rotas Pro to play against, they still have G2 to play against,
so it doesn't get easier from here on, but this at least should be a very good confidence
boost for them going into the Super League, or the remainder of the Super League at least
for them. Now our final game of the day, we have Rotas Pro lining up against Heretics
in this matchup. Both these teams relatively new rosters, right, making changes right before
kickoff starts but I think we can tell also by the position on the scoreboard, on the leaderboard, right?
First for Veritas Pro versus seventh for Heretics at the moment that even though they have a new
team they're going on a very different trajectory. Yeah there were sevens before the victory from
Team Secret so you know looking at the handings the pressure is starting to add up for Heretics.
It's like the best against one of the worst if not the worst of EML looking at the on paper
and it is a brand new team's EML journey and a very different one from the side of Heretics
compared to the Son of Mistress Pro, I'm just sad that Neko isn't quite smiling here.
Because if you just look at the difference of attack win rate, for example,
I mean it's more than double the one of Heretic's defense win rate, obviously crazy high for Mistress Pro.
The Clutches as well, like a quarter of the time where they clutch position, they actually win the clutch.
That's completely insane. And then the Entries, they win two-thirds of the Entries they take, I mean,
such a big gap.
I think the reason why so many people include in those are so bullish on
virus pro is they get into in most rounds. They're winning most of their
attacks. They're winning most of their defenses. And even when it goes wrong, you
trust them in the clutch scenario. You trust him in the clutch scenario.
They've got a natural shield player. They've got frags. They've got energy.
They've got you. They've seemingly got it all. And that's why they sit from top of
EMA. Crazy stats that we're seeing as well. I think big stats chunk as well.
Chunk as well that heretics have to suffer from last week with that loss against GK in particular where they fumbled and overtime
I really struggled to get some attacking rounds off the boards
Let's be honest, you know in the previous matchup
We had it as well with that secret against Mr. Mines if we were convinced just the mines were going to win that we've already seen a bit
Of an upset today
There's still the possibility for yet another one for the likes of heretics
But the map might really be important in this way as well right what are these teams comfortable on what have you seen from them before and
Oh, but just how we say we haven't seen Cafe O, we're going back to Back Cafe.
Back to Back Cafe, that reminds me of when you all played in 20, whatever,
when Cafe First came into the pool and everybody played it.
But no, I will say four team heretics.
The facts of the matter is we just showed those stats.
They are awful at attacking.
They will be starting to defend some Cafe, which in theory is a defender side of map,
and I know Leo's pointing his finger, but we have just seen an example from Team Secret of how to do that as a begunder dog.
I am not worried.
I think that the attacks from the other spurs have looked amazing.
Probably the most flawless ones, maybe G2 is on the Stamina level, I think that Virtus.pro
in the attack has been absolutely crazy.
Second point for me, on which map did Virtus.pro 7-2 Falcons at kickoff?
Even from your Skafe.
Yeah, it was Kha'Zix.
On the mid-match, the day, it absolutely stomped Weebo at the major of soloist.
Was it Kha'Zix?
It was Kha'Zix as well.
So obviously, it is a huge map for them.
They still haven't pulled it out in this stage, but it is a map on which they have an incredible
track record as a team and I'm not worried about them starting an attack. I still think they're in the drivers seat here.
I saw your well actually finger come out of that.
Well honestly, I saw it. Leo does this a little whack, especially when he's off camera. I'm like, okay, I should have Leo's got a point in the context.
Okay, so there's a point we made about both sides really. Heretics should be comfortable starting on defense.
Probably looks really good on the attack and they have a really good shield player.
We already talked about the oncafe. They have the clutch potential, our honest expectation zone for this matchup.
I mean, for heretics, should they want to have any chance of making it to playoffs, speaking of your power ranking as well?
Potential Dark Wars, like they gotta get something here.
I think we're starting to see the worm up on the side of heretics.
I think we started to see that on Night Heaven Labs against DK.
We started to see that the evolution from the team, I think we started to see that they're getting more confident.
Did we start to see a fixed cable on the side?
No, we didn't.
Are we waiting for the player cameras?
I was hoping.
Oh, no. It's the 7th round of the game.
Zara, where are you?
I think anything, the cable got lost for Zara.
Really? Yeah, I think so.
I was like, I felt like I'm seeing good signs.
And the cam got lost.
Oh, wow. Now it's not only the headsets, the cam as well, on the internet.
Zara, how do you do it? How are you one of the best rookies in the stage?
And still, you have the worst headsets ever. It's insane.
I think actually, just coming back to Twisted in the View, I think Twisted speaks so well about the game.
I think one of the things he said is we're having the same issues that maybe GK having that heretics are having and I think heretics are
Maybe don't get as much of a pass because they're not as new of a team
I would have expected to come attack that they would be close discovered that there would be more than identity forming that game last week
They you know, they had a lot of control their defenders were really really good
But their attacks significantly let them down now
That's natural when you step up from a tier 2 or even back in the day from a tier 3 up into tier 2 into tier 1
It's always the defenses that were stronger because they're fundamentally easier
But I would have expected more of an improvement. We let heretics off to your kickoff
They came up play they want they looked good and then from there their attacks really have a fork
Here we go again the finger has come up. What do you have to say? No, no just a point
About Virgers pro this time. I just had a theory about you know, Neko and Skye's joining Virgers pro
I think that Neko and you saw it on this camera by the way when you look at Neko speaking is
always smiling, he brings such warmth through his teams.
And I think that's maybe something that I lacked
in the previous Gryffindor's profile.
Like they were all very cold with each other
and they didn't have the best reactions.
They maybe were not hyping each other a lot.
I think that Neko brought that on the side of VP.
I think that you can see it on his pair of cam as well.
And you can see it whenever they win.
And I think that it's maybe something they needed,
which is a little bit more of a positive optimism.
And yeah, as we look at the headlight between the two,
that's what we showed early on.
It is absolutely massive, such a big gap between the two of them.
And it's no wonder these guys are obviously
all the way on the either side of the leaderboard, so far in the MMR.
Yeah, I think so.
Those stats on the right-hand side of your screen
represent the team that wins the bench.
You know, when you see those kind of percentages at an event,
that's the team that wins it.
The best attacker team, the most dominant defensive team,
particularly, and absolutely the ones on the entry.
And that's all that's for a written in.
Just coming back to your macro points as well,
I think realistically one of our concerns that we were speaking about and it's not even that long ago at the start of April when kickoff side
Was can these guys forge a team because they're forcing in not forcing in that's the wrong way
Same but they're combining free Russian players one of whom was the rookie to French players plus a French agile
You know broken English into English into the free with a Brazilian coach with a Brazilian coach
How can this why it's the south of that
I think that's working really well now it is so we're still waiting on a few players to join the lobby to finalize everything before we get this final game of the
they kicked off. In general, for
this players, though, you got to hope
that the game starts as soon as possible,
because they have so much more at stake
for this week here. I mean, as we
already mentioned, you have four games
in two weeks, all of a sudden, boom,
the three in one week, and then if you
have a bad week, like, for example, the
way that Twisted Mind started, a good
snowball into all the time. You find
yourself outside the top six, and then
it's really difficult to get into
playoffs. Yeah, Twisted Mind is going to be
looking at that table now. They're going
to be looking at that later, but
thinking we might be in a little bit of
that's a couple of losses on the
bounce against especially against
one team that was really,
really unexpected in terms of the
game today against Secret.
And I think the same for,
you know, for heretics.
We saw it at the start of the day.
If they end up losing all three in
the trajectory, the minute is not
good, we could be ruling them out
of playoffs coming the end of the
week, which realistically for a
team that wants to be involved and
remember all purposes, quite a
forgiving system actually.
We allowed six teams out of 10 into
playoffs. You have to be just in the
top 60% of teams.
To be ruled out so early would
present a failure as well. So I think, you know, it highlights the importance of Super
Wiggit, highlights the importance of these teams and getting off on the right foot in
the very first game. You know, Rebels will be feeling the pinch, Twisted Mines will be
feeling the pinch up there in sixth place as well, currently by the skin of that team.
Yeah, just looking at the updated standings here and thinking of teams like Heretics,
for example, that had such a hard kickoff. And I don't know, you know, in the position
where with the Super Week, if they don't grab any points, they're going to be left stranded
They're gonna miss playoffs again, and I know they just came from Challenger series, but through of these players
They had played a full year of tier one before
Expectations are a little bit harder. You need losers in the EML game, but I mean the EML competition
But I think it's important that they grab some points here. All right
We have the standings behind us as well just to have a little bit of a look here where the teams and where they find themselves currently
She she's the big one as well. Yeah, nice like that. I mean GK for both themselves
Now they're ready for the start of the day.
We'll see what it does to you.
That's really nice. That's very good.
I mean, all things could change tomorrow because I'm not sure if you guys noticed it as well.
Tweet came out earlier from Urban Bush's game about the patch notes that we're getting tomorrow.
All the changes coming into it.
Dokeby, Nerf.
Thank goodness, I think we can all say.
So we saw, like, what, seven seconds cooldown?
So you can now just, you can now spam your calls.
There is now a cooldown of seven seconds, which is huge, by the way.
You just remember the clip that we played in pre-show with Feno doing credit with Yakebi?
He was just spamming it, getting a kill. Spamming it, getting a kill.
And he did exactly that. I know they lost the game 7-3, but he did exactly the same on 1-1 around some fortress.
I think he used like 4 within 15 seconds or something, great.
So that's going to be well.
That'll definitely be a big mess. There's obviously some changes coming in as well.
Do you want me to read some of them out?
Go on, read them out.
I think a big one as well, which I'm personally really happy with, is we know how frustrating thorn could be sometimes,
but they've reduced the limping, right? It was 15 seconds, which is very long.
long it's gonna be 10 seconds now so that feels like a little bit less punishing if you do take
damage from one of those storm jets you get like start moving around yeah yeah I think the limping
effect was one of the strongest aspect of the hunt because effectively you don't kill that many
times yeah because after a new batch with the radius so I do think that it's it's good that they
actually nerfed it a little bit yeah another one sorry I was about to say I knew the significant
ones are but it's I think some of these don't really rely to or have to do anything with the
the eSports right we have an IQ range detector updated.
Hatchel was he got a look to his area of effect.
Yeah, 1.75 meter is now 1.85 meter.
Actually, it's 8 meters.
10 centimeters.
Alright, 10 centimeters.
I don't know, honestly, I don't know.
If you make all the difference because you might be able to catch more electronics
when there's a plant going down and double C4, now they could both be in range.
I'd say 10-15 meters range as well.
I would love to sit here and read out all the patch notes.
But instead, I just heard the game is ready, so instead of us talking about the game,
let's go watch it as the final game of the day kicks off.
Thank you very much, guys. It's like a bit of a tense build upon or anything else,
and it seems to get us into the cafe again for our final game of the day.
I think everyone knows who we expect to walk away from this one,
but we've got a couple of surprises today.
Can you see Harry just getting one of the votes, Prime?
you know, I said earlier there's
two things in every game. You
know, anybody can win it, but
first one just been so so good
so far. I think you know you're
looking at 35% of the time we're
going to expect them to come and
win this, but we also said that
with twisted minds and secret
and what happened there? It
wasn't just a little secret
when it was a pretty easy secret
win. So I'm sure that you know
there are possible surprises in
her. I mean, you know, she's
There are possible surprises in heretics. We will see how the first round goes to go particularly.
But our first banners have come in. It's going to be the Montee and the Clash taking away Serena.
Really, salt on shields so far.
The Aston, no big surprise. They are quite a headache.
Indeed, it's going to stick to a double ban, leaving the Blackbeard on-line for the pro-fans to make use of it.
They were the team that, sorry, I remember, had all three banned away, the Montee, the Blitz and the Blackbeard.
and they're popularized running
keys like how we don't get all
the keys like you got it away
once you really want to, but
are you going to waste the ban on a fuse?
Really? Because then we'll just run one of the other
shields that really is no skin up
arrows. And so, I think you're probably
going to see a little bit of that in this
as well. Maybe sign up with a black beer,
but then always happy to move over to a fuse
if required a bit later on. Eyes
naturally will fall towards heretics, so they
start on the defensive side. They have
got to put up a show here against what
many probably would describe,
would they say the best one of the best in the region right now alongside g2 but
I'm pretty sure of that as probably this game they jump over g2 anyway because
of g2 when the game looks to be in open time yes they will they'll jump ahead
yeah okay well they will continue strapping them for that tough spot and
that is gonna mean an awful lot to them just now we spoke at the beginning on
they spoke on the desk about it, they had this threshold of 11 points, inverted to progress like
already beyond that, so we would say, not mathematically secure though, you know, come
to me if they don't make it, but I would say there's pretty much Virtus.Pro already qualified
for the playoffs, give or take, or certainly above that line that we would expect them to be meeting,
and I can't see a world where they get zero points for the rest of the ML, and then 12 isn't
enough to get them into bluffs. I would be absolutely gobsmacked if that was the case.
So yeah, I think it's a fairly safe assumption that they will be getting there. But they'll want
to be making 100% sure the pulse of Dora currently working. I'm pretty sure it was Virtus Pro that
we saw him done by this pulse, wasn't it? And when he went rushing on in and missed him because he
was stood on a mute jammer, he was relying on the snakes now. I think it was Virtus Pro, but yeah,
Yeah, they're gonna be very aware of that position.
Is that a Pog2?
I think it was, yeah, it was first Pog2.
And it made me back in.
Could it have been back in kickoff?
Anyway, the Virtus.Pro are gonna be very well aware of Pulse
in that position.
It's been a fight that I'm getting to.
We're gonna see a red stairs drop coming from the Blackbeard,
looking to get aggressive onto these top floor roamers.
There are two off to his left-hand side.
There are three up there in total.
So, Zara, Lolo and Ackwick are gonna be the ones
that need chasing out.
A little bit of support is going to be needed for Neko here, I think, he's on his own at the minute.
So all of you are joined by Dan, he gets in there, so he's got another gun on start now as well.
It's still 5v5, half way through there.
And a jump out of course, the Soros in the map not too long ago, it's about 15 minutes ago Tim,
it's still a thing.
Your players in the window, they're outside the balcony, it's a free jump out if they're distracted looking elsewhere.
So while Pasha falls, there is a kill across and towards Aki.
I'd argue really the Fenrir fallen down here isn't the end of the world, you know, the
We've got the FNATs turned on to information being fed when they're pushing to certain parts of the map.
Because otherwise, you want to keep the DMI, you want to keep a C4 from the Maltese,
and the Pulse should now be admittedly both been used.
And of course the Solas is going to be the big denier, currently hanging out down on the ground floor.
I worry the furthest part of left of the Solas is too much to do here, and not quite enough time to get it done.
Greenchains.
They start getting the vertical angles opened up now, so they can challenge into key areas like that corridor.
from sitting just outside of the utility room and making life difficult. We see Solid Snake's ability to forage, to scavenge for those secondary gadgets.
He's going to pick himself up and reach in charge, get a little bit more of that verticality done. Actually quite a lot done. Now you've got a good lot to do as well.
Opportunity to put the diffuser down. And I'm not sure, you know, that there's really anything heretics can do about this.
watching for the Nitro coming over but it's never gonna find.
Skye's managed to get the kill, Dora fights back with one but still leaves VP3V2 with
Diffuser down on the ground. Skye's is all held as is Rorik.
I'll put the same campus for Dora, the fight back begins above Dora.
Only just to get one, Skye's however finds his teammate Rias.
So it's now 2v1 and Dora has to drop back to site, he's gonna get straight on the Diffuser.
This could be a smart move, there's nobody up above him, it's all down to a matter of time.
I think he's going to do it,
does? Oh, Nickle gets there
with about 0.4 of a second left
to spare. Oh boy, it's close.
Does he just pull out the ice cold
cold part of the celebration at
the end as well? I want to believe
that he did. You know, locked in
come the end of that one. Even
he's like, Yeah, no problem at
all. I don't worry about it. It's
not an issue. That was a good
play from draw, though. Great
round from overall the jump out
first a couple of kills he
collects in the mid round. Great
play the one we want upstairs
And the commitment towards going for that disable, beautiful.
We saw it on our screen.
It was down to a couple of hundred milliseconds left there.
So just the nicotinidinacro get there, despite all the Doris efforts,
they don't get that first round.
Virtus.pro up 1-0.
I've got to say it's a bit of a shame.
But that price is an effect.
Yeah, it's a bit of a shame for her.
It's because I do like a kind of a heads-up play
on the diffuser like that.
I love a heads up play on the diffuser like that because it's those key moments where you
remember that Siege is an FPS first and foremost but there really are other ways to win these
rounds and sometimes just having that nerve and that judgement to say I'm going to stick
this, they've got to get all the way upstairs. I like to see it rewarded sometimes and I
really deal with heretics there for two reasons one that that wasn't rewarded but two it was such
a close round for them and they're not necessarily going to get too many opportunities against versus
bro and those are the kind of opportunities as they may be they're going to have to take
okay yes if we can cross correct because it's going into the background
there is work to be done no doubt by most of the team door they're going to want to go by
you also only want to go i've got a kill on that previous round the rest needs to do their part
as well. There's that earlier change in to a catcher that I think hurt and slowed down,
but it's probably good to spoke about this earlier on today. But it's probably certainly not all
about the lower ranked teams, but it takes a bit of time, I think, to adapt when you lose a player
early on. Okay, we had a game plan for you to be in that spot to cover this angle, to do this thing
for us. Oh, you're dead. Now I've got to read bigger things out and try and adapt from the bounce.
And this is where prep work is all well and good from coaches, for example. But this is where an
IGL or a captain really needs to go figure things out very fluidly inside of rounds. We've seen
interviews events over the years of coaches saying this you know I'm trying
to quit the players if you have to make the own decisions. They won't have me when things start going wrong in the middle of rounds.
I think it goes flat bitch. I like this question from Furters for all last time around it was a little bit of a struggle for time.
They did manage to get the job done but this time they're going to have absolutely none of that getting themselves in there quickly.
Horsing and way away from the pixel they've been able to take that ground door it takes a little bit of damage as well.
Well, the player on white window does not have a chance.
I thought they might, but Pasha is actually
going to be taken out by Aqui.
That's a great play from Heretic to keep them in this fight.
The Blackbeard is doing his work at the minute,
certainly getting his best in for the day,
but not really gaining anything.
I just don't know.
I was going to say how much support he's got.
There are two backing him up now,
so Camfer to Sprawl get moving.
They've got the force map on behind these keybers.
They're a real headache.
They're all of them being used vertically
to be able to challenge over the top
and be able to cut the feet on either side and with that they're finally
managed to force them away and explosion entry bar and down wide corridor at the same time.
It's one for one and Pasha the both captain, let me have fans to see him, he's died as the entry yet again.
What's he doing to us? Come on man, lock in. The thing is he's done this a couple of times,
he's done this a couple of players and then in the last three rounds he'll get like 40
We're going to see a Rorick taken down on the top floor from below.
Heretic's using those vertical angles really, really well at the minute to just kind of hassle and harass this demon.
Just not allow them any sort of safety or security and just keep them guessing all the time.
Long shots come through. Zara taken down. After all this work, there's however it is still in the lead.
the lead has got to be the question 15 seconds left to go though and no opportunity yet to put
the diffuser down the fighting continues 3v2 3v1 10 seconds left to go Panak we hold on he just
needs to survive niko is surely going to go in and start putting the diffuser down no opportunity
the skies gets his man and verters pro even though it looks like heretics were in charge of so many
the game. You know, it's
really, really hard to find
the right key areas on that
battleground versus pro still
cannot get the round and find
it. Sorry do get the round and
find themselves to up. It's
heartbreaking when you find
yourself getting early kills
and resisting really well. I
love that setup upstairs. It
was really cool and clearly
bird's program. It's tough. They
weren't quite sure how to
work through all these key
of various sets up and then
finally cracks it. Really
arguably a bit too late because
look at the clock at the top
of the screen here going into
a very scrappy four versus
going to win the round. Scarlet is supposed to be a believe. Walked away with a 4k in the round.
Thru's what I initially saw. It was indeed a 4k. He has, dare I say, saved them in that round.
Every single kill except for the first two came in the last 20 seconds.
I love a Valkyrie. We're going to see a Valkyrie brought along by Zara.
And we've not seen it as of yet. Particularly like it when you play inside,
It's difficult at this sort of level. It's much more common that you're going to get
successful Falco at a rank level rather than a pro level.
As it is, we're as pro, haven't brought along the IQ, so well hidden cams might have a little
bit of joy, but the problem is, especially with a map like Cafe that's been around for
a long time, you know, you're not trying to hide a cam on brand new maps, you're trying
to hide at a camp where these teams have, you know, poured over every inch of every map looking for those spots.
It would be very difficult to keep them out of the way, but still, it's always nice to see an attempt, so we'll keep an eye on Zara and see.
We've got the natural in hand at the mid actually, just waiting for that opportunity.
Using the slight hammer port just goes a little bit so you're not going to catch any damage onto skies, and that is some gone.
I'm gone, but look, they've been good work already.
That's a cam that hasn't been spotted out.
A lot of drones being spotted out on there,
charged on through.
Obscene a spot where some teams choose to respect
and bring along the IQ and some do not.
Those throwing this round,
they can forget out all for themselves.
Of course, I, of course, was able to talk about this
a little bit earlier on.
When I found out all about shields, fine, boy.
Played a few, so you really don't care
and we'll happily jump onto it.
It wasn't Nate where I believed historically
he was playing it.
It was Pasha that I think I recall
running around on it in one round, but as you see from the
back come again, they see all these movements, they can see that
there are three players all flooding around. If there's a
C4 spare waiting downstairs, you don't think the Rift maybe
wants to free place, they could get a free bit. What stands
there, you see the lot.
Vertical work will continue. Well ahead of time here, Avera's
Pro as well. We usually say one minute thirty is a bit of a
benchmark for that verticality to start a work, but it was
already well up the way when we got to that point so plenty of success so far but these
Valcams are surviving that food that we've seen not taken out. Beautiful kill from Aqua
as well just having a little look up the red stairs there and punishing skies. Sledge
gone a lot of the work has been done granted but I don't know what Furters Pro is doing
with these Valkyrie Cams there's that you know at the beginning of the round and I'd
say it again at this level you don't expect to see so much success out of them or them
surviving for so long, but without the actual it's as if versus Protor have a clue.
you're going to win, and
Rorick has proven that.
A massive 3K for him.
Lolo in a 1 versus 3.
Have your Valkyrems, but you
can't have the round.
This is so tough for Heretics.
It's another round where they
did a lot of good work.
The Valkyrems, I keep going on
about, but the Valkyrems were
well placed.
They were feeding them a lot of
intel.
They got a kill on the back of
them.
We're actually knowing that the
opportunity was there onto
Skies.
They've done great work to keep
themselves in the round.
And it's like you feel like
they're putting in, it's like
is the first half. They're
like, they're putting in. It's
almost like it must feel like
you've run a marathon and you
get there to the finish line
or what you think is the
finish line and somebody goes
right. Well done. That's the
first half back you go. And
it's like, Oh my God, like you
know, how much effort is this
going to take to actually get
around and we see them putting
the tactical time out in and
it's no surprise because first
you're going to have to
get back to the game. And it's
going to be tough to recover
from as well. Even when you
feel like you've done
everything right, your
set ups. Good. You've wasted
time. You've forced them down
for the last 15 seconds as we
saw in the second round.
Sky's rocks up with a four K
previous round. Rory walks up
with a three K and these are
things that normally are
common on the team side. G
suit, you know, relying on
individual players to pop off
this side around and work.
Absolute wonders for you. I'd
say in a way like the actual
strategic game or the tactical
the back of it. They had really
good keeper setups on the top
floor in the previous round.
They're playing the game of
siege really well. But they're
not quite stepping up there
when it comes to the gunman
ship, and this is where things
like G2 can get away with it.
They'll have a player walk away
with three kills in one round
and then don't you come up
next and get a four K then
stomping gets a big clutch. They
can rely on individuals. I'd
argue right now. Heretics are
really struggling in that
department. I mean, cast your
eyes. The bottom left door. I
got that three K back in round
one outside of that. They've got
themselves four K. They've got
themselves four K. They've
got themselves four K. They've
got themselves four K. They've
outside of that they've got themselves four kills. It hasn't been competitive from a gun side, a gun play style of things so far.
That's what needs to transform in my view and you can't really fix that by having a tap timeout and saying guys just, just take his butt out, it'll be easy.
It's not that easy, it's very hard to do, especially against a team like Builders Pro.
That's the key isn't it? You know, you've got a team of five people who are just so insanely skilled.
how do you know as a team playing against that and they'll know that they're struggling from the gunfights
they'll know that they're doing a lot of things right here and they'll feel frustrated
and you know as frustrating as it is to watch in many ways thinking these
rounds that we could be winning with small differences and those small differences are
winning those gunfights but you know what do you do when you're up against passion when you're up
against the town you know it's such a huge ask it's always going to be a nightmare but let's see
whether heretics can improve or not we're gonna see them this time going to
reading and they tried this back in the first round versus pro they got the
win because they've got the win every single round interestingly as well by the
way as I say heretics are doing everything right they've had the entry
every single round they are doing stuff right they really are you know giving
themselves every opportunity they're giving themselves the foundation to
They just go, yeah.
What?
If you get a Molly, not awarded with a kill, but at least
with a slight fright for a second there, I imagine that drone dropping in thought,
what the hell is going on? There's a guy there waiting to kill us.
Normally you see four, you see being used in that case to try and get the players to R,
being a little bit safer, and it could have rewarded him there, but being on the one mind,
no C4 with which to work.
Now getting these tracks down on some wall's red stairs,
you'd of course see in the previous round, I was like, I'll just ignore them,
Let's ignore them, but push this way through them and manage to get on the flank and get away with a free kill.
I doubt they'll quite get away with the same punishment again.
Sky's ready with the fire.
Really easy, so going in there. One control, wipes him, and they're going to force him.
Here we go. There comes the attack.
Are they aware of the presence of the player in Freezer?
That's going to be up to Nairquad to deal with as he comes around this corner.
Saurabh manages to find Sky.
Ceratix standing up to it so far, they are aware of the presence.
Managed to find the kill, that's actually taken out.
versus four and again despite heretics hard work they don't really find
themselves with too much of an advantage they do however manage to get
themselves back onto that mid-floor without losing any further bodies it's
4v4 a minute 15 left on the clock and they are a little bit limited here to
getting this vertical work done no soft breach charges so it's gonna be able to
with that secondary shot, which is quite a small hole that it produces.
I'm sure it's going to get excited until the round's over, to be honest.
Because we've been here now a couple of times, right,
where Heretic's got a man advantage, who has been 4v4.
We're seeing the clock dwindle away, but it's probably like they're going to be chalked,
and then all of a sudden, back!
They find the round at the back of a good little execute.
Now, not those utility left for damage,
but what we've admitted is a small candela and a smoke we wish to play.
There's some pretty reward you have much.
And Dora, of course, can see everything that's going on,
given his playing on the pulse.
And he's been a little bit nervous with VP
on how to get this one over the line.
Could the spider be that time? The heretics get away with it? No.
Plants going on down, expecting the verifights to come on through.
Surely he finds the angle, is looking for it, but dancing to get the chance to finish it, Tim!
They might die off the back of it, but no! Can't even finish them off!
Finally Zara steps up and gets the business done, but they can't push once the vertical, Tim!
They're certainly going to try, but Rorik holding it recklessly finds one, finds two!
He's not coming from where he is, Tim! It's a 3K on white stairs!
The murder of white! It's not looking good! Dora, once again, is left in a 1BX.
I think that's going to go up.
Yeah, that's going to be over
as we come around. Just to get
one won't get the second. It's
going to be okay by the way.
Okay, I recall on whites. There's
look so far. I've said I've been
actually very complimentary
about heretics. I think I've,
you know, I've been siding with
them in a lot of ways. I've been
sort of frustrated that they're
not seeing any success to what
they've been doing. But sorry,
heretics. I cannot defend
directions there. You know, the
absolute flood up with the
you know, the absolute flood of
white stairs into auric there
just handed in one after another.
And you know, I think, uh, I
think they've got what they asked
for at that point. Again, I just
feel it's so hard now to get
excited about an M round
situation where it actually
looks like heretics have a
chance to win. You got down to
the last 50 was four versus four,
but the plants going down. No
one is dying. And honestly, the
play up white here, I think is
almost beginnable. Three of them
all from the first one you can
forgive. Okay, he doesn't know
the very very top of the stairs. Never mind. Orders will go to the very best. You can't
be letting that happen. I was honestly hoping there's, after saying what I said, that I
can't sympathise on that one. It's unforgivable. I was hoping to watch that back and be right.
Maybe it was the heat of the moment and I look back at this and it's not as bad as it
looks. But it was every bit as bad as it looked and it looked worse in full motion. Yeah, just
like that half a second apart.
What do you think he's going to do?
He's just going to stand there holding mouse one.
Every time he gets a kill, he can hear more footsteps.
So, of course, he's going to do that.
Yeah, big mistake from heretics there.
I think it's just one of those.
Sometimes the noise gets to you.
The action of the round gets to you.
You know, and you think, right, you know,
I'll be the one that will get the kill on to him.
The other two have it, but I'll get it.
And in reality, you're not.
Maybe in round five, Tim.
That's our question.
Maybe in round five.
We'll see something. We'll see them. Hold on.
We'll see them win out at all even situations of a 4v4.
We'll see them win by time.
There'll be something that surely has to go right for Heretics.
That feels so stunning if they come out of this half 6-0 down,
especially given it's a defensive campaign.
Historically, one of our more defenders decided maps.
It already feels bad enough, maybe, being down 4-2,
but a 6-0, that feels like a car crash.
Well, we've just seen it, haven't we?
We've just seen it in a match up earlier to do with G2 as well,
and that one finished 7-0.
It's just it's always possible. I never liked canteens out. Brilliant kill there from Lollor, by the way
Beating on entry continues to heretics. I also had by the way
Virtus. Pro continued to find a way to get these rounds done
But yeah, you know, I will never write a team. That's a bad mess with the job
I will never write a team often say that it's not possible to come back
There is always a dream while still in the server while they still have my some keyboard
at the hands, they can still get the job done.
Coming back against Virtus.Pro, 6-0 down.
It's 100 to one shot, 1,000 to one shot.
You know, you could have a lot of attempts at that
and not achieve it, so you really do need to start
with instant rounds.
Yeah, best time to start was four rounds ago,
the next best time is now.
We've got to get some minutes.
That was very fast.
Double, no, it's just the one.
Skies to four.
By B3, Tim, surely they can't let a 5B3 go by them.
But you wouldn't have thought so. You wouldn't have thought so, but the performance so far
has suggestive that maybe they will. They go in banshee triggers so they should be aware
of the push coming in. You have to assume that's going to be the case, or it does a
little bit of ducking and diving and manages to find his man though. And we're going to
have Pasha down. It is effectively 1v5. Surely this is the round fair. A flawless round as
to be able to keep on winning
those gunfights. So it goes for
one. They capitalized off quite
a slow, but it's probably they
didn't let them execute their
game plan. You see force on
towards the floor. The entry
that we spoke about. They just
played it. Well, they've been
aggressive on towards them and
shut them down. Again, it that
could have really been done with
the thing being done four rounds
ago and not just in this round,
but it's been a lot of work.
It's been a lot of work. It's
been a lot of work. It's been
a lot of work. It's been a
lot of work. It's been a lot
of work. It's been a lot of
round, but it shows that maybe they can get themselves a second here as we go into round six
and give themselves at least a little bit of breathing room. My biggest nervousness is when
they go onto the attacking side, I'll say it again, but on four teams, they'll always be a
trigger, I think, on the attacking side. That is where they will lose the majority of their rounds
and Birders Pro has been seeing many a time and no signs from the defence either, so I'm already
a little bit nervous that a two-four score line won't be enough to heritage save the game,
but I've been proven wrong before, Tim. I'll happily be proven wrong again.
We love to be wrong, guys. We
truly do love to be wrong. And
I'm with you. I will say that
I will commit to that. I think
her attacks are really going to
struggle on the attack of
cafe against the first pro,
especially the latest product
playing today. Fashions got zero
kills, but, uh, in the first
time I'm ignoring that. Yeah,
it's I mean, he's really
unusual for him. But the reason
But the reason that I point it out is
Pasha's not going to finish game with zero kills and I think when he gets onto defense
We're gonna see a bit of a difference of duration
And that's something else that's gonna stack the difficulty up for heretics as well as you know
You guys have a plane without basher in the game at this point almost and so yeah
Lot of work is going to come in that second half
But for now all heretics can do is focus on a second successful defense get yourself a four
If they get a 4-2-1, it's fair like robbery, I will say that.
Yeah, it will feel like it.
But at the same time, I also appreciate probably how heretics will feel hard done,
why don't they haven't got Warden the 2?
Because the difference about previous rounds, since the previous ones, wasn't stark and enormously fair.
It played out largely the same.
They were just very good at securing a second kill and then rolling for the advantage from there.
They slowed the pro down as the creatures didn't know what they were about to do.
Still, for the pro, they also want the 5-1, they'll know they deserve it after a while,
that's a big pick up. So it's
strong. They're going to be
there. They deserve after four
one. Both things. I think have
a case to say. We deserve more
from that heart. Chots will
rain out towards those windows
still 5v5 one minute 45 left on
the clock. Virtus Pro. None of
them inside of the map yet. So
we've seen time raise its head
for them a couple of times so
far today where a range of
that bulletproof camp. Really important piece of utility taken out and it was the only one
onside for heretics so they are now reliant on other utility of which they continue to lose as well.
Razorbloom being taken out and that now allies versus Protoss that aggressive forward but look
at the confidence. A minute ten left on the clock and a sixth straight entry in a row goes this time to Rias.
They're looking to start on door. That's a lot of space going on down down.
destroy the one that can step up here and make something happen.
I'm now looking to step on forward off goes the switch towards the left hand side.
Nape bro is in making this happen. There should be a C4 but no.
Is anyone ready? That's a great step up from Lolo and capitalizes down and able to find the man.
Now it's rescue stations to the side of Verzpro.
They've invested a lot in trying to make this SQ work and it has crumbled before their very eyes.
Yeah, I think we're really going to struggle to turn this around here though,
if it could we'll come away with a 2-4 half because that diffuser is down cold.
They've not got many spots left, they're trying to find the man to eventually, and they need to make a move, but they're unaware, they're unaware of the man below, and they get punished big time.
Aqui and Riaz won a piece, they were trying to go for the plan to give, and now Dan is in a situation where he needs to find at least two kills.
Zara picks him up straight away, and it is 4-2 on the half to Virtus Pro.
Well, that was a bit of a tale of two halves there, or two quarters, or two fourths and a two.
But if you want to call it, Addess has got a lot to say about it.
Guys, what are you making it?
Well, I think it's pretty clear that there are kind of a shield scratch, right?
You see the first three rounds, they have all shields open,
and there's one shield open and they go and get three rounds in a row.
And as soon as they don't have the shield, it's not the same story.
They're struggling to get their attack rounds.
Let's take an example of just how useful that shield is in round two right now.
They're facing a 4v5.
They have one minute and 16 seconds to work with.
Realistically, there should be no way to win this, especially when they're in attack.
I want you to pay attention to Neko moving on that side here on the white hallway.
Now, he's challenging Riaz and the key thing here is by moving towards Riaz,
he's pushing him to try and go up the stairs and he wants guys to go behind him to help him.
So Neko with the shield is forcing another fight and that's a trap, Riaz dies.
At the same time, you see Deimos is pushing in, taking the top top control.
He will get revived after getting injured.
Then at this point, it's a 4v3, they've taken map control.
They've actually won a gunfight, front up down, and they set them up for success rushing on to site.
Now Neko is pushing the site, and I want you to pay attention to die down here, who's going to die, trying to plant the diffuser.
Now the cool thing is, again, it's a 3v3, but not really.
Neko is aggressive, Rorik is dropping from the laundry hatch, Skye is pushing down the white stairs.
They're all towards one single player, and making sure they get that man advantage.
So Lolo dies, and they do the same thing on to Dora, all three of them pushing him.
Now look at the positioning and that's what makes them special.
I want you to pay attention. As soon as they get the kill,
Neko is rushing to get the diffuser and Rorik,
now Skye, they're not helping him. They're actually going to prevent Akui to push him.
And so Skye is going to go into dining, Rorik is going to go towards mining,
and the two of them will cover any entry point that Akui can take.
And so as soon as Akui comes in, he's being held and that's a free kill.
What's very impressive here is the ability on Virtus.Pro to recognize the wind condition
instantly and then in span of what one or two seconds they make the right call and they play well together
It's a great start from for us, bro
But as you mentioned of course after the shield bends it was a great salvation year relief from from heretics
At least get two rounds on the board. Yeah, I think so
I mean they grow reference that when we interviewed him last week. He said as soon as you know
Since I don't have them I'll go crazy. I'll get on the edge
Um, I think we did say you know the shields are really really the big reason as to why that is pro
are fall to up. That's fall to up attacking cafe as well. And just to pick one your point as well, Leo,
I think one of the things that you know, we're kind of privileged. We get to listen to the teams,
we get to hear what they're saying.
Neko's Nigel holds his team accountable for everything. He asks them constant questions.
Who's got this? Who's responsible for that? Have you done this yet? I'm going to do that,
which we can't say for actually for a lot of our teams, a lot of our teams,
especially the ones that lower down the table. I just very informational of he's here, he's here.
Whereas Naco is very much very quickly. Let's get a plan. Let's do it. His team trust them implicitly.
It's why we saw them go forcibly. Yes, he didn't go well in the last couple of rounds.
Maybe you could call them shield crutches. Maybe not, but the fact of the matter is a shield will always be available in the first three rounds on their defenses.
It's also a big reason as to why they currently find themselves as the very first in our leaderboard and
flawless in regards of points as well. Will that stay? We're gonna find that out in our second half.
the game. I'm not sure. It's
a good position. Thank you very
much. And that's the second
Necrol is licking his lips. They
may have taken away three
shields from him in the first
half. It's half. The class is
on side. Guess what he's
playing flash. Already looking
towards the side of heretics.
I'm wondering where is the
solution? Where is going to be
the answer to that flash? I'm
looking. There is none it. So
the spaces that Clash can operate in, you can't really remove the Clash specifically
necessary by that. You've got the Thatcher, could of course at least disable the electrical
element of the shield, but it doesn't really solve the core problem of what Clash is going
to bring into a round. It will at least prevent an effect in Dora, for example, with the shield
break, that sort of thing. So it's something at least, but it's going to be right, place
right, time to be used. But I am, yeah, very close to I am, they're close, keep your close
I'll match you because I am very concerned about how they're going to deal with this flash
Yeah
Not a lot of your favorite to really go for the back of you could always the MP out of the faction
Then of course you can run at him and try and do some damage
But problem there being that the class really then just bait for you for thing else
It's the drawing of attention still even without the gadget on side
Of course three functions to help try and deal with the world
I've seen you lose this way through the map here pretty good pace as well
We've got ourselves the most of this ground floor cleared out in a rapid time.
It's forced all of those pro-backdown stairs into the ground floor.
And you can already hear that the ground is getting to work.
So good progress by Heritage. It moves at quite a pace.
Yeah, it's only taking the ground.
You know, I always say this, if something's being offered to you,
you've got to make sure you go and take it. Don't waste it.
Don't give them the opportunity to actually say,
you know what, we're going to hold on to that a little bit.
We're actually going to go above.
Yeah, I like that from Heritage. Nice and decisive.
Got in there and taking that ground.
at the minute is over halfway through the round you know we haven't really had
much of an impact on the Virtus.pro players. They've taken what's been
given to them, they haven't really forced them away too much so that's going to be
the next question. How do they deal with VIP, Pasha in particular? I think the Pasha's actually just
going to rotate around to get in the way of any plan going down here exactly that
with seeing Pasha's dropping down place in the shield. Rory manages to get one, put the
electricity on, that's going to force the shield break if they do come in and now
So, kill start, betrayal, and Pasha finally gets himself a little bit more active now that he's on the defence.
Four versus three, time ticking down, not looking good for H6.
This is going to be really aggressive on sports here, watch EMP out, it ain't that scary.
Great little bit of play, but they still lose out on the players.
There's always a trade, there's always someone stuck nearby to ensure that Verda's pro came out on top.
Lolo in the one versus three, it looks like BP going up to a five and two,
you. You know, I'm not going to
be able to do unless we can see
some magic in these last 30. Yeah,
imagine so that was all part of
the plan there as well. The way
that the clash put themselves in
that position. You know, they
was asking his team there. Do I
stay or do I go and they're
saying if the Blitz comes in,
maybe we lose you, but we get
the Blitz. It's a trade that
they're happy to take. And so
the decision is made that they
course stays in there. And as
you say, quite rightly, it's
just bait for that Blitz to
You know absolute best case scenario they keep him alive, but it doesn't really matter at that point
It comes down to a 3v1 furtive's pro beautiful defense heretics suffering from just not bringing the right tools for the job, I think
But Tim if he goes there will be trouble
if he stays
It could be
I'm going to reference that's my boy
We were talking about staying on going. That is excellent.
Oh, but yeah, look, it was a good response.
Heretics have been a defining answer to it with the EMP and using the blitz to go aggressive.
I like that. However, as we said, it was all about the fate.
They forced them on the clutch.
Suddenly, there's two kills coming off towards the side there, and the others there said,
like, oh, so I left one BX while I tried to help you get rid of the clutch,
but you fell for the fate and paid the price.
Really well played by Birderspro, constantly drawing heretics in.
I guarantee you they're trying to be making that mistake again,
and I think that's probably why we're seeing a Nomad coming along here.
Good luck, An Nomad. Good luck to have it locked down the flanks.
The Nomad, I'd expect, is somewhat targeted in towards the clash.
Just bash him around a little bit, remove that shield away,
and hopefully give them a bit of a freebie.
Nomad and six nades, that's your answer for the clash.
You know, this is exactly what I pointed out.
It is a big out, you know, and that's exactly what I pointed out.
It was missing last time. There was no nades.
There was, you know, nothing like an air jam, nothing like a Carly even.
you know nothing that could deal with that shield and we saw them pay the price for it ultimately
the clash proven a real magnet there at the end of the round to help them get it done. We do see the
airjabs all thrown out though so it's not going to be the case that they are intended for the
clash but it is going to be the case surely that those six nades are but also you've got these
army onside so there's going to be some concern over keeper barricades as well need to be very
very careful here because
a couple of nades in at Keeper
Barricades, two, maybe three
loser player along the way, and
all of a sudden you've got no
nades left, so need to be very,
very careful with that utility to
heritage.
In this case, try to waste his
recline in the gallery here,
there's a straight, the attacker
is giving him a lot of stuff to
work their way through.
He's got to be the one taking
getting up in the face of enemy players.
I want to see a similar sort of thing out of Dora.
But he has got a respect in a quote,
who of course is going to be a massive pain
in the backside of the console.
Is that coming on through with the shield break endlessly?
You don't get a chance to really do anything.
So you have to be really careful
about where you're approaching from.
And player on those days,
if you've got him about pocket, sure enough, here he goes.
Tha is going to fall down in his army, taking offline.
He's come towards 35 seconds or so.
Virtus Pro wants to again start to dart away.
Flash on keeping an eye on, yes,
it's on lower white stairs,
it can very, very quickly be on the second floor,
But, is he fancing himself a jump out? No, they're going to push and go aggressive.
This is very interesting.
Tim Ryerson's on floor, they want to quiet everything here, but Ryerson's there ready and waiting.
A train to be secured. They really want this top four taken back from the other side.
Yeah, Ratchet really could have done with winning that.
Nid's come running on in, Kosh has been dealt with.
Tiff and Nid's, as I suggested, they might need two-two versus two.
Dan, half-hull for the Fuser.
35 seconds, the Fuser now collected.
However, heretics are not in as good a position as they were previously.
They had a couple stacked up on snow door.
They were ready to go in and start thinking about putting a plant down.
Now they're going to have to start again.
They don't check their corners.
There's the drop straight in front.
Erotic, the easiest two pieces ever going to pick up six to and heretics have just thrown away.
What was a winnable situation?
I think in part caused by the chaos that came out of Berners-Prolet.
When I saw three barreling at white, I was like, why?
But I think what happened was they saw the diffuser go down inside a cocktail,
realised the clash was very isolated around Bar's storage and thought, you know what,
if we all push upstairs now and reclaim that top floor,
they haven't got a diffuser, they need to re-clear top floor, they can have site,
which they don't care.
But it was good use of nades coming out from heretics to punish the clash,
as we said that's why they brought along six.
But unfortunately that is just like a replay of White stairs back in the first half.
Two or three players all barrowing down the same avenue
and just giving away kills to Free to Rorick, who is having a wonderful game.
I am so glad that he is in my fantasy team.
and he's certainly flying.
At the minute 13 and 3 dominating this matchup and it could be the final round for him to dominate as well.
6-2 now, Heretics need 4 in a row and nothing really suggests to me that they are on the verge of doing so.
They got round 5, round 6 when they were on the defence but haven't shown us anything on the attack as of yet.
Can they come through and find some answers?
the last round. It was not a
guarantee, but it was winnable.
But like you said, there's just
getting caught up their heads in
his fingers part of the chaos
that first appropriated and they
dropped into the waiting arms of
Rorick, not just one, not just
two, but that's not also for the
first time today that they've done
that. Just going one after
another over the edge. To their
to be the last round. Round
nine 62 versus pro. We are
attacking this time on to
fireplace and mining. If
you don't succeed him. Try
try again. That kind of feels
like the mantra of her six
and sending players to their
death. I'm at the time. They
need to really get themselves
moving here in this round. It's
a four round deficit. It's
already about point. You can
feel very much the voters
That's not quite what Sara was going for.
Don't show, or anything else.
By the way, we're going on, no.
No drone.
Dan gets a freebie.
When he converts for a second, he may well do.
No, Dora converts.
He's been one of the best players so far for heretics in this game.
Back from the 3K we saw in the first round that didn't ultimately amount to anything,
but he has consistently given them fights and chances throughout these rounds.
Now they're running down, trying to hunt on towards Skies, but Dora, he hits the deck.
Now on the spin of Skies, it's all too easy to miss.
More 1v1s being in this round.
Dora is going to be the first to get the ball.
Dora is going to be the first to get the ball.
in this game. Back from the 3K we saw in the first round that didn't ultimately amount to anything
but he has consistently given them fighting chances throughout these rounds. Now they're
running down trying to hunt on towards Skye's but Dora, he hits the deck. Now on the spin
Skye's, it's all too easy to miss. More 1v1s being given to players on the side of Birders Pro
that will get 4 vs 3 years of lead for those games so I'll pick back up but it's looking pretty nasty.
Yes Skye's was able because of the kill that he got on the gridlock at top ready was able to go
back knowing they did down the blitz they were effectively in a 4v2 he can commit to that instead
I'm just going to play my life I'm going to keep fighting them here because even if they do collect
the blitz even if they do get the kill on to me we're still in a 3v3 and I'm wasting another 30
seconds I think there's a little bit of a mistro coming there as well not the end of the world
because it is standard towards sight so it's not like missing somebody out on the roam but still
could be problematic but yes guys has just played that perfectly he could over commit there you know
It didn't really matter and he did more damage by doing so if the putters goes in the window here could be in real trouble
You can see such low health same for aquee as well on the yink
They are aware of one in towards the right long smoke toss goes in not sure they're gonna want to follow this just yet
Try to fake movements right hope players step into their angles to get killed
I was thinking about one of our earlier games, but didn't move at first has another smoke
you can make use of here. Yet nothing to find, not as good a fall down. Everyone's low HP except for
Nekro here, he could get too close, better work. This impact could also be very deadly from Rorik.
They're just waiting for the diffuser to start going on down, but daring not to place it.
This is inside, but I don't think Doron knows. Nekro's just going to drop away and just try
and increase that distance. You know if you're being chased by that shield, the last thing you
want to do is give him an opportunity to use that flash. Nekro manages to find his man on the
long range hits him with the Reaper 2 versus 1, 4 seconds left to go, they are surviving,
they are killing, they find the last man and Virtus.pro find another 3 points in the Anel.
Yeah definitely, it was a big ask when they came into the second, you know, trying to fight back
from that kind of distance and Virtus.pro deserve everything they've got there. They played really.
Like I think an argument could be made to said Erotix. You know if they had another couple
around a seven four or something would have been there but Virtus.pro did enough to win that.
They did and also showing a guess we got towards the end of it like Leo was talking about. Are
they two relying on shields? They did step away from playing the fuse and they had the option to
and it did start to bite the most they've gotten through. They've relied on individuals in moments
like these on your screen now to carry them through what could have been a couple of sticky
rounds, but at the end of the day, no one really cares how you get to win, what matters most is those three points, they are clear. They have got 15 points in that
edge with every single game in regulation, Dominic.
And you just don't see it stopping anytime soon, do you, realistically? You know that they are just going to continue doing this, team after team after team. And really, I think the best thought that EML have got, if they want
into any of those things to beat versus pro, it's really going to be in the Dexter threes.
Maybe things change, but I doubt it to be honest. I've just looked believable.
We will see, won't we? Well, our Dexter's the best and invited us quick to them now,
of course, the show and see things out. Thank you very much, guys. Yeah, unheard of.
15 points. Flawless, four for this row. And again, what a statement, a 7-2 against heretics.
It really could have been close, but even like that last round as well, when they're looking
down and out in certain ways, they still manage to snag that round away.
And that one round, if Skies goes down the Red Surge, instead of feeling like fuel-based
confidence and feeling like, you know what, I'm going to go back into Vienna and take
another gunfight against that, but it's honestly like, even if it goes down, like it's locked
in, what a game by Rorik by the way, like crazy, but like, honestly, best cookie of
EML, like it's not even close.
Fully agreed.
Fully agreed.
And I think best team would be MLB, that's undisputed right now, you know, 15 points.
every single win full regulation. They don't even look being close to being beaten and this
is when other teams in and around them are having wobbles, you know, G2 went overtime
against two teams you wouldn't expect did get the wins in the end. But then look at
team twisty minds losing today. Look at Falcons, how they've had some of their struggles. All
the other teams that went to solid city majors have had some kind of wobble in the stage,
but that's probably not. They've seemingly got everything, the attacks behind the shields.
Yeah, maybe she'll cut maybe not but then they've got solid defenses. They've got the clutch ability
They've got I really cannot explain just how this team seemingly has an answer for everything right?
Well, there's one person standing by who's probably heard you sing their phrases
We have Roark on the line to ask a few questions. Look at that smile on the work space as well very deserved work congrats 15 points
You just been called so far the rookie of the stage. You're an amazing game. How are you feeling?
I don't know, feeling great, maybe, I think I knew from the morning that I would play
good today because I didn't touch the game before the match at all, is that the warm-up
routine?
Yes, I think it's the warm-up routine, and always you should do it.
What do you do for the warm-up routine?
What did you do today, then, Marek, that made you difference?
I will tell you, Keras Legion, the shooting range, 3 arcades, and that's all.
Okay, nice.
So you did touch the game but in a different way you didn't play ranked is what you're saying.
Yes, yes.
That's the biggest mistake guys, I had a game before as a match.
Yeah, otherwise you're gonna play ranked and then you're gonna get frustrated and then you're not in the right mental state.
I see, I see, I see.
Roryke, I just wanna touch up on one key thing because we joke with Naeko that you guys are the biggest Hitch-Shield crutch ever
because every single time he's so good with the shield and then we were waiting till eventually all three shields are banned
our band, and then you had to choose between your shield and play attacks with no shields,
and it didn't go so well, so two attacks lost, and then one won without the shields.
How do you think that is a crutch? Do you think that is due to something else?
I just think we just didn't play well without the shield, because we had the plants on this
game, and my personally I remember this round when they took Cocktail's side, top floor,
and I died from a pixel guy, I think I lost this round solo by picking him, so I don't
think us not having shield is a problem and it costs us to lose round, I don't think so.
I would say guys, if you play Griming and some really strong operators like this, you
should win rounds without shields, on some maps.
Of course on some portals for example or consulate it's kind of hard to play without
But people just need to get used to play without it.
Rory, your team is the best attacking team in the ML right now.
So you was going on to cafe today that's maybe traditionally more defender sided.
Going back years, but it's leading more attacker sided.
Which side does your team actually prefer?
Because you seem to be dominant on both attack and defense right now.
I would rather like to play an attack on a cafe.
Really?
Yes, but it depends on people who you play against.
For example, G2 I think I would not like to play attacks, guys.
I will say honestly.
So, you know, when you're going up today and you're seeing a cafe coming up,
you're just like, we want to play an attack against them.
I just know that attack is fine to play,
because you have a lot of ways how to play it.
And it can be one guy rappeling with no cover, but others will push at the same time.
So if two people make an announcement on the first floor, you push the side,
and you push the top floor, you take space at the same time, so it's good.
I have one more question before we let you go.
Because it's a busy week and it's super weak.
What was the preparation for you guys like coming into this week,
knowing that you have so many games back to back to back?
I mean, we tried to play as much scrims as we can, but
you know, defaulting people cancelling scrims.
So we prepared in rank it with our team, like Ilhan and Chris were playing with French stocks,
me, Dan, Pasha were playing with Russians, so that's how guys we prepared for the Super League.
Alamo was saying that you're the only team that takes scrims seriously, would you agree with that assessment?
Yeah, I mean for now I would say some teams started playing really good with scrims, not trolling.
But us, we always play serious, like we play in the fishes.
I think that also shows why you are the only unbeaten team so far and flawless so far in
stage one. Once again, massive congratulations with that and best of luck with the rest of
the super week. Good evening, good night guys. Good night.
Good night. What is this, what is this crim culture that we're hearing about? What is
this? Is this why we're not winning majors or SIS? It does rear us, head over down again.
It's almost cyclical is that the teams troll, then they'll sort it all back out and then
they troll kind of cool. So what you're saying is we need to wait
like one, maybe two months and then we'll win an event again.
That's it, you all.
Yeah, I will say on a serious note,
I have heard some horror stories about some of the ML teams
in recent history, like not tree and scrims good,
you know, on defense, just all bringing a C4
and just team furniture and whatnot.
So yeah, that's rough.
Tree and scrims better.
We'll do well.
We'll win tournaments if we do that.
Especially thinking of how inconsistent
most of the teams in the MLs are in.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
Maybe.
I think we can have a look at our results because we had some very dominant results today as well quite as some unexpected ones as well
I mean sure G2 taking on Rebels
I think that was in the books today, but a 7-0 and then secrets with a big upset over twist of minds
Yeah, their first points, but in general if this is how we're gonna treat our super we've a different dominant gains
I mean what else is there to expect? There was two big quote-unquote upsets
I would say GKB and shifters especially that dominantly and again that we expect this to be a lot closer
given how those two teams started in the table, and of course Secret being
Twisted Minds, massive, massive upset, sir.
Yeah, and I think clearly the gap between VP, G2 Falcons, and the rest of the
league, still very much there. Twisted Minds, they were supposed to be that team
that was supposed to be consistent. Are we starting to see the crack here yet?
We'll see. I think we need to wait till the end of Super Week.
Yeah, we mentioned earlier as well in regards to the standings. I hope we get
to see those very soon as well, because you mentioned the big jump bot that
Wow, look at that, GK did. Wow, look at that, their fifth.
All of a sudden, they find themselves in play of contention.
Just by that one win that they got today as well.
So glad to see everybody getting points as well.
But even for G2, 13 points solid in second spot so far.
I mean, that also helps you going into playoffs being first or second.
Yeah, I'm in five win streak for both teams.
I think looking at VP and G2, clearly there is a huge gap.
Realistically for Falcons, it's also that they played against some of the best teams in EML.
Yeah.
I think we're gonna see these teams confirm they're blocking their spots for playoffs throughout super week
Yeah, realistically what I want to see is the like top four top five and top six
That's what I want to see the battle here when you see like from geeky all the way down to secrets one single regulation
We can change everything. Yeah. Yeah, it really can and everybody's in there now
I came into space Friday thinking maybe secret wouldn't be in that but then they've really
really gone and shown that today. They put one tomorrow, suddenly the right back in contention.
Like you say, it's six, the cutoff is six. That is all going to change tomorrow. There's a massive
set of fictions coming up, you know, everything can change and that's the beauty of it.
I want you to focus your attention on two matches here. The last one, given how important that
one's going to be with the points, sure, six points in that one. But also for the third match
of the day, I mean, hey, we're getting a rematch of that crazy match of Salt Lake City. Whatever
the hell went down there, we're going to have it once again here tomorrow. And again, big rematch
Like big, you know, lot of pride on the line G2 looking to scale that top four top two top one whatever in terms of the scoreline
Twisted mind that would be you know should that game go wrong
We'll be free losses on the road and they probably found themselves out of the playoff positions
More than halfway into the stage, which you would be unheard of thinking even just a week ago
It's the worst moment for them to appear weak right losing today against secret then death to play G2 like
And all of that triggered by the first game where they've had to play with a sub and like it feels like they've not been the same since then
It's rough for those opponents for for tomorrow, but I guess it's very excited about the remainder of super week
Yes, there's still so much to play for before we get to that
There's APL tomorrow, of course, and then also I think you guys are doing a prep phase again today
Yeah, this time round what you're gonna be doing tomorrow with me. Oh, I have a little suspicion. Yes. Yeah, so if I
But I don't think we can talk about it because we've got stuff it will be very funny
We got separate messages from me Losh so 5 p.m. What? Yeah, he's been well
I had a suspicion based off a weird message. I got a cryptic
We're gonna need to defend something that we don't want to defend and I think
So maybe he gave him some ideas about yeah, so this is gonna be really good. I spilled some beans on Leo
This is how I lay I'll spill some beans on me. Absolutely. You're gonna be trash. You're gonna love it. Oh, dear
I know what it is. I think I know what it is.
Okay, well, I hope we get to find out.
But I'm really nervous now.
I imagine that I can't wait to find out what happens tomorrow at 5pm.
In the preface here together with Milos as well, I'm sure Lexing will be joining you guys too.
In fact, he's not the only NA guy that's joining you guys tomorrow because I won't be here.
I'm gone for the remainder of the super week. You guys will be joined by Jonah.
By Jonah, yes.
Jonah, what are you sure you're going to treat him like?
Oh yeah, it's going to be Jonah.
No bullying whatsoever, we're starting off very strong, just misnaming his family.
He was so welcoming when we joined his show.
I was telling him I would show him, we're calling him Joan.
Do not worry, do not tune in tomorrow exactly at pre-show time to figure out who is Joan
Han.
Just don't worry about it.
You guys are going to make tuna do the warm as well?
Oh, that would be funny.
But no one can do it as good as you, so that's the problem.
I feel like you should do the warmest clothes this show.
I don't think we will be doing
that, but what we will be doing
is closing out our show as we
set tomorrow. I'll be Jonah here
with the guys for the remainder
of the Super Week. Still two
more days to go full of EML
action. Great matchups as well
to make sure to tune in
starting tomorrow at 5 PM with
the prep phase as we set and
then the first game for the
email Super Week at 6 PM. It was
a great pleasure to have you
here with us today. We hope you
have a great rest of your night
and we'd like to see you again
tomorrow. Thank you so much.
Rest all of your night and we'd like to see you again tomorrow.
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