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I've had a bit of an expectation, I think, coming into stage one with where
Chiefs were into players that they've run.
It's all like sitting in the prospect of two slots within the region.
But I don't even think we could have predicted how much carnage that we've seen
so far this stage in Oceania.
No, absolutely.
It has been kind of all over the place.
And as it stands, we only have two teams confirmed four finals, one team
far from making the top four.
But in terms of positioning, seeding and, of course, who it makes through
to the top forwards very much up the near and the mid table is incredibly compact so yeah it's been
incredibly entertaining so far and we've certainly seen our fair share of unexpected results tonight
may produce more. Yeah I think we've got ourselves what's been a really good stage I'm hoping that
it will continue I hope we don't get to a point where we go into the last two play days now and it
all sort of goes to script I kind of want to keep things off script of course yesterday's games as
I imagine we're full of absolutely good matches in this game, so we're on our way to the next two.
Certainly in our last game of the night, and what we got is one from the first three games,
even if they were one sided does work.
But in some ways, man on the toe, establishing themselves as the top team in the region,
whatever with the big bounce back game, taking down the newly labeled group regions in Shake Enemy,
and Barbed Royce, I think that was the one game for me that really didn't want to log in at Arcade,
of course, a team that can't make finals, Barbed Royce is too good for them,
but the first two games were good and for the last game,
certainly not disappointed.
Yeah, absolutely.
They all culminated into that big duel at the end of the day
and the Chiefs did the job.
A 7-5 victory, all three points,
and denying an EP of overtime.
It was a great effort from them, EP.
Unfortunately, ran out of answers
at the course of that best of one,
and that rivalry has sort of been reignited
as we look across at the standings.
Man LFO have cemented themselves,
at least for now, as top dog.
They have the tiebreaker against Cheese with a plus 14 round differential Cheese trailing at plus 12
As I mentioned before only two teams are confirmed for finals being first and second respectively and
RK the only team that can no longer make the top four six targets still an outside chance
They have an important match tonight and the rest of the mid table is still very much fighting for their spot in the finals as well
Yeah, I mean naturally as you get there in the last one two potentially three as we saw yesterday play days
you get to these sort of matches that just have pretty big repercussions. A lot of them,
even for certain teams, are simple. You just can't lose anymore. We'll go to today's schedule.
And again, a lot of that same storyline continues on in terms of what really teams kind of need
from these games today and really the results that are required. It's pretty simple for the most
part in terms of the teams that are not inside of the top four at the moment. Most of them pretty
much just need to win. You think about this first game of the night rival. You want to make top four
you've got to win this game. Chiefs spent a lot of throw battle for top spot. So that's a big game in itself. And
surprisingly, Enterprise find themselves in a dogfight against Fireboyz, where if they were to drop this game against B.B.,
they actually find themselves at the turn of missing top four all together.
Yeah, which is pretty remarkable to say, and even the last matchup of the night still has implications. Sure.
Arcade are no longer eligible to make the top four. They can't make up the deficit.
the back of a pre shop loss in
somewhat respects last night.
They'll be looking to rebound
and keep themselves in the fight
for the top four.
Of course, for show, category
loss that I will completely knock
them out. So they've got the
must win against arcade as well.
Every single one of these games
that we have tonight very much
featuring one of those kind of
storylines in relation to finals.
The beauty of eight teams only
top four progressing as we go to
our first match of the basics
the team that unfortunately haven't quite been able to get themselves into a position where they can actually qualify it with two to play days to go. They're done. They can only gatekeep now, essentially. And certainly in this particular match, they're the ones that can actually stop rival from getting into the top four.
As we know, of course, if rival lose, they're out. So the six targets in some ways, that's what they've got to play for to see if they can also tonight rival the ability to play finals.
yeah I mean interestingly a line isn't through their name on Wikipedia and I
normally trust their their judgments I think there actually is a path forward
but it is like extremely low percent again it's gonna be a line I'm getting
six points across the next couple of playdays and a lot of results to go against them
or four that I suppose are important goals so it's been rough stage for them
they haven't really probably performed at a level that is deserving of a top four
finish they've been okay in patches but they haven't been able to necessarily
carry that momentum and that form forward and replicate that on a playday-to-playday basis.
They've obviously had a little bit of instability, I suppose, with the roster changes they've made.
It doesn't sound like they're committing a ton of time in scrims, etc. as well,
so they've kind of landed themselves probably where they should be.
So I think there's been some good moments for individuals on this team, and I'm excited to
see the likes of Sword, etc. where they can go from here as well.
Yeah, it's actually a good point that you brought up there regarding their ability to make finals.
I think that you're right usually the repeat is actually got a pretty good handle on those things in terms of crossing teams
Yeah, a very quick glimpse at it though is very much that enterprise would have to get zero points from the remaining two games
Six targets would have to win this game against rival and then win their game against
Chicademy and hope that other results probably go their way to help out too. So I mean that again
It's that zero point one percent likelihood. I
There is a chance. I mean the way that EP going I do think that they should be able to bounce back
even if they have not quite been the greatest this stage from what we've seen as in previously you would imagine
I'll pick up at least one point and that will look out six targets
Their opponents are of course for rival esports path forward a little bit more simple in terms of win and you're in
They of course need to win this game against six targets
They then play barbie boys next week. That was the one I was kind of talking about yesterday
Gus is the game I think on play day seven that will determine that fourth spot and
We're rival we spoke to Chef Chef yesterday and it's just all about continuing to deal with the issues that have made the team in terms of roster
allocation and just trying to continue to prove dead by day
Yeah, that's exactly right
I mean it's fairly impressive to be fair that this team finds themselves in a potential finals position given they had that
Really really last minute roster change with Killerman out a cock in that
I'm sure had a ripple effect in terms of how they wish to sort of play the game how they approach it how comfortable
they are inside of the server and I think we've seen the ups and downs on that over the course of the stage
But they seem to have fired up at the right moment and if there's any time to peek it is over the last couple of play days
We break that package from in their match yesterday, which again features some pretty good moments across the board
This was pitched as being a very competitive matchup if not in favor of strike at me
Don't forget strike how many pulled off back-to-back upsets against both chiefs and EP
So for rival to jump in, play more structured maps like Club of Deconator of 7-1 will give them a lot of confidence that on
I think on this style of map specifically they can really thrive and I think then as we turn to the map Vito discussion for this particular map
I wonder if their opponent's star is six targets are going to afford them that or if they're going to try and take those
Structured maps out the pool and force something out
akin to like a shallay or a border for instance
obviously rival is welcoming to this game like many teams thrive in their
respective matches knowing you know what's at stake and what's on the line
at least you would kind of hope so in some ways to have been plays in the
past that always regarded as to ignoring repercussions and scoreboards and things
like that and just going in and playing blind and that's fine but you do have to
know what's at stake and I think rival should very much be aware of that we
saw when it was last I returned a little bit to form certainly one of the
He's long past his absolute prime, think back to his absolute prime when he was far more of a fragger within the region.
It lost down very much hard support, but it did show glinces and I think for rival, if they are to make finals and perform in finals, they probably do need to get the most out of the Wettables.
We'll go to the map Vito for this particular series.
Yeah, again eager to see how this is directed and I think the onus is very much going to be on six targets to find a map
That's comfortable for them and try to eliminate something that's
May persuade their parents. Okay, so that
Interestingly, they like to actually ban out the border last
I thought that maybe they would try and squeeze that or again the shallow but that was previously already banned by rivals
We had a lives which ends up being somewhat of a middle ground
Probably does lean a little more towards structure again
Operator bands are highly influential on this map. So we'll see how that looks to shape it up
Could open digs up a little bit more for the attack or could lead to
More total that distracts from the fence where it's gonna be a lot more trade heavy. So yeah, can't you see how this does play out?
I don't know if it hugely favours one team or the other
But my gut instinct is that rival should perform outside
Well, neither of these two teams have won a single game on this map
But since the start of the year zero two record for six targets zero one record for rival
that was a week ago as well in their loss to Manila first so a chance to have another go at Nine Haven lives.
Well big game we're not going to be waiting around much longer. Right now six targets both still fighting
to get into final six targets have got the far more difficult path ahead. Obviously they must win
and a whole bunch of other results have to go their way. It's a long shot zero point one percent but
hey if there's a chance well there's a chance that you want to fight for a rival their chance is far
more higher, provided they can get all three points from this match.
Yeah, absolutely. Big game for both Rostas and Rival, I'm sure, will now sense that they have a real shot at the top four,
and pressure is certainly going to be more so on them in this matchup, given some of the pedigree on this team.
And despite some of the difficulties that they have encountered over the last few weeks, there still is a weight of expectation for this team to do well,
minimum when we look towards that final play date to still be competing for a
top four finish. And as we jump into the up-band phase, the clarity rival's starting
out on defense. We'll see what the band's up shaping up to be if it's
clay-banded and then something like an A-stherm or double-hard bridge or some
description. And it's the ying in the stirred banded to make it onto the bench
as well. And so no curveballs thrown in the band phase.
Looking back to last night, of course, not too long ago, but far better results for rival
7-1 over Shaq Academy was the big one against the team in good form. And six targets got
decimated by Ben Elifo. You think back to that particular game, guys. And it was on
this very map, of course, and they won the first two rounds defensively, top floor and
basement thought okay we might be on it and then no we went off on and it was
seven straight to me on my phone. I think if six targets can you know sort of play
to a similar level in those first two rounds more consistently in this
match then and they might be afforded more opportunities to do so considering
Manila folk clearly having a very good stage where I was not quite on that same
level but they should be good opportunities for them and they'll
they'll naturally get a chance to steal a couple of attacking rounds in the first
first half, less pressure to have to actually win these defensive rounds. That's going to
be more so on rivals to make sure they secure a strong first half score line. Again, a loss
for rival. They're out of finals. A loss for six targets. They are 100% locked out of finals.
if their path forward is at 0.1%
so the is army mirror up and that should equate to top four in this first half
even if and when one of them get taken out is being incredibly strong for the
defense rifle will absolutely be wanting to drop their eyes cross the
T is on this side, it should be theirs for the taking.
Close to try and play disrupt here.
Playing in the work.
Or, shots fired.
And whilst the first couple of shots did land,
Wettable survived, the second wave did miss.
And so a little unfortunate there,
6-T at the start of the round.
I mean, one thing with Wettable's,
I've noticed over his career,
when he's, when he has either a good round,
or he has a good match, or he's in a bit of form,
he does kind of get a little bit over eager at times.
I think he's just got to find that balance
between feeling aggressive and definitely feeling that form
and also then therefore not overdoing it.
Lord into IT with a bit of help from Orion.
So far so good for six targets,
Rockless Control, IT established as well.
Ryan's actually going to irritate everyone blue.
It is Chef Jeff that got the open kill onto Karma,
but Kama also got him back immediately, so we took that one up as a draw, one for one.
It does open up this side a little bit more, one less position being held by the defence.
This team can now put up this reinforced wall and rafters.
Right, so I know a lot of pressure.
Top blue, forced back by the shield, it's advantageous to target,
so only the ones who make left with the guys to play off, but it may not matter at this point.
Razor continues to try and hold firm trying to get in the face of the shield and but isolate the sword and once you're getting crunched
Well Lane couldn't hit the shot with the guys had the opportunity needed to against a razor that would occur out of the two on one now
It's King and finds himself as the solo
Kid ahead of you here blue is not an easy pathway forward
Certainly not when you mean watch where the balls did get the well did not get the kill
But his teammates that they got the trade rival will get the opening round a
Little scrappy on the top floor of lamps. It can happen as long as you get the round win. That's all that matters
Yeah, a little bit of a capitulation there from six targets. They got decent value from the glass
They got that warehouse side control the one team was activated over towards top aqua
But then a pretty opportunistic flank saw him exposed
Razor did a really good job to contain himself and not give away life for free earlier in the game, so it allowed then Wettables to go for that flank.
And just like being a little unlucky there, I don't quite know how he didn't get that kill, did a ton of damage and it was a free trade for a Razor.
So credit to Rival and withstanding the pressure there in the first round.
You probably expected to be again a little more comfortable on that side with those bans in play and the Azami noir available, but nonetheless,
around win is around win, down to basement for two.
I'll start for a razor to pick up the four kills.
For me rivals the kind of team, if they can continue to build that form going into finals,
Now they can be a threat, there's good quality on this roster.
I don't think any team that makes top 4 this stage is going to be limping in.
So far what we've seen from Man on the Fo, Chiefs in a really good form.
Two players to go, last two spots up for grabs and Chef Jeff and Co, they want one of those
spots.
His sword, not a great start, had a rough night last night.
Had a decent start to his career here in tier one.
Good couple of play days ago, but I think as the stage has progressed he's finding it
more and more difficult to really get involved.
You lose the doccabee, you lose a lot of pressure, rival get the extra play out, they can far
or comfortably sit back towards the site later in the round.
location is clear. Looks like their security's up.
It's been horizontal pressure then to be applied to kitsch side.
Proxy can look to contest initially here vending and then has a free rotate back down below.
From the tank cargo side.
It's able to chip away at the drone economy for now and I doubt he'll be looking to take too much of a risk here.
Given the defense has a clearer fan engine you'll see that rotate back down now.
Chef Jeff looking to now fill in the back line a little bit and maybe just make the
re-entry of the words games a little more compromised.
The Rhyangos chasing down below.
So, Wettable's also basement, so this could be a trap from Rival.
Ryan's stuck in the corner, impact from Proxy.
He's got him.
He's got him.
He's got him.
He's got him.
He's got him.
Onto Orion pistol out, got King to half health and gets the kill as well. King technically kills himself
Rapoxy had him
Oh, it's Kali gets swung at the window by Chef Chef. That's his second in this round alone when it bulls
Seeks out finds Lane, but he gets the kill. Did I ask the flawless, but rival are gonna get the round
So 30 seconds and Lane doesn't have the kit
He's got vert that he has to deal with a 2-2 split here for rival on camera as well.
Everything pointing to this being a rival round, we're in a 2-0 start and in these two
rounds as well, it's been really dominant from the defense and why not Chefy Jaffee
to finish it off as he started it in this round. Three from him, two for rival. Now so far so good,
getting the job done here on Labs. Yeah, I thought that there may have been a word of which rather
we're trying to spring a trap there and get wetables involved Exo aside, but ultimately just
wasn't needed. Six targets finding a challenging to get proper value there from the Monty over
towards Exo. Probably a lack of U2, a bit of coordination also. Like in the Monty had a good
read for a long amount of time and just really dare to support.
And it's cheeky from Chef Jeff as we have a look back at the actual kill of the round
and then Orion just, it's isolated, a missed time there with King, and then gets caught
util in hand.
A little sloppy there from 6 targets in that round, but to the credit of viable they've
done a commendable job there, and that defense certainly tighter than back in round number
1.
A good test today here will be the tertiary and this may start to give an indication as
whether or not this will be implied or whether or not six targets do have some
competitiveness about them in this first half.
Well it's interesting because six targets were in the same position last night.
On the first two rounds against Manuel Lofo came here to the tertiary site and
didn't get any more rounds other than the two that they started with. Not
suggesting that's gonna happen with rival but if you're six targets you can sit
back as a team and think look what happened to us yesterday can we do the
second today this is where I can start this is where you can build the momentum
tertiary site labs this is the big one you lose this though and the pressure
mounts the rounds against you will mount pretty quickly
F Jeff has started hot though who opened a kill straight
He's also chef chef down below. Did he not hear Orion make his entry in through tank and he gets caught
That's another opening exchange with chef chef involved, but this time he's on the wrong side of it
We'll creep up over to what's cargo
Orion heard late there and a razor
But he's ready to pounce.
We'll see how Ravage try and fight their way back into this round.
It's a pretty active position, it's held from six targets at the moment, but karma!
It's caught outside Warehouse.
It's an Islamic conflict on the wall.
We're in proxy in the position now, we can chill a bit.
Call to go through, you can probably eat that.
Also has the space to enter it, then he'll elect to do that.
And Ryan's lurked in a position over towards vending so he's in a good luck spot for the horizontal
but
Very quickly this attack lacking at the moment
They've done it again proxy just gets another one boxes break just thinking well
What are they doing because there's just no extra pressure on him now? I could understand if there was
IT pressure on his position rafters
They just stand it's just too dense for standing outside breach
No follow-up on the top floor. It's just individual play from six targets that's costing them.
Just completely out of sync out of sorts. Orion has been the saviour of the race in this round.
He's open to kill and then the follow-up there onto proxy. Needs it all to do for Sword and King.
Still doable but it's going to take a mountain of an effort with 45 seconds remaining in the round
and then nice result from a razor put a damp nut in the round for six targets
i'm not too sure what to make of this round i don't even know if i want to say it was attempting
to be a top floor clear i mean two of the deaths were just that breach of warehouse
and a ryan that got the opening killed down in basement it was kind of all over the shop
yeah two very ill advised peaks outside warehouse ends up being a big determining factor in that
round there was a lack of pressure up above so peeking breach are always then exposed to
not only the horizontal but then the vertical element up above of rafters which we saw play
out on two occasions there from six targets so a little bit of a feed from them in the round
but the plaudits of course going to proxy in particular did a good job in withstanding the
limited pressure that came his way but still did a good job landed the shots required didn't put
a foot wrong and the rest of the teams they would play a supporting act up above
Early indications though in this matchup and I hate calling it early but it does feel like
this could be a big blowout rival quite dominant at the moment across the board.
It was a good start to the round from them but then both Karma and Lane caught out.
Now heroic effort from Apoog. I guess a patient effort from Apoog, maybe not a
rocket but he did a good job in Distant Shroom that that round was confirmed and no
sneak was allowed over towards that aquasite. Additional bands in play now, the mirror and
the glass, both operators which are particularly effective on this site so in some ways cancel
each other out. We'll see how six targets look to try and find opening because they
were heavily relying on that glass last time over towards Warehouse and with that now unavailable
does make me curious as to how they'll look to approach this site.
Well it just looks like so far at least three rounds into the kind of match where it's
pretty evident one team needs to win the other one probably feels like even if
they did win and the path forward to finals is so so slim that it just
probably doesn't matter
just look very cohesive on the defense arrival what they want to do when they
want to get aggressive what they want to swing what they want to hold they just
getting to play their game their style six targets just don't really look all
that in sync. Everyone's all around the map doing their own thing. You got to like the
change here on this top floor you would imagine you would hope. Say that it's a solo push
through Compton Lane for now. Nitrocell does not hit. That's what I'm talking about even
that there the risk that you can take by not having a second person sort of standing back
behind you that nitrocell if it gets thrown a little earlier could have connected no chance
of someone else shooting it out.
That lane does his job, gets out, scot-free.
Now some vaults being deployed, so Proxy's being flushed out of that warehouse position,
but not immediate follow-up, as I say that though, the vaulting from Karma and a rhyme
with a foothold on the Monty, Proxy just has to sit, has to wait.
Flames now alleviate so you can now think about re-aggressing and actually eats the
edge nicely though.
Those are the safe manner and has now allowed a razor to come alongside and help him out.
Nitro Sal's gonna get shot out.
There's still one more in the hands of Shaff Jaff over the wall, it's blue.
At least a little bit of boxes control has been established, somewhat.
Well, and Ryan just gets absolutely capped, but an angle found on him behind the shield.
Lane gets the open kill, it's a chef-chef. Chef-chef got him down to 1%,
and so therefore an easy kill for Proxy.
It acts as if the game's so far, Karma will fall.
Proxy's having a very good game, and he's controlling a very key part of this site.
A VNHG game for Rival, and the Montee's very low.
Now he's rotated over towards Blue,
and Keying wants to make his entry into this position.
And even though Orion is in sight, he definitely could not plant completely by himself, stuck
in the corner, and he knows that any kind of push forward, he could be susceptible.
Tries to fake out the plant, draw out some defenders.
He does succeed in that.
Drawing proxy away from watching that blue push from King.
30 seconds at some point though, King and Sword, you're going to have to make your move.
Help out your Monty.
As soon as King does that, whatever was ready for him, sword into IT, shot down by the pistol
of a razor, Wettables gets his second, it's four straight for Rival. Dominant and Rival
are fully in control of this matchup at the moment. It was a big investment for Mutil,
six targets over towards Gavraj and it was okay at the start. Cap offered value and Orion
did a good job in that round and the one tier to stay alive would be a wincon for the plant
late. The rest of the pieces around that though didn't quite land. And despite the defense
their rival not really having a great belt of denial you till towards the end
just positionally and with the advantage that they had that was still in a strong
spot ultimately but then to go on and deny the Monty and so that's four
rounds in a row and rival at the moment I'm sure will be feeling very very
comfy inside all at the server not too many causes for concern whereas for six
targets it's unfortunately been a a slow start for them and the next couple
of rounds are absolutely critical to keep their stage alive
of course rival play Barbeque's next week for their final game
Why did they go and win this which is looking on the more likely a side down that's still another must win
But in the event that they do win that particular game, it's a high likelihood that should get into the top four
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Need to be a little bit cautious of the way
Towards warehouses karma has been taken down. He'll get revived. He'll just be a long one hell
No idea though, when a player such as Karma playing as Ophio wants to be aggressive getting
gunfights, it's a lot harder to do that now.
Sword another fight, where's the outchef?
He's chef with the eight golden sword who has been such a promising up and comer so
far this stage, 0 and 5 to begin here tonight. Yeah and I had a rough one last night as well.
Just been one of those waits for sword unfortunately. Gotta live and you gotta learn from these sort of situations.
And again with this approach though, King is your only threat now on this first floor.
So he needs to win his battle but he may have a couple of battles that still need to be won.
Hey cock from control got the kill into a lion and even though King does get the trade you lose
You now only have two players below King on the first floor a big split on the attack
And no shield player to push in to site King's just gonna get aggressive into XO
They could get a pinch
Lane got his kill onto rettables proxy quickly able to stuff out that push from King
And this means now for rival you still got the ace of the sleeve. It's a razor on the solace in storage chef Jeff still up as well in warehouse
Well five nothing is inevitable
Unless rival absolutely throw this I don't think there's any feasible world in which Lane can win this on his own merit
He'd need a big throw to help you out
You got the soul was above first floor chef Jeff still in the first floor proxy still in sight and he's having a great game
All three of these players are proxy with seven chef Jeff with seven a razor six zero
And now I'm gonna give it a help from the chef Jeff tries he's having the boss cheese which is over to the SMG
I think they are just toying with a plane
And he's now dead at the hands of chef Jeff
There is the five straight rounds from rival to six targets even bother calling a time out. They may
Not because this point the damage is just already done
Yeah, I think we've pretty quickly entered waving the white flag territory here
Six targets
Need all six points in this playday and next and so essentially in the next round will
will all but officially knock them out and put a line through their name and I don't
even think that's going to be the biggest of their concerns given that this is likely
shaping up to be a 7-0 rival all over them at the moment. Maybe the tertiary will help
alleviate some pressure and they could snatch a round but rather play with so much freedom
at the moment. Everybody or at least the vast majority of the team dragging out so far in
highlighted before. Areza 6 and 0. It's been a great half of him so far and we'll see how
they look to top it here. Again, over to the tertiary site. So there may be a route forward
here for six targets to take ground.
Five seconds to go.
Flurging back!
The attackers are heading out to defuse a bomb.
Setting barricades!
Yeah look, I mean we've had a lot of one-sided results this stage.
Naturally when you have seven play days of Vesta 1s you're going to get quite a few.
What's interesting is across Oceania, we haven't had a single 7-0.
A lot of 7-1s, and certainly a lot of 7-2s, but no 7-2s, yeah.
It could be on the cards here.
Final round of the half.
For all of the troubles that have plagued Rival, if they can hit peak form,
heading into finals, make finals, this team could absolutely be a threat.
Oh, and a shot from King on the swing into Electrical.
That shot onto Eddables gets them the opening pick.
a chance. At least get a single round. His karma gets his second kill. Shoulda be a third,
not quiet. The fire extinguisher not helping. It certainly helped out for Chef Jeff. He
goes to nine kills in six rounds. He's rival alive. He did lose a razor. That was his first
death. ACOG. Shucked down onto King. Is he aware that a rhinoceros looked into command
It seems like he is and he does connect the headshot as well.
They do lose proxy so the only momentarily had the advantage.
Sword picks up his first kill.
And so Acog and Chef-Chef actually now double stacked together.
Sword and Lane don't have kit.
And Sword instantly shoved down by Acog.
It's been a quiet game from Acog, because he only had the one kill now.
He's got four, but talk about impact in the sixth round.
Yeah, no diffuser here for lane and so rival with control above in a good position yellow
pings sure that will aid lane in the clutch attempt, but it's still very low percentage
from here.
Vault cams also up for rival lane forced to go blue side here and we'll see if he can
pull off the clutch.
A little bit of sound masking as he makes his way at blue, but Acoz coming down over
and playing that deployable shield that's got a two man swing.
A-Cog could just save the shotgun, wait for lane to push up, get Chef Jeff to swing with him.
It's not mine.
Does trigger, but doesn't fall side of the A-Cog with Chef Jeff out.
A-Cog gets the 4k and it's 6 straight for Rival. This one's done.
Yeah, well in some ways I was gonna hope you know we would just go straight to the end
of this game.
Maybe six targets would do us the saving Gracie because and wave that white flag like
you mentioned but also curious to see if we do get the seven zero and to be fair it's
actually not an easy seven zero to get now for rival it'll be top floor labs that they'll
have to attack into. They're very, very, very long time since I've seen a six-hour
comeback in the APL region. They are excruciatingly rare.
Yeah, very much feels like a formality from this point. I really didn't expect this to
be such a lopsided match. It may officially go down as the most lopsided of the stage
with it potentially being the first 7-0, but even just Skull on the side, which is the vibe inside of the server and how they've sort of transpired and just been completely dominant.
Even in the very small instances where 6-T would look like maybe they'd have an in or maybe be out of firing condition, somebody from Rivalz just stepped up and said, nope, I want to go play ranked early, so.
But a good day from them
probably please
They needed this kind of result and yeah that
storyline to
The other factor to consider as well is
rival have the weakest
Brown differential
Compared to the two teams of bottom so EP a plus 12 Bobby boys a plus seven rival are actually negative at minus two
Until a big win here today. We put them up to a plus five
And then if EP or barbed ways have a rough day, or if there's a world in which there is a tiebreaker
and the first tiebreaker being round if, maybe that could also be influential, so
I think Rival will be doubly pleased that they have been able to at least so far be very very dominant
and that will support them on the scoreboard.
4 out of 6 rounds in the first half had a multi-kill for Rival, none from 6 targets, they didn't get the plant down once
did split the opening kills three to three
karma one on this point on drone anyway
obviously six targets will play this out and there's always a fair chance they
can stream together a couple of rounds in a row certainly at least maybe the
first two not gonna say that seven zero is again likely despite the six
There's a good chance six targets will win at least this round and
Good chance they could win the second
Treasury will be their issue and the fact that I have to win six straight is the
wider issue chef chef lurking below on the day most arrays it took a big chunk of damage from a
Nitrocell over Ryan
Oh
Double down from lame though to push through that was actually really smart
Jeff I found a kill from vending onto sword who's now one and seven. Oh
Good catch
My chef from below every now clear electrical the path forward towards the side traded though from keying up above shotgun up close electrical
1v2 no one really close to him they're actually pushing IT side and there's a
minute and 20 seconds on the clock Wettables and Acold with a chance for
the 7-0 at Acold coming for the plant inside a command trying to force out
King does have gas waves available they have to ping information Wettables to
try and end this one didn't connect with the shots flash onto King's position
his full white rival not swinging off of that there are two more flashes
available. He still has a gas
spade and it's seven nothing.
Not much more needs to be said.
A demolition job. The most one
side match of the stage.
Rifle has started to heat up
before finals. And while they'll
be very happy with this result,
they're not celebrating too much.
They've got a big game next week.
Still need a win to get in.
Yeah, absolutely. They put the
best foot forward and assuming
They go into that next week, into that next match against Barley, both give it their all and kind of see what happens.
I don't think they'll leave this stage with too much regret.
It's been a nice salvage story for them so far after a very slow and Timorchima start to the stage,
but it feels like they're peeking at the right moment towards the end of this group stage.
And they were just completely clinical today.
Very, very few mistakes made and they were able to set the 10-12 early and just ride that over the course of the full seven rounds.
Yeah, difficult one to kind of, I guess, break down in a sense, where I thought I'd really
ties, make pretty much no real errors in the state, take good shots, take as much as a
team, with the coordinator that's starting defense, Lyons is going to make the win itself
to you being able to do well, but it's not always a given.
And yeah, again, this one, and I said to you during the hard time, we're also, this could
have easily been just an email.
Yeah, this is incredible. It's unfortunate for six targets. The way that their stage is kind of unraveled and
You know, they kind of had the toughest start out of ever. I'm playing EP. I'm playing at one
But they're winning against arcade then had to play cheese
That makes it a little bit difficult to really get a bit of that form momentum because it's strong team weak team strong team
Then they finally get back on point before a match against Bobby boys and that went seven eight and in the end
you know, that's not an awful result. Then you get smashed by men out of
foe. They're having a good game. But unfortunately, the way the stage is kind
of panned out by the time you get the opportunity to play the likes of
Wyver and Chicago, maybe two other teams. I would have said maybe the
starting stage close into your level, of course, no Niko. It's a bit like the
damage has been done. You haven't really got much of a chance to course make
finals. They are now 100% knocked out that little micro 0.1% has evaporated
with a rival, they get to win all three points. They go to nine points, tied with enterprise,
lower round differential, but they get the chance against Bobby boys on playday seven.
Yeah, it's tough for six targets, but of a tough pill to swallow. But again, I think
it's a reflection of just how tough this format now is. It's only four teams in. And as you've
said, rival are still competing for that spot.
Let's go to our interview. We're going to be talking to the coach of arrival, Esports
that we're going to have to
play. We're going to have to
play this frame B as they've
had a wonderful 7 0 victory
frame. Congratulations on the
win in the end. The most one
side of match that we've had
this stage in my mind, it says
it speaks volumes to you guys
continuing to just as we spoke
to Chef Jeff yesterday, work
through issues continue to
improve, and it feels like
you're kind of peeking at the
right time going into play day
seven. Yeah, but I mean, we
knew we're going to have a slow
And we're now on a starting show
Yeah, congrats on the win tonight. I'd like to get your perspective in terms of your influence on the team
We're hearing a lot about how much you guys are improving the kind of issues that you've had to try and overcome
From your perspective, is that more so tactical mental talk us through your influence? I
Feel like all our problems have been communication and synergy based
It's very difficult when you're when you need to make a roster change two days before the stage
So it's really just taking that time to rebuild that synergy and get um get all the energy back in the right spot
Obviously one more big game to go frame next week against Bobby boys. They've had a pretty good stage themselves
What's gonna be the mindset going into that knowing if you win likely top four will be yours. I
Mean yeah job's not finished. We've still got a game to go
We're not focused on the outcome. We're really just focused on the process
I know every team seems set to save in the infu, but it's really the mindset to go for round by round game by game
Whatever happens happens. We're just changing ourselves
Yeah, absolutely agree with that one and if you'd like to say before we let you go
Big thank you to the org and all of our supporters. They've been a very supportive for us even with the slow start of the stage
Thanks for the team for being confidence and hanging it even though we had some not so desirable results at the start
And thank you everyone for the support
I think that's it. Awesome.
Thank you so much for coming on
and having a chat with us friend.
Best of luck next week. Thank
you. Well, this one was over
before it even started rival 7 0
but their real test is going to
be in deep next week against
Barbie boys must win that game
as well. If they are to make
finals chiefs man now the photo
up next that it wasn't even
much of a warm up for I think
what is easily going to be
I think I've ever seen we've gone from what will be
Arguably the most dominant result of the night to what could potentially be the closest
It's one v2 in Oce
Seating on the line and bit of pride and confidence as well. I feel for these two teams
They may be confirmed for finals, but as we often see in Oce
I think they're still going to give it their all tonight. It would be a very classic oceanic
Manel of O kind of story for them to finish in the in the one seed when coming into this stage all of the talk was really about
the final play day itself, but
it sets either of the winner up
from this next game. Chiefs off
of their win yesterday against
the enterprise men. Elifo's
form this stage has been
impeccable. They're certainly
in the conversation for you.
Seekers and there's the two
slots. There's going to be four
teams in finals and three of
them are going to be in the
final. They're going to be
finals and three of them are pretty neck-and-neck right now in terms of form.
Yeah, absolutely. Again, it was always the case, EP Chiefs and maybe a third or fourth
team can play Dark Wars for that second spot and we very much got that storyline. So I'm
intrigued to see man tonight and excited to see if maybe they can get one step closer towards that
first seed. Short little break, we'll come back. Chiefs man on the road, the battle for the top spot.
When I decided to go to Invitational, everyone really liked it, but it wasn't that surprising.
It wasn't because of the coincidence that I went to Invitational, so I wasn't quite confident.
And even when I went to Invitational, I even went to play-off.
Everyone was happy, but I wasn't really surprised.
I arrived at Invitational in Paris and went to the practice room to scream.
In Asia, when it comes to tier 2 and tier 3, there are a lot of differences in skills,
and sometimes it doesn't help much.
I tried tier 2 and tier 3 scrims in Europe,
and they were better than us, and they were all so good.
So that was the first surprise.
And in our other group,
I tried scrims with that team,
and the first thing I felt was that there was a wall that I couldn't see.
So it was really interesting and fun.
When we entered the club,
it wasn't a problem that was on our hands.
I remember that when BDS won the CH, we entered.
We all gathered at the hotel room.
We gathered about six people and prayed.
And when I was on the stage, everyone screamed and liked it.
And on the day of the playoffs, the main stage was really well-drawn.
So I was very excited.
When I screamed, I thought, can I win?
It could be just me, but when I entered the tournament, I felt like if I kept doing what I wanted to do, I could win.
So I think I did well when I was in the tournament without any tension.
I remember cheering for my friends and family who were left in Korea to keep an eye on me.
I don't really explain how I'm doing in the US, so I don't really know much about it.
I don't really explain it to my parents, or my friends, or messages, or anything like that.
I think everyone is really grateful.
Honestly, my parents don't really know much about the game, but I think it's a pity that they keep watching it at home.
First of all, I was very happy with the group stage and the playoff.
But it was the first time I played against the playoff stage, so I felt a lot of difference in skills at that time.
I came back to Korea for that reason, so I studied the experience first, and everyone was passionate.
The most disappointing game was the group stage.
I think it was 5-0 against Dark Zero, but I think it was 8-6 against Dark Zero, and I think that was the most disappointing match.
I don't know why I thought that match was the most disappointing match.
I think it's a shame that I couldn't do a clutch match against G2 during the same group stage match.
I think I won the game with 7-4 in the clubhouse.
That was good.
The magic outside is looking at me
I'm sure I'll be able to shake it
I'm looking at the same thing
My heart will surely notice
It's not you, it's the future
I'll be the light of the night
Cheese is a miracle
Chewing on it
Your eyes
Tell me everything I need
Smile
My life
My life
Sakaranan nobodo dame
Yaku soku nante
Chidai yokoro to wa hukedo
Boku nara shikude ii
Hmm, it's different if you don't let go
Even if it's the last day, let's finish it
Let's go back and forth
It's a little painful, but it's still a bit painful
I'm gonna get it
You're right
I think I made a bigger point.
about it. As soon as they've been lost, I said to the boys, I said, well, are we going to sit here
and relax there, or are we going to even go harder?
Now coming back in a big way with RKD Sports, you guys being the third place in stage one,
How do you really see me feel like you fit into the competition and obviously for you guys you've never made it to an international event?
Is this the time that that can change?
So, as we return to the
the top spot and not involving
enterprise men. All of them
really clinical so far this
stage. This is their task to
see if they can actually get
that number one seed or chiefs
as they said earlier in the
stage. I can get to that number
one spot that they've been
searching for. Yeah, I mean, I
don't think it would have been
absolutely impossible to get
that number one seed or chiefs
as they said earlier in the
stage. I can get to that number
one spot that they've been
searching for. Yeah, I mean, I
insane at the start of the stage to say that at least one of these teams could
be competing for top spot and we'd be having them go against EP but the fact
that EP are completely out of that picture currently is the big headline
and the big storyline and a super big opportunity for one of these two teams
to get one step closer towards finishing in that top spot and then having
number one seed heading into the finals bracket. I should mention as well by the
way that Man Alaphau will play EP in the final play-dose so this is where their
real tests do begin. Let's go to Chiefs and see their lineup. Of course, yesterday they
had their big result win against Enterprise and now looking to back that up against Man
Alaphaux. Their final playday will be against Arcade. Now, I think we can all agree that's
going to be a win. So if they can win this game tonight, it's top spot you would imagine
for Chiefs. For Man Alaphaux, it's a little different. If they win this game, but then
lose to EP, well, we'll have to sort of dissect how that'll all pan out by next week. But
The focus for me is probably on player. He was absolutely sensational yesterday against Enterprise.
No surprise against the former team, the team that cast him inside.
He really responded and sort of showed them what everything was.
Yeah, absolutely. And the Chiefs didn't get off to the greatest of starts defensively last night.
They had a couple of moments that were a little head-scratching,
but I think that Nate did a good job in sort of refocusing them, refilling them with confidence.
and they were able to step it up. They played really well last night. They played up to the level of EP and in fact surpassed them in the end.
Yeah, it was a 7-5 best of one close result in the end, but they walk away with all three points and now put themselves in this
golden position to potentially finish in first slot. How much influence that will have over the playoff bracket is yet to be determined.
It could be minimal, but I still think it's a big confidence boost for them and another good test tonight.
This is going to be a matchup that maybe even they weren't expecting themselves to be as closely contested as it probably will be
And we'll see how they play to the level of Man Elf right well their opponents haven't really put a foot wrong so far
This stage they've only had the one loss that was in overtime against Barber boys back in play day three
So it's been a pretty clinical stage
They essentially therefore haven't lost in regulation at all
In fact, neither of these two teams have both have got the same identical record for wins in regulation
One OT loss. The only thing separating them is actually two round differential. That's it
So for Manolo, it's been a really really good stage. The only I guess asterisks that you would apply is again
They haven't played cheese and haven't played enterprise plus cheese beating enterprise last night
I think gives them that slight edge and certainly the favoritism tag for me coming into this match
But by no means does that, you know, play down to what Man Alaphote kind of done this stage.
Then the names on paper don't necessarily jump out at you as names that have dominated the region.
It just really feels more like coming at me.
Blue, there's been sensational beers has gone to a different level.
Hunter Shark, yellow, let's be honest, consistent.
It's just been a really well-rounded roster, well-coached.
And they, to me at least, they just look like they've got a lot of synergy.
They follow the game plan nicely.
They're always in control in a lot of their matches.
There hasn't been much of a blemish on their stage.
Yeah, absolutely.
Pluto, especially, was a player that we highlighted heading
into that night.
He was one of the top players on entry,
league-wide heading into the night.
And the funniest thing about him is we did a hard cast
to cast on him.
He had a really slow start yesterday,
and it difficult to get himself in the match.
But despite that, it didn't bring down
the performance of the team.
And I think that was the key takeaway.
Let's go to the map, Peter, and see where we'll be heading for this best of one, the first of two major tests to close the regular season for men LFO.
Again, to preface as well, I didn't touch on it. Both these two teams have already qualified for finals.
They're the only two teams to have qualified for finals, and the Lair is going to be our map.
It's actually a very strong map for both teams. 1-0 record for Chiefs beating Barber Boys two weeks ago, 7-3-2-0 record for men LFO on this map.
this map neither team really ban it and they've actually got identical attack and defensive
win rates on this map 66.7% attack report and 75% defensive for both yeah I'm expecting
that we'll see probably the best of these two teams tonight on this map strategically they'll
be worried to show anything that hasn't been seen before but default layer is still a really really
good challenge I think of these two teams where they are structurally and if they can play the
fundamental as well so yeah quite excited as you said strong map for both teams and unlike some of
the other maps in best of ones I think that layer eliminates some of the or at least mitigates some
of the RNG factor we do see on some of the other maps as well so this should be a really true result
and I think a reflection on where these two teams are right tonight. And they both even have the
same operator bands on this map as well both are likely to usually ban out the blitz the blackbeard
and the kaid and the band it will see if that follows when we do get into the band phase which is
right now because the game is ready. Chiefs man Aleph Ode. Match of the day. Chiefs fresh
off of their huge win last night. Man Aleph Ode. What a stage it's been. Can they now
rise to the very top of the standings and claim that number one seed? Both teams will feature
in finals. The question will be who takes the better form heading into said finals and giving
themselves the best opportunity with the best seeding to eventually look to qualify for the
be used for us to walk up.
Yeah, let's jump in a lot of excitement surrounding this particular fixture,
Manalaphoe, starting out on defense.
And we'll see how much of an advantage that may afford them.
As you highlighted before, the vans, the both of these teams are fairly similar.
And certainly for the side of Manalaphoe, pretty consistent as well.
We'll see if this time around they do double down with the shield vans.
And it will actually be a slight variance from them.
So typically they do go the double Monty Blackbeard this time though.
Or the Blitz and on this occasion they'll lean back into the Blitz,
but also take the Ying out, maybe trying to take away some of the explosive playmaking potential
from Chiefs and back in themselves to counter the shield play that they may have to offer in this first half.
No surprises really from Chiefs though on the side of attack.
They'll take out the Kaid and the Bandit and that alleviates a lot of hard breach pressure,
especially for this top floor.
Yeah, the Yngban is the one difference to what we've seen from these two teams across their time on this map.
So that does leave the Blackbeard available.
Launchbox immediately jumps on that.
In terms of the previous results, of course, men are very beating.
Six Tigers last night, 7-2. Already touched on the Chiefs win against Enterprise.
You win this you go to 16 points the only team that would be able to catch you inside
ironically cheese to across
Will play arcade on play day seven man. I'll vote playing EP so round differential is still gonna be a factor
If man, I'll folk and win and win. Well
Well, there is a chance that I could be the determining factor
Depending on their result next week
On the flip side, I think it's better to say Q-Swing is that they've locked in the top spot
They're not gonna lose the arcade. So they're gonna get a little bit more
They're a little bit more solid with that number one position if they win this game on the attack in the first half
Shield to each shield with the clash and the blackbeard
And it's just a full five stack top floor from NLFO
Now, it would be interesting to see how Chiefs look to go about trying to leverage the Glyzm
particular in this round.
He can be very very strong in cutting off the lines for that upside take, but does also
have the playmaking potential on the flipside R6 side too, so there's a lot of flexibility
on off of the Jekyll in this round.
We'll be relying on his own space already used once to one pocket.
Whoa!
Well, Lunchbox aggressed quite deep there.
Onto the good catch.
Men alpha backing themselves to counter these shield operators.
And it has been a success in the opening round.
Certainly here there's the ability now for cheese to push into the site later.
Even still needed to get mezz control Pluto holding over there.
And J.Kennah has found a kill though on the glass, gets rid of Hunter, Relay's also catching
out beers.
It's not an ideal for Man Alaphore after what was a strong start to the round.
Lunchbox having a very good performance last night too, so carrying some momentum into
this game but sits this one out.
So good now though for cheese with that response from jkna and relays 50 seconds on the clock
still got an extra selling pocket for bluto
sharky on the clash needs to be come involved and make sure he can try and disrupt this attack
there are no smokes remaining though for glass
30 seconds remaining and the clash on sight proves strong advantage man LFO
Play a Shunt's Down Pluto so they got that men's control sorted. It's only into the site now that matters to live at a time
I think they're gonna be able to get Neptune back into this round. I cannot hoping so I want to walk into his scope
Sharky's just gonna play behind the shield playing a gore of elements
So it is indeed only the clash of sharky that remains six seconds
He's getting a crest upon a lovely double swing. She's will take top floor on the attack have to really work for it
not the most of awful rounds from Manila foe the fact that came down to a 1v2
They just simply came down to the mid round a couple of those pigs going the way at cheese after Manila foe got that opening kill onto the lunchbox
She's really sold a job to bring this round back into four versus five
Yeah, they ended up having a brute force that a little bit chase not in the greatest position didn't have a ton of
Valuable you to leave a late and especially that flash pros problems and ask questions of their ability to push our six
But fortunately for them they were able to fly elsewhere and by finding those picks afforded the advantage and even with such little time remaining
The treggler have a good opportunity to get some reps in during the tech pause
They're able to overwhelm in that spot and sharky aren't able to quite talk and play time
time. Technical pause as mentioned has been called, not entirely sure as to who or why,
but I doubt it will be too long. We've had word that it was a player restart, so presumably
the FPS issue and it should stay up and play will be back in a couple of minutes. Don't
go too far. Positive start, though, for Chiefs, Man Elfo. I think it will take quite a bit
to deter them. I backed them into have a pretty strong mental in this match.
I think both teams will have a pretty good mental at that point in the stage where you've
both qualified for finals. So there's a little bit less pressure. I mean, you'd love that
number one seed, but it's not a do or die elimination game. You know, you've got finals
around the corner as well. So you know, there's going to be more high octane matches that
will have more in terms of mattering, not really putting all of your mental load into
this basket.
And you do want to win it at the same time, it's kind of tricky to navigate.
There's a big opening round though for Chiefs to win.
Masa in R6 has the attacking team, sets the early precedent.
For Manila Fode, they're going to have to be really clinical tonight.
know, that's maybe the kind of round where across the stage, the way that that round
played out against a lot of other teams, man, I will say maybe go on and win that round
after getting that opening kill.
The chiefs are a very good team and they just have the ability to go and get those picks.
Did so.
And the rest is history.
Two kills from player, two kills from Drake, cannot lead in the way in that round.
of course did not die technically. He was down for probably the last 30 seconds of the round but
wasn't a death so he was 3 and a half achieves. That's not going to be the repeat for Manila
Fo, they carry basement. Yeah I don't think we'll be anticipating too many double ups from the
defense over the course of this particular matchup where they're very closely linked and on their
They've got two sites off for a pretty fair opportunity for the defense to find win conditions.
So I'd be pretty surprised if you see two me repeats.
I'm trying to see how they shape up for this basement site, how much presence they wish
to have up above, given the operators that they have selected in early positions.
It shouldn't be too much, but Hunter, on his first floor, momentarily for the spawn
peek attempt and it lands successfully onto relays.
good to say whether or not he knows who he killed often that can change up how
the defense then wants to play out the remainder ground if they know it's the
snake it may give them a little bit more freedom to roam or regress or double
down in positions on side etc and they'll be a little less exposed it'd be harder
for them to have that read
either way though for Manila Fo now in a very positive position for the remainder
of this round and it will very much be a case of keeping peace with cheats not
allowing them to fight back in advantage. The attack will respond by
going through their checklist and we'll see whether or not cheats have the
ability to try and find a win condition here how they'll look to try and get a
pick back. Yeah and this is whether the morale can be tested pretty early on as
well. If they now look like two straight rounds when they got the opening pick
Well defending on land
Depending vigorously to walk with that's the last gas babe with minute four on the clock
That's a lot of utility authority down gone for men LFO
And they've kind of got him trapped here good angle outside from player hunter takes a big chunk of damage
I mean, I think almost I was gonna say best case might have been able to just get at least one kill go down
But he escapes it gets away
That's a decent result, Beers good shot onto Neptune.
That's just better for me now, LeFo, because Hunter looked like he was very much trapped
part of a blue stairs.
For him to get out alive, Beers then gets the next kill, big swing of momentum here
in the second round towards me now, LeFo.
60 seconds remain, we'll see if they can try and leverage the Blackbeard Chiefs, and
They do want to hunt it, forced into the line of sight of Lunchbox on the Verde and that's a clean clear.
Got far from over though.
They have a bit of time and space to work with, but
Man, Alifo should have the resolve to see this round out. As I say that though, J. Kenner able to march forward.
Alamut's not getting the support required on the cross.
Yeah, I mean it was just completely by himself, tucked into the corner, and
Chiefs have actually done a good job of just picking up their own pace too.
Just in the last 30 seconds, finding two quick kills and now bring it back to even numbers.
There's an actual cell with Pluto.
Into the lab goes Jake, looking for the plant.
It looks like it's gonna be successful.
No, Shafki got back on it, thought he might have actually inadvertently got off
and then maybe might have missed the timing.
The timing indeed has not been missed.
This is some wonderful duo play from Pluto and Shafki.
Should be able to go on the wind around now.
There's not a lot of time for play-up, but I'm out of time.
That is exquisite.
The yokai into the natural combination
Well played for those two big round win for man LFO
And they're able to close out basement. They'll likely go back to the top floor now
Or not
Breathing over going back to the top floor
Yeah, I mean, maybe there's an element of wanting to play that side out before the addition
of ban, that's certainly something to be considered.
A regular package of that previous bancheese to their credit, doing a pretty phenomenal
job to fight back into a winnable position there, but then, as you highlighted, the duo
anchor played there late for Man-Elofo, was pretty much completely spot on.
U2 was pocketed very late into the round and then used very efficiently.
Chiefs tried their hardest to extract value from the Blackbeard and they kind of did a
good job in that department but it wasn't quite enough in the end to alleviate the deficit
that they found themselves in early and so credit them going to Hunter for the spawnpeek
attempt and conversion.
First you sight.
What's going to happen though is they're going to ban the Blackbeard and Chiefs might
just then therefore bend the clash.
Because clearly, that's why they haven't gone back to top floor.
They played Blackbeard twice, top floor basement.
Not being played here, Bung's briefing.
Bended out after this round, go back top floor.
But I think they'll lose the clash as well.
Yeah, probably.
The chase will have some presence
The sense selection though suggests that the primary objective is to go over the green
side here, go deep, plant, sense walls to counter the warden for instance, make it difficult
for anybody to see and identify where that plant is going down.
That will mean that Alamance plays a key role in the round on Solace, he can look through
the vert and call out to where that plant is going down or even attempt the denial himself.
by splitting this attack chiefs will be looking to achieve that goal of unsight pressure but
ensuring that they can try and contest the defense up above. Here is that green control
established without risk. Jay cannot flood in with sight, he has the diffuser in hand.
I mean I like this guy from beers, I mean he's playing an operator that doesn't have any utility,
the nitrous sound he'll be able to use against the Monty and very useful against the RUs as well.
Well, I'd be wanting to try and hold on to this for as long as possible.
He knows he's relatively safe from push-ins provided he's got the vertical support.
He's getting a lot of utility thrown in his position, but good reposition from beers.
Importantly, he keeps himself alive.
Now, almost catching a chance, and the second chance goes begging.
Clearly, goal right now for Jesus is going to be to catch a counter-intensely.
Dude, catch the head of beers, good angle by player.
Guess I have two delay, two more remaining elements trying to get some information on the solos.
Usually Bunk's briefing just simply comes down to can this plan be successful?
Default plan are you up?
But Jake Kenner will indeed be successful!
Oh Jocelyn does go down but job done!
Yeah, good try there from elements but unable to hit the feet in time
and look at this defense disperse as they try and fight for the retake.
not a lot of time remains and chiefs in good positions.
Just unfortunate that the beers he couldn't get any extra help and support
if he had been alive that night so would have likely been enough.
Now chiefs are very much set up for the post plan positions.
That's the wind calling on Bunts briefing. Get that plant down. They do so successfully.
Therefore go on and wind around. Chiefs go up two to one.
Yeah fair play to Jay Cannon. Did his job well
and didn't shy away from sticking that plant, and the fraction away
Elements was from denying that, had he found those shots that angle just a little earlier,
maybe with a second or two more. His way, plant would have been denied in the round,
of course then shapes up very very differently, is getting back into that plant position,
re-initiating the plant, worrying about above once more would have been very challenging for
for cheese but they're able to stick it and then the follow up from that was they had very
strong post point positions they back themselves in to get it stuck and once they did there
was essentially zero chance for man LFO to get back in towards the objective to counter
diffuse tactical timeout called by Sally the coach of this team and I'd be curious to
know what the messaging is.
The mirror band instead of the clash band, I do wonder then if the chiefs on the top floor, they might go a little bit more
Hard bridge centric and put pressure on the walls
And and that way you know you're kind of opening up both sides the clash
It's a little bit more difficult to kind of maneuver around the site if they do play it
And this is a pretty big couple of rounds coming up now the black beard band. I think was a pretty easy read
So the question will be how much of a change in terms of the attacking lineup
Chiefs on this master and R6 floor. They just go Monty. Okay, and no clash either
Attackers need to locate and a few
That's the course changing up from chief side, but for men out of foe, this is just going to be
Utility with denial as their combination. I mean, this is a stock standard as a gets Pluto
to play over the walls, the middle of sight behind the desk.
You've got Sharky and Hunter, we'll sit back,
use the utility to deny the razor blooms
the upfoot mines and the trap utility.
Indeed, there is a pretty big switch up for cheese,
but leaving launchbox on the Monty.
Attackers are moving out to locate a bomb and defuse it and intriguingly electing not to bring a single
Primary hard breach of this round hunter. Hell is cornpeak attempts
Not the close one as well, but this one not landing
So yeah, I wonder how chase are going to try and
Amount pressure in this round. I do have the
secondaries from jacana, but that's
Essentially the entirety of their toolkit
And so I wonder if this does indicate that it'll be an Ops stack or an R6 side stack.
It's gonna be quite tricky to split it.
And if Man LFO clue into this pretty early and have a front facing defense with the Trenka
deep, the Fenrir as well to aid in info.
I don't know if I feel particularly great for Chis in this current comp and positioning.
It's gonna be a tricky round for them.
It's certainly far from impossible.
They're just gonna have to play really clean.
and I think a lot of it actually will be about leveraging this Monty correctly, they need
to find a way to generate pressure in this round, if it doesn't come from Hard Breach
then Lungebox is the second best bet.
I think Neptune as well is going to have a big sale in this round, whether it's going
to be a success for Chiefs or not.
Down below the wall is Vox with the skeleton key to create pressure vertically, no contest
for being able to keep your fire on site.
In Chiefs note, it's just going to be the kind of round that's likely to probably play out down to the last 20 seconds,
and that's where the multi-candy valuable if you still got players alive.
Not a gas-paid prime form, Hunter.
Just to pause a little bit more delay, he's now down to one.
That's okay because he got a shimiko launcher of Sharky over here.
Just taking some damage.
I was just watching him get lower and lower and in the end Neptune gets the kill
That's a big piece of the board same with Hunter, but he goes your denial
There's so much time remaining in the round
Relays with an aggressive edge up as well. Neptune trying to play off the yellow pink chiefs making it work
Yeah, they sure are look how much information available to them courtesy of the line and the pressure has been immense in this round
I was questioning how they were able to generate it and while that round a perfect show
case as to what this team can do. I mean that's disappointing if you man alofo you got the
black beard band that you wanted you took the time out that you wanted you went back
to top floor as you wanted and that just does not go your way completely flawless from
chiefs really really well played and Neptune having a big impact in that round on the buck
completely uncontested from down below good shots on the top floor essentially just kind
I went straight to Ben Halifo. They just didn't want to play any games. And I guess in some ways the lineup that they brought somewhat suggesting that
And you don't bring hard bridge you don't have to fiddle around with the walls and
You know take your time setting up, you know when you're not playing a glass kind of set up
You don't have to worry too much about getting the glass in the right position at the right time
They just played a pretty direct brand of Siege pressure from below and then played off that from above
Man, I'll throw just we're not ready for it. I think for men are the foes like they kind of just wanted to deny they
The game plan in that round for men are the foes to get that round as late as possible
Chiefs just went and said no, we're going quick and it worked and and not rush quick not blitz go into site quick
Just really calculated pacing
Now J. Kenneth slips onto the Monty gives lunchbox the glass license
They're close to me!
They're following the drone.
And the Twisted Meat is super impactful in this round as well.
Yeah, absolutely. Alongside that floor.
This is going to be a good test for the resilience of Manila Fo now that they've already used that tactical time-out.
It's going to be very much on those inside of the server to try and problem-solve and consolidate.
It's clear that Chiefs have come out swinging, and they need to try and stabilize this matchup.
Maybe try and fight fire with fire.
As Jake Kenner takes a massive chunk of damage and down, and that's exactly what I'm talking about.
Instead of sitting back and waiting and allowing Chiefs to take that ground,
Sharki takes it upon himself to take the fight.
With the Monty charging forward, it was in fact a high percentage play to go for that,
and Chiefs not close enough to be in a position to trade that back.
it was taken a completely solid on the front line for that way house side pushes
he elected to take space now diffuse on the ground and an opportunity for
man alpho to consolidate defensively
so if our basement looking like to be the saving grace of the half a man I
Okay, lunchbox through now in the glass.
He had some incredible glass play last night on bank.
I don't even know how he's sitting on that chair.
He's definitely not using the back support.
I don't need it though.
He wants to get aggressive, but the flames will tell him to sit back and wait.
That's kind of feel like if they're gonna unlock this round it's probably gonna be through lunchbox
They do still have two more smokes with relays and four flashes available
So utilities fine time starting to dwindle and down a player there he is lunchbox gets the kill onto beers
You know that's got hits as well before being traded
Player also wins his battle and suddenly out of nowhere,
Chiefs have got the numbers.
Lunchbox pushing in as well.
Wow, Neptune gets rid of Sharky.
They're tapping in again,
just as we saw on the previous round on the top floor.
Chiefs have just got the ability to push in
and take his gun fights.
As Pluto got his kill, they do know where he is.
Lunchbox is gonna be back gun up
after getting that plant successfully.
He goes prone and a swing for player to convert.
Good team play again from Chiefs.
Didn't panic, great utility usage,
Hit their shots and it's just precise attack after attack from the Chiefs.
They go 4-1 up.
Wow.
Still early days and it doesn't quite feel near as dominant as the first match of the night,
but maybe this too could shape up to be a one-sided affair.
The late-round execution and the team play the synergy from Chiefs and just their innate ability to play off one another
and always look like they're up for the fight regardless of sort of the the condition of the round has been
really impressive and I I think it would be very unfair to
say that these rounds have been
Traditional throws from man LFO. They've generally just been well thought out. What problems solved by chiefs for the most part. It's been
really good to watch and
I'm sure for the chiefs fans. They'll be excited perhaps for
man a la foe and the other teams on the sidelines watching this game a touch
concern that cheese looks so threatening but been a good performance from them so
far and it's very much just gonna be a case now for one up on attack about
converting this match it's pretty rare that you'd see a team in this sort of
position with this lead on attack go on to then lose and I think they'll be
sensing that this is a great opportunity, but also looking to just play round by round
because Manelofo is certainly not to be underestimated and I don't think they've dropped their heads
at all defensively. Manelofo is still very much up for the fight.
I will say though, if Manelofo could get his second defensive round both teams statistically
here and that 66% of tanker win rate, the outside is both teams at 75% defensive win
rate.
What I'm kind of getting at those, if Ben Elford get this to 4-2, there's every chance
in which they can do something similar in the second half, not getting this game out
at all.
Chiefs aren't looking pretty solid.
And all five players also performing at identical level.
On the flip side you're looking over the man on the phone, one from B is zero from Alamance,
they just need a little bit more from some of their players.
And I'll split the attack a little bit more so here with some presence upside, Neptune
could look below Clemence if needed, although that's hard for each so he can set his sights
the objective and then they have the pinch threat and the split threat from the likes of Relay's on
the stage. You can be pretty self-sufficient with that util and also his lunchbox in assistance.
In the meantime Pluto threatened from below. He's the one on site although pushes back over
towards R6. That actually frees up the objective pretty quickly here for Chisoo to have found
themselves in a pretty dominant position without over-investing utility. Beers under pressure
as Relays tries to jump forward bathroom side.
Oh, beers. I don't know if a third time is going to end any different if you go for another peek.
I think Relays has won this battle. Oh my god, he actually went for another peek,
he didn't learn his lesson. And that allows Relays to now push into the hallway, get up close and
take on elements. The two weak links for man on the phone this half, both go down straight away
way to relays this very much now opens up the site of five versus three advantage
for chiefs and so far throughout this half have never squandered such an
advantage as Jay cannot we'll get the plant down inside a mask it will not be
denied Chucky gets a kill but it's only the one so many more needed hunter steps
are shots down to Neptune the cheese can pack play the post plant now
It's winnable though.
Shot through Hunter. Wow.
And Jack had a one-shot.
Oh, but he holds down the line with the Dima. Hunter up close.
And traded.
Wow, that was a beautifully played round by the Chiefs.
The setup, the execution.
It was on point.
And they have a significant lead at the halftime break.
Well, a very dominant half from the chief sets them up a five to one lead two rounds
away from essentially claiming that number one seed going into finals, firing what would
be I think the biggest upset of all time if arcade were to win against chiefs next week.
also, of course, dependent on other results. Ben Alepho would need to beat Enterprise.
And then throw in the whole round differential. I mean, you get the point. It's two rounds
away from Chiefs claiming that top spot. And on to defense master and R6 to begin. It all
seems pretty rosy. They're the form team heading into finals. They're the number one seed.
in a region now that has two slots for EWC, I think they would know deep down as much
as they wouldn't want to admit it and they would say day by day game by game. It's turning
into an incredible stage for them. Yeah it really is and that last round was a pretty old school
lair split attack where you have the pressure mounting R6 side, they did a good job with
Ops so early, they flushed out A site with the Deimos, they had a lot of good moving parts that
I think that would have caught Man Alpha off guard, but it was just the execution how clean they've played
And I think that was a reflection of really the half-oared role where arguably Man Alpha aren't making massive mistakes
Sure, you could argue beers overpicked, but again, he's pretty eager for information and to prevent that push
I don't think it's too much on him necessarily
It's just been cheese playing really really well. And so look it's still a little while to go
I'm like the last game
I feel far less confident in calling it now and saying that this is gonna be a chiefs dominant victory or anything like that
Man, LFO should have positive science here on attack, but at least so far it has certainly
been more lopsided than anticipated.
That's just like the way that they've won this, well I haven't won this game yet, but
I like the way they've gotten to this position.
You know, it's seven for relays and seven for player.
That's the highest through six rounds played.
It's not that one dominating performance from an individual that's been the difference maker. It's just been a team effort from chiefs
I think that's the ethos. That's their motto
That's what's made them such a good team this stage
Well drilled well coached I
Think
You know you think back to when Jitzel was dropping 20 plus and in all those games and they still weren't getting wings a long time ago
That kind of error is done now. You really need a good core five. Oh my goodness. Oh
I know well it's falling apart for men on the phone just get a little bit
aggressive and men on the phone we're not ready for it they don't get any kind
of setup they don't get the buck play they don't get the Monty play they need
beers to probably get three and Hunter to get two.
Well another tap from Jake Hennep.
They chase a meaning business they're looking in towards finals.
It's been a really good stay for men on the phone but their tests were always going to
in the last two playdays. Chiefs and Enterprise and right now they're on the verge of a massive
failure in this test. Six one down. Yeah, well, I guess if there's any point of the stage where
you want a bit of a wake-up call and it has limited impact, it's probably this kind of scenario,
right? Already looked for finals. Seating may not be massively influential. It may have an impact,
But it might not be super influential and so as long as man LFO kind of take this in their stride and actually use it as a learning opportunity
I don't think it's gonna deter them or
You know it take away too much confidence heading in
To the finals bracket
Although I guess maybe if there is to be a potential rematch in future and they take on cheese
They could sort of be that underlying fear of all not again
They destroyed us last time but the best of three veto should kind of alleviate some of that pressure
They can look to experiment on other maps, maybe lair just one that hasn't been quite properly tested to this kind of level just yet
And they'll be able to go back to the right the workshop and sort of work on it going forward
I've been a bit of a rough day at the office for them bees 1-7 elements yet to strike the scoreboard
You look across at cheese. It's been far more well-rounded. No one really
Taring the load too heavily
And I'll be looking to get the job done here in round number 8.
And if they were to go on and win 7-1, it would be the second, third, it would be the
third I believe, 7-1 off the stage.
So far, E.P. taking down Arcade in Play Day 4 and most recently Bravo over Shycademy.
I'm a little bit stunned by this result, I'm not gonna lie, I was expecting far more of a contest.
I had Chiefs as favourites, right, Fluso.
Reloading.
Not quite 6-1, and now potentially 7-1 favorites.
And in some ways a little disappointed.
Man, LFO, this was their test.
First stage they've had, locked-in finals.
They will be playing finals.
They will get a chance at redemption.
They'll get another opportunity next week
against another high quality opponent in Enterprise,
but they've absolutely failed this test.
They'll learn a lot from it.
At least you would hope so.
Now, the rough game for B is tonight, 1-8.
Just hasn't really got anything going.
losing all of these battles but in fairness it's well being the entire team
he's just not been able to win much
you get the kill on to lunchbox but player was there ready for the train he
goes double digits easy swing on to elements
as Hunter and Pluto pushed together through lab I mean Pluto what a quite
game from him it's fall from player well he's very much on for the ace
because it's a low health Pluto relays give your boy the ace all five player
we're so close to the MVP yesterday and we certainly the MVP in that particular
match against enterprise against his former team wanting to be the best
player in the region what a stage he's had so far he's in that conversation
ahead of finals
They're so close. The Pluto with the radar will get some information.
Horses relays to make his way back upstairs.
He just runs off.
There's a player who wants to kill.
I think Relays wants to give it to him.
40 seconds for Pluto to push forward.
Well, he knows exactly where he's coming from. He's got an idea.
He just wants to make sure.
Now he spots him. Oh my goodness.
PLOBO! What a shot!
Denies the ace and still has a chance on one HP.
This Raider, such a nuisance for the defenders.
Will he back himself in again looking for the tap? He might just have to go for the plant.
Relay's just gonna play this one out.
Will he get him off with the run? He does. He gets him off.
Relay is not aware but he gets the kill.
What I went for the swing, it's Chiefs that get the 7-1 against Ben Alepho, and the top
spot is theirs.
With only Arcade to play in playday 7, Nate and the boys will be ecstatic with the stage
that they've had so far leading into finals.
Well, the player may not have quite gotten the ace, but Chiefs well and truly getting
the last laugh today.
a 7-1 victory. I honestly am a little bamboozled at the final result here, not the fact that
Chiefs won. That was certainly not going to be the most audacious of predictions, but
to win it in a 7-1 fashion into the dominant, essentially from start to finish, is a huge
surprise and I mean immediately my mind is going to wear two from here. Does this match
really mean a whole lot in the context of the finals? I don't think we could really make
that assessment now, that if going forward, Chiefs continue to dominate and man esports
drop off. This could be one of the pivotal moments of the stage for them where they just
weren't able to deliver in a match where at minimum they had to look competitive.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know what's going on so far. These two play days this week, guys,
but it's just being filled with 7-1s and 7-2s. We even had a 7-0 just before. As we get to
the tail end of the stage. Typically you can get these one-sided results, naturally,
with certain teams, where their stage is kind of coming to an end, can't make finals, etc.
But in the last playday, in this playday, we haven't really had a lot of those teams.
Everyone's still fighting for things. Manelophon, this game, we're fighting for the top spot,
and they get absolutely trounced. I mean, it's just a wonderful team effort from Chiefs.
Player filled his boots in the last two rounds, but prior to those last two rounds,
everyone on the side of chiefs was very even in terms of kills a really good team performance.
We'll go to Nate and we'll get to speak to him once again as we've been doing quite a lot of this stage.
Chiefs win out again. Nate you're in the top spot at the moment of course still got one more playday
but it's looking very very solid. You must be proud of the team for how they're performing
and as we keep saying and as you keep saying it's just another game you got another game next week
and then finals is a whole different beast I mean do you have to at some point stop reflect and just
think how proud you are of the team and how you guys are performing yeah for sure I'll be honest
I told them straight after I came into this interview I showed off the game I said you guys can go
celebrate being happy but I want to say like how proud I was I noted it's silly it's a fear one
but I said that's a proven result yesterday and today it wasn't a fluke we didn't go obviously
I think we played very, very well yesterday as a team.
Translated it over today,
and it didn't show that inconsistency,
which I was a little bit worried about
at the start of the stage.
I keep saying it to him,
we play better when the challenge is in front of us,
when there's a mountain climb.
We obviously, that shouldn't be an excuse
for losing to teams you should be,
but I'm happy it's the case where we can, you know,
get through some of these games first,
the harder teams, and we show that, you know,
that we're there for the fight.
And obviously it was a 7-1.
I don't really put that into much, like retrospect of how good Mannel for how bad everyone has their off days.
That's not what I think Mannel for. I think they're obviously a lot better than that.
Yeah, I'd love to sort of dig a little bit deeper into that. How do you assess your opponent's result tonight?
Obviously, they only got the one round. How much of that do you think you can put down to chase?
and your boys playing really really well tonight as opposed to them and sort of how do you then assess them going forward into a potential rematch come finals?
Do you, does this change the outlook at all or is it more so just a case of best of ones and they had an off day and you'll take that into consideration going forward?
I'm well aware of the VO3 dynamic of how everything works, longer games, longer rounds, tougher fights but it's like I expect them to come back with a vengeance
if we burst them in playoffs again.
I don't expect it to be anywhere near as easy as that game.
But I think if we come into that same mentality,
as we came into this game wanting that result,
you know, the main thing we came in again
wanting that 7-1, wanting that big victory.
So I think if we do end up bursting them again,
we will expect them to come back twice as good
as they normally play.
So we will definitely be prepared.
And I have to give a huge shout out to obviously the boys.
Like after we won that game yesterday,
obviously they were very, they were very,
They were very happy to beat AP, but it was straight away like, okay, what do I beat those looking after a man like we already had it laid out.
We knew exactly what maps we were going to today and we were prepared for whatever result came out of that video.
So I think yeah, I'm very proud of them all.
This is where I guess the experience from yourself, and I've been around a long time.
You've seen plenty of times teams have really good, regular stages and then go into, you know, back then playoffs, now finals, whatever you want to call it and then not get the job done.
I mean, how much does that really, I guess,
from your side of things, in part,
onto the rest of the team ahead of finals,
you obviously locked in, that's going to happen,
you're gonna be in that position,
or you're gonna potentially think about past instances
where teams within this region look really, really strong
and then just fall short, you kind of look back
at any of those and try and take lessons
from those that you can impart on the younger guys.
I think for sure, I think you have to, right?
You have to look at other people
how they played in BR1s and taking the fact that BR3s are a completely different game.
I would have definitely taken it into consideration a bit more and put it into our practice more
if we didn't have a kickoff stage where it was only BR3s.
I know my team is very comfortable playing BR3s.
They all prefer to play BR3s over BR1s.
That's where they are excited.
That's why I said to them, I said, if we can get through this stage in the groups, I want
first.
That's what I said in the start.
I said I want first position because that shows that we're not just a BR1 team but
would be a threat we are just insistent. So for sure I think you're 100%
taking into consideration looking back at other teams and how being like hey
boys you can do it in a BO1 but now we have to up that level stay mentally
strong that's the most important but we've done all we've done all the macro
and stuff it's all about the mental game now. Last one from me mate and then we'll
let you go but I want to end it on a really positive note and from your side
of things what is an aspect of what makes your team so great that no one else in
this region can match so what do you do better than any other team in this region I don't
I don't really want to say what I do better than other teams I can say definitely what
you don't like I don't like saying that we're within that we are mentally such I like to
say like a family in the sense of I'll be honest we've had some arguments as every team
I'm sure does but it was it is always ended in a factor of I understand what you're saying
I will try to improve and then if you could please do this for me, blah, blah, blah.
We have worked so hard between tick off and stage one to make sure that we're
able to speak to each other in a way that doesn't turn tops it and is, is productive.
So after we lost the chikadami, I'll be honest, there was a lot of tough conversations.
I turned out into the next set of practice and they're going to EP of guys.
We shouldn't be disappointed.
We shouldn't be let back.
We should be progressive about it.
And we should be looking to be better.
We should be accepting the challenge.
we shouldn't be expecting teams to be like, oh, they're going to beat us.
And then when we lose, we should be like, oh, why aren't we not playing as good as we should?
Well, it's, yeah, we need to be mentally strong. We need to be looking in. I think what we do,
well, I would hope what we do better than most teams and what I expect for my team to do better is
be able to speak to each other and be mentally capable of not just, you know, crashing out and
just playing the blame game and actually self-reflecting.
Well losses Nate are not always the end of the world you learn the most from losses and obviously all of the hard work that you guys been putting in the stage has been very evident congratulations again on the win and coming to chat with us and obviously best of luck next week against arcade and head into finals.
Thank you.
Thank you. Have a good one.
Well, in the end a very resounding result for what was supposed to be match of the day
So therefore I'll move our next match to match of the day coming up enterprise versus Bobby boys
One of them will be good surely at least one of them would not be a seven zero or seven one
And I mean look it's another massive game neither EP all Barbie boys are a hundred percent locked at this point
I don't believe unless some of the other results may have shifted that but either way it's it's a critical matchup for both and
Fingers crossed it'll be close and competitive
Yeah, I think that it should be competitive
I don't know how close it'll be but even you know
I think naturally that that sort of seven three seven four probably in favor of EPs where I would put the early prediction
For a match like this, but that's not to discredit discount bar boys
Things can change on a given night depending on the map depending on the mood of the players things like that
What I will say it's a little bit of a danger game for enterprise guys
They do play men alpha of course in plate a seven who will look to bounce back from their loss to chiefs
So you lose this and then you lose next week. You don't make finals
It's as pretty simple as that so there is emphasis for enterprise and there certainly is emphasis as well for Bobby boys
Their spot is up for grabs to they play rival next week
They would love to have a little cushion short break with your comeback that match is on the other side
I learned how to do something good.
I learned how to do whatever I want to do.
I will continue to be a player until I can.
I haven't thought about it for 5 years or so.
I want to do something related to the game industry.
I want to be a coach or a director.
I want to stream my games later
and do it in a game-related way
I don't have any hobbies except games
I play other games on days of break
I don't go out to do anything
I don't go out with my girlfriend sometimes
I've been with my girlfriend for 4 years
Every time I go to a tournament, I cheer for them, and they cheer for me at home.
They help me in many ways.
Especially now, I think they are helping me the most.
I have no team, so I have the money that my girlfriend used to work with.
So I'm really thankful and glad to meet you all.
Japan is a country that has a special meaning for me.
Every time I had a European or American tour in Brazil,
I was happy to have a major in Asia after a long time.
I really want to go to a major.
The Japanese team is also a major in Japan, so I think there will be a home advantage.
If we were to advance, we would not doubt each other.
I
Oh
Well, the carnage of last line has crept into tonight as well, got 7-0-7-1 for our first
game, but alas, it has happened.
She's taken the number one seed,
and it seems as if they should be
able to hold onto that now going
into finals. It means for men
LFO. They dropped down to second
place. And currently now where
we go to our next match is just
as big, just as important
enterprise versus Barbie boys.
It's third versus fourth.
It's Bobby boys though in third.
Yeah, absolutely. Both of these
two teams still vying for
still vying for a spot in the finals and more critically than that I guess as well is also the
seeding as well implications are plenty across the board and I think honestly for these two teams
the pressure is more so on EP they have expectation they shouldn't just be going into finals they
should be making it all the way to EWC and a loss here would be pretty devastating a couple
screenshots some of the post-sod X that took place last night after the EP Chiefs matchup
to me in response to player with lunchbox the top of the thread with some comments of his own as well
pretty respectful from boxer must be said after their 75 victory and yes and some words exchanged
which is a classic ados yeah i mean i had to read too much into it to be honest i think that it's
you know interesting for enterprise their whole mantra at the moment and certainly over the last
last couple of months, it's been all about the shit talk, et cetera, and well, you know,
if you want to talk the smack, you're going to get smacked back sometimes. And as you
said, I think what lunchbox said is quite an endearing compliment, but probably in a
backhanded way, let's be honest, as we move into Barbie boys and a game that is quite
well important for them as well. They are very much chasing that top four position.
They've got a difficult task ahead of them against an enterprise team, which I'm sure
going to be angry and hungry to get a result tonight to make sure that their position in
the top floor is going to be locked in. Reminder, Barber boys play rifles next week, guys.
So as we know, it's a pretty important game. Barber beat six targets earlier tonight. They
got their job done. They're on the nine points. Barber boys are on the ten points. So a loss
here for Barber boys would put them then in a do or die must win next week. So they would
loss. It's just trying to skip that queue, get the job done tonight.
Yeah, absolutely, but it's gonna be a tall task. Sure, E.P. had a couple of bumps on the road, but they're by no means ever considered a push over team.
And Bobby was still, despite being third on the standings and above the opposition, still go in as underdogs, just given the historical precedent that E.P. have been able to establish here's the replay package of their last adding against our cave.
cave and it was a pretty convincing seven to watch walking away with the MVP for
that matchup he was running right inside of the service seemingly no one could
kill him he had a massive influence of big impact in the match and it was a
hero player for them on a couple of occasions and I'm sure Bobby boys will
be looking to try and exploit him in the best way possible for this particular
match as well. Yeah I would do wonder though for the side of Bobby boys do they
have the the mental mindset in dealing with a match such as this against a
team like EP, who they would obviously respect and know what they're capable of, but I think
at the same time, they'd be more than happy to match them and go blow-to-blow in terms
of the trash talk that I'm probably expecting for a game like this.
These guys, I don't think, will care at all for what EP have to say as we go and have
a look at the enterprise roster and, of course, the loss yesterday, leading them in an awkward
position, fourth place on the standings, therefore needing to get results in their last two play
days.
of them you lose this, next week becomes quite literally must win against Man Alaphore on
the final playday. Man Alaphore themselves, who have already qualified, would be looking
to get the bounce back result. And also, even though Man Alaphore have already been qualified,
you'd love to knock Entryprize out of finals altogether because that helps you in the long
run. So yeah, this is a pretty important game for Man to prize. And so they're going to
have to be locked in mentally.
Yeah, I think the consensus has changed all too much on EP that if they were to go and
finals and that's still the expectation that the best of the format the experience that they have
they'll be very well served there and should make EWC but the problem for them is with only a
couple of games to go they haven't been able to confirm themselves and so that pressure now
starts to ramp up best of ones have certainly not been particularly great for them exposed a
little bit in this stage one format as opposed to maybe kick off earlier in the year and so this
And this map veto is going to be absolutely critical for both teams and we'll see where
they end up shaking down too.
I do wonder what kind of style of map these two teams want to take place on.
I think EP will have pretty deep pockets in their pool and it's looking like it will be
between Fortress and Club from another classic OSMAP to sneak through in the end.
EP afforded themselves a bit of flexibility by leaving that Fortress up.
Interestingly they don't back themselves in to win that.
I have the Barbie boys instead go for a little bit more unknown quantity in club and barbie boys to defend first
Interestingly enough enterprise have not played clubhouse this stage
It's been high on their ban list of barbie boys played at last night with a big results 7-2 win
They start defense as well. So a huge match coming up barbie boys enterprise
Surely this will end up being match of the day territory
Barber boys with a lot to prove that they can mix it with the best get themselves a spot in top four enterprise
Well, they definitely want to get this win or their threat
Potential threat of missing finals all together and if they were to lose this game in a domino fashion
They would even drop out of the top four as early as tonight
Pending of course the round differentials
So therefore this is a huge class for these two teams ahead of the final playday next week
are going to be absolutely
crucial. Don't forget. Academy
throughout all of this as well.
By the way, they do still play
later tonight. They've got the
final game of the night coming
up after this against arcade,
and then they play six targets
tomorrow. So it's likely they
could even get to 11 points.
There's a lot going on here in
Oceania. Two slots in the region
for spots for finals. And we'll
see who can get there. Could
both of these get here get to
top four. Still a possibility,
but right now, they're still
But right now I think the way things are shaping up could just be the one of them depending on results capital along with the thermite kaid and the mirror. Those are the bands be beyond defense. Let's get underway.
Yeah, we in some ways have to embody the same mindset as the players and the teams and actually take it and in a very much a one round at a time approached that there's so many potential permutations depending on who wins and in what fashion, whether it be in reg or T and how that will then define how the team is going to be.
the standings look at the end of the night and then the implications for the
final playday. The loser of this matchup would be put in a very difficult
position. The winner though will be quite pleased. It's a big matchup between
these two. It's still so difficult to say as to whether or not it is going to be a
close and competitive matchup if it is to be one-sided. Surely that goes the way
of EP but there's clearly been no assurances as to not only the winner
of matches throughout this group stage, but also the fashion which teams are winning.
There's been massive blowouts, there's been unexpected close results, and maybe this
one has another curveball to be thrown in as well.
It's a base with defense, but top floor U-Till here from Barbie Boys, they'll look to go
for a roam early for Solitude by the mid.
I do want to re-clarify enterprise cannot finish outside the top four tonight, because
the worst result which is 7-0 would only put them equal with rival and if that were to
eventually I mean it's just as bad really it's not much better.
I don't think that's gonna happen although the way that yesterday and today is going
who knows at this point it's becoming very difficult to predict some of these games.
Launchers stand out so far this stage quick slow what a headshot onto Bappin that's a
statement start for Barbie boys.
Yeah, that'll fire them up a bit pretty free kill
Play your advantage
And there's gonna be a lot of chatter in this one
You would imagine words will be exchanged between these two how much of that is friendly as opposed to hostile you can be the judge
Hostile but eat it probably hostile
You're gonna have to battle hard back into this round just to end any chance
It's gonna be real rough especially losing the vert capabilities back in on the ram
They'll take an individual effort likely to play down main or blue to have impact
This is just where enterprise is the kind of game where I think you leave the trash talking aside
And you just focus on your skill your royal skill. Let's be honest as a core five
It's still the most skilled team in the region doesn't think you're the best team though
I think they've just got to get back to focusing a little bit more on the fundamentals on the game itself less about the trash talk
This is what they do best, you know, they can work out these situations, 4v5's not
the end of the world for VP.
Not ideal to lose back in the sense of losing that soft bridge for the kitchen hallway and
kitchen itself.
Surprise on the clash is going to be, of course, a good defensive anchor late in this round
and late indeed it already is, there he is, over towards triple.
It has been at least an up play enterprise.
Making a good headway of getting at least pot main and moto positions and looking in
the background, Brenda is pushing towards blue, flamed off at the moment.
Alright there it gets the next kill on to Pinkoot and he's one of the top triangles for
Barbi boys.
Brenda takes a step into the flames but he finds the angle onto quicks.
Bailey gets the quick trade with the two damn players as well.
Pressure mounted towards church.
Walsh, lovely kill on to Tujan.
There's a 2v2 25 seconds, and they isolate prez low limited util. He has shield still standing 20 seconds
This should be going to the teeth. That's the car push forward didn't get covered
I mean if the virus slips in but they got the res and therefore still a 2v2 not much has changed
Kaira going for the plant jigsaw falls to Walsh, but Cairo gets off Cairo then gets them both
teachers of the lesson
Cairo has still got it
Enterprise, take the opening round. Basement attack goes their way.
Yeah, good resolve in that round from AP. Barbie boys, they're making some critical errors.
They had them on the ropes. Player advantage. They'd clash triple.
They allowed way too much space and pressure to be generated over towards that Moto drop.
Didn't account for Brenda. Early enough, blue side.
Whilst that was eventually traded, then they got caught on a mistime.
miss time by going for the razor to let this slip in.
And Cairo made his mark.
We're going for Brando here.
There's the blue lurk.
And whilst it was immediately traded, right here, Cairo.
He fought an opportunity to have the impact.
And whilst it was low on HP, so too was Baylor,
who couldn't react in time to the swing.
And that round there is a really good showcase,
is to just how well EP can play it back against the wall.
It's basement site 4v5.
There's not too many teams in the region where you would
Still give them a solid shout a solid chance in being able to close out the round and that's why we didn't rule EP out
They'd live up and Barbie boys are kept honest
Inside of the server for this game, there's five players that are in the top 11 in the region
The two on enterprise, the jigsaw and batman are in the top three, by the way, play it
has now gone up to the number one spoils, the number one rated player this stage.
Think about redeeming yourself after being dropped from this enterprise team.
And what he's doing with Chiefs, it's Brenda makes his way towards rafters, we've got Jim
Bedford for the second round.
Once again the clash employed by the defense of barbie boys, but is that a
practice on this quicks that's going to be playing it. Walsh by the way is the
one that's just outside the top 10 sitting in 11th position having a very
good stage quicks fortunate to still be alive grabs the shield forces his way
back into con they do still have pink though top red stairs and as he's been
spot it out he's gonna push down red stairs maybe they're not gonna die most
one towards lounge they go to the pinch they've got walls to try and get the
early contact on the back and gets him very low continues this way what is
back of doing but wielded inside a stock he goes down Brenda though at least
good trade good cover over towards garage wall just want to take this fight
he'll fall back smart option and jigsaw gets rid of Bailey he's on the board
down. E.P. take the numbers advantage. It's two straight rounds though that happens the
opening death.
Yeah, it was a decent tag team for barbie boys, but now they've afforded a bit of space.
They've also given them an advantage to E.P. who took advantage elsewhere.
And he's, the portion's the match. I think probably teaching barbie boys some early
lessons that this is going to be tough match.
Oh, the timing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'll have to step it quicker.
He can at least head back over to what's top lane, because he's not open top.
So it may end up being a little one-dimensional here towards the end of the round for EP, but
we'll see if they can trade it out into the clash as well, important to note,
because he does have perceived pressure
and quickscape in a position to cover on the clash.
Brando's made his way in, he knows they've got full bedroom control and there's one stuck towards bathroom.
Prez did enough to at least take Brando with him. Walsh, good hop over. Headshot onto Jigsaw.
Shield be shield. And it's Walsh that hits the headshot onto Kyro. Walsh has started so hot but he comes too.
He doesn't matter, it's another for Walsh. Oh, he saw him in the cam as well. He's heating up.
Six and one start for one of the region's newest rising stars.
Yeah, that was a phenomenal play and credit to Quicks as well in the round got very nice
value there from the clash even Prez to trade Brenda and prevent the back line from factoring
there was a good sign from him. They fight their way out of that round. The first two
rounds of this matchup have been probably the most competitive we've seen over the
Of course, the night so far, not that the bar was particularly high, but these two, going at it earlier here on club.
It'd be great to watch.
Cache, CCTV, for round three.
Barbie boys elect not to bring the clash for a third time in a row as we look back at the beginning of the round.
Back in court, over the wood stock, it was a good crunch from the defense.
Enterprise took that as an opportunity to take space elsewhere, but final phase of the push proved tough.
Cairo finding it tricky to navigate forward on the Monty into the clash counter.
and Walsh with some phenomenal mechanical skill to aid his team.
For this round we'll see the Tachanka brought in for Denark alongside the Echo.
So we may see a world here in which Bali boys look to anchor late, peel back, try
to force a wincon here from AP, but AP probably not the kind of team that they're
gonna force a plant if they don't need to. They'll back themselves in for the
kill con if required interestingly they bring the sense of this first attack
cash side and I wonder how they look to implement it and a double lurk dirt okay
this is a little peculiar could end up being some kind of red stack blade
Kairi gets rid of quicks that's just over the wards of the hach Kairi has started
hot as well right now it's the Kyro V Walsh show. Not Walsh towards garage and may not
be ready for this secret push up because this is said double stack push in through dirt
down basement not often you'll see that on cash and CCTV battle with the lion scan activated
he's pulling behind too hard they're getting some good information I wonder if they can
get into a position for a fast rush up red stairs no barbed wire here comes too hard
What ready for it all is Bailey playing with the yo guys
That's good deep position top red
Pick you got one inch as well to Han taken low Brando lost out to pink who pickers found two elsewhere
Jigsaw try to push him he too falls. It's three to pink who that's a 1v2 now for too hard to deal with
But prayers of course. He's already down
Ping information from the Kwanhaa flauncher late on to pink who but noses inside of CCTV
Both teams are keeping each other very honest at the moment.
AP with the red stack, went for the flood. It almost worked. The amount of pressure that
Barbie boys had to sustain there was immense, but Pinku, off to the side, netted a multi
that was massively influential in the round and then Walsh again standing tall at the
very end, composed himself, maintained distance with Touhan, and one out of critical 1v1 dual.
He's very much heating up inside of the server at the moment.
The Grim and the Azami to be banned out.
Here's the replay package.
Two Hunt pushed up, Bayley caught on the way.
Two Hunt trying his best to win out that duel.
It was so close.
Yet so far, Bobby Boyz with the lead.
Yeah, good game.
So far developing.
Dare I say, though, you look back on that opening round, I think this could easily be through
nothing.
wonder if that's quietly in the back of the mines of EP that largely in this
half have been outplayed. A 4k from 1 up to the second round, 3 from Kinkyu and the third.
If it wasn't for Clara's heroics back in the opening round, indeed, this would be 3-0.
And this is what you want if you're barbed boys.
You just want the early reward for effort, get the rounds on the board, try and see if
mentally and surprise might start to doubt themselves a little bit, but you've also then
got to think, yeah, that probably won't happen.
We've got to stay locked in.
It's a great start, but great starts can sometimes end in a disaster.
They appear too talented to fall away in this game and they're gonna keep fighting
And right now bb have got all the momentum as they head back to basement
Clicks again will play early presence main, but this time deterred by the Deimos
Last time out he got that free pluck onto Bappin
But this time it's a little more disciplined from E.P. bringing the information gathering operators required to ensure that the coast is clear and all five members of the defense will now posture down below.
The clash back in play, a little intrigued that E.P. elected MOTS to ban it out, I suppose at least on basement they did a pretty fine job in navigating around that and actually isolating pros on an island late.
I may look to do something fairly similar this time around as well.
Merto expo, same denarii tripwire setup I've seen previously.
An AP midpoint of the round can start layering you to and clearing the defensive utility
required.
If Bobby boys were to go on and win this gameguards, then rival cannot overtake Bobby boys.
Rival would have to beat Bobby boys next week and hope that EP lose to Manila Foe.
So if your rival watching along at home right now, you most definitely do not want a Bobby
boys win, long ways to go. I'm a little bit of a manning in this round. Rest of the kitchen,
but not much towards the site. 5v5 right now, I think really suits Barbed Boys well, they
still have the Clash available, nice to sell these Quicks as well, playing inside the church.
Bailey just needs to say a lie, that's his number one goal. Doesn't have to do anything
else, he's absorbing the pressure, eventually goes down a bap and finds his first kill. Jigsaw
falls though he's having a struggle Cairo again goes down walls another kill
as the time starts to expire again Bobby boys are looking pretty good but last
time now this is how they lost it Pico for the swing gets the kill not aware of
another one playing over the wards bot main that was Brenda good swing
surely they couldn't steal with the game 15 second flashes to follow Brenda
down long but flashed himself and prayers and quicks able to collect
Barbie boys are playing really well at the moment and Enterprise are struggling to deal with some of these setups.
They're falling short of the mark. They didn't ban the clash, it posed problems onto Cairo, Dirtside.
They didn't get value from the kitchen drop after clearing Bailey and even the last ditched attempt with the double stack main.
That too, limited in impact. It was a good swing from Triple Wall from the defense.
And barbie boys are doing a great job here. They're not really chasing these rounds. They are generally breaking down these attacks.
And AP are finding it very difficult to find win conditions later on. They're often putting themselves in tricky positions.
And we saw the fight back on the first attempt down below. It will be a close and I haven't quite been able to replicate that since.
I mean there's a part of me of course that this is this is clubhouse defense in this region
club usually plays out in this kind of fashion two rounds to go so you just get to five one
I think that's the way that I kind of view this game right now if it gets to five one
I'm a little nervous for EP just to I'm here I'm I'm quite nervous because the four two
I think it's kind of equal at that point going into the second half.
Interesting comment there in the chat regarding the lack of the clash band.
In fairness, the Izami was played all three rounds.
They're very strong operator.
I think there's anything necessarily wrong with banning the Izami.
Walsh got shot early to Kyra and it's been a good game from Kyra.
He's definitely standing up in this match for Enterprise and shuts down a player who's
an incredible form right now in Walsh.
This will be a big test now for Bobby boys, but they've also already passed the last two
rounds where they did lose opening deaths.
To Bailey and Quicks, add Walsh to the mixdowns, three straight opening kills for Enterprise.
So far struggling to convert with these 5v4 opportunities.
Thank you.
Thinks about traversing bar side but we'll reconsider his options.
Quicks caught.
Pretty ruthless from AP in this round and from here it should be pretty straight forward.
They've been able to force two particularly unfair gunfights if you even want to call
them gunfights because they were quite one-sided.
Oh, Razz though has something to say about a con side.
Maybe there's still something a little left in this round but both isolated con.
Not often you see Jigsaw 1 and 5.
That is a rare statistic.
Baffin 1-4 as well.
Two-horned big kill on to Bayley.
do not want to let this round go the way of Barbie boys.
Prey is again a traded numbers of course with Enterprise.
That being the difference here
in the middle portion of this round.
Piggy would need the 1v3.
Kairos spots him out of Blackbeard.
Death Mark on his position as Hobbit.
He knows there's one towards White.
He's the head shot onto Bapman.
But Kairos does the job.
He started off the round.
Kairos playing really well right now for Enterprise.
He's keeping them in this game.
3-2, now pressure back on to Barbed Bois, he would need this fourth defensive round.
Yeah, Karz had a lot thrown at him in this matchup, particularly, maining the shields
into the clash has been very challenging, but he's generally done a very, very good
job in trying to at least circumnavigate that, or have influence in other parts of the map.
Did a good job finding the opening there in the last round, he's second opening kill
for the half so far.
And then he's in a good position there late round as well, if he wasn't snappy about
finding that immediate knockdown and trade. Pinkoob is probably on for a decent clutch
attempt there. They saw work from AP, they meet the two round benchmark. They'll be going
on and searching for more here in the final round of the half back to cash CCTV. Successful
last time out for Barbie boys. It was a somewhat unusual attack from AP, early work, dirt side,
not a big influence, over towards Kennel's. It was more so the red stairs work and they
look to exploit elsewhere and go pretty direct. I wonder if they reigned it in this time do
we maybe see a rafter side here that seems to be largely out of favor a lot of teams instead
opting con side at the moment. We'll see what they go for. On the side of defense though it's the
clash once again back in play meaning the clash will only be not played in one round so far so
5 out of 6 in the half, the clash has been shared between pros and quicks.
The 3 straight rounds AP have gotten the early advantages, this is where Barg Boyz D2P a little bit more cautious.
It's time Pinko gets the first pick.
The double stack towards Rafters pays off.
We're losing the Maverick for the end of the world, full end surprise, and 236 hasn't
really been all that impactful this game.
Kyra has been the main man, but at some point you're expecting Jigsaw and Bappas to activate.
No matter of when, not if.
Hinku has to be ready for that pushing towards Gyra, just getting the information from Prez.
again that one from pit onto quicks he goes to eight kills now and equals this
up for v4
running out of utility to deal with this double stack rafters hold means they
might have to rotate
potentially although the rotate certainly doesn't define or guarantee you
rather march evil so this is a tricky position for EP again to try and problem solve their problem
solving hasn't been too bad tonight but this one right up there is potentially the most difficult
test with two zotos still left clashed don't forget yokai's in pocket or at least out deployed for
bailey and while walsh again big impact of nine and two the jump out onto brendo and the second
onto backburn that was disgusting and at that point the rounds falling apart so kahrtz have
sent it in. Jigsaw's having no impact in this half. A four to two lead for Bobby Boyz.
But they're going to have to now go on to the attack if they're going to beat EP.
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You can't hurt yourself, you see
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Look for the rightest my fate
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It makes our hearts to breathe And we're livin' in the flames
Some may bring them to we, I'm clear when it's the youngest
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Distraction's got me, money, bars, a heavy door
Civil rights, it's us staying as peace
Oh, oh, Harlem, if we had to fight, we had to die
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Forget the poverty we've been through, pop this in our section
Well, one and a half, four to leave for Barbi boys.
really thrown down the gauntlet here as we head into the second half, EP at least got to go defense
but they're well tasked with a difficult challenge ahead of them. The pressure's on. Barbi Boyz
at least two rounds away from securing overtime which would deny all three points away from EP.
I mean, this would be such a dramatic result if Barbie boys could go on and win this game
for their own sake, go to 13 points and by doing so would secure the spot in finals.
it'd be locked in does that would be three spots locked up going into the final
playday and EP wouldn't be one of them that would be it's unthinkable at this
point it is literally unthinkable and it would be incredibly ironic if EP who at
Salt Lake City afforded this sub region two slots at EWC don't even have an
opportunity to compete for it that would be remarkable that'd be an all-timer in
We've been around for a while now, and I can't think of a storyline that would be quite as dramatic as that
Then I try out by much at the moment defense club will see if it suits them jigsaw in particular
We'll be looking to have impactors
He had a slow start to the half and look on the side of Bobby boys
I think Walsh will be giving the licensee to make plays and be proactive
He looks once again great much like he did last night taking calculated risk that having the skills back it up
I mean, I think to put it blunt right now, the biggest difference is the fact that you're getting an all-time low performance from both Jigsaw and Bap and the two, or two of the top three players in the region, one in six and two in six.
And as they go on defense, this is where I think they might get a little bit more comfortable, start to get more involved, therefore build that confidence back up.
You know a four to half we say it all the time on club especially in this region. That's pretty powerful of course
EP can you know go and win the next two rounds certainly it's 4-4 and the pressure goes back on to barbie boys
I think the yeah round seven and eight for me are the most important
The Walsh double digit half for kills
I think a lot of frankie power from those two, but it's gonna be a different tale in this half now on to the attack
He's got the ash license
All deserved at this point the way he's playing
And I think these are the kind of
Kind of games where EP can really show
That they've also got that mental fortitude to get themselves out of a tricky situation go defense
Play some rather compact siege
They won't really give up, at least I hope, a lot of mistakes.
So it means that Ivo is going to have to really reinforce their way to taking this site.
So far it's slow and steady as the timer is only closing on one minute.
Both teams keeping it pretty compact, pretty basic.
By the words of the Monty this round, you're not having to worry about the clash, Council.
So Prez will be given a freedom here to try and make some space and gain some info, whether
that be through Modo or Gammain and Triple.
45 seconds on the clock, they'll start making their move, Bayley low.
I think you can go for the blue hit, late Walsh as well, potentially in a position to
compliment this as Prez on the Monty will drop.
EP looking to respond with you to Brando three gas babes, and he'll begin his deployment
Checklist that they've got through inside 30 seconds Bailey goes down to Cairo
He got the earlier damage from that nitro cell finishes him off for the SMG
There we go. Well, it's just gonna send it in toward blue for the best does get the kill on the Cairo
One wall was just below his crosshair. He wasn't aware of it though
They're all playing quite tucked in EP giving them absolutely nothing knowing that they're low on time
They have to push it and swing and swing they do plan going down further way throughout all of this
It will be successful prez will get back up alive that shield up in a 2v2 post plan
Baphen activates
To critical kill from him in this round pistol from prez doesn't get the down
Brenda is quite low now out of gas babes of course has the monty though. Oh, he finds an angle Baphen lovely headshot here
He comes a
A big round from Bapin, salvages what could have almost been a snatch from Barbie Boys.
That got a little too close for comfort.
Yeah, a little bit.
I mean, it was well played out though in the end, Brent, they pocketed a gas babe that
allowed him to apply media pressure back onto prez, afforded an opportunity then for Bapin
to reposition short.
And as long as they timed it, one of them was always going to get the kill there, even
if it was a trade so while playing the post the lead up there is a little dicey
Walsh narrowly denied if he had a found either a second pick whether it be
through the church wall where he pretty far to missed or deep AK where he was
caught out could have played that very differently if he gets that initial
kill immediately there would have meant that for instance right here pink you
wasn't necessarily forced to go deep it may have alleviated some pressure early
allowed for a more immediate plant that could have had so differently then that's often the case the
blue hit on that site can make or break it for the attack or or the defense if they're able to hold
on so yeah big moments there in that round an EP just able to get the win over to bedroom for the
the follow-up the basements like ticked off for enterprise two rounds now above
well Baphin has entered the fray there's still one more challenger that's waiting
wings his name is jigsaw pretty big reputation in this region one and seven
it is incredibly rare oh what happened to Bailey did you fall off the roof
that is that we always reinforced we don't know if we have a replay of that it could have been
i don't i didn't quite catch it i was looking at cross at the round history at the time so
Then hopefully we have a replay of what's exactly transpired there in late. He will be brought back up
So it's not a massive loss just mean that barely for the remainder of the round will be wanting to
immediately get this utility deployed and then
He can look to play bait later in the round now one shot
Exterior con opened up and so perceived pressure available immediately for the attack
He's so quickly getting this utility out
Yeah, I mean, okay, I'm gonna play as the Claymores now.
Nice to know.
Yeah, it's a license to kind of do what he wants for the rest of the run.
I'm gonna say, actually, it's just what they don't need.
So far, it's four out of last five rounds,
opening picks to go on the way back to play.
So they're starting to get these early advantages.
Wall or Shaw?
Wins the battle against Jigsaw.
He's just handling one of those incredibly rare off-nights.
There are plenty of rounds still to play
Jigsaw can get himself back into this game. So far, so good for Barbie boys. Now with the
5v4, Nitrocell in hand from two hearts towards Kitchen. Barbie boys putting pressure from
the balcony in towards the site. Now he plays Jim. A little bit of damage from the fire gets him low.
Kyra is playing bar by the way, Bap and lovely headshot onto Pinku.
Well he's starting to feel it.
Kyra catches out walls from that first floor position.
Bap is backing himself in and why not?
He started to play like a top three player in this match.
We are tied four to four and the pressure now immediately returns to Barbie Boys.
Yeah, there's a lot of arse to bap it in that round, over towards GM, he was starting to run low and keep a barriers, was susceptible to the frag grenades as well, so positionally he had to be spot on perfectly timed the first swing on the balcony and then held the line against Bayley who was really low on HP.
Big Jewel early, went the way of Walsh as Jigsaw continues to struggle, but the rest of the
anchor work onsite flawless from EP.
Yeah, I mean this is a strange game. If you had said Jigsaw's 1A, yeah, Bap had started what, I think 1 in 4, 1 in 5, something to win those lands.
And the fact that body boys, you know got out to a pretty decent start
I would have thought yeah, maybe the worst could happen for EP, but they're managing it because you're getting a lot out of Kyra
You're getting a lot out of Brendo. Bampen has now had two very impactful rounds
on defense and it's all just starting to click once again for one of the top teams in the region
and body boys now have got to try and find a way to
change things up a little bit
Taking it kind of slow in a lot of these rounds. I wonder if they opt to try and pick up the pace
You look at the time of the opening kills so far in this half 26 seconds and a minute and 26 seconds
That's pretty slow pacing the opening kills in the first half of 220 222 231 205
So the pacing is dropped in the second half from Bobby boys their attacks have been slow
And they're not really gaining a lot of benefit from that pace
I'm not saying they have to just rush into the site at this point in the time
but clearly there's a pacing difference to what we saw in the first half and the
way they're playing right now isn't really leading them to success.
This is the big round, Cache, CCTV, tertiary site all tied up, 4 to 4.
Again, Barber Boys will qualify for finals with a win.
Every point towards the standings matter, whichever team can also push OT and get 6
points first is also going to find themselves in a pretty good position.
position. So, sending a massive round, Bobby Boyz doing their due diligence, chipping away
utility turn. Their best to kind of keep us here from Karo is quietly putting himself
up to 10 kills. Air jab lands, but he does just survive. That was an opportunity. That
was a real opportunity. Especially when he's playing it pretty much solo as well. If he
had had a second player stacking with him. It would have been a little bit different.
That's him by the way on the lurk over towards main stairs on the side of the map.
Kyra sensing that he's maybe running out of time. He just sprays down the smoke, gets the glass
and Jigsaw shuts down Bailey. The tertiary site not proving to do much different. Lovely pistol shot
from press need it that boy did they need that but they're still up against it as time starts to
expire and back with that lurk originally from main stairs through the lounge connects on to Walsh
two versus four
he paid for all the momentum so far on their defense
yeah they sure do barbie boys struggling in the garage clearing they get no opening as I'll swear
Credit to Cairo in this round despite now being in the grave. He did his job in sustaining a lot of pressure absorbing a lot of utility
Reposition late over towards Kennel's breach, but that too won't work out
Double kill for Jigsaw and Prez will be the next to fall you would assume
one versus three five seconds two to five five seconds
The two Han and Brenda they'll consolidate
They won't give away anything for free and EP doing a great job there cash CC
I mean this is worrying now for Bobby boys right because they would have known that they were in this game
They started 3-1 lead a 4-2 half and even some of those lost rounds in the first half were winnable
Yeah, the two rounds that they lost on their defense the first round was a 1v2 clutch from Cairo and
In round 5 for there was only the two alive for EP when they won that round gym bedroom
So that first half all of the momentum was with Bobby boys
but now it's completely reversed it's just a classic oceanic clubhouse
defensive side of the match I mean that's all that really is and so now the
pressure is just firmly with the party boys you know that your opportunity is
has arrived but it's starting to go very quickly if you can't wrestle back some
kind of momentum I think they really need to try and find a way to open up
this map get a little bit more like play get a little bit more aggressive the
The more direct nature of these attacks is just clearly not working.
It's slow again, another opening kill, a minute and five seconds.
So a lot of these early contact, well, a lot of these contact fights to begin with, the
entries are almost half on average slower than what we saw in the first half.
And unfortunately now you're going to go back down basement.
This has all the hallmarks of a bit of a closeout here from Enterprise Guards.
We've seen this story before, basement into Jim Benjamin.
I honestly think at this point, 7-4 is the most likely result.
So it's going to take something special out of Bobby Boyce from here.
Again, they go to the Monty.
It hasn't been working in this half.
Press has gotten kills, but it hasn't really helped facilitate the rest of the team behind him to get into good positions.
confidence line for AP and you can adjudicate that on the positioning of
this defense at the moment fairly spread horizontally.
I just preemptively assumed that it was going to be basement, but we're going bar stage.
That's a good pick up, a site that sees little play time.
So maybe one that Barbie boys aren't as tested on, maybe less mileage and scrims and that
may cause problems for them here.
This is the first appearance of this particular objective in OS 4 stage 1.
So uncharted territory for us as well.
there's defense spread up looking to try and take isolated fights early well I'm
trying to open storage he is cut off from two positions I mean whenever we do
get to see this like once or twice a year the strategy can vary but the one
strategy I've seen good success with is when you kind of play kitchen open up
the walls and then you kind of have one play up above as well but the way the
EPA also kind of playing it here is a lot more of these lurk positions to
with Bap and Overworld Secret.
Yeah, Brendo at the moment is outside of the map, apparently.
And so you've got a good spread, as you mentioned,
but you've also still got the setup that you naturally want
when you're playing bar stage.
And I think this is causing a lot of confusion right now
for Barbie Boys.
Could come down to a timing.
Walsh goes back to blue.
What are things?
Look, crazy.
Yeah.
They haven't generated anything.
Probably boys. I haven't found a lot. They're not pressuring
They look a little bit lost on this side at the moment and again
Maybe a reflection that this is an objective then not as well versed on I mean
But yeah, they've established that but it means nothing when AP are playing the way they are
They're basically say if you want to rush past age we'll be able to then call you
get the retake and if you want to hunt us down we're ready for it. I mean this is done
it's gonna be six to four. Two match points for AP. In going quicks they're gonna have to be
correct to jump and pretty quick as well. 20 seconds on the clock. Two hunts is down at the
moment over the wall of stage. Panku though taking damage. They don't have kit so they need the kills.
Not gonna happen Kyra can even just run back upstairs into red time. No chance of Panku
that is a well-worked round.
Bar stage doesn't really see play.
But they showed that maybe if you've got the right strategy and the right play style that you can make it work, and they did so really well.
I mean, that was a very dominant round win.
Bubba boys had no idea and were not ready for bar stage at all.
They call the time out now.
Two rounds down after a three to one start in this game.
It's also a point secured for Enterprise.
Yeah, it's a big point.
Lifestandings would now have them,
I guess in a roundabout way,
just on top of Barbie Boys, if you credit them two for now.
But they'll be eager to go on and earn all three.
That was a big call for me, Peter, to make,
to select that site, given the context of that round
and how impactful it was, not just for the match,
But essentially their entire stage hinging on a site that hasn't been played in the region yet in this stage
But they genuinely made Bobby boys look lost for the first time in this matchup
it was a
Well-plushed defense and they played into it perfectly
A more traditional site to follow down to basement
two opportunities for AP to now walk away with all three points.
should also lock enterprise into finals as well with all three points that is
Interesting enough, if Bobby Boy's were to come back and win this, neither of the two
teams would be locked in going into the final playday in a match where, of course, the winner
who gets all three points would have been locked in.
It would be an intriguing result, but I just can't envision a world in which Bobby Boy
is going to be able to send this one to overtime.
They just haven't really looked likely in the second half, fall straight for enterprise.
I'd say the only round that looked even somewhat likely was unironically the very first round
back in round 7.
Every other round since has been very one-sided.
I think you've just got to throw caution to the wind.
I'm surprised again that they're still sticking with this Monty in this slower playstyle.
They have not adapted.
Even out of the time now, they're not changing things up.
It's just more of the same.
And this time, it is Church Arsenal, of course.
Make no mistake of that.
Despite the fact there are, of course,
heavy room presence from Enterprise.
Oh, Kyra, that's just so devastating.
Another opening kill for Enterprise.
Nitro thrown out towards Prez.
He takes a little bit of damage,
avoids the problems of it. Bailey finally gets the trade. Bappin was top floor as well
but he slipped back down through oil pit and gets himself to site. Fall stack on site down
for enterprise. Yeah look at least traded not the most devastating loss here for Barbie
boys it does take away a little bit of that that potential. Wolfs though does have breaching
charges I don't think it's going to be a massive differentiating factor in the round and Cara
on the opposing side already have placed his utility on the mute as well so a
little bit of a stalemate then did invest quite a bit of time bubby boys for
that clear praise did take a little bit of damage as well so don't discount
the impact that may have especially contesting into the smoke late round as
well probably fair to assess that for this site and given the state of the
brown that AP are in a slight lead but it's not a position that bubby boys
can't look to recover from. They'll get to work on that vert, hard breach from Bailey.
Let's have the brains ex-carous as well for triple wall and that could open a
potential plant route as well. You can see EP pretty active underneath,
especially without that fucking plate. Good drone work late here from Pincu and
again the ramp to hinge on this blue here.
It's just a round for the entire map.
Jigsaw.
Swing.
Practically timed.
Just as pink who wanted to start moving.
Walsh won his battle against.
Too hard, but there is Jigsaw again.
Boy, he started so quiet, but he's ended so strong.
Oh, lovely headshot.
It's all set and done.
The two superstars in Batman and Jigsaw may have started awfully,
But boy, did they finish so strong to help out Enterprise in getting this win and locking in a position
into the top four
Enterprise
Will be playing in finals for Barbie boys their fate
It's going to be determined on the final playday against rival
It is indeed looking like it'll be set up between those two in a win and you're in situation on playday 7
Wow, what a best of one. It feels like we've had so many long-sighted maps in this stage that this was a real treat to watch.
Barbie boys got off to a great start, laid a lot of pressure and asked a lot of questions of EP and their ability to problem-solve and attack.
And to the credit of Enterprise, they did enough. They showed enough in that first half to give them the foundation that in this second half they played with a little more freedom.
They were able to activate players like Jigsaw as the match progressed and they did enough on this basement site to lock it down and withstand all of that pressure.
So certainly the deserved winners in this best of one and with the finals position now secure
That's got to be a big sigh of relief for them
And they can now focus efforts on the best of three format for Bobby boys as he mentioned though
It all comes down to that big match next week a huge best of one against rival
I mean, I don't even know at that point going into that game who's really going to be considered the favorite to be completely honest
I mean, but boys still had a very strong half against enterprise again
They've led 3-1. There was a 4-2 half. They just couldn't get any attacking rounds to work and I think in some ways
You can look back at this kind of game if your barbie poison dice set where a lot of things went wrong
They they just didn't adapt. They didn't change things up. They just kept trying to do the same thing over again
You can't do that against enterprise and in the end jigsaw by the way started one and seven or one and eight
Finish with seven and ten like you you also got to play an EP
the game. The last time we
played the roster that had one
of the quieter games that you
get from Jigsaw and Bapin for
probably what 70% of the game.
And then once they finally got
going and found their form that
really when the game just
completely turned and the tide
went the way of enterprise five
straight in the second half
sees them. Take this one book
their place in the finals and
we've got ourselves out
and good to see you again. It's been some time. Congratulations on the win, first and fourth most,
but I do want to ask sort of a little bit about yourself and what you've been doing with the team.
Yeah, so after the major, the boys decided they needed a bit more help. So they reached out to
get a bit of an analyst and a bit of a trial period, and then they decided to go with me and
and he's been helping with prep work,
sure it's like anything really.
It's not even the left foot for Arrow and Magansuch.
Yeah, congrats on the win, mate.
Well done tonight securing your finals position.
How does that preparation now transform
best of one through different to best of three?
Is that something that you've already been working on,
looking ahead at finals?
Or is that now something you've looked to focus on
basically tonight and going forward
into the next couple of weeks?
Yeah, I mean, I think a good thing as well is that,
over these bare ones, we've played banked four or five times,
so we pretty much show them.
We have a lot of maps we haven't shown yet,
so hopefully we got a lot of,
a lot of shreds in the tank, and yeah.
Obviously, Twink goes without saying
that the Enterprise boys, before you join,
you know, you think back to Salt Lake City,
et cetera, and even before that,
and all of the times that we've seen them dominate,
I think probably, what, six, eight months,
however long, even prior to Salt Lake City, they haven't maybe been at the best form so far on this stage.
How do you kind of try and help them in what is a tricky period, clearly now just qualifying for finals,
but maybe not at the 100% peak of the powers that we've seen from them previously?
Yeah, I mean, I guess where I come into that is that I can just help lighten the work loads,
like I said, and Matt can just sort of focus on that area. That's sort of his air of expertise,
you know, making sure that whatever internal issues or, you know, comms things and stuff
like that is all sorted out. And I can just focus on that work and track some of it.
Before you did take this job, was there any hope or desire to come back and play at all?
Different enough to play like my own, but I was actually helping out Barley voice for a little bit
in sort of pre-season break. Now, unfortunately I had to let them move on from in, but I wanted to
get things, I suppose. Well, they're doing all right themselves as well. Before we let you go,
anything you'd like to say?
Not a studio, so I'm charged to press.
One time I demand, hopefully we can win next week
and we'll see you in playoffs and XAP and yeah.
Well said mate, thanks for coming on and having a chat with us.
I really appreciate it and best of luck of course in finals.
Alright, thanks guys.
Sorry, three games in the books, four tonight.
We finally got one that was a little bit closer, a little bit more tension.
to be involved. Bobby Boy is
going out to that four to lead,
but then five straight for
enterprise sees them qualifying
for files and sets us up now to
position with the final game
with the night not being a dead
rubber. Academy need to win
this game and then we win the
next game is welcome. But then
there's weird permutations to
hope for their sake of getting
into the top four. Essentially
to win over time to one versus
body voice next week. And of
course, as I said, 3030 plus
around differential. I think
that's the only path forward
which starts now coming up
shortly against arcade. It's
slim chances, but it's
obviously something that's
going to be a little bit
different from what we've
seen in the last few weeks.
So we're going to have to
go into the next few weeks
to see what we can do. And
then of course, next week,
they actually get to play one
more game as well, which is
going to be against six
targets. I think they're going
to have to win that almost
like close to seven zero as
well if they can do that
It's obviously something that you've got to try and hope for and look at all like okay, they could do it
Yeah, all they could really do is try and dominate tonight and
Perform next playday and pray that they get one of the four possible outcomes with that OT win that goes their way
So we'll see what happens. So Academy have been the biggest upsetters in the league so far this year and it would be
Pretty funny and a full circle moment if they were to sneak through to the finals
So we'll see how it plays out
Short break and then we get to our final game of the night. See if Sharkadomy can get rampage
They thought it from me, it couldn't be done
You're the champion of the action
We want the action
Lights, lights, camera, camera
We're doing the action
We want the action
They've come out windmilling like an Englishman looking for a scrap, the poor king of a scrap!
Pino!
If you go from contesting the kick, there's cold out, we're demonstrating the Grenade
Ghost, here, that's the swing!
Cyber and Bullet are able to get one apiece with the kit so far away and Canadian down
upstairs.
Wow, that was special.
It's a one versus three to hold,
and that person is from behind.
He's found one. He's got to get the vertical as well.
They get pulled off, Sid.
We're down to the last three and four seconds.
Ryan has got a gunner. He's held off.
He's going to do it.
And B and Q take the two-one win.
Both players spotted, but the ranks can be made successfully.
Oh!
But he's holding the center.
Inflation from the Bs. He goes in.
You're choking me out, you're choking me out!
Now here's Saladans!
They cement themselves as one of the greatest of all time!
He's starting to get cooked alive, Ollie, but he's using the stem pistols. Look at this from the dark!
Surely not. Brilliant!
Let's play it here in my book.
Place the game, hit the old body, didn't quite catch it.
Oh my god, Saladans! The darest!
He doesn't have anything to do with it!
He's going back, he's not quite sure.
That's good, let's go!
A few seconds, stick it, Nassil, stick it!
This is an angle that he might be able to contest.
No, unfortunately, he takes just a bit of damage here.
A walk that gets to the second one.
Eclipse though, Wilkhead one, turning it into a 2v2,
9-day push in on the side.
The bandit will lose out on this!
Eclipse the last alive on the Ella.
Spots the head and takes the base for Waka.
He will down BC, Canadian positioning to pick up,
but that's going to result in a double-sane from Hercules.
and for Divas around,
Necrox the final defender against vertical,
the A absolute domination.
I don't believe in Magic, Michael.
Team 1 does as they win the Mexico Major.
I
I can't stop looking at you, I can't stop looking at you
I'm holding high right tonight
I can't stop looking at you, bye bye
I'll never hear the rain when I'm where I can sit till I fall out
Oh no, yeah, yeah
I'm a bad, bad killer, killer
Like a star, I'm a tiny killer, killer
I can dance, dance, dance in my dance
I can't enjoy myself, I'm lovin'
Maybe I don't need a lie
I can't say it's a dream
The value of my own is
The value of my own
Take that, take that
I can't get out of it
This feels amazing
Take that, take that
I can't turn it back
Let's go slowly
I don't know what's inside
I don't know if it's a secret or a secret
I don't know if it's a secret or a secret
I hear your voice, I feel your presence
The day and the moment
I stand up and turn you on red
The sound of the rain, the sound of the rain
It's my time to live in a moment
I'm lost
How you like it at night?
Hey, cause it's a boy
You know bye bye
I never hit a ring when I work
Cause it's on the phone, oh
Oh, no
Hey, hey
Yes, it's the first scene
You and me, we're not the same
You know, you'll never be cute
But I know, I don't care anymore
Cause it feels so right
You gotta use your left side
I'll give you my shoulder and my shoulder
I'll put it on you, I'll give you my back
Take, take, take, take
I won't take a lie
This feels amazing
Take, take, take
I won't turn back
Take, take, take
Something is missing, something is missing
I'm looking for something, I'm not going to go to the festival
I'm not going anywhere, I'm not going anywhere
I'm just a kick-ass kick-ass fan
What's your name?
I'm some of the fans I'm falling in
I gotta go, I gotta go
I gotta keep going, I'm doing right
I'm just living for me
I don't want to be a free man
I'm not a free man
I'm not a free man
I'm not exactly maybe
match of the day coming up,
but certainly one that still
has ramifications must win and
win in a comfortable fashion
at four at Chicago. They've got
a lot of round differential
that they need to make up and
they certainly need all three
of the points to the arcade.
It's been a long time since
to. For Arcade, it's been obviously a solemn stage, but maybe a chance that they can get
something on the board in terms of points, because this would be an opportunity.
Chacademy didn't look all that great yesterday, and it's hard to believe what they did a week
ago, but we'll see if they can get back to that Grim re-perform in this match.
Yeah, I think the question really is going to be what Chacademy do we see this evening,
the owners seemingly on them. What do they have to offer? How much motivation is there
for them to do well tonight. They have probably run through this scenario similarly to us and
know that it's a very small percentage chance that they'll go on to the finals potentially at EWC.
Yeah, speaking of EWC, of course, you can go get your tickets if you're interested in going over
to Paris for those watching from, we'll say the non-oceanic states, if you will, for those that
are overseas, yeah, you can go get your tickets. Are XS15 in the chat as well for 15% discount?
Yeah, don't miss AWC if you have the opportunity to go massive event and it's a big one, especially
for Siege now with an SI slot on the line.
Let's have a look at our rosters for this matchup and start breaking them down.
Again, this should be a rather competitive matchup, but it is going to be an onus on
what do we see from Sharkhani, but also can RK play to the best of their ability?
I don't think we've quite seen them achieve that over the course of this stage.
There are some talented players on this roster but unfortunately as a team they haven't quite
been able to connect the dots so far.
An opportunity tonight to go out and have a bit of fun and see if they can get a result.
Yeah, no points on the standings for RK.
Their last game as well next week is against Chiefs so I think you can probably put two
and two together and get four.
This is probably their last opportunity to at least try and get something but what obviously
hasn't been at great stage.
It's interesting though you kind of look at the lineup and think is that the kind of team
it's going to go 0-7. I'm not too sure. I think in my view of this is it really highlights
the competitive nature of this region, this stage. It's interesting because if this had
been, you know, the back end of last year when we only, well, we, six teams made playoffs
back then and we only have the seven teams in the league, it really would have made
this a pretty boring regular season. So in some ways, thankful that hasn't been the case,
But it means for Arcade, it's pretty clear that a lot of teams have also improved this
stage, the fact that they haven't been able to pick up a single point as we go to their
opponent, Shaq Khadimi.
And Shaq Khadimi in some ways is a good example of that, because I know that they didn't start
that well.
Great week, bad beating, enterprise, they beat Chiefs as well.
What we've seen from the likes of Kyvinix and Rani, I think two plays to keep an eye
on in terms of the future of this region.
So there's a good quality on this roster.
50% of the league is going to miss out on finals. I don't think it's the end of the world, but it's likely at this point that they will miss out.
I think they'll be well set going into stage two and still be a bit of a dark horse.
Yeah, I think operating under the assumption that they do finish in the bottom four, I think as it stands right now, I'd probably pitch them as being the team that have shown the most potential this stage
potential to go on to great things in stage two if they continue to improve on this trajectory
with the double upset that they've been able to achieve and the general level of stage that
they've been able to produce over the course of this stage has been quite impressive, probably
not quite the level of consistency that admittedly they'd be searching for, but at their best,
they do look very close to a top four team. And so it'll all be about consolidation heading
into the next stage. They've shown great promise. I think Kivenix especially is stood out as being a
really, really strong player. So we'll see how it shapes up. We'll have a look at the map veto
for this one and honestly just put on a blindfold and throw a dart at a dartboard. I feel like
it's going to be a little bit all over the place as to where we may actually end up for this series
given the stakes on the board. Looking like it'll be a toss up between cafe and lair, a map which
has seen I feel like significant playtime over the course of this stage so far. It's right up there
currently as one of the most played in OCE. And so ultimately ends up shaping up to be a bit of
a comfort pick for these two. And if I'm not mistaken, at the conclusion of this playday,
Leia will actually be the most played with five appearances across the stage so far.
Yeah, not a great map when it comes to the record for RK. And certainly a week ago,
lost to Rybel 2-7, 0-2 record, not a single attacking round win on this map. Fortunately,
they start on defense and we're going to get started as well. Final game of the night coming
out. RK versus Stratacademy. Again, to reiterate, Stratacademy need all three points from this match.
All three points as well then from their match next week as well against six targets. Now in terms
of the actual ability to get, I think the six points, it's pretty likely that you're playing
literally the two teams at the bottom of the standings. The problem is then also the ground
differential and what is required in terms of probably that result between Barbie boys and
and rival, needing some kind of overtime result in that game.
Arcade starting on defense.
Here, let's jump in then for what should be an interesting
matchup.
Again, it's pretty difficult to artificially inflate the stakes
on this matchup for Chikademy, if you are just joining,
a very outside chance that they can make top four.
A must win result here, though, to set themselves up
for that potential in the final play date.
Unfortunately for RK, it's been a rough stage for them. They're now very much out of the picture
But they can go in have a bit of fun
And if they want to be real mean about it can officially deny shy cut me the possibility of sneaking through to the top four
Let's load in
Arcade on defense as mentioned. It is the ying grim band out alongside kaiid and bandit
So no major surprises to open up the account
I guess important to note though that all shields up for Shai Katui and hard breach are plenty for the attack as well
Yeah, they're so far sitting at a 57% defensive
Winner as you said one of the most play that maps and will be the most played map by the end of tonight this stage
stage. Only once we've seen Fortress Cafe border and consulate the border on probably
the surprise we've posed to be honest that we've only seen border once so far this stage
but once we get to best of trees that's when of course the map will deepen.
For what it's worth a very close win to shy Academy is almost as well bad as a loss for what they're trying to achieve in terms of finals
They really do need to win this
comprehensively and unfortunately for them they start on the attack, so
This first half is gonna be quite telling that they probably need I think a four to half and then close out
To get my to get plus five that would put them to about a minus four going into the six targets game
I don't know. I mean like to be honest it's already a stretch. I'm really trying to figure out ways in which they can do it.
I've been trying to run the numbers. I've been furiously refreshing Lycopedia again. Typically a pretty strong source for qualifications and those teams unable to make it.
And they have put a line through Chikademy's name. So I think because of the result of the round differential deficit, they can't quite recover that.
with that and they need other results to be tight in OT to allow them to be
evil cool on points which means that they can't close the gap further so
unfortunately this is basically a dead rubber game but still a bit prize pool on
the line I suppose in terms of the distribution execute has come through
the meantime and shock had me out of time yeah just to clarify on that point
by the way they said you just brought up nerds this round is playing out in the
the way that Shakedome would like. Well, it's going down, but so the last one in life,
one B4, he almost got the kill on to Realorz, now converts it.
Kavanix and Kake it, lovely shot from Bokso to dispatch Kake in and then get the kill
on to Kavanix, Bokso would love that one. So all the reaction in the cam.
A good start for Arcade. Well, I mean, that kind of shifts. I think the storyline for
this game is can Arcade get some points to go back to your point in terms of Shakedome
being eliminated the max amount that they could have got which was off the basis of 7-0 in this
game which is obviously no longer possible and 0 7-0 in the next game would have been a plus 5
round differential they would have also though needed rival to win in OT and do so in an 8-7
fashion which would have got rivaled through a plus 6 so therefore couldn't make up the
around differential and would have of course lost out on the tiebreaker.
Yes, a little disheartening for Chacanime.
Again, irrespective of whether or not they could technically make it or not,
they would have entered into this game with, I think, a simple mindset of,
let's just go in, try to dominate, see what happens on the other side.
And once the may officially have aligned through their name,
still a bit to fight for in terms of prize pool as well,
Especially for arcade if they can fight their way out of a bottom two position which will be
Reliant on back-to-back wins in the final two play days and for shy cut of me to to struggle in the last play day as well
They can bump up a couple of k so
A little bit on the line
Yeah, it's you know, they're gonna be cheese
I had a couple hundred bucks on the line per player to beat cheese, so I'd be giving it
everything I've got.
Well, don't get me wrong, I'm sure they'll try, but I just don't think it's gonna happen.
But I also probably didn't expect Shakead and the EPN cheese last win.
And then the Saddle finals.
And yeah, that's the thing.
Well, I mean, that's gotta be the thing for Shakead, I mean, it's just, you know, missing
the opportunities early in the start of the stage, they lost a bit of a foe, I'm sorry,
They lost to Barbie Boys 4-7, they lost to Man on the 4-3-7, before of course their wins
against Chiefs and EP and then really what cemented it was their loss yesterday against
the rival 7-1.
I mean funnily enough it was the round differential that really cost them as well.
Big shot from Realist to open up the account here in the second round.
I've been asked to double down the advantage by getting rid of Loyloth.
Yeah, good start to the attack here from Shack Academy,
on the ground, wayhouse side.
Good bird established, courtesy of Kakin on the ramp.
And so the defense forced to make plays as Wizard gets
Caught out fortunately survived shock in the meantime to attend plant
Should be successful, but he might die never mind they had the cross
Well held by a shy cat I mean down into the post plan of the two player advantage
Wizard couldn't quite get the kill on to Kyvin X
Prone position of Kyvin X is an easy clear for Boxo who is now four and zero
He's gonna give it a try and too late anyway and she'll save it, she'll save it at that point.
I bet at that point you made it as well.
Yeah, it went away.
One to one.
Yeah, it's all about that from the attack early.
Shite Academy getting good control.
Warehouse side.
Dockaby facilitating the opener.
And then Sean with the safety of the shield was able to position the plant and double cross was established.
Bit of vert up above as well for good measure and RK got zoned out at the site very early on
and it's quite challenging to fight their way back.
First pick, sorry, court.
Shunt got plant.
As the double cross covered.
Decent fight back towards the very, very end, but 1v3, 15 seconds.
It was almost impossible to win with no contest above.
Okay, to rotate over the dorms, 4, round 3.
Provided Shunt Academy do win this and win against 6 targets,
so they'll finish the stage with 11 points,
And then you'll have
Bobby boys rival the loser of that of course is going to miss out
For one of those teams you think about the stage that both of them have had
For a four-win Bobby boys team the three-win rival team
What you would consider a pretty good stage one has to miss and a Chicago in the 11 points like it's a rough
Fifth and sixth position in a sound on top four that has really showcased the quality of the region stepping up this stage
I feel for cake and as well who I think he's entire career could be best summed up is just
always so close yet so far.
Yeah.
in a rough round of times for him
that's for sure
oh the timing
that would have been
that would have been totally
well again so close for kakin
he had not been able to get the timing to go his way
the boss g from boxo connects on the kymanix
boxo has started redhorn for arcade
yeah i don't have flash him back into the line of sight of kakin
but he refuses to budge
good discipline from boxo and some sharp shots landing
landing. Minute down and Shakami on the side of the attack don't have a whole lot to show for it.
Still pretty static. They haven't been able to leverage the Monty super effectively.
Taken will continue to hold. It's a double hold on the window. Trying to draw block so in but
again just refuses to wave the peek. Has support above the warden.
Frag grenade to be cooked by Kakin might be enough to dislodge him. Now force back up court.
So could you tell your stitch? Oh, but shot in the meantime did die. So good support from the warden
Well, so finished off by Rani
Rani and Clivenix were the the key figures in their wins against enterprise and chiefs
All out from realas onto asus.
Will not eat the colt, he'll hang it up.
Are you out from Kaken?
Well they do not have the kit, although it's close by inside of green.
Picked up now by Kaken.
Gonna send it into bunks.
Hope for the best.
Hope that this isn't spotted.
We have two nitrosiles available for our cake, cake and shot down though by the Gunnar Saira anyway.
The Russian decides it seems like it's not going to work out for Shai Katami, trying to cut some corners.
And Wizard shooting Rani in the back and then Rihla's as well, I think Shai Katami will ever likely to be able to find success
You're getting that plant down in that position 3v2 no
Top floor control
Okay, we'll get a second round they take the lead two to one
Yeah, pretty good shut down there they
Held pretty firmly over towards that green side the staircase in particular posed a lot of problems for shakitomi
Took a long time to try and problem-solver the util eventually did land but then the support
up above from the defense, the way that they were able to interconnect was pretty good.
And so it's hooked up a lot of time. Digital bans to be now included, it's the Monty and the Mute.
Monty with a little bit of playtime less far, with a little bit of impact and just an annoyance
that Arcade no longer want to contend with. It was selected in both rounds 1 and 3, Arcade
won them both out but we need to try and cripple these attacks further going forward and then the
mute as well also out of play just pick them up on occasion that was on this top floor.
It'd be a strange old stage for Chakadami if they'd beat he'd beat sheaves and then lose the arcade you bit the top teams and lose the bottom team
I mean, I guess that would probably summarize quite well why they're in the middle pack,
the long end of that middle pack.
And Poxso's been a real difference maker so far in this game.
Six kills, he's been active, hitting good shots.
And it's not as if Kaminix and Rani have been quiet either, they're the top frags for
Shokadami.
It just needs to be a little bit more teamwork.
and the attack once he get pants of course and you didn't really see a whole lot of
I need the one round
Oh
Well, what traps the blitz inside it became a barrier all those impacts are not even remotely close to it from one of them. Oh
Shot down to hunt. Yeah
Started well and then he kind of just cooked it
Fair play though, to Sean to withstand that and then pushes forward.
Crisp shot.
Shikadami with the advantage now.
Heartbridge gets to work over towards upside the secondaries.
Not really a whole lot that the defense can do right now to respond.
Saira has an intriguing low position down below but with no nitro and limited info,
I don't know if he'll be hugely impactful.
Might just be waiting.
Shikadami like up lobby.
I don't think that opportunity they will present, at least not for a little while.
We're getting rid of Loyola, that means Aziz is gonna have to play the desk position inside a master.
Typically want that a zombie there with the key of barriers. Good pressure on the doorway.
Damn, Saira playing his first floor and he gets out from there.
Hold on, he's still alive!
I wonder if at this point he just thinks about the pistol, but he's on quite literally 1 HP.
The best thing to do would be to just tuck in, wait for someone to maybe come and trade.
Right?
He just goes in towards the site, kept through the azes, and then of course there was Cyrus
off site.
So they got a numbers advantage while he's really towards Master and R6.
is just toying with sorrow still alive so sorry you didn't get the kill and it
should be almost all us had to go over the reload flaws in the end a strange
old round but shot Academy get the round when they go two to two don't know how
Sean is still alive there he absolutely ain't that first spray and then dodged
every two shots sent in his direction from the remainder of the round
fortunate there for Sira overall pretty well structured round there from Shai
Academy who now find themselves at an equal scoreline tool piece its basement
to follow Shai Academy winning out on that site last time around with a good
warehouse side take we start from the round from shot got ops control with
stood early pressure hit a crisp headshot and then right there absorbed so many
shots to know how he was alive and stayed alive so long that he was still up at the
post and try to be confirmed a force round just to reiterate for those just tuning in
this is very much a dead rubber it is our first dead rubber of the entire season I
mean it's the very last game of playday six so I guess it does make sense in some ways
This is when you start to maybe get a game or two such as this
For what it's worth as well because in terms of playday seven there's actually two
Pretty important games. Not only of course Bobby boys one which would be determining the last spot
But man on a phone EP will determine second and third
Which of course in terms of the file seeding
Ramifications could have a pretty big impact
Although it is double elimination regardless there is even a crazy world in which
Man it could go back to first place, but it would be rely on our chiefs getting smashed by arcade and then
And then it's well smashing and then smashing a piece though the chances of that are
Not quite zero, but nothing's impossible
very very low. triple nitro in this round for arcade. there's one that will turn out my loyalest shot taking a big shot's damage. shot's indestructible.
he's got double HP this match it feels like. that's a good job there to absorb the nitro.
There's a down belay looking to contest but called so he'll peel back and likes not to take the hit of damage
It's wing from Kymenix
Sorry I wasn't ready for it, didn't expect him to be that close to the doorway
Get the feeling that Shake had him in, just very slowly starting to gain some kind of ascendancy
If they win this round it will be 3 from the last 4. That's a pretty good track record here on the attack side of Lair.
Which I'm not done, but the opening pick is helpful.
Of which, a 100% conversion rate so far through the European 4 rounds. We'll see if that continues here in the 5th.
We're not going to deal with the Moksa and Loyola if they're still in this first 4 security.
Yeah, but that creep over towards filtration does eventually pay dividends
Just one on site wizard no nitro new tool laid from the capital Sean should confirm plant and does
And it may be another flawless ground from show catamy. I boxed her to try and deny the flawless
Anything left that he can try and do in this round. He will not it's back-to-back flawless from Chakadami on the attack of layer
They take top floor and basement
3 from the last 4 rounds, 3 to 2 lead.
It's not boating well, 4 arcade in their quest to try and at least pick up a point.
I'm not even saying a win, just getting to overtime, getting 6 rounds just to try and get something on the board, otherwise it's looking like a donut on the stage.
Playing Chiefs next week.
After speaking today many times so far this stage, their mindset for Chiefs has been
really impressive.
They're not going to go into this game against Arcade next week and just have some fun.
Naturally they'll probably not play it 110% but they'll still play it probably a solid
90% and that's good enough.
They're not going to give any freebies over to Arcade.
If they're going to get a point this stage, it's going to happen in this game right now.
Final round of the half coming up, desperately near third round.
Back to top floor to try it one more time.
And it is a pretty significant change in their lineup to bring the mirror at this time to top floor for the first time.
Doob around as well along with Denari and Aruni so Warden is the only operator that they've kept from the last time that they've played this site in the fourth round
Whoa
Not the best start to the round for Shakehatter me five minutes falls
Some sharp shooting from the side of Arcade.
Rani looks to follow it up immediately over towards Ops and actually sneaking to a position
that might catch off a re-aggress here.
That's a posh ring out somewhere from the likes of ReaLiz for the split push.
Looks like Arcade though will be disciplined, they'll hold position, they're not eager to
over-aggress.
Where's it?
low so a nitrous self-threat now as he asks for some information but I don't
really think anyone from the defense can aid him at the moment might be a
blind throw it was and it doesn't land on the mark we could really nice now for
I'm okay to get this third round.
I would have said that Ryze is still alive, but yeah, there's a good chance that he's so low on health.
It's so easily tradeable.
Needs to essentially hit headshot.
Shot wants to try and creep up main stairs.
Against the warden could call on to wizard right does get eliminated body shot from the DMR of Aziz will do enough
And it looks like we might get our third flawless around in a row
But this time in favor of arcade unless K can confine one kill not often that you see three straight flawless
Will we get it here?
We will not oh
My goodness
You don't care it is 55 seconds here for Kagan
and he has a flash although into the warden and shot got up close so you
shouldn't be able to go too much further here. 40 seconds. Have you heard of the
cake and clutch? Ah there's a 1v5. I haven't heard of it. And then he gets the
last two kills at the end of this round in a double spray down.
He just definitely hurt him, gone prone.
That's one, can he get the second he had the chance?
He goes pistol!
Oh my goodness, so close taken!
Oh and he knows it!
He knows how close that was from being an all time 1v5 play.
Okay, get the round 3-3 at the half.
almost an all-time play from Kakin couldn't quite manage the 1v5 but boy
did he get close all tired at the half as I had to be going to the defense
yeah close but not close enough from Kakin favorite and it I mean so far it's
feeling like the the one match of the night that really doesn't mean a whole
I could end up being the closest such as oh sometimes
Bands play out
Chanka clash outside apartment will be out alongside the ace and ying top floor
To be the first site of choice as anticipated and we'll see if shy Academy can
Maybe look a little more comfortable here defensively 33. They should be slightly head of the benchmark as it sits currently
We had to guess that so far this stage defensively they have been quite strong.
I'll see if I can load up the numbers in a moment.
Their defensive win rate, I don't know why I can't see it on this page so I'll get back
to you on that one but the expectation should be from here that they do close out the map.
I mean upon to me kind of just wants to see okay okay get at least a point
I think you ever really want to see a team finish with zero points in a stage there always
has to be someone that finishes last that's just natural you gotta earn it
you can't just be given it they can certainly make them earn it in the
previous round as I said I think defense push like Adam is just gonna be
be really really comfortable.
Up floor low left we'll go first floor on the Demos, try and get some pressure the rest
We'll look to get into execute positions
They're pretty good very nearly here from wizard he'll be able to take quite a bit of space
in this side
And then eventually Azus can get to bloke with the X-Car-Race.
And they'll double-departure for something pretty simple and default here it would seem,
and I don't think that's particularly a bad idea.
Loyola from the Demos below, can contest desk or go for the lobby cron, she's been live
droned at the moment.
Almost gets caught out, takes a chunk of damage, but at least survives and can then look to
death mark for the remainder of the round.
I tried from Syro to park out Florula
They could get up the stairs
Couldn't quite tell with the flames
I thought he was just shooting a body
Initially, initially, initially
Oh, no
Oh, there he is
It definitely looks like it survived
I'm pretty sure I saw
Sean flick three different yokai
The hard bridge has been butchered here as well
No X-Carros remain, this actually makes it pretty awkward for Arcade
I
Yeah, they do have the numbers advantage so they can kind of three bodies at this, but sorry low in health
It's kind of like that clock get down really low if Sean's still gonna be alive
I think it's what wandering with a pig over towards the doorway runs and staying behind the office
He's gonna go down any flames shot from below does get the color wisdom now by himself
And there's too much time in the clock to rely on these yokai so he's gonna set himself up main stairs
one watching at the doorway that's
Syro Arcade will get the attacking
round. Things get
interesting they take the lead once again
they go up four to three. Good round from Arcade
in the end the I think the Kyvinx
swing really just opened up that door
again they had the numbers already then
it was an easy clear onto him behind the
desk with the capital
bolts and then from there
with certainly the echo playing down below
the site was just completely open
Yeah, they'll be a little disappointed shy Academy that they weren't able to produce a result on that site
Especially with some of the hard breach woes that arcade encountered over the course of the round
And had the bodies loader throw at site towards in and even a little bit of utile as well the
Capitao was pretty vital in helping clean mask
And ultimately able to get the result in the end
Down to basement 4, the 8th round, and what continues to be a back and forth affair between
these two with very little on the line, they're still giving it their all.
Arcade searching for their first point on the stage.
A couple of rounds away from doing so, and we'll see if they're able to make this opportunity
count.
on the flip side try Academy with set up a bar catchers opened and so they'll
look to take the fight to arcade instead of anchoring site.
There's another little battle that's happening in this game by the way which is the
lowest rated player in the region battle.
Really?
Poor old Boxo, he's one nap that he played earlier this stage was a 2-9 performance that
puts him dead last but he's 94 now which means he's catching up to to Syra. There's five and five
two L's rated players in the region unfortunately.
Don't worry, adding a very good game.
I did damage on the Kymen, he's followed up by the killer, I'll have said Syra, he goes
positive now.
Another good start for RK, but they do lose asses and Boxo falls double from Kakin with
a strong gun towards Blue Stairs.
Yeah, bit of a weird position, a bit of a strange position there from Kakin, typically
you'll see a player on Blue Stairs for instance, there was a basement here up above though,
is a rarity and this position is caught out the attack. Diffuser now on an island. Kakin
can play for life with the safety of the player advantage. Raging above. Good advice gathering.
Rani confirms that with the swing. Was it loyal with 2 vs 4? Chakadami inching closer
towards equalizing this score line it would take a pretty big clutch from here to recover.
Oh, I thought Kakin was gonna just straight up shoot.
I don't think you knew that Loyaleth was actually there.
It's just more so checking and Loyaleth will win that battle.
When 2v3 is certainly doable, enough time on the clock you've recovered the kit,
You've got the radar of the solid snake, ex-cars if needed, flash and a fracrenate, non-impossible.
Obviously you'd prefer to be in the position of shycademy in the long run.
This goes on again, shot on the echo, we'll be able to deny it.
We'll encounter the pop, so more time will expire.
This is exactly what you want if you shycademy.
The information gained though from the radar of Loyaleth.
Yeah, it takes a little bit of damage, yeah Kai confirms the position of wizard, 20 seconds.
Oh, almost lined up, almost, not quite, try Academy, and I've been able to tie it up once
again, four to four, we're going, well a little bit blow for blow here on Lair for our final
game of the night, incredible, I mean okay you gotta give them some credit here, they're
digging deep in a very very rough stage for them and four is all they've been
able to muster up as their best score so far this stage they've never gotten to
five rounds I got four against man alofo they got four against six targets the
other games two two and one as we enter round nine all tied four to four arcade
usually stranded on this position. They've got a couple of chances to try and get to five.
Both teams finding it difficult to string together more than two rounds. Once again the tide gets
broken there by a straight catamete. Dorms are an intriguing prospect. So once back in the first
stuff actually won out by defense on that occasion. Chakadami, kind of difficult on
the attack to flush out green stairs and the utilaring, etc. I wasn't quite there.
The Monty value as well was pretty limited. And so I do wonder what the
approach will be here from Arcade on the side of attack. Do they concern themselves
with the map clear? Do they go more direct green? They do have the sense. Chakadami
had that as well but didn't really get themselves in position to leverage it so
So, I've had me look to do that themselves.
I'm in the early posturing, though, in the positioning with these repels and some of the dreamwork, though.
Do seem to be suggesting there'll be at least some pressure up above which is pretty standard at the moment.
Typhoonic spotted, storage hall.
There's a little anchor hold on the staircase here from Chakademi, a little more fluid on the defense, looking to take fights on the exterior of the map.
Loyal of meantime, in the meantime, has been working breach with the blowtorch.
The only primary hard breach.
available for this attack and so basically we'll be broadcasting to the
defense that a green side hit is likely
well this is now on track for the slowest round that we've had so far this
game this will be the latest opening kill on paper after eight rounds earlier
As this will go for the plant immediately divided by Sean as the solace should be doing
Clive index though taken down a real estate already put onto the floor, so this is pretty decent for our game
Sean needing that kill but traded by a wizard. It's only cake and left
And he has to answer this call literally has no choice
I think to be fair he was dead either way if he goes to the key by himself.
Yeah, 100% that's what I'm laughing at basically there's nothing you can do.
Well, okay, get to five.
The first time this stage, okay, it are on five rounds and they're one round away now
now from a point, their first point. Time out call.
Okay, can a deep discussion at the moment as they look to problem solve their way back
into this match, it has been a bit of a grind for them so far. Both teams are finding it
tricky to gain meaningful momentum as they trade back and forth. That was the tertiary
site one out by the attack so it shouldn't be too much of a cause for concern when you
think about the map as a whole here for Psycademy, everybody which they can go back to the primaries
and at least secure overtime.
Okay though, very much with the carrot dangling on the stick in front of them that they are
now only one round away from their first point of the stage and that will be something that
they'd be pretty eager to achieve.
To do so though, they'll need to successfully attack
either into the second floor site
which they already have done
or reverse fortune on basement.
Well, they can't make finals,
neither of these teams can,
but RK just don't want to go
winless, pointless throughout the stage.
It's been a little bit of a back-and-forth battle here on land, but they're now very, very close to managing their first point.
One round is all they need.
I mean, even forget the win. That's just get a point. You don't want to be sitting on zero points at the end of a stage.
It's demoralizing.
We'll see if they can manage it here in the 10th round, or a shy catamy can tie things up out of the tactical timeout.
11 and 5 for Boxo
I'm gonna truly get him probably out of that very bottom position
There's Lilith on the first floor on the entry
You know loyal or effective over towards maintenance early here, he can eventually look to contest
vertically.
Whether that be mask or sometimes we see the extension right up against the top small.
That won't really be the case here.
most teams have elected to sort of fall to that position in most circumstances. It's
very tricky to hold and can then be difficult to escape.
The friend work on site will identify Pivenix, spot me, Azami,
keep a barrier set up, which they have deployed previously and was
pretty well countered by the attack of Arcade. Sorry, falls though. So it gets caught out.
5 in X, wow! Doesn't land the spray and Loyola is stabbing his response and that now frees
up quite a bit of pressure in towards the side and provided Arcade do a better job with
Heart Breach this time around, top floor could once more be theirs.
Yeah, definitely doable. The trade is kind of equal in some ways. His army is nice, so
So it's the capital, I think four with four.
Right now, doesn't really have any favor either team.
If anything, the longer this goes on, better for Chikademy.
Need a really good clear and a push up main stairs,
get better men's control.
There's someone falling back a little bit.
To reset and a rotate.
They go for a double frankenade clear
and then push up main stairs, take the control,
force cake and back.
Realist is in bathroom as well.
The cake, it does not get forced back.
He doubles down, he gets the shotgun killer as well.
It seems like 5-5 is inevitable at this point.
It's gonna be a very high tension 11th round
to see if RK can get to that sixth round
and acquire their first point this stage.
Cause it's not happening here in the 10th.
all tied once again in this back and forth battle on layer who can get to
six first and honestly I feel like maybe overtime might be likely yeah we haven't
had a high volume of overtime's this stage it's about like a lot of one-sided
matchups and ultimately this one is headed we've had three in six playdays
Yeah, not many.
This could be one of them though, but add to the tally.
Basement again.
And for context, last time on this site, Sharkadavi were able to win out despite not losing, or despite not winning the opening duel.
Two players left standing in the end, so some good tradeouts from...
from Chakadami to get the result needed. Again they'll extend above Infestim utility, try
and make the weapon side clear a little more challenging for Arcade. You are eagerly trying
to get one point at least towards the standings. We're getting on this site, we'll secure that.
They do of course have the confidence that they can attack successfully into Bunk's briefing
up next if needed as well, provided Sharkhademy repeat if they lose.
Realize with the spawnpeat range side, expecting Arcade to be drawn to this side of the map
to play into their setup.
It doesn't stick around as RK take their time above.
We can make the first move and he's quietly got up to 11 and 7 has had a very good game
matching Boxo from RK.
I have a stack on this first floor 4 shot Academy base with sight.
Missing Lilith here in this first floor to get information on the radar one for one trade it was box
So that got rid of Ronnie though big threat off the board. Oh shot line from real is cake in a shot combined each as well
So Academy I got a lock in a sixth round
It's devastation for arcade the feet in this position too often this stage
stage, staring down the barrel of another regulation loss, Arcade are going to call the time out.
This is their last chance realistically because there's surely no world in which they get
points against Chiefs next week. They must win this next round.
Yeah, certainly a pivotal round for their stage and to save face a little bit against
what has been a challenging couple of weeks for them and in this particular
matchup it's been difficult for both teams to couple with momentum. Ultimately
they find themselves on the receiving end of that but they do at least have the
positive outlet of attacking back into Bunk's briefing where they won our back
in round nine. Three members were still standing at the end of that round they
got the opening kill a lot of good positive signs for them and around that in the
span of about 10 15 20 seconds looking back at the the timeline had a lot of
trades and so they looked pretty comfy on that site we'll see if they can double
down here and push this game to OT
I'm just looking at some of the stats right now, the entry battle is being relatively
split in the first half, one of the biggest differences to what we've seen in the second
half was the plants that we saw from Shikada, we haven't seen that at all from RK, they
We haven't got plant down once, and multi-kills two to three, so that's pretty close as well.
I mean, a 6-5 score line, there's no surprise that there's no real domination in any of the major statistics.
As we go bunks briefing, final round of regulation.
Last chance for RK to pick up points this stage. They must win this round to four server time,
which would secure them a point, and they've lost as is immediately within the first 10 seconds.
spawn, peek for realers, they lose the sends and on this site it is the most
valuable operator. Yeah that's a massive loss and if I can't respond as they
probably should it's gonna mean that they'll need to invest big time up above
basically forget about plant for now. It can become a condition that unlocks later
but I think the call probably needs to be let's just fully try and clear above
and worry about winged cons later in the round it's posturing green they'll just
find themselves stored out at the side door without the tools to enchant I mean
they do have the capitol and the grim but I don't know if that's gonna be quite
enough to help with the planet so that's a massive loss for RK that one really
hurts
box I was being sensational in this game they might have to call on him to win
some gunfights. Well, it's trying his best. Oh, Kymidix on the tight angle. It's the headshot.
Two player advantage for the defense.
It's unfortunately unraveling for Arcade.
Three of the last four rounds to show a captainly. This has slowly been brewing.
And the irony is the last round that Arcade did win was on this side.
It's a whole different story now without the ROUs and down two players.
they need a hero play arguably need maybe two hero plays shunt ready for the
slow push from Syro well it's heartbreaking for arcade they will
technically get one more chance next week but it's against the chief it's
against the number one team surely they won't get points against chiefs next
week this was their last chance this was their opportunity they did at least get
to five rounds. The best that we've seen from them this stage. They will be last place and
they will stay on zero points and it's flawless. As Shai Katavi collect all three points in
this game, they can't make finals but it does get them to eight points and it means that
what's been a pretty decent stage for these guys continues heading into the last playday
next week against six targets.
Yeah, it was a hard fought match and looked certainly some highlight moments in both teams.
Really giving it close to their role for a matchup that didn't have massive stakes on
it.
They gave it the best shot.
A 7-5 victory, I think, reflective of how the two kind of ended up towards the tail end
of that one, just a little bit more disciplined the way of Shay Kattami.
Some unfortunate moments from Arcade over the course of this particular series, certainly
and aid them, and ultimately this Pompey kind of being the chair on top there in the final
round of the match, but sometimes that's how it shapes up and yeah true to see what the
future may hold, obviously both teams still with a game remaining next week, Arcade still
with an outside shot to try and get a point, and I think for the flip side of StrikeCademy
it's about just continually looking to build into stage 2.
Yeah, I mean I think that's the right approach, as I said, pretty much coming into this game
for a show Academy. Yeah, they're going to miss out on finals, but on paper, they've got,
you know, two players in five innings and running that have shown a lot of potential
this stage. Big game from cake. And you know what you get from real is ultimately, I think
it's a team that can do some damage going into stage two and look to close the stage
out as best possible. I don't think they would have been too particularly happy with
a seven five against RK, but RK did, of course, have a very good game themselves. We'll go
you guys. We're going to go
into the next round. We're going
to start off with a shot as
he's our interview for tonight
after the 75 victory for
Shike Academy. Congratulations
on the win, Sean. Of course,
it's, uh, it's one of those
strange ones. You win. It's
great. You're up to eight
points. It's been somewhat
good. You know, two weeks, I
guess for you guys, but
ultimately, of course, can't
make finals. Where do you kind
of sit with everything this
stage? Because I kind of feel
you guys aren't in a bad spot.
You're playing some good siege.
Do you kind of want to take some of that momentum then therefore into stage two later in the year?
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, like, you know, even if we come fifth or something, that's still not a backward step from kickoff.
So, I mean, that is what it is.
I mean, like I've been saying, we're just going to build this stage and this year and look forward to next year sort of thing.
So, I mean, we just kept doing our thing, getting our experience on game day.
So, yeah.
Yeah, congrats on the win. Looking ahead to stage 2, is it purely just experience for
you guys or is there maybe a specific element in your game that you're looking to try and
address and improve going forward that you think will be a big difference, make up?
I mean, it's just about getting time as a team and getting used to each other and working
out all of those really small things, getting the time into the executes on point, just
making the right calls, not being familiar with situations, things like that that we're
we're just trying to build up with that experience.
I mean, you know, kind of Xenorani,
that, you know, the less experienced players,
and it's just about getting them sort of a bit more up to speed
and extracting the talent from them.
So, I mean, obviously they've had a pretty good stage.
They're great talent.
And I think, as you said, just getting more kind of game day
sort of experience within them and the team
as a whole will serve you the best.
I think, do you kind of look at the stage, though,
as an overall success?
You beat EP, you beat Chiefs, obviously the start of the stage, not great, but you did
lose to teams that are ultimately going to make finals in that kind of category.
You're obviously not that far off.
Like, who knows, you could have a pretty big jump up in stage two if all goes well throughout
the off-season.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, what I've been saying is it seems like we've got a high ceiling, low floor at
the moment, and the high ceiling's a promising part, so we'll be helping with that.
And last thing before I let you go.
cake in 1v5 very very close what was said after that yeah I think we probably had a
pretty similar reaction to you guys who were like oh man that would have been
crazy if we pulled that off that was that was a good little laugh there
anything you'd like to say Sean as always thanks everyone for watching next to
team and of course stage not done best of luck next week on playday 7 against
So in the end they escape girls they escape by the skin of their teeth against arcade 75
Chikademy their little run somewhat continues of course yesterday was a big blip and that
ended up costing them ultimately any kind of chance at finals but overall they've had
some good success this stage and I think Sean actually put it best they actually got a pretty
good ceiling but the floor is still pretty low and they can have those bad nights as
as well. We'll go to our MVP for the night though, and it is indeed player. He was sensational
for chiefs in what was a demolition job against men all over. It was pretty close to the MVP
as well. Yesterday guards, he was picked up by Walsh. I thought player if it wasn't for
Walsh, he would have probably had back to back MVPs. He's in red hot form. He is also
now the number one rated player in the region. Yeah, absolutely. Certainly a dominant result
for his team and he had a large role in impacting the match. A 100% cost across all eight rounds
is really, really impressive, plus two entry. His survivability also above 50% as well. So,
yeah, he was hugely influential, not just in the attack half of the first six rounds,
but even defensively, he was able to close out with the DMR player on screen now on the Orooni.
So did a great job hitting double digits. Certainly a standout player for the Chiefs tonight and
overall one of the better individual performances that we saw.
And in terms of, I guess, outside of the server and from a, you know,
personability perspective, the ability to bounce back as a professional player
when you get kind of discarded from your former team,
he just kind of took that as motivation and boy, he's really ran with it and
his team is reaping the benefits. The schedule today is we recap 7-0,
rival way too good for six targets, our first 7-0 for the stage, then 7-1,
the game. We're going to
be able to go to the final
playday. We could not expect
that result, but it was led at
1.4 to two versus enterprise
enterprise got going on the
defense of clubhouse. Chacademy
arcade the closest match of the
night. Tend out to be quite
fun towards the end. Not so fun
by arcade. Unfortunately they
remain on zero points going
into the final play day. Yeah,
Ose and Chiefs will claim that number one spot off the back of an incredibly dominant result tonight,
so well done to them. Again, I believe if I'm not mistaken, I think I was talking about this
before. There's maybe a ward in which they drop out of first, but it's going to be reliant on
them getting pumped by Arcade. And then Man of Alepho, absolutely smashing EP to make up that
round if so, an incredibly outside chance for them. And so they should safely sit in top spot,
which is a testament to them and their ability to take every game on its merit and do a good job
in dominating some of those one-sided match-ups as well. Unfortunately though it does mean that we
have now put the line through more teams today that can no longer make top four Chakadmi six
targets arcade all ineligible and it basically now means that Barbie boys and rival who go head-to-head
in the final playday the only two teams that are not confirmed for the top four or bottom four.
And of course, Manila Foe, Enterprise, will battle it out for that second seed as well
on Play Day 7.
So two games, at least on paper, will be very enticing to watch.
Certainly the big one will be Bubba Boys vs. Rival Esports, undoubtedly the winner of that.
And the beauty of it, too, is there's no weird shenanigans.
It's just simply win and you're in, even if it's an overtime win for Rival and they
both end up on 11 points, they've got the round differential.
So it's going to make it as pretty easy as possible to give that one a bit of a read in terms of what's required.
And honestly, looking ahead to that game in particular, it's going to be really devastating for either Barbie boys or rival whoever has to miss out.
You think about the players, individuals, but also as the respective teams that had good stages, but one has to miss out.
I mean, it's the nature of what we've got this stage, which is a very highly competitive region.
Yeah, it's a pretty brutal format now with only just the four teams making it through.
best of ones, quite volatile.
Shikademy are on the receiving end of that, and unfortunately, they won't make it through
despite two big upset results.
And yeah, you're absolutely on point.
Bubby Boys and Rival are both at great moments as well, but only one can make it through.
Now, again, a reminder as well that for Siege, not done entirely for the day in terms of
those over in Europe four hours time, EML will be beginning as per usual after the
Oceanic broadcast.
So if you do want to stick around later in the day for that, by all means, go ahead.
not quite as entertaining as the Oceanic region, but it'll do. It is kind of skillful, some
would say. Maybe a little bit better. No, to be fair, the level of OSN it feels like it
has been elevated a little bit, and I think a lot of that is off the back of the two slots.
These teams are now taking it increasingly seriously, and that's why it has been so ultra-competitive
and why we don't have all these teams quite locked in as we prepare for the final playday.
Well, as for Oceania, they will rest now for the week. Playday 7 will be next week to decide
that final spot. Of course, more APL action coming throughout the week with Asia and APAC North.
And as mentioned, EML in four hours time for us though. While this broadcast comes to an end,
thanks everyone for watching. We'll see you in the next one.
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