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Welcome to another day of the
Yeah, Jonah. Sorry. It's time. It's hydration break time. Cheers. Cheers. And don't forget
to get your Rainbow Sticks share skins now available in the R6 store. Okay, back into
the action again as we dive into what should be a fantastic day to wrap up things here
on the... No, nope. It's time again. Hydration break Jack. Cheers. Cheers.
So glad to have you with us. We're back. I'm still filling in for Anne once again, but it's the end of the super week
It's an exciting time. It is hot here in Copenhagen, but good thing is you guys seem hydrated for the most part
I'm Jonas Willinger. We got fresh. We got alfama. You guys good? Yeah, I mean not thirsty anymore
No, we're not thirsty. It is sweltering outside
It's not just hot and we were very well hydrated, you know
We actually consumed about eight cups of water during filming that stuff, right?
It was a smart move to get this hate effort by production, honestly.
Yeah, I'm from them.
Yeah, I didn't even think about that component of it.
But in all seriousness, we're excited to have you back here because it is all about the
run-up to playoffs, including today.
We've got three playdays left.
That's it, before the playoff picture is locked in.
So all of our teams, well, they're grappling for those top six spots in the standings.
Ten teams, six spots, you have to be your absolute best in these final few days if you
want to make it.
movement yesterday was Geekay and Rebels further solidifying their position in the top six and the
biggest surprise Leo I think it's twisted minds their performance they had at Salt Lake City right
now they're not even in the top six yeah we've been mentioning the challenges for playoffs being
Geekay, Fnatic and Rebels and if realistically the three of them make it then one of the teams
from the big four needs to fall and yeah right now it has to be twisted minds so many lost
tricks in the row you can see it three losses in a row like it's a tough one for these guys so far
Yeah, definitely. It's fourth best team in the world, of course.
So, like, City Top 4, they make it there.
Not even Top 6 inside of EML right now.
You know, things can come crashing right down on you.
That being said, they do have an opportunity to fix those mistakes,
and I still expect them to, Joe.
Yeah, honestly, me too, but we'll find out later on today.
To recap the action yesterday, though, we'll talk a little bit about
kind of the player who caught our eye in that victory that Rebels were end up getting.
It was ASSA with 12 kills, I think, who really dominated yesterday.
I think the interesting fact that as you can see in most of these kills here,
it's gonna happen in the middle of the round, and it's the one kill that gets them the man advantage
or brings back man advantage most of the time. He played a very important role in most of these
gunfights. They're not direct duels, they're 1v1, and that's because he's playing the cutoff
a role for Rebels, and in other than the most dire situations here, he's the one that's planting,
the one that's clutching, he was so instrumental in a way to keep the rounds going the way of Rebels.
when most of them were super super close against Nettie.
Normally the monsters that we pick out have loads and loads of kills.
Yes, I said this very well in the kills department yesterday,
but as you've mentioned, Leo, two pints, two clutches as well,
and that contributes significantly to his EPS score.
It didn't just contribute to that, it contributed to his team's wins.
He got two rounds in straight 1v1s.
He loses there, maybe a bit of a close game,
so he was monumental for his team yesterday.
Well, the big moments that we saw yesterday, they were a couple.
We couldn't quite pick between just one.
Leo what was your favorite moment of the day? Let's just say I have a special
relationship with Mira so I had to go with Flexi because seeing him finally
off the shields and going on to the defense roll here we could see like
incredible shots here by the way. In the 2v4 gets another peek and at this point
he's stuck in that 1v3 and really cool clutch that's gonna be able to pull off
you can see isolating the gunfire, baiting the Monty here, going like he is gonna go
away from the bomb site then baiting going back again as they're planting and
And he's going to aim for the cover, really good stuff isolating that pick.
Eventually the plant goes down, and so, or it didn't go down, sorry, and yeah, because he's baiting it,
and he's going to keep on baiting it again and again, and just wins that off time.
Really beautiful play from him.
Well, I had some fun picking a moment that I liked, and it was the Jume Ace on boarder yesterday for Team Falcons.
Now to me, obviously Falcons did not end up winning this game, but Jume on the top of East Stairs.
He plays this position so well every time, and with the shots that he was laying down with that TCSG,
racking up all five kills by the end of the round, I mean, Geekay could not stop him in this round,
although they eventually stopped the team overall by the end of the matchup.
But that's the kind of performers that Jume we've seen from him.
We know he can do that kind of thing day in and day out.
I mean, Jack, it's kind of a wonder why Falcons couldn't end up winning that game,
even with a performance like that.
You give him the ACOG, you give him that E stairs position and you know, he's just, he's so good in that position
We've seen him there time and time and time again
But both of your moments were from teams that lost but they were quite good clubs
I flipped it, I picked a team that won but it's a pretty bad clip and we've got the comms, so let's play it out
3, 2, 1
Oh god that's fucking C4'd you
I can see for him and not blow it throws the C4 to Snape and then says, Oh, I've C4
Well our musty game of the day coming up at 9 p.m
CST will be the game that will two teams hanging on for dear life here fanatic a two game losing streak twisted minds a
Three game losing streak and they will play each other in our fourth game of the night both teams
teams. Need some more points.
They're still holding on to that
top six, but twisted minds.
Right now they do not have a
playoffs spot. Yeah, you've
said that context perfectly.
Well, there's two teams in a
pretty bad form as results would
suggest that have a big
opportunity today to get
themselves secured, get
themselves not necessarily locked
in, but in a good place for the
playoffs. I think the twisted
On one side, obviously, when you're Twisted Minds and you were the best team performing
at the ML, from the ML, sorry, at the Major, you expect at least to reach EWC.
For their region, also, it's very important.
And I think overall, also for their organization, Twisted Minds went really far in the AWC ranking
last year.
They want to at least be there.
And on the side of Fnatic, it's a roster that has never gotten the chance to get there.
They started off the stage so strong, it kind of felt like they had to be in playoffs.
It's not that not that sure anymore. Let's talk a little bit more about the meta that we're in right now
And I think for anybody watching at home, you know this the meta is right shields and information
Yeah on the shield front so many people love to accuse. Oh, this team is crushing a shield
Let's let's actually get some answers on that. Tell me with the 10 teams. We've got here
Yeah, who's playing the shields and who is it working for exactly? Yeah
So the shields we have three big shields inside of our respawn. We have Montaigne
We have blitz and we have the black beard now individual stats shields are never good
You know look at any shield player across the pretty much any team the individual stats are never good because what the shields do is they?
Enable movement from the defenders and they enable attackers to be closed and capitalized off that movement shields will then go for plants by crossing lines
Of sight who's the best shield player who's the best shield team?
Well, the best shield player is naco look at the EPS and the KD that he has on every shield
It's more than double the KD for the average of the league.
So the left-hand side is the average of our league and on the right-hand side is NAGRO specifically.
So it's no surprise to see our best shield player be playing currently on the best team.
But speaking of teams, actually, I wanted to rank them.
So for all of the rounds played where they had a shield picked, this is how the Win Delta sits.
So you can see that actually VP Falcons and Twisted Mines, whenever they bring a shield,
They're winning rounds more often than not, and then it does taper down to some of the teams that, you know, currently say outside of our play-offs picture.
And it goes to show that the teams that don't have like a specific shield player are struggling to bring it.
You look at DK, they keep on rotating their shield player.
Rebels, it's the same story, whereas for the teams, they can reliably bring once, miss on Xnatic, for example, and justifies the 83% pick rate.
VP, they have Neko Falcons, they can have Rida a little bit on it.
in recent months they have two shields bear in Treaks and Dove, so we have like some teams
really abusing the Shields meta as much as possible.
What surprised me actually was G2, really low percentage pick rate on the Shields, and
actually think that you think maybe that's Halliomar, it's not just Halliomar, Stompton's
been playing a little bit of Blackbeard and a little bit of Shields here and there. They've
not really subscribed too much to the Shields meta, but I think that's because Solid Snake,
Dockaby, Lyon, all those usual characters are so strong for that team.
Well, we've got two teams in front of us for our very first game of the day, who are also right on that playoff bubble.
These two teams, Geeky and Rebels, are incidentally the teams that you two both picked to join Fanatic in the playoff spot.
Only one of them can make it here, Leo. I mean, Geeky, that was your pick, but they have to go against Jack's pick and Rebels right now.
I mean, this is, I mean, with only three days left, this could really impact who we see in that top six at the end of the day.
I think we have to wait until the end of this playday, but there might be a players check that we're going to do.
Eventually, at some point, we're going to check if Twisted Minds even belongs in that top 4.
And if that's the case, or if they don't actually, then Fnatic, Geeky and, you know, overall Rebels could all 3 be in playoffs at least.
Yeah, I think, you know, I don't want to do our haunts. Leo, I think me and you are pretty okay. Our jokes from time to time.
I think, yeah, Fnatic and Twisted Minds really is the question mark one. Geeky and Rebels, we both put them on the precipice of getting inside of playoffs.
both believed in them for separate reasons. With yesterday's playday, it looks like actually
both of them could well do it, but it makes this game so much more important.
Logique are on a hot streak right now, they've won three games in a row. Leo, what's working
well for them right now?
I think I saw the best example of their playstyle, their identity really worked against Falcons
yesterday and let's take a look at how they play on the border and what's their playstyle.
They love to lurk and spread around the map, so we're going to see here a lion lurking
into her calves and standing a lion stand. Now, this is because they want to create movement
against the roamers. We see Solid Snake getting into his stairs and he goes to pressure the one
roamers that's playing towards 90. So he's going to go there and pressure the 90 player, it's going
to be Thorn and Thorn is scared, she goes into break room and look at that. Someone was waiting
for her, that's the first trap on the side of Geekay, a cutoff player that's already there
to punish any movement. Second step is they're going to get into office, they spot a second
roamers here and pay attention to the positioning once again, we have a Blackbird pushing him and
And we have so this snake all the way from Long.
In fact, that's two 2v1s that they gain.
And two 2v1s where they win the gunfight.
And they're now 5v3.
Now they are taking top-lock control.
And the only really player that can be a little bit
of a nuisance is Jume, who can go up the metal stairs.
And Petentune, once again, to the abuse of the utility.
What do we see?
Lion scan.
And then straight after the lion scan,
Dliber sends the nade.
And then again, it's another trap.
Because the nade pushes the guy bottom-metal.
And who's waiting?
A player outside main.
And getting another pick from that,
He can just confirm the kill with double nades, and at this point it's a 5v2.
Everyone on the side of Geeky can then crumble onto the bomb side,
and this is just a beautiful showcase that Geeky, when they're spread around the map,
when they use the Lion utility, when they use the Blackbird to create some movement,
and you have to cut off in every single good position, that team is just so good at doing that.
And finally it seems that it's paying off for these guys.
It really plays a vast role, you know, you think about Sark, a player that we've seen in the league a lot.
he's best he just played off the
action of somebody else off a shield
or off an entry creating something
somewhere else and giving him the
space. But it's not just sacks, it's
the same with yoga as well. And I
think GK have finally found that
when groovy's on the shield, you know,
when you pause making things happen,
those two players can be so effective
as well. So it seems to be coming
really good. The first few play days,
they didn't quite have that sync there,
but the last couple of play days, we
have seen it. And sacks has also added
one more shirt to the packet of
his work on them.
They're removing some of those
So I think I think the more we advanced more shirt one shirt yesterday
Now he's got shirts and less pillows. That's the winning thing for sorry
Well, uh, Jack talked to me a little bit about rebels here because they maybe it's not a three game winning streak
But they are hot off the heels of a very good win against a strong team in phonetics 72 yesterday
I think so they were very resilient and I think the one thing I've come to associate with rebels is a big strong defense particularly
They've been super strong and here in the game yesterday. They used the denarii
It was Feno on the Denari to create various layers.
It's almost like an onion, the amount of layers of the Denari trap they had going on.
This is something, of course, that you could replicate inside your ranked games.
Top floor shallay is the most picked site on that map by far.
And he puts one, two, three, four different Denari cells
to block the window entrances of bathroom
and a curious shield inside the bathroom to play around it.
It makes a big power position.
And I think four ripples specifically, when they get aggressive,
when they get creative, when they're creating these power positions,
that's where they're super strong.
You can see the game here, has to go through two dmg, takes the damage and just gets taken out.
That's basically the type of play that we've seen Rebels excel at for this stage.
It's the combination of innovation, maybe brought by the new coach on their side.
It's also the combination of the aggression with players like Feno, for example,
Linko that we've seen get really aggressive and get successful as well,
which was not always the case at KickUp.
They're getting more and more in their head that, yeah, it's true.
You're not a tier 2 player anymore.
You're professional players.
You can win gunfights against the best in the league.
They started by beating Falcons.
At this point, they can beat everyone,
and they just need to trust it.
For our map, for our very first matchup of the night,
we look to some territory that is familiar for both teams.
We go to Chalet, a win where Geekay picked up recently,
and Rebels just yesterday took a win on this very map.
Yeah, actually, got two wins on Chalet in this stage,
only with a victory against Secret,
another one against Fnatic, so four Rebels, it's on ground,
But it's also one where they've showed a lot of stuff, especially this Denary Trap.
If you've got it, Jack, I think that Geeky probably have got it as well.
Which will be interesting, I expect Rebels starting in defense to play a lot of Trap or Birders,
and that goes into the playstyle of Geeky.
Geeky, we already know that Sark is going to be somewhere in the basement lurking upstairs.
We already know that Yohgai is going to play by himself on some kind of window,
and you're going to have a co-over group that's starting to create some movement.
Realistically, it's about not overreacting on a set of Rebels.
There's two big questions in my mind as to who will win this game.
that's the way to go. And it's
can rebels make their attacks
work. Can they make those
attacks thing because that's
probably been their problem
area this stage. And then the
second thing is can GK make
their style work? I will rebels
double up on yoga. Will they
double up on the positions that
we see starts playing if they
do that can be the undoing of
that style that you KK play.
Those are the two big questions
and we'll find out inside this
game. Who answers them that
will ultimately determine who
you know, it's a little bit
different. It's a little bit
different. Demo embracing the
heat wave in the UK. Once again.
Has it cooled off? Demo. I mean,
at all. Is it getting any cooler
over there? It was all right, and
then you kind of turn the lights
on your side. The PC and all of
a sudden the room just fills
with a lot of heat. So yeah, it's
it is. It is what it is. What can
you do? You just have to get all
of us supposed by today. I think
this match. Honestly, I'm really
that they've bounced back really really well in the match against fanatic GK
taking down Falcons both teams are in cloud nine this is gonna be really really
good well that's enough to do is just give it to you both fluke take it away
because we are gonna get into this one our teams are ready so it is shall I
between geeky and rebels let's go thank you very much Jonah and duff always I am
so excited as you are to get into all these games obviously they didn't make
any comments, the fact that we're wearing the same sort of
top today, we really liked our top today.
Why are you just calling?
We're not in Hawaii.
I know, but it feels like-
It feels like we're in Hawaii.
It feels like I really want to drink a little drink
out of half a cup right now.
Why should we have a pool?
Imagine casting in a pool.
That's the dream.
Anyway, that's about the dream.
It's time to get into the reality.
The reality is both these teams, as you pointed out,
the last game. We're going to
be back from yesterday on the
up and up big wins that while
fought for in a big return after
being sort of dispatched quite
handily. This people week going
to be the super story for one of
these two teams or is somebody
about to have the villain
origin is. What's for GK? They
won two of their last games,
haven't they? I mean, they've
which as we know difficult to do in the super week. So for GK, it does feel as though they've
turned out a corner for the positive. And again, we always kind of look at, okay, what are the
future fixtures still for GK? You've got Twisted Minds and you've got Team Secret. You know,
matchups that certainly they can win. You're not going up against GT. You're not going up against
VP. You've been there. You've done that. So for GK, things are really, really positive for them right now.
So, it starts on a chalet that we've seen quite a lot and maybe it's not just us that's
feeling the heat and everybody else is sort of yearning for the snow.
They're kind of across this map and I just want to throw myself into most of it.
At this point, we've seen this map between these two teams I think three times over the past.
Three play days across.
Revers have played it twice over the past three.
obviously we had one from GK at the start of this two per week.
It's very familiar territory.
Both are very comfortable.
I think it's the case where, obviously, in the best of ones,
you're going to play probably what you've already shown.
Actually, there's going to be an element where you're
going to keep stuff for the best of free.
So that's where you want to go.
Obviously G2 are a good team to kind of use an example of,
where G2, when he played two maps this entire stage,
because they know they'll get all their better maps
in the best of free.
Don't think that's also what it comes down to.
You're already showing what you've showed before.
It's not as though it's gonna be such a mystery what you're doing.
And I think there's an element of plays into that.
It's kind of hiding different maps.
Aggressive on towards the double window.
LMS has already pumped all of the utility through.
Obviously, it's got a bit of an E1D.
The bees are starting to scream their way across the Solarium.
Nobody has been caught from the exchanges, though.
Single C4 was a temporary window,
but it got sort of caught mid-air,
and then you still got this, the second follow through,
but it won't quite get the end of a lens.
It's 0 and 2, but it's also 0 and 4 on the rest of the gadgets.
At this point, no, for that first sort of dump and dive,
nobody's been able to get off the building here from inside a red ball.
There's no sort of holding out.
I hope they can catch a singular body
and try and drive that in towards something internal.
But as you pour it, the extra stuff for it to lens,
it gets picked up, fights through the fire and the flames,
they swing that way towards the lary on the swing round,
a shotgun more than ready to pop and load,
that Rebels are gonna go for, but Rebels have dealt with it really well, however a miss smoke
has just left enough of a gap here for Grubby just to spread that kill on the second for Grubby!
On solar, freeing the round and well, Asa, who was hoping to kind of take up that position,
relams plays to try and take that cross, he has to now rotate away and have a 1v2 to stand.
So, I mean, he played exceptionally well yesterday, and he'd do it again today.
Look at the positions they've taken there. They've got themselves on contact as soon as he goes into one fight, he'll meet the other one.
And you can see he's aware of that fact, but how do you operate around it? Unfortunately not that well.
Yoga built on the back of Groobie.
They're able to hold on towards the holes on the top, and as you said, it looks very responsive towards what they expected of the approach.
approach. Yeah, it's, it's very well from the kind of strat department there from GK,
good counter prep, knowing what your opponent's going to go for. I also like the addition
of having, um, that warden playing kind of aggressive on the bedroom wall looking in
towards solar, because if he does get flashed out, maybe if there was a ying, which again
Rebels have shown that they will play a ying in this map, it's a really good counter for
and of course the smokes too. You can see this was the kind of pressure that they wanted to apply to a lambs knowing he's on that window.
I think everyone's seen the clip that he did against Team Secret so he's always going to be there.
But no, that was the moment it was grubby. I mean, in the 2v3, obviously a missed smoke doesn't help,
but then the fact that this kill goes grubby's way, that really put the nail in the buff and the Revers in that round and...
And you can see that Acid just didn't know.
I think they did not know that
close in the wall. Nice job as
well. Don't forget from, uh,
kind of one V two scenario
there for GK. They've went
close together. They've played
off that contact. Yeah, really
good start for GK. And the tech
pause. Because we can't get too
far. At this point, we'll take
a long game of seed yesterday. It was the core of it was long. It was a lot of 7-5's
in the midst of it and at the top and the bottom. Outside of that, well, let's see if
there can be anything that matches that pace here. Unfortunately, we don't get to immediately
through ourselves in. Maybe the heat is cooking more than just us at this point.
Then after this we sort of look towards the games that they have on hand because now is
that time when the calculators come out, the math books of just who is going to be able
to get themselves qualified. Obviously Verdi's Pro and G2, they've guaranteed themselves
top six they are sitting pretty pretty towards the top and I guess that's what happens when
you don't lose this point there's at least a total of nine points left to play for on
these final three play days obviously this game in hand GK then have twisted minds secret
and rebels of heretics and shifters oh hello it was don't go sideways I was also seen that
Sarksy he's he must have just turned on his AC. What a lucky guy, eh? He's got that luxury I
Also, I also peaked as well Sark's big respect. He's got the R9 in Milan Jersey. Wow. What a Jersey that is
Look at that
Maybe over your head that no it doesn't I know for now though is they've added a new Jersey every day
He's doubling up
How many has the best only Jersey yesterday. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so how many jerseys do you think he's got?
Maybe he's doing it like a shout out to a fan, you know, it's like he is now they know he's not run out there is the fan
Yeah, all right. I'm the father. Oh, that's the fan of socks
somewhere
You know listen small world
to get back. Uh we look at
yesterday for rebels. Yeah, it's
not even been 24 hours since we
seem to take off fanatic and.
They were able to go forward to
on their attacking half, and then
they proved into their defensive
side. The three defenses in the
room. The denium have to play
any more than that. So they were
really good day for them. If you look on the side of GK, didn't see them play it yesterday
as they took on Falcons on border, but we did see them play Shallow against Shifters
on Monday. And for them, it was also a 7-2. And guess what? It was a 4-2 split in the
attack and they swept three defences. So both teams exactly the same. How much does that
tell us? It tells us it's a pretty good map.
I think it's always the conversations they talked about of the maps that you can show,
the play the best of one maps, bring yourself into the best of threes and the conversations
of growth, but there's also the widest statistics of it. I was looking, obviously, it was a very
different GK roster in the sort of kickoff period, but the game that these two played
against today, it was one of Rebels' only wins amongst the best of ones. It was on
border, so another map that obviously we've sort of had a bit of a taste of them on and
a bit of a taste of success of them on quite, like, yesterday, but of course I think it
was the 11 maps they played maps total not games maps oh my god motto it's
bright and it was one of only three maps that they're able to sort of win out
and I guess there's always that element right of you can have it as a solid map
for you but best of threes which both of these teams are sort of handling for
and aiming for as well questions we get brought up sorry for the delay everybody
We'll hopefully be back in in but a moment
Time to time to think time to get ice cream. What's your favorite ice cream?
This may be controversial this may be controversial go on mint
Okay
Is it controversial next mint top chips quite a big one? Yeah, obviously that but I feels a lot of people like look at you
would disgust if you say mint
yeah I think if you're not a mint fan I could see that sort of going away from
you Jack not reading but feel free to type your favorite ice cream someone
will read them I like solar caramel I like that too that'll be my second
It's a classic.
Sorry, I'm just trying to think of all the ways I've kept myself alive in this heatwave.
It's still sad they didn't come in on matching outfits.
You know how many times Tim and Dez do it?
Yeah, but no.
I know a bit.
Just double standards, isn't it?
I know.
Yeah, why is that Hawaiian shirts?
Not Tim and Des, the desk.
Don't try and challenge Tim and Des on their white shirt game.
Tim's already, Tim's senses have just kicked in.
Oh, dear.
I don't want to make a joke, but I'm going to make a joke now anyway.
You and I were obviously, we were talking about, like, oh, we had these expectations of the games yesterday
and they went much longer generally and I like today won't be the same and we
shouldn't have had that conversation arguably this is our fault
I mean I don't think don't think the games on park and I say like say on paper
and that's sometimes isn't always the best way to approach things on paper you
you know, that's not always
the case. I mean, you're kind
of looking at the falcons and
the G two matchups. You would
think that that should be
barely straightforward because
we've got second and third
against ninth and 10th. So I
think. That would kind of edge
my way of saying, Yeah, it
should be a quick day. But then
again, I mean, you look at GK
did the Falcons and really, I
mean, I don't know what it is
with Falcons. I mean, it's
And really, I mean, I don't know what it is about Falcons.
They have looked as though you can get a result, like anyone could go and get a result against Falcons.
You know, I don't think they're the same powerhouses, maybe what they were before.
Where you just think, oh, well, that's Falcons, you know, they're gonna do this, they're gonna do that.
He feels like you can get at that team.
Which is a weird one.
Is it, I don't know how good that they are.
Um...
Oh, that's what it is.
Thank you for sticking with us now as we get in.
GK obviously there was getting himself that first round.
If you missed it, well, it was sort of a little bit of a stalemate for the opening minute and a half.
Rebels desperately wanted to smash their way in, couldn't, tried it anyway, almost pulled it off.
You know, for the heroics of Groobie.
At this point it was a very good sort of response for the statement before. It was a good line-up that they made of expecting an approach, expecting an attack and putting the wall in the right position for it.
Now as we sight-fly way round on towards the second sight-fire in gaming, obviously the used teams throughout this week played this map and both took on two victories.
So, maybe they've been pushed beyond two rounds away from them.
I'm curious to see which is even the first one to start taking that momentum.
So, shifting into our second site, our games will expect to have pretty hefty hold in towards
fireplace and in towards reading, but with the bands on your screen being mirrored as
I mean that's make that position
But more difficult to hold
Really have the same safety features, so I think for GK
Will be more of a drop off you do start to get pressured
But the ways of denying something usually got the one I've got the Aruni as well
But I just don't think the cheek and the interest in it
Oh
Oh, you can see the wings. The man is an angel.
Drops off the top rope and that's what?
Five kilos over two rounds so far, but the first three and that second two seem to be the ones that just tied the fate of a round.
They obviously still have a chance to rebuild, but if Marto got that kill on to the pulse, retook that territory,
not to count the birth thing Groobie got on the second story, it wasn't even the second story, it was the lion.
I'm a cut of their limbs caught out
It's definitely come fired up now there is obviously the opening above wondering if that drone saw it did now because it's been removed
It's having offered them a fight since
Well, what happens if you are not successful with the lurch to
You kinda lose the map for your team up the back, but that's what it looks like from this point.
It's just the case of GK didn't have any traps.
So there's nothing stopping somebody just watch short straight into the bomb site, but
I think Grumson was there for the long drop off and being able to cut down that solo player.
And I know, there's Truffling, he's a breed there, he's really nowhere he wants to go,
and he's trying to air jab us by the safety, but there it is again Grumson, another one.
Yaga, he will find another and it's a 1v4 and that's a no chance at all, that's a quad for him!
I mean it's just everything you kind of want from him right?
This early, one for the break of the sort of catch in the middle but this much energy on Shalai
It runs Shalai. We talked about it yesterday, we talked about how aggression is a sort of perfect
MO for a map like this and if you're able to find it early on boy you can just
drive the pace, the game, the sort of momentum of all of it.
Either way this I mean...
Ugh, just.
There are days when he gets into his element.
Feels like this is gonna be one of those days.
I mean this is a scary thing isn't it for Ravals?
One player is just on one.
What are you gonna do to stop him?
He is 7 and 0.
And for GK, everything's going to plan.
I mean for Ravals, obviously the first attack was very, very direct.
And it was down to, let's be honest, a miss smoke.
Which kind of gave probably the opportunity to clutch back round.
But then the second round, it was, okay, we're gonna go direct, we're gonna do this.
Obviously, somebody has spotted out thinking, oh, nothing's in short.
I can just walk straight into bar from dining.
You've went for that play. If you get that kill in the pulse, you win the round from your team,
because you full site control, we've seen that happen dozens of times.
However, that doesn't happen. Then you've wasted a lot of time.
Your team are then trying to support your take, which hasn't worked.
And you just gotta look at our brick wall at that point, so...
Big risk in that second round of the hand-backed fire-bone rebels.
And for GK to have an opportunity to go for the full psych-rotation as we head into kitchen now.
I'm wondering if they'll be able to get themselves that hold on that opening body twice in a row.
It's gone, well, specifically against the limbs.
It sort of says a lot of, when you're that IGL, when you're that voice,
When you're trying to drive a heavy utility operator or any comfort in the pump,
everything has been removed from the gadgetry.
So here is made at least a bit of a mark.
Something that can be capitalized upon.
Last time caught out mid-swing with one of the C4s already ripped and loosed.
Two more potential chances to pull this together.
But the pressure is still on this.
Maybe a rest main drive seems to be the MO.
It's not currently in sight, which means that while they're watching verticalities,
they haven't just forgotten.
They almost found a good bit of land to steal last time, fortunately for them.
Groobie dropped down and dropped a bit of a lesson on them in the open.
Two rounds here instead, us.
We hope to see if they've sort of extended away from the site itself,
and maybe they did just try and cut in once again.
Feno's down, asses pretty hurt.
And they haven't moved in from the windows here, dammit.
They haven't been able to get anything else on the side of it.
I mean, they're all in, but you can't really do much,
unless you have solar control and well GK are not going to get that up too easily in there GK
the slaughtering rebels players as they come tomorrow will get an engagement against top
tanks there are sorts tries to see for tomorrow's quick enough on the pistol but still for rebels
without this solar take they cannot safely walk in and try and go for a plant this is the issue
I think yeah I mean they tried to sort of just drive in right but it's almost like it was an
open door and you have to kind of ask questions about it. Yogger! Takes their head off a fennel.
There's three versus two. Now with one flash and two explosive drones. We'll see if they can try
and do something together. You four just flips into the cupboard in the box, but with 15 seconds
and they're still trying to take the top to get the kit back in the weapon they really go. They're
hoping for an engagement. The engagement comes, they're not quite ready for it. There's the swing
to the map. We've got a lot of
things going on to the window.
There is three rounds in a row,
but GK. Really easy for them. They
know exactly what rebels are
going to do, and they have
everything set up. I have to talk
about the month about is really
starting to show how good of a
band that is for GK. Rebels
yesterday against fanatic. We're
bringing the multi consistently.
They brought four times out of
that part of the map. Without
that Monty all of a sudden the
area that rebels are struggling
with is solar control. So the
banners is perfect just to slow
down rebels and make that job of
taking that part of the map. So
difficult time out rightly being
called here by rebels. I mean,
don't forget you've still got
other options of shields. I
mean, if it is a problem where
you need somebody to face check
you can do that. You can do
that. You can do that easier.
Blitz can do that. Blackbeard
can do that. Yes, you don't have
the money, which is obviously
the safer option out of the
free. But still, I think a
shield. It's crying out for a
shield here for me for rebels.
But it's always that any decent
it there that obviously the
monty's band. It's something
that they use a decent amount.
They have that as their drive
the game. And what they do
is they try to hit the site
directly. Do you think they need
to try and utilize that to make
that stronger and sort of
punish the whole that you care
doing? Or do you think they need
to try and focus more on the
whole the round it? The loose
players. I think it's a case
where GK have left gaps in
their defense. You think about
the second round. No traps and
opportunity to jump in west lane. They have trophy control, but they cannot get to the
final step which is take solo. Yeah, if you want to try and play plant-oriented stage,
which I mean they have two plants against Fnatic, they certainly can do that. You need
to be able to check off the things that stop you from doing so, and of course if you want
to try and plant inside a kitchen, then you need to try and take solo control, which denies
anyone playing on the burst inside a bedroom, and stops them more importantly on that hatch.
5 seconds.
We'll see what lessons are there.
Damoss is gone, alongside the warden.
So it does open up some of those sort of punchier plays, right?
If you're looking obviously towards games,
it's the go-to of getting in the window,
going blind, maybe a sense gadget,
even on dining, getting that one cut across
from the drone hold.
There's a lot of plays that you could do to counter
a sort of watch against smokes,
against those trights.
Got the candel.
Let's got themselves some ying action,
They are pulling away from their sort of previous tactics, right?
You're looking at a lot of potential picks here.
I want to see if they want to punch aggressively.
Get out of the castle, get out of the gantry.
I need to be close enough with the pressure, with the sledge, but instead it seems like
They wouldn't try and get inside the building, on the other side of the cavity, all the way here, on library, into the aircross.
Yeah, set of the shield. It's gonna be the ying to get them inside a solar.
Obviously with that warden bat, things that allow you to really have much to worry about, and well, some of those condellas are just gonna be enough to...
scare away player would stop the stairs and finally see a little bit of
something positive coming out of the rebels camp as they have the opening
pick Sark's is off the board he was the standout player for me yesterday in that
game against Falcons these on a rough time here today but I suppose it's okay
whenever this man's 10 and oh yeah he's having a pretty good day
His stats are so good he's currently still in binary.
Mato's able to find Yoga.
The team itself might be suffering a little bit.
Let's see if they can try and just...
The body on the back end is in a very aggressive position.
Groovy's taken there and...
And you thought that's able to pull off the lens you had the candela popping in the same time
So you might just one year a bit too early or caught him out mid utility drive
Blind swing, but it leaves us once again three versus three first time this you can buy from the site
They seem to have some decent awareness. There's a steady back-and-forth. We almost takes one, but it's not
Rebels are doing a good job to make sure they stay above and finally they kill the man
Of course, so much problems leads just you poor alone was a well-placed flash that sort of forced him into that position
He slipped his way on by a post plan
But at this point how do you get your way back in no house?
I mean they could finish him with a spare twin drone if they really want to do but what the f2 what's just as well
Well rebels have just pulled up back into the most traditional way for taking that top floor
Just library across, very simple, open up the breach, try and work a plant.
It never asked Pete the breaching, gave himself up.
That was the kind of avenue then for Rebels to say, okay, now we can push the player and piano's gone.
So for Ask, I mean, the thing is who asked, I wouldn't say he was under really any pressure though,
because you think about the two operators that were dead in that Free Vee Free,
the Grim was dead and so was the Yeen.
So the kind of utility dump operators that make defenders a little bit nervous if you're sat in a corner,
They're off the board. All their walls was two flashes from the ace and I think two smokes from the twitch.
That was all the utility that they had.
So really ask them, isn't it a good safe position?
It means that Rebels probably would have had to plant himself and think,
okay, we need somebody maybe go in the piano window trying to push this guy trying to get the kill.
But whenever you give yourself up, as soon as that piano is gone,
whoever has the future knows he can walk in the plant and there's nothing that's going to stop them.
So yeah, Rebels just pulled it back, played it very safe, very default, and it's worked for them.
Coming at you. That was the sort of swing of it right at that point.
You know, it was a great change of face. They were slow and steady.
They were making sure they were inside the building more than anything.
It's something I sort of commented on the first three rounds was fine.
They were punching through directly to the site, but they still had two people out watching the windows.
It can't work if people follow through and second this.
Remember when I said you ban a warden?
This is that sort of short snappy blind player.
That's the smoke. You're looking at all the smokes. You're looking at this lineup with the two shields.
You think you know exactly what's going to happen, but ah, takes the risk, pulses through,
U4 gets one, and it still flies to Mato, get the lucky fade away.
On towards one, and make that two either side, he's on three for the round.
That could have been absolutely abysmal if they weren't able to get those bodies either
side, and now they have something they could build behind, still one candela, still a
That's a fatcher, no C4s to contend with, just two players, now U-Pore is above, he'll go inside the site.
He's gonna find a force out of this, he likes the player, he's gonna suck in, stay alive, he's gonna give a spray coming through, and he's just holding out and hoping that was the last candela he's surrounded, he can't leave, and there is so much time.
So he's gonna try and find a fight and get out of there.
That'll buy him some semblance of safety.
This grenade
We won't make it
Chunks is too much better, he's alive!
Oh, how's he done that demo?
Sometimes I always worry that
You know, we've seen before, the Nadell actually just follow you down the hatch
Um, quite frankly it hasn't, so
U4 is still alive, but you look at the time now for Rebels
In the Free V2, half the round gone, you've got that top floor control
You know what both of them are, they're gonna be inside the bomb site
You can just take your time, squeeze the life out of this round
Yes, maybe the rush wasn't entirely successful. Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear. That is now...
That's made things interesting as GK being gifted a freebie of the back of a razor blade,
grubby sense of regards from the depth.
I mean, you need to get a kill every round, right?
Somehow it just had to work its way out. It's now the two versus two.
And again, they can drone, they can set up, but you sort of know that they're there, right?
I'm just saying you've got a decent awareness to spraying against the staff to help them get a catch.
But with the kit where it is, how do they take this? Do they just try and fight their way flat across this?
Do all of this reveal the rotation of position?
Well, no, no one's just gonna sort of drop their way around.
All the Fenrir is thinking about a fight here on towards the door. He just shoots a bit too high, they don't know.
Mato's crept his way in, but they know about the play right now and Upoor gets one, but it's created out elsewhere!
He's taking the risk!
The finger can't quite finish them off, but Upoor's your can, GK!
Hold on!
Oh, wow.
Just about got that, Upoor. Maybe should have been dead to right.
Basin's HP, I mean it was that first engagement, just prone.
Catching his opponent by surprise and then able to hold his ground when that 1v1.
Well, obviously after this, even more it was able to find three kills against him back in it and then it was like Razor's win wasn't it?
That's the best opportunity for Rebels. It's a very frustrating game for them.
Just a lot of things haven't went their way.
That's why here this is the moment of first engagement.
Probably should have been dead there,
but just hangs on by a thread and then.
Oh.
Oh, Rubsen's liking that one.
I mean, at this point, you would, right?
The fact that obviously over the past two rounds,
We've had a timeout that's worked very well for Rebels and you sort of look at it the first three they were
Absent but groovy sure wasn't yeah since then it's been super competitive back and forth Rebels have
Lost at points and then been able to rebuild rather than when they've sort of got the opening foot and some engagements and then things have stuck the way
Now
A second attack on the swing through asks us no gets himself the second opening in a run
Yeah
Castles just got a little bit more sturdy
Also, the the kill department is now going to be suffering the smart outside the top performer for Rebels
Somebody else has to try and step up but nobody else is about three kills right now
So it's gonna be difficult for them for the other four aren't having a great game as for GK
Of course I mentioned Grubby, but also you pour now seven kills to his name
CGK, happy enough to extend. Ways quite a lot of time of course with this extension
on this hold. Rebels will have to do a bit of problem solving, okay how do we deal with
the guy in the first fireplace as well. Enable a bit of a pulse, just lurking on the blue
stair to go to that cardiac scanner. See, ASK just got tunnel visioned. He's not aware
that somebody's going to be pushing below on that sled. And now able to pick up a kill
and oh, what the fuck was going to have?
Sark's dead to rights, but some have.
Sark's just slipped away and he's still a bit of a menace here
and he's walked up the blue stairs.
How'd you get a link with the O'Rourke out there?
Well, Lens is able to find yoga, keeps things flat,
has taken a lot of damage in the meantime.
Think about what's been removed from the approach right now.
Hard breach.
He's still got the softs, but none of the range.
Groobie's got himself two for the round as well.
a shotgun just gets the main fight out of one. The second is almost found too, Linko.
It's gonna slip away. The three versus one has time. There's not much else there, fully
where he is. And Groovy wants another for his tally. That has been a massive, massive
opening half here for the side of GK. 5-1. Step in advantage and see what the desk thing
about it. I've won very one side of the fair right now, Grubby and Geekay are tearing Rebels
apart. What's going on right now, Leo? What are you seeing in this matchup? I think I
see Rebels being way too slow and static in their attacks. When they try to give some
pace, try to give a rush, that's when they actually made it a little bit closer for the
Red. When they try to fool clear, despite using Swilt Snake, despite using Lion, despite
using crowd control barriers, it takes them ages to get initial control. And I found the
the back of one man and grab you like really stopping most of these attacks, you know,
from the get go either by killing them when they're outside or scaring them, applying pressure to them,
by fighting hard in the either surroundings of the bonsai, either quite early on when the
room came happens. And honestly, it's a game masterfully played by Gikei because either they
decide to go and play aggressive towards the outside, preventing them from points, either they
just choose one area where they're going to keep the control. Look at this, by the way,
Like the one side is master, there's one left in the round that guy is still in play place, a shotgun is still top red like a top blue sorry.
So they're really not giving anything to Rebels.
I had three things in terms of key care that I really really liked about this whole half so far.
First one is the map choice. Rebels won't have changed much if anything, so they know that they've got Rebels.
The second one is as soon as they get into the game, operator bans.
They band away the Monty, which is the only shield that Rebels will play.
will play, then they've underway the doke bit and we've seen how good Fenner particularly is
on the doke bit on this map as well. And then the third one was actually asked, playing on the pulse,
providing information to his team. On top of that, Groobie having a great game, like it's all that
whole plan, how they concepted that, when they'd have come together last night to talk about this
fixture has just played out perfectly. And now they're switching to attack, and that makes it
very interesting because the playstyle that we mentioned earlier on in the pre-game, the ability
to work with multiple pressure points, multiple players spread out around the map. That's
something that comes in hand, especially on maps where you can achieve a lot from outside.
And that's the game that was the case yesterday on Border against Falcons. That will be the
case today on Shelly against a weaker opponent in Rebels.
At the start of the day, I said, well, can Rebels start out their attacks? I think the
answer to that question is no. And the second question is, will they double up on DK? You
know, we know there's the solo lurks that come in those outside pressure points, as
you said and I think you know that's to be seen but you've seen the band at
the now yeah yeah I find it very strong there was yesterday so remove as I mean so
there is no strong positions yeah move denarii so there is no well let's talk
about that game so far yeah let's try to prepare as soon as they knew that
rebels were gonna really we're gonna be willing to take Charlie again because
they had to win streak on it I think you can cook to really nice control
strategy agreed now we'll see if they could keep that up as you said the real
danger when you're playing GK is figuring out how to stop their very lurk style attacks.
We'll find out if Rebels can do that.
Well, that is to find out instead. It is a game of two halves. It's always worth saying,
five to one. Set before night the team when they've played this recently, you know, over
the past super week has lost more than two rounds. Currently, obviously, Rebels, that
the fact has changed, but will that stay the same for GK, don't they?
Well, GK is a case where you've obviously set yourselves up really nicely with a 5-1.
You've got a lot of breathing room.
I mean, it's not often these two mini teams come back from a 5-1 deficit.
So right now for GK, so much time, so much breathing room now, but just, I think, obviously
as much as what we can try and look into this game and say, oh, you know, the tactical side
of things, obviously I'm hearing what the desk is, I just hear the thing, probably some
14 kills, in one half, you know, that for me, sometimes the strats don't matter if this
guy's just killing everything that comes near him.
I think that's the sort of, yeah, it is all of his team put together.
He's almost all of the opponents team put together.
It just sort of shows.
So set it off the second round when he was, oh, seven and no.
Sometimes he's just on his day.
Oh, I just can't jump.
Oh, not this again.
Did we see this yesterday?
Yeah, twice in a row.
We've sort of had.
Yeah, I had the same thing.
Yeah, and they don't understand you can't jump in this game guys
You have to go play a different if you're playing sassans creed, okay, and we'll we learn love jumping in that game
Trying to think of other Ubisoft games that involve jumping
Rayman yeah, love jumping a lot of jumping in that one
I don't think there's any jumping in Anno.
He's got the big bad AC unit too, he's got the big pipe going out the window as well.
That's a proper one.
To be fair, I think for how hot it is where we are, it's even hotter in France right
now.
Yeah.
So, good luck to them.
I think it's slightly cooler in Copenhagen, I have no sympathies towards our desks even
our protection cr- I have a little bit of sympathies, I have less sympathies than I do
the French. Unlucky Leo. I'm
sorry. Leo's lucky because Leo
could be at home in France
right now. Brain melting. Oh,
apologies for the delay, but
I think for, uh, GK going on the onto the attacks. Didn't really see much issues with them up against shifters. Um, we're able to take that for two split against them on Monday. Um. And also, I think for GK, they're a team which I wouldn't say have the most amount of like shield play sometimes, like, I think they're
the team. I don't think they
have a dedicated shield player.
Like if someone is going to
take the shields, it's
grubby, but again, I don't
think grubbies a shield player.
So. That's another thing. Just
to keep in mind offer GK. We
think shields will be that much
of a prevalent thing. Never
up some downs it's easy to put it but they're probably gonna walk away pretty
bruised they can't get anything more out of this especially but the 07 they
shuffled against g2 not too long ago sort of just takes two of the maps and it
becomes that question that we talked about a little bit yesterday of how many
maps do they have working their pool go with how many other roster sort of
change if they're not able to sort of you know when roster's changed quite a
lot one of the things that suffers pretty immediately more than anything else
is the map. It's the understanding of the depth because you almost have to rebuild strats
across the board. A team that has stayed together longer should have a more dedicated map pool.
And not having that as a sort of confidence is always a bit of a blow.
On the other side of it, obviously, if GK is able to pull the three points from this, they'll
temporarily jump their way up towards third. Maybe not. If Falcons lose again.
to get themselves in a very solid position towards that final drive and then and there's
only let's say six more points for Rebels to claim if they don't get anything from this.
Well then they're very, very at risk.
Who was it?
I know obviously Leo and Jack they've done their little kind of prediction thing.
Didn't the history as well forget who was it had rebels and he had it nothing you know was it GK?
It was something like that wasn't it?
I don't remember I didn't I don't remember that far back
They can do that
Anyway, we're back in
5 to 1
Now the first three rounds were very much the GK show and all the entire game has been the groovy show
There's always this sort of I guess the question of how much further will he keep pushing we've had one tech
Rehearsal this is out this and he came back just this strong either side of it
But for the context he's currently 14 to 2
Ah, just got confirmation. Jack picked Fnatic and Rebels, then Leo picked Fnatic and GK.
So at the moment Leo's looking pretty good. It's not that bad. I mean he didn't back the
French team though. No one's there. He's still correct not to. I'm not saying a lot of it.
I assume you'll have a little bit of Frenchman shame.
Nah, I don't say.
Okay.
Oh, thanks.
Yeah, shields, probably.
I was entirely about to pop you up and talk about it, so take it.
Yeah, I mean, look, it's, again, GK, I don't think there's too much massively plays into the shields,
but again, grubbiel, hotbar, I think, blackbeard, very, very strong on Chalet,
mostly because he has the nades, and as we know for Chalet,
a lot of youths all be dumped into certain positions for this clear right now. Obviously
piano is going to have plenty of stuff. It can just move in there to remove the razor
blooms of the storeways for himself. It also take down the banshees. So having those extra
nades just makes things a little bit easier and he can also do this. Use an ace in an
aggressive format trying to get some kills off the back of it. The kills that ASK is
going to open up the first day. Probably able to shepherd away Linku back in towards
bathroom and all sorts it might have just tagged them just ever so slightly but
slowly was gonna get from that angle. Feno's actually been able to retake the
piano position now. That's I mean it's a great move it's now been revealed but the
work that they've done they'll have to redo a bit he's sort of preemptively
throwing the C4 and I hope the shield just drives his way back in he's taking
attempts yoga gets caught from the run out of motto this is everything you kind
on it from rebels, right? Don't let them get comfortable. Fine, they're taking some ground.
Take it back. Make them have to rethink, re-evaluate. Ruby's now moved off with the shield. They
can't take it the same way they do. They can't use the same utility they did, so instead,
they now try and commit towards this take of the plant and you trust that you've got to hold
the bomb. Or, oh, well, he got it. It's fair no bites back and just perfect sort of retake
ground here by rebels. Yeah that's exactly what you need is fight the player top player don't let
them play that breach. Now it means that they have to go above and they've tried to do so they've
lost sarks in the meantime but ask able to get the trade and there's a 2v3
all by himself the link was there's a breach able to take them down but look at the time
15 seconds need to make a move. Yeah a great reposition here from Aster as well they're just
He's gonna try and drop the hatch so that he needs to pick up from one.
He can't just drop back, so he can't take the fight, so he gets to down,
and now he's just gonna try and hold on towards the plant.
Is Ather close enough?
Oh no, they should be able to get this demented.
He touched around the corner, but can he get himself off the ready for the fight?
It's time! He can't!
Oh, that was very close.
But that will be a second round to go into the favor of Rebels.
I mean, he is very far away from the box. I asked a and thankfully for him ask full sprinting trying to get out of the site.
Instead of playing gun up and actually cost them because of that turned us back completely to the cave. That's down to lack of information.
They had no idea where I was coming from because of that ask turned us back.
I think for GK, almost kind of rubbed that round, but overall for Rebels, I mean, it was that important kill, wasn't it, onto U-Pore upstairs.
That's what forced the time out of GK.
So they had to go above, they had to waste by in that mini-game of hump the roamers, you're still lurking upstairs in the verts.
You can see here, they're kind of starting to go above 30 seconds, and that just outweigh their time.
You should just mad dashing wasn't it you wanted to get behind the bombshafts in and sort of play on that structure, but
That's gonna do five to it was a really good rest of come pray that round right they kept him
Taking a bit
There's never a point where by the team sort of
Stop reacting. I think that's everything I kind of want you can punish that you can almost punish that as we just saw the end
The attackers must locate and defuse a bomb.
Rebels. They're the ones that have to see if they can try and do that.
Keep themselves off of that death now. It's attack on Shatter.
They know that they just have to plan and it's a one-bust.
It's one out close. Would you like...
If it's 10 feet potentially.
It's an opportunity now for Rebels to make that comeback.
means that
For GK still needs two rounds one to get them on the match point so for Rebels it's still opportunity if a who knows we could
Still take all three points if we play our cards, right?
Yeah, GK go up against bombs like to be that top floor and
Really good early drum work here as well from probably being able to spot outside. Okay, we've got one guy on fireplace and that's
Really yet. I mean there's not much support. I fear for Lincoln here
If a little bit of Util comes his way, he could struggle with it.
Well, while I though, he can try and keep himself safe, so that Util will have to be on point here for GK.
For Drubby on that recruit, he has two forms of froubles.
He can actually burn up himself and maybe try and go for the nade.
I mean, this window position is so important for the Connoth that no...
Let it go begging.
Dupor should have had a dead right, but he gets one burn.
I mean, that's just that balance background. Fine. You've taken the ace to big blow, but
Exhaust that DMR of Tipper Owl and obviously they were my ability for them to dedicate further
into the round itself.
They'll try and play that continued game at step up aggression you can see.
The Deimos underneath the saunas is forcing them further and further outside their own
site but he's about to find some pressure flat.
They look away at the workforce for time or less the cross but...
much delicate margins once again.
Less than 40 seconds.
U-Paw is still proposed aggressively on this window.
Are they gonna see if they can try and take this as the
slip fight?
He doesn't expect it.
That's three for U-Paw this round.
That leaves a lens alone.
They slipped on by, they'll get this plant secured.
At this point, they just hold back, hold off.
It's found by Upo for a 4k and that is GK.
Four rounds.
Not four rounds, four kills, six rounds.
One, two, three, four, and then he goes six.
There are six rounds, he got four kills, numbers hard.
Yeah, look, that round comes off the back of that jump out, you know, you've just gifted
you for two kills obviously the intention was one player jump out burn the air jab and then the
second player jumped out and hopefully get the kill but it was very poorly timed you know i felt
as though that i think it was fennel was it jumped out like a century later than when he needed to
and yeah at that point 5v3 you're always chasing the game aren't you and then we kind of seen those
plays from Rebels. He's got Mato inside a piano. He's trying to peak that window. He's trying to get a
kill back, whereas in kind of normal circumstances, that's like an even game, he would just sit there
and wait, and he just gives himself up because he feels that he needs to go and get that kill.
At this point, Rebels have one, seven, two on this map. You'll have to stop for the other side
side of it just GK's down that tally.
He's sort of still missed out a bit on the grand scheme of things, but you pull with
that 4K, he gets himself to 11th or 4th on this between him and Groobie across this game.
The 26-7 for the pair of them.
Absolutely, it's your performance.
The other side, Mato's got himself to 12-7, but no other player is positive.
Unfortunately none more so than a link out and a lambs. The one kill each, so they make death a piece.
One round for GK, that's all they need and
Take their time, what they want to go for.
They have Util and never mind, Util's got a lambs. Just want that Util and that's it, I'm rebelled.
Oh dear, capital bolts are not going to have the impact that I'm sure GK wanted them to have, so now that position, that corner inside the library, that's not very favourable for GK, we're going to need to try and get some nades in.
As we can see, they're going to renegade on the window.
I think who I'm sure has the Wi-Mite Discs also to protect them.
That's just getting really good information here from the pulse, similar to what ASK was
doing on GK's defensive half.
Even that little play here from Drubby trying to walk in free mod, it's going to be called
out and spotted.
Oh, well, yeah, yeah, there you go, fed-out.
Able to pick up one.
Loading new mags.
Well one, sort of be the split through obviously.
They've lost out a lot of their utility drive here.
One of those retarot drones.
One of the cat tower and well none of them in your body.
What else, most people are dead.
You're gonna suddenly get a bit of a surprise strike.
So, I gotta say the full blast is one, not tenable.
Two, that's just one. Hello.
We might have something to be able to thread here just down to if they give
away the fight here the barbed wire on it. Basing the swing there.
Good step by step, steady by steady. The fact that it's the solace from the pulse
means that they should have a decent read on the method of approach and
that's offering them support.
They're back behind the bar,
but they just have to play this together.
They cannot give an option.
Asta was able to clutch out a big round
before Marto, who's been the top player for the team,
and he keeps going.
Has, does Rebels. One more under their belt.
Good job for Rebels.
One tap from LMS. Started things off really well.
You lose that capitol.
It means that you have to kind of get desperate with clearing out
that corner, which,
They just had to jump in and try and kill them. They were successful in doing that, but they lost their players doing so.
So yeah, good start, certainly from Rebels on that round. And for GK, just really couldn't get going once they lost all of that util.
I think they realized that. Also, we see Ask try and make a play in towards mud. The pulse perfectly read through that.
That was the pick right there from LMS. And look at this great double up.
T4 to bait, an easy swing there from Fennel.
And yep, this was the jump in, but...
This wasn't gonna work out well for them.
And Yaga always have difficult 1v2 in behind that bar,
it can just... you don't know where they're gonna peek up,
really in no one ways to do it.
Three rounds!
Separate them.
However...
Rebels.
No one will get to go to...
that bar instead they're gonna go back upstairs I mean this bomb site was a
successful for them remember they tried to go for that jump out they're gonna run
it back then the last I think that's the sort of you know when you have the
conversations of the sites you know you've got to probably come back to this
anyway, unless you're going to be that sort of charge of the basement site, the one that
is very much falling out of favor. I think the lack of control that you can sort of have,
the possibilities it would get, it's not very popular side stuff, anyhow. So instead, play
against this one, it's just, yeah, there were jump outs that were given the game away. They
sort of handed a portion of the round. If they can resettle here, bring it to the 6-4,
probably forced a time to help and then they have the option of going back to just nice that they've
won go back to kitchen and into our gaming
oh i think we can see if we can try and get in knocked out immediately there's a swing around in
okay whatever the plan was here i think it's safe to say plan failed yep that's uh that's a dud
That's what's happened, and Rebels very easily cleaned up, attempted rush, falling flat on its face.
So for GK, the supposed review you have, that kind of free round buffer, you think,
oh, what do we have to lose from a rush? Well, you did lose the rounds, but it does mean that
you're now kind of giving Rebels a bit of momentum, which is probably the main worry.
So, right now, for Rebels, two away, all of a sudden your eyes start lighting up and think,
hang on a minute, we could maybe do this.
For GK, if you're 15 rounds of this away, it is a worry.
I mean, for Mora, just didn't really have to move his feet, just moved from one position
to another.
One double window swung back onto the single and, yeah, easy enough for Rebels to capitalize
on that.
the rush. GK, failing on that top floor, they now go into our kitchen and dining. Now, interesting
thing to note too is that Rebels have the opportunity to go here in the last round,
but instead they went to the bombsite that they already lost previously. Is that maybe a case
where Rebels felt as though that this bombsite maybe didn't go to plan even though they won it,
which I think to an extent maybe you would argue the point that yes, that could be the case,
It was very very close, you know, and I wouldn't say rebels played extremely well in that defense I
Mean I don't know I think it's the element of
They have this as an option they have a win on it they can expect some changes for things and there's almost a course correction
You can make when a site is fresh in your mind, right?
The course correction that they had to make for master of bedroom and office to bring it back
They changed our aggression. They were hit with a very different approach. Don't get me wrong
They won this. Yes, it was close. Just as close as it could be, but they won it.
Which means when they have that conversation, when they know they've got to come back here,
maybe, maybe something like this will stop. But either way,
they've had a much better resurgence here.
Sort of six to two position to the six to four.
Two very, very different views, again.
Alem's in yoga.
They've taken a bit of a shake against each other.
That's the crossfire here, waiting for somebody to just drift their way around.
It's a Deimos, so this position.
Don't get called about. He's obviously concerned, but Feno gets asked in the meantime,
and as he gets himself a bit closer,
the Deimos is still trying to hunt down, put the pressure on,
the Pinga is just buying himself a bit of safety,
sort of running a little bit rampant.
This groupie gets Feno, the Deimos,
slips his way around. What is he expecting? Something.
It's the feeling when the wind starts and instead he peels himself round, he's not going to get the trap onto Asa.
Yoga in the meantime gets one more, so Asa needs to activate sooner rather than later for all the work that he's spent holding out here.
Now, Yoga has the position to get the trade out. How or where are they?
And if they encircle this man and get it clean make it a four versus two
Really change the pace the grenade comes through a couple of shots over the bow
I mean he's pulling time here demo, but
Penny pulls the safety
Oh no sarks. I mean sark just knew he knew somebody was
Creeping around the side of inside a bar and like you said time
I mean, it was burned there for ass at least a 45 seconds as they just needed to wait to try and pick up the kill spot
Oh, no, the lambs is gone and now it's a 1v4
I think who has to deal with when there's still 30 seconds remaining GK initiating the plant and this should be all she wrote
And rebels versus GK and it will be the case GK
Successful to get that one over like take them a while on their attacks
But all they needed was two attacks after that great opening half that they had
Well, a rough week for Rebels and a sort of pain sandwich.
Also I decide for DK, what a win round of four.
Three clean wins and ask for clean break to the break.
I
That's another three points for Geekay. Further solidifying their playoff position. Nothing
is locked in just yet, but that is certainly going to help. We welcome in the man who said
He'd see us tomorrow when we spoke to him yesterday.
Grubby, congratulations.
Welcome once again.
Your performance today, I mean, truly astounding.
It looked like you were floating out there.
How did it feel to be in your shoes?
Yeah, first thing, hello.
Nice to see you guys again.
And yeah, I mean, it was a good game for me,
but I think overall we played really good as a team.
So we worked as a team and I got the freebies, you know?
Like it's simple as that.
Yeah, that's yeah.
I was wondering, you know, yesterday you were on SHIELD's duty and you were like, you know what, get me out of the SHIELD, we'll see myself unleashed.
I think we saw that today, looking at your statistics, looking at you into the game, it felt like today was the, you were basically at the heart of the strategy, at the heart of DK first and foremost, stopping all the attacks on Riddleside.
Are you going to be in a floating world like this very often, or is it just made by map?
I mean, I think it depends on the map and on the opponent we play as well, you know, like we knew that the shields is not the best pick against Revers because of the operators that they play and we have to punish them, you know, play aggressive siege kind of, and that's why we kind of went off the shields and asked for some things on the shields.
But yeah, that was our kind of a game plan that we wanted to follow, you know, rather than me just getting off the shields.
the game plan. Could we talk
to me about the game plan
actually, because I thought it
was perfect. Did you? Did you
see something in the game
yesterday that made you think
actually we can take down these
guys on Shallay because I'm
seeing I'm seeing you go to
Shallay against them. The
docusy band, the mountain band
in particular. Was that all
part of the game plan? Maybe
you watched the game last
night. Yeah, it was kind of
the game plan like some of the
certain defense operator picks
was completely against them
because we knew how they play
how they force the place and
that they never change for every defense they never change and for every attack and we said okay
it's time to do this guys we can maybe gonna suffer against the copy grim open you know like the
solid snake demos but we knew that like the operators that we're gonna ban would be more
helpful for us than them you know because they will have to deal with more stuff that we bring
for example for like the castle body case you know like the solids and everything like we just knew
that it's gonna work against them and yeah that's all you know we just put time into it and the
effort paid off you know. I was just gonna ask about the castle upside because the castle forces
them to bring some kind of soft reach was that the was that the game plan of bringing that because
you did bring it quite a lot yeah yeah we knew that they don't bring anything to counter the
casting and we also knew that they won't ban it so i said okay i'm just gonna run it every every
round and then you know they played the lion for example says on the left window but the middle
was casted off so they're just losing their time yeah to clear it and we were just taking space
meanwhile you know so it was yeah it was kind of like very based on the yeah and we had
probably just the kind of performance 18 kills that we can expect to see from you
going forward I mean I have to ask
I wanted to drop 20 but I thought I could pot in one of the rounds so I said it's fair enough you know but yeah I wanted to drop 20 but I didn't even knew that I'm like I'll be honest with you guys I was just floating like on every defense I was really thinking when I do I was just like playing the game like you know I spotted something so I was instead of doing it you know like
with the Solis like flanking jumping out like it was I think I was kind of like in the flow state
you know that you just don't think you do your best and everything works you know and I think
the game was like this for me that like it no matter what I would do like spumping no spumping
I would just get a 3d you know on the on the map so yeah that was a good game from me you know
incredible thank you so much man congratulations on another win and uh yeah maybe we'll talk to you
again next week yeah thank you see you guys next week what a performance from him 18 kills to his
But as he said right team effort comfortable moving around those roles and Jack you highlighted it a really good game plan coming in
Yeah, it was it really was so solidist
I think it's the most well put together performance. I've seen out with you came
They've had some really good ones this week as well
Obviously, it's been a great super week for them to propel themselves up the standings four wins in a row four wins in a row
Could be confirmed as much as well
You know the operator picked one
It's just been disruptive to rebels take away what makes their attacks good and as soon as you've got a five
Honestly, it feels unhandled. As soon as you've got a 5-1 defense half on Shelly, it's so much scoreboard pressure
And then you get to go onto the side that you enjoy the most and it really suits your style
It's no surprise that I thought to see KK get it done over the last. They only had to be right a couple of times
I think we started seeing that potential earlier on in the stage
But they just didn't pay off for them. That one game against G2 where they made it really close all the way at the beginning of the stage
We were like, mmm, GK have actually reworked. They have changed their roster drastically
but we can already see much more potential than in Geek Off, and I think many people are surprised with the amount of changes that they made.
I think overall, a few things that we noted here, the absolute dominance in entries, almost two times more than Rebels.
The multi-kills on the side of Geek Off, like he said, Grabby was floating, but Juppo was also floating.
Everyone was delivering important moments where they would get three to four kills,
and overall, demolishing Rebels here in what seemed like a very much TDM game,
But that's what we expected from Rebels in the way that they like to play aggressive, so what do you do?
You match that aggression on the side of DK, and if you're just more confident, it's gonna pay off.
Jack, I have to go back to the prediction you made yesterday. I'm sorry to do it to you,
but you predicted that Rebels would be, alongside Fanatic, the two teams joining the SLC for revisiting that now.
Yeah. Do you stand by it? Do you think that Rebels can still make it, you know, over someone like Twisted Minds,
or you can traverse, of course?
Well, life's not all sunshine and rainbows, you know, you can't just predict things and it'll happen things change
Um, I will say I think for rebels. I think they've got still got a good fixture running
Maybe it's out of their hands. They attacks just need so much walk
And I think especially that template is not being set take them on to away from take the dog be away from them
And they really struggle so I think they've got a figure that out going into next week. It's still doable
It's still possible. They've got two favorable fixtures next week. That's what I'll I'll keep hanging on to it
And if that it twisted mind games results will impact drastically what they can do what their chances are for playoffs
So the next few games will be very important for them and even though they just lost here
I can already tell you that they will be watching the rest of the matches
Yeah, that fanatics twisted mind game as we highlighted our game to watch for today
That'll come up around 9 p.m. A little later on so you're gonna want to look forward to that right now
We move we move on to two teams looking to bounce back from some losses yesterday
We've got Falcons and Heretics, two teams kind of in a similar spot, but also not at all.
Heretics did not look as good as Falcons did yesterday in that win.
Let's talk about Falcons a little bit though.
This was a team that came up short on border.
We saw good performances from June.
We saw good performances from some individuals.
But overall, is this team looking like the Falcons of old or are they missing something?
They're clearly missing something because we went from seeing that team being the most
dominant team in the last few stages always being the first or more consistent ones. If you look here
right now at you know the teams that they face recently if you look at their defeat against
Rebels against Geeky against G2 against the same teams it was a clear victory for Falcons
in previous stages of our kick-ups. So right now like we're looking at a team that used to be so
dominant in the league and that is getting challenged not only challenged but actually
that loses against what used to be not even contenders for Rebels and Geeky. It was not
not even close 14 and 1 in previous records. And right now they're losing to both of these
teams statistically jacked such a huge drop off from Pagans.
Yeah, I think so. And I think the big one for me is really is that the entry is state
the same. They're still doing what was well in the early round, but the mid to late rounds
is kind of where they struggle in particularly. They've dropped off significantly in their
attack and defense win rates, which you know, is a symptom of probably some not bigger issues,
but I would say teething issues. I think this is a new roster. This is a materially
change roster even though it is one man for one man in terms of their changes and it has been a
while now it is still changing kind of the fiber of how they play um that's not to say james
play of course he's probably one of the best players in the world but they're still learning and I
think that's the big point and that's why we're seeing this inconsistency well they are still
learning sure but this does still feel like an opportunity for them to collect a couple of free
points here because heretics five losses in a row other than the win of her team's secret on the
the first day. It's kind of been going the wrong direction yesterday's performance felt
like the worst one yet. Yeah, and it you know, it was hard not to be kind of comical yesterday
with some of the errors that was going on. And realistically, the fundamental just silly
mistakes that heritage making, I think there would be so many teams that currently playing
inside of combine, you know, inside of net room and all crumble off any of the tier two
tier three teams again, we wouldn't be making these kind of fundamental mistakes. This is
It was just when that game got shooted yesterday, a team that generally were in and around them in the table that were struggling.
Where they were just allowing flanks here, allowing players to get made.
There was a duck, we turned off the phone, and not shooting it.
This is just one round, all of these errors that we're kind of seeing, but it continued and it kept rolling.
And this is the problem, you know?
And when you're making these errors, when there's a plant going down, and nobody's left.
And then the plant goes down and the smoke misses.
And then after the plant goes down, it's a chunk of fire's off.
He's owned a fuser.
Those are the kind of fundamental errors that really feel like
heretics are holding themselves back because we've seen them give teams a game.
We know that they've got people who can frag on this team,
but when you basically just score so many own goals, that's the big problem for this team.
The challenge now is go to a map where you can get the edge over a team
who is on paper much more experienced and much stronger than you.
haven't found heretics, a map that they're comfortable with yet.
So maybe by going to a map that Falcons just lost yesterday,
they can't have a shot?
Yeah, maybe they have a game plan in their head
that is similar to the one from GK.
We've seen heretics from time to time,
trying to spread out, trying to play a similar play style.
However, we have much, much different success, right?
I think where GK really thrives with that play style,
and it's ingrained in most of their players,
for heretics, it will be forced to try and play that way.
It is a gamble, a gamble to take Falcons on a map that, yes, they lost yesterday but won
two times before for Falcons, it is one super week with three playdays, three borders.
So it's a map that they've played quite a lot, that they've actually got quite a big
amount of victories on, realistically, losing yesterday for Falcons will give them an edge
because they all know what to fix, folk to this game and then they're facing a much weaker
opponent.
Falcons lost yesterday because there was a plethora of you to lay hitting them on their
defenses.
The duck could be the snake, the lion, the grim.
All those operators that we just reel off, right?
But when that's being used in sync together, it's impressive.
Problem is, heretics haven't shown that they can play
those types of styles together.
So I think, yes, I can see why they would wanna go
to that map, but also I would expect Falcons
to come out on top of this.
Right, that's exactly it.
How can heretics work their way through a team
that's proven they are doing better
at just about every aspect of the game
heretics is struggling with right now.
We go to border to answer that very question.
Yes, we do off towards border demo and you and I are feeling the heat quite obviously,
but we'll see if the heat can be matched.
Obviously, the game before has gone one way, but there's a lot more to potentially play for here.
Falcons sort of want to play for a little bit of a restart in my self-respect, I think.
That's a big risk, I think for heretics going here is mostly the desk is set.
I don't know if it's a so wise one, I just think heretics, considering that things haven't
really been going their way as of like inside of the stage.
And don't forget heretics, the only win that they had was against Team Secret all the way
back from the first playday.
You're going up against Falcons and you're going to give them another go on board or
where, oh look, I don't think Falcons were bad on board or per se, I just think GK played
that as a blinder.
I'm entirely that right. It's the way they sort of pulled back. We even had an ace-dune
round. We had a classic sort of dune moment. Let me just come to demon. I think there's
almost this re-establishing element because of the expected results that came yesterday.
The fact that we had Virtus.Pro and G2 both secure themselves up towards the top. And the
fact that now GK have at least potentially temporarily leapfrogged Falcons third place
they sit falcons at four there's this want and a this demand to be oh we are falcons right
apparently we're gonna have a look at falcons sixth player has been whispered into my ear
oh my god i wish to know the name i wish to kiss the little head
Oh, thank you so much for that production, that's been my thing.
Is the dog playing?
Yes.
I'm impressed.
Reloaded!
You know what?
It's a good boy.
I didn't know the dog's name as I required that information yesterday.
Please fax it to me.
I think every team should have...
We should do like the puppy bowl.
But for each...
Eh?
Okay, you don't know what the puppy ball is?
No.
Oh my word.
Stop the stream.
Stop! It's Super Bowl, but it's all puppies.
Anyway, it's like...
Yeah, get rid of the cans, obviously.
Double shield band!
Come on, get rid of the mirror window as well.
Make that position on 90.
Much trickier to hold on.
It's got a lineup.
Where does it land?
Wow. Let's get the name. There we go. He was checking to make sure that was gonna work.
Ah! You failed. You ain't hungry, little bro. You ain't hungry.
Okay. I love that. I love a lineup.
But the idea that it is lineup, he threw the drone and then just blew up his drone.
go away
well at least that you tilt you know let's see if falcons can move on I mean not
a lot has happened it's just being kind of falcons trying to gear up in
position and I don't know heretics of that back no Falcons the gear up and
ready for that execute and now Falcons are sat a two-man deficit and they're
but not for the show for it.
Got to reload it.
Well, now it's a three-man deficit,
and it's even less to show for it,
trying to step in on the top of east
than just immediately rebarbed false dart here for falcons.
Instead, they'll, I guess, see if Jim and Breeday
can try and make something happen.
The long laser grid across the front
means that any sort of access is going to be, well, actually,
slipped on by.
Where do they want to try and go from here? That's the big problem. Slowly sneaking his
way up and all gifted one.
Yeah, let's take a bit of a spray there and hope to get something good in there. An early
gift. They've slipped themselves further and further. Just missed the man on the rotate
to the left. How he's gone here is a little bit baffling, but he has. He'll have to get
a second, 30 seconds and somehow in our office control and he wants a little bit more.
He's just crouched walking in everywhere right now and he's able to find three tube.
Don't do this.
Breeday holds the plant for a second.
The C4 doesn't get it to me.
I was going to say it gets nobody but it gets the worst thing possible.
Breeday's going to hold the plant.
Oh, he flipped away, Lolo!
Oh, he flipped the laser grenade!
No! No, no, no!
Oh, my word!
Can we cut to a camera inside the analyst's studio?
I want to see their reaction to that.
Unbelievable.
My.
I mean...
Uh...
how did they do that they shouldn't have done it but they did it was it was a
2v5 Falcon's a nothing yeah that is off the back of one guy just crouching his
way through the map but the thing is as well we're heretics they've just got
back and let them do it there is no intent of saying okay I'm gonna trade
I'm gonna play with you. That's the cherry on top.
Oh my...
I just thought you were that guy.
But he's trying to pull it back down.
He let me die.
He needs to add like the melodic music of like...
I was so sure as well.
But whenever the mirror died in Fountain, why is nobody rotating through metal back onto the Fountain Rotate and trying to kill Doom and get the trade off?
That's the bit that got me, because there was a guy blightingly on the door, but he just sat there and didn't want to move.
They were terrified, that's the way he irritates.
Quite scared. Get in that 2v5. Rather than saying we have the man advantage, let's sit in positions where we can get traded.
That mirror was completely by herself inside of our house.
Well, they're not scared that time around, use this as gone, this is exactly how they
opened it last time, they just have to make sure they can remember to play like this in
the dying throes of the round itself.
That was the half of the blitz on the board of this time, they can try and approach the
one with shields left still standing.
Nice Zara, it's all blue's core, snake, hunting underneath, they're well aware that they're being tracked, but that position is one that can keep them a bit safer.
Instead, force and shepherd them slowly away from that, the approach, Breda was able to make his way in above, because no one was watching any radicalities playing those sort of trap positions.
That actually get get clear that c4 gang don't
Don't do it again. Well, they have four opportunities. I suppose
For C4's how much of this will get used
Yeah, I like the heavy C4's in this site
Plenty of opportunities to use that not just in
It's not a bathroom and tellers but of course I extension in towards vents and workshops
You can get good value come with that with Valper which has been left up and yeah
very viable strategy
E-fucking-uses dead? Where have we seen this before?
3v5?
Oh, we need a solo top to go down and we have a round two in our hands.
Ah, imagine.
Imagine if it happened again.
Well, Jim's able to crouch.
Well, not even crouch, well, it does get traded this time, Dora.
Now on Jumalert.
And they get one.
And now it's the four versus two.
Ooh, but...
Relay's trying to get one more on it.
He's not able to hit it.
Pulled out by 0-C4 for a second.
Well, they can't quite press.
Oh, and it's two versus two.
Solotov!
Drift rounds, and who's the player back?
But the Dechanka can play this one at a bit of range.
A lot of Schumacher's trying to force the position.
They do have the kit.
It depends.
Do you want to try and opt for the five-fights?
See if they can slip their way through.
They're just buying time, 20 seconds.
They've covered a bit of the device.
It's all it's up.
Slips his way past, just did a chanker,
and well, the blitz is closing down for one time,
and it's traded out, Breeday!
Bloody hell, the Falcon's going to do this every round.
Another 2vx, Heretics.
Composure in the final third.
They're creating all the chances,
but they can't put in the back of the net.
Oh.
I don't believe it, how's it happen twice?
I don't know.
I mean, again they sort of really well, like good spawnpeak, take down the dog can be grey
or fair to find, Jim sure he gets spawned with a difference, but trade it back immediately,
that was better.
But then again, Amira, out just like sea, and nobody's there to rescue.
Norea, the big movie rares was trying to help us wait too late.
They're not helping each other with the parade games.
Yes, we're so much better!
You're so much better, that's true!
I just...
5 vs 2, gone.
4 vs 2, gone.
Maybe a 3 vs 2.
I was going down the last.
Yeah, heretics just need the pressure of a 3 vs 2 to stay locked in.
They relax too much.
The start of the round needs to be a bit closer.
I mean, two rounds, Falcons should not have gotten, and they have.
And not saying that in a sense of, obviously, they don't deserve them.
They played well, but really everybody should be playing well,
and Heretics just switched off twice in a row.
Clutches happen not because one team just shows brilliance,
but because another team takes a foot off the gas.
I'm always ready as well listen he's always in the middle of it anytime there's a clutch
he's there he's got for the statistics right honestly it's the puppy buff
and then the dog not in play in a while yeah this the sixth man he's the puppy
three days puppy I've seen three days puppy on camera once
happens to be my world kill everybody in this room or whatever the fuck 999 anyway
enough about I guess fake sort of TV shows where things are scripted let's see
If this one can stop being a scripted big clutches for Falcons to an arrow that they really shouldn't have gotten will they make it three I
Mean there's always that element of heretics as well. The fact they start around so strong
But they start it with confidence and
Confidence is needed on boarder, but nothing shakes confidence more than losing rounds as they've done twice in a row
So inevitably that game is gonna suffer from them a bit until they start to find that backline here
The longest we've gone without anybody being taken out, it might be something that plays
into heretics' favour.
They've peeled themselves back and not been caught as of yet, but are they buying enough
fine?
Oh well, people get their clean pick.
Alpsen's were able to establish a little bit of pressure in towards Easton, or working
their way in through Office and Fountain Troom, using his scans as well to scare off those
defenders.
Oh no!
It's all of them!
Solotov, further jump down through metal and Riaz just at the bottom of it and takes him down.
Solotov, don't know what he was thinking, Jim.
Able to get the first kill for Falcons in the round and now we're a free V4.
Forty seconds remaining.
I mean, for Falcons, is a plant gonna be on the cards here and if it is,
probably have to be like a hatch drop because they don't seem to kind of work in the traditional way of moving through main door.
June gets one, levels things back up, Lezria's gone.
The three versus three as you said, they could try and get themselves on, but now they're
still around the side.
They also got putting some pressure on the watch, slipped their way in, eyes on the rotate,
but it's Aquey that gets one and two brilliant play there from Aquey and Heretics.
They learn how to close around better now than never.
So it's been three in a row in a similar sort of fashion. Who knows where we would have gone.
I'm a little bit too slow there from Falcons. You can see the time is really getting at them. They realize, okay, we just have to try and walk into the bomb site.
They really struggled for information. They just had no idea that Aqui was in the position that he was able to kill the player, drop the hatch,
Also kill the players who walks in through main door into the other bomb site
So Falcons
I mean I do think that the slow start is certainly punishing them
I know that they've been able to win two rounds and that is off the back of
Brightset heretics being a little bit silly
But I wouldn't say that the overall kind of game player from Falcons has been great
I mean they've really struggled on that kind of first minute and even took towards the first two minutes at some points
I think, well that's entirely yet right is, if those first few rounds have gone the way
that they had and Falcons have dropped the opening two, I mean, let's say they get one
kill on the way out and then they trade due, maybe two, then it's still three of them still
standing.
Let's say in the second one it's another kill, it's still three of them standing, it's still
heretics with Spotted Holds as you said, the approach hasn't been brilliant from the side
of Falcons.
They're lucky that they're a team of world-class players in that weird regard, in that they
can find opportunities, they can make opportunities that other players just can't.
Even when the wind is sort of blowing against them, somehow they could put the sails up
and go the right direction.
It's not a skill that you can often sort of bank on, but it is one that you will always
have in your wallet.
There's gotta be something here where they need to try and refine some of that grounds.
R is gone.
Remember the first time around how many Zoros I was able to take from that sort of position of swinging out aggressively.
So this is fine, none of that luck.
Just a very simple drone is able to spot them out and they picked them apart because of that.
It's actually almost a race to see who was going to kill them, was going to hold off or was it going to be users on the other side and
So, it's all very long-standing team, maybe also people forget how long the Solotov and
users have been together, all the way back on the M&M days of course.
I don't know if they're below this stand and do, if it may be Alamon and Doki, you might
still have that for $1, or Solotov, another one.
Too much remaining, without Solotov on that brim, you don't have that util dump you would
like to have, but I guess he's still able to pick up the goya, so at least I'll walk
away with this round with something. Still, right now for heretics. A lot has really happened
to make them feel any kind of pressure, but of course change the map like border where
it is very, very small of a map and get in and start actually looking for a vertical
take here from below to Jim the player being tracked by the Davils and we just
trying to run and run and run but he's following him.
My words.
Use this get that quick finally.
Oh yeah he's slipped his way in, he's already in this position, he was
an early drop a couple of times and now he's finally able to find somebody and
activate onto it. They're watching this quick round from the opposite end. The
bucks just trying to keep safe, in fact. We're gonna try and go for the plant as well. Jim gets
caught out on the main stairs. Oh, there's the swing and the trade back in though, and it just
leaves Riaz. It's a set that Buck was watching for the pressure from servers, and now a one versus
three with a plant possibility, but none of it to be seen. An attack round from Falcons that felt
like they were in the driving seat for a decent amount of it, including the opening body, something
They may not be able to get before that round.
They had a great point, opening kill.
Obviously something that Falcons need to look at and try and improve on.
And then just use this, find an opportunity.
I think using that day most to clear Acquia of Armory,
it just opened the door then for users to walk in.
You know, it's a really good use of teamwork.
Tracking the player who is maybe gonna give users a little bit of bother.
Then once he's out of the picture, fine.
You've got site control.
So yeah, overall, it's a really good round there from Falcons, and
after the first round where I dare say they've been on top,
because the other three would argue that they probably haven't been.
Yeah, oh no, I fully agree with that.
I think the sort of third round was a back and forth.
They were in a three versus three, but they weren't really sort of holding a direct line on towards the site.
It became a bit of confusion towards the end.
And I think that's always the tackle. If a player can get from the sort of rested position,
one kill up towards the hatch and swing onto another player and get both in pretty different
directions, it shows the attacks aren't quite sort of as locked in towards the approach
the defenders were.
Now, in towards the site, we don't see a user scout there, but instead they're a team
that can spot opportunities and more than happy to take them.
He turns that into three kills and he turns that into a round.
Now.
On towards the stretch of this grenade.
The blitz unbanned, instead they've got rid of the snake that's been,
I wouldn't say the biggest consistent problem, Jim obviously did play it,
but in fact, I think really getting a kill in the opening is a round.
I think it's not the case at all, you know, he's killing us with a solid snake.
It's the fact that he's gaining information and bordering a very small map.
You've got to get a lot of value, you know, you can sit on the east
and then you can see anyone who's inside of office.
And I think that was probably more of an issue.
The bathrooms tellers hold more than anything.
So, yeah, I think going for that ban, it's a smart one.
But for Falcons, this feels a little bit more of a kind of traditional directing
where you want to try and integrate in towards east.
You're gonna try and eye up getting the single wall open, but Jermas isn't gonna get any more walls opened up, as he has just been swung by Lollabytics.
The initiative is all for those.
Good to get at least a kill back for a side and keep that man count level.
Use us again! He's in the bombsite!
How does he keep doing this? Where does he keep seeing these opportunities? Actually, he has one, so when does he activate?
Did he trust his teammates here to level things up?
He's drawing attention.
He's just gonna move around the back and get to the pickup.
But now that's the worry that if they swing on towards him,
they lose this pressure.
But that wall reinforced there.
That's reinforced.
Yeah, yeah.
Took the window.
Very strange reinforcement to sort of have.
He can hold this down from a really nice position.
He's just gonna sort of let the call go out
as they've got the three versus three.
Probably a post-plot.
That's still being soft as well.
I'm hoping they get a stabious message to do that!
Oh no! Here's Solotov!
He can sort of play this, Jesus gets one more and just...
I would love to see the zoom out of that hole and why that position was sort of propped up as it was, actually gets one.
25 seconds, two more to find.
And at least another call potentially.
I would kill for a VAR system. I really would. I can only assume he's obviously jumped in
through the sight window right that nailed on fact. He's obviously seen that single wall
reinforced which has typically got head holes in it to stop people jumping in and he must
from doubt bathroom instead hang on a minute nobody's in bathroom nobody's in
there which is so strange I do like how the mystery of like how's he got a man
this is still that wall three of course we would say oh there we go but yeah
obviously he jumped in the window because that wall's being reinforced nobody's in
bathroom that's the main issue nobody's in bathroom yeah I mean I'm also guessing
there would have been traps in that window because they had a foreign they
had a fan rear. What offer is he again? Oh yeah, the facture. Sable him jumping. So it
is a case of a false sense of security for heretics there. Will they get themselves the
five one half here or can heretics? Oh, things connect. I'm excited they've really been
ready to do it so far. Obviously they wanted to sort of keep the sights rotating, but this
was where things came together however since that point this is the sort of
double-edged sword of this it has felt more in control from Falcons two rounds
in a row we have just suddenly been using this inside the side
it's both times it's users oh he's inside the side again and I would say that this
one is less likely to be based on you can't get the sort of walk in because
to get into the door from the double door you can try and get the hop on the single window
could if you got lucky get the crouch in from the back of the bathroom side of this door
all this stuff is everything
like picked up where will they try and approach here Falcons
Falcons, an opening pick and some door on very low HP.
They can just take their sweet time with this round.
They don't have to rush off fast.
As long as they can do their drone work well, combo that with a dope bit that they have to try and help with those roamers.
You can have too many issues, you can see that Ella is being called out.
I wonder if Riaz is going to let that blow up.
No, actually after that, solo top.
I'm at a good game today, seven kills for himself.
Next down another, and yeah, Falcons.
Just cleaning house.
Two players remaining for heretics, they're going to have to get some
really good kills to get them out of this, but
just don't see them doing it. Just too many Falcons players still up.
At this, obviously, we've seen five versus two coaches before.
That's a good kill.
Yeah, well, I'm down for now.
He's dropped down, he's being picked up.
Solotov does find the last, and that leaves just Dora alone. The calls come out.
Yeah, that is a five-one-a-half for the side of Falcons. Should have probably been a three-three,
but that's the power of Falcons. And unfortunately, heretics are suffering the wrong side,
but let's go see if our desk are head and hands. Yeah, that's kind of the reaction over here.
We could be. We were back in the green room. I mean, five-one at the moment Falcons are in
complete control, but it's really the story of Falcons capitalizing on heretics mistakes
rather than anything else.
I don't think Falcons are 5-1 up because Falcons have control of this game, there's
at least two maybe three rounds realistically that another team would have punished Falcons
and beaten them on it.
If we roll the clips, it starts with the very, very first round.
This is a five versus two, and one, nobody's shooting back at you, and two, nobody's playing
crossfires with each other.
Not just that, by the way.
Not just that, but they're C4 in each other.
I mean, come on guys, like, you know, I started this game off by saying,
Heretics, please do not score un-on-goal.
And what do they do in the first round? They throw a five versus two.
It gets better in terms of round two.
They actually start off pretty well from the side of Heretics once again.
They get the lead, and then what happens in the two versus four?
They're gonna let it go again, will ya?
It's the same story. Players that remain completely isolated,
as soon as they have the man advantage, instead of causing freeze and getting close to each other,
and setting up a basic crossfire,
Which is something that we do in ranked, starting with Glutinium.
They don't do.
He went so far by head, by the way.
Through a fountain.
It's just, it's...
You know, it's like...
Is it nerves?
Is it panic?
Is it lack of understanding?
It's made up from a team that is speaking in their native language.
To have such a lack of basic cohesion.
Also because...
Ugh!
It like, uses...
How does he get into the site by the way?
Flying through the window.
Like, it's through the window, right?
Must have been.
In front of him, there should be a line of sight to workshop.
But no, in this strategy, the first team that I see do that, they reinforce the wall to workshop.
So obviously you can just jump in tellers, so like there are layers to the...
I guess what?
You know, if I'm replaying that round, my mind is melting.
It's like there are layers to the mistakes, it's like there are layers, initially they play well.
Then there are layers of mistakes in the strategy, in the team play, and in the ability,
And you usually just, you know, recognize the win condition at some point.
And it's just, it's annoying because I can see that early on in the first round, there's something in there.
There's talent, you can see when Akui is shooting, that he's got a great aim.
You can see these guys, they have it all.
And in the early round, every time it feels like they're doing something right.
Yeah. They're just not capitalizing on it and it's like, I don't know if it's a thing of death already.
I think maybe at some point, there's just a utter lack of confidence that they can even get a win.
Tough.
Four rounds down.
Yeah. What do you do? It really is. I don't know. I actually don't know what you do. I think
you do what you love doing. What you love doing is fun. Yeah, exactly. No, I mean, I think you've
just got to read it back in. You've got to just go back simply stick. I said this throughout last
year and I'd rather see these guys lose because they're doing the right thing but taking an age
to do it than, you know, just try and do something crazy and it not work out. I think that's probably
the best way. I think this game, if I'm honest, is gone from the side of heretics and they just
need to cut some of these mistakes up because they are basic fundamental mistakes that you don't see
from tier two tier three teams. Alright backs against the wall can they make it happen here on the
attacking side let's see. Oh thank you very much and yeah I'm glad to see that that round stomped
them and that wall stomped them just as much as it did us. Five to one and here we have heretics
for the tough job. They're on the attack on Porter, but how many five-one-halves of you and I had at the bus in the two days?
A lot. And how many have actually turned up to become back? None of them, but some were close.
Look, I think the mistakes are obvious for heretics. I mean, I think for heretics as well.
Don't forget, this is the same core that also got relegated last year.
They're at, now, they're very dangerously close to now being considered a U.E.O. team, where they'll come up and they'll go back down again, then they'll probably come back up again at tier two.
Because that might be where they're more comfortable if against, you know, the weaker size and you put them tier one and they just can't get a grasp of what they need to do.
But that may be what they're at risk of becoming.
So, for Heretics, you have to learn that this is, this is EML.
These are the big teams.
If you want to be the best, you have to try and take down Falcons.
So, Heretics, what do you do?
What are you going to go for?
I mean, rushes?
Plenty of opportunities for that in a map like Border, as we know.
I think if you're up against Falcons in this map, that Easter's player, Jume, this is his
position.
that you need to be careful of. Everyone that leaves nosy place here, he can struggle against them,
we know that. Wonder if aerotics are also going to fall victim to him.
Well, he's worked with C4 once already and he's sort of ready for the approach.
Reass is in the meantime going to try and dig up from underneath, but he knows how much pressure
is circling. The grenade will force him down and he's going to try and take the firefight out
the other side of it, but the slide backs away. So, we can't spare on another drone.
More utility you just sort of been throwing back at the position.
It's like I've got deja vu on that exact clip as Rios now tries to flip his way back in as a shield that's making friends and just get out of there.
Is it bad that he's been able to rotate with the cost?
I guess time will tell.
They've used a lot of utility to force him further and further back.
That one not being able to get the catch there is probably the one that should have been a bit cemented.
But at the same time, they've taken out all of the smoke canisters there to fight over the top.
That's two bodies for it in heretics
Done well here
This is best to try and bite back against them gets one
Users almost gets entirely removed
Solotov that finds one before they're betrayed back in there just making sure that they can keep the fight everywhere here
Shield that clears causing a couple of problems
Okay
Wall doesn't get a connection with the shotgun
that's a lot better. Yeah,
he's all that's left. Heretics
win the round. Yeah,
heretics. You've talked about
that you're not doing the basic
stuff right. I must say that is
a very good Easter's take. Yeah,
using the shield using the
utility, forcing Jim out of
that position. They're ready for
them as they go aggressive.
They're pushing up together at
the same time they have that
got polished because of that. Is there an element of that, brothers?
It's hard to sort of gauge, right? It becomes this thing of when is too much, too much.
And it's a confidence thing. But if they adapt their playstyle away, if they don't try and
double-dap, double-dip back in, if they don't try and get rewards, well then, you know, are
they going to suffer the same fate that 30 seconds later, right? It's a confidence map.
For the full cost of it, I think obviously having AQI go on the sort of pushing the drive for everything that sort of was a bit disconnected.
That final bit, that final section seemed to perfectly align for them for the first time today.
Don't go away, dream. You're one million miles away from the same position you was in before.
You might want to try and find somebody outside the passport door, but it's well being watched.
And there's that pressure will start to mount a bathroom anyway.
Now, our Falcons, what to do about their bombsite choice in towards Vintz, again German the exact
same position as we always see them on towards that east, and like I said they dealt with
them really well the last time, you can see if they can do it once more, still got that
black group, still got that shield which is just going to make that entry a bit easier
of course with that shield enabled a face check and spot at some good positions. Easily
seen that yep, got a soulless inside of office. East stairs. This'll be in control now. Off
heretics as Jum is. I'm going to trade it in towards bathroom to try and provide a little
bit of support of EFAC. I like this double up. Protecting that window form and EFAC
can just focus the one way. Oh look at that! EFAC swings, Jum with a C4 onto the window.
play with that duo. And I reckon I'll sort of watch the postmortem. Oh, that's a guess!
Okay, I can tell you got to use this, he'll be fuming about that, but EFAC at least gets
some revenge now, it's just a fight back in. You can see Jube's about to make a motion
behind, but in the meantime, EFAC's got one, and Riaz has got one inside the site, but
no kit. At the kit is a million miles away, they'll see if they can try and get some time
I don't know what could be watching them all opening up at an opportune moment.
Let's let him slip through, but they can just sort of build up around office.
Look at the position and look at that kit right in the middle of it.
He has to try and find the first thread to pull out of this, but where is it?
Where can you go? As soon as you cross the divide here from fountain,
they'll swing you either side. So you could try and take long corridor,
but they could swing you from the double door and the end of it as well.
Well, there's just not really a clean entry, not a clean route through.
And the fact that he's still discovering Gadget Tree with his face means we find ourselves now 6 to 2.
That is an e-fact round of ever seen one, just untouchable.
And that sandwich position inside of office, like I mentioned, I love that double-up as you're protecting that window.
So if you're a fact, obviously in that position of everyone knows, yes, you've got the double door that leads into the quarter. Well, no one's going to push down that in the right space of the mind because you can get swung from break swung from 98.
That's not going to be an issue. Obviously, then most of that pressure is going to be coming in for that triple wall. Yeah, you have the shield to go against. If you're a fact, you're worried about that.
And you're also worried about somebody jumping behind you. Yeah, so you're going to be caught as the kind of positions called in a sandwich.
So if he knows that Jim is just constantly holding on that window, if I know he just has to look the one direction, he can mostly focus on that triple wall and there's nothing else to worry about.
And even if, look, maybe he thinks, okay, I can't win that engagement against the Blackbird, he has the hatch to drop down to and Jim is there to also double up with him.
So just that little re-position for Jim coming from east to support an EFAC, great play.
And for heretics, just left wondering what happened.
Well, the time out. They might have got to take it in three minutes, so may as well get
it done here. You can finally look like we're eyeing up three points inside of Falcons and
another dress further and further away for heretics. It has been a longer and longer
and longer time since they were able to get that win against Secret in the opening play
they are winning the game a bit. Since then, with shifters and twisted vines on the horizon,
this feels like that famed final nail. Obviously secrets, but I have a chance to pull some
points later on today. It's only very recently that they are able to get to some of their
They might be able to jump heretics, depending on how the day continues.
Just a bit more safety on towards it, but still.
Falcons, one round to shut this out, one round to get themselves back in towards third place,
and re-jump GK.
And I'm not sure on the maths if it's one round to secure them top six or not,
or if that's dependent on results today.
Oh no, that's a way to start.
Oh, and a weak wave boss.
Yep, not only is it your best player for heretics, it's also the shield.
Not ideal here for heretics, and for June, I mean, that's just what he's like.
He hits you whenever you least expect it.
Now for heretics, who do you turn to? What do you look for? What is going to be the
ideology now? It's to be in towards that east position once more, but Jume is
firmly in position, and yeah, there we go. That's another one of these arms. Oh no.
On an ace history from the same position? Can he do it again?
The pipe doesn't count.
Oh that confused me.
Zoom is looking for his 30, finds it, is looking for his 40, almost finds it.
Second to reload.
You can see one's coming in on passport.
Dora's on passport.
No, let Zoom have it.
He's not going to get an ace.
It's a gun ace.
nice. That's not a thing. It's a new thing. It's a new thing we're filing out. Well, the
minute 10, I mean we'll see a lot of it. Dora's gonna put the fire on three-factor, but it's
not even enough to force him out of the corner. It's due to get the book gate. And I mean,
and he just walked away with poor peace and yeah, Alkins. Fantastic job from them. They
get themselves back on track and we're right on track, chugging along to a break.
and yeah, Alcans, fantastic job from them.
They get themselves back on track
and we're right on track,
chugging along to a break.
If you catch me, I'm breaking down, I'm finding out
Draculous energy, I'm never finding out
I'ma keep it going till there ain't no night
I'm breaking next and I'm finding out
All my ill-frozen stuff, I'm running out
If I can't make you cancel, it's running out
I'ma keep it going till there ain't no night
Keep it going till there ain't no night
of the game. Well, Falcons.
They don't waste any time
cleaning up heretics to start
off their playday number seven.
We look towards now with E fact.
We've got him standing by E
fact. The last time we spoke
down, right? At least from where we're sitting, it seems like you've had some good stuff over
there, some trouble. Can you tell me how it feels like this team is progressing over the
last few weeks?
I think, like you said, we have some up and down. I think we work hard in scrim. The only
problem we have right now is finding the right balance, like against the opponent, how we
should play it like in our heads sometimes like I'm giving the example of
yesterday against GK we just give too much space we just didn't play with enough
confidence when we knew we were better than them individually and it's border
so at GM this map is a lot of individual skills so yeah like just finding
ourselves having a good come every time every game and and things should be
better. Do you think it's just important to get through the best of one group stage
then if I can start, you know, we'll also hear we know the Falcons probably almost definitely will be in the playoffs
So for you in terms of fixing those inconsistencies because they have been close say is it just important just to get the reps in is that what it is
Yeah, also like you talk about best of fun. I think that's a huge factor because
Imagine yesterday the first map is border we play like we did like troll some attack then after
play good stuff of defense, then play scared, then we go next map and we just know what to do, you know?
Best of one, like, you do this small mistake, then you just pay instantly.
So yeah, I think just keep continue working, and the player will be better for us, I think.
Just had a quick question as well about Solotop as well, because I think he had a really, really big game today.
How important is it that he's gonna be, for your team, that he's firing?
Obviously, replacing out Shaco, changing the system a little bit.
How important will he be in the system going forward?
Fartsy is a solotov, he's a player really aggressive
and when he's getting every time the Olympic the game is easy.
The hardest part is when he's not getting every time the Olympic, like you said.
He's also playing like a lot of time on death pause,
that's why his role is also really hard.
I see some people don't understand sometimes,
oh, he's always saying, oh, he's so good.
He's just how he played and the role he played, so yeah, he's really important.
But the main factor for Farty is not even his entry kill or entry death or whatever it is.
Just the energy he puts in the game and in the comp.
And I think if he puts the same energy as today, we are not losing a single match.
Liquefac, just focusing on the back, on the match again.
You guys played with six players today.
Can you introduce to us your new member?
He's so cute.
It's Buda, he's so cute, like Brede just got it, yeah Brede got him like I think last
week, he couldn't sleep that much because obviously like he's really young, but yeah
he sent me pictures everyday and everyday I'm like oh I want him like just send it,
send him in to me.
this today can feed him some
Italians to do it. Incredible
looking back. Thank you so much
for your time as always.
Congratulations on the win and
we'll see you next week. Thank
you. See you guys. Big win for
Falcons there as they get
redemption on the map. They gave
them a little trouble yesterday.
They have no problem on border
and we saw that same scary
Falcons that we saw in moments
yesterday. Jack, we saw in full
today. Yeah, I think so. I think
there was a few rounds. Maybe
with, but they did get away with them. You have to praise Falcons for working their way through
the first round. That is an individualistic bit of skill, but that's why they've got those types
of players on the team. It's for when it isn't quite going right. And then when it did quite go
right, they'd look unstoppable. In fact, you know, put a message out there. So when Solotov's on
there like he is today, we won't lose a game. And I think that's true. Falcons haven't changed
from that team that everyone's calling the top one, top two in the world, the favorites to win
all of these events they haven't materially changed that much other than you know replacing
Shikes of the Tomb. When they're on it they are formidable.
And you just look at Zoom again with the TCHG again in these stairs, again getting a multi-kill.
It was one kill away from an A there by the way.
Yeah, still the same.
Yeah, absolutely. And I think I just want to go back to what Likufagas just said, like
we know of the potential of this team, I think we're raising the right questions.
They used to be more consistent and they used to be more dominant in a BO1 setting previously.
However, if it is the setback that they need to pay, if it is the sacrifice that their stage overall will be a little bit more light-luster
and they will drop a little bit more points in these BO1s, so that in the end their skill ceiling is higher
when it comes to the big, most important BO3s, not only in playoffs, but really in major events, then I will take that sacrifice.
You know, if you look at Team Liquid, the current one, and who they used to be with Furia,
they made a huge shake-up not only by removing Herod and getting Maya, they reworked entirely
their roles. And right now, in the short term, it seems that it's struggling for them.
But I think that in the long run, it's going to work. And I think the Falcons, they had the similar
process, removing Shaco and getting Jume. I think it's a very comparable transfer from the two of them.
Well, six months ago, I think our third game of the day would have been built as
as maybe the game of the day, right?
It would have been of the stage, right?
Secret and G2, you're looking at two teams,
heavy hitters, at least formerly.
This stage, things are looking a lot different.
You've got a team on the top of the standings
or just about top, and a team all the way on the bottom.
This is the story of a secret team
that is still clearly rebuilding
and looking to find that identity again.
And I think the good thing is
that we saw glimpses of that yesterday in the game against VP.
It looked like they were going to take a point.
It even looked like they were going to win that game for a moment.
Yeah, and even going back further, you know,
I'm looking at play day five.
To me, that was a turning point.
That was the game against U2-9.
This is a beautiful rush with Flexi playing on the shield.
And that's the moment where I started to realize,
very first round from Team Secret on attack
with Flexi on the shield, that it's going to work.
Finally, they have an ideal.
That is on the forefront of the attack
that's willing to play shield.
Everyone else playing around it,
There was a clean, well-executed rush where everyone plays together.
And what we got from yesterday in the game against VP was that
that team, they can play just as well together at all their stages of the round.
Not only for rushes, but actually with more default roam clears,
with step-by-step plays, and that's the beauty of a team secret.
It is a little bit rejuvenated.
This is enough for G2, I don't know, but at least it's not going to be a stomp
as we expected it's going to be when we looked at the results at the beginning of the stage.
when interesting pattern has
emerged here with G two in terms
of the maps they've been
playing, it's rare that you get
six playdays in, yeah only
play two maps. It was fortress
and consulate. That's all we've
seen from G two having go back
to G two from 2018 2019 and
saying I'm saving strats saving
maps. Realistically they played
two maps across the whole best
of one period. They've been
consulate and they play
fortress. They've won every
single one of them. Couple of
being close. You know the games
against GK. The game is going
to shift us. Arguably could have
matter is, G2 are playing a long game with this map, so they're probably taking maps,
particularly Consular, that lower down their preference order. So these numbers right in the
middle is their preference for that map over a long period of time. And realistically,
Fortress, the middle of the road, you'd maybe see it in Vest of Ones from there. Consular isn't a
map they'd really even want to play against anyone. They're only playing two to save everything
else to play off and potentially either reason. And just a point on these two maps, one thing that
G2 is exceptionally good at is the attack side. And so in many cases, teams won't go to Consular,
so that they won't go to Fortress
if they are not sure they can get the defense side.
For G2, it's the truth that they don't care
because they're just as good an attack
and that's why you see them very often learn on that map.
It's because contrary to many teams
that will only go there if they choose the side,
they don't care and so that's why
they end up there very often.
The good news is today, we will see a new map come out
for G2, it will not be Fortress or Consulate.
They are gonna do us a good kindness here against Secret
and they are gonna take us to Chalet.
the choice between clubhouse and
chalet was there, so we will get to see
something a little different. Well, yeah,
I suppose the big thing for secret is that you can
band away both of those two maps, and we will have to
see a third. Big thing to note for me
on G2, this is very low down the preference
side of G2, this is their 8th preference map.
Now, normally when you've got a big
favourite going up against heavy underdog, it makes
sense to go on a map that you're really not that
good at, because you know that you can put on a dominant
performance and try and scare people off in future
map leaders. I think that might be part
but for Secretly, it is a map that they played a couple of times this stage.
They already played it twice, they've won it and lost it once, lost it to Rebels,
bit thematic on it. It's a map where they've shown quite a lot of rounds on,
and I think we all know G2, we like to joke about the fact that they're all for funds and they don't
care and they're all streaming and nothing is serious with G2. For example, as we joke about it,
we know they're hard workers and so if there is a team that shows the same map twice in a short
of time and they learn on it you can already tell from value a demo that putting the work they're
going to have counterparts yeah map that is potentially set up for success for g2 but maybe
team secret can build off some of the success we saw from them yesterday let's find out
the story of success how it can be built and where it can go and where we will go here g2 well
I think all of you love my dear and I think this is going to go demo. Are you the same? No, I think that's
what's
probably
Gonna be on everyone's kind of that their tongue is that's yeah should be a G2 win and all honestly as much as look
I think secret this week have looked in better form
It's just G2 G2, you know, I think that's something's gonna be an issue and you know G2 yesterday
I would say an annoying matchup for them in the form of twisted minds, but that's just the minds for you. We know what kind of side that is.
I think don't you talk about it in the interview. Whenever mass kills kill them in me, I get a good little recreation of that.
But I think in this match, I think G2, they'll just want to come in here, get the job done, move on into the next playday.
And of course, I think for G2, you know, they're hunting down VP as much as they can, even though VP are currently ahead of them by two points, at least it's saying, look, VP, you need to keep winning because we keep winning.
I mean, it's like, you know,
it's almost the element of
before the little brother,
right, especially between the
relationship with some of these
players in the turkey, the
particular is seeing how far
VP go and seeing how well they're
getting there. The fact that G
two have been able to pull the
same points, but. Not really,
right? It's too overtime winds.
It's too to the fall and sure
keep that trend going and for this opportunity, they get to in effect be the ones to swing
first. They have a very quick scan. This is only the second time G2 are playing their
game before versus pro on a play day, across all the playdots. There's only the second
time that they can be like, okay, see what we did, match that.
Five seconds to insertion.
So, Team Secret, we'll be going on the defense.
Now, obviously, as the desk had mentioned, we have seen Secret play it twice, and have
not been successful on it.
So I think it is a map that has had a few learning cards for Team Secret.
Overall, I think they're a bit even in terms of what side this happens.
I think they both sat round about the 50% mark on both sides.
So I suppose that by that logic, 3-3s are pretty applicable here by Team Secret.
Whereas if you look at G2 and what we've seen from them over the past times they've played Shalai,
they've got a very high win percentage in both sides of the cap, 60% on attack,
and then around 70% in the defense.
So I think this back to look a little bit more favourable for G2.
secret though you have opened up very fast they found two kills and returned
for one Mowgli's down but look at what they've been able to pick off stomping
on that shield isn't gonna have any impact yeah there goes that sort of
sturdy metal approach there goes obviously the cover of bender as well
now it's the four versus three Shaco didn't have the biggest ball this day
yesterday let's see if we can try and help mop up
Doki's waiting anticipation, but I think it'd be map because well, what's really forcing these players out other than I want to fight here
Oscar worried someone might try and swing up below him and while they're drowning it out
They're probably trying to launch trophy window fine, but at this point they're still just being forced into an engagement
He can expect right it's still
In some regards the one versus one he has a decent gun for it
Flash is coming over the top Shaco goes down on the top elsewhere and Doki at least wins on towards one now
They can try pitch on towards Oscar, but he can't
the first defense. Yeah. Really
good start there for team
secret. Roscoe, obviously, uh,
very dangerous position as we
know, solar stairs always, uh.
I would say, um, you don't
really gain much favor for
playing there. I think as a
defender, you're mostly there
just to kind of be a sacrificial
you can burn up a bit of utility. So it is a fightless position, but I think for Oscar,
in fact he has been able to win that engagement against Alamo. Very, very important. A 2v2
at that point for G2 could have been doable for them, but the 1v3 doki just had no chance.
So yeah, secret off to a very good start. That's for G2. Those early losses, of course,
to the shield didn't help them in their efforts to take that solar control.
I mean, again, I know as much as what we've kind of talked about those first two opening
weeks, but I honestly think with the role changes that they've had, where Oscar is on
the shield, he's on more of the kind of hard support-esque role, where you just kind of
can sit, open up walls, do your drone work, hold the crossfires, for example, you've
then got Flexi as the kind of main shield approach now, which I also think for Flexi,
is the main IGL been aside. It's a lot easier for me to call based on the shield. I mean,
it's the way that obviously Team Secret before you established on the shields was calling
from the IGL perspective. And then you've got drills now off of the support. And then
he's going on to a bit more of a lurk rule.
This is one of the things where obviously the change in secret over the past six months,
It's an entirely different recipe, an entirely different beast, pretty much an entirely different
set of players, an entirely different ethos.
So the way that they used to try and pull behind the room and the shields, the way they
used to try and compare themselves to their gameplay versus anybody else is to be honest,
it's almost impossible to get.
There's good people on that, but instead it seems like we're going to get a punch up
pretty early here as well.
Flaxies drifting away, Mogi's almost caught out instead as Alamow.
That's that face-tapping job you were talking about.
making their way over the top he's fulfilling that role of trying to get the conglore coordinated
but otherwise it's not really anything being offered towards him you can trust the guns of gt
on the back end in a slightly different way than i guess maybe secret couldn't do in the similar sort
of setup here clear of the blast we'll wait and see if there's that sort of pressure on towards
the mirror window the damage is done the whole inside with the monogathe shield nobody's caught
Yeah, and yeah, raise the blue and catch his, because B4 appears, but doesn't get anybody.
A little agility, and their first buddy, Stumpin' gets one.
Very scary there for Alamow the Monty, and a nice little sword and shield maneuver from Alamow and Stumpin' and Secret.
Just getting put to the sword right now, flexy.
I'll think they know
See that you've got the players inside a piano and blue or even look at Alamo
It should be doki. Yeah, well, yeah, I think it was doki or the shaco. I don't know but yeah flex
He was never getting out of that one
Wow, I mean that is dominant from G2 in exactly what they wanted to do force that shield clear away all of that utility
I mean the information that Alomar was able to gain from that shield
Just call that all the positions we seen stomp and coming behind them
They're good at siege. How many times do you forget that?
Yeah
I think it's the element of it where it's sort of like
Although it's something to come into response to you and I can drive full of a shield
Yeah, but when you have the skill of G2 and their players you don't always need that as the check because often it'll just be the sort of
Coordination I'm not saying that secret didn't have that obviously had it but who has broken skill like this
Yeah, I know what you mean
I think you almost have to start looking at all the regions and don't you yeah, I think in terms of Europe
I think with the players that you have
I mean, obviously VP, you know, you still have to talk about them, what they could able to do this year.
But I think maybe if you go for the more historical answer, there's especially, you know, G2, the changes that they made after Invite with the two players that they picked up.
I mean, Benji and Shiko speak for themselves, you know, staple names, not just in Europe, obviously Benji had a stint inside of America.
But obviously two players that we've seen in EU and they've been mega top performers, you know, this is...
that was always the worry that you think okay G2 how does this team get better at Invite
and then somehow they found a way and you know they picked up Shaikou and Benji and
you think that's not fair.
It's just...
Yeah.
Who do we tell about this?
It looks like they're coming out to play.
It looks like they're coming out to play.
There's a decent awareness.
Luckily he's in the game room, it's the perfect place to play.
You should think about that next time
But I wish I could see your face when I say this kind of silly stuff
Doesn't hit the same
Oh, he's getting pulled away the last second, but they do get a kill from it
I get it down as well. There goes
One of Earth's character players
A team kill! Noa's kill flexi!
They're coming out to play!
Noa does get one!
Almost gets a second, though!
Technically still a three versus one
Noa...wraiths on a sliver of health
Enough of very long. G2
Win it out
Uh, I agree. What happened?
I feel some remiss
All that, I mean, just got to doki was planting in the 5v5 in kitchen.
Oh, obviously the question is always how did he get there, isn't it?
Yeah, it's like the show. How's it made?
You know, we've went into the inner workings of that.
We need to see how he got in.
I mean, obviously, I think you're looking at probably West Main or trophy window.
But I don't know.
I cannot answer at this moment in time.
you. You know, it's a lot of
time. But this is where the VR
would be incredible to have. Well
the time out. It's also pretty
good to have so things down. Stop
things at the past before they
pass you by and you find yourself
on the wrong side of a round
difference. You probably not
rather be suffering. It's a fab
point to sort of make the
conversation because nothing
screams alarm bells more than
somebody attempting a plan and
that they were in the
position to punish the
retake. Right? We see
sneaky plants. We see
opportunities. Take
opportunities. But the fact
that they were watching on
trophy stairs. They had
presents on West Main. They
put pressure on the player
above who swung onto dokey.
G2's plan wasn't just
direct. It was
direct and wealthy.
But it was direct and well thought out and seemingly unseen and unpunished.
Time for that to happen, the conversation has, only going to have learnt lessons from it.
Secretly need to try and get themselves back into the game, we know that G2, I know they
they have a bit momentum and really start racking up the rounds. But overall, I think
for G2 things are going pretty well for them. I would say it was probably at the back of
a good opportunity spot for Malou. I know that's one thing that he's always had an abundance
is the way he's been able to call. You know, certainly for G2, I think it is the case where
he's got players where, you know, if he spots something, they'll do it like straight away
as quick as they can, you know, I think it's that tracks
that's been built over a number of years,
um, you know, with G2, and I think that's always, then,
the advantage you have of having a long-standing IGL
on the side, and you can just really build off that,
and, then, it could be said for Team Secret,
you know, Savage was IGL for that side for,
but, four years, get-or-take,
would be a little bit less than that,
and you'd be kind of saying, you know,
Savage was able to build, and the same here with Alamau,
you know, whenever he came on to G2, you know,
G2 was a bit of a mean, you know,
were these former former giants I guess and then you know we see what they did at SI 23 and even
though they haven't lifted a trophy since that they're always a team that you look at and think
they're in for a good shot away and they just haven't haven't got there
second time he's been the opening deck that was the previous round that was won by sequence
maybe it heralds a story of success slaps down as well looking for a build up for the
fact he was the opening body last time round this time to flap around the corner he's not
quite able to get the scratchiest engagement I've ever seen.
Oh, look at that on the top right.
G2 took the script, didn't like it, crossed out some lines
and wrote big G2 win instead.
Only in V-drills now all that is left.
That bring their way off towards fleeing players.
And Shaco does take the junkie damage.
Are they going to try and close down?
They can't.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Ah, that is a slow burn for Team Secret.
Ah, you think, okay, 3v5, really good position, and then G2 just won the individual's engagements
all at the same time.
And I think for Moklion drills, they blinked, and all of a sudden there's just them left
up against three G2 players.
A really good start as well.
I mean, you look at the operator, they're able to kill, stomp them for that util.
That was wasted from G2.
What happened?
We're all thinking the same.
It's the sort of problem that we almost talked about in the previous map, right, that sometimes
world class teams will just turn on world class performances.
We talk about how often this team has improved and where they can put the pressure on and
you talk about all those names and we were just having the conversation about the names
that they added and had gotten better and better in there. They lose the opening two
bodies to Mowgli and shut them. I mean the fight we saw was scrappy but it went in our
favor but they got two others at the same time. So, there'd probably be a bit of frustration
from Mowgli the fact that I, you know, he's got two but it just hasn't had the same impact
that all the secret would have.
Yeah, really important engagement Alomar was able to win and again, I mean, Carlos stage is
30 and anything like you have to go back to the team one day
To see if I have these kind of performances and keep me fair
Secretly about you Alomars thinking oh, I'm playing really well and Benj is actually playing quite bad
I could I could take him here. I could take number one spot
That is of course up for grabs for every player. We know that the number one spot is a very coveted thing
usually being shared among Shaco and Shaco and Nick for the past while and then
obviously German's been another contender too. But currently the top five players
is two of them contain G2, it's Benja, Rorick is second, Alamo third, Robbie
and use a six and a half.
Mowgli's gone.
Unfortunately, the entry kill he got last time is by the side by entry death too.
Actually does get Turkey.
Try to see him against one of the shields but the other's right there.
Already enabled.
They try and take this confrontation.
Shai goes across onto Oscar.
There is at least one back.
Oh, no, it just misses the rotate of the man underneath.
There's the ping and it's chasing those
that have always slipped away.
And you know, I don't know how I still has the kit.
Problem is, they don't have the verticality.
So what do they do here, G2?
They try and just sneak their way past
a little with the shield on the back.
Hope that they can get it landed off.
Well, it seems to be the ammo right now.
They have the pings.
You don't have to rotate down the solarium stairs, the post plant, good take.
I'm towards stomping, but it has to find Shaco and Alamow to lock it in.
One of them's in Monty.
Otherwise, peel their way back in.
I mean, it's just a very, very sticky one either way, but...
...the trade-out isn't gonna net you much.
Yeah, G2 forcing the shields.
You look at the bands, secret, not going for any shield bands, and you look at what G2 have banded,
Ella and Form. The two main ways of dealing with the shields and the current meta are not available to be used.
And because of that, G2 is piling on the pressure. They're bringing double shields now, because they know there's nothing stopping them.
I mean, Alaba is untouchable on that monthly. You cannot do anything against them unless you want to bring the oryx.
I don't know is that maybe an option a doubt it
But I'll allow the money on that shield is having so much impact the way he's been able to take ground
I think that's the information more than anything whenever you've got clear calls being fed free to players like no key
Psycho, Benji and something they're going to get kills
They're always gonna have that advantage based on the information that he's seen
Yeah, honestly just
I was just calling this thing beautifully, telling me exactly where to go, exactly where to push.
Taking that ground, taking that space.
It's an Alamoist class.
The Alamoist class.
One could say.
Don't want the one.
Season one.
point doesn't need to superstar pick up but you know something we actually talked
about yesterday and you defended the ball boy that well usually he gets a bit
of a rotten time everyone means about Alomar but it's been sensational this season
this split. Well this vendor just tries in to get this first kill. It doesn't last very long but the flash is in. There's going to be pressure all around.
and that is suddenly four versus three versus two almost made the connection with the next
one is trying to get a bit of surprise swing on this the final attack round.
Oh, just misses the tail end is being pressured from all around straight it out.
that leaves. Super star
stumping against Oscar and
flexi.
The HP isn't that's the issue
for stumping. One bullet. He
dead. You know, you're selling
full HP obviously flexing in the
same boat, but. Flexi could
piano and cross that divide. Very difficult for him to try and find two and he has just
used his flashbang as well. Two nades though and jumps in and Oscar's waiting for him
on the bathroom window. So secret, I've been able to stave that up. G2 tried to go very
very quick off a Benja opening pick. Team secret lock in. And we've been able to stave
the bleeding. Lock our way to our desk.
Thanks Emmy, it's a secret they do get that second round, keeping themselves at least alive right now, but this G2 team, it's no surprise, they're looking really good.
Yeah, so far I think some of the attacks have been really well planned and well executed.
We look at this ground, they're trying to take the top floor of Library.
But attention, no one is on green stairs right now, so they can just really take on the guys on Library's side in Fireplace.
And then look at this beautiful entry onto Library, boom, a quick one drive from Stompin.
And then Shaco on the balcony, Alemao pressuring fireplates guys with the shield, stomping behind them.
Those three of them get a double kill on the fireplace people because no one is downstairs.
They don't need to be careful about the right side here. No one is helping them.
And so eventually when Flakey comes in, it's way too late, Shaco jumps in by the window, gets the kill.
Look at the right side of the screen here. Who's coming to flank? Way too late.
And even then, Doki's ready for a flank and he gets the kill.
Everything was perfect here. As soon as they spotted, there is no one on top green stairs.
So at this point they can just isolate all of the gunfights onto library and to fireplace.
It's first a huge mistake on the set of secret, but then it's the opportunity seeking and the
right play around that. G2 if you leave them just one big gap, they'll focus on it and they'll take
it down. I really like you Leo. Do you know why? Because that clip perfectly sets up my point.
I didn't know which clip you was going to focus on but I'm glad you did. Who was Alanel playing in
that clip? Monty. Monty. Well G2, we showed in the start of the free show today actually and not
really a big shield team and bringing this back up because G2 only had a 39% pick rate.
Note the pick race is pretty much the lowest other than GK. So they don't play that many shields.
So what did they do today? Well Alamalt played on the Monte, they banned away Fawn and they banned
away Ella. It was all very specific for Secret. Just because G2 haven't played Shields doesn't mean
that they can't play Shields and I think that was all part of the game plan today as well.
And on the contrary we're going to switch for Secret onto attacks and one thing that
that have been clear since we've seen that game on Café against Wizard of Mines, there
was one key pivotal moment, it's the moment where Flexi was put on a shield and everyone
was playing around him.
So if I'm G2 right now, I'm targeting that.
On the map, Black Shire, for example, I remove the Blackbird, I remove the Monty, and I make
sure that Flexi is on his toes trying to play Blitz, and eventually I even remove that.
That way I'm reviewing the main layer of attack, and as we can see, first ban is Montaigne.
We're going to see if they stuck through it, if they actually ban the second shield, because
they do think it's false it with the way that they've been doing so far as secret as he pointed out they have that individual
power they have flexi you highlighted him at the start of the day seems like that is that very thing they're gonna have to
harness as they get into the second half we'll see g2 still have the control the lead by two thank you very much do you want to
finish your point I stay really interrupted no okay but they need that they need that screen time
Attackers. Yeah, you know
Say that you say about like teenagers. It's like they need their screen time
The words to describe I don't think I could describe
Jonas to chill the other two. Yeah
Immediately and nonchalant isn't it Jonah just you know, he's so cool. Yeah
I don't know, that's what the French call it.
Maybe we just let the layers colour-fine.
Oh no, Leo.
What a way to find out.
It's a translation, you know.
Blue is green in France.
What a way to find out.
It's a translation, you know.
Blue is green in France.
Is it...
It wasn't like the word for green in France.
Isn't there like...
Yeah, and then there's like a whole bunch of other words called that now?
Uh...
I mean, there's similar words.
No, I'm pretty sure like it's like a running thing where somebody says,
if you say this sentence, it's just...
Burt, Burt, Burt, Burt.
Oh yeah, probably, honestly.
Yeah.
French people.
What a fun language anyway
We have
Now secret with a decent amount of work to do animals toying with the idea of a C4 out
Towards the Ego balcony, but nobody's currently trying to fill its application
Instead they've built their way back. There might be a bit of crouch walking going underneath and that is what we've just seen Noah
Gets one almost gets the second massive killer there for stumping
Otherwise, that's certainly somebody crouch walking into the site. How many times will we see that today?
Seemingly an unending amount.
This, it at least got rid of Fenger, but his global opposition regardless.
Grenadiel bounces away around,
the Grenadiel's the other side of the hoppin and then back towards it.
I don't know how I want to contend against these Maverick holes.
I've done some decent damage before, but
Wonder what they're trying to get before they feel confident enough to stack up a bit on this verticality
They still obviously have to get the pressure on towards the site after as well
Stompin
They call double the kick things off
He goes in and I was flashing that shield but nobody's home on piano
They've left that position to try and focus on the player so you don't have the shield apart them and
Really really well played by Shaik who getting how dodged there from the blitz but Mowgli
He's really found an element right he is absolutely cooking in it
G2 get themselves that first defense get themselves locked in I mean it was a bit of a risk that
came at them from Noah but sometimes you have to have those gambles right sometimes you have
have to see what you can try and net on the result of it, but at this, I sort of talked
about it before, there was always the chance, the secret had climbed themselves out of that
tense spot. A chance at six more points from the end of today. It's sort of a sad description
of an all gonna you want a bit more on because well say they get nothing from
today's secret rebels currently sitting on what is eight points in sixth spot
they are almost out of reach of a chance at the top six finished secret
Where do you go?
Where do you turn to?
I mean, Drills is on such kills, that's the most everyone else have.
Pretty limp game so far.
I mean, it is a case where, you know, my position, I don't know, I think, oh, and with the cat
always pop out of secret, you know, they're really bad at this stage.
I'm more leaning towards the cheats, you know, they're really good at this stage.
You know, I think secret, you know, we've seen what they were capable of against Twisted
mines you know I think they're coming here today it's a very strong g2 side on
the map which even though it is really low preference for g2 still really good
on it you know in the past recent matches that they've had the past 90 days or so
there's something like 2 and 0 so it's like in it's solid from g2 drills opening
pick takes down shaco and also that doesn't help never shaco's on one that's
If that also doesn't help.
I think that's, I mean, we were missing Shaco yesterday, right?
Yeah.
Let's try a few games at a stage.
You know, he hasn't been really top performer.
He's in around like maybe 15, 16 and the leaderboard, so...
The pressure's coming pretty heavy here over the top.
We saw a steadiest shield take.
He slipped his way through.
He's cut off the roadside.
That's an important part.
I mean, I'm out of this, get one, he's behind you.
Flexi gets the man and the four versus two.
This location is free of hostiles.
Clear, G2.
Stomp by that shield.
I mean, Flexi played it really, really well
using the cover of the smoke,
botting the nades, making the defenders move.
Secret all came together to assist that shield.
All I have to do is just lock it out.
2v4, from the site they can see it's clear, both players are off the bombsite, Banging
going for the flight, Noah shuts that down and Doki has a 1v4 to deal with.
This is going to be all I am possible for him, he's able to pick off the plant there
but that's all he's going to get is drills and a hatch, as the cover, secret, at least
they've got one attack to their name.
Well, they've staved off sort of map point as well right, they're sort of keeping themselves
within touching distance. It's five to three. It's solid as another five to one half that
we had. Obviously they can boon a little bit more from it.
So they can sort of keep that mentality. It was nice that motion, not to say confused
you to a bit. There's that sea floor getting the down. I don't know how to pick back up
and I'm missing the rotate of the shield. It was a chaos that works. It's their favor
there. Catch the end of the player, but they already had the vertical hold problem. They
They're already more than ready.
5-3.
5-3 and I wouldn't say that this game has sort of in some ways matched the same intensity that we had just before.
On our previous chalet there was a lot of sort of hitting heads on that one.
There was a lot of quite quick motions outside of the tech pauses.
I think we brought him into how quick that game felt for how far it went.
Yeah.
This one seems to have a little bit more brewing.
Yeah.
Attackers have been a lot cleaner, I think compared to our last game.
I don't think the attackers were overly great in our GK matchup.
So, that also plays a part to it.
But certainly for G2 and C, what he attacks.
It's pretty stable.
Secret, once more, onto that shield flex, he goes on the blitz instead of the black
gear he had success with last time.
Gonna be used, here's to be as a bit of a roam clear, but there is a surprise operator
that don't really think secret in a position to be ready for, and that's gonna be the clash.
Ok, on that operator clash as we know, great operator in the current meta, unless you have
a specific counter, that being either a Cali, which probably isn't gonna happen before,
You're gonna have the nomad you start the struggle and there you go the blitz tries to go fast
Shield bash by the taser on the class expose the head easy headshot and stop in by free even secret in the mud
Okay, you ended that with a little bit of a almost weather report ask tale
Three to four
They're able to at least find bender on the split back, but what can you try and cook with they do not have that ram
They do not have that blitz
You gotta try and plan a vertical site instead see if they can slip down get a bit lucky oscar
Take a bit of a gambit
You can hear the reveal and the gumine will give them some awareness somebody's at the bottom of the stairs tucked on towards this position
and how long will he last and how confident a stomp in the door is that sort of ass question.
But I'm still soft, he can play that a bit more aggressively than the other guys want you to do.
There's the play of smoke canisters over the shoulder, it's just going to buy them some safety.
Now I just go down, Oscar is able to net one, will he get a second? Yes!
He might try higher per third, but instead he's caught fleeing into smoke and once again Alamow.
Ever reliable, ever reliant.
Leaves them in the two versus one, but Doki on the clash.
Mowgli's approach is going to be awkward, he's almost got a gift of Alamau.
But instead, he rotates around to another soft hatch.
I can't get through that though.
I mean, at this point for G2, as long as Alamau stays alive, Doki should be behind the phaser hem off.
And Mowgli, it's spot Alamau and he's maybe thinking, okay, let's isolate the 1v1,
he's going to get smoked back, going to take a lot of damage, shotgun is going to be close.
But favorable for an Alamo again. There he is
cleans it up
He to almost felt as though they've ran into that perfectly secret tempting that full
They're using the blitz and as soon as flexi comes around the corner the start is clear
There's a clash waiting for him
Well now that's six three that position I said it's a sight that we don't really see a lot of and I
I think the fact that they lost the ram on the approach, you saw the sort of bleed through
on the fact that both hatches were still soft by the time that they were trying to put pressure
down.
It sort of says a lot about the hopes of that take without your soft destruction.
No snake, no kaid, makes sense, terms of the scope of the bands, but now, can secret
get three attacks in a row?
Something that you would have to check if they've got any of that throughout this entire split so far.
P2, really good buffer zone.
Three perfect rounds is what Team Secret needs.
Oh, that flash. Obviously that operator. If you're not ready for it, we'll catch you out.
That certainly was the case for Team Secret. What are we going to do now on our top floor
defense? This is the first time that we've seen G2 come here, so it can be a new experience
for all of us. A little bit of lineup from Secret. I mean, we're going to be having something
pretty fun we've got a game and also a Aurora for this site. Attackers are moving out to
locate a bomb store. I mean if it's a solar take, Aurora can quickly block off the kind of
connector door in towards closet. I can also be used to block off bathroom door and for positions
such as that to allow free entrances into the bomb site. Again it could be a direct take,
I think it all depends on where the Blackbeard wants to come in from and based on where Flexi is.
It's the same that it's going to be a solar side to take.
Swapping!
Here's how they're going to try and operate.
You just have to set up with the Rauror and get those doors up and sort of get yourself propped up.
You'll often see castle plays and extensions on towards the site from the side of the defenders to make sure that they can have that wiggle room.
when you have this setup of operators rolling yourself in with the flashes
moving on the back of a couple of locked doors and the limitation of impact to be
able to get them removed as quickly as possible means that they can be a lot
more effective than otherwise might usually be but you still have to be
set up for it on the right timing you have to play against these laser gates
drone rolls in ready to catch somebody who might go for the hop it's a nasty
little angle it's a hard one to fight against so instead the coverage of the smoke but a man can
look right through it yeah the roll of the cover it will just be their final approach yes it says
doki he's able to get the first and it's the black bit that falls noses oscar as he backs backs
and gets the man who can sneak through it but it's still up in the air is it doubles down into
his g2's favor there's three four you trouble oscar i was gonna say last one left but he is this
The only one left is really the games that they have ahead of them G2.
They get themselves a clean at three points.
Died he is ever.
That win streak continues to develop.
We will head over for a break.
I
Well G2 take the win over secret in what maybe used to be a heavy hitting battle but not
so much anymore they made it look easy and we've got the captain Alamo standing by after
the victory Alamo good to see you again my friend a big win for you guys not necessarily
one that was unexpected on paper.
What is the approach that you guys take at this point in the stage?
It's best of ones.
You've got two games left now against this team who's definitely on the weaker side.
Does it change how you go into these games?
Do you not want to show too much?
I mean, we still have to respect them because we know they have a lot of knowledge about
Siege because the biggest players on the roster are still there, like Noah Mowgli and Marlon.
They surely know a lot about Siege, so at this level I think, even though they're not playing individually good I think,
we cannot just hide shreds because we probably would struggle way more.
But yeah, we have to take a serious every game and we take them serious.
Happily we play Shalette because we were excited to play this map in a long time.
Pretty sure Radoz banned, even though it's one of their best maps, they banned to play Fortress against us and they ended up playing 7-0.
Oh yeah, we could push out today, so I guess we're happy for that.
We're also happy to see you guys play on more than two maps, because we were waiting for it.
Just looking at the map itself, by the way, quite an uncommon ban, an old-fashioned ban,
a Tatcher ban, I saw you playing Kaid, playing Bandit. I assume this was a counter to Secret's playstyle?
Yeah, we know they could use the kite clash, I think they didn't end up using the clash too much
clash too much for their kitchen team, but we knew that they could do that because they
used to do it in the class with Jume.
So Tetris is a good ban and also stops out the fast plays, the fast plans with the Tetris.
It's a very, like, they're impacted.
That's a sign of gameplay, so it's a good ban for Shalva.
And we saw you yourself abuse the World Nail first to kind of stop the rushes, but also
using the clash, like, within that one round where Duki gets aggressive super early upstairs
to train like basically be a surprise like he just popped his head out of the staircase
and just had to shield like I think that there was a good mini play by us because I think
was Zach Zach called Doki to like hide behind him. So as soon as the shoot pushed the highway
like Doki would stand up. I'm pretty sure like Zach called that so props to Zach of
the good comps.
Carl, that win today pretty much well it secures you top four and what that does is put you
one game away or one win away initially in the playoffs from EWC. How important is that to use a
team in terms of the focus and the goals of the team? Yeah I mean I think it's very important we
focus these final weeks to prepare for the playoffs because it's going to be a hard game
in your way. The first game is going to be a hard game without that. I don't think we play
tp because I'm pretty sure that's going to be like us in tp for a second so we're going to end up
playing like two semines fanatic maybe even gk like they're playing good maybe Falcons won't
won't even make the first game on the winner bracket, so maybe we won't even face Falcons,
but no matter the team we play, it's going to be a hard game, like these teams are showing
good Siege, and we're going to have to lock in and prepare good for that game.
Awesome, well thank you so much for your time, as always, Alamauke, congratulations
on the win, and we'll see you next week.
See you guys, enjoy the next games.
Alright, we will.
G2, take the win over Secret again, we got the C-Chalet, oh man, put the first time here
from them, so good to see them branch out from that that wasn't fortress or consulate,
but good to see them get yet another win.
Yeah, I guess it was not a huge surprise to see that G2 had a map pool deeper than two
maps.
I think we saw that today.
Great for them to kind of showcase that just before the last play days as well.
I think the most important thing to take away from this game, as much as secrets have improved
than has looked better and better.
It's still a huge gap between a team that is relentless,
that has not made a huge shakeup as they did,
and is still a top team.
And obviously, the gap between that
and a top team was very clear today.
And the good news is 42, like I said,
only one now, one win away in the BO3,
all the way to play off in the upper bracket
from making a WC, so huge news for them.
Maybe maybe not I think that was a strong map for G2 scorned. Well G2 closing it out quickly means that we are
Pretty much right on time for our must-see matchup of the day. We have twisted minds and
If an attic I'm a solve so now just started to blank on it twisted minds and fanatic our must-see game of the day
Why because these are two teams?
Right on the bubble teams that cannot afford to slip up fanatic
currently in the top six they're maintaining that playoff position for
the moment. Twisted minds on the other hand just outside the top six and that
has to be the conversation now as we take a look at our standings here because
in their current position they need points it's not just they need to hang
on they need to replicate some of that success they had in Salt Lake City this
was a top four team in the world jack and right now they're eighth place in
Yeah, and I think that's the context of why this is the most safe. You've got Fnatic in there, they've lost two games,
sitting nine points, looking for Kerri's late beneath them. You've got Twisted Mind, even though they are beneath them, having lost three games.
But with the context of the fact that they should be a guaranteed top 14 in this league, both of these teams desperately, desperately need to play Twisted Mind.
The main thing if you look at the standings here, is paying attention to the fourth, fifth and sixth team, is the fact that it's the worst possible scenario
for Twisted Minds because GK won 3 points, Rebels won 3 points, and so Fnatic, even though
they didn't lose anything, they had won 9 points before, so realistically everyone
has had spread out 3 points at some point in that super week, and so no one has been
shooting bullets at each other, there is no moment where one team got one and the other
got two, which could have slowed down and give them chance, and so this is why like
3 players left, that's it, it's the moment, it's a must win because you take away 3 points from Fnatic
and that's it, you can maybe climb it back, but right now it's do or die for them.
And it would be a shock to see this team, I mean we even assumed when you guys made your predictions,
oh that the 4 teams that made LLC, SLC would absolutely make it here, but right now we are
seeing a very different twisted mind, not only in terms of their performances, but actually in
in terms of the people on the team right now,
they have had a new sub every day for the last three games
and it has been impacting their recent results.
They haven't played with a five man roster
in the last three games,
like with the same five man roster, that's the problem.
They've changed players every single time,
either due to you not being able to play.
They start with that sub that comes in against G2.
It does not work, that was with XK.
They played again with Dove against Team Secret,
that did not work out, they lost the game.
Then yesterday, they played with my skills against VP.
They lost the game.
Realistically, there's a little bit of they played G2 and VP.
That's for sure.
But still, it's a tough one for them
to have to consistently rotate players here.
So I've got some good news for you,
which is that they're playing with the same roster
for two days in a row.
Matt's skills with the player.
But the bad news is that it's not their main fight.
I would say that the second good news in the sense
is that I think Matt's skills was running pretty well.
And yesterday, they were kind of competing against
G2 and VP at home.
Yeah, and they were playing against G2's pro.
So if they were able to be competitive
Again, Geno just proved, with that lineup, with Matt's skills playing, then against Natic, it should still be a go.
However, on the side of Natic, this is a prime opportunity to kick off the engine again.
They had three rounds, three wins in a row, and they were like, oh, we've broken a record, that's it, we can stop.
And that's the problem. No, start the engine again, you're not qualified yet.
Right, they kind of find themselves at a crossroads here, because they could easily come in, get some more points on the board,
and find themselves in the playoff position just like that.
are not careful here, Jack.
This could slip away from them.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's judgment time for Fnatic.
It's decision time.
Which Fnatic are we going to see?
We've been so impressed.
They got three wins in a row.
They got themselves to nine points.
They looked like they were going to surge on,
march onto the playoffs.
Did they take the left path?
Did they take the right path?
The left is the hope, the dreams,
the prosperity of playoffs of potentially even we see.
If the Fnatic that we've seen glimpses of,
we've seen three wins from them.
The right-hand side, potentially for them.
Should they lose this game?
should they falter away at the back end of this stage,
would ultimately be the same old fanatic.
This is why it feels like a massive game for them.
But going up against the team, yes,
it's a superior team on paper based off recent history,
but it is also a team with a substitute
and a team that they should be able to attack
and try and win this game.
We all know how much the Twisted Minds play style
really has defined, I suppose, their identity as a team,
how teams have to approach them.
It's swing heavy, frag heavy.
They're going to surprise you.
They're going to be in rat positions.
Maybe they try to pick into a map that allows them to enable
that kind of play style.
We go to border.
That's the ultimate decision that Fnatic made between labs
and border at the very end.
How do you guys feel about this?
Does this favor one team or the other?
I think realistically, just on paper,
looking at border and through some mind-sapping in general,
it's like a home graph for them.
It's a map that they like a lot.
It's a map where they can thrive,
where a play style that is chaotic
will thrive where having a sub won't matter too much, it's such a simple one, so for many reasons
I would have said yes, however, I remember Fnatic playing it, if I'm not mistaken earlier in the
Super Week against Falcons, and making it close, what's it in Falcons, yeah? And I thought that
they played it really well, I thought that they, you know, made it quite kind of close against them,
at least had the right ideas, and a loss is just enough to learn about how to play this map the
right way, they had one, two days to kind of figure out how to play it in a better way, so
I do think it's well balanced. I think the fact that still, Twisted Man's will play with a different player than they used to with Dove, who was such a stable shield player.
On the map that requires one, is a bigness.
That's the big thing for Twisted Man's is, you know, they had Dove in key positions, on-border specifically.
They're no mad.
Yeah, but no mad outside break room. Real mad skills take over that.
He's on, you know, going in below. It's quite well documented because Twisted Man's have played this map a lot.
So they expect Fnatic to have changed two things.
One, their late round, which is where they struggled against Falcons.
They were allowing so many late rounds to go.
And then two, they would have changed ultimately how they approached this map
because of how Twisted Minds play it.
And just like we said, we know the position from Twisted Minds,
we've already seen them.
We know someone is going to be outside break.
We know someone is going to be lurking outside archives or on main door.
And we need three players who will go east or somewhere.
You can isolate those players that are going to get off here.
All right, let's do it.
A lot of playoff implications here on the line between Twisted Minds and Fnatic.
Big points for both teams.
Up for grabs.
Luke?
There are up for grabs.
And I'm making.
Just me?
Yeah.
Sorry, man.
Just you know, man.
I just, yeah, you're just a little casting.
No, it's actually a two-step introduction.
Wait, you be quiet for a second.
Thank you, Jonah.
And you know why I'm here, right?
And the people go, yeah.
You know why I'm here, right?
Oh, yeah.
to welcome in demo and then your theme music hits and then you walk down the ramp
and you hit a stone cold stunner on somebody
is that better listen buddy i'm just trying to reach out to you via wrestling your favorite thing
in the world uh i'm just trying to i'm just trying to connect with you trying to make you feel involved
Oh, yeah, sorry, was it the wrong finishing move?
I'm so sorry.
Ian would have popped off.
Ian would have popped.
Why does that glass girl cat ears?
Anyway, snack versus twisted mind.
I'm here with demo.
Both of us ready to get into our second border of day.
How are you feeling about it?
I think it's a matchup that obviously the desk is put a lot of preference on to where
this is against all about the playoff isn't it?
That's where we are with both of these sides.
Both of these sides have had a bit of a rough super week in all honesty as well.
Don't forget that.
Now both of them have been able to gather up any points.
Fanatic losing the Falcons on Monday.
Twisted mines losing to Secret on Monday and then yesterday Fnatic losing to Rebels and Twisted mines losing to G2
So both of them are not in a good vein of form
But somebody will end up winning this match up. So at least one of them will be
Aye, it's the way it's gonna go. Thanks for the little change. About five years ago
I think for both of these teams it's the case of get even or get even worse
Oh, but let's see if the fanatic dream turns a bit of a nightmare after all they've kind of wished for.
And then otherwise twisted minds who have the chance of that up and up.
You know, we weren't that far removed from the border, not a million miles away, and
back there was often a first sort of point and port of call driving our way in the limitation.
The keepers and no smoke mean that his army isn't going to be able to extend their sight
to see otherwise we're in.
I mean, it's very risky, flashbang, d4, what a damage from the chanker being able to use
the molotovs over towards east to try and stop this chanker from making an entrance
way.
Smith has to be careful, looking for his feet, D-Pack is going to be the first man to go
down.
He even got airjabbed as well, what on earth is going on?
Hold on, wait a second.
Black Wizard at least gets one, the four versus three.
They took a second and now the right packets through SB9.
They scare us citizen outside Break Door and there goes that chuck.
There is only Wizard left.
Now at this point, three versus nobody.
All start.
He's pulled the clutch up too quickly there, Fnatic.
Yeah, just didn't really get anything going.
Bit of a weird one.
Obviously we've seen heavy investment in towards East.
The Chanka, that's not an uncommon thing.
You see into the Chanka, fire the Molotovs,
targeting that shield who always wants
to try and get in towards East.
It was the AirJab was a little bit surprising. I could only assume he's placed the AirJab
on the window. As somebody has walked past the Catwalk window, they've been pushed back,
but then the radius has also hit his own teammate.
It's a false start, you know. Fanatic. They tried to enter the building. Tristed Minds
I didn't like that idea.
It's not the beginning with over the flight, but we keep our passion strong. We keep our games fiery.
I get where I've been around.
Just as spicy. A team ace as well. Every single member of Twisted Ace.
Twisted Ace?
Twisted Minds was able to pull off part of the ace. They made sure that they all stepped into little pressure off.
I'm not going to say it's something that we sort of have had ups and downs, but we've
lost to this change as much as they have, as they sort of alluded to on the desk itself.
Having them activate as a unit, especially with Mad Skills coming in, is going to be
something that lends positivity to the team.
Yeah?
Again, I don't think that Mad Skills was poor against G2.
I think the lines got a pretty good showing against a very solid, you know, second in
the table for a reason.
Oh look at this!
But I think I've tried to go quick with the Aurora, I'm glad I've been able to pick up
both of them!
Oh, impacts away the barrier!
Able to take down Tashiyo Popo!
Jalad!
Another one of them!
But I keep going!
They've got information!
Further diffuser's going down and dead shots!
Out of there!
D-Pack!
We've seen this before on 1v5.
And he finds a miracle.
I don't know if he can. Well, they're feeding them a few kills, but Jalad's there. That's
a four piece four of money. Goodness.
So two interestingly paced rounds. I think it's fair to say fast in their own way. But
that one, it's almost like a training exercise to twisted minds is they're going to expect
to rush. This is how we respond to it. They're expecting have east. This is how you respond
into it so far. So good.
It's an attic. They tried to pocket play. I mean, it was the perfect sort of stop to
it. The lad just began with a swing onto that, getting a three for it.
I'm in the fourth. It's easy enough, I think is the fairest way of putting it. We have
rounds in the space of one. Both of them are twisted mines.
The ideal position you want to be in, when you lose the first round where you kind of
play off of this, okay. Everything could really get anything going, is what it is. It's been
going for the rush and it just falls flat in its face. And you start to worry here for
As Batman tellers is the next site in the rotation, giving Joads a really good opportunity.
If having a pretty high kill game is not ideal either for Fnatic he's 5 to his name right now.
See where Fnatic want to try and stem the attack from.
I can only assume it's going to be East based on bringing on that Blackbird again.
But I don't think Twisted Minds are going to give up East.
All too easily, we'll be holding it on the shield coming in from the Denari, so I'm going to use the nades to try and clear away by the night.
We've also got this office wall fully opened up, a little rotate too, to support anyone who wants to try and play in towards east.
There you go, see the aggressive play from said rotate.
I haven't been able to get their way through the airmen, they're still kind of fucking
utility and hoping they can get themselves a bit of a breathing room, quite a bit of
land to hold on to, but shall I still have you to play down in the steaming area, they
have to reconvene, re-rotate, a minute gone, every player still standing is the best that
my other team has done so far, but at this point the utility has otherwise been sort
dedicated to think about okay well have to be malleable no there's mad skills
gets real citizen he's out of that I'm punished
visitors for a backstab in through main door moving just yet might need to is
there they're right beside him full charge coming in from top floor wizard
is able to find one that's still seeing if you can maybe try and find that trade
back but everyone from Faddock is kind of frozen right now as they just about made their
way in towards the mountain now.
Night skills as expected is there to get the trade on the wizard and do they know about
your lad?
No they do not that's one maybe even gonna help that for a second.
It's a dead shot we'll be able to get that trade he spots the other player instead of
P9.
Ripson, limb from limb and oh look at their stepec once again left of all to do.
Well, for now, I was on both of our two endless expectations of making top six.
If you watched the first three rounds of this game, you probably wouldn't believe that.
Are we going to get a time out with how this has gone?
No entry kills.
No more than two kills across the rounds, I think.
Time to have a ban fanatic on their attack on boarder on the ropes.
quite rightly. I'm gonna go for the time out. See how this plays out for them. I think obviously
for uh, Perfanatic, if you don't try and get the rounds down on this attacking half and you're
sat there with two nos, maybe a five one and we've seen a lot of them and we know that teams
have not been doing great at coming back from large round deficits, then that's a worry.
So they need to try and get some rounds on the board now to at least give them a chance
of that side switch hits.
Let's see if the conversation nets anything.
Anything better than otherwise what has been twisted mind's drive.
Obviously, one of these three teams had a very bitter missed moment yesterday.
Just in mind, almost pushed G2 towards the brink of 5-7.
Side of that, neither of them started the week off, but fanatic, the fact that they could
have taken three wins coming in towards FIFA League and leave without a single point.
Absolutely down the stairs there.
Though it is still out, it's still about six things.
Ah, seriously?
We'll try.
Right.
Then I see.
What are we gonna do?
At the shield again?
My beard has ran pretty consistently alongside that Blitznik and the second round they played it but
I haven't really seen much impact right now from Smiths.
I'm gonna pour a title and free it.
Oh look at that, I mean that is the twist that mines play style.
That is what they will do.
They'll swung anything.
I mean that's it, right?
Go outside.
Go outside, DPAC is able to get one, they force the movement with the grenade, but they lose DPAC in the split, they do get the citizen back up, in the meantime they almost lose deadshot and P9 is trying to find his way outside the window, he's able to slip his way on past, obviously the black beard will call all that motion, but his shum gets wizard.
Grenade comes in. Oh no. Yeah.
Well, I think there's one kill for Smith, that's only him and Citizen.
Citizen's not the healthiest of two mix to have right now as he's on 20 HP after being down previously.
And very similar to that first round, it's just failure to launch.
Back to the drawing board it feels like for Fnatic.
citizen unable to have an impact in this game so far obviously we know where his
potential is but finding a roster to unlock it in the plan that's gone on
is always a bit tricky in the meantime look at mad skills in shillad huge
Which game between a pair of them and your lads gonna keep on racking up those bodies
It's mess
That would be turning to smith's cheese with the three bodies that have otherwise came and surrounded him
In a minute, you might be able to slip his way out, but
Well, he's gonna get the down on towards one. Let's support this guy. Are you kidding me?
Are you kidding me?
Well, I mean, what can you say? It's that play style that you just have to be careful
of. You know, where Twisted Minds can just turn it on at any instance where they're going
for swings that they have no right going for. And for Fanatic, especially after the time
out, for them to get obliterated in the exact same fashion, I mean, just could not get anything
going, exact same take as what they did in the first round, trying to block their way
in for ease, and once again, twist it, just putting everything that they have into that
area of the map, and deny them into the building.
Four in a row, four in a row, and that is up to the timeout as well.
You do wonder, you do worry how far the unraveling can go.
They've only been able to manage two kills.
They've got the entry kill once but outside of that nothing more.
None of them are positive.
Fine.
She'll add a mask because it's absolutely popping off but there's not a lot of sort of
countenance to them.
That's a bit of damage done as a gentle bit of team damage.
They're safe.
So, if they're locked into the railway through...
Otherwise, no fight given from the pistol mines yet.
No.
Happy enough to get the east.
Well, thank you for fanatic.
They are in the building for a change.
Let's see if they can do anything with that.
This is where I think also that the solid state ban is very good.
Just the mines. It stops that.
I don't want to say lazy way of information, but it is, you know, you press a button and bang, you can see where people are, so it's a little bit lazy.
So obviously this whole thing is gone, and you do have to get your hands a little bit dirty.
Deadshot, opening quick, bad skills, down.
I'd say a good bit of information as well from the shield, being able to spot somebody who has crossed the marcoids in the fountain.
Now what a bit of a hunk, but Sashaw, but we know how difficult of a player he is to get a grasp of and
able to fly with as he jumped in and a quick jump.
Mami, come on!
For now, you have to be ready for this like the play.
He's been twisting minds and been doing it against you all day long.
Twist at Mines said the man advantage, headshot and smess have to do something.
What happened?
I got the Blackbeard!
I don't know what to say.
It's a sad watch.
It is a sad watch.
It's another round where they've only been able to get two bodies as well.
Mm-hmm
It's the little things it's the you know, I think we've talked about enough
You twist that mines or a side which will do plays like this
Fanatic already seen that they're that they're doing plays like this against them. They're still getting caught out by it now
I just think it's so stag them from fanatic
They're not bringing the fight to Twisted Lines.
There's not a lot of confidence on the side.
Can they get one?
I mean, we've had 170 this split from a team so far.
I'd say we're hurtling towards the second, but...
I'd say it doesn't feel likely at this point, and that's kind of the big problem, right?
What can fanatic change? What can they adapt? What can they bring?
Bloody hell, there are analysts who's gonna talk crap.
This point being so shut out, Jalat didn't want and he was almost the opening body.
They gave him only a 2.0 KD.
Sorry, 5.0. I can't do math. It's so...
You've not been great at the old number game this week.
I'm not gonna say that. I'm
not gonna say that. Listen if
it's the first part of my brain
that shuts down a heat wave.
Fine as long as you're still
back to school, get yourself
into the DCC. No, no. Like you
do. I can't remember. Right.
I got a see you're going to
have to do it again. Anyway,
they're going to see if they
go back their way in quick
plant attempt here. They've got
the shield on the back itself.
It's not going to be an immediate
cover. The C4 going down top
his job and this is a very tricky retake now we know they often like to play
outside the building they're going to do this but they're not going to be given
the chance there's one towards bar spot it's about to find a fight on his close
left and actually hops to the safety behind the barricade knows he's got
time in his favor the longer he can make this fight you can sort of stand there
in the precipice well he didn't make it that much longer but look at the time
here demo 15 seconds find one above but they're still going to try and get
towards that kit. They have two players watching it, one on the repel, one outside. At this
point they have lost. And there is one round that goes against them. They're five to one
half. Single pop, the single play, the single round, and the single bit of safety that they
can operate with. You can see where's the gesturing there. One, will it be enough? Well,
That's on a Scott desk.
Good question.
5'1", twisted mines, a massive lead,
and a, I would say, much needed hydration break here
for Fnatic if they can use this to recover.
But let's talk about this, because it looks like Fnatic
can't even get into the building.
Yeah, a very simple challenge stated by Twisted Mines
called, the building is ladder.
You cannot say it's at the building.
It's impossible.
You have to remain detected outside as long as possible.
You know what? Winning a tier 1 game, why not?
But doing it with style.
Now that's what I call a challenge.
So let's take a look at how they're doing it.
Let's take a look at how many players on their side
are actually trying to go outside that building
and she's going crazy, okay?
It starts with round one.
We have two guys dying outside the building.
Cool.
Third guy dying outside the building.
Cool.
They're trying to rush.
Good for them.
They will be inside the building.
They will still die though.
One impact.
And that is insane.
A double kill here.
Let's take a look at that one. Oh, yes.
That one was outside the building as well.
Who is outside the building?
You're here, and he's gonna die as well.
It's not finished. Look at this guy.
He died outside the building.
Oh, you're on my window?
You're also dying in spawn.
And that's not finished.
Oh, you got the kill?
No problem. I'm also gonna jump out.
And boom, you're also dying outside the building.
You think it's finished?
No, no, no. No.
I'm also jumping outside the building.
Welcome to Twisted Mind and their new challenge.
And I think actually, don't give reference
to anything yesterday when G2 played up against them,
said even with math skills it gets even worse because that guy is even worse forces them to be more aggressive more unpredictable. You know it's coming.
Fnatic will have known it's coming, but they still didn't have an answer to all of it. And I was actually mad skills for a reason. True, true.
I was so disappointed with Fnatic. Every single one of those clips worked but they have walked. Sight.
What did they do? They're, oh there's a guy, so he's just got a cap lock, there's a guy, a break room, there's a guy, a CCTV.
What are we going to do? Let's all congregate, let's all feast and let them all run out on us.
really disappointing from Fnatic in their approach. No lurks up the main stairs, no repels in, walk into Alkaid's door, none of that from them.
And I think they'll be really upset they didn't do that, because they just kept walking into areas
that Twisted Minds wanted to jump out and run out and, you know, fight outside with them.
Because it's not like you've never seen this before, this is the most expected Twisted Minds.
Maybe this is to a degree that we've not seen, like they've definitely turned it up a notch, but this is the Twisted Minds playstyle.
But when you play like that, you leave a gap. You fundamentally have to leave a gap, which is usually the bombsite,
And you would expect a team, ultimately, that's challenging for playoffs, challenging for them to be in an event or wanting to be at that level to identify that and make that adaptation.
And Fnatic didn't over them the final round where they did, and they planted, they got the post plant, and even then Twizz arounds weren't even bothered about the objective or where they were just trying to kill.
But what's funny is that now they're going to agree on the tactics in the mines, and they can play the same playstyle.
So they're not going to run out of the building, they're going to start to get in the building, but they can do it with the same speed and aggression.
Just bring shields, just bring glass, bring ying, bring all of the stuff that helps you have huge executes on side and they will go crazy.
One of the things with TwistedMiles plays out when they attack onto this map is usually what will happen is you have a core of 3 and then a 1 and a 1.
That 1 is usually, it was usually door, that was at the breakroom door, then the middle floor must have shone usually like in below somewhere and then the other 3 will be working for the main on JT.
I think if Fnatic are kind of smart about it, they can double up on breakroom, they can get a bit twisted minds against them.
They can double up onto the shunt underneath, and I think it's very important that they do that, because then they can start picking it up up.
Alright, second half to us in mind.
Huge lead right now, Fluke and Demo. Let's see if Fnatic can make this comeback happen.
Well, I've gotta do something magic.
Luckily they have a wizard.
Oh, oh, bruit!
I might have lost my ability to do numbers, but I could still do still little jokes, Demo.
They're gonna see if they can try and drive themselves back to a game we've had.
Many a 5-1 halfs, but demo what's that statistic that we talked about last time?
None of them have been able to come back. Yes, you're right demo. Thank you
I was thinking a circus that's lost that just spaking out obvious. Yeah, you know, it's it's an obvious statistic
None of them. Yeah
I was looking for the database everything and I don't have a snap for that
Oh, look I think, I think whenever Jack is depressed, you know, for that I can't play
now.
You know, it's almost as though he's like soul bonded with this orb, whatever they
feel, he feels, and he was very sad, so that means they must be very sad.
Anywho, I mean, the screams of the Archives rush, you've got the glides, you've got the
up and you can see exactly where that fuser is as well over towards that side of the map.
I should know what's not. It's actually towards security, so maybe they're going to use the
ying as a bait and then slip P9 in towards Armory. That could be what they're going to go for.
Nade well, they'll clear the way of any potential barbed wire or maybe a trap. Nade goes in and
this is a very slow approach. It's all about timing here for twist up mines.
I didn't go to you. Smoke.
And walk up. Now dead shot. And de-peck.
The little two fighters have to look out to try and stem this attack.
Well, the attack might have been slowed a portion.
We can hear the smoke popping out either side.
Dead shot is being tracked. There's de-peck that gets caught by the Blackbeard first.
It's de-peck over the top. There's quite a net the result on towards them.
Look at Hash on those. Still trying to hunt underneath.
Dead shot starts on the corner. Can they escape?
escape. Oh almost not but it's two quick kills. Come back to their favour, main at three.
They've got a cold kit. The full send, come to CC. Hasn't quite worked. And now, Fnatic
can just build that network around it. That drops just to use it. No shield. That has a
little bit of utility to work with and Hashim still does as well. But the fact that Citizen
Wizard have been able to escape with their lives means that that gun balance isn't in
their favour and this, the opening defence, likely to go fanatics way.
Yeah, nice and easy for Fanatic. That attempted take. Well, a lot of things were going on
at once, it's not worked out for Twisted Minds. Fanatic able to hold their ground and
hold their kills, so that Jenga tower like we talk about, it's still standing strong.
As long as they can play that trade game, it should be fine.
That and the ink, hunting for a kill, but patients from Fanatic's working really well,
know they have the trait. However, it's a little bit aggressive there, but in the end it doesn't
matter. It's fanatic. Have enough on the board to see it out. So at least that's two in a row,
but there is still quite the hill that they have to get over.
That's one. As he said, technically two in a row.
Lot of place for them to go here.
at this point it's all still obviously you know early sort of swing on towards it
right trusted minds sure they're still kind of quietly confident about the
whole affair they've only got to try and land two of their attacks on a map
that they absolutely thriving I guess maybe there's that element of what has
and studied what has been learned, maybe that sort of direct drive that they did there and
towards PCTV and towards server was something like Fnatic, I mean they had a lot of utility
around it right, they had quite aggressive keepers, they had this sort of split swing
position right on the door, they had the cross eye, they had at least 3 players if not 4 including
the first one that died, paying attention towards that approach and yet, for what you said about
the lineup that tested mine's screaming, that sort of plant here on the opposite side, they
into wood servers and they sort of tried to hit it head-on maybe hubris might be
being punished
just straight away not gonna be rocking with the same volatile lineup no ying
no glass right in the shield anymore as well from them so it's a little bit more
more focused on gathering information and also being able to get rid of players.
You can be in some tricky positions with the util jump they have, they've got the Grimm,
they've got the Capitale too.
Here comes the information with the Brava, and if they can hack anything, I mean there's
not much apart from really the Banshees that you can get value from.
So it's not the greatest pick you're from Trickspot, I guess you're still getting some
value and potentially could abuse the fact that you're hacking those Banshees and could
I'll look for, I'll probably have to slip in and go for a crash walk, but see if Kistletmine will play that way.
Here comes Yuzo, that's what I thought about C4, goes out and, oh my word, oh my, he lads in.
In the site, again, the Yuzos technique.
Wants to get a kill for his trouble first, but at P9's I've actually been able to get the player from this perspective.
If they've got a second that swings round he misses the opportunity to get the trade out now.
He's replaced the man he wants to get one more gift. Is it in his army?
Oh no!
I almost had to take it and instead he's going to try and slip his way back towards the fight
itself and force the player. Maybe he can still get for the plant. There's one in the
bathroom. And Tricks is watching the rotate. Has to cross.
The plant is being attempted here. You can see where there's a pot. Oh he's got the
That's but not quite right.
That's perfect from Jalad.
Just go there.
That single wall reinforced again.
They held on towards the bathroom at the difference here.
This double player is ready to watch it and catch it.
Now they didn't get the plant demo.
They didn't secure it.
Instead they moved away from the chance that the C4
reads at the bathroom because it's all locked up.
It's all theirs.
Great shot from Deadshot.
He's got three more to try and find at this point.
One on the kit, one on the cross
I'm assuming the loss was above.
I don't really know what happened there, but neither to see as it happens in the dark.
A stab.
And that two rounds has ended.
As we find Twisted Minds 6-2.
Fantastic from Chalade. He has been incredible the whole game, but that is something special.
I honestly thought he fluffed it. Obviously he finds his way into the bomb site.
site and you think okay what can we do? He then thinks ah I'm gonna slip up
in through East, catch the players who could be inside of office inside of Catwalk.
Misses the first opportunity. Goes back to the site realizing he can't
counter this head okay. Free lever above. Gonna be one guy inside bathroom and
the target him. He baits the plant. Here's the C4 RIT.
It wasn't just, oh I'm going to bait the C4 and go back for the plant, no, no, no.
Go ahead and kill the guys you see forwards as you're stuck in that animation of throwing
the C4 and detonating it.
He's right in front of you and he's killed you.
And that was so important because at that point, phonetic, they're going to be scrambling.
They're going to be thinking, we've just lost our mini site player.
They're in the site, he has the diffuser.
They can plant.
I think it was the guy who was trying to retake into a bathroom, Jalan.
He doesn't just go back for the plant.
He kills a second, he goes for that player in bathroom and at that point it's full
bottomside control from Jalan and it's so easy for Twist that minds the wind
around at that point. What a game he's having. Fantastic. 14 and 2.
I think we might be about to have our monster and maybe even our moment for the next show.
Unfortunately what he's been up against here has been a team that is having the
roughest week in the office possible. Fanatic. After the perfect before
Arton arose, just to guarantee themselves a single point from the three games played
this week. Such a great start. Unfortunately, Super Week has separated some. Nobody has
suffered potentially more than they have. Boss G, try to make a connection. Well that's
just a bit of a sprint in the slip by, it's mad skills that find citizen though.
Oh, boss G, Able of 5p9, 4v4, two minutes remaining, he stares, he'll be in control
off trips right now. I'm sure all this will probably be coming soon after that.
These mines are so just eyeing up different cross-stars they can establish and
wouldn't be surprised if this man right here hash on goes for a bit of a wonder
and see if he can make that solo play. Really, kind of contest is coming in
towards that top floor now and fanatic players are a little bit spooked and they're
gonna start dropping down but Smith's knees not scared. He's gonna keep fighting
and find Shalad and it's a great player to take off the board.
Now the four versus three and said,
Shalad, our house, the team has been dropped.
There's two quick kills with the conference
and Deepak with the C4, Leeds just tricks alone.
Backline shield player is being surrounded.
Pulse will have to read on him.
You can see the players in the house as well.
I mean, at this point, they're just trying to get the kill
on him sooner rather late.
There it is. You just get two for his trouble.
That is it.
That's one, but they need to make four.
They need to connect four in a row at this point.
And that is that gauntlet.
They have to try and get through.
But it starts with one.
Yeah, just a bit limp overall from us at mines.
Tried to get that foothold in towards that top floor,
I'm not sure if you've seen
the matchup, but obviously
Smith's that boss. Gee able
to have a pretty good impact
on that round. I just never
really got going. I think for
twist at mind, but they have
that over zone. Lenty more
round still the plie to try and
secure all three points and get
the back on track again. Don't
forget. It's the matchup where
both sides have not had a good
super week. Get even or get
have and it would be a pretty difficult weekend for them knowing that Super weak, so they
need to try and get themselves back in here and get these three rounds in a row. At least
give themselves a point and then maybe who knows, push on, go for the win, get two points,
better than none. So I would say control for Twisted Minds, it feels like a matter of
time. You know to get one, I don't think Fanatic have been great at really stringing rounds
back-to-back in this stage.
Back on the boss, G.
There's always the conversation when a sort of...
operator like that comes out when it hasn't really been played
without the game of how much is it a comfort-op.
Comfort-ops are often discussed at length, right?
But when you haven't really been able to connect to the kill game, and you haven't really been able to connect with anything, how much of it is that and how much of it is a map like this?
At this point, it's that early kill. Just in mind.
I'm not sure if they can try and just get one of those bodies once again.
It's been, you know, a sort of back and forth fight, but generically, they're gonna head
of it.
I think they're gonna run it back maybe with that same approach that they went for in the
first round.
They wanted to try and get the glass shifted on towards the CC window, miss, and he's going
hunting with that shotgun, but he tagged up, that's all I'm playing. Just a sniper all over
on that tower holding down that window. Also a very strong up-breaking of those two of
the barriers with that DMR, of course, and that same take, using the smokes, using the
Blackbeard Wizard, though, get things moving for fnatic opening pickers in their favour.
Deadshot, that's the liver of health. Everything seems to be surrounding him, he's doing his
best to hold on the glass catches just a tail and a wizard
being peeked they're still buying some time here with the keepers
that's sure i mean he's got to try and fight his way out the back there's nothing on the front door
and there's the glass on the back oh they can't quite get the next they flood their way in there's two
the support was there i said it before fanatic they make sure they lean into this approach right
they make sure that they're ready kind of twisted minds and it's so necessary because now they have
this man advantage they have what could have been a balanced game and they can still operate with it
i shall just line and wait hoping that somebody from fanatical
trip fall in front of them that barbed wire just slows them down doesn't
like hope that taken mad skills almost that's the try and you're better bait and smoke goes out
We're on time, which still finds a headshot.
Headshot goes down.
By all mine, now it's a 2v2.
30 seconds remaining.
Missing citizen.
Do new additions this stage.
Have to try and hold out.
20 seconds.
Citizen.
His experience, his hand is, has to deep watch,
and he just gets the end of the connection and pre-fires
to the second it misses the cross.
hold on one more one more oh yeah they're doing it they're doing it there is slight
pain though to keep in mind here for frantic that's two bomb sites in a row they have to now go to
bathroom tellers where they were not successful and whenever you're kind of in the five one situation
you. You know, if you're
for choice bomb site is your
weakest and you struggle. On
the defense. That's the
problems it's going to have. And
I think for twisted minds being
the only attack that they have
success on being that bathroom
and tell us they'll be very
confident going into this. You
know exactly what bombsite is
going to be. We see the time
might be called again again. It
could be used to try and get
the team back on track. I mean
at this point is mad skills
is my skills just kind of it should he not be maybe talking? Should he not? Or is it
the assistant doing it? Maybe it's the assistant on the coach what to do. Maybe it's tough,
we don't really know. I can't remember if they gave a reasoning obviously it's a roster
changes a lot but yeah.
This is the moment really, obviously they were able to pull off one, and we didn't get
the full taste of it.
But the fat of their damn skin, Fnatic, they made sure that they could put the pressure
back in.
as long as for that it just go let somebody walk in the side should be fine
and if they get this they've done the rotate of three sites right apart from
tellers yeah one round away then at that point as well pressurized at mine this
This is a very important round, as we know.
Could be the Sider, could be the Maker Break.
Let's see if they can try and just get something from this week.
They don't, if you want two teams, obviously Heretics won't ever get anything either.
What?
What was that?
Did you grenade a default camera?
Am I crazy?
I locked on it.
I'm like, am I at least in A?
He's getting to you again, it's that sunstroke.
I think that he's getting to me.
The Mirage is starting to fall.
Listen, this is the reason we don't have cameras.
It's because we're dying.
Anyone? 6-4.
It's been a sort of balanced growth.
here from the side of fanatic remember the longest time in that opening half
every single round they were only able to get two kills a piece
that's all of it and that's out of the one round they won obviously
love it slow here I think at first glance all a lot has happened for fanatic you
know who's get quite bored like you probably think in the other world
don't do anything we just sit and just keep holding what we're holding as everyone is
currently outside of the map that's half around gone this is where time now becomes a factor
this that might have to fly against considering that there is a goryo on board
John is way in using that solid snake being able to spawn himself and even in that room
and he gets the alt clear.
It's not much as really happens.
I mean, it's just the mines just hoping
that Asham's gonna make a fly or something.
I don't know, dead shot though.
Push to our right and it gets punished because of that.
It's a weird take, rather going in towards server room now.
With the Maverick, maybe gonna try and drill
some holes in towards that bathroom.
Well, I mean, you don't see this all too often.
No, you do not.
There's still these chance that these one versus one engagements, right?
Where's it able to win this? And suddenly things are level.
He just misses out.
So it takes a blow and oh, that's no support from behind.
We get the drop on towards it. Citizen does find Q9.
One kill to take and they have support.
Now as they slip their way back, look at the timer demo, 15 seconds, fucking the hack dropping
right off.
Deepak, who's inside the bathroom, they just didn't know he was there.
They can pick up one more at this point, having to recollect the kit.
Deepak's still there.
Six, five.
Interesting, mine just didn't really do anything.
Just kind of sat outside the map for a half the round, picked up some kills, sure, but
didn't really do anything with the man advantage.
He just kind of went off one by one by one, and it gave Fnatic an opportunity now to push
it into OT.
We did not expect this considering how that first half went.
Fnatic.
Maybe you're going to try and break the mold from what we've talked about, where a lot
of sides recently have been going 5-1 up and then it's just turmoil for the
opponents they just cannot do the same they can't pull it back and maybe fanatic
you're gonna try and break that streak look where they go into the vents and
workshop bombsite twist the mines certainly felt as though the past three
rounds they've just been out of ideas and don't really know where they want to go
I mean they're bringing operators like the Maverick we're already I think Maverick
I mean, it's not that much of a necessity. I mean, ace is fine because it's ranged. You can maybe open up a couple walls, but that's not like the end all on the old, you have it, but certainly a maverick, you know, you bring the maverick to drill a hole from, from workshop into vents.
events and that was it. That's what he just made a lot of horrors all the way in that room it was
you know it's question marks I have. What's the thought process?
Do you think that's something that's not helped by the fact that they changed their roster
in this little fact that they don't have a sort of keen set of eyes on the back every time?
I mean, I can't, the whole hard group with the, you know, we're playing obviously with
subs, it's difficult at this point. You're playing with a coach who should be pretty
wired in, you know, with how you want to attack things. If you're pulling somebody who has
never played with a team, then you'd be a little bit more worried. But I mean, my skills
should be capable enough to know what the team wants to know and what they don't want
trying to find their way through at this point. I'll just see if there's a damage down towards
the mirror window. Give them the true drive. They want to get the verticality, or find
ourselves once again in a battleground. All for CCTV. Can they try and force out this
player, the one who's forced them so many headaches so many times? Not immediate. Pushed
Pushed by an utility if anything.
This design is still a bit more cautious.
They know the shield's gonna try and enter from this window.
Instead, they set themselves up.
More gris mots, more pressure, more grenades,
more utility removal, but...
Ooh!
They zero-cammed away the elamine, I think.
I think I already got destroyed.
That's pretty clever.
By me, I think I'm easy.
There's nothing on the back of it, demo.
It's not been that cost yet.
There's not been that pressure, finally would've been a come out.
The air jam does a lot of damage to Deadshot, but he still stands and survives.
There's the trade out, Citizen has it.
All important, all integral.
As they have been towards the roster every single time,
there's always this bit of fanatic motion, Smith.
Gets on towards Hashom as well, the boss G operating.
So said before, if it makes you confident, confidence pays.
They can't quite get the next Deadshot.
He has the coverage of five versus two.
This reminds me from the lead they once had demo,
and for the times we have had five one halves, finally!
Finally!
A team has been able to claw their way to an overtime.
I did not see that one coming.
My word, I mean, fanatic deadshot again?
The guy refuses to die.
But you have to say fanatic rally around that position so well
You may think deadshot is in the worst position
But in a way he's not because he has so much protection from other sides
Like he is like the you know, he's on the fish hook. He's sitting there dangling in the lake
But he's got a lot of people ready to pull them out whenever you need to it's like it's like the scene where
um
You've you've cast a person into sea with the sharks into the shark cage. He knows he's always got to be fine
You pull him back up
And I don't understand as well that's what the third time twist the minds of that
I've tried the exact same attack onto the player
Inside a cc and it's failed again
Did he tell them did he?
I believe he bleep and told them, dammit.
Oh, it's just the continued element of it all, right?
That sort of stretch and stress of fanatic, fanatic fans, fanatic growth and towards this.
They cannot seem to just have it casually for a long time.
They can have their best play.
you put it earlier when uh when uh fresh as a fan stress will follow
continuing here on to with their defense is this gonna work in their favor i think so
on the defensive side of Forder
that's a weird one i always think this is the attacker side of that but
this has certainly broke the mold
again for twist of minds we just kept trying the same thing and we're hoping it was going to
to be different. I just never came to fruition. Now they will be going for
something different. It won't be that same take over towards CC. It's the more
traditional side where you try and push in towards East.
Really the shield has made way clear in at this position. You know, I have a Capitale
for example, which also would have been nice to have for that East player, but they
do have a hatch on. Looking up East there, you may be able to catch Smith, who has just
I mean religiously playing vigil by the way and putting in a pretty good shape of it.
So set, go to the boss, G, have some confidence as Hashom.
So he's the first body wizard.
He's found on the far side and now they can try and get themselves in with that shield with that black beard.
They're looking to try and just cut their way across here still.
The black beard is drifting on by a smith that's hunting,
hurting and trying to pull a body, deep-hex with support.
What I've complimented Fnatic on so many times, it's actually interesting finally to get this
this take from the other side, but
it will be the end of it. You can see the
rotates coming out underneath. They obviously don't have the
daylight, but they do have some of this pressure and the
controlled coverage. The manoeuvrability of this hole,
protect the mirror window, protect the wall and protect the
player inside the fountain.
Against the shield. He is now essentially stuck in this spot.
One nade is what remains here from Trickscott.
He's probably been tapped up by that shotgun and oh no, Fnatic!
I've been able to respond for the flurry of kills and it's only down to Tricks!
Oh, the shake of the head!
That big old XLE knows this round's done and dusted and Fnatic!
Somehow, in the lead!
It's the first time Fnatic will be leading this entire game.
It took them a whole round number thirteen to do so to go out. Oh my
Chris that mines
This capitulation on boarder has to be studied
When it mattered most
When it mattered most
Fnatic found that that secret source
course, and they found their way through towards a bit of hope, and, well, it's not done yet,
right? But the fact that they were able to pull points, I mean, after the first five
rounds, I don't think anyone expected it with how it went. And yet, how they've been able
to turn it back on. The activation loves to see the comparison of first half, second half.
fanatic the problem is now we go back to the attack this was obviously where
both teams have massively struggled with it
oh it's the VODs are certainly up for the fanatic camp
oh fanatic back on the attack didn't think I'd see this again but here we are
Yeah, I did have a surprise, a surprise for sure, a surprise for sure, but I welcome one.
Ahhh!
Oh dear, we're slowly becoming a singular brain cell.
Yeah, honestly, seven days.
Watch your back.
That's all we're saying, we have the only single cell organism here.
God, I don't know if I like that comparison.
Five seconds remaining.
I think they have walked down, it's not been easy, it's not been, I think the fairest
way of making it a smooth road, but they're here now, they've got a shield that themselves
sense and the officer gets a chip from where he's fuming about this. Can they just get
this one last round? Can they get two precious points? Can they get that dream once again
ignited relapse for a chance at playoff? Scrappy fight! Outside the window but nothing comes
of it, primed and ready, and at it, looking for the entrance way in for the archives.
The only thing you have to say is, where are they going to be planting, because Citizen
is the player with the diffuser, he's on sledge, he's over towards the sandwich window, whereas
traditionally you would expect the Aussie to have it, and then he can just walk in the
guys behind the shield so let's say isn't thinking maybe is it a sandwich
take you can come in for a sandwich you could miss there he is with a blitz able
to take Brazil now and well really tricks it there's a lot of practice on him to
try and stay alive and then the jump back oh has it failed it looks like a
hand shall I does that kill go begging dead shot able to find another one but
still for fanatic you don't really have a football inside the bottom side three
three versus three. Fanatic, as you said, they don't have the foothold and they've lost
the shield and the shield. So instead it's got to be a gun game as that final drive through
something that seemed such a worry and with Jalad 16 and 7 even amongst. Stretch of this
game. See if they can try and formulate here. Eyes on armouring, cross angle from tricks
could be the big break across this. Oh no, there's a trade out in the meantime. A 2 vs 2
Wizard and Citizen. It's Hashem and Jalad. I've got the man who can see through this,
but it's not a clean up. Jalad catches Citizen. At this point, Wizard gets one. Oh, he knows
roughly where the second is, maybe seconds, and he slipped the pipe in there. I said he was a magic
And I said they needed a miracle!
And apparently all five of them fought for it, but now they...
They have absolutely clawed this game back one brick at a time!
And what they have built in the shadow...
Oh!
Rough, ready, it's something for there to be, demo.
Tristavines were able to take 5 rounds in a row, all the way back from round 1 to round 5.
And Fanatic have said, watch this, and they could just wrap 6 in the final 6 rounds to win it in old T.
I mean Fanatic, they put a shovel for us, they somehow pulled off an amazing comeback.
The magic of super week and the magic of going directly towards artists.
What a win from Flematic, I come back for the ages, twisted minds and all the control
until they didn't find Browns in a row.
We go to overtime and Wizard with the clutch to send us home.
What a finish.
Did not see that one coming at all.
No, I didn't see that one coming. What's going on with that?
The biggest problem when your only winning condition is relentless, dumb aggression,
is that when you lose that confidence, after one or two rounds, you start to lose everything else
because the only thing that was putting rounds on the table was jumping out and getting aggressive
and winning your gunfights, and there's nothing at the heart of that. If there's no intel to base
it, is there is no cohesion, if there is no double up on people, if you just win the rounds,
because winning your gunfights, when you stop winning your gunfights, you start losing rounds.
Logic. Logic. And that was just what happened with Swiss Mines. There was only one win condition,
and you were going crazy. So as long as you shut that down, nothing can happen.
How many times have we seen a shunt guy on the main stairs?
How many times have I been going to see this guy lurk up the main stairs like this, thinking,
no, come on, okay. This time, I can do it. And it just nothing happens.
And Fanatic, to their credit, made a brilliant adjustment. They did it by the way to stop that.
We kind of faulted them for saying how did you not prepare for this?
We knew this well coming and then at some point they flipped the switch yet
They made it work
I think so I don't think we'll get to speak to them soon of course
But I think they'll probably say the same that actually they they got the defenses right
They got the game plan right on the defenses
They've filled themselves full the confidence. I remember that actually they're a good team
In the meanwhile, but they they took the left back because the left path because they were really in that judgment time of
Can they get a comeback can they get points on the board?
Even though it was looking like they maybe could be in a while where they missed all playoffs
But yeah, I think they'll kick themselves to the fact it wasn't a full three points based on their attacks
Because we saw even in the end it was a clutch
But they got that attack back under control in overtime and they got it to a 2v2 scenario
Which they were getting new and near in the first half and so fourth let it were on nine
That's not 11 points. It's just just before GK and that's a really bad news for this in mind
They get one point. They have only two more play days. So yeah, they get six points
Yeah, that's gonna be really rough like there. It's likely likely at this point that they're gonna miss playoffs after being the best
email team
Internationally staggering and really really not what we expected coming in
But we've got the man who clutched that final round for fanatic standing by wizard. Wow
Congratulations on a heck of a finish there. What what changed?
I mean you have to talk us through the beginning of that map all of a sudden you guys take five rounds in a row
They're swinging everything. They're coming at you. What did you change?
What did you say, or what was said in the team comps
that switched everything around and gave you the momentum back?
I mean, I think it's partly due to the side swap
and going on to defense, but I think the good thing is
just keep them mental high, that we will still laugh and have them fun.
Not being all depressed.
I think that's one big thing that we can notice of a change for you guys is
I feel like this stage for Fnatic is different from the ones that we've seen
through the years. Obviously, you only had one before that with them,
But I feel like the success that you've achieved so far outweighs everything that's been done so far
You might be finally in the position to get the playoffs
Do you think it's because the group overall has a more maturity be just overall better?
They're more relaxed. They're having fun in the game. I
think submit some of things like I think like the maturity is one thing but also like the
There's a bit less chaotic than the other officers. If that makes sense. I was in like the comms
I mean, it's just, you know,
it's just, you know, it's just
we've got more experienced player
like Ben and Susan and like
Smith's more calm, you know,
with talk to me about Smith,
actually, because, um, you guys,
you guys picked up a shield
player. I'm going to show you
some highlights of him because
you actually picked up a shield
player, but he went absolutely
crazy today on vigil boss G.
Yeah. So like, talk to me about
well today so was he just feeling it on the operator or was it you know deliberately he would be
playing the boss g every round honestly i think one round in a scrim he picked the boss g and
looked at free case we just like like okay good again nice strategy i guess it works out
all right well wizard thank you so much for your time congrats on on a heck of a comeback you
really brought the action here we said this was the match of the day uh and it was so thanks for that
Thank you. Have a good night, man.
Well, what I finish here from the Fanatic guys, I mean, the comeback here really sets themselves up for success in the playoff chase.
Yeah, I think they can still take a look at those attacks and maybe just like figure out like you knew they were going to play aggressive.
You know they're going to jump outside. You know there are easy solution strengths to come from that. You're where missing a reaction is here.
here think from what we can kind of gather with fanatic now there's a fair few teams that have been kind of up and down
You know you look at the form table over here a great example of a team that's been up and down two Falcons
They've won a couple lost couple fanatic have been more win-free lose to it's been very momentum driven
And I think we saw that in the first half today
Something changed something switch and they got themselves through and they got themselves on the hook through the defenses and ended up winning
That puts them on 11 points now the barometer for who qualified for playoffs in stage two last year was
was 11 points. So if you got 11 years in, if you got 10, you was out. And the fact that
Fnatic's next game is up against Team Secret as well, maybe allows them to even progress
past that point. So I think Fnatic have done a good job so far, but they do need to control
that momentum that goes on with them because they have been losing two and a half in a
row.
And so just looking at those standings, you see that VP G2, they are locked 100%. They
will be in top four and they will make playoffs upper bracket. So that leaves everything to
play for for the rest of the teams and obviously that puts a lot of pressure on
shifters. Oh yeah. Because right now with the fact that Twisted Mines have lost the
two of them are really close to each other and now we have Rebels, we have
Natic and we have GK all three of them in a spot where they take playoffs. Huge
huge shift just at that last one playday of Submarine. I love that you're doing my
job for me. Our next matchup is in fact shifters and VP. Another matchup where
VP looked to stay undefeated but as you said the pressure right now is all on
Yeah, if you have nothing to lose in the game, let's be honest, they're already qualified, they're lucked in.
They're going for what? Just a 100% clean floor this record right now, which would be a massive achievement, but it's just about the reps.
They could, they've been dominant completely undefeated so far, and to learn a little bit more about the components of this undefeated team,
we have a few minutes to sit down with Neko out of the stage. Take a look.
It is my dream. I always dreamed of when I was in university, maybe one day, if I can
be cool and stop doing this, just doing what I love. I already proved many times that I
can keep climbing the mountains. And even inside the pro scene, you have to climb again,
I climbed from being in the lower tier in pro team to now VP, I think we are like one of the best team in Europe right now.
So I just want to keep climbing and climbing and maybe one day I will be the best team in the world.
Starting with Noetic as I said was like I was just enjoying competitive like whether it's just ranked or playing some small tournament.
It just made sense all the way with Kass, because even when I was starting first team with him, like on Noetic, when I was watching this guy, I was like, oh, he's nasty.
This guy is just so good, like mechanically. And as the time goes, I just wanted to stay with him.
A little bit after he left for another team in Chiffy, we went back together in Chirto.
And maybe I think it was for the best, because when he left, he started playing good and some people saw it as well, not just only me.
So he got picked up in the Cher2 team, like Team Valor back in the day, and they were missing a player.
So I was the first player he thought about.
So maybe it was for the best as well for me, because after going back with Team Valor, that's when we started winning in Cher2 and going up in Cher1 and just playing together.
The South Bridge was just like an amazing event.
It was the last chair-to-event of the year, and we kind of struggled through the 2-1 tournament.
We were not full-time, like we were not pro, so of course we were not full-time, and we
kind of missed on the 2-1 because some of our players were on vacation, so we had to
play with some.
It was like, mentally it was very hard, so after that, being able to win South Bridge
against a professional team, which is like Team Secret, which was like an amazing feeling.
It was just amazing and it was the first step to being in Pro and yeah, that's just after
that, like that's when ENCE contacted us to be playing for them in the chair one, so that
was just a big tournament for us.
Wow, incredible stuff there and finally in these regionals, the South Bridge champion is indeed a T2 team.
I would say it was a difficult year also like by many things like result because it's first year as a pro so you don't really know what to expect.
We managed to on the last chance qualifier to be in the final and we were like expecting like oh maybe we can go to major first year.
It's like amazing. It's my dream, going to the Estre event.
And then you get destroyed by G2, two times in a row.
And you just, yeah, back to reality.
So this was like the first hard thing mentally.
And yeah, after the year, it was not that good.
Like getting dropped was also like hard.
Because I stopped like university, everything to go pro.
And then I learned that they will not continue.
contract, no more salary. So thanks, I had my family with me. I could live here. And yeah,
yeah, it was a bigger up and down to be honest. I never was IGL in the beginning, but I always
had this idea. And when I was calling, I mean, it was working. I had that feeling that it's
an amazing feeling when you call something, just working everything fits to the plan. I
didn't do a great chair. I'm a bonus with Genji. But I think at the end, it was starting
to like fit more than when we're just full shot calling no leader.
During games in general, I have already like I would say a clear mind of what people will do.
All pro teams know each other, of course you screen them and you watch their match,
you see how they play, they have this playstyle, this you have this playstyle,
you basically know almost everything that will happen.
But after a mid-run there is always some small detail that will change,
it's kind of be full predicted.
Yeah, in my mind, I'm just like trying to visualize their setup in my head, and I'm always thinking like of kind of crossfire my team can get to get some frags, some key rooms.
It can be like compared to chest to bonus. I mean, yeah, Siege is such a strategic game, so you want to get that room, there is one guy here, you move your PC, your teammates.
Okay, one guy needs to go there, one guy needs to go there.
You get that room, you get that piece,
and you win the match.
After the end of Gen.G, it was just like natural
to look for a team where I can be that guy,
be the leader, because I was just taking your experience,
and I was being more and more confident in that role.
So it was just natural going into VP and taking that role.
With VP, I was the last piece, to be honest. I was the last missing piece. They reached
to SKYS first and they did some trials. SKYS was telling them what we miss in IGL. So it
was just like a natural to... He was instantly thinking of me and everyone agreed. So it
was just clicking perfectly together. Like instantly when we started screaming together,
It was already showing good results in scrims, so we were kind of confident going into hiccups.
Scrims and official matches are two completely different worlds.
Then playing G2, we won G2, and I think it's when we started being confident in the team
and knowing that we can do good things together.
And that started kicking very fast for us.
And after going to play a bitching Falcon, going to the final of EML,
Like we knew there is something to do with the team, so yeah, we just keep practicing and practicing to be better.
I think this stage is pretty like stacked in terms of level because I think there is maybe a clear like top 4, a clear top 6, but
like there is not that much difference between all of this team.
Um, my expectation about this stage, I mean, I want to be first, but I don't really care about like the group standing, what I want is winning the playoff.
This start of the year, I'm proving that I belong here.
Maybe even me or some people were doopsing last year.
He steps his way through and sees a simple body.
And now he's against the shield of close combat.
It's all he's to take.
What I want is to prove.
I think it's going to be like not in domestic region.
I want to prove in international events.
Like, for example, if we go to WBC,
first I want to get that pay off, like, that stage,
going into stage first.
That's what I want to prove.
and then I want to prove people that we can also win one of these tournaments.
Like if we win any tournament this year, I think it would be like already a good achievement with the team
and prove a lot of people wrong about what they are thinking about us.
Well, Neko and VP, just like he's saying there, have been proving themselves so far this stage
and remain completely undefeated. Other than the fact that G2 have already played today,
VP have been at the top of the standings the entire time. They have shifters today, another
opponent who is going to try to take some points off of VP, but as we discovered that it's very
difficult to do, especially with the pressure that is no doubt on the shoulders of shifters here.
They have seven points to their name, they need some more. Opportunity. Twisted mines have lost
points here, so that means that in retrospect, seven points for shifters, seven points for
If shifters today win in regulation, they jump to 10 points. Not only do they overpass Rebels, but they're also very close to fnatic and decade, which means that in the end they still have 6 points to play for for the last 2 play days, and they in fact keep the playoff dream alive.
And that's a huge thing, because if you look at the results from shifters before, if you look at their qualifications, all known qualifications throughout the year, it is extremely hard for a team like this for such a big name to be missing events here, Jack.
Yeah, that's the thing. We've got a partner organization, we've got a team that dreams of these events, a team that missed out on EWC, a team that did also qualify to the Munich Major, but then also missed the Invitational as well.
And now they're on the precipice outside the playoffs picture, looking like there is potential that they can miss out on the playoffs. And of course, if they do that, they would then miss out on EWC as well.
as well. Be brutal to miss out on that chance to compete on the world stage. Secret are the only
team actually in an elimination scenario today. If shifters are able to pick up the win, as you
said, we would see secrets officially eliminated from playoff contention, but they will be at EWC
regardless. Shifters in VP, let's talk about the map here because we're going in to maybe
familiar territory for both teams. As far as I understand it guys, both teams really like this
map. Love it. Both teams absolutely love it. It's their number one map preference for both of these teams.
And I absolutely cannot wait when two teams go on some map, there's that number one preference there.
No, absolutely. And I think it's the moment for Virtus.Pro when we saw them play on Contra.
That was three months ago. They haven't played it since because no one has allowed them to bring
Contra. It again. That's the moment when we realized the potential of Virtus.Pro when they
When they looked amazing on the map, and 4 shifters, they should have been
on it. They lost it in overtime against G2.
Banja went crazy, but shifters, they were amazing in that game.
So we're about to see them at high stakes 4 shifters go on their
favorite map, but also against the best EML team on the map.
But let's talk about it as well, because VP, best team in EML,
no one's going to debate that right now, showed some weaknesses against
against Secret yesterday they weren't perfect. In fact, there was a moment there where it
looked like they could have given up a point. Could this be the perfect opportunity for
shifters to jump on that?
I think so and I don't think so. I think they're going to be mentally resilient in terms of
VP. I think they will be ready to go in terms of the game. Yes, Secret should have probably
won. You know, there was a round or two that went different, but they got over the line.
And I think they were actually alluded to it and they said, I'm not too worried about
where we finished in the group stage. I want to get there in the playoffs and then I want
to prove myself at an international event. They'll know their guarantee in Top 4. They
know they've won best of free win away from EWC.
On the other side, shifters, we had a talk with Frank yesterday in that interview and
what did he say? He said the mental, the confidence aspect is a big problem. It's a team that
has the potential to take down some of the best teams and then the play after to just
get absolutely battered by the team from the end of the standings. And that's the truth
with shifters is we never know which kind of shifters we're going to get. We know that
They can make it very competitive against the very best teams, but they must trust in
themselves.
And today, yes, the pressure is on them, but like you said, VP have nothing to win here.
I find it, I come from a point of frustration at times to shift it, I'm sure you feel it
as well Leo, is that we see them do really, really good things, but it's often against
teams that are significantly weaker than them in the standings.
And then we see them kind of somewhat struggle against the top teams, other than the G2 gave
us out where they did show us it.
They show us these glimpses of being the top team themselves.
And then they also show us that sometimes they're not ready for it.
It's quite inconsistent. I really want to see them level up that consistency, proving
scrims as Frank said yesterday. If we do it in scrims, we need to prove it in game day,
well today's game day, and it's a massive one for them.
And a massive opportunity to prove that they not only belong here, but they belong in the
playoffs alongside some of these heavy hitters.
For the final time today, over to Fluke and Demo Wiga.
Thank you very much, Desk and we will be heartling in for our final time today. 79%
the game. I'm going to put a
little point out there and see
what people agree or disagree
and we get a better discussion.
Is there an element where, is
there an element where you can
take the game? Well, unfortunately,
I think parents can only have one
favorite child. So let us see who
is the one that gets to claim
consulate as best. Yeah, my
preference for both sides. I'm
This is not really good on that's a positive vibe that plays into it. It's almost like the home ground
Sort of benefit team
Even if you're up against a big team if you're playing your home ground, this is better
We've got the energy. We've got the crowd behind us. We've got all of this stuff
We can get that little bit extra about forwards just in the psychological idea of we are better here
So it might be the element. Yes, it's the comparison to who they play against him out there
That's it might be element of just being like we're still better here. It was just an off day, you know
Well, they're both at home. So this is like the sound zero
It's a wembley game nobody's at home, but really one leads the heart of football
The other side is like an ad read for Wembley stadium. I'm not sponsored by a football ground
I've drawn this
Me and other stuff happens
Yeah, isn't isn't Harry Styles currently occupying that? Oh my gosh, I gotta go. I think I think he is
Harry Styles is right there right now. See you later
Never listen
But I'm sure it's a good show anyway
The show we have ahead of us. No clash to the Janker. Yep, fair enough
I don't know what shit this can sort of build on their defense here
The Janker is so problematic for some of those long range holds and that's what you get
It's a decent sort of consistency, at least at the top side and the bottom.
We won't be starting on either as we go in towards Piano as our first.
We'll take the immediate read through, and that's an early take for Paran.
Make that a three, Dan!
Not C4.
I've been more perfectly tried, and hang on a minute.
What's the user doing over there?
It's floating!
Wizards still in the game, they should think he's doing more magic!
Uh...
Okay.
I guess...
If that was the thing that couldn't have been done with you, you'd have to rehouse toots.
Well that would have been quite the controversial one, because there had been other things when.
That was the case, so thankfully it's not...
And they'll be like that, and this is just the...
Around for B.P.
That they would love to redo again,
but they're not going to get the opportunity.
Rorik at least gets a couple of exits,
is Robbie and Blaz.
We'll attempt to try and get the pics,
but that hasn't happened for them.
A minute left.
In for Rorik.
So much work to do,
and you can see for shifters,
rightly so, go back to the site,
sit in your hands,
And there'll be a peter out there, isn't it?
Don't think Rory, even though he's played really well this stage,
nothing has this in him.
No, I mean, it was a perfect play there as soon as the canela started to roll through,
the player slightly further away, dipped for the fight first,
and strong start, solid start, built a wall to let them cross it.
Great. Maybe that's the confidence he talked about, right?
That's the confidence of it's them playing on their sort of home map.
It's them playing on that sort of position of confident play, shifters.
They've had a big day and a bad day.
That's the Super League, the 7-1 victory against Territix.
Obviously the other day, and then all that, the 7-2, rubbing from GK.
It's dead here.
Let's see if we can try and get this off to a bit of a sharp, spicy start.
Yeah, start. I mean, don't forget as well, Consulate will hand the favour of the defence,
we know that. But for shifters, they will be on that favoured side, it's whenever you
get over to the attacks, then you start to see... Struggles begin. I will say them for
VP, recent form, they're attacking half on Consulate, it's actually better than their
defence. So that is an interesting one.
Oh
Sorry
It's like a when they hold up the signs like applause
Can we pipe in the candle after please
It's an extra point, yeah. The split of the preference on half is often something that
comes up. It's quite a sort of big discussion, obviously. It's an uncommon thing. The attack
great to be the driving force, but I guess it's also paramount to the games that they've
played because one of those is against heretics, right? One of those is a 7-2, so I'm assuming
if I look deeper in towards that, it was probably just like a 5-1 attack half, or something
that has a bit of a split, but by the way it still shows something, because it's an awkward
map to attack, Dan gets under Freck, he's ready for somebody else to put some brush
from secret, nobody's home! Instead it flies underneath the Stolish, wants to see if they
can try and pull some of the boards out from beneath the beam, but that means that otherwise
it's guys that gets naged in the meantime, and that is Morizami, no more Warden, Blaz
is doing his best to try and get a player that's already hopped up on a table and is
Droning and safe for now
So
Finally into the building you can see the damage that they can do. They've got their foothold inside of
Abminuses where they wanted to enter in the last time but in that opportunity
I've been able to pick up two kills as well
And this is where I think shifters are yeah plan a little bit desk aren't they trying to find some pills back, but
It's from bad to worse
Riblaz and Robbie, in their very long minute and 15 seconds of DP of all the time in the world.
Make this push happen, no denial on the board too.
All shifters can hope for is that DP Mesa, in some way shape or four.
Ooh, Lars maybe have an opportunity to get filled back, but no, he's still good at begging.
Now it draws attention towards that default plant position, able to find Rora, can show the onslaught.
DP should come in, but Lars is still staying alive.
Now there's the three versus one Robbie.
All that's left is trying to just pick the first fight on the door, but Sky says it locked down with a hell of a gun.
Wanna peace.
Yeah, good from VP.
I think whenever you gift them that opening engagement and then you also give them a second one with no response,
that point for VP, they'll just take their time and then exactly what the wincon is.
He assessed, okay, what operators are remaining.
Well, we've just been able to kill off the smoke, which I think that also doesn't help.
Like I mentioned, they were obviously trying to go aggressive there in Reliance,
but I was trying to see if we could maybe get a kill back, make it a little bit more difficult for VP.
But he goes down, the only denial that they have is off the floor, and VP can just start working out.
That's their main priority, and yeah, able to make that happen.
So 1-1, that's the top floor, not working out.
So instead for shifters, we're going to go straight down into the basement now.
See what VP want to go for.
I mean, obviously for VP, it's all about the shields, isn't it?
And look for shifters.
I mean, this is the dilemma that everyone's going to have.
Unless you're going to commit and ban all three shields, even then, sometimes people
forget there's a port, there's a fuse.
But if you are going to collect all three shields, you then leave yourself open to,
you know, your Daemus, your Soul Snake, Geng, Grim, just a lot of strong attackers too.
I think having those kind of shield teams makes it very difficult to get a ban because it's pick your poison either way you're gonna get hurt
Now with
Traded rounds back and forth the top floor falling away it becomes the question of are those expected sites
Something with more expected results from start of the attack is you know you talk about a preference of attack, right?
You talk about the birds per a good of it it becomes a thing or almost the one that you attack the most becomes your home ground
It's why you'll often see a primary site actually cycle its way further and further and this map is no different
Before it was always console office meeting room that seemed to be the first and now
But it might be the one the shifters are more hesitant about they might get a bit more success here on towards the cafe garage side
They're gonna see if they can immediately get a bit of a drive through freks ready to offer some support there
Slow and steady safe and wide about it
really going to give any options and they're just going to make sure they put the pressure
on, try and drive them back with those phantom angles and see if they can force them back
without having to do it, but well, actually we'll get it done anyway.
Frack caught by Dan, up on the skylight, and the scope has gone.
Shifters losing that opening pick, doesn't help in the long run, we know that we've
Look at that advantage, however, a very important kill though from NAF.
People that take down the Monty, the shield is gone.
For VP, you're not gonna have the same stable and control that N. The Shield brings into your lineup.
However, Dan is good enough for that trade on to NAF.
Still for VP, they have the mad advantage of a decent amount of time.
No denial on the side of shifters once more, and no roamers upstairs.
You're now trying to be pinched, he knows exactly where he is behind that piano, but this guy's...
the skies. I'm just gonna wait until a teammate can come over and help but VP they're not concerned
about hunting real ones. They're gonna try and angle the plant. Why not? They have the coverage
box, they have this, last player, last blue just get one. But it's a post plant, he's
gonna fight through spiral next, they're well aware of where he's at, they're free firing
the angle but look at the verticality they're pulling themselves back to. Oh no you don't
have to because the round is done. Two rounds in a row for Virtus.Pro on their attack. Better
better. Yep, good again. VP, looking pretty stable in control. That's two attacks. This
is what I was talking about. VP, they're an anomaly, a side which are better on the attacks
and consulate compared to the defense. You don't see that all too often. This is really
good for VP. I mean, if they can get the even half free free, I put shifters in a position
where they'll have to think on the attacks and then also try and get three rounds if
they can. And their attack win percentage isn't great. Across 12 rounds, they've only
won five of those. And see here from shifters, I think they realize that, yeah, we need to
try and lock these defenses out now. We cannot afford to give VP any more rounds. They will
have a chat. He has to write.
It's been two very solid rounds
as well and VP that sort of
playing their game pretty
continually. They're making sure
that. Tease across their eyes.
It doesn't. The team in front of
them a defeated shifters as
was talked about before the
importance of the points that
can come from this game are
back in the middle VP into Falcons.
We can ask for a tougher sort of pairing,
especially for both what we kind of want
and expect from this team, right?
From the sort of offset,
it's a lot of talent on this roster.
They weren't quite able to make it sort of formulate earlier
on they had a bit of success into the lower bracket run,
but then got cut short, which was to mine.
Where Twisted Minds are able to 2-0 Falcons in the game after, well, Shifters were able
to at least take a map and then obviously you get to the root here on towards this first
stage and Shifters again, they're eyeing up the possibility of jumping in towards the
top six and as I said, it might end up being a bit of a shootout between them and Rebels
but the Twisted Minds bring in success but that's sort of threat looming, they want to
make sure that it's not that hope that fanatic keep dropping. It's not that hope that other
teams fail. Take your fate into your own hands.
That's it, yeah.
Said before, players in interviews even will literally say it's not nice knowing that it's
not in your control. It's not a nice feeling. And seen that a few times over the years,
first-siders are just kind of desperately hoping that someone else makes a mistake rather
through them in their own game and...
What's your feeling?
Yeah, they're all passing us by, they still have two more and they'll even six points
and ship a lot off the position so it's not over yet.
Yeah, they tried to get it quick, I mean if the conversation could happen, right,
what do you do when your opponents have a timeout?
Not a problem.
They won't expect it, if it doesn't work, well, then it's a rush that hasn't worked.
to 4 vs 2 they're able to get some of the players with the utility that they spent they still have a
montus they can try and build behind it but for the close down it's a risky fight they're taking here
and i mean you can just see the positioning of those final four players from shifters three of
them stacked up above one watching the hatch they drift too close how that's happened i don't know
but it's not going to get much further yeah very important get a bad leveled into a 2 vs 2
two, two losses one, one above, one below.
He's gonna try and take the fight.
Why is he being served?
We're going pre-fire as the service!
Oh!
There was a second.
There was a second.
Risky, very very risky from Frick.
I understand that he's one HP and the impact
will kill him off, but whenever he's swing,
all it takes is one of those bullets to be a headshot.
And he wouldn't have been able to get the impact off.
still, for shifters are able to stem that rush and not let it have any real impact.
But it's the same problem though for shifters. That's the mid-floor successful. It's the
site that they won first. They've won it again. They have to go top floor again. They have
to basement again and they didn't look right on either of those.
I think it's always the idea of, they get at least around them here, I mean, oof.
There's some energy they can build behind, but I'm not going to say it's a throw a round,
it's a round that's probably for themselves here.
They know there was a timeout, they knew they could do anything at this point, and they
weren't slow and steady, it almost gives shifters more time to sort of dwell on their conversation,
right?
It gives them more chance to think about what they needed to change, and they didn't want
that.
into the game, hopefully they forget some battles of the conversation. Now as you
said, we'll be that sort of test of whether they do as we go back up towards the top floor.
Down to the line up. More razor blooms, sort of peel away from that. They've
gotten into the mirror instead of the side. They're just going to try and watch it a bit
flat. Don't get fun with it. Don't give them the option to pick up our players underneath. Instead,
close the fight towards you
Shift shifters want to try and change up their approach
I mean based on the lineup the mirror comes in to try and make this single wall
a little bit more difficult
Before
We'll get it but
It wasn't so fast you put another one down for him. I of course is three of these
You can very easily go for it once more and unless they can rotate another C4, which I
mean, you're just going to waste the utility for a Fermite Jar to build, I think is a great
trade.
So at least it's slowed down a little bit, but still, end result's the same.
Wall gets opened up, which is what VP won that time for.
Not only the kind of angle you can get that cuts the bombsite, but another way into the
the bombs like you need to.
Times.
So we're peeling itself away.
They stretched out some of it with the mirror,
but otherwise they can still have the option.
You know what I love as well?
This is the side change.
The way the gadgets stretch makes people fall right down.
The little thing.
I love it.
The grenades and everything.
They're a little bit,
they're a little bit wide.
Yeah, that was that.
Things we love every time.
come through but it's not really a matter of cares about it he holds onto the mirror window and this is sort of
I'm gonna say stomp the vertus project yeah it's forcing out
you tell me
obviously the shield will want to stay as stealthy as you can
let's make that cross of course
Aiko can start feeding this information that's the main thing about it
love that from Blast
They know the patch is gonna fly on that single reinforced wall to eliminate him
It will three players now to rotate him between the bomb sites and AP still gonna try and make him move and go to this execute
That's two kills on the side of it
They're going for the plant itself for three versus two though is a little bit of a trade out happens on the back end
They're trying to keep that man advantage. They're gonna slip their way past the second too late
Now they're out of the window and oh, what do you do at this point?
right? Glad he's going to take a bit of damage. Hope that they can pick someone else up.
They're going to fall. The shield's further and further away. This guy's has gone down
in the meantime and mopped up from underneath, but there's still a player outside on the
rappel. There's still a shield. There somehow wins out that engagement! Oh no!
And that, I mean, it's two versus one. One inside the building is a Monty. The other
outside the window. What do you do?
Other than try your best for a hell of a clutch clip,
they'd pull themselves back up.
They're baiting and goading.
They've won the round out here, Virtus Pro.
That's at least three attacks confirmed.
Yeah, it's looking good, I think, for shifters,
where they had NAF in a really good position.
Inside a bathroom, you're a window.
There is no NAIT on the side of VP.
That could have been a big problem.
But what do they have?
They have a Monty.
And what does he do?
He just walked by everyone.
doesn't care. Monty strained for the bombsite, Glaz comes in straight in through that window.
Obviously the biggest counter to that Glaz is going to be the warden. Nafe's not there.
He's trying to hold in towards bathroom. He dived the Rorik. And once that Glaz is in
the position, he can sweep the bombsite, gets the shield support in him. And yeah, what's
that like to stand? Never in doubt that VP would hold on to it. A very solid attack
from VP, shifters. This is, this was the worry. You know, yes, you're being successful in two
defenses or on the same site. You can't go piano anymore. If went top floor, that hasn't worked
out. I don't think they're going to go garage again. You know, they ran through. So instead,
they're going to go for the split bomb site. I personally am a big fan of this bomb site. I think
it's, I want to say fun. It's quite a fun bomb site to defend. Mostly because you don't really play
in one of the bombsites. You don't play inside tellers. Everything kind of is revolved around
tellers I suppose because after a lot of teams will try and look for a plant. So the whole idea
is to roam your living brains out and just try and see how much chaos you can create.
Sometimes we see teams trying to go heavy with a lot of information, sometimes teams try and go
for the C4. You look at the lineup in from shifters, they've went along the kind of trap route,
Haven't they I think that's probably out of fear for the for the monthly which again, this this was the problem
Shifters they found the way the black paper. He's always gonna have that money to go on to he's gonna have that first shield because you went for that
Deimos ban, so you're gonna have to now try and address that situation double down on the counters to the shields
So it doesn't leave you that space. It's going to be information going to the sea force
And the drone intel up towards the top yellow, I'm proud of them, massively stressed in terms
of their time management, they're more than happy to compartmentalize the approach, as
this map really likes to, they've never been gifted the body on the top floor as of yet.
This maker's just gonna feed the intel towards the Monty, knows where he's being watched
from, he's also a Monty, he works on the window as well, but last time he actually gets the
kill underneath. Now that force is absolutely everything against the wall of Monty. There's
going to be a wide swing that comes out. Patch is able to find Frack. They want to lose the
body because it's practically coming from top spiral. They're just going to try and
sprint their way away. If a loose catch there, if a thorn catch it, it's the cause come
out but they've otherwise escaped. Robbie makes sure things stay even by getting out
of that. Yeah at least I've been able to find one player. I think I'm moving different here for VP if they
aren't able to find Frank. Still a 4v4 I think can work with this. Like I mentioned before,
you don't really have to worry too much about C4 because they have to go with the
allied and have to go with the foreign. A lot of pressure on the one tonight. You know as the solos,
if VP are kind of eyeing up going for a teller's plant, he's going to be pivotal, being able to
spot out exactly where that diffuser is. I'll just waste one of the impacts though, so be
careful because you'd like to have maybe one on bash, I think he maybe has the shotgun,
so should be fine in that regard though. If you don't pay for that while off, and oh just
a little off idle position, Robbie finds two from it, just that way. I guess for his visa
inside the office, a free piece for Robbie. And that's very important round there for
shifters. They squirt up three rounds a piece.
Well, that's it. Squirt up and also a site that wasn't always
theirs. We'll have a quick chat with the desk about it.
Thanks guys. This is kind of what you expect from two teams who
both love this map. But I got to say shifters doing a great job
keeping this competitive against the team at the top of the
table.
Yes, we've quite a bit caveat that consulate you'd probably
expect to fall to half. I think they they did a good job especially getting
themselves to the free free that very final round I think could be pivotal
they're gonna find a result. The change of bonsai I think that's not like going
to tell us was. Yeah that's exactly what I was gonna pick up on is I couldn't win
the top four bonsai, they couldn't win the base of bonsai but any bonsai that
involved the ground floor Leo they won. Yeah and I think it goes to show like
with a team like VP a team that is so good in attack on counter, if you give it
give them a normal map to play on a normal bonsai to play on one where they
Rehearsed a lot of their attacks. They will be able to do a good job at attacking it
And I think we've seen that with the multiple takes they had on the top floor especially
I think the views of the Monty to get the space that he needed another yellow executes as you execute that works
well for these guys and I'm like
Yeah, I guess there are things to prevent that and I'm sure they're not using it yet. So like still very
Unenough I feel like another hundred percent pick right half on the attack for an equal on the
I think it was actually curious
that the. The ban was
Daymox. It was a must Blitz and
then into the black beard after
three rounds because
absolutely highlighted the
start of the just how good
this guy is on the shield. And
I think the brothers, bro. You
know, they are is a favorite
left. They did it. Oh, it feels
weird that they only got a
free free attacking consulate
because that is probably one of
the most if not the most
defender sided map. So I think
you know, they're going into
that half. They'll be more than
pleased with it. They'll feel
like they're going to be
They'll be more than pleased with it. They'll feel like they could have maybe got a fault.
So I think both teams will be a little bit aggrieved. They didn't get the advantage going into part.
I think they wanted to remove the demos because it's the one operator that VP has been known to abuse to have vertical play on Consulate.
Whether it is when they're in basement to clear out the basement ground, whether it is whenever they're up top.
They're usually the demos playing in piano. So they wanted to try and prevent that. The problem is then...
You allow the Monty.
You allow the Monty. And then they chose to win Blitz and then Blackbird.
In my opinion, just ban Monty first, because Blitz and Light Grid, you can get rid of them.
Or you can impact the enemy for them.
And so I think, yeah, questionable choice there.
However, it's a free split, like you said, Jonah, I think it's a pretty good thing for them.
I would agree with the statement that I think that it's more win for VP to win three attack rounds,
yet it is the win for shifters to win three defense rounds.
Yeah.
Big fan of them taking away the Blitz here as well, in terms of as far as get rid of the Blitz,
Because if you think about shield operators, yes, Nacro is great with the multi-use of the plants.
It's also great with Clash and that gun.
It's also great with the Clash, yeah.
That's true. Yeah. You're right.
Yeah.
You're taking the back.
That's a blitz, isn't it? I admit it's a con.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's so good.
Don't worry, ladies.
I do get it.
I do get it.
I'm just going to sit here. I'm going to try.
It's fine.
We don't even have to.
I mean, the game's getting started, so we're going to head back into the game.
3-3 at the swap VP.
Move to defense.
Well, thank you very much.
They filter their way back onto his defense here.
The blitz in a snake band and a fashion and card.
We're not exactly unfamiliar territory,
but let's see if the top floor can have some success
for the other side's attack,
or if it really is just a very, very playground.
BAM! BAM! BAM!
First Randall, hell all, shifters,
is where they really need to dig deep and find a lot of success.
Five seconds to go.
They go, of course, on that defense, it said yes, even though their attack percentage is higher than their defense in this map.
It's all really good in the defense, so...
Both on...
Both preferring...
Increasing connections!
This kind of map, of course, in terms of first preference for both sides.
Certainly for VP, you want to be kind of looking at the stats that back it up.
Just like both sides, whereas obviously for shifters, they prefer the defense over the attacks.
see how it goes. Shifters. Naturally going to be bringing that shield, safe, on the black
beard. Of course they went for the clash band too, so make too much that I think the shields
have to be worried about outside of the usual suspect being the L in the form as we know.
Shifters find themselves immediately contending with some of the holes here on towards admin.
They can try and slip their way back on coffe and the other window hasn't got the pressure
yet and it's just a shield seeing if they can pre-fire, they know they've placed a bit
of distance and they have to see if they've ripped them ready to go over the top with
this all reinforced and electrified.
It makes it a very awkward approach.
The Blackbeard is in, the Blackbeard is not out, Nath.
on for the sliver and gets a bite of Rorix, they filter away, it's actually Robbie that
gets the tail end, the Deimos, from underneath. The wrap round has worked quite well as the
snake of shift is coiled and squeezed. Now that opening kill and that control in the
opening 130, which Mero is going to be contented with, that probably isn't why they expected
that to go, but well, that's the thing about the Tachanka, you can play this position pretty
well they're actually gonna see if they could be aggressive. Niko wants to fight
on the Deimos and oh he gets to bite Deimos! He needs to survive, he needs to
watch the verticality but they're both very well aware of each other. Yeah he's
trying to get the band that charge off but now he's a little bit scared he
doesn't want to go against that knowing that players are on the vertical after
him. Obviously for Nafe, yes he's alive however you look at the lineup there's a
tank and a smoke he's not gonna be much help in terms of sticking a diffuser it
It takes one whiff of the smoker just to tip the flames, he's gonna go down so if he had a wise thing do climb on a window I suppose and use the nade too to try and get rid of the bandit charge and that is successful so at least good thinking.
I wonder if they're gonna rotate the neighbour and maybe just leave him on the window because I might as well say he's not gonna be much help.
He's gonna go aggressive here with the shotgun, he's on the right side, does he know though?
That's no now, he has a dangerous swing but perhaps he's gonna go for it, he has a lot on his hand and a friend.
Oh, why?
Oh, Pasha finds another.
The shield, like a pinch, came through the window.
A triple for Pasha.
A 2v2 now, and 10 seconds or so remaining.
Let all the Italians-
WHOA! PASHA!
Has all the world at his feet
trapped in a box for the fourth one.
Why not make it five?
He's going to drift on past the day,
unless he can't break it,
and it does not matter.
Oh.
They didn't get a split. It doesn't matter. He basically got it.
What on earth was that?
I mean, obviously, it's a situation, you know, okay, whereas in the wall 50-50,
Brett pulls out the launcher and you think, okay, he's got his one.
You do not expect him to do everything else that he's just done.
The shot on T'Naeff as well. I mean, Neff does, you know, the crack things down the window.
He picked up a kill then he went in, he tried to help his team, he just got destroyed as he went for the ADS.
And VP have also called a timer!
I mean...
Are you wonder what was seen to call the timer? You wonder what was sort of seized on the moment?
Well, obviously this is theirs for the rest of the run. There was something after that round, even though it was a round win that was...
We need to talk about it. It could also be, obviously, a psychological one because...
opponents will know how close they were if not but for the heroics of a man who
often wears the mantle of superhero
just it almost resets you back to half time right shifters have to stew in the
fact that they lost that round in that manner here just the swinging of the
same that's Hake
I mean
Pitch perfect for that show look at Robbie's health as well so close to the ace
Certainly a game the VP it's around which
I don't think they had any right of winning, I mean it was a 3v5 at a point?
Yes, I think it was, but very briefly.
So obviously for VP to pull that out of nowhere, maybe that's why they called the time out.
And now we head into the basement, I think it's also interesting to note that obviously
Shifters tried defending that bombsite twice and they were not successful first defense leap you're there. They win it
Only just like only just well
If they can try and I guess push on
That is pro it has been
trade it back and forth but without the Hibana wow that limits the approach here
no hard breach you're now gonna have obviously those castles become a lot
sturdier as well you're just gonna have to sort of try and smash your way through
but at this point they've got the Hibana why not pull back who else could you want
as an early take like that yeah it just depends if the hatch is open inside of
Exo isn't it that is shot and it's gonna be really difficult for shifters
get a foothold but it is open for the roamers to try and utilize again they've got this kind of
labyrinth of the castle barricades. See how it plays out by the moment shifters aren't really
interested of going through the traditional gate in towards the mid floor to go for the birds.
Instead Nafe is going to try and fight these players inside a server and is successful with
one Pasha who is the hero for VP in the last round he's not going to play a part this time
And at 15 remaining, shifters still have to try and make their way down into that bottom floor, don't forget, they're only in the mid-floor.
Unless at least some of the hatches they can open up to put some of the pressure on, obviously the drop is going to be very driven.
Towards this back end they have this player in firing.
Now surrounded, they were out to beat us, and they were forced to pre-fire perfection.
What a beautiful take onto one, but Skye's somehow wins out the response and steps back in aggressively.
He's about to be tracked, and he might suffer two drop catches at the same time.
No, he doesn't need to. Robbie sits and waits, but again another 30 seconds has slipped past.
to play for the 3 versus 2 to C4's. They can sort of keep them at range at bay, but it's
a couple of tight doors they've got to fight into now, right? That's the problem. There's
still some worry about verticality, but everything is otherwise flat. There's the throwing,
all it catches is one and hits the smoke, but there's the two versus one. Another timer though.
Neko holds close. The Deimos swings wide, hits pre-fies. They've got the kit. Oh, they've
I've got the man down for one versus one.
And off the plant, that's two for time in a row.
Oh, VP, again, just hanging in there.
It's like the cat on the washing line.
He's there, he's doing it.
Oh, came off the plant.
Always stick, folks at home, always stick
because you never know what's gonna happen.
Shifters, just the time, eating away at them.
It just took them I think too long to get themselves into server didn't it you know it was two minutes wasted by the time
They were in any semblance of looking to kind of pressure loose their cases
So yeah, certainly time management not ideal here for shifters now
For VP still finding a way. I mean even I think yesterday in the VP match
It was ugly cease from VP, but they just found a way against team secret
We sat there and we cast that game. We said look secret I've been hard done by not go walk away with something out of that game
Or we may be getting in the similar territory here that
You know the shifters should be getting something. I don't know
And it's a close around the break and around the break
of the game.
Shifters.
Shifters.
They now found themselves with
unfortunate separation.
They now found themselves with
unfortunate separation.
Obviously they opened this game
Obviously they opened this game
up with a round win and
up with a round win and
the second time they've
managed it but it's an
unfortunate pattern on the
side of defence when they do
the same thing.
They can win console, win
cafe once again, they win the
map and it doesn't matter how
narrow the margins are, they
success to it. He's making sure the hair is on point. Is he happy with it? Are you happy
through that knife. I think he's happy. Well, it's just kind of taking the wind out of the
game. It feels like we were on a really good roll there. I've just slowed things down.
I'm just loading this game back up. But right now for shifters, good news is at least that's
the two primary sites out of the way for VP. They have to go to their chair sherry bomb
site, but console it does sit as one of those maps where every bombsite is viable all four you can go to
So if not necessarily a week one out of the bunch just less favored I guess
So see where VP want to choose the third bombsite today maybe go for a split we see it for shifters and it worked well
Just a funny old game that the defenses have worked well for for shifters where the
the ones you don't expect to be as favoured.
You know, they lost all the kind of traditional ones
that up floors the basements.
Also Leo would mention how VP are really good in them
because they were the most common.
So you have a lot more practice on them, I guess.
So yeah, I think that's where the kind of off choice
worked well for shifters, but for VP,
the primary ones, the traditional ones have worked well.
Hopefully back in. In but a moment. As you said the sort of play on those side choices
what else is still an option. I think the frustration for the side of shifters obviously
is that one in the one versus two clutch, a 4k around before it's really just a recipe
for a rough time. How do you mentally build back from that, especially with this tech pause?
I'll hopefully be back in a better moment. On our final game of the day, why not have a breath?
There is this element obviously with, you know, the sort of weak that shifters have
had with the positional chance of points to be pulled.
And so it's really been quick games, one of their favour one-nots.
And here, this one against potentially the toughest opponent inside the league right
now.
to teams as of this moment. They go in the distance, they're dragging it out, they need
to get this next round, they need to make sure. Agreed. They have some out. They are
very important for shifters not to lose the match point, than at that point for VP. We
got that free round buffer and shifters have to play perfect for free rounds in a row if
they want to make a team. They were very important rounds that they need to make happen. It's
Gonna be the piano, your VP are gonna go, look at the lineup for VP, you see a solos, you expect that top 4 hold to come in.
Plenty of impacts upstairs, playing players, starting to reinforce them, sure make plenty of shotgun holes, they got plenty of them.
So planting inside the site will be a problem for shifters, so that means they're gonna have to go upstairs and challenge these roamers.
The interesting thing with the lineup here from shifters is they've completely forgotten any of the shields.
The neifers running out for the past two rounds but I can't say the success was meteoric.
Instead they're gonna change off of it.
No way, don't tell me you're gonna jump out though.
Okay, I was worried there for a minute but that's okay.
I think maybe he was hoping that he would be a little bit further down on the window, maybe on a drone, as he's drilling out the skylight and then maybe snag the kill, but not the case.
So I wasted C4 there from Pasha.
It's been cautious so far.
sort of getting the test of everything you can see Virtus Pro they're not entirely throwing themselves in towards the fight on Advent as they did before but the approach isn't really coming the same way instead it's a bit of a
part and parcel destruction on towards the main breach wall eyes on towards yellow and go for an ultimate take potentially they're giving themselves options
Maybe that was a bit of a worry in the cost last time round and it
Wouldn't get found by upside down repel on the window. Just
Maybe blanketed by the destruction. They couldn't quite hear the motion of the rappel
That it's a good first pick
And you would expect now that nature's gonna get a lot of value with those condolences without the warden
There's no counter on side for VP
So Nate he's ready to go with all my intel
He's taking pretty big waves upstairs, gifters. Slowly now, we'll start their approach.
Blaz Finds Rorik and BT on the back of it, but we have seen this before.
Reveal, you have me in a great spot and I've still been able to pull that around when.
Let's see if Shifters this time can hold on to this lead.
Well, Dan's peeling himself back around. He's trying some stunt things, but this guy's
going to get himself an option. He's going to go for the rotate back down towards the
Sight, so he doesn't entirely get caught out. No, he's going one better, one deeper.
What a reposition, what a rotate. Somehow he has survived. It is still a 5 versus 3, but demo that timer.
Yeah, oh, VP are pretty light on the site though. I mean, Neko's still hoping he can
snag a kill over towards Spiral. But does leave skies, mostly Dan. A lot of pressure is going to
be beaten down on him, so Neko could play spoiler here.
This guy's does get one
This guy's gets two
Suddenly it's a three versus three with ten seconds left and they go
They start
This guy's gets three, this guy's gets four
I mean how brilliant does one man need to be?
Again, it's happened again
BP losing essentially the first minute
It means shifters, a mad advantage, a lot of control, and then shifters just don't know
what to do with it once they have it.
I mean Skye's sadly mate, we didn't get to see a lot of the kills, but I'm sure they
were great because he's really good at the game.
Obviously our preference with kind of looking at Neko upstairs over towards Spiral, he was
still good for one.
I mean, I mean, I mean,
I don't know what I'm saying.
You seem stunned.
That's right.
It's three rounds in a row that that's happened.
You have the feel for them, right?
Like, the 4K clutch into, uh, into was the sort of time of
1v2, 1v2, 1v2.
Into that 4K.
from a singular position and three different maybe four different distinct
now it's just
I mean rough buddy the big free this stage and as it was in the kickoff VP G2
and Falcons there is in each of their games today there has been moments where
they should lose the round but then they have their individuals their top
players in the world, pull them out of it. And that is what separates those three teams
from everyone else, is whenever they're in a position where they should be losing, they
still have the players who are just insane at the game to drag them over the line and
win these rounds. All three of them have showed up today.
It's rough, buddy. Okay. Six three shifters. It's not entirely done for them yet. Obviously,
still have a chance to try and feel this away. Now they have a less comp to work with. There
the damage sort of gets put across the side of it. Otherwise they're swinging in the same
way they ran the black pig before. Now remembering obviously that they've had a good punt on
towards this site. It was the heroics, the magic of battles that change things.
I'm just trying to get something else to appeal themselves further and further back. I sort
of said it before, it seems like since they had that time out, Virtus Pro, they're being
a little bit more hesitant about taking those earlier gunfights, a little bit more cautious
about swinging in after that first round, strange sense, but it still wins technically here.
Robbie, get the Deimos in underneath, of course, and damage before they end up in a little bit
of a scrappy fight with the Techanter that is obviously no longer on the floor.
Instead, it seems to be a little bit more of an ability and awareness, and instead,
Nafe, picking their way up to the set before the approach, shift as a pad.
There's a lot of similarities in how you often approach this map, regardless of the site.
There's a set it before instead of going on to admin they went towards yellow now as a focus on spiral
Each and every time and Rorick still gets one
Oh still found the Zephyr of frack
The roaming there are the classic and it's not a class they've never said the class
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, I guess gone by the smoke gas.
The swingy is either swinging, trying to get a kill,
or just gonna suffocate and VP.
Those are the ready-locking out.
However, Skye's, though,
does a little jig on the table
and gives himself up.
Shifter's now in the lead.
Oh, the three glasses won.
Surely they can't do it again.
They cannot.
Shifter's.
They push around over the edge.
A little bit wobbly in the middle, but they get there. Okay.
Slight exhale, not a full one.
I mean, Sky's swinging. Did he need to do that?
Probably not.
Then every time he's behind the shield.
Just, you know, just, state me obvious.
VP, wanna drag this on.
Another round, shifters.
At least that's one attack.
You need two more of those.
That is of course that top floor, that means Basement is going to be opened again to BT if they want to go through that.
How's it been able to get the time and then that get the kill?
Oh because you repelled down, ok crazy.
Now they had the option obviously for the first time this half to double down on the bomb site.
They haven't gone for it instead, keep the rotate round.
Hello MaceJ, Fastan, King George and Rope anyway.
I see if they can get themselves the basement this was the one five seconds left to be fair
of the opening three the fact that it was the one versus two with the limited time left
they had some really good pickups as well on the sweep but I think they were just a bit
too slow, they're an extra of 15 seconds.
There's a very decent chance they could have been able to get that one cemented.
So if they can find the extra 15 seconds a little bit earlier, then...
maybe Neko can't get another big clutch as he did before and as he almost did then.
But, it would be a time-will-tell-on-as-early engagement.
Obviously we've had a rehearse throughout the game so far, but it's...
Black coming to the players that have been in the distance and on the side of
shifters, four of them are positive. The only one who isn't unfortunately frak.
Only two players on the side of Otis Pro are positive. Skies and Dan.
Shifters right now are looking for very direct take. See the fur might come in.
They've attempting to open up that main breach really slowed down though is
I wouldn't thought this is the opportunity the wall is gonna be opened up to VP
45 gone and all those happened apart from that wall being opened up so VP can still
send away still got roamers upstairs and
You see the duo here a frack hand also Robbie on the roam hunt operators
are looking to get into the action and well Frank opening pick he's a VP once
more I've just seen plenty of times at this advantage
vertical damage done Pasha the powerplayers been able to get himself one
more you get the track going towards somebody else you can find a second
Robbie goes, the day must gone.
And now, how can they build?
How can they try and hunt down players there all over the map demo?
Oh, this is difficult.
Frank, oh, Frank.
Oh, got timing seats.
Time and it is finest.
All in the angle.
Looks the way to think of.
Make sure the default comes shot and then he gets killed himself.
To 2v4.
And all VP have to do is really just play the time.
they've still got C4's, they've got smokes that they can utilize. Pasha up close and
personal with the shotgun. Nafe is number-wise or a quad for him. Make the man an ace! Pasha,
he didn't get his ace in the first defense, but he gets it now. What a performance from VP.
Pasha does it again. Four kills, four kills in the end, however many he's racked up before,
and however many clots he has to that tally.
A massive, massive day at the office
and a rough one for shippers to take away.
But, well, that's the pace we've had today.
That is all for you and I at the end of this super week.
So let's take one final visit over towards our studio.
Of course, the super week ends with an ace parker
lighting up the scoreboard, giving us all five kills
for VP to end the super week to say good night to shifters here on Play Day 7.
What a performance close game in the first half and then the second half.
VP just burned it up and absolutely did not look back.
And I think someone, how did they do it?
When did they do it?
It was in the late rounds.
It starts out with that huge 4K, nearly ace from Pasha.
Then he goes crazy again and shifters for the most part.
Actually controlled the rounds perfectly well until it got to that last minute.
Last minute, that's why it was happening every single time I'm in Pasha. I mean just a lot today.
It's annoying because shifter, they get the man advantage, they get the zone control they need, they're 5v3.
But then you see, you look at the time, you look at the 40 seconds left, I think at 30 seconds left, I told you in that 30 seconds.
You did? You did? I told you they're gonna lose this. You are smart man.
No decision came from shifter's. No clear plan, no clear follow up, everyone's disjointed.
Guys when he's 30 seconds on the round you've got a plus two man advantage just regroup you'll play each other
There's things as simple as that and you play against such a good team like VP as a reminder going into play day four that team
That team had a 25% clutch success. Yeah, right?
One round out of four that were in a plus situation. They were winning it
They were the best clutching team in the tournament. They were already that in stage one
They were already that a kickoff you can't do that again
And that's only the one VX is that how many of those was like 2v1 ever?
It's not a scenario in that matters. Um, and yeah, it was a good attack off. And it was a, you know, a solid platform three, three, three and then going into the defense. Yeah, they, they probably actually like shifters control a bit too much of when shifters run inside. But then when they regrouped, they made the plays, they got aggressive together.
the other team. They're
not going to be able to get
the defensive together. Band
on band. But you guys had a
great instinct about this. You
said it's the second half is
coming. VP on the defense. This
is not going to be easy for
shifters whatsoever, and we
were absolutely right. It just
completely changed. Yeah, it
really did. I mean, you've got
the best attack team in the
league that get free free on
attack. Then you've got the
best defense team in the
league. Don't go on to be
going in their defenses. And
like Leo says, they're also the
best clutch team in the league.
So even when the defense is
the right position on the side of
EP and they've got a serious amount
of cohesion as well. We'll go into
this and yes, this round wasn't going
too well for EP and Pasha pulls out
and this is kind of instinctual
play to know that he's in a triple
crossfire and fight his way out of it
and then he closes it down as well. Doesn't actually
finish off the final kill for the 8th
but it's effectively an 8th. I'm going to give it to him.
And that was a 4 1v1. You know
the quick door rappel comes in earlier. Same thing
here, like one challenge from the vert, one player drops
That's two 1v1, then get Drubstater, that's another 1v1, like how many more do you want to give to Virtus Pro?
They're gonna win these ones, and that is the insane round from Skye, insane, and the reaction from the team just worth it.
And it's the same story over, again, and again. It's players taking the inside, they don't need to take, and it's just always the same story.
And whether it's Spasha, whether these guys, the level on this team is insane, the individual jewels are insane.
If you offer them free picks like this, they will take it.
It's hard not to see the same game seriously, based on how they're playing.
And now I'm just thinking of the standings.
I'm just thinking of the situation here, because VP did not win to win this.
And so with that in said, they're top one right now.
They're not locked in yet, there are still six points to play.
But shifters, what does that mean for them?
Seven points, they're still stuck.
Hopefully for them, Rebels is only on eight.
They can maybe grab the six spot.
The fact that Twisted Minds lost their game means that in the end,
Shifters, they still have a chance, but everything will be to play for in the last two playdays.
And it's big now because we're seeing the packs start to split between everyone on the bubble.
Now you've got Geekay, Fnatic with double digit points here, really applying the pressure,
and the focus on that one remaining spot at the bottom. Yes, Fnatic can still be leapfrog.
There are two playdays left, not one, but that's Rebel's spot. There are three teams,
that we've seen today, Jack.
It is anyone's game. Yeah, it
really, really is anyone's
game. I think lots of our
teams inside of you inside of
the ML have shown us really,
really good performances, but
also really, really bad
performances. And you know, all
the way probably fanatic
downwards, if I'm being honest,
that those teams shift is
twisted minds. Those types of
teams are kind of felt
unfathomable at the start of
the stage, so we wouldn't see
them in playoffs from the end
of the stage, and it would
represent a massive number of
players in the team. And I
think that's a good thing.
And it would represent a massive failure if that was to be the reality.
But that's what it's shaping up to be so far.
We'll bring in Neko real quick before we wrap things up for the night after this win for VP.
Neko, congratulations on the win. Another great performance from you guys.
Undefeated on the stage. I mean, you guys just can't be stopped right now.
I'm trying to think like, is there any weakness?
Obviously, you're not going to want to go too deep into the strats here.
But like, is there anything you guys aren't doing well right now that you're still working on?
Hello guys first and yeah, I mean of course no one is perfect so we still have some small things to work on.
I can't reach him, I don't think they have a single perfect team so everyone needs to work.
But yeah, the result right now we are showing good results so of course I'm happy with it.
And as for when it will stop, I don't know, I hope it will never.
I think that's a good answer.
Niko talks about about the
defenses because there's a
there's a few rounds in there
where. Shifters look like they
actually got control of the
round and they were setting up
to execute and then you guys
were just winning out in the two
VX's are the free VX is what
was going through the team in
terms of the communications and
the plans in those rounds. To
be honest, like, yeah, as you
said, there's some run when they
I think about Siobhan when we played so bad, but with gunfire, we still managed to win, so thanks god.
And yeah, no, I mean, nothing particular in common.
I remember like everyone, we just tried to...
Yeah, there is no like crazy plan, just they are winning the round right now.
It's an FPS, when you're gunfight, GG guys.
That's it.
And that's pretty easy when you've got, you know, the skies and the patches of this world, just, you know, popping off.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you have like crazy, crazy teammates.
like anyone can pop off one day. It's the Rory, one day it's guys, one day it's Spasher,
one day it's Dan, maybe one day it will be me, nose on shield.
Well, I don't know if you know this, Neko, so sorry to interrupt, but you are the best shield player in the league.
In the league, we actually pulled some stats if you go back and watch pre-show where, oh, we've got them.
Our team are on it. On the left-hand side, this is the average for the league in terms of EPS,
and then these are your stats on the right-hand side before the day.
So, yeah, I would say you're popping up on the shields as well.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I think I can say I'm pretty decent on the shield, but I'm still not like carrying much, but I mean, who cares? I'm just winning and that's what's important.
Like, I don't care about getting kills if my mates do it and I win at the end.
I mean, that's important.
Statistically, you're the best, so you can take that with you. At least for now, you're the best shield player.
Thanks, I will remind you.
If someone says anything to me when I mention I'm the best shield player in the world.
Question players of EML Stage 1, you screenshot it, you put it in the poster behind you, just below the Solic City poster.
That's going to be between that and EWC. You're going to be good. That white pool is not going to be white very long.
So just speaking about EWC itself, obviously we've mentioned that you guys are the flowless team right now, you're unstoppable.
Do you feel like you have what it takes to go beyond the result that you had in Solic City?
I would say yes and we are working for it. It's good to perform in your regional league,
but what's important at the end is people remember you when you win events. We are working
for it and I think we can do great on international events.
Well Neko, thank you so much for your time. Congratulations on the win, we'll see you
next week my friend.
I hope we see you next week. I see you next week. See you guys.
Well, I'm humbled as always.
I'd be shocked if we don't see them next week.
A great performance from VP.
There's no question about that.
Truly a great way to finish this super week here.
I mean, what a day.
VP closed it out in regulation.
We saw just the one overtime game that got a little crazy there in the middle.
But Geekay started things off with a big win over Rebels,
securing their playoff position.
Falcons, good points for them.
G2 another win.
Nothing too unexpected here.
We expected our game of the day to be wild and it was that was the one that went all the way
Yeah, it's a happy surprise to see Fnatic kick off the engine again. I think in a crazy comeback story
Like the first side was so insane and honestly the amount of jump outs that we've seen was I think unlike many
And like I've seen before let's just call it that way the comeback for Fnatic is great to see
Just because of the steak that he gives for the last two playdays twist and makes they can still do it
They can still do it, but Fnatic, Falcons, Rebels in that seat and even Falcons to be honest like they're not that far ahead
You know what? I mean they only on 13 points
So it's all to play for on the last two play days for playoffs and that's what's making the league interesting
When when we looked at the leaderboard just before for that interview
G2 and VP have to still play each other in time the inside of the next week
I am just thinking about that game
And I'm just like I cannot wait for that on to come through
But yeah, I think the race of the playoffs is very very interested as well. Yeah, let's look ahead to next day
It is a great way G2 and VP that's coming up in play day eight next week bringing in a match
But maybe could see VP drop their first game ever this stage
Who knows geek a twisted minds? Oh my twisted minds are the shopping block that will be a
Gifters will have a final opportunity to get some points on the board all of these games are good
game. We're going to have a
really good time. We're going
to be going into every game.
Like these stakes for this game
are mahusive for every single
game. Obviously, there'll be no
stakes for the GCPP, but that
interior is going to be the best
siege of the stage as well.
Exactly. It's going to be
impossible to pick between
those games. Every game is the
musty game of that day.
Truly. Truly. Well, thank you
guys for having me.
I hope you like TML. How was
it? Good chaotic.
Chaotic. And I feel like I
brought a little bit of that
bit of that NA tech pause, energy over here to email, so I do apologize to everybody at
home for that for sure.
Just very quickly, I'm going to put you on the spot.
Who would win Outlast or Heretics?
Oh, it's Outlast and it's not even close.
I've already thought about this, I'm not on the spot at all.
Outlast look bad, but not, but not, but not Heretics, come on.
Okay, right.
Well, I've watched Outlast play and I've watched them struggle to put more than three rounds
on the board for a very long time.
And I watched through the last two days of Heretics.
Yeah, I think kills and dying to sound traps, yeah, it's just, wow, it's hard to make a case for it.
It would be cool, it would be cool to see the match honestly. I'd love to see the match, and with the worst thing possible, that would be even better.
I don't know if, if we did like a combined relegation at the end of the stage or something, that'd be the only context we ever see that game.
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