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Haga baku yureru hikari
Tokete ku nobake ni kore saa ebou no nekai ne
Tokete ku nobake ni kore saa ebou no nekai ne
I
the final week here for Asia
Pacific League stage one and we
begin with Oceania for play
day seven. It's upon us because
the final hour arrives. We've
got a couple of teams that need
to be sorted out throughout
Oceania, Asia, APAC North this
week in terms of filling out the
final four for the respective
sub regions. We begin with
tonight and as we've been kind of tracking throughout the stage we're down to two teams left in their
chances for the final spot in this region and well fortunately the script writers have set us up in
I think all three of the regions on the final playday where all the teams are going to be fighting
each other to get into these final spots I'm talking about of course for tonight rival e-sports
versus seven which used to be barbie boys they will play tonight the winner will go through
to the finals. Yeah, it's a
straight shootout when it goes
through. It's basically as
simple as that. And then for
the remaining three games or
the other three games outside
of that this evening, there's
still seeding implications on
the line as well. So I'd be
final play day for what has
been one of the more exciting
stages of post for some time.
Let's recap last week's action
for Oceania and seed kind of
play days five and six, which is where we did get quite a lot of one sided matches.
But certainly some really big talking points came from it in Chiefs beating
Antiquias, for instance, that was probably what comes that we saw,
especially back on play day five.
And then Chiefs also being able to roll a man on a phone on play day six.
It kind of set them up now was going to be the team to be, I think,
on finals and yeah, as I said, the rest of the matches were pretty one sided.
Yeah, look, Chiefs are the big storyline at the moment and the question is going to be whether or not they can retain top spot going forward.
A key reminder though, there are two slots available here in Oro Switch.
It's a big opportunity for these teams to make it to EWC as we look across at the standings timeline.
So this is showing where all eight teams place now and their journey up until this playday 6 checkpoint.
point. Um as is evident, uh
Chase and man alofo have gone a little bit too in throw over the last couple of play days
Rival have put themselves in a good position up into fifth after dropping his over seventh a couple of play days ago
And they'll fight for their spot tonight. And then of course ep currently in third below their expectation
You know, it's really interesting. We've started to have these standings timelines graphics and
and the most stark thing that stands out for me
is that no one in the top four was ever in the bottom four.
No one in the bottom four was inside of the top four
from the very beginning.
But that could change actually by tonight rival
of course have the opportunity to beat seven
and get into finals.
So that's going to be fascinating to see
if that can sort of take place.
But I think kind of looking at the three teams
that we've got right now,
the only real surprise on the stage
is probably the output that we've seen from Manila Foe
just completely beating out
So that's the last thing really for them to try and get over the line in terms of come finals time. Can they actually go and beat, you know, the top dogs. They didn't really slip up much in the other matches as we look at the actual four standings and in terms of the other games that we do actually have tonight
play day seven. It's not just
the one match that matters like
men are actually play EP. So
they failed the test against
chiefs last week. If they also
lose the EP tonight, there's a
chance that they kind of go into
finals as the sort of team where
you respect them and they can do
well, but they might not be on
that same level as the likes
of chiefs and enterprise here
is that scheduled tonight. So
we start with Chicago versus
six targets that matches six
the game. So that's what
we're looking for. Unfortunately,
even if six targets were to
wind gusts, they actually still
can't get into that six. Well,
anyway, and even if they were
to lose, okay, can't overtake
them. So the first match of
the night is for all intents
purpose is a complete dead
rubber. Although she academy
do stand to gain the ability
to go up to fifth with a
win. So with that in terms
of the overall prize pool
standings, etc. It's an
extra 1000 bucks. So I
should Academy's got a little
bit more in the line in
with the knight you do as mentioned have the man alpho the ep storyline and even arcade chiefs to
an extent could be interesting chiefs of course will be going to get as many wins on the board as
possible their position unlikely to change it would take a pretty devastating result tonight
from chiefs that have to lose by a huge margin to arcade it could be unlikely and then of course
man would have to smash ep so that third game as well maybe a little bit of a dead robber but
the game. We're going to be
going to be a great match up
of the night. Fortunately, we
have that big second matchup
of the night. I mean, I think
that the games to four will be
the big ones. I would imagine
she's will make quick work of
our cage Academy six targets
again, not too much on the
line, but in terms of tonight's
action that we've got cause
game two is absolutely the
biggest match of the night
and if we wait to close as
well, I think men LFO will
be proving to see if they
the first match of the night,
six targets again for them. Not
really anything to gain. Well,
actually nothing to gain. They
can't move up. They can't move
down there locked into second
last position on the standings,
which is a little bit
unfortunate. They've had some
roster ups and downs. I think
throughout the stage, though,
goes where you think back to
the very first team that
played no sword. For example,
he came in a little bit midway
through. There was no Niko
last week. They haven't
Find any sort of consistency that and scrim this is very much a classic case
So yeah, you've got some decent players in terms of raw mechanics and skill level is fine
But as a collective team
There's just there's just nothing that suggests that they're gonna actually be able to do anything when they don't take really the game and
The competition seriously you're not screaming. You're not really trying and there's a reason you're in the bottom, too
Yeah, they have kind of suffered from a lack of continuity and very much with a part-time approach
Which, again to be fair in this kind of part of the world, it's completely understandable.
There's very few players and teams that are able to commit full-time, simply because the wages
typically aren't there for most orbs and most players having that option available.
So they've very much taken a chill approach to the stage, but with it being quite competitive,
they haven't really stood a chance in making the top four.
And so the position they find themselves in is pretty reflective, I think, of what they've put into this stage.
to get the win in this match
where they can potentially
finish the stage in fifth place
depending on the seven rival
Esports result. Although if rival
or seven either one of which would
win in regulation and get all
three points, of course, the
others can get zero strike
enemy's ability to actually get
into fifth stance is quite high.
It's actually very likely that
they get all three points from
this match. They'll finish in
So seven arrival, one of those who lose, of course, will not be able to get to 11 points.
So I think fifth of the stage is actually considered pretty decent for show Academy.
You take into account a beat change, they beat EP, they then fall one place and only a couple
of points short of finals that sets them up for the year as a whole.
You think about, I think a real breakout season for likes Akai, Vanix and Rani.
I think there's more of a feel good factor for this team in this roster moving into
the rest of the calendar year.
Yeah, absolutely.
absolutely it is a little remarkable to think that these guys aren't in a position on this final
player day to fight into was the top four considering they have the double unexpected I
suppose results against such strong opposition earlier in the year of course referring to the
the EP upset then into the chiefs upset in overtime so they'll probably feel a little bit hard done
that they've fallen short, but, um, I mean, they'll take learnings away from maybe some
of the missed opportunities that they have had this particular stage.
Let's go to the videos for this particular game again, probably more eyes on Shikademi's
ability to get the win here and as I said, secure what's a likely fifth place, depending
on the other results, uh, let all labs and it's going to rule that land on to know
how the lab Shikademi start on the defense as well.
They've got the better of the two teams in terms of results on this map
Although she Academy have a played at this stage
They did play 85 days ago against this very team in six targets winning at seven four
Unfortunately six targets the last time they played it was a zero seven loss to rival and there's zero three for record this year as well
So clearly this is a map that favors shy Academy and six targets
We'll see if they can find some form on a map that hasn't been too kind to them to close out their stage
Yeah, and I'll be trying to find something on this map. Unfortunately for 6T, the attacking and defensive win rate for them sits at 14 and 30% respectively.
That's actually off the back of that. Yeah, pretty large sample, total 27 rounds. So they've really struggled here on Labs, and they'll have a bit of a free step tonight to try and improve those numbers.
Alright, big night ahead here for Blade A7 on BoCiene. It kicks off with a curtain raise. It's like Academy vs Six targets. Let's get out of the way.
night Haven Labs is calling the final time.
We will see these two teams for this stage
until stage two, so quite some time will elapse.
And this will give us a final opportunity
to see where they sit now and potentially
what either improvements or what regression
could take place come stage two,
pending this stage.
Our Academy have shown promise, six targets.
They've got a lot of work to do
if they're gonna be competitive in stage two.
They will have to start taking things
a little bit more seriously during the offseason
and they're on after for Academy on defense.
I think of the favorites of this match,
but by no means are they the overwhelming favorites
where we're talking like a 90 to 10% chance.
I think that what they showed is they can have
some really good nights where the likes of Ryan
and Kyvenics can play to a super high level
and they could knock off the likes of EP and Chiefs,
but they can also play down to their opponent
makes some bad mistakes still here and there.
And by no means are they a top team
otherwise they'd be in finals.
Yeah, expecting some friendly chat in this match as well. It's going to be a fun one
as the bands conclude Kaid banned it so the double duo there for Walden Isle
and then on the attacking side, Dokovie and Snake to be benched so
limiting some of the info gathering though does mean that full shields and
hard breach will be available to six targets in this first half. So again
the labs so far since december they've only won two out of 14 attacking rounds and they'll
be looking tonight to try and boost that number but i can't try and find a little bit of form
of course we don't really know the long-term prospects of this team uh are changes inevitable
are they going to commit to next stage it's always pretty tricky to tell in this region
especially with part-time team but it does feel like they have some some key pieces on this
team that if they can kind of stick at it and put the effort in, and they might be able to reverse their fortunes, a little bit heading into the back half of the 26th season, top floor as expected up first, and Shai kind of be not shying away from some of the tower operators on this side, both the mirror and the
and the Exalmy are very potent top floor, you throw in the clash as well.
And it's something that should kind of be a guy to just try and force
as much utility of clearance as possible here from Six targets.
And these are the games that are always quite fascinating.
How the teams want to play it.
They just kind of come in tonight as, you know, one last bit of fun,
you know, kind of released the shackles a little bit.
Do they look at this as an opportunity to try different things
in a controlled environment, almost like the ice cream for all intense purposes, but with a tiny, tiny bit more on the line against Shaka.
Let me do actually have something to gain. It's an extra thousand bucks if they win this game.
And I think it's a pretty likely thousand bucks they would gain.
Because I kind of see rival and, well, I mean, the only way they wouldn't get it is if we see rival win in OT in the game against 7.
So they'd all be on 11 points and unfortunately for Chicago, of course, they won't have the round there
So that's the only way in which I can mean do not get into fifth a rival OT win
So that's one small little metric that is easily avoidable with so many other results
King already into control and yellow ping Intel
against Sean
Shunt there not swinging just yet but now makes his way forward and they try 1 for 1.
Shunt with the little quick tap.
To be honest I'd say he was more likely of the 2 to lose that exchange.
I think he should be happy with the 1 for 1 and get sort of the buck.
I mean I just feel like a little bit we've gone back to the CJX release and every second come back was a 1 to 1 trade.
It needs to be creeping back into the game
Nonetheless warehouse side control Ronnie under pressure because next we'll drop karma
Vantage shape patty in time is being drained the clutch still up to gas paved as well for cake and
Six targets find themselves in a very tricky position real as was disrupted the impact ms
First landed not the second and he'll be able to repost to here Ronnie's being able to now come alongside and help and
and the MOTC into the clash here for 6 targets doesn't play particularly well.
Yeah, I mean I like the fact that Rein is not, you know, rushing this,
quickly trying to counter sneak at what eventually does,
and I don't know about throwing the impact into your teammate,
because it gives Rein a good opportunity to get a free kill,
checks the window, good damage into Kakin,
but Kakin re-swinges with the SMG11
and a strong start for Shurikami on the top floor, defense labs.
Yeah, good solid start there from Shaq Catabit.
I think that playing that much layering of utility is going to serve them pretty well
in this matchup, but it's probably been one of Six Tigers weakness so far across the stage
is some of that more strategic depth when it comes to the YouTube clearance.
Again, from an individual standpoint, they're pretty promising and mechanically have really
not been too far off the mark, I would say, but yeah, just forcing so much clearance.
to be fair will be the most difficult sight too clear especially with this kind of lineup and the composition of the bands as well
So it's one that you can concede for six targets. It's not really too much of a concern, but
It does put a little bit of additional pressure on the likes of basement
It's only the tertiary side when that comes into play that I mean it is a little more from 60
I think coming into these sort of matches there's a lot less fun probably to be had for
six targets.
You don't really gain a lot from tryharding and you certainly know if you go into this
with a kind of mindset where it's just all about farm run around, always try to rank.
go for the rune plays and kills, then you're just going to get smacked around. You have to
kind of strike the nice balance. But also at the same time, and this is a team that
does not scream. So this is actually, if you're not going to be screaming from now
until stage two, if this ends up being your last proper game of five, like that's
not ideal. I have an extra capture karma on the entry. It's in the question mark in chat
after the cafeteria entry is denied. I'd like to see, I think there's a bit of promise
with the 6,000 team if they would actually put the FD in and scrim a lot more and practice.
I don't see why they wouldn't be able to compete for a spot in finals come stage
two
to catch you right now
seems to be aware of a second player control that being
runny
well the nico's body language suggests that that may not be the case
and so maybe he won't be cleared here
Might be the case. Good flick.
Trade opportunity now on offer here for six targets if Orion can catch a timing
But Rani able to slip through in the meantime though
Orion does indeed push forward as real as tries to aid Rani on the room
But maybe he doesn't need help. We'll plop one over the world storage side
So what else where? On the conflicts near breach. So if you versus two, Orion's so low on HP and Rani is still lurking above
I mean six targets are really just kind of throwing a lot of the strategy at the window
just trying to take the gunfights on that first floor and whittle down the defense.
In the end it somewhat worked.
Anytime you can get down on 1v2, something's gone right.
Orion was the big factor for it in this round.
Sword though, now needs to clutch up, flash has to move and it should be an easy kill
for Sean.
I mean the mirror window on the breach, but not a lot of strategy was clearly involved in that round of your six targets. It's just kind of let's play into the room game. We know they're hanging around largely that control area on the first floor up above will take the fire.
It's a Ryan just happened to hit two really good shots
Good catch on the first one good clear down the hallway on the second one. So it opens up the round, but there's not much to it
Strategically
And once I can we just got that semblance of an advantage. It's just fall back play site
You've got the mirror window swords never going to be able to make an easy entry through the breach
It's basically just a trade game around control storage as they play like a mini game of free
for all.
And at the end when the site becomes a factor it's still well set up for the defense.
So 2-0 now we actually go, funnily enough, to control storage.
Yeah, it'll be the best opportunity for Six-Tiger to try and get a bit of a cushion
here in this round. I think if they weren't a part-time team, we'd kind of
analyze this performance so far as being just six targets going in and not
carrying too much of a particular matchup and more of a police for the case.
Unfortunately they're not playing particularly differently to the rest
of the stage given that the team hasn't been doing a whole lot of
structured practice behind the scenes or at least that's what they were
telling us as of a couple of weeks ago. So I'm also more of the same for
them look down below the shots spot the hammer on the back of sword I think he
did eventually that's the pick through that and so Shaq can be to have the
early advantage here in the final round of the first rotation entry has been
pretty positive for them so far they from three six targets so they fight
back through the early portion of this round and they found themselves with
the advantage. Another one back from Ronnie. Another really good performance would be good
to see Ronnie and Kaivinix really close the stage out in the positive. Both had a really
strong stage kind of announcing themselves as future quality players in the region.
Ronnie does lose that battle though to Orion who he himself is having a very good lapse
right now. Six kills gets the last couple in that round to close it out. Six targets
on the board they take the tertiary site and wants to score line.
will be Clash and Monty shield shield bands as we head back to the top floor command and serve up
Six targets winning the tertiary isn't too much of a surprise
If they're to cause an upset in this match, it's gonna be winning attacking rounds on top floor and basement
And we'll get another opportunity here in the fourth round
Yeah, just good mechanics being able to pull six targets, again they got a round I think
illustrates that the team actually, they find themselves in pretty good positions and are
able to aggress in fights.
It's been a strength for them though, I don't think they're super far behind in some of
the mid-table teams when it comes to that part of the game, again their biggest weakness
seems to be when it comes to having to do complex neutral layering or sinking pushes,
kind of more team-centric synergies
and component of the game, that's where they full-shot and
I guess it makes sense given that they're not screwing.
Hopefully they're able to
find the commitment and find the time in stage two and that could be
a determining factor as to whether or not they can start pushing towards
the top four.
return to the top for the fourth. Again we'll see a lurk early here from
store below on the bark but again gets caught. Sean has been absolutely spot-on
with his vert play on a couple of occasions. He has had a really good
inkling and reed elsewhere. Niko does trade for scenes with Rani falling
losing his only top floor. Certainly won't help so that's a pretty big pick
from him. Yeah opens up that sort of rafters position, can't keep a barrier
a full back, reinforce off as a possibility, you could take the space, open up the barricade.
It's a 4v4, but yeah, I mean, I think the Islamic buck trade each other out pretty nicely.
H.A.B. eaten up by realers and not able to play off that nitro solo from Sean,
but Orion wanted to creep forward. That's a big pick. Orion's been playing
easily the best for six targets up to this point plus one of the black beards
so you think about eventually wanting to get into the site come it spots one
over towards blue now unfortunately to six targets you're in a position where
how do you actually get into this site you can flash dumb and that's it
yeah I mean I might be able to find some quick entry blue with the flash
The flashbangs are going to reveal that and the head shone.
That's a low percent playing out for King to push forward,
Rillers does get a little timed and well, look, he's able to bounce.
Nice catch.
Short, big good, shory in the round. He's being so sharp today.
Nico caught as well. Yeah, Chakadami looking impossible to beat on this top four.
Yeah, and I was looking at Sean's statistics as well after he's
obviously to start a very nicely in this game.
Bottom four for the stage.
So 79 EPS, 30 kills, 48 deaths.
It's clearly not been a good stage for Sean,
but he's having a very good night tonight
and can probably see him jump out of that sort of bottom four
players for the stage if he can keep this up.
Even that pop-up shot behind the desk,
that's not easy even though you know
that he's down the other end of the hallway
and you largely get a pre-fire.
still going to react pretty quickly.
I mean they passed the test in terms of defending top floor, so two from two, out of lock and
away, baseband up next.
If they can get this done, they go to four, which is usually the pass mark, and then they
get one free shot on tertiary.
There's a fair chance this may end up being four to half territory, which is kind of
what we expect.
I would say though, I think Strat Academy have got a little bit more by power to
unlock.
of these primary sites in the second half, so they're looking pretty comfortable overall.
That can change quickly though, I mean if Six-Tar gets win this, it throws a little bit of a
curveball. They get to two first and then they get the free punch in the sixth round.
Last time out on this base with Sight it was very much just throughout control storage
where 90% of the action took place and judging by the setup of Shai Academy it's largely going to be
similar. So we'll see if six targets want to play into that.
You know there's some investigating I think they're going to have to evaluate now if it's
worth going all the way top-down. A direct approach into Bvert is pretty low percentage.
They were to go like a two-prong warehouse and try and jump storage.
That seems pretty precarious.
They could also like to get a third option which is charge sight directly and maybe make
it deep.
And he catches karma in the meantime so they lose some key utility with those gates.
Havnix as well to find the hard breach of King so it's unravelled for six targets
unable to find map entry, which I can't believe we're pretty formidable on this side and the
lurk and their roam up a bar first floor has been very effective, you can default them.
They came with some info on Toneco outside, Arany in the meantime has snuck into Animas.
This is the kind of play that if they still had five up and he could be influential could
be a difference maker but unfortunately it's called out and Sean has info. Arany though
gets baited in. Orion mindful of the hatch so three versus four from here.
Orion just straight into tank. Not ready for a Kyvi Diggs.
As he goes down though, Neltschokademy are far more aware of the presence inside of the site.
Orion thought about plant. Didn't want to get the opportunity,
good Glyph and Sword onto Reelers and then immediately traded by Cakron who
stays above on the solace and poor old Orion who got this deep position inside
a tank all by himself is now all by himself goes over towards assembly
as the duck into the corner looks like he will get this plant down won't get
denied one v3 post plant yellow being intel get this kill and it's very
very interesting because Rani is so low on health, 8-3 Orion.
He's very, very good so far in this game and they double stacked together.
Orion knows where they're both coming from, isolates one, all back behind the tank.
And the time also becomes critical too for Kakin and Rani.
They need to be a little bit more aggressive as a duo, Rani just swings to the doorway
and Orion catches Kakin.
What a solid play from Orion in this round.
They go to two question marks, look for Shai Academy in the 2v1 post plan.
Yeah, the question is in the post. It was clearly poorly played and then they had the solace letting the plant go down in the first place.
There's also a little questionable taken had to be more proactive in that regard and then they just had to settle themselves a little bit there.
with three players up they should have done a better job our first pick was a
feed and even there in the one versus two just lacking a little bit of
conviction really wonderfully played by Orion I'm not taking anything away from
that effort that was like basically as perfect as he could have played it and
not even just the clutch itself but he was pretty proactive in the big point
to the round and finding the
space in the plant. And yeah,
it was messy. It was messy.
That sort of replay there is
the best case highlight
example of two individual
swings while there are numbers
available for the defense. So
it's a 1v3 shot swings the
first door way without
proper information panics a
And then at the end, and that one's maybe a little bit more acceptable because at that point it's difficult to coordinate all three players to be in the right position to the right time.
But when it's a 1v2, 20 seconds left in the post plank, you're both together because they were both in tank. That's far easier to facilitate what you want to do.
They split up, they go either side, they want to go for a pinch swing, but guess what?
You go to a surrounding goes too early and dies and that doesn't then give cake in enough time to go on the other side
So he's still running a Ryan then he is in easy swing
So Ryan basically just got three 1v1s that can't be allowed to copy happen in a top level siege
Use your numbers play to your straight
And now it's six targets to get the free swing and swing in does king into warehouse
So he unpeaked at the wrong time. That's just a timing issue
Well can't us to pop with the entry from sort of swift and that's what that's better
So sword making that move is off the back of King's death
He gets the trade onto Sean
Because he knew where King was going to be and who killed him or where he was he reacted quickly enough
Ryan gets rid of real is I don't know how cake it is. What is going on?
Chakattany last two rounds are just making so many critical errors
Okay, all right, everyone's on a heater 13 and 3 he's the difference no one in the service matching him
That's turned a little bit of a shootout as this style of game you would expect
In a 20 so quite a bit of time for Kyven X to try and problem solve this one get himself a more favorable position commas during deep
storage and should
spot him out and does
So the carving now is for the attack they'll retain one above and go for horizontal hit
This is risky. Well, you just isolate the one there and karma can't trade
Yellow ping but nothing he can do 50 seconds and carbonics will hear him up above
Well, he's also gonna go get kit
Yeah, that if this were a 1v1 40 seconds where the objective didn't really matter which I guess
technically Karmic can play in that way. This is up to Kyvinix now to really bring the kit into the equation.
Try and force that objective to be the main objective here. Rather than giving space and time for Karmic to go for the 1v1,
force him to have to grab kit, play around this. Good contest. I feel diffuser now.
Karmic will push forward and Kyvinix just held out in the open. I mean, that's just an easy position.
I don't know what Shikadami are doing at the end of this half. Either way, it's all tied three to three.
well played to six targets, halftime, roll swap timeout.
We're going to go back to the
opening game of the night for
plenty seven Oceania. Well six
targets to their credit. Two
round wins in a row that have
seen them tie the scoreboard
But certainly if it feels like up to round four everything was playing to script
I thought we were getting a pretty normal game of siege
And then the last two rounds where I think we're a good combination of well Orion clearly playing a really good game
And the strike had me just a couple of critical errors mistakes the way they're positioned how they wanted to take some of these fights
I think cost them and so ultimately we end up in a position where we are tied
But six targets now go defense
I think they're largely leading this game now as long as they can stay composed on defense
Yeah, and I'm rivaled a little bit there in the last couple of rounds and
Six targets clearly the benefactors of that
And by far and away their best
Attacking performance so far on the map this year of this particular stage while I suppose including kickoff as well inclusive
It wasn't trending that way, but as you mentioned last couple of rounds, Orion in particular
was able to step up massively and Karma there in the final round was able to confirm the
6th.
So we're heading to the second half then the Grim Monty to be banned out and the bandits
alongside Azami that means that Kyiid will be in play for the first rotation.
In the first half, of course, we saw the Ducky Snake fanned out and so those will also be
available to Shycademy and it looks like Rani is going to dip into that pretty much immediately
here in the opening round.
Outside of that, it's looking at a pretty standard setup, I'll bring the Thatcher
in response to the Kaia being up, but keeping my karma on.
The Tigriar can offer a little bit of skill out for defense.
It's kind of wild that six targets don't have anyone above three kills except the Rhine who hits on 13.
Which in some ways actually you think about when you're defending even though it's the easier side
It's probably harder for one individual to control the game a bit more
In those attacking rounds at times when we were watching Orion just his ability
To pick up a couple of kills and quick succession. So he had three rounds. We had multi kills 3k 4k and 3k
When you're on the attack and you're pushing and you're taking these fights and you can control your tempo and pacing
It's very different than if you have to hold a set position on defense and right now. He's playing around that sort of server
I see electrical side
You know what happens if there's a blue push he can't go defend that as well
You know electrical with the nitrous all prepped and ready
I mean nitrous
Brought into this round that one from Orion does not connect
Now they take the space at the window
It puts Orion under the pump immediately.
They log with Nitro in hand, and that space will be taken immediately here by Stratcademy,
so yeah, some nice aggression from them.
Orion naturally will be forced back, so with a Nitro for follow-up, he's also missing
the mark, but Karma's swing will land, and since Diagets have found a bit of form
here, they double down, Shot also falls, so Blackbeard out of play and advantage
for defense.
Yeah, it was another another one for one trade
That's a win though for six targets
And they had the drum card here as well as swords playing around that first floor as well
So three be three on site six targets at the benefactor of one down below gets over towards electrical a
Lot of time remaining for shy Academy
there's a Ryan and again so sharp tonight we might have our MVP for the night already locked up
at midway through this opening round as Kagan does get the kill and put an end to him
will be six targets taking the lead as he gets overwhelmed towards IT
well nothing to gain in this match for six targets
at all other than respect for the shot academy yeah i mean they can win this game
there's a really high likelihood they will finish fifth. A little bit more aside points,
a little bit more money, a little bit more to gain. I think a good way to cap the stage off
for what's been, yeah, anytime you don't make finals, not a great stage, but clearly a good
stage in certain elements. Now though, they've given up three of the last four rounds.
Yeah, the alarm bells just starting to ring out a little bit here. Ryan has just been
Unstoppable. Concern for their attack.
How can they turn this around?
Yeah, it's unravelled very quickly here for Shikademi who absolutely had control of this
matchup up until that fifth round. Unravelled pretty dramatically in six targets doing it.
a good job to just maintain that pressure by locking up second floor which really should be the expected outcome in this style of game
didn't realize I was there ghost opening kill as well
yeah
that's like straight for Shackatomy in the first half
yeah
it's been uh one of the one of the stranger games uh
you're nice for stage one
I have no doubt that it's gonna have a couple more
interesting rounds here to follow
We're going to tank assembly for the 8th shield in play for Sean and the Ram screaming that
Shokan we are going to go for a complete top-down take here and look to establish Vert.
Niko is currently second for server.
He's supposed to hatch for the drop.
Go, Orion, to note the only player on the objective or close to the objective right
now currently in assembly.
The rest of the team is lurking around on this first floor forcing the hand of
Shikademi to go for this full map clear.
We put a little bit of a dampener on the close of the stage for Shikada and
they dropped this game.
Again anytime you don't make you finals anytime you're not really around that top four you
probably have to have some hard truths come end of stage anyway this might just make some
of those truths a little harder.
You kill back to normality though for sure Academy and it's coming it's got the first
trade back by karma trade back then by Kaken.
for the attack. This could be their way back in. Rounds eight, round nine, they will not
be top floor. So the chance here to show Academy to win here on this basement site and then
either tertiary or basement to follow. We'll give them another opportunity to then maybe
take the lead. So 50 seconds though, time will be against them despite the extra
player. And with the Bryan still alive for six targets in the way he's playing
he almost counts for two. There's still some work to do for the attack.
Niko will work for a Nitro opportunity, but Rione instead, Alexa, go straight down the stairs.
Oh, Niko caught.
And Rione now taking a chunk of damage, but can he get closer to 20 kills?
That's 20 seconds. They're going to go over the plant now. They get this plant down, it should be a round win.
It's all on the solace, not in position.
Allows that plant to just go down head.
One job could make it happen.
Ryan was completely swiped off,
certainly couldn't close the gap.
And that should be the round.
This soldier will drop down,
and it's around Animas, completely unaware
as to where everyone is located.
One outside, decides to just send it.
Here comes the Blitz.
Shakedome will tie it up four to four better from them
Yeah, a little bit better there especially towards the tail end of the round
It was a tricky one that a couple of points being forced to go for the map clear and for the most part it was a
Pretty successful peel back to the objective for six targets
but they didn't quite have the positions required to deny that particular plant position, especially with Nico falling cargo aside.
They lost that long
Avalos and then it forced Orion in particular on the swing and saw it clearly not in an impactful position.
Maybe if Orion had nitro still late in the round, it could play out very differently if they could get the kit back onto the ground and on their terms, but
evidently they weren't.
So that's Goliath now back to even for a piece.
Six targets electing to double down on the bottom floor.
More than likely more comfortable on this side than the tertiary.
We'll see if they go for a similar map extension.
I presume they probably will with the Allo and Elysian Trapeutes sorting down info
on the solace.
Ryan again can post up on the objective with the mirror.
of the
common spots one outside vending
First minute goes by here in the ninth round, not a lot of entry gain before Chacademy.
Slow entry through Clon Prashant on the Blitz, they're not going aggressive, running though
through Cafeteria able to get the kill on Takama, 4-7 for Kama.
But where he's been mostly struggling is the early portion of these rounds, that's
third opening depth of the game. They stayed here with the Blitz this time.
And no way, six targets are trying to spread this map but they're just
creating so many isolated fights, making it easy for Shack had. I mean they just
over one limit with numbers. At one point they had a second floor, a first floor and
a basement out of four players alive. You've got three players that are just completely
stranded and separated across the map. Now they consolidate a little bit better.
The site is pretty much in control of the show Academy and not one of the heaps
for six targets. I will start with storage. Oh. Can I hear that? Maybe not. I thought
a bit of damage was done, may not have been auditory. This could open an opportunity for
Nika to push back down and try to hold on to this cross, but I can't be seeing a
whaaat. Thank you, Fortunet, to make the dash across and Rila's will eventually net
that kill and he can play it as well now behind the tank now it's sort on the
solace pressure in his position looks down below post planche academy will
get to five
yeah this first floor play for six nights clue because it works twice in a row
that's right and the play into this sort of solace storage first floor
gameplay and credit to show academy they've done just enough work where
they're able to win the battle on the first floor know when to go towards
base. What they can elect to ignore and they've elected to just basically ignore sword.
A small amount of pressure plant in in more obscure positions away from storage and we don't
care about the solace and it's worked two rounds in a row. They take the lead. Six targets will go
back top floor. As the decent chances goes five five. But there's an academy will back themselves
in away from top floor anyway. They get the free swing coming out of the bands.
So all the snake and kaiid will be locked away.
Yeah, they're certainly worse superior on that particular site.
Second fall though will give Six-Target a really good golden opportunity to
Even this particular scoreline 5-5 that makes things interesting with a breakpoint 11th round
You'll see, losing the Kaid may hurt them a little bit in terms of this site with them no longer being able to lie upon the Kaid and the 2-brow combo for a bit of stall out
But I think that's going to be pretty marginal in the grand scheme of things
of things, especially with the mirror available, they've got earlicks that
rather have enough stoll out and enough on-site utility that they can play around
and give themselves a little bit more comfort.
Tracademy as well, no longer able to play the solid snake, which is a bit of a
insay for them over the course of this half. Rani's played it every single round.
That he will just look to transition across now to the docker bee and that I'm sure will be a
Reasonable transition for him
The entirety of this defense second floor currently outside of sore
Who's lurking cafeteria at the moment and with the nitro in pocket that could provide
Significant value to six targets on that
Poln or electrical entry you might be able to deny that as long as the tank is good in front
I don't know what I was really expecting coming into this game considering the lack of stakes
but I mean I think what we've got isn't probably too far from the expectations, the sloppiness
two teams that aren't going to be playing finals, not a lot on the line, a couple of
really good hero play moments from individuals, overall, you know,
strategic depth maybe not the highest that we've seen this stage.
This will be the real test though. Command server so far has been faultless. Defense
has wanted out every single time both teams on this site. It hasn't been
cracked yet by the attack. They might look for a little overloaded towards electrical,
or Ryan last time the mattressel didn't work out. And once again it does not work out.
It's shot into a deeper position, but again not too dissimilar to what we saw last time on this
plate. Ryan clearly trying to deny that pushing behind the blackbeard towards electrical for as
as long as possible just need to see Shaikhaa to be work more of the map
because right now it's too much of a stack on the con meeting side
oh there's risk in there from Niko
oh my god
the freebie for real is in the end so advantage Shaikhaa to be 40 seconds on
the clock Orion needs to go big here again 16 kills up close shotgun this
utility but a fantastic frag grenade will clear his position and he will not
be picked up but I don't even know that he's down funnily enough that's not
an issue at the moment when they get the next two kills I'm an ex can't win
his battle and it looks like six pockets will hold on defensively even
after Nico went down to begin with and then Ryan got cleared by the
frag grenade, our credit to Sword King color, but this is the problem with the one-dimensional attack.
They know exactly the only real threat in this round is electrical and con. So those players that
ended up getting those kills for six targets, they're the players that are towards IT, towards
rafters, towards blue. They can turn their backs to those entry positions and just focus their
attention to this other side of the side because there's no one else coming from the attack on
those positions. There's no pinch pressure. So we go 5-5 round 11 and top floor stays impervious
and after what six targets have seen over the last two attempts on
basement, they say let's go storage and control.
I think they've uh, you don't have to woven the white flag for the basement side. It was
There was one dimension from Shite Academy, but this site can work, it was just some sloppy
execution there from Shite Academy, some of the U2 layering was very delayed.
The Blackbeard there, if Shont got caught out, he thought it was a free kill on the cross,
but it was actually covered there by six targets, so they'll be very much disappointed
and I'm sure that if they knew, or if they hadn't found out that Orion fell close
as well that would probably be even more frustrating because they weren't in that poor of a position
to dash across and go through a pillar plant. I can't take it back now though, so 5-5 scoreline
break point round. Tertiary will see its first appearance as you mentioned in this second
half and I think if I have any expectation as to how six targets will play as defensively
it's probably going to be pretty aggressive I imagine here.
Academy structurally should be a pretty sound on this side, but
Linger 6 Tigers can try their best to be disruptors in this round,
but to throw that off it could make things tricky for them.
From the hard beach push, I kind of need something positive to start to
the round as we all as it's gone to work with the humane breaches for this sci-fi
barb below sword gets caught in no man's land shot shot from kyberniks and it's once again an
opening kill to shite category that means that now 11 opening kills down they've got a 10
I've seen all states long kind of 10 rounds is quite disgusting and both on attack defense
have done it on both sides of the coin because since 7 for 6 targets is that is that top
4 is locked away so much that being the only side that been able to defend successfully
really need the next kill to adjust the pressure how did righty not kill leek up any quicker
I only kind of looked like he was walking in buddy quick send little slow to react
3v3, 60 seconds left to the ramp. Finally top floor control for the attack.
Rhino's retaking on the wall is blue, at least we'll at some point
make that push through the blue hallway. Looks like he has been spotted out,
so Chikademy are aware they're sending him back down.
What's the plan now though for Chikademy? Because you've got all three above.
You haven't cleared out storage and you haven't cleared out control
Now they lose cake and so one less body much easier now for the defense to convert on the location
When they do eventually have to go for the plant
So I'm trying to start up into storage
John actually does get the elimination on to King 2v2 20 seconds
Still doesn't feel comfortable to grab the plant so they're setting realers down below as well to help out
Not the pistol kill from Sean.
Karma's low 10 seconds as the Blitz you could run at him, but he's going to go for the plant.
Will this get off in time? Karma running on over. Plant will be successful.
Very difficult now for Karma in the post-plant. It gets the Blitz! Oh what a jump-up kill though from Karma!
Gets the higher elevation to find the head of the Blitz over the shield and six targets will take match point.
Oh, well that was not the expected result there, karma.
They have to find the angle on the high ground and when the plant went down, I totally agree
with your sentiment that it looked rough from there for karma to be able to win that out.
If shot was able to close distance, he was all but assured to kill, especially with
karma solo and HP, but in the full top play there was absolutely the correct call
and 6 targets now find themselves on match point.
Fortunately I started to the round, should note that Sword mentioned he did get ult tapped
there so he was stuck running forward not really within his control.
I would have downed to 1 vs 1 and Sean couldn't react to that.
Nasty kill in the end from Karma, Niko can't believe it.
And 6 targets, well seemingly do have 0 faith on basement.
will go across to kitchen a notoriously difficult site to defend to try and win this one out.
This is a pretty high chance this can easily go to overtime. For what it's worth though
of course now for shycademy they can't get all three points right so they can't get
to 11 anymore the higher they could get to is 10 points which would mean the only
wait for Shai Academy to now get that fifth spot would be a seven victory in
regulation and the 10 points would see them go above rival even if they get this
to overtime but only pick up the one point they cannot get fifth. So we need
that result to go their way and six targets can't get out a seventh in
in any way up or down
Brian can he get to 20?
I think we've had too many 20 bombs to stage
it feels like we've just taken off the last handful of rounds
it has been a big day at the office for him
pretty key role here, top one of these stairs, looking to absorb your tools
across though, that's a sharp shot from Kakin to be fair
that's on me
straight through the wall
Yeah, it's a classic Jake curse sword responds though, so four versus four and karma will retain position despite being low on HP
Another kate sent his way
A second and so she had me now back in control of the round
Or about five minutes
Yeah, I mean it's almost like that. Yeah the first fight and the second fight pretty identical in
and the timing leaves us all tied up 3v3 still that shield up Sean's had a really really
good game that continues.
And a lot of pressure on these defenders where you know King Nico probably haven't had
their best games swords being active certainly involved and swings the main entry point
he got downed and the Joker payload call for Ronnie will finish him off this time
No trade from six targets. Yellow ping though for King.
Tronk going for the plant and starting to think overtime is going to be necessary.
Yeah, another plant successfully by Shai Academy. That's four in the half.
So the one of six targets in the first half there and they've dominated in that respect.
No utility either really to deal with the black pig. I gotta find some good angles.
you go running through the flames gets the guard break maybe one of the train
pushing back into the flames either way and every time will be necessary
typically the case when we have these sort of games that don't really have a
lot on the line guys I feel like more often than not they go to OT
yeah it's been one of those games unfortunately six targets they feel
short in closing out this match simply because they can't defend basement
and cafeteria kitchen is probably one of the more unreliable backup sites in the entire
game.
So on the receiving end of the good attack there and Chakadami now push it into overtime.
Stack of four to return as expected as six targets will continue here on defense.
This should arguably give them an edge bit.
Evidently at least in this match it has been a straight 50-50 shootout per side
With the asterisk though being that you know the time of course to exposed to two primaries as a defending team and
At least well be the wall has been very secure for the things
This will probably be an 8-7 victory for shy Academy based on what we saw in regulation six targets a win on top floor
So Academy winner on top floor and then six targets are forced into choosing
that's about one of the other three sides I don't think I'll go back to
kitchen cafeteria but then I don't think they're gonna be trusting themselves
either on control storage or basement so yeah it's kind of set up for
Shackademy now this is the rare instance where I think having had the
double attack actually might benefit Shackadamnit.
like how do we have not got a plant on every other round in that half they got
the plant successfully down but command service the only one that didn't
allow it right a good opening kill onto a Ryan while he started 16 and 5 I think
since then yeah he's gone about one in five you said tape it off a little bit
as the game has gone on
it's another opening kill which has just been so dominant and now they
actually have maybe the chance to win this top four after losing karma flame
out onto Niko and forces him back in the site
really good opening half of this round from Strycademy have set themselves up
to take the top four. It would be a classic OT this site has been picked four times so far and it has
been 100% won out by the defense and this could end up being a flawless
attack to subvert that expectation. Not a lot of time remaining and not a lot of
firepower on site remaining for six targets. Very much means it's in favor of
the attack. If Niko and Kim desperately try and find something but Niko falls,
being will be left in one versus five and Shai Academy will reclaim match
point. Yeah. Yeah, it's been
a really strange game. So, if
you look at the numbers that
we've played now, 13 rounds of
Siege, 12-1 in terms of opening
kills, that is very rare. Then
you go look at the plants, four
to one in favour of Shai Academy.
They didn't need to plant in
that round, probably could if
they really wanted to. But
then you go and look at,
well, where's the success
being for six targets? How is
this game so close? So, you
say, and these are the
numbers, and it should be
should be a little bit more one-sided. Well, firstly in the first half it was Orion. He got a 3K, a 4K, and a 3K in the first half alone.
So he was so dominant in that first half of six targets and how they were able to win a couple of those attacking rounds.
And also two of those rounds were the 1v3 to Orion and 1v1 to Kala.
So really the tail of the tape is six targets, probably got a couple of rounds.
I'd say like one to two rounds in the first half.
I wouldn't say they shouldn't have got but a little bit more fortunate to have gotten just through some really strong individual play
They don't get those rounds this game probably ended in regulation in favor to strike hard on me
So I think the the result is I can't have been closed out on this top floor as expected
Ends up being what we expected in regulation, but ends up just taking a little bit longer to get there
Six targets have maybe done well in terms of getting multi-kills, and that has, I think,
papered over the cracks a little bit, but it doesn't look like it's going to stop that
damn wall from bursting.
And now, a Chicago top-floor defense should go and get the two points, but again, for
them, if they do close this out and they get to the ten points, they would love
to see a 7 victory in the match to follow to hold into 5th place. Otherwise, any result
in which rival get points, whether that be an OT loss, OT win, win themselves in regulation,
and of course, Tri Academy can no longer get 5th spot. Whereas on the flip side, if
they had a got the three points any result in favor of rival
but he also seen them go over seven if rival had a one in
regulation
no longer have that as an option
oh let's see if this particular site is cursed it over time or if Shackadamy
can
Confirm an expected result with defensive wind top floor
Carmer will work con and he remains a threat
All that may have been the ill-advised peep that gives
That's insane. The entry his way, but Carmer acknowledging a very sharp shot there from Rani. Yeah, 13 to 1 opening kills
I mean that's a
Testament though to what we're seeing out of all this Academy members in their opening engagements
Four and zero to Ronnie four zero to Sean Nico does catch carbon it's running
So all wins these battle against real as well and so now six targets have found the attacking prowess on this top floor what
It's going on classic OT shenanigans top floor, which
didn't even look close to being lost by either team on their defense both go
OT and both now can't defend it part of me still thinks that they're gonna
clutch up this round somehow I mean I don't have any utility so short
and runny the best path forward here so I've been six targets just kind of
overstep individually so one individual pushes a little too soon not just this
blue hallway position by King. As he checks this, Sean's got a 1v1.
Spots the shadow, gets the kill. No trade potential.
20 seconds. So now the timer as well becomes a factor and to serve
before Orion to go for the plant. I am blocked off a little by
the smoke. Plant will be successful. Luz Rani, Sean hits
his shot onto Niko. Now he's in the 1v2 post plant. Still
winnable. But not gonna happen. Orion with the plant and
the kill and we go to all 15 rounds.
Yeah, I mean it's the most classic overtypes, we line the site that can't be beat and by
the attack at all in regulation we'll fall back to back in OT, they very much a shocking
result there especially again considering another open kill when it went the way of Chakadami
in that round and well they simply weren't able to convert some sharp shots in response
almost immediately from their opposition and
15 rounds required to split these two
Very sharp shot there from Rani, which was well-acknowledged
Hardening Scott caught real as foul and cake and couldn't anchor up close
Shot and Rani gave it their best shot given the compromised positions that they found themselves in
Rani had to try and pluck one to
give shot a chance, but
We're quite able to do so it was well held there
during the plant and in the post what do you know back to the top floor well the
real question is can six targets get another opening kill they've got one
this entire game and I feel like if I can get one in this round it would
probably mean they're going to win the round so the start of this round for
me is just gonna be so important behind the team
If Shai Academy lose this round, there is zero world in which they can get to fifth, so they
be locked into the sixth position on the standings.
That's what's at stake for them.
If they do win the round, they will temporarily jump up to fifth and will be reliant on seven
beating rival in regulation.
That seven rival game does go to OT and Shai Academy are immediately going to be back
back into sixth. Just some two grouse fallout here in the first minute of the round. King
just slows the progression of the breach a little bit. Paul's victim to the air jab but
actually does a good job to absorb that state of life shadow advantage now in his
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They're level 2 dash.
I'm not only across the door, but the breach as well, so...
I don't know how I'm seeing the board get to land on either of them.
They're both drawing traces.
In the meantime, as well, 6T will reinforce off-con, so looking to consolidate position.
To me sure kind of it look a little bit more stored out this round.
This is a small win in the first 90 seconds to six targets.
There's no one in the building, five exterior right now from Shay Academy.
So they haven't been able to take space, they haven't really been able to start to work
on con meeting.
A lot of this posture towards rafters and IT is their focus.
will leave them quite funneled in, they get easy for the mirror, although Sean finally gets
Raltz's and deals with this mirror window. The middle of the wall opens up rather than
the left side of it. Orion just walks into IIT, he gets the kill out of the Blackbeard, but
is down and now out courtesy of Kymenix. His final air jab as well as Rila's
will fall. It feels like it's all becoming a little too difficult for Shai Academy on
This particular go of things.
Nitro 2 confirmed, but it does be noble Nitro for the latter stage of this round.
Position for the rafters.
Lurk.
Easy glit from King on to Rani.
And it seems like six targets on the verge of getting this win.
Well, it's going to have taken them some time.
All 15 rounds were required.
But finally six targets able to close out their final match on the stage.
And they did in fact get the opening kill in that round as well because
They will stay in seventh position, but they will also keep Shai Academy locked in sixth position
So no final leaderboard shenanigans involving either of these two teams
But a nice feeling for six targets to get their second win of the stage
Yeah, that's a little cherry on top for them a couple of extra points bags and
Yeah, look they put a respectable result. It was a tough matchup
Man at a couple of times especially early on it very much looked like they were you know, not really in contention
It was pretty dominant starters
But that first two rounds in particular from shape kind of me completely shutting out six targets
And the ability kill metrics only going against them for the overwhelming majority of the matchup
But despite that they were able to show good
Ability to clock show the course of this match up to mid to late game transitions from them were pretty good as well. So
Look what I think to serve this to be fair
And, yeah, excited to maybe hear from them in the interview as to what the long-term prospects are for this team
and if we could expect to be on better things in stage 2.
What do you make of the stage for Shot Academy?
I mean, they beat Chiefs, they beat EP, they don't make finals, they lose to 6-T.
It felt, to me, at least all over the shot.
It's one of those classic cases, I think, of so close yet so far.
Of course, the results tonight didn't have any bearing on their ability to make the top four,
But maybe slipping up earlier in the stage in some of those key matchups will prove really really costly for them
I think the most damning probably ends up being the I don't think probably the first play day given that
Seven looked quite good, but that one to seven loss against rival back in play day five that one was a real
Surprise and ultimately ended up being very very costly for them
So the double offset that's shy kind of me were able to achieve full credit to them. They played well
But reflecting on I think just how challenging it has been to actually make the top four that they miss out by pretty small margin
But I think the long-term prospects of that team are actually pretty good
Yeah, I think that you've got to try and look more at the positives from a stage like this of your shy Academy beating EP cheesers
You know not a fluke. It's not easy to do and
We'll see what they can do moving ahead in stage two
our interview is ready with sword from six targets after their win just the second win on the stage
but congratulations sort of good way to close the stage out I just asked sort of what the mindset
was I guess for the team coming into a match like this where you've quite literally got nothing to
gain and nothing to lose in terms of overall standings and prize money etc do you just kind of
treat this game as either a bit of fun or scrim practice what was the team mindset
We're just going to have as much fun as we can, because we knew we could make playoffs.
We can't move anywhere essentially, so just have as much fun as we could throughout the match.
Yeah, congrats on the win mate. It's been really fun to see you get introduced to the tier one level
and you've gathered quite a bit of experience, actually played quite a bit during this particular stage.
What's the long term mindset for you in particular?
particular are you looking to build into stage 2 and go from there like yeah, what's your particular story?
See what happens I guess safe on 85 stage 2
As core or that's up
See what happens. It's only a soft short matter. Can you be straight in that code you want about?
Are there any plans in place I guess for the offseason sort in terms of you know scrim times and things like that ahead of stage 2 to come
I'm not too sure to be honest as we're still sticking to our rock up at this time what a match and get into it
Yeah, no worries. Well anything you'd like to say before we let you go
Shout out to Ludo all beers
Jack Timbers and
Karma for his prep black grab you match and Orion for having absolute
you. You certainly did. Well thanks for coming on, having a chat with us. Congratulations on your
stage and again, congrats on the win. Thank you very much. Have a good one.
So six targets, get their second win for the stage. You can wait a cap off stage one and we'll
see what they can do ahead of the stage to the Shite Academy. You know, a disappointing way
to close the stage out considering they they did want to go and do a lot of good things
throughout stage one. But it does leave us into a position down seven versus rather that's
That's the big one coming up.
Match of the day, win and you're in.
Any combination will do the job of winning,
even if you win in regulation or in overtime
for either team, ground diff,
nothing like that makes a difference.
It sets us up pretty easily going in with the next game.
Yeah, absolutely.
That first game was a bit of a slog fest,
did not a disappear to require all 15 rounds.
That's only, I believe, the second match so far
over the entire stage six targets,
actually in that first one against 7 that did require every single round but
yeah a nice sort of win to top off the stage for six targets the next match though
it's massive I mean we've built it up I think it's best we can win your in and
both teams on some interesting trajectories I think to get to this
particular point as well yeah I feel like for rival they started the stage
so well so probably far off the pace but then they've gotten better and
better and better and we'll see if they can culminate that here on the
final day, whereas on the flip side, seven formerly Barbie boys, I thought started quite hot. Now they've ended up in muddy waters.
We'll see what happens after the break and come back seven versus rival. The final spot for finals is about to be determined.
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the game. Well, the shenanigans
of night Haven Labs come to an
end. Six targets get their
second win for the stage, but
now it's only attention to
easily the match of the day,
seven versus rival e sports.
For those unfamiliar seven,
the new organization taking
over Barley boys a chance to
of this game doesn't matter who wins in any way shape or form as long as you win this best
of one you're playing finals next week.
Yeah, do a dive for both of these teams and as we said just prior to the break they're
two teams on two pretty different trajectories.
Barbie boys if anything started strong enough tapered off not majorly or drastically
but just a little bit to put them in this vulnerable position rival on the flip side
they started off an absolute disaster and self-admittedly in interviews looking to
very much build this squad up as quickly as they possibly could. Um, they've risen to
the occasion and now as they cross paths, it comes down to this final best of one. Let's
go to our roster starting with seven who I think again, I don't know who really comes
into this is the real favorites, but they are the team that's currently in the top
four as things stand and had a pretty good stage as well throughout when you kind of
look at some of their results. Uh, they were able to beat man LFO back in playday
three now that was only an overtime but it was still a good win somewhat okay against
chiefs in EP 3747 sort of game so they were competitive but weren't close enough to be
able to get any points against them outside of that they didn't really for me drop the
ball too much except for maybe going to OT against six targets still won that game
but otherwise the only losses that were seen from them this stage were both against
And I think if you had a said the Bobboys now seven coming into the stage that they would have go undefeated against everyone except
Cheeson EP that's a pretty good stage
Yeah, I think it has been a very solid stage for them
I don't know if you may be
You know absolutely truly disappointed they didn't make top four, but that they'd certainly expect to make it through
They've had certainly ups and downs of course at this stage
But they they hit it with a decent line of form last week for reference 72 over arcade
So they got an expected win across the board and once they did fall to EP4-7 is still competitive
And I found four defensive rounds on club, which is actually no small feat
So yeah, we'll see how they go tonight of course their opposition
Rival and as we mentioned the team that they that started out so slow week one for them was a rule
I think wake up call to where the team was really out with the 37 lost to cheese than 27 EP
But that meant that they got the hard games out of the way early and got some of those key lessons and key takeaways for the remainder of the
They have been able to rebound at least somewhat.
They did have another disappointing loss unfortunately against Man at LFO.
But again they made up for that by being strong against the lesser teams in the region
and that's why they're in a position where they can still make top 4.
Yeah 100%. I mean I think that's just sort of alluding to with rival top start to the stage.
Couple that with some roster issues.
You know, kill a man, late withdrawal, having to get ACOG into the team.
team and they were pretty open about those issues to rival the team every time we spoke to them that you know
It's all been about building towards this position to get finals and then be in their best form possible at the right time of
The stage if the man LFO game for me is the one that stands out as the most disappointing for the stage
But then LFO clearly has been a good team so far throughout stage one that I don't look at it too much as a negative
And then their wins 7-0 versus 6 targets 7-1 of a shy Academy 7-2 over arcade
they dealt with the teams that they needed to deal with very comfortably. I think it holds them in
good stead coming into this match as we get to the Vitos. Yeah, very much so. And I don't think we
can understate the experience on that rival roster. A lot of those guys have been in high pressure
games in the past. Let's roll that roulette wheel and see where we land, and it's clubhouse
we go back to. So again, in the last Play Day 7, played on this map and lost four seven
to their opposition and in terms of the track record for their opposition in rival
it's their second preference map it's one that they've only banned out once themselves
and a 50-50 win record for them last outing was a dominant win over Psy Academy take from that
what you will last week but I think we've ended up on a map that both teams are going to be
pretty comfortable on and in fact actually on the flip side barbie boys it's also their
Second preference map just banned out on the one occasion. So both teams have been looking to play this map for this first stage
Yeah, I think as you mentioned as well for seven the four seven loss to EP
It stands out on paper as a four seven loss within when you kind of put it next to the opposition and who that is
I don't think that's actually completely awful
And as we touched on, you know, seven two three three of a RK rival seven one of a shark had a me
I kind of look at this is the best map that we could probably go to clubhouse is the O's now and
And you have to be able to play this pretty comfortably seven start on defense
I think that's gonna benefit them and certainly in the first half and so for rival
It's gonna be a case of can they steal a couple of rounds on the attack
They've got some good form coming into this match seven the new all-curses could that be applicable?
We'll have to wait and see but I don't think there's a clear standout or divide in terms of favoritism coming into this match
Unfortunately, we did have a disconnect so not going straight into the game
Hopefully not too long until this can begin, but I think this is as
50-50 as a game as you can have I think both teams are at a pretty similar level both teams are in a pretty good and similar form line I
Don't know how to split this one and what to really look to and to say oh this team has that or this other team has that in
Terms of the best player in the server as well
This is also split so looking at the numbers for the stage in the top five both teams have a player proxy for rival Walsh for seven
So you even in that room and they're fourth and fifth at basically the same EPS basically the same kind of numbers
You can't really split them. So they both have a top player each
This is a genuine 50 game 50 50 game that's going to come down to the finding moments
Who's better in the clutch who can do better in the early game who gets more control in the mid game?
Can you get plants down all of these sort of metrics whoever could dominate more of those categories is just naturally going to go and win the game
Yeah, I'm very difficult to actually pick a
Roster to align with is to most likely to win this matchup
It's so tough. I think rival have shown some so much
improvement over a short period of time that with so much
experience on their team. I think they might have a very narrow advantage in
this matchup, but that being said there's so many star players on the side of 7
that if they aren't able to tame them, if they can run right inside of the server
that's where I start to get a little bit concerned for potentially their ability
to win this matchup. We see such shrunk fragging potential from them over
the course of the stage. Walsh in particular has been phenomenal. Pinky
has had good moments, he has a positive EPS heading into the night and it's
meant that the structure and the roles for that team were actually probably more well-defined compared to their opposition who have been
certainly under scrutiny and understandably had turmoil over the course of the stage and it's a lot of press to kind of sit back and play that
IGL role so jumping into this one tough to predict but I do wonder is it gonna be a case of star individuals stepping up or will it be a
straight 5-5 shootout?
Well, let's get underway. Clubhouse is calling and it's going to be a good one win and you are into finals losing you are out of the finals
It's not quite six targets versus rival rival versus seven is what we've got coming up and it's sure to be a good one a
Difficult one to predict good luck to those at home who are playing the channel points because I got absolutely no idea
Who's gonna walk away from this game? No one say be graces seven will start on defense
And we'll see the band's play out regardless, Capitel, Blitz, Kaid, and Clash.
It's meant to be the first sight of choice here.
And you're gonna jump into this game one that should be so hotly contested
Really doubtful that this will be a blowout
I think the only way I think the only world in which this ends up being a blowout is if I think seven of the team with the biggest
potential to achieve that in terms of being on the on the positive end of that is if
If Walsh and Pinko in particular, if they cannot be tamed, if they're given a big license to take on a lot of gunfights and they're simply sharper on the night, that's where I get a little bit concerned for rival.
If they don't find a way to be able to shut that down, other than that, it's very difficult to foresee this being one-sided either way. It really should be a good contest.
test between these two teams and with a spot on the line in the top four make it
to the top four worlds 50 50% change 50 50 chance to make it to EWC there's a
massive carrot dangling in front of both of these two teams right now who are
gonna get 110% tonight so with all that said I'm sure someone's gonna win
this 7-1 or 7-2 right it would just be it would literally just be very
fitting that we have the game before, the curtain raises that go all the way max or
T for a game that had nothing on the line and then this one doesn't quite follow the
same page. It's not impossible but again with the
individual progress of seven, starting defense, that's the only world in which I
see this being a 7-2 or more dominant is if seven are the ones that are
dominant in this match but that even that is highly unlikely
well it's a cruise you start for seven five-stack basement not running to play
any kind of aggression on that first floor
I think it's understandable in a series such as this it was so much on
the line you really just don't want to be probably taking too many risks and both teams
actually are in the bottom three when it comes to entries so neither of them are really strong
in this area of the game 5v5. Both teams are also very weak on attack, 33%
barbie boys that 7 for rival.
There's no time to find the opening kill in this first round.
Chef Jeff, I feel like he's the kind of player that rises to the occasion in these sort of matches.
Chef Jeff is not sure if they're going on final runs and pushing teams deep on playoff time.
Since the bottom of main stairs, good pressure applied here onto this triple wall.
That's been opened up massively.
My connectors are blocking that drop down into Modo.
I'm starting to run a little bit low.
Do you still have Bailey with a natural cell?
Wards arsenal.
There's a small pivot there, right?
So he's going to go oil wannables, overswings, pink who catches the kill, good timing,
We set them on the defense shaft Jeff activates get a second one
Acog they will trade out waltz and rival still with the numbers advantage a cock
They get a second and a third three from a cock to close the round
Stay for start from rival on the attack to win out basement
Yeah, I found a really good pocket of space there in the playmaking opportunity and
Afforded a bit of freedom with the epic ill going the way of chef Jeff to then get to work on the black beard
so solid work there from
rival they would play a little more of an unconventional attack their basement
not forced to go through a more classical 5v5 grind courtesy of that free opening
kill chef Jeff letting him know early in the chat post around one see if that
ends up having influence on the match as well over to Jim and bedroom for the
follow-up as rival get off to it's only a positive start and I wonder on the
retentions whether or not seven are going to like to maybe pull maybe play a
little more aggressive offside because that kind of structure for me again but
the experience of rival and if you able to mitigate some of the individual
they make a potential of the defense I think that's when rival maybe start to
find themselves in 5% situations.
Obviously that was a one or four if there's more to follow here.
Setting themselves up with a pretty classical extension for this second
round, so investment cash side. There's plenty of utility though, laid on the
objective as well, which will prevent anything dramatic in terms of a direct
push here from rival. No hard breach denial here from the defense means that
Razor can deploy all three, all his exothermics. It'll be pretty straight forward.
And as I mentioned before like statistically neither seemed good when it
comes to entries but the strength of rival is actually their conversion they're
the best team in the league when it comes to their attacking conversion sitting at 83% so if they do win that
Q battle start around
That is a strength of Bez
In comparison seven who sit much lower at 70%
third last in the league
And Piggie does go down to proxy
We'll see if we can put that statistic to the task here as well in the second round
So we're gonna start for rival
And Jim better now a little bit vulnerable you've lost pink you've now lost walls there guys the exam in another critical battle
Chef Jeff with the the question mark and rightfully so
I'm sure my wall shit's even there to begin with and with quits half-pulled while G. This is a very weak in seven
Yeah, the first clue as well top red was absolutely spot-on in terms of the uter layer there from the attack
and now afforded themselves a massive advantage with a lot of time it's all
about being clinical from this point. Quicks gets caught, Redables immediately
drops, rolls into the second, it should be flawless here from rival. Press falling
two. They look switched on here, clubhouse attack. You're gonna take a time out here
with your seven, two defensive rounds lost on on club to begin with. You're
losing the early battles, positioning is a little all over the place and yeah time out called.
Rightfully so they got a bit to kind of talk over here. I think the biggest thing is just
you think about the first round five stack basement nothing wrong with that but it's a very
defensive minded approach you're giving space. Space is then afforded and taken and then that
allows for the attack of rival to get into different positions. They're able to play
they were able to play Pop Main, they were able to play Blue.
So you get overwhelmed, because you're just not really defending up above.
Then in the second round, you try and spread out a little bit,
but you're in these isolated positions, you lose top red, you lose lounge,
and suddenly then at the 5v3, people try and fall back to site,
but you're just all over the place, so they just don't look set, they don't look ready.
Time out very much required, there's a lot on the line here.
Your organization, you want to make finals, as you said before,
If you make finals, well at that point you're one of four teams two spots. It's doable
You could just have one really good day and that could be the difference
Back down to basement out of the time out and this feels must win something pressure is already at boiling point because if you lose this round
Basement defense again and Rob will go three in a lot and out of your tactical time out
You stare down the barrel of defeat three rounds already in
Yeah, we need to see a dramatic step up here from 7, because Rival looked locked in, and
Weddable's in particular looking locked in there with a nice player, LogiSide, a player
that has certainly had a very rough stage particularly early on.
I think a lot of that probably, when you factor in some of the behind the scenes struggles
of the team with roles and all that, and Weddable's probably having to take on initially
a lot of responsibility. He's played very much full at the beginning of the stage, but
as we've kind of heard that pressure has been alleviated a little bit going forward.
He's been given a bit more freedom to worry more about his own individual play.
All eyes onto 7 now for ground number 3. Down to basement. A lot more active off
site and Bayley will find the first kill so much better positive science here
instead of the bunker down turtle I think they're playing a much more
natural playstyle here well I think just offering a little bit of aggression
almost like alright let's start playing let's start shooting let's try and make
this a bit more scrappy we'll throw a little bit more pressure at them on the
first floor and it works you catch our chef Jeff you get the opening kill
And even here we've seen teams more than happy when you're playing basement on club 5v4 you get that first pick
You can now if you want to go play that five stack down below
Now they are opting not to take that mindset
Essentially doubling down still on some of these positions hence why rival have just kind of slowed their approach
Holding some of these positions. You're timing with the keeper barrier from quicks to help pink who get through from lounge down secret and
7 will consolidate and as they should you know just over 90 seconds left in the round
Razor one killed from Walsh onto a razor. Well now they look well settled in this round
Hey mom out of the tuck time out. This is what they needed
Yeah, absolutely
It was an early call and somewhat bold, but very much in hindsight a good one
The rival will continue their fight here in the third, but there is low percentage from
here on a style of sight like this, it would 7 still in strong positions, but it will remain
up above to hold that cross up main, and if anyone gets to venture back down he has the
defuser in the meantime pressure to be laid through blue.
targets also available here for the rival in an attempt to isolate the dockerby.
Acog looked to charge forward. Stalled out though by the Goyo. Only 40 seconds remain.
That was a needed kill for a rival.
The Wettables just can't push forward due to the flames.
the tines starting to dwindle looking more and more unlikely for rival and
this they could just get a flurry of kills look at payload from proxy onto
walls there's another one from poxy into arsenal they lose a cock on the black
beer proxy then with another kill and wetables will go for the plant in
trusting proxy for the cover surely not shuts down walls you trade from
prez wetables did get the plant down it's the old heads the old guard
Prez vs. Wettables in the 1v1. Prez has got an health advantage. Wettables playing on top of
the kit with a reinforced wall to his right side. Wettables catches Prez running. He clotches up
for rival. They steal the round out of the time out. But all of the good done from 7
and rectifying some of the earlier issues in the first two rounds because they still walk away
way with the round loss. That was some impressive play there and composure from rival.
There's just a straight up blue stack there, but they were able to maneuver their way through
and break those crossfires and that trade potential that was available there. And Chef
Jeff is letting them know about it in all chat and I think that that kind of approach
is clearly working at the moment getting in their heads. Positive 3-0 start, rival, also
preventing the conversion there from the tactical timeout. That is a huge round. And more than
anything now it's a mental test for 7 because I think strategically that last round was their
best and sure you can question the late round. I think a lot of that was more such
execution and rival
Making some good moves now. It's mental like if the immediate reaction from seven after losing that round is
Checking out and basically thinking well, we're gonna lose this game immediately then
But they're probably really already have
but if they can you know muster off the courage to continue fighting here and
And sort of shrugged that result off that they need
I think to be fair to your benchmark here in an attack a side of game a club is more than fine
So that's it. That's is oh my god
Yes, which I could be I think it could be but I
Have to eventually start mounting rounds and it doesn't get easier from here
Clubhouse is
Getting at 67% defensive winner in this region through for I just played which is the second most
They map in this region.
The city will be now tied with layer and at the conclusion of this game for first.
So it's a pretty good sample size.
And you kind of just look at the opening three rounds and it's three different
players with with multi kills in the first round.
A cog, he got the three kills baseman site on the round and the second round
Wettables with the three kills and then in that previous round how good was boxy on the doc could be the kills that he got really gave them a
Chance Wettables got the plant down wins the 1v1. So it's not like they're getting smashed
It's taking some really strong individual efforts and why but that now needs to be then
Translated by seven who's gonna be the one to to stand up a little bit more individually?
Jeff Jeff
That Jeff is definitely not gonna mute. I think Walsh is getting a little tilted.
They're just gonna walk on in. This is aggressive and raise their good backfire.
Rest in position, airs known.
Bailey and Razer both go down 3v3.
Rival wanted to pick up the pace here.
And why not with the way that they're playing right now? The pace is set.
They are just rapid 4-1 lead on the attacker club.
We said this was kind of difficult to predict and I made the joking comment. This could end up being one-sided based off
The history of this region expect the unexpected and right now this has been totally unexpected
Again, I I really did think that if this was to be a one-sided game
It would be seven with the ability to run away with it and some of those key players
Unfortunately just have been struggling so far both pink and walsh of I suppose being
major the curse going into this matchup both one and four as it stands they've
been absolutely contained so far in this match up and rather found a whole
another level both wetables and proxy particular having standout
performances that's not to discount from a cog I believe it also is mounting
numbers of cheffcheff in terms of his just impact if I need some of these
key picks has been huge as well with a 2-1 entry so things going from bad to worse for
7 and these next two rounds I think it's fair to frame them as must win if they
don't win these next two the chances of top four are mine you I think it's already
I mean we want to be completely blunt this if this were like play date so I'd
be calling it already this would if this were just something that maybe didn't
have an overall defining
Yeah, I mean
Kind of be honest
I probably call this one and say before attacking rounds of club in this region is unprecedented in terms of losing from this position
And also just the general play I mean seven it's getting completely beaten up in all facets. They're losing the opening battles
They're allowing rival to get these multi kill rounds without anyone from seven being able to do something similar
And now they look a little bit scared but I mean you're playing gym bedroom, a standard
cash hold, you're just going to hold these angles, okay nevermind Walsh actually backs
himself in, gets the kill on the proxy, well that's not scared at all, that's a big play.
And they can actually still hold this position now if they like, without the grimdies,
Little bit less more information available to rival.
Probably needed to get ACOG a little bit quicker in towards CCTV just to block that doorway swing.
It's not the first time that Seven have got the open kill in this half.
Chef Jeff lurking up top main stairs. They lose a razor.
Chef Jeff needed to win this, and he does, but it's only Chef Jeff and ACOG left.
They're on the board defensively for clubhouse.
We're hard down one to four and it's a long way back.
But as you said, you get this next round,
close out the half to four.
Who knows could end up being a more open attacking club.
And that's what they've got a bank or now going into the
second half.
They don't have timeouts.
They can't reset mentally.
They've just got to do what they have to do.
What's in front of them.
And that's when attacking around on club.
mentally they've just got to do what they have to do what's in front of them and that's when attacking rounds on club
Still have yet big importance on this next round. I don't think it's
majorly being
Confidence problems for them so far in this match
Rifle have looked just incredibly sharp and real brutal in the late round
Doing a better job there to disrupt some of that playmaking potential
even once the likes of Chef Jeff and the player outside jacuzzi were thinking about going for that sort of plan C attack
they've done enough elsewhere where even if they found a pick or do it through it
it was unlikely to change the outcome of the round
defending cash and CCTV for the sixth round
as the the old China continues but it was to jump on to the Monty for round number six
only the second appearance of the Monty in half last time out it was ACOG
the bulls has been largely playing verdant the twitch slash lion in this match maybe indicative
Let me see your garage site hit.
Here we go.
Stay back.
Swapping!
Big round from Walsh, first multi-kill round for 7.
They got the opening kills, so Abel just finally had a round where they dominated from start to finish.
I'm not sure how much I think they're clear.
Well, you know what though, Chef Jeff has looked very, very lively here in Clubhouse.
Just this movement around the map on the attack.
They expect him to do similar kind of plays on the defense.
And play those kind of like lurk positions.
Maybe there's some Scopus.
Watch feeling the pressure over towards Rafters.
They ate the call.
They could be a little bit of help from Brez as well, and they should make a launch
Yeah, he's gonna go down doesn't get that helping time they clear out rafters got to see the Monty plate
That's why you breathe the Monty
Now the opening kill for rival ideal with the Azami and with that they've got themselves a good position close to site
Yeah, pretty efficient clear all things considered they do have to invest a lot of utility for it though
So maybe strapped for late-round
around U2 layering. That said, still the one grenade for Chef Jeff, double flash for a
Razor as well. So they could look to flush out top of red using their utility, but it
was very positions though. So they may look to talk hard right breach here, go for the
plant close. Maybe to try and throw off the defense here. We do have limited denial.
Remember the point in trying to create pressure as well towards red stairs. Pinko while
flashed able to get the kill into a Razor. The plant will not be successful either.
proxy having to get off go to the kill and he gets a second one again gets them
both pink who's barely falling to proxy leaves it down a press and while he does get to kill the
chef chat still needs to deal with the doc could be and a cog 30 seconds left
trying to go for the chocolate cake I call press has to answer it or not and
it doesn't even get the chance rival will go five one up a devastating
attacking half
I can't let you go.
I can't let you go.
I can't let you go.
I understand, baby
I'm going to go straight to the first half, not the way that we expected it to go, guys.
5-1 lead from a fire attacking rounds to rival esports.
That's that one up now perfectly.
Two rounds away from locking in finals, it's as simple as that and they're on the
different side of clock.
Seven-four, this will play day two, I'd be saying this one's done, but who knows?
so much on the line for seven they don't have their timeouts anymore it starts here and now can they
call this back and turn this into an attack aside a clubhouse
you know none of us have a crystal ball so it's impossible to tell i think it is possible that
we see a fight back but the prevailing numbers for a one to five half-time score come back
are incredibly low. It's rare for a reason. It's going to be reliant on them being near
flawless for the remainder of this matchup even to just push over time is going to be
tricky and that's not even probably fairly factoring in just how well rival played in
this matchup. It has been a truly dominant half. There's been very few winnable rounds
for 7 and so this is going to take an almighty comeback. It would be an all-timer if
they're able to flip this result. I just have to go one round at a time from this
point. It's basement up first. Rifle looking formidable at the moment and I
wouldn't be too surprised if we see a bit of off-site action here from rifle in
an attempt to maybe chip away drone economy or be a little bit disruptive
but it doesn't look like it's this case that it will be too much in terms of
off-site pressure here. It'll be pretty well calibrated here from the defense to
try and force you to clearance.
Okay there's one saving grace for seven is that they can win this in overtime and
still qualify it's not a case of regulation otherwise you know there's
even less room for error. I mean, it could you imagine if this were even one point for
rival having been enough? Yeah, this would probably be done. There's just no room, but
they get one round to give up because it doesn't really matter if this goes to OT or not, if
you get seven. They probably need to win this round right here and maybe the next
as well. I think if you give up one of the next two rounds, it becomes so much
more difficult. I mean the way it kind of stands rival just have to win basement. That's it. The
other sides are irrelevant. You win basement here you win it next time when it opens up if you've
done the job. Yep. And even if you lose it here then win it then when it opens up again again job
done. So you can just see how difficult it's going to be for seven. Pink who caught as the hatch
is opening proxy gets his eighth kill of the game. What a stage he's had so far. He's
really turning into one of the top players in the region because the consistency this stage
has probably been his strong suit as well. He's rated both best in the region, only behind
player Bapin and Jigsaw. That's some strong company to be in ahead of finals,
but which is looking more and more likely for him and his team.
60 seconds remains and there's very little pressure now and rather to be the play makers,
they can look to again force you to a clearance here look to try and split the
numbers of the attack they have the the clash shield of what it was to play
which makes the blue side pinch increasingly challenging and as long
as I don't fall victim to the vert which I think their reposition well can
not be the case it's so tricky to foresee an attacking round wind from
here they'll be limited options it could end up being it's even gonna be a
kitch drop or a triple wall hit maybe facilitated by the range hard
breach of the Hibana. Either option though is going to be super tough here.
Motor drop also a potential nitrocell for chef and 25 seconds on the clock for
7 in what is a crucial round. They have to show success on basement and as it
stands it doesn't look likely on this first attempt. Probably down a wall just
find some kills here and flood slide along with the rest of the team 10
seconds. So red sign we go. Numbers still up for rival. Quicks is the one
that got the pig and a second as well and a third three from quits walls also got one but there's only a second left
The razor sits in the hallway time stops to expire. This is it. He just has to find where wall she's planting knows exactly where he is
It got a little spicy at the end rival get to six
That felt like the hail Mary play from seven and it falls short
five
match points
Five final points for rival
That was a chaotic end to the round and it looked like seven were maybe just going to be able to clutch up
But the final two attackers that was so split in distance was a door-dye gunfight
In the two versus one it goes the way arrival and
now five
Match points in what is potentially going to be the most unexpected blowout of the stage
This is a dual-tie matchup for a final's position
And I'm rather on reflection of time there pink over the course of this stage absolutely two perfection
They're playing phenomenally tonight. They've risen to the occasion
And for seven
And it seems like the Newark Curse has gone in the most imperfective moments.
I saw in chat by the way that Chef Jeff said that this is why a race is the best clutch
player in the league and statistically he is.
That was his seventh clutch battle that has been in and he won it.
So four wins from seven clutch attempts and no one's even remotely close.
In fact, he's the only player in the league that has got more than one clutch, and he's
got four.
So that's been a real highlight from a raise at this stage, which is quite surprising.
I would have thought, hang on, surely someone else has got at least two clutches, no.
You've got 21 players in the region that have got at least one clutch, and he's
the only one that's got more than one.
a strange statistic but that's down number four from a razor and what a time to do it because it
looked like that was going against them it looks like it looked like the flood for seven was gonna
work and I said jokingly at the side of this game when you were kind of talking about this should
be close and it should have been close I said well it's gonna be one sided now I can't believe
it's actually come to fruition and in this fashion too I am attacking rounds in the first
half of rival they win out close one on basement gym bedroom now and it just has
all the hallmarks of this one being over it would take an all-time come back now
from seven if they could get this to overtime it's probably the best
comeback for the stage in any region
I'll clean start there with pink who finding the head of a razor and proxy
it falls as well again it's all well and good for seven farm rounds on these
sides it's basing that will be the difference maker in this matchup they
still have to fight their way back to that position and doing a good job here in
round number eight but it was we'll maybe try and position lodging put it up a
final stand chef Jeff to hold 90 and double down with a cock bathroom
I don't go past a deep or spot both of them though I know we're all three are
now basically one lodging one towards the jacuzzi breach one inside of
bathroom. So it's an easy pick here for seven, five, eight, three. But they're not rushing
into the due diligence, create a space in the gym, press one of the window, watching
that's Bailey. He gets both and it looks like we will need more rounds on clubhouse
floors from seven, somewhat a case of a little too late. As you said, really, there's
only one site that now matters in this half. It's going to be basement. You can win gym
bedroom. You can win cash and CCTV. At some point you're going to have to win basement
and that's going to prove to be a very difficult task, but all seven can do is play what's
in front of them. They get past the first obstacle. Unfortunately, there's four more
to get through. I'll start to believe if you can get to four six and obviously then
at that point, one of those is basement. And then once you get, if you can get
it to 4-6 and probably force the time out of rival and it's a little bit more doable.
There's suddenly lights at the end of the tunnel and it's such a long way back.
Now I don't think rival are going to change up or if you're concerned just get a look
to play their style and see if it can convert over to cash and at CCTV for this particular
round. Seven probably shaping up for the garage clear with the Monty and the
Capitale. Laz as well can certainly aid on that entry and make Chef Jeff
Slife, if he's to presume the position over the world's raft is a little more difficult.
Seems as if the rival are a little more interested in horizontal extension, both
down below through the vessel, headed by the castle. They also have
rotates Jim through bedroom and they can play fullback from that spot as well.
So I'd be curious to see if they even concern themselves with the testing
garage all that much keeping in mind that buck garage is soft and this may
bait in the push from garage maybe that is ultimately the plan here from
rival is they hope they hit this. Proxy is set up there with a little bit of
utl in the form of kidney barriers but no dedicated capture and that means that the
lowering of utl here in the flood would be really effective here from seven if they play it correctly
it's critical that Bailey places these bolts right, Walsh might be in position
his wall to land in there, jab, etc, etc. See if they identified that and if they end up
committing to that side of the map.
I'm reloading.
Halfway through this round, Pinko, the first one to take damage.
pretty obvious they're going to need to clear out this rafter's position need to do so quickly
and probably without losing anyone proxy is going to get cleared
they barely just afforded the stairs to push up
i think proxy did enough there is there's not quite a bit of time in utility he's
not really expected to do much they maybe get one kill but even that with no catch
is tough so not the worst for him and there's only a minute now on the clock
Seven still have to be pretty clinical from here chef Jeff to work over towards oil pit a little late though on the timing
English drones so chef Jeff shoots that and not gonna be able to push oil pit
Probably will come up secret maybe then push garage from secret
30 seconds, this is gonna be seven looking to push in
So they've got a double cross here at the breach and then at the CC window rival keeping themselves pretty tough
They do have double nitro for the server rack plant chef chef spots one lounge
But that also kind of locks him away
I guess chef job is locked himself into secret plants going down from prayers if this goes off. This is very widable to seven
Maybe on one HP. We can play the postplate shield up where it was caught in the window good cross here out still by seven
And a razor will need another another clutch
Seven been able to take cash and CC TV and will now get this to three six. Okay two in a row
their comebacks always start off looking impossible but they happen for a
reason and one round of the time mentality there's two straight on the
attack clearly you've shown you can do it clearly you've shown you've got the
capabilities when you employ the right strategy and execute nicely and that's
what it was good clear towards Rafters took a little time as you said I think
proxy did a decent enough job once it got cleared there was no response
from rival and then they got themselves CC, kennels, plant went down, no denial with the
nitrosol press stays alive and that's the round. So I mean I think rival got to really lock in a
little bit here out of the timeout that's coming at the halftime break as well. So they get an
extended time to really chat over they know they're going to go basement they know they can close
us out here and now. But instead of this gets to four six then there's some troubles
because it would mean three straight and your timeout has expired and you haven't found success.
Then that's only two more to go for seven with a lot on the line it would shift that pressure back over to rival
Absolutely if Robert don't close out the game here after this round after this tack on the most optimal site
They will be backed into a corner and even if the school and suggests they're still in a strong position
I I think that the momentum would absolutely be against them at that point and they end up enter a really dangerous territory
where the match could spiral out of control pretty quickly and OT could come by quite fast.
So the attack timeout concludes the half a chat over at this basement site.
A quick reflection of the previous round but the roster screw is pretty clean.
A lack of plant and all that pretty costly.
Chef Jeff got boxed out.
Eraser's nitro was not in play.
And a pretty traditional cross being held there from the CC window and the main breach
in the end so it was clinical from seven as we look towards basement now rival
electing to go with a pretty on-site heavy hold based on these operator
selections critically quad nitro so they're gonna be willing to forfeit a
lot of this map control they'll be hoping that maybe they can pluck a pick or
to avert or either main and then retain maybe a nitro or too late for the blue
blue drop, all for the kitchen drop. For 7 on the flip side they line up very standard
here on basement. They've got more than enough secretary hard breach to deal with anything
they require. They've got Bailey for hatches and the ranged triple wall. But a tense round
for both of these two teams. Not no better than anyone just how critical this site was
going into it and now that it's come into fruition it means that seven probably with a bit of
extra motivation sensing that they could really start seriously going for this comeback and maybe
for Rival just a little bit of friction now as they cut things over in that tucked time out and
really look to lock in here for this round. Well the next three rounds how many of those are
going to be on basements you reckon like genuinely Rival lose this so they go they're
probably go back at least one more time they lose that what do you do then do you go
You want Rival to have to think that through in the decision-making get the team talking about oh, this is not working
We have to go talk
That's what seven can achieve especially if they win this round start to put a couple of question marks and doubts
And and sort of the success which for seven has also been in the multi-kill department started three straight for rival dominated
But now it's actually the last four multi-kill rounds have come from seven Welsh 3k
Quicks 3k Bailey back-to-back three case
Three straight themselves in the last couple rounds have also started to get a couple more opening kills the conversion rate so far after nine rounds played
He's talking about eight to one. So the first piece a pretty crucial here in this match
I think largely because attack has been doing quite well
Which is why don't mind the five stack here for rival
They're just trying to bank on, disrupting their attack, find a pick, bring it back then to a 5v4 defense favor, force them to have to flood site, force them to have to win the game.
But that's been a strength of 7 in the last couple of rounds. They've shown they've got the ability for individuals to go and get multi-kills and that's probably what's going to be needed on this site.
47 seconds, 5v5, still 2 nitros available and 3 gaspents, so a lot of utility for the defense.
defense. They've used Chew to no effect, I think still having two in pockets, gold gas babes
in my ear as well here from proxy, probably blue side.
Oh, wetables.
Oh, wetables falls.
You have to win that battle. He didn't land a single tank, by the way. He dies Moto.
Walsh is then able to push and get the kill onto a razor. The back line is starting to get decimated.
Seven are starting to believe
But a cock shuts down pinkoo and we get low on time
Chef chef catches Prez Bailey able to win his battle still the advantage for seven
Where's that kid though picked up by Bailey into church will go for the plant Welsh goes down proxy with a shot
Come finishes him off swing cover coming through quicks Bailey has to stick it
He cannot and it all comes to an end just like that
that started to get a little bit dicey and even in that round it started to look like
maybe seven could steal basement but they cannot rival steal a spot in finals. All stage long
in the bottom four and on the very last playday they get into the top four. Time for their
run perfectly will be featuring in the finals next week as they get past seven. Well
well deserved, strong first half, a 7-3 score lane.
And we'll see what they can do next week in the final four.
Yeah, it's gotta be a sweet feeling for these guys.
It has been a very challenging stage
with everything that's going on.
They probably didn't believe that they'd be able
to make the top four as it stands.
And given just how strong their trajectory has been
over the last few play days,
I really don't think there's a reason
they can't go in to finals with the belief that top two if they play at that potential if they
continue to improve there is a possibility it's not a complete fantasy for them. This match in
particular they got up to such a strong start I cannot believe just how one side of that first
half was and even while things got a little dicey there in the second half and even in the very
final round it felt like there was a window of opportunity where Basin wasn't going to be
there is if they lost that round that probably played out very differently. O-Team would have
been extremely likely in my opinion but they were able to bunker back down and recompose themselves
and that rounds in some ways a reflection of their stage. Even up early they were able to come home
strong and finals is now very much an opportunity for them to be the biggest upsetter of all four
teams they probably have the least expectation on them but I still believe they could be
be dangerous. What do you make of 7 and their end to the stage because it looked as if it
was going to be a promising stage considering the line up good youth Walsh was top 5 rated
having a breakout stage one after a debut kickoff a lot went right this stage but ultimately
they miss out on fighters. Yeah it's going to be a real rough debrief for those guys
they'll feel like they probably should have finished top 4 but again put strong potential
and I'm excited to see them in
stage two. Let's go to our
interview from rival eSports.
It's the ever lovable
Wettables. Congratulations on
qualifying for finals, mate. It
took you guys until the very
last playday to get into the
top four, but it's the only
playday where it matters the
most. Does it feel a little
bit of a relief just to have
qualified got into finals and
now the real season begins.
pride of this has been top six so it's like significantly easier to make it top four it's
very cutthroat like like he said seven they played well all season they came back from two six threes
they probably deserve to be here like as much as we do as much as all the other teams do so it
is a very cutthroat system um you know you lose 1v1 and it literally can destroy your entire
like chance of being there so yeah it's definitely a relief but jobs are done you know they can't
celebrating yet. We're going to beat those teams in the playoffs for the L3s from now.
Yeah, obviously not celebrating yet, but still a big performance for you guys, especially considering
the start of the stage, right? It was incredibly rough. I know we've voted in the interviews. How
does the feeling right now of making top four with this team under these circumstances, maybe
compared to other years gone by where maybe you've been on the strongest team or whatever the
case may have been? Does it feel a little bit different being able to fight back the way
in which you have? Oh, it definitely feels very different. Like as you said, we went through
some pretty shit things at the start like last minute roster change but going to the first week
we're kind of lucky that we did verse like the the two better teams in the region in chips EP
because like on paper they're the games you know you'd expect to lose if you take a point off them
or you do beat them but you know like it nothing like it's all good from there but if you do lose
you just take away what you can and build off that and we said guys this is like a longer
the process thing. If we just work on our shit day in day out, we're just going to improve.
And I think the last two weeks have kind of shown where we're focusing and just our improvement
as well.
When it was obviously now you guys played the seven play days for me, I feel like there's
a clearer picture of the identity of the team proxy, what a standout stage he's had
so far. He's he's top four rated like you're talking about the only players in
the region that have a higher rating than proxy, a player, Batman and Jigsaw like
That's some pretty good company erases the best clutch play out statistically. You've got chef chef who can do just about anything
The clear identity of the team to me suggests you guys can compete for a spot at EWC
Do you get the same feeling now seven days in you've worked out the issues with in terms of roster, etc
That that identity is there now. Oh, definitely. I think, you know, look, I'll use my one bomb proxy little fucking beast
right? Like I'll use my one bomb now. Yeah he's a beast like that 2v5 or 3v5 he had a 30 second he
walked down blue got like three kills the SMG 12. He's the reason we run that round it's just
single handedly it's how to route like he does that so often he's a beast and he's like this is
his virtual first stage of pro league if you count kickoff short he didn't play any comp he made
lcq with the old team of this like kickoff had a rough stage you know like whatever happened
and then he's the first proper like the actual stage of pro league. I've raised that he's one of the smartest people I've met after the game.
Again, yeah, he I think he plays matches to like range more than aim. That's why he has so many and I think Jeff is just I don't know Jeff is just sending just whatever you want.
He apparently just gets killed.
last one before we let you go, obviously you touched on it, I want to just bring it back
regarding only the four slots to make finals previously. It used to be, you know, top six
even if you think about the end of last year, we had seven teams, six made finals. It was
a very different feeling when you consider you've been around a long time and you consider
this stage, eight teams top four make finals, two slots, EWC. Do you feel like it's
just completely risen the competition levels in this stage and we've seen the quality
improved because of it? I think the host has been getting better and better even since when back when
I was on the like you know bliss and stuff like every stage when I was even on bliss I said the
region's getting better and better and like yeah as you see man LFO getting better like the current
chiefs roster is actually looking like in prime form like EP the two budget top eight I think
we're coming into form that like seven or I don't know how that's saying or they're coming
in the problem. So Academy beat Chiefs in EP. Like the region isn't getting worse. They're
getting better. I think there's micro things that one percentage it seems need to improve
on and work out and I'll jump to that next level. That's it.
Yeah. I agree with you all hardly. Anything you like to say wet before we let you go?
Alright. Shout out you guys. Shout out the org. And is playoffs by the way, is that
big board bastard come back from playoffs or what?
He is. You'll be seeing him. Don't worry. Make sure of it.
Can we just keep what we have here?
Because I can just as good.
No.
I mean, I don't know if we're going to be doing
leads to interviews, mate.
So you've got to win if you want to tap the big ball, man.
Catch you guys.
Thank you so much.
Best of luck in finals.
Catch you next week.
Bye bye.
The rival get the job done.
7-3 after a 6-1 lead goes.
They blew open the game in the first half
with their attack in prowess.
And it's saying to where it feels like there's
clear identity to rival going into the final four which is now locked in. Yeah, it's gonna make the
finals so tantalizing. Rival aren't just in the mix. They're not making a fringe. No, yeah, exactly.
I think that's probably the better way to frame it. They're not just making up numbers. They could
be a threat at their best. I don't think they'll, I think fourth is fair, right? They're not going
to go into those matches, I don't think as favorites, but it's the kind of form where at
their best it only takes the other teams to be off by a couple of percent or lacking the one percent is
what we're talking about for them to potentially you know get some good results so the farmers
are going to be absolutely insane with how four teams now locked well one of those teams that he
said was peaking at the right time is cheese they will play arcade after the break a good
final warm-up and maybe a reminder the rest of the competition that they are the team to beat
I think that there are quite a lot of characters in the music, and each character has a different type of gun.
But if you have a different type of gun, there will be only a group of characters that have different types of guns.
But in the music, there are a lot of guns.
There are different types of guns.
It makes me feel fun to play music.
I like to play with the sound,
I can feel the sound,
like a pop sun in OG.
I can feel the sound,
like a team.
That's why I like to play like that.
It might be something that
has a lot of playability,
and has a lot of gun and ability.
It makes me feel fun to play with it.
I feel that the delay of the game is the update of the game more often than the counter.
The counter has only a map, but the scene has an update about the character and the map.
I'm the only one who is in the game, but I also have a friend to play with.
I feel that I'm playing very well and I'm in a good mood.
If someone sees me, they can't remember my name, but they can see me playing well.
If I'm a strong player, I feel that those who play well don't have a lot of talent.
Everyone plays their own style.
But if it's a competition, everyone is serious, everyone is serious.
Everyone plays their own style, has a plan.
Depending on the level that everyone plays their own style,
everyone plays their own style.
If there's a team that's good, there's a team that's serious,
This is a good thing for me because if the team doesn't give up,
the competition will be a big part of the competition.
If there is a good atmosphere for the team,
I think we have to give time to it,
give time to the competition,
give time to the staff,
give time to the team,
stay with them and stay with the team.
There is something to say to make it stronger,
stronger, stronger, until the championship.
I
to be returned for our 3rd
match of the evening. Chiefs
versus Arcade, of course, not
really much to gain on this
particular game. Guys when you
kind of look at the grand scheme
They have a plus 10 round differential over man, eSports, LFO who are playing enterprise
and enterprise can't catch up to cheese as it stands either.
So not a lot for cheese to gain, other than maintaining good form ahead of finals next
week.
We'll go and look at RK in terms of what they can gain, a first point for the stage.
I mean, that is basically it.
They're definitely locked in for eight as it stands, six matches played, six regular
losses minus 24 round differential.
unfortunately the team at the bottom of the standing towards been clearly a cut through a competition this stage
Yeah, absolutely that they do have an
Extreme outside potential throwing off that top spot
But they need to basically demolish chiefs in this matchup and even winning looks like a very low percentage
Forms it's in the beta rock stage and have a quite connected world as a roster and hence going into the night sitting at a negative
24 round differential
That game got incompletely obliterated in every game. I think there's been some okay signs from them in a couple of matchups
Arguably the last playday from them is probably one of their better showings of five seven result
Against shy Academy as we look at the highlights from that currently and they play pretty well across the board in that matchup over on where
Have to get three defensive rounds to an attack a seven five is a coin flick the best of one
So they're a little bit hard done by to not walk away with any points in that one
But yeah, unfortunately, this is not being a stage to remember
No, it hasn't. I think what they could try and do in this last game is to have a bit of fun, see what they can do.
There's zero pressure against the top team, good way to test yourself, glorified scrim when it comes to arcade these boards.
On the flip side, I think for Chiefs, really, you do want to close the stage out as best possible to demolish your opponent,
pick up a kind of 7-1-7-2 sort of result, look clean, look comfortable, and then the real stuff begins for them next week,
where with two slots, them being one of the four teams,
Chiefs right now look in a really good position
to qualify for these sports World Cup.
You don't wanna mess with anything.
You don't wanna go into this sort of game
and just thinking it's gonna be a walk in the park.
Let's just play for fun.
I think Chiefs need to stay locked in,
a good chance to maybe even try some strategies
and ultimately see what they can do
in bringing to life strategies
for whatever map that they've chosen in this game.
Yeah, absolutely. Let's look across at their opposition for tonight. And it is the best of the best currently in host chiefs
for the standings 16 points for these guys and a team that has found some really good form at a good moment in time.
And look, there's certainly question marks, I think for them heading into the stage as to if they were the real deal.
And as it stands, they absolutely are. They should walk into finals with that number one seed.
We'll see how influential that ultimately ends up being when the bracket plays out
I don't think seating is going to be massively influential
But if they can get at least one step closer to that upper bracket final
It it means that they'd be very very close to a top two finish
So excited to see the Chiefs tonight in a matchup where they should just be able to flex their muscles
Yeah, I mean players being the best player this stage long
132 EPS plus nine over second place Bapin. He's got a 2.06 KD
The next best is bappin with 1.55. He's got the highest KPI. It's got the second highest percent in terms of entry percentage
8 and 1 is his entry statistics this stage. He's picked up 73 Ks, 1 4k,
77% cost. He's got the second highest survival percentage only behind Brenda 47 percent Brenda 49 percent
He's even got a plant at some point in this stage
We're talking about easily the MVP of the regular season and I don't think you're gonna see anything
to change that tonight, unless he goes and drops 0-10 and even then, I think if that would
happen, he'd probably still be in the top three.
That's how good a stage he's at.
So while you don't get awards and rewarded for the regular season and he's going to
need to maintain that ahead of finals to come, he's easily been the best player in
the region.
And that's, you know, a real story for him after being dropped and quote-unquote
discarded from the previous enterprise roster, for him to bounce back the way he's done,
double down and have his best stage of his career be the number one player in the region.
It's a testament to his character.
On the map videos are ready so let's have a look at across the map that this match will
take place on.
I've already spoiled it myself and as you'll come to see I am absolutely thrilled with
this one.
Woo!
Cafe!
Yay!
To be fair Arcade, I was starting out on defense so that will give them a little
bit of a safety net.
Maybe they can pluck a couple of rounds for cheese the nature of this map means that I would say it's one of the
More challenging maps generally it is a little bit up
Independent but generally more difficult to be really dominant on with some of the sites having such tough entry
But let's see how they go about it. All right, let's get underway. It's first versus eight
It's an opportunity for cheese to
Play out cafe. It's one of their band maps guys, so they don't pick it
They typically will ban it, at least that's been the case at this stage.
They've only had the one result which was against Rival 7, 3, back 20 days ago.
The RK, they actually have 1-0 record and it's a high preference map for them.
So they're probably a little bit surprised that it hasn't been able to get through.
They actually beat 6 targets back in kickoff 7-0 on this map.
So clearly will be comfortable.
I look at this as an opportunity for Cheese to prepare that map pull ahead of finals to come.
They want to make sure they're ready for anything.
They want to make sure that, you know,
if cafe, for example, is a decided map,
are they going to be able to be ready for it?
So go and test their strategies on cafe.
And what's even better, I think for them,
is they're attacking in this first half,
rather than defending.
So they get to really double down
on the actual strategy side of things
in their attacking half,
which is typically more often on cafe,
more tricky to get that kind of going.
We've only seen cafe once this stage.
I'm not going to bother with the statistics on the stage, but as we know with cafe
It's not exactly an ultra attacker side of that has gotten a bit better with age
But yeah, this would be a good opportunity for chiefs and also a good opportunity for arcade to test results against 18
Who is of high quality but also kind of testing themselves this game too. So it might give arcade a couple more opportunities
So, Glazwing and Mera Solos spanned out for the first three rounds of the half.
Okay, with nothing to lose, but I'm probably going to play a pretty default set here.
Castle available, so they'll go for the extension that makes shop a little bit more playable.
They've got catch as well, so Piano will be marked as off limits for the attack.
I'll be intrigued to see what troops look to go for in this verse, right?
I thought that perhaps it'd be a warden which we see in a modern pocket play or some kind of aggro play
skylight that may still
Potentially be the case they could project I'll dump and go for it, but it's probably unlikely
And they have plenty of explosives
and Dima to deal with
Any you tool on the
Piano side of the map if they so wish
There was only an interesting decision here from the defense, it wasn't favourable and
I typically expect that here on land but I guess they exchange that for the castle instead
and it's a little less aggressive here from the defense.
It's looking very mutual to do with the double castle barricade facing into wood
shot asses now under immediate pressure, a bit like track stings as well will just
look to contain his position for the moment. There's a good test for Chiefs
tonight and just being able to systematically break down defense try to
manipulate the attack. The test of their ability asses very low is on I was
gonna say on radar but that's the track stinger actually debilitating
here at the moment the debuff now as he looks to scramble to cover up really
given nowhere to go now the second he moves really will be netted to kill that
nade though doesn't flush him out okay hold on for a little while longer second
nade to follow oh maybe not they missed that one as well it's lovely here from
the cheese oh no no try to kill her again yeah that has really uptick
hasn't it in the last month or so it felt like after the CJ's release that it
happened eventually subsided. So a minute under the clock and yeah it hasn't been
the cleanest of attacks from Chiefs but this is what you want final game of the
stage it's not so much about your opponent it's about what you're trying
to do. You've got all week to what review go back over things be more
better prepared the next time that you do have to play cafe which might
have to take place in finals pending the vetoes and the best of threes.
Only seconds left in the round, still quiet on all fronts.
Jay Kenner though, and player at the exact same time.
Vyna Kiel-Ease on the top of Starks.
Neptune goes down, but Loyalith, his position known towards cocktail, easy trade.
Chiefs get the round win.
I think on paper, it's a W.
But if they were to break that round back down in VodReview sessions,
There's probably quite a bit more they could have done to be a little cleaner and be also a little bit quicker
You take the win in the match. That's great
But I think cheese so look at that a little bit of sloppiness and and that could also be a case of you know
This is a match that clearly has zero repercussions where essentially watching a live scream right now
Pretty much
So I'll start though for Chiefs, there's some funny moments at the opening part of the round but they're able to tidy it up and again Cafe is gonna make this
naturally a little bit more difficult I think for them to have a super dominant
performance but still expecting them to walk away with a strong result tonight.
Down to kitchen for the follow-up and the line up here from Chiefs and
the map clear. They retain the sense to shuffle the roles around, the roles around, and the
operators around a little bit. Oriora as well, the map tune, those gates can offer you to
late in the round. I guess there's two options here for the attack. They could also think
about direct bakery. They do actually spawn that side, so maybe they will look for
just sort of a consolidate position here and not worry. Or can send themselves with
the top floor clear. On the side of the defense arcade I very much add a bit of offside play.
Sorry, second floor currently. It does look like the rest of the defense is playing pretty
compact on first floor. Some horizontal extension with both Coachuk and VIP in play.
Move out!
In fact, out!
Bloody!
Watch block, steep into Bakery.
Good connection onto Wizard.
Well this looks a little bit cleaner inside of the first minute for Chiefs.
With the opening two kills, good Bakery control established.
Playing well with the Riora gates.
The Riora to me is the kind of operator.
Whenever you see like Riora and Sands,
you're clearly playing a set.
play. Whoever has to make sure they understand what's going to be happening and what roles
they have and so far so good for Chiefs. You get the ROUs now later in this round to eventually
go with his plant. Unchlock's continuing to take space all the way to Coachek. I mean
he's like playing Blitz with Kit and instead of even thinking about playing he just goes
into Coachek and gets the final kills. Easy round for Chiefs. That looked far better.
looked like they had got something on a sheet of paper that said do this this and this everyone's
followed their their plan assigned and executed perfectly we got ourselves a technical timeout
up to the second round but so far smooth sailing for chiefs
yeah technical timer has been called
sounds like it should be resolved pretty quickly i think so not too much of a cause for concern
it is a game restart confirmed so it should be uh there's a couple of minutes although
lunchbox getting out of his seat doesn't burden me at the watercalf and oh no he's back okay
after lunchbox goes wandering around it ends up being a 10 minute rehost he's back and ready so
I'm too far away.
And that's trying to start for the Chiefs.
He's a relief here on cafe, on attack.
For a melting player.
You know, early home, he's MVP stage.
I mean, we give out, you know, MVPs typically in this region.
It's been a long-standing tradition.
I don't think it's how should I say this is at the forefront.
Is it what it used to be back in the old days?
Because when we used to actually properly hand out sort of MVPs for the stage,
I mean, I can't recall if it was like a pre-playoff thing or post-playoff thing.
But right now, if we were to obviously give an MVP for the regular stage,
there's no question it's player.
But even in finals, unless they would have missed out on EWC, he's got it almost locked
in the bag with how far ahead he's been this stage.
Yeah, I think I largely agree.
I don't think there's really too many other players that can touch him at the moment.
I think that playoffs is where you really see players shine or fall off, so I'd probably
holding too many assertions until we actually see the playoffs and how they actually do conclude.
As if the player that did disconnect has rejoined the lobby
to resume things here on cafe over to mining the tertiary site of choice of arcade for the third
round as Chase looked to top off a perfect first rotation. What the arcade
need to do I guess they had a stage two you know just speaking with wetables and
clearly highlighting how comfortable the stage has been the rising quality and
You're likely to end the stage zero points, which is not great
Clearly if the competition's gotten better
There's less opportunities for you to maybe pick apart some of the teams that are in the sevens and six positions, etc
There's probably gonna have to be the sort of you know offseason where you add the retool which is pretty normal in terms of
changes or you
Double down with the same roster and you really get to work and scrims and you know theory preparation
Keep getting pretty active here, a fair distance away from the objective again, keeping in mind is
mining, dining at four round three.
Jesus, may look to exploit bottom up here, white stairs side, I think that's what the initial drone
earlier there was from from them in an attempt to maybe take that space, they have the
kind of operator lineup that can do that, although there is good counter info.
Where's the posh just here, they might not know if and when somebody looks to actually push
that position, so I like that inclusion from Arcade, it doesn't seem as if she's
have committed to that really at this point in time.
Midpoint of the round, really is the only player on the map, over the world's
cocktail which has been vacated pretty early here by the defense, so they could
look to get to work with Virtua, Kenne can come along with Eastlet Hammer as
as well. Maybe try and find a pick. Nothing really presenting itself at the moment, I can't
claim a re-discipline. RECRUITING!
RECRUITING is really trying to assess what they're just trying to do here. It's a bit
of a stand-off at the moment. A minute to go in the round and Lunchbox will rotate
reading. Yeah, I mean, the cheese, you've got exactly what you want. You want this
I want this top floor control, okay Ken I open up the floorboards
I'm gonna tune to apply some pressure with the death marks
Relays gets the opening kill, Jake actually finds one through the floorboard
from Bar on to Boxo
I was kinda hoping for Marquette's side with Wizard playing the pulse
with a good way of playing that sort of second or first floor
and look up vertically, make an impact play with the Nitro
Well, let's get behind that accrual to the kill
Relays down at the moment, shotgun though from Jake Ken
towards White Stairs connects on to Wizard, denies the pulse plate
Ah, reverse is four.
20 seconds, but with the numbers advantage to Chiefs,
he thinks we should be able to win this comfortably.
Loyalty's position known, white stairs as well.
Relay is just sitting directly above him,
sorry, towards train.
It's the first battle.
Notice there's another close five
and then one holding a longer angle,
wanted to open up his own path forward,
but he just gets over one.
Chiefs will make it three straights
so far looking pretty clean.
these are the games that was hard to really assess, not to be disrespectful in terms of arcade, but they're clearly dead last, no wins.
If this were a Chiefs versus Enterprise on a map that they don't typically play, I'd be sitting here thinking, wow, this is really good.
So I don't know how much Chiefs will take away from this. I don't think it's about winning and losing, and I don't think it's about their opponent.
I kind of look at this match right now, if your Chiefs is, this is a map we've been banning all states long, we haven't been playing it, hasn't been part of the map pool.
Let's just have some fun on it. Get a little bit fresh legs. Doesn't matter if we win, lose.
We can get some bot review footage of some of the strategies that we want to
employ. How do we go? What could be tight enough? And then you've got a little bit more
going into finals on this map versus testing it in a potential duel or die.
Just getting a better feel for the timings and the positionings and
all of these things build up the muscle memory. Time out from arcade.
three straight for Chiefs.
Yeah, Chase is basically doing what they need to at this point.
It's been a good showcase from them so far.
It's very difficult to be critical of how they've sort of approached this game.
They've played pretty good basics here on Cafe and they've been more rewarded for
that.
with the castle now out of play return to the top floor as RK looks to try and find a
bit of a spark in this matchup the beginning of the round was really not all that poor
certainly some good moments but chiefs ultimately were able to overwhelm the site Loyloth was
still on HP and unable to have impact over the world wide as well towards the end
of that round
Watch out for arcades at stands at the moment of a single player positive for EPS
has been very much a difficult stage
for them with several players
towards the tail end of the overall rankings for this particular
stage
What's there's been a pretty good, not trying to be the median by too much.
Unfortunately, on this game, he's a yet to hit the scoreboard.
A reminder that man at LFO versus enterprise after this will be our final game of the
or the night and the regular stage.
That game has a small tiny bit riding on it in terms of the seeding positions.
Of course, overall, you know, prize pool fun, of course, I think so many happen until finals,
so it's not a case of second or third mattering too much in the end of the regular stage.
But it's interesting because they're likely that they're going to play each other anyway.
And of course as finals begin 1v4 2v3 so it's going to be a strange or game where you don't
really want to show anything to your opponent in preparation of the best of three next
week. That's the other part of this as well for Chiefs 2 guys if you think about it they're
not really giving away much. This is a closer permaband map for Chiefs. So it seems to
oh okay they're not awful on cafe maybe we won't it just strengthens their map
pool and if and if cafe does fall through then they've gotten their legs a little
more settled map this is a good warm-up for them ahead of finals next week and
so far haven't been embarrassed that's that would have been the one downside to
a game like this if you lose to arcade on the final play day ahead of
finals yeah it doesn't mean anything but it's still not a good feeling so far
So good and very clinical clean timeout arcade is now coming gone
They're very patient as well with that
It was not rushing anything and they always just find that first big three straight now
The chiefs and getting the opening advantage they lose box. So to for arcade the echo down. No, you're kind of play Neptune one time
bathroom on to Syro with a flat back
But he's taken very low as this is gonna play deep freezer against the black beard of Neptune
Well, it does eventually deal with him. He's on one HP as well
He's brute forcing their way through but Lure wins his battle white stairs and the prone angle from Azus pays off and
Arcade will win the round on the top floor. Jeez. Just started to send it in a little bit
Yeah
Well that may make things a little more interesting in this matchup 1-3 score line as it stands and yes
good resilience again and off there from RK who for the third round straight weren't able to capture the
opening kill. It was pretty late in the piece though and so they you know were eventually able to
wrangle back a bit of momentum when Wizard got that pick on to box.
But we're still a little bit disappointing there with Neptune finding the initial two but
again not really the kind of matchup where we expect to play perfectly and all they really
expected to. A lot of their attention is already going to be towards the finals and very much
a case of um you know the they're not a threat now being knocked down the top spot either so
As for this particular round, the vigil in play for Arcade is one big attempt as well.
I didn't have an opportunity there but I'm able to land the shots required.
Chinks into this kitchen defense are going to bring a similar-ish looking lineup to
last time. They do bring the Monty as opposed to Blitz, Raiora is back in play once more.
Different set of utility are available with the Capitao in play, there's the range hard
breach of the ace. And instead of the Snake last time out, they're going to trade that
out for a bit more of a potential now with the ram also available that was a
little bit of overzealous from Syro and I think I could think obviously thought
maybe player was on drone
The player was ready for it, and they were able to get the kill in just 5-1, 1-5 for Syro on the other side, because of that.
The straight opening kills the Chiefs, their attacks have been pretty clean in the early portion of these rounds.
They have good spread performance too, the last frag is a relays in Neptune with 3, and the highest play with 5.
So they've gotten good impact from all 5 players on the attack, they're not just relying on one individual to pop off and go in and get multi frags.
and then here's what mine. Another one thrown from Wizard. I don't know what Loyalist is
doing there on the wide swing out the window when you know a player is playing the Dalekir
we've not been mining. We're picking Pansy on to Jaycanna. He goes to fire kills. Box
like does get one as well onto Neptune. Pistol from Lunchbox did confirm Wizard.
This is another kill. He's down 6 and 3. This is a 2v2.
Latchbox does connect player in a 1v1 against the 1 health Boxo.
The best player in the region.
This is a low health warden.
RIPing and Boxo's 1 HP. You need to find a headshot.
He doesn't have to make contact yet, I mean, play doesn't have kit, he's on camp, now he's
no longer, you don't need to swing this doorway, 30 seconds, you're on defense, you can reposition,
you can force play to have to clear other angles, instead he just takes the battle at
the door, like I mean, I know that you don't want to afford him the ability to push
through bakery, grab kit which is close by, walk into psycho for a plant, like playing
that hallway position, you can reposition and play time as well.
Especially when you're on one HP, but it's full health, I think it's a little bit different
the way you play it there, it's fine, but on one HP, I'm just trying to reposition a little
bit and play as much of the time as possible.
Chiefs will win the round.
We'll look back at the highlights and start with the run out from, jump out from Sira,
why are they, I don't know what he's trying to do there.
to try and either change gun, throw a U-Till, call it the window. Very scrappy sort of round.
And yeah, 30 seconds on the clock, 1v1 just picks the doorway. Easy for play up.
On all round of the half coming up.
Yeah, she's one of their sights set on the 5-1 half.
Good composure there from Pyre to win out the 1v1 dual.
Now we go back to the mining site which again was successful for Chiefs last time out.
Opening kill went their way and I had a better minute to go on that execute to come down
to a late kill from Relays but ultimately three were alive and Jkenna actually
a 3k on their first attempt defensively here from RK the liner as some similarities
particularly the poles. Mizzard will be looking to gain information from the safety
fire place again for the white stairs creep the repel etc etc while lunchbox
probably a little fortunate to get his head ripped off there but we'll stay alive
for now and those truck stingers could offer some really good flank watch you
too late
He gets shot down there and that's the pulse plate that I expected to see more from Wizard
earlier in this half.
Certainly on this exact same site.
Last time couldn't...
He managed to have an impact with the pulse.
This time he does.
Wizard finds an angle on to Relays.
He got caught.
Didn't realize that it was an overexposed position and this looks very winnable for
Okay, buying their second round
Yeah, it does look pretty promising
Assuming that these plays they get to isolated down below, but I suppose blue wolf does have nitro
So providing he gets fed info, and he does actually have eyes on kit
This is a really strong position might be able to lay about it does get caught out from down below
really well time to push there from Neptune
intuition or info probably the latter
either way well played
maybe this is three lunchbox up close
is he aware of wizards position no so
that's a free kill for the pulse and
wizards third in the round it's played
this really well this round wizard
after a really slow start as well now
to four five Neptune will go down
if there's anyone inside the server
that's capable at 7-1 player and 1v3. It's not a lot of time to work this one out.
Vice-related defenders. No kit. I mean the chances of winning this round are very,
very slim. The matter of what can he do to maybe force these out.
It's not really hard the time to do anything here. There's a lot of time to go over the kills.
can't clean utility, can't go over the plant, can't do much.
Okay, get there second round.
It's a two to four half, Cheese will switch the defense
after the halftime roll swap timeout.
all that much they like to ban it. Passmark? Did they pass just barely? I mean for attacking
around Skafe is still pretty good. I think they passed the first half. I mean not like
a combination. If I'm being completely real there's no passmark in this match because
it doesn't really mean much. So no that can't be true because there's clearly a fail mark.
Yeah, I mean if she's got absolutely smashed in this game then sure but I
I don't know I kind of I think I'm very much in the position that this match doesn't doesn't mean a whole lot
But I will say it's it is equally nice though to see that she's are putting in an effort
I'm okay to be to be fair to their absolute credit like they have put themselves in some good match
Oh, it's a good round winning positions and because the match so far and they have actually for the most part
I converted those only one when maybe this question mark was box on one HP small bake
But even then regardless of what he did it is still low you play trans agree. So
Played pretty well
Okay, I put a case for that. Maybe they could such a point tonight, but they're gonna have to continue to play well here on attack and
Still trailing absolutely in this match up cheese will
probably look to dominate them as much around defense as possible probably
expecting a lot of fights to take place on the fringe of the map
probably try to prevent as much control as possible trying to prevent as many
lurks as possible etc so I think Chase will look to be as dominant as they can
be over the next few rounds
So what my cave can do for what is potentially the last few rounds this stage will be their
last few rounds the stage it's just a matter of how many rounds that they'll actually
to get to play we don't know yet let's just run it through the map
This is the 7th round with all 5 for G's down below.
They've bought the space for RK to get their second floor control very comfortably.
Between the block and the ramp, I mean they're going to get these floorboards absolutely torn shreds.
Then you've got the ROU's the box on the sends, but execute into site.
Hopefully Loyalty can find some information with the radar.
Good luck of course for any pushes up the stairs, that's a pretty normal looking line
up from Arcade.
Yeah, very very default at the moment.
Can't really fault them for that though.
See how clean the execution will end up being here and the 60 seconds remains in this round
and so reliance on the beam pretty on point.
Keep in mind look at the utility here from defense clear thorn and echo all of which will stand in their way and
Making this push
Difficult banshees as well might be able to stall out the attack here depending on how much it has been cleared
Best fight going is the way of player 40 seconds now remains for the recovery
Yeah, very very strong record control there from player a little bit of a wide swing
Oh, lovely shot from Wizard, actually just gave him a small glimpse of the head and Wizard
said thanks very much, that'll do, that opens up Bakery.
Nid's point that the snake's not too needed, and J.Kana just went for the push up, sorry
I wasn't ready.
There's another one still close by, Hazzars gets the kill on to Relays, although the
time is the biggest benefactor now for Chiefs, you know this has gotten a little
It's crappy.
Although, or lunchbox, if you can't go pro in there,
likely for Jake Kenner with the retake from above,
he was in best position to die of the plant.
I tell you what, if Jakey doesn't deny that plant,
lunchbox looked like he was pretty cooked.
That could have got really dicey.
I had made something of that round,
but she just walked away with the round win, 5-2 up.
Yeah, I mean, they've probably made something
of this match overall to be fair.
They've looked fairly competitive.
And, you know, that last round was a good example.
the 1v1 previously as well down below was pretty close so
maybe the scoreboard isn't truly reflective of just how close this match is
it's probably on the world in which the scoreline is a 3-4
or something to that effect so
we'll see maybe if they can
find a little bit of pressure here for the remainder of the half
they need to do their best though I think in
scathing off the match point which
Unfortunately they haven't given themselves a ton of offer room now so over to mining for all the 8 round for cheese
So look to play into the source for this round and the pulse
So they're gonna look for a lot of information
Just one nitro cell interestingly from them, but a lot of impacts, so
They look to try and look to play to dollars when conditioned for them in this particular round arcade on the flipside
I mean, they're not suggesting we could sit on site at progression or a pretty direct pressure from them,
look to really leverage the blitz for entry, the glass can play through the windows.
Hapital can also utile some previous devastating utility on this site, depending again on just how direct they want to be on their approach.
Really, Bakery to me signals a posture for the run out, over towards double door if he spots,
that the runouts clear that there are no claymores place that could be a good
play if no dreads watching it of course as well
obviously along with claymores in pocket yet to put those down
It's very interesting that we've seen 5 plays behind him every single time on the second floor.
We haven't actually seen really 5 plays at all so far in this game as goodnight and
deed with the Blitz where it goes down the Neptune and relays with the knees of carbon
red stairs. I haven't really seen any overly dominant rounds with cheats. They've only had
the one round with four alive. All we do here, it looks like this will be native to second.
No, he even still has his eyes to kill on to relay. So another round went for cheats.
Yeah, no flawless, only the one round of the six that they've got now that was left with four
alive. So I mean, you've got to give some credit to Arcade. I know they're going to lose this
game. And I know this is a map chiefs don't play often. But there's certainly been a decent
level of competitiveness from the team that's dead last with no points.
Chiefs will look to close this out in a seven to fashion. Now they actually will go reading
fireplace. The first team to do so in this match.
It was a really nice night show early there from Jake Canada who just put himself in the
perfect position that he was safe in the window that was able to lob that nitro
deep enough the set play idea there from the attack really not that poor if if
there isn't a nitro soul that lands effectively there they're in a really
good position to be able to cover that plant and it would have been a very
tricky retake there on for the chiefs so look good as a jacana in particular
highly influential in that round it's been a good stage for him in particular
Much like most of the chiefs members who have been in the stack stats in this group stage.
One way from completing this matchup, and it's a big extension above here for chiefs.
Okay, stage coming to an end right here and now the four rounds straight against the region's
best team at the moment.
Voxo dies the razor bloom.
What's happened there?
Interesting.
The hatch was closed.
After being scarlet.
I was looking at stats.
I was looking at the stage where it starts and honestly, I only just caught the very end of it so...
And I can say with certainty though, is Chaser in the absolute perfect position to close this one out 7-2 and okay, look, they've actually fought, they've...
They've tried tonight but...
Chaser is really flexing their muscles at the moment.
Yeah, looks like they're gonna close this one out with a bang.
I mean I think the I mean they're gonna be the number one seed going into finals
the real question is are they the best team going into finals that is a very
good question very good question hard it's hard to say anything
Yeah
Well this one's done and dusted they get through the warm-up they find a warm-up in the finals
Arcade will remain winless pointless for the stage cheese
100% lock in the top spot the number one seeding
They get their sixth win on the stage
Only blemish for cheese the whole stage
Was that OT lost to Shake Academy the week that Shake Academy apparently turned into the Grim Reaper
That was the only little blemish. Other than that, a pretty flawless stage for number one seed heading into finals, the best team, I think for me, heading into finals.
Yeah, I mean, it's hard to disagree with that at the moment. Obviously we'll get answers of the course of that playoff bracket.
Just how much Chiefs form in Best of Ones will translate across to Best of Threes. That's not to negatively highlight them as an individual team.
That question remains with pretty much everyone outside of maybe EP who have confidence to be stronger and best at these
All the others still have a little bit to prove I think in that regard
So the interesting thing to see how it plays out as for this match in particular
I tested them on a couple occasions again want to give them profits and credits in this matchup
They had literally nothing to play for they didn't roll over and completely give up and throw in the towel
They put in a solid chunk of work there and there are at least one or two rounds
I couldn't go on either way and at least extended this one a little while longer
So yeah, it does cut off a rough stage for them, but hopefully they can look to improve time for
It isn't going from as is 96 or the 124 EPS stood out certainly for RK player 11 and to the number one player
In the region. So anything I the only thing I I'm like I love player. It's just his name
It's just like we call them players. His name is player. It's just anyway
What a stage from him so so talented and we'll see if he can continue his form heading into
the finals of which chiefs
will be the number one seed.
Let's go chat with Nate one
final time to close the regular
season. I'm sure we're going to
chat with him plenty as well
throughout finals.
Congratulations, mate.
Job done.
It seemed like coming into this
game, an opportunity to just
get one final test on a map
ahead of finals and you chose
cafe.
Was that the plan?
Yeah, I mean, cafe reps and
officials is obviously very good,
right?
They're very different to
Scrib cafe.
So I think that, yeah,
map we don't really play too much but we're obviously very comfortable on sir
is there a nice you may have heard us there towards the tail end but player
currently sits as a number one in the league that's unlikely to change before
next week what's it like coaching him as a player oh it's great man I can sit
there and he can be like oh yeah boys that one dead oh yeah two dead I don't
know I don't know what he did with that thorn charge I don't you guys
maybe able to give me more on that he just pulled it out he said oh I'm
might get a kill on Rekia. Yeah, I think it was the Skylight or something.
Like a Skylight throw or something. From what I heard in Combs he had a line-up or something, I'm not sure, but I, you know what I mean, he's more than that though, he's not just a silent rager, he is so good at keeping everyone else in check mentally, stuff like that, let's go boys, let's hype, he brings that, I will lead by example everyone else, follow me, and I definitely could tell, with performance from other players like Nef obviously had big games, boxes had big games, it's definitely, it's good to have him on the tamer up.
We just spoke to Wettables prior to this match today, just kind of talking about I guess the region, its strengths, with the format changes, etc.
As now we've got our Final Four locked in, you know, one thing I said is there's no one really making up the numbers.
Do you kind of assess finals now with the four teams going into it in that regard that the quality is going to be a very high level?
There are no easy beats, like every game is going to be very difficult, and if you want EWC, you're going to have to be invest.
I don't think there's any easy beats necessarily in these BO1 stages, to be honest, we need
to perverse off in BO3s, I'm obviously very confident in us in BO3s because of kickoff,
we have good practice in that, and obviously like you said, EP very proven in BO3s but I
think overall the quality's definitely gotten a lot better and I think that shows in that,
I think the maturity of the gameplay, I don't think we're seeing very many teams
Now like even like you just said like arcade have had the best age. They didn't really win, but it wasn't like they were just
Like they weren't trolly, you know, I mean that they they were fighting in these rounds and they were trying you can say that like
They had unfortunate roster moves
I know that had some shifts and some changes but like consistency will help them later on
I think definitely the quality B.O.3's I
expect even tougher
Matchups for us even against the teams that we might be expected to be but there's definitely no
So there's definitely no easy games to come in those finals.
And if you'd like to say, mate, ahead of finals, which will be the next time we'll get to chat to you.
Yeah, I hope to meet EP in that second game. I definitely want them in a BO3 and I don't want a good match because I don't think they really have shown their strengths in the BO1s and I want a classic OCE BO3 final map drama.
That's all I'm looking forward to, for sure.
I think for the finals. Thanks mate and best of luck coming finals.
Well all too comfortable for Chiefs on cafe 7-2 in the end and I have to agree with they
whole heartedly in terms of I don't think it's so much about arcade as arcade it's
more about I think the quality of the region is just at a different level this stage
and unfortunately for arcade issues aside, you know, someone has to be lost and it seems
like that no matter what they did throughout the stage, just never enough to be able to
get a win in any case.
So they'll look to probably retool going into the offseason and try their hand in stage
two.
Yeah, I mean, my biggest takeaway actually from that interview was Nate and his note
on EP.
There is only one scenario in which they don't play each other in the second match
up and that's it. EP loses this next game 7-0 and they get knocked down to 4, in which case
it would then be the first matchup. So that's basically not going to happen, right? And that
would mean that if both Chiefs and EP win the respective opening games in that bracket,
the next matchup would be that upper bracket final, which is for an EWC slot. So that
would be a massive matchup and lose that you'd be under a ton of pressure, right?
So that could be a potential matchup. But I say potential very halfheartedly, right?
I completely agree with the sentiment from Nate as well, that the bracket is going
be even more competitive than we've seen the best of one so it really could be
any months for the taking. So one final match for the regular season here for
stage one man esports LFO versus enterprise again I don't want to hunt
such too much because second does play third come finals and it's looking
likely as you said unless it's a 7-0 that we are probably gonna see these
two teams kick finals off next week so let's go to a short break we'll
Come back and the pre-lucid finals begins.
I was in the 4th place, but it was a fun sight to see.
There were a lot of people watching and playing, so this is what I felt was the best spot.
I felt that I was playing well because I had a lot of experience from watching.
Because there are 3 or 4 or 5 races and I can feel the difference in the game.
I want to get the prize and I want to see that I'm good at it.
I want to get the prize.
The first tournament I'm good at is Rainbow 60, Operation League of Thailand.
It's the first tournament I'm good at.
The players that I'm still in the team, I still see the competition, only P.E.X.O.TIC, the only one left, they have already decided to quit the competition.
From what I've seen, I've always been in the team, so I can see the sincerity of the team and the team, which are different.
The team is very sincere, and the players are very good, the players are experienced, I've seen them before.
I don't think anyone can stop him.
I feel like he has an impact and he is one of the best players in the country.
I feel like if I could meet him, I would make him full.
I would not allow him to meet me.
I would be full with him.
I feel good that Phoolie is interested in my team.
Because I didn't have any interest in them.
When Phoolie came to me, I was full with Phoolie.
Fully, this year, I have a change of my playing style, with me, Dark, Fa'Lor, Rodini, and Beelmin.
My style is still the same, I'm still a support player, Dark is second factor, Fa'Lor is third factor, and Beelmin is third factor.
So, this year, I will do my best and show how we can play.
I will keep watching.
I feel like when we are a team like K1,
if we do our best, I feel like Orc will be disappointed
because he is full of us.
If we do our best, he will be disappointed.
I will do my best and not make Puri close.
to the final match of the
regular stage guys, man,
Esports versus enterprise again
to preface. There's not really
a whole lot at stake in this
match. And actually it's the
opposite of that because you
probably want to hide a little
bit coming into this with
likely these two playing a
win and if you man out of a fight you got the perfect excuse ready for when you lose.
Yeah, I mean pretty much I even catch that pretty well. This is a glorified screen. The
impact of this match is essentially nil to be fair. So I'll just be going in having
a bit of fun and seeing if they can refine a couple things and play some good seeding
preparation for finals.
And preparation for a chance to go to the esports World Cup. You two can get there
and you can get yourself 15% off if you use the code R6S15
to go get your ticket.
So it's gonna be quite warm in August.
If you wanna go check out Paris in the warmer weather,
we went in the colder weather, guys, and I'll be honest,
I know that there's a lot of talk about the heat wave
and all of that, but it got pretty cold in February.
So I think August will be a nice feeling.
I should cool down a little bit by then,
although I've heard from some people
that it could still be pretty hot.
So I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Fortunately, Esports is inside.
So we don't have to worry too much as long as this is an AC.
Yeah, I mean, the AC doesn't work for everyone.
Robert J. Monday, but I hope he's not going,
because otherwise he'll need his own personal fan.
All right, let's go to Enterprise for their roster
in this matchup against Van Esports, Alepho,
EP, typically the Kings of the region.
Well, right now, they have been slightly dethroned,
but that's a for now mindset,
because in theory, nothing's actually happened.
No one's finished first.
No one's qualified.
They've still got an opportunity to clean sweep in finals and reaffirm themselves as the best team in the region.
The challenge is being achieved at the moment, I think, having the slight edge heading into finals.
But AP is the kind of team that you certainly aren't going to be sleeping on and you know that they're still very, very likely to make the esports world cup.
But they've got some extra pressure on them hanging into finals because it hasn't been a super clean regular stage.
No, it hasn't been super clean.
And I think ultimately the question now that will get answers to going forward is,
of just a couple of blemishes with best of ones or is this going to lead and permeate into bigger
problems that comes to best of threes. I'm finding it very difficult to subscribe to the idea that
their best of three record which is very good is going to be tarnished or looks weakened at all
really heading into finals. I'm really not particularly concerned for them. I'm pretty
confident that we're going to end up in a world in which AP will win their opening match which
which will, funnily enough, be against Manny Sports.
Chiefs will probably win their pre-match against Rival,
and then will have a big blockbuster matchup
in that upper bracket final,
which will determine the first team, the EWC.
So that's pretty much the path forward for EP from here.
For their opposition though, in Manny Sports,
we'll have a look across at their lineup now.
They have the potential to be the disrupter
in that perfect storyline
for really either of those two teams.
They've played phenomenally over the course
of this day, they've probably performed
above expectation or surpass the expectations set on them more so compared to any other team
in the top 4.
I don't think that's too much of a stretch to really say and the quality of the stage that
they've put on offer so far has been really good in terms of roles, composition and synergy
that this team has.
It's been really solid.
Again, I'm still not maybe as convinced on their end if their best of three form
is going to be quite as good.
I think they have a little bit of proof in that regard that in terms of the
they've approached the best of ones across the stage, it's pretty difficult to follow them.
They look like a really well-coached, well-trailed team, follow a good system.
They don't really have any, I would say, overstandout players.
Like when you kind of, when we were sort of discussing the previous match earlier today,
like Seven and Rival, you know, Seven had Walsh in the top five,
Rival had proxy in the top four. We know that EP have got Bap and Jigsaw in the top three
and play it for Jesus, the number one rated player.
So you think about, then, what about the other team that's going to be contending in finals?
finals. Well, for them, it's been Hunter and Pluto inside the top 10, both sitting on a 110 EPS.
They've been the best. But the difference is you don't have to then go too far to get someone
else beers in 13th. So it's a more well rounded team without one superstar individual as we
head to the map vetoes for this game. I'm expecting this to be kind of veto where
you go to a map with man LFO that you probably won't want to play EP. And for EP, their
map pool is so large, I don't think they're going to be too fast. The consulate shall
that map. This is a map that
absolutely love. They're very
good on it. High preference
mark and whereas man at home
and bring up the stats. Yeah,
low preference. They ban it. This
is not the kind of map I'm
expecting in a best of three
between these two. So if you
man, I love, oh, this is a
free swing. And if you EP, you
want to defend shall lay now.
He could go one step further
and play some mind games and
say, You know what? What if
we tank tonight? What if we
And then we play a little bit better come finals and it gets into a best of three those are mind games
So we'll see what reality has to offer as we head into the game shall a is ready enterprise versus man LFO for the final game of regulation
Yeah
Yeah pretty surprised if that is the case shall a has been the equal second most popular
map so far here in OZ so yeah it's a lot of play time equal with with both labs and
bank trailing behind where and clump so she comes up too much of a shock to see
it play out I guess just as a point of reference the remaining maps that were
just mentioned of all only being played on one occasion that being border
consulate and fortress alongside cafe as well so wouldn't be too shocked if
we see a bit of an uptick in their playrate when it comes to finals. We'll let the the
bands roll through then for the first half AP attacking man Elofo to defend its thorn and
the Monty in the first wave. We'll see if man Elfo like to go double shield here
or if they look to maybe be a little bit more versatile actually the duck we taken out which
has been pretty potent so far and the Denari interestingly enough will be taken away from
defense.
Unfortunately, this is one of those kind of games where you can make so many arguments
for any outcome that takes place.
So if an EP win, you think, ah, probably expected, an EP loss, you probably think, eh, it doesn't
really matter.
You know, and so then therefore the same for any man LFO win or loss.
You can make positive arguments for either team winning and what that means and positive
arguments for the team losing what that means and it's just not really a whole lot that I
really want to try and put out there in terms of oh well if this happens you know this this
and that it's it's finals is next week these two teams are playing best three likely I
think what did you say like the only one that doesn't happen is if men offer wins
and zero and that's just not happening like that's just that if that does happen that's
probably the one instance I can sit back and say okay alarm bells for EP they lose
70 but
Also remembering finals is is also double elimination anyway like you're not too fast about the seeding
You just play who's in front of you and you have the the safety blanket of the bottom of the bracket
So I mean this is a screen. This is just two teams that are high quality
Getting a good feel for each other ahead of a best of three next week
It's the overall result of the element. Yeah, so it's an exhibition game
Result of the relevant and if both teams over want to play good siege
Don't get chopped up by their opposition too much. It's up with the first pick on two beers
200 inhale lurk position where you may be able to cut
In a moment's time
In response that was a clean shot
I mean as much as it as it is an exhibition
It's like the white line fever in sport once you cross the line once you in the server once you're moving around
You want to win you try and you try to hit shots you try to win rounds
Hunter gets rid of Jigsaw as well.
You just have the added benefit where if man on the phone let's say beat them on raw gun
play and then inside the server they just play better tonight, AP can just walk on like
yeah we didn't care.
We could have done this, we could have done that.
All of these kind of excuses are more than applicable.
This is just the kind of game where whoever loses this has all the excuses lined up
and it does not matter.
Whoever wins it.
Probably walks away thinking yeah, that's nice
We'll start there for men on the phone
So it's gonna go over the shoulder car he can progress walk around close it
That he was a hundred percent sure where he was getting shot from
He is a hundred percent sure of shark his position and he's frag grenade actually killed bluto
It's double kill from Cairo. We even did to eat
So after a decent start to ban on the boat who led 4v3 in the round, they then lose the
round.
The next four picks go the way of EP and they will get the opening round.
A pretty classical EP round there where even when they have them souls in a rough position
they just have the ability to be incredibly clutched.
How often do we see EV5s or TV4s, etc. be flipped by EP?
just it's in their nature they're so strong and being able to find win
conditions leading to the round they have the mechanical skill and the
confidence to back that up it's nice to run from Punto who's down to we then
jigsaw but Cairo put in a massive effort towards solar side and if they ever
recovered the round they'll be pretty pleased with that result I don't know
the bad print comment in chat asking why men are trolling about choosing
I would die in dark when Jeeves was playing Janna
I got the Janna
I should have done the same thing
Yeah I don't know what Janna's pick rate has been
same far this year but probably the one
or the least picked attack is in the game
I was going to show the receipt
I heard a...
I don't think it's confirmed but I heard a...
I saw a rumor I think it's on Tiktok
or something the other day that Janna may get a change
where when the clone gets shot the defenders position gets revealed and I
feel like that could be an intriguing addition. That would be the case.
That would actually be. Yeah.
I could argue that we've probably got maybe too many operators at the moment.
The focus on the focus has been on.
The discussion is going on all day.
A lot of pressure already here on beers.
They circle over towards fireplace side
Cross being held as well on the double window and it ends up being a pretty straight forward kill
But that is the first time you know it's actually played this stage. That's my tracker is not working properly
Reloading ammo.
Alibi had been played once prior to this match.
Changing mags!
Although, the Alibi actually isn't too bad against a solid snake.
The prism is getting picked up on the raid up makes it a little bit more annoying for the snake
All right almost gets that kill because of it
Getting crunch from West Bay, where's the support for beers?
It is.
Minutes ago, E.P. essentially is side control, but a lot of the potential here on offer for
the defense and with the souls.
Souls is going to have the impact playing this round now.
Can they get the plane down?
No.
Oh, that's a wonderful play from Sharky.
Yeah, I mean it's a bit of a strange round for me, E.P. that they never even contemplated
really trying to clear up a bomb, especially into the soldiers.
I think they'll look back at that round as a bit of a misstep,
tried to, you know, cut the line and progress forward before they really could.
Happens like we're is everyone.
It's quiet on the top floor front.
And I'll if I will get themselves around on the board pretty decent could hold up above no contest from EP
They'll punish that we are tied
Yeah, look pretty good work there up above to be able to deny those planned attempts EP in a way trying to shortcut it but
To be much they could have done I guess you could try and send a work up solar or something late, but
but they opted to go for the site commit, doesn't work out, man Alpha packed themselves in and the plant and all was really good
which is interesting I'm thinking though
I mean that's probably, I was going to say I thought this would be good by international results
I mean attacking an ingrate on this map is only at 20% but
obviously there's going to be international results from SI that are skewing that number a little bit
I can even assault like as well I presume so very much a big grain of salt with that number
there defensive win rate though is very very strong so as long as AP get two rounds here
they'll probably in a pretty crazy position I imagine.
Maybe not cozy at all but it's all very much amenable, 3 plus would be great.
So notice the alibi and the monster together bit of parabellum in that previous round
that you don't see these days.
on fact Parabellum was the second
second season released when I started playing
version come here it was my number one
it's a combo that you still see quite a lot these days entering into library
Oh, oddly, Nautrissal from Sharki.
Alright, answers back though. Get through to the warden.
That was the first open kill on the hunt, the favourite man on their foes.
They contested it from Pluto.
Jigsaw is just completely covered in eyes, but he still got the kill onto Pluto anyway.
Beersen hunt to get on each, that reaffirms the advantage for men on the foe on the defence.
He's Brendan, Marvin, Baffin outside main door.
This is good for the defence again.
still got the nitrosault plus gaspades plus mirror window the tack that's
disrupted but Brando gets a crucial pick from mud
rather in play back and trying to look for info looking to set Brando up here
for a play library stairs yellow pink crucial jewel for this round Brenda
doesn't want to fully commit though probably respecting beers as having the
advantageous position on the high ground looking to just wait for some
support here from bappin. There's a lot of time remaining. 90 seconds.
That's the grenade. Fall speed is up.
Bappin not in a position necessarily though to catch that, but it is space for the Teprindo.
Yeah, they now know they're very far.
It's gonna be about trying to find the plant position. They've got time. They got over a minute, so they're not rushing this.
just gonna try and plant just outside bar stock watching the hallways gonna be
bad for the run down almost coming from fireplace Patrick captures him there's
still top library plant successful when a little 2v2 action EP have just thought
their way through this position so much better is into bar absolutely no idea
where these two are now though yeah when you lose sight of the attackers like
that before then the ability to get care play site you're unable to deny
I'm from the top vert position.
Two to one to EP.
There's a good problem solving the round there from EP.
Just again, that late round devastation
that they can deliver really does set them apart
from the rest of the competition
and when the pressure tends to mount,
that's normally when they get even more ruthless.
I looked at that in the best of three format in particular, being a massive win condition
for them.
As we went through round four, two Brawl banned out alongside the Ying, the top got
a significant level of playtime in that first half, was picked in rounds two and
three.
If anything just an annoying school the attack to deal with especially at the high tempo AP
looking to play with the shields like the Blitz for instance in the front line and also Jigsaw
especially in that last round he was still able to to net pick on the Pluto and it didn't
really matter all too much it's just an annoyance that AP doesn't want to have to deal with
so certainly an understandable ban from them. The Ying has a contrast I think back in
of
I don't know what to do with this.
I don't know what to do with this.
Oh, I didn't pay this fight, does it?
I thought it looked very ego-side earlier.
Aaron off
Let me pressure from Westman
As support from above I
Saw it and two months still committed. Yeah, I mean that's the strange one unless he thought it wasn't being held because he didn't see Sharkie
Come to the guest to go into bathroom and EPs entry lurk isn't gonna work
Finally having a very good game is Brenda up to four and one
I think he's the one that probably needs to refind some form going into finals, so I think
he's the one that probably needs to refind some form going into finals, so I think he's
on enterprise this stage by a fair distance as well.
I think he's the one that probably needs to refine some form going into finals.
3v3 as Brenda has done a really good job of keeping this round alive for EP.
Considering the role of Brenda, the fact that he's in the top 10 rated players, it's been an outstanding stage for him.
So Karin will play the death mark from the low, in the mean time Jigsaw can test over
towards Solar and Brenda will persist on the half fall, the Fuse still needs to be collected.
is to be target number two but up close elements in a blind spot and man LFO with the advantage
now 15 on the clock.
Yeah I'm not quite understanding the the yonah pick unless Juxor just wants to play with
the gt6c I mean like it's really not getting value and the Pluto will just hide time will
expire.
a really good round for bread I felt like he was the only one that was able to
get anything to work
hello foe I'll tie up the scoreline two to two
I mean the feeling inside of the server right now it just doesn't obviously have
the feeling of two teams that are sweating massively
a lot of the lineup compositions I think a
it's a troll level but kind of picks you probably won't see come finals the
yana the alibi I mean the alibi maybe but I mean I'm gonna be honest you kind
of look at the pick rate for alibi throughout the times in solid snake
has come in it's still very very low
Yeah, I mean, I'm not over-analyzing it too much. I think it's just, in the case of Jigsaw,
it's kind of picking what everyone wants. Doesn't really matter too much.
Giving my gun. I don't think that'd be an impact.
Seeing the tachry pick again on to the Yana for round number five.
Over the dining for this particular objective.
and probably anticipating E.P. to invest a little bit more above this time
being willing to clear this top floor last time. They had big players standing,
but so too did Man-Alpha, the Souls in particular, meant that E.P. despite having
full site control weren't able to get that diffuser down in Man-Alpha very
efficiently. We're able to deal with those on site down below. They're very
straight forward and simple for the defense. AP though, posturing earlier to maybe attempt
to fade and go direct again. The capital though is this unusual West main hit, there is the
above. There's a new smoke tech from Duke of Sorrow as well this game. The backup though.
The camera is on, and Kyro will go for it.
Into Westpink, oh hello, one of the doorway.
There should be a kill for Kyro on to Hunter.
I think so, also found the opening kill on the honor and into dining.
Kyro will go for the plant.
Sharky is trying to look to the market above.
And he will not be able to add to play.
I should take this fifth round.
As time being able to storm in on that first floor, we'll pay dividends.
Didn't really have to clear out on the top floor.
Lead retaken by EP. Well, we are just basically going back and forth.
Neither team has been able to win two rounds straight.
It's literally one for one in the first half here on Chalet. Final round coming up.
It's been a pretty, pretty short game so far, EP for the most part, I like them to go for
very simple direct hits.
To be completely blunt, I just don't think they keep on going for map clears, that's
what we keep seeing them set up at center of the blitz in particular, trying to get
some map control.
And at last round layering, some nice U-Till and being able to hit site quick.
Defense got caught out, no ward in anchor, so it was really straightforward to break
open kitchen.
and the flood was so overwhelming that time that we didn't see the the win
condition for man alphabria it's ugly head like it the last time for AP in terms
of the the plantar island of that control and one of that was as much of a
major concern for them so over the bar for the fun around all of the half
AP, we win here with a hazard guess as a 4-2-1, probably going to have a better one for a
little while.
Now our opportunity presenting there for Pluto to find the open kill, but unable to capitalize
and for Pluto it has been a little bit of a rough start, 1-3.
Again, it's really not the kind of matchup where it's fitting to be really critical
of anyone or overpraise because of the nature of the match.
doesn't really mean anything but still they're looking to find a bit of form and a bit of
confidence heading into the finals. Spears as well, 1-5 on the vigil this time around and
he'll look to maybe stall out a little Westman.
Oh.
That was a chance for Jigsaw and I think it was too locked in over towards the library
and just allowed the run through the hallway.
So you can't find his first kill of the game onto the vigil of beers, 1 and 6 for beers,
but he does have 5 assists.
Oh Hunter!
He's Jigsaw in his own position in his own playground.
He's in game room Hunter thus far.
This is where Kairos been dis-strengthened his half day on the Blitz player. His entries have been really really strong.
Good pitch towards library stairs. They can get easy control top floor now.
Our game is coming unstuck for men on the phone. They are going to look to try and defend on the top.
It's not going to work. EP will make it two in a row. First team to do so. They take the 4-2 lead.
Heading into the second half.
So bearings and is very much. I think now actually locked in to be this the the matchup
For finals, I don't think there's any which that can change now
See, I think it only could have been a possibility with a man. I love oh seven zero that
He's not gonna happen
Yeah, definitely and it has it and in terms of the ceilings like it really means no
Means nothing if he'd be a two and then I love her three or man. I love her two and he'd be a three
It doesn't matter.
Yeah, it doesn't mean anything.
The triple checks with the admin team and the map veto system
isn't as coin flip as expected.
So it's not as if the higher seed, for instance,
or lower or whatever gets any kind of advantage or disadvantage
when it comes to the map veto system either.
So we let the glorified exhibition match continue.
AP were pretty cheeky in that first half
their attacks off the break directs not messing around that clears they just I
don't think could be bothered in the simplest terms then we just go for the
most direct route one approach to site sometimes it works sometimes didn't
now now a flow now we'll see if they want to go for a similar approach or if
they're going to be a little more old-school and try to compete for map
control we expect the AP here though to be incredibly aggressive defensively
I'm expecting spawnpeaks, I'm expecting roams, I'm expecting basically everything, so...
See if it works out for them, two huns jumping out, Brenda spawnpeaking, Pyro spawnpeaking, and well he's the one to punch, I'm gonna have to shut up you.
Here's a good game.
8-3 to Karo, Brenda 9-2.
It's the kind of game I think if you AP you don't really need your absolute heavy hitters like you saw in Bapham
Actually wins out of the sale so for man on the photo kicks like your second half when you're just getting spawned
Pete you can't really get set for what you want to do
I didn't really get into the building
Bedroom office now it's gonna be quite difficult
We'll be interesting though, so looking at the overall standings, let's say Man-Alaphore
lose this game because they'll end the stage with four wins, rival with four wins, seven
with four wins, the poor old seven got two of those wins in OT and they're out on finals,
so talk about how, and then you look at Shokadami, three wins, and of those three
wins two of those were against chiefs in EP. Very fun stage. I would actually go as far
to say that one of the best regular stages in OCE that we've ever had because of the format
top four etc, EWC in the line quality, sets up for an exciting finals.
We saw that he's second for the round, especially in comparison to the last stage that we had
not kick off at stage 3 last year, which is probably the worst, with only 7 teams and
6 making playoffs.
That was a grind, that was definitely a grind for the players of the group.
Ooh, clean for beers, hang on, this round's alive.
They just find 2 quick kills, 2v2 with a minute, a little bit more winnable.
Two Han saying to speed it up
Two and six, so maybe that's made it up too much because two Han struggling with the current pace
And I was a connect the beers falls
Later tonight
He's not isolated about the one you're to cover
Brenda looks to talk
In a one versus two
This is strange, I mean for all of us it's a purpose, it basically is, right?
Except you get even less from me, you didn't even get a lot.
Yeah, no, but you also don't lose either way, that's true, Hunter's not getting anywhere.
And Brando, what a game he's having, all smiles on his face.
will take a five to two lead, but a good little fight back from Manila Foe, middle portion
of that round. A couple of sharp shots from Beers. It feels like he appeared to just kind
of take the momentum of this game. Now three rounds straight, three opening kills straight,
right into 11 and two of a game. But yeah, it was that moment that Beerspins two kills
and and the round was slightly in better shape. We will get a tactical time out from man on
the phone. I do wonder what Sally's going to be telling the boys. I think this is actually
the kind of game where the coach and the players maybe are on different wavelengths.
The players are just kind of playing through formalities. The coach probably wants to
see certain things. But Sally's not too wrapped up and he shouldn't be.
Shark is definitely listening.
I think he's had his music on full blast the entire game because every time we look at
him he's dancing.
One cue he stops.
Yeah, look, it seems like Tali trying to deliver some kind of formality.
How much of that's going in one ear and out the other?
Who knows?
I would have been adjusted to see the perspective of AP and Mag if he was even talking to
Well not because it's pretty evident that if the two teams inside of the survey piece definitely leading more so to the side of
Vibing out as opposed to men LFO. Maybe I'll try a little bit more
But I'd say it's pretty marginal. I don't even think so to be honest
It's pretty nice. I doubt like they played alibi most friends in the first half they
I think the other thing again you have to remember and remind ourselves this is not a map you're going to ever see these two play in the best of three next week.
This is EPs map.
EPs are shot at hand in hand.
Whereas on the flip side, the man LFO, you're talking about, yeah, they got a good record on the map 3-0 just because of the teams they've played against.
against. Not any time recently though. I mean the last time they played it was back on play
day two against Chicago, one at seven three comfortably. But it's been banned by them
four times. They've never picked it. I just think this is not really the kind of map
you'll see them play in the best of three.
So, left kitchen site for Pluto, rest of the team posturing for a little bit of pressure in the library,
may look to then transition that down below in towards the site as a jigsaw peels.
These may look above as the team can look to the circle site.
A bit of drone work being put on display here as well for man in the photo, man is on the
piano side.
So they're probably going to live read at the moment on to Brembo's position.
It doesn't have to go for the mutual clearance here.
Jigsaw attempts to disrupt that. I don't know if the shots landed
Okay, at least got the bottom portion, but that wall now still very tricky to play. Oh, but the prone position
The slither angle from jigsaw is disgusting spot on this shouldn't be allowed
Yeah, I mean, what's Sharki meant to do because what's Sharki looking at?
Yes, it is a pretty it is a pretty common slither, I'm pretty I'm kind of surprised it hasn't been
I mean, you probably addressed because it is a little wild, but I'll play it nonetheless, you do so.
Seems like match point is quickly on the horizon.
Yeah and I mean like bringing it back to the map very quickly but EP did lose to Shack
Academy on this map of Chalet so maybe a good chance for them to just reaffirm some habits
and play well as to aren't gets an easy impact.
Kill on top of that, let me tell you I'm having a bit of a giggle about that one.
I'm having a good time.
The last time that EP actually won Shelly was against Lois 1 back in Salt Lake City.
Looking like they're going to get the result here again tonight.
Been a solid outing from EP.
Best of three match up there between these two is going to be pretty interesting.
expected to be quite this one-sided. The angle once again from Jigsaw, who is getting very
active on the boss G in that last round. And the element's not standing a chance there
They're too low on HP in the 1v2 basement.
We go.
E.P., we're gonna get the job done.
I expected a little bit more banter in the chat, but I feel like we'll actually get
more banter to come find us when these two teams play each other.
I think it's just gonna be a whole different feel about that series. It'll be the same two teams. It's not going to be 7-2 and
Alaphore will I think I rate Sally pretty highly as a coach. I think they'll cook up some good strategies certainly go into the
Matanido process
Looking to try and give themselves the best chance possible to beat EP
I think we would have got a little bit more of a fairer comparison between these two if
this were you know play day two or play day three but because of the the way the schedule
has kind of set out like you're not really going to get a good opportunity this kind
game as elements beats out jigsaw
a quiet game for bap and just the three kills
oh we've seen those he's only had three deaths so he hasn't seen anyone and no
no one's seen him he's been droned in this round forced back down through if he stares
chaste
it's for the talk okay
think it works
gets cleared is probably dead but if he doesn't get cleared
no i'm just gonna get it
yeah
the follow up is a little delayed
oh that was close and again this one he gets it that's kicked down
i like the fact that he wants to think about maybe pushing this and taking the fight rather
than giving them the space but he think about just falling back because of the
pressure from above all on his location now it's already taking a little bit of data so don't
mind him actually answering the call and then just gets overwhelmed too many angles
And it looks like we will go to 6-3.
Where'd we get to overtime?
It's in my backpack kitchen.
No.
Okay, we're back there from the NLFO.
Go a little dicey there with Shikey.
No doubt begging for help there on the Monty of the Wardstrophy.
but AP massively overcommitted to that side of the map and man alpho box them
into a position where they've been able to really escape. So additional bands now
to be introduced. You can see the Monty dog with no docker bee instead which has
also been an annoyance. Solos will also be taken out of play picked on two
two out of the three rounds so far
and Alpha doing a nice job to convert an opening kill
only the second time actually over the course of this map
where they have converted an opening kill
they've had four total
the other two were rounds 8 and 3
that they didn't bring out
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They've got the mirror facing out office, they've got the full extension library side, they're
spawnpeeking again.
I think they want this game to be over ASAP.
I think so, it doesn't quite get the timing there for the spawn pick.
I'm gonna think about this, jump out.
Here's the air jab, so I don't think you will.
Oh my goodness, he is.
Alright, I'm just baiting it.
Or at least prepping it for maybe late off.
Okay, he's made his way into trophy
I've been just trying to keep an eye. See if anyone else wants to make it their way into trophy
Solar walk in and just just go plant
It could be possible.
Dependent on how much of a re-DP actually do you have on the position.
Ah, current would have a pretty good read, I imagine, with the mirror window in the 30 remaining in the round.
Chucky's being isolated.
Rendo goes down the beers.
Who once gonna be important in this round of the nitro as well that plank I've done now they
need to deny this nitro does connect on to Monty and they're traded by Pluto and
I think we're gonna need more rounds here on charlay so we need the 1v4
doable without them on to your life you don't have that shield play against
the boss G bought at the window wow that's a very tight angle not as if
If he overexposed or swung too much, coming out of office, we're going to now plant him
inside bedroom.
I don't think you saw us even aware of this and the plant has gone down.
We will go to 6-4.
Dead or alive?
I like this more for man elephant and this is a bit of a reach but I think you lose this 7-2. It's not a good feeling and you can walk away from the match and say we didn't care. We weren't trying. It doesn't mean anything.
care. We weren't trying. Doesn't mean anything. But I think even if they lose now 7475, they've
shown enough in this game that they can go toe to toe with EP. EP will, evidently, probably
turn around and say, we were trolling. And that's kind of the problem with these sort
of games is when there's nothing on the line, the excuses are just so readily available
for either side in other result. But just, I think on a, if you think about, I mean,
these guys play this time next week so this time next week it doesn't really
matter what happened in the game you just look back on it we've gone through the
pre-show and it's gonna be oh well they played it was a 7-4 or 7-5 or whatever
and yeah both teams weren't probably giving a hundred percent but at least it
was a bit of closeness about that now neither team wanted to wave the white
flag neither team just wanted to throw in the town call it a day hang up
early so I think this is good for a man on a phone
And it's not like Enterprise is trying to extend the length of this game, it's like
you said they probably want this to finish quickly and my man Olofolo just refuses to
lay down.
This is a good sign ahead of the series between the two next week.
When finals begin.
Yeah.
The E.P.I.
I'm playing at 110% either but they're equally not actively throwing though they do
what this game hope I'm done with I think.
And then go to Tomato Alpha I've been able to kind of re-lock in here.
I guess clearly the tech to put time out at some effect.
As Jigsaw again will run around the boss G has been fairly successful on the vigil
so far.
AP would look and play active as well with the clash and she can't looking around.
And now if I look in the south in front of the Youtube belt, so again it's...
Being pretty serious from them they'll follow it up with flashbangs here to try and mask the
Salmas from beers in an effort to make that clearance more challenging for Jigsaw.
Unfortunately though it doesn't actually work so credit to Jigsaw we have to line up ready to go.
to just walk through the front door and say to his bloater
over the plane side again, sharky gets off temporarily
he is able to shut down the vigil
there's a real chance that we're going to get a 6-5 here
I think every time he's looking likely the way they're going to look like they're looking pretty sharp
bloater has just barely lose that battle
200 gets taken long on the clash.
Brando needs to make his way over the side and help out as Shaki comes to the plant with a half wall default position.
Good pressure on the left, we're still here as well for the attack.
Good clear from Brando. Plant will be successful.
And no real utility for Man-Elepho in the post-plant.
Hedgehawk gets eaten.
No one knows the beers, it's just sitting there.
After the Hedgehawk gets them both, and oversight, amiss clear from Enterprise.
Bapin now makes it a 1 versus 1 but Sharky's outside the building.
Here's a stick it. Here's a bolt in, knows he's now in top library. Bapin
aware, 14 seconds on the clock. Sharky can't lose this and he does not. We go to
all 12 rounds of regulation. Ali got successfully baited there by Bapin. It
It was a 50-50 duel in the end and Sharki just wins it out.
So fair play to him.
6-5 for the score line.
Man, LFO is showing that they can definitely fight in this matchup.
It was looking pretty much sided in the early portion,
nearly third or two of this kind of duel.
But turning it around up the back of the tuck.
Got two of them.
They ended up sending a very deep inside at a big point
around with the push through from Hunter and Pluto and P.E.S. who also got knocked back by
Element's air jab on the Nomad. In some ways that actually protected his position and gave
him maybe a more fortunate or a larger window there to play. That's a fair play to him
and then Shark is one of the one versus one fairly disciplined but able to ultimately
kill pattern. One more required for man-elephore to push overtime. And it means then that we
could actually have a scenario where if EP got one to win in overtime for instance it
will mean that they should finish equal on points with man-elephore. We'll jump them
up to every second to pick up those things to that round if, again, not that it means
anything, you could second be third in the background, there's no page for the later,
but it's something.
Rendo stops at a run of four rounds where Manila Foe got the opening kill.
And I find his first opening kill of the game is 15-6 now.
And looks like maybe overtime will be avoided.
Not just yet. Big kill from Sharky to clear out Cairo.
Feels like this time around taking bar games is going to prove to be a lot more difficult for Manila Foe.
I haven't got anything really on the top floor sharky's basement inside wine
Still a lot of key positions to deal with
Being blunt. I think this is just gonna come down to a command out of a hit some incredible shots
They're gonna have to do some good shooting
Shooting they do sharky gets into bar
gets rid of Brenda takes on the bar stock well this is far more winnable now
stop there my son took and help oh oh to me well shark is gonna have to do it all
does have time times on his side for the moment they even know he's inside
The first up on how they certainly do.
Suhan in the hallway.
Jigsaw will hold above.
Oh, oh, it's got tangled.
If you had have got that kill right there and there,
it becomes so, so winnable.
But Suhan catches it, trying to slip back out
of bar spot towards bar.
Well, the victory for Enterprise sees them take
second spot heading into finals,
and they will play man in the Esports Alepho.
Again.
But next week, this is the pre-amble of all pre-ambles,
the match.
Very much gives us a previous to what these two
may look like in the end in the best of three.
Of course, it's more than likely to take place on not
on this map, shall I say.
I don't exempt from that best of three, but it was a fun
game.
The AP did tighten up a little bit as it went on.
They very much had some cheeky moments.
You think about the honor on the attack,
They're defensively, they're a little oil up all over the place, and the man-elepho took the tack, they looked back in, they took it pretty seriously towards the back half of the match, but they were outmatched, and I think if anything would take away is that EP can outmuscle the likes of man-elepho, and they really do play well, and I think that is going to be the expectation in that best of three, irrespective of this result, that EP are the favourites.
that should be beating manlfo in that best of three but i think if osu! has taught us anything
first half of this year nothing really is a guarantee so i think it's still a match where
manlfo deserve a lot of respect and ap if they haven't already you're gonna put in a lot of hard
work to be prepared for that game and respect as well for the game in particular i think it
would have been very easy for manlfo to just wait the white flag down 7-2 sorry 6-2 at one
point and then to lose potentially 7-2 but you know 5-7 lost to ap on a map like charley i
I think that's a pretty good, pretty good game.
But as we alluded to throughout the match,
it's not like either team, I think was really going in 110%.
Interesting operator choices.
I don't think Chalet is going to be,
I mean, quite surprising if Chalet does feature next week
through the map Vito process for the best of three.
And if it does feature, it would be interesting to see
how it plays differently compared to today.
Let's go to our interview for this match,
which is the lovely Brando.
Big game as well from you, Brando,
15 and seven in this one.
you had some fun on charlay what was the mindset for this match and again that
largely doesn't have any ramifications you obviously gonna play them next week
finals best of three how do you kind of navigate that system I think this group
search we've kind of had a few mental sort of struggles and again playing the
server hasn't been up we kind of just wanted to bring it back to basics like
today whether that be like if you're comfortable off or go to a
We just wanted to see what we could do with our team play and I think we did well.
Yeah, I mean, looking ahead to the finals, of course, I'll ask a similar question to what we're talking to Nate about in terms of the competitiveness of OSD.
Do you feel like it really is the most competitive as it has been?
Obviously, you've been around for a long time and often on the best team in the league.
Are you feeling that pressure a little bit that they're not too far behind?
What's the kind of vibe heading into playoffs?
I think it definitely is a lot more competitive than it used to be, like as you see, like at me being on the stage, like any team that shows up on the day can win, no matter like what the matchup is.
So I think I should just tell you that it's more competitive than it ever has been, because I don't think you see like a bottom three team beating a top three team like two years ago really.
Yeah, definitely getting better.
I know it's all about team play and team success because it is a team game
But I thought you had a very good stage Brenda
Do you feel as if individually that you were quite content with your regular form going into finals?
Yeah, I never really mind about my individual stats. I'll be sad a bit of a slow start cause I was a little bit unwell
But I think I was doing my job and getting back into things. I think I pulled it up a little bit
Yeah, always always happy as long as we're winning
I hope you guys can keep winning come finals pushing you guys to best of luck anything
you like to say before we let you go.
Shout out to the boys, we've been putting in a lot of hard work and really proud of
them and I think we're going to be good going into playoffs and shout out EP, thanks
for the support and shout out to all the fans as well for being here.
Thanks for taking the time to chat with us mate, best of luck next week starting
finals.
No worries, thanks guys.
So all done and dusted for the regular stage guys.
Our final four teams are set and it took until at least the last day to get that set, which is always a fun feeling.
But in the end, it did mean we had also quite a few dead rubbers on the last day, but some fun was had.
Obviously for Enterprise, they'll finish in the second seed behind Chiefs as we kind of now start to dissect things.
and and now finals beginning at least by Oceania from here forward. I think it's fair to say that
the two slots that we have for this region achieves EP still the favourites after everything's
said and done throughout the regular stage. But when you kind of look at the competitors,
man eSports LFO, Rital eSports who are in some really good form heading into finals,
that's some pretty strong competition to try and upset the packing order heading into
the finals next week. Now I don't think many would have expected man to look quite as strong
as they do right now and after the first few play days I think it would have been pretty
wild to expect even rival to make the top four given just how slow their start was.
So both of them if they can continue to peek and find form at the right time as Brenda
is kind of saying it really is quite close at the moment even in best of threes I think
we're expecting a lot of these games to go the distance.
So it could be really exciting of course there is the second chance there is that
lower bracket in the finals and I wouldn't be too shocked if we see one of the hard
Hitters or the big hitters find themselves in that lower bracket potentially at the very first round and that could make for an intriguing battle to make that run
Yeah excited for files. I feel like yes
We had a couple of dead brothers towards the tail end
But we kind of have to pay our dues given just how competitive the rest of the group stage was
Absolutely our MVP for the day came all the way back from our opening match of the day
She had to be six targets. It was a Ryan
He was sensational started so incredibly hot in the match guys, but MVP stands for the most valuable player
It's talking about a match where he was the only one that went positive for his team and on the opposing team
They had four players that went positive in a game that went eight seven. He drops nineteen kills eleven deaths seventy three percent cost
Absolutely outstanding performance. He was the difference maker. He was the most valuable player and therefore he's our MVP for the day
Yeah, and again contextualizing that particular matchup not a lot of whole lot to play for maybe that aided
him in terms of not really feeling too much pressure in this matchup or whatever the case
may have been.
But yeah, play with some freedom, had some big clutch moments up on in particular there
as we caught it towards the tail end of the package was really clean and he brought that
momentum forward also into the second half of May have gone and snored out just a touch
but ultimately was a big difference maker in that match.
So yeah credit to him and hopefully for six targets going forward it can be a reliable
member.
Let's go and look at the standings for the last time ahead of the finals and
see where everyone sits.
So for the final time, the bottom four sits as this arcade will be finishing in eight,
six targets in seventh, Academy in sixth, even though they of the three wins they got, one
of those was against EP and the other against chiefs.
And then seven, even though they picked up four wins on the stage, because they do miss
out on top four, two of those wins in regulation.
And it's going to be also something to look ahead for stage two about how many points
you need wins, OT versus regulation, et cetera.
You can see how cutthroat this stage was stage two will be similar and then our four teams that are qualified for finals chiefs
EP man alofo rival it means chiefs will play rival and EP will played men alofo to start in the upper bracket for those next week
Yeah, I don't think you can be too argumentative as to who is made it and who hasn't I think maybe the ordering
Would have been a little bit left to feel compared to expectations and honestly namely the biggest one of the pack is probably that top spot
She's walking away with 19 points is a really respectable performance from them and AP down to 15
They'd probably be a little bit disappointed, but again, they've made top four. That's the hard part done
As we've heard after interview after interview from all different kinds of teams
Just they've been making the top four regardless of who you are or how strong a week your team is
Has been a real real challenge for stage one. So yeah, very keen to see how the final shapes up
I think that for me, again, you've got the two seeds, two slots.
Chiefs in EP are going to be the favorites, absolutely.
But as I said before, I'm not this county man on the phone or rival.
And the way that the brackets likely to kind of formulate throughout the finals is you're probably going to get one of chiefs or EP that will qualify first.
And then of course, the loser of that will play one of the other two and who knows what could happen in that series if that's how it does eventually.
of course, shout out to
they're going to be starting in
four hours time. How about that?
That's not too bad.
Four hours of five minutes.
The email region will be getting
their show underway.
I think I think James and
Nick are on tonight actually.
So James would just be rolling
out again right about now.
So yeah, good luck to him.
I actually saw off the side
one of the pretty much
graphics they've got for
that broadcast and they have
a lot of different playoff
implications when it comes to
email far more complex than
we have with the amount of teams and the sheer volume of quality over there.
So, yeah, ML shaping up to be really good.
And look, honestly, it's been a trend over pretty much all of the regional leagues
so far this year.
This first over really has delivered regionally and we're not even up to the finals.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, so for O's finals is set, but for APL still two big days to come for Asia
and APAC North.
So make sure that you tune in for those broadcasts over the next few days.
And for Oceania fans, see you come finals next week.
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