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I'm back.
Hey!
It is just one more week of email groups and in this week so much can change for our teams
regarding their position on the leaderboard so many opportunities but so many possibilities
for failure as well.
My name is Ann, I'll be your host for today and joining me in the studio we have Alfama
and the fresh guys on behalf of the players. Are we feeling the stress for this week? Yeah. I'm
feeling the heat right now. It's a little bit hot. It's heating up in the ML as well. It is.
It is. I can feel that there is only six points to play for. And I think that after the Super
League we've had everything is very, very tight. It's crunch time. It's as simple as that. It is
crunch time for all of these players. Every team in theory is still within a shot of achieving
their goals. But there's a lot of pressure on these games. Free play victories over times are
are not going to be enough it's going to be fantastic. It is. I am so excited. Before we dive into today's action,
you might have mentioned that we had Super Week last week. Three days of action in total
and it's time we talk about everything that happened on Wednesday by jumping into the
panorama. Reviewing it in three different categories as we always do and starting off with the monster.
A player who was in the interview as well talk about how this kind of underdog role really
gains them some fire to perform and we're seeing it with one specific player on that roster and that
That has to be Grubby, especially after his resurgence.
He had such a terrible stage, Rich Nadek, last year in Stage 2 of EML in 2025.
When he came back with his roster of DK after an incredible stint with Team Heretics at SI,
I think it was really given the opportunity to really shine.
And I think he's really found his groove within the team.
We saw that on Charlie Jack, went completely crazy.
Whether he is also listed with a P90 and 50 Budet,
or whether it is the worst game in game with the UMP, he was thriving.
And I think, you know, his resurgence, his improvement has been very, you know,
a big driving force behind Geekers resurgence and their improvement.
Because of course they won every game last week.
They've been on a huge run.
And actually, you know, when we get to something that's there,
the ones that are looking up, really attacking the top of this table,
which is, you know, it's great to see given their kickoff performance.
Yeah, we'll get there.
But another team that kind of is trying to merge themselves inside the top
is part of our moment from last week's Wednesday.
We're talking about a specific moment in overtime.
So they're already a huge comeback managed for themselves.
and then about 14 wizard with an insane play. Yeah, exactly. And the reason this was a big moment was because of that comeback.
They were down all the way down. What was it? 5-1 at the half and they came all the way through to overtime to get it done 86.
And realistically also for wizard the player himself, he's been having a horrid stage, I think it's fair to say,
but the fact that he was the one to come over the line with a big 1v2 to win them the game in the comeback,
it feels like that spark that's really ignited for Attic.
And to do that against TwistedMind, some of the best gunners we have here in this league,
and to do that on like, what, 10 HP with his DMR, that was really good for him.
And hopefully that kicks off his confidence a little bit,
to see more of that performance that we saw from this player earlier in kick-off.
And I've already put a lot of pressures on our players regarding failure and making it into the top six,
eventually, but for our must-see, we have picked a banger, a match-up,
because we will see G2 and Virtus.Pro face off against each other.
So these two teams, on beaten so far, after 7 days of play in group stage, there's a potential for records here.
Absolutely, and one of them will need to lose today, and the other will remain undefeated, so whatever happens, tomorrow, one team in EML will be able to maybe go undefeated for the entirety of the stage.
That would be huge. For G2 and VP some differences. Of course G2, they've lost a couple of points, they had two overtime wins for the set of VP.
They're completely flawless right now, 21 points within what 7 playdays.
That's what you want to see, right? You want to see the best teams go and head to head when they're in the form of their lives as well.
So the fact that both of these teams have won seven games in a row, now they play each other to really crown.
Not who's the best in the ML because we'll crown that later on, but who's the best in the ML group stage?
Cannot wait for that game.
Isn't it crazy because it's almost been five years since we last let a team go undefeated in a group stage like this.
There's a potential that we're seeing that again here five years later.
We're just absolutely incredible.
Before we get into our game snow, bad news for our wallets, some esports skins came out,
some beautiful esports skins as well. Floor in total, have a look at all of these.
Can I just say, I love this type of video as well, the way they're being announced.
It's so cool, but in general, the skins look beautiful, and I'm glad we have skins from
all over the world, really, if we exclude APL in this case, but we get two skins from
the SAL, speaking of Furia, as the first one sticking with the usual color scheme, it's
a very pretty Velcro skin.
Yeah, really pretty one.
I think the match of the blue and the pink, well, I thought about Dark Zero when I saw
it, but you're right actually.
It has had skins before with the blue and the pink, it's got a glitchy effect to make it.
It's always a normal game of art, but it's really nice.
That's definitely a patch for me, I will say.
Kind of futuristic as well.
I like it. And we have another team from SAEL as well.
We had Loud with their Legion skin. It reminds me of the Secret one, but it looks really cool.
Legion's got pink hair!
Legion's got pink hair!
I just got some desist to go skiing, it's so complementary. I absolutely love this skin as well.
But honestly, we have some good use for Fallout on top of having a pretty good skin.
They also are doing pretty good in the game, because if you look at their ranking right now,
they went from being the one team that got kicked out of groups at Kickoff,
into a team that is right now in a player spot, with how they've made any changes, by the way.
Like they've kept the same team, they're doing pretty well, and they upset Team Liquid, they beat Team Liquid in a B01.
That sounds a little huge for them, but also Fury as well, we just showed the skin second place.
And I think really, this roster being pretty, pretty new, you know, in terms of finding that form, they obviously didn't do it too well, it's all like said, but they're coming into my side on that blow, it seems like.
They're undefeated, and I think very similar profile, playstyle, and results as G2 right now, with 19-store funds watched.
Yeah, yeah, doing so well right now, only two overtime wins, and the rest is regulation wins, doing really good.
I'm glad that we can use these eSports skins coming out as a little bit of an excuse to dive into the other regions and see how we're doing so far with the other group stages.
Speaking of, let's dive into NaL then, right? We have Shopify, Bellion skin on the switch.
Again, we're speaking of this like pink and purple, blue color scheme. I'm a big fan personally.
Yeah, I think what's crazy is if you look just at the headgear right there,
you could think it's the demo's actually, but yeah, it's actually really crazy how like you
have like this 3D carving scanner. That's what I expected from CJX coming in is a,
I guess, new features with the skins. And I remember when we were with Nadek and we were
designing the skin for Hibana in 2021, we were quite limited with what we could do with
the skin itself, but now people are able to completely create a whole new frame and that's
how you get results like this.
They're just getting better and better at it, which unfortunately we can't say about Shopper
Fire Rebellion sitting there in sixth place in the NAL stand-ins now, we've both had the
opportunity actually to look at them quite closely in NAL this stage, fortunately we've
both made guest appearances and I think Shopper Fire Rebellion seems to have really come undone
in NA-specific matchups, you know, think of the Solid City manager they did well, they
got all the way to the final in international matchups, but then they come back to NA and
really, you know, they've done me great. They're disappointed like crazy. I think you go from
a major grand final and now you have the same amount of points of Cloud9 and the 4th one
in the sports. I mean, you know, if you look at the scale of that team and the players on
them, the one benefit they do have is that this week, and it will be the final week,
they do play outlast and they do play space section. So we still expect them to get playoffs,
We still expect them to make the event, but they've not had the best LAL stage so far.
Alright, and then we can also have a look at our own region, because luckily we get a skin from EML as well.
We have our Falcon skin, but the usual branding for you is to see this type of colours from Falcons as well.
Yeah, the green and gold, it works really really well.
There's army as well with the green ponytail, looks absolutely fantastically, I love it.
And for me, so again, like the 3D stuff with the gold, right?
Because when you look at it in the game, I have the ace one for example, and the 3D carvings.
They're like super cool when you look at the lighting in the game, so with Ace it looked really good.
I think here with the Deagle also will be really fun to see in the game.
Yeah, awesome. I love how the skin looks, but check it in on Falcons as well with how they're doing so far.
Is it safe to say maybe we're a little bit disappointed or is that not yet we find ourselves given the R ins?
I don't know, like you cannot expect them at this point in the league, right? To already be making playoff.
Yeah, and it's not them. Yeah, it's pre-qualified and it's G2 and VP that have done it.
and look like actually GK only one point away if nothing only two points away like
they're not as dominant as they used to be I'm glad you mentioned you expect them to make playoffs
because actually we went and crunched the numbers and we actually looked at the probabilities of the
teams making the playoffs of course there's only two games remaining now on this graphic this is
the maximum and minimum position that a team can finish so I'll highlight a few things for you on
this graphic because it is quite dense but the top two you can see that's from G2 that's for locked
into first or second place in the group stage G2 to locked in a maximum of first and then why it's
possible finish a third, that cascades all the way down. Now there's two key fights based on these
percentages. Top four, GK and Fnatic are basically fighting out for that fourth place. So quick
reminder, fourth place and top four puts you one win away in the upper bracket from making a new
UC. Top six is playoffs and you can see then below GK and Fnatic you've got Rebels, shifters and
twisted lines kind of fighting out for that sixth spot. Now a few surprises here, obviously if you
If you look at the numbers, your Fnatic are doing pretty well when it comes to play-offs
qualification, right? 93% chances of making it. However, if you look at the teams below
there, Rebels, Shifters, Twitch, the mind, especially, 2% chances of making top 4, so
it's almost within the miracle. It's completely out of their control, but 25% chances of making
play-offs, that's really rough for a team that used to be and was the best EML team
at the solo XD Major.
And then one just very very quick caveat if you've got an eagle eye monster you'll see in secret as zero percent chance to playoffs
But they could in theory make sixth place that for that to happen
It would need 15 different permutations all to go exactly correct
Their actual percentage chance because it got rounded down is 0.01 percent chance
So fear is to clip possible, but really school right in the mouth
Well, then they gotta definitely start putting in a shift today here in their very first game of the day against
for our first day here in this week. Now these two teams actually played against each other last week in in a
best of three in the Belgium Masters. Fnatic beat them 2-0. That was a pretty dominant game as well.
It seems like Citizen might have the chance to put the final nail in the coffin for his forward team with with Secret here.
But for that side, oh Secret you already mentioned it is 0.01% chance of qualifying. We're looking at the the core of this roster at least you know
the game. We've got a lot of
players who have been in the
league for a long time. We've
got six evotational E W C
last year, and we'll get it
here. Glimpse of hopes victory
against just defined almost
over time against Riddes Pro.
It's just it's not enough yet.
Secret are in a really unique
position at this point in time
that they've changed up three
players. It's all gone materially
different. We've covered that a
lot. But I think realistically
they've shown some good times.
I think especially when they
changed flexi onto the shields,
you could argue maybe that
change came a little bit too
light because as soon as they
did it, they got competitive.
They started winning games.
Whoever they shouldn't be and they got very very close. They've looked pretty good after that change, but it's just fallen short now
They basically got no chance. However Leo they are in a quite unique position to play matchmaker
Yeah, and I can see that Noah is as hot as we are today in every sense
Talking about secret right now. I agree with you
I think they're in a very unique spot in the sense that they're the only team in the world that is already qualified
Now, as you've seen before, and as Jacques stated, 0.01% to make playoff.
What does that mean?
That means that they would need an incredible miracle and restlessly it's not going to happen.
So what does it mean?
They only have two matches left to play in this season.
Before WC, that is huge.
They can only play two BO1s.
They wouldn't have played a BO3 at tier one level before making a WC.
So they absolutely need these official games here.
Experience before going to the event.
It also means that right now, they're in a position to be the reaper of hopes for their opposing teams,
where Fnatic are hopefully gaining the points to make sure that they make it to the playoffs.
Secret, they can prevent them from there. They have nothing to lose right now.
Yeah, let's talk about Fnatic, because after this game, they still have to play against G2 tomorrow,
so it doesn't get easier for Fnatic here on, though.
Speaking of their results, I mean, we have an OT victory with the comeback of the century as well against Pistomines,
but then they also lose two-step against Rebels, so it seems like Fnatic is just so all over the place.
It's on and off. That's the problem with static right now is we've seen a
Little bit of a win streak at some point that gave them all of the points to put them in a position to make playoffs
Realistically, the results are a little bit inconsistent. However, I do think that Jack
They've not qualified for playoffs ever since the very first stage when they arrived in the ML
And one thing that has changed for them is they definitely have a shields player for them
Yeah, they've added Smith on to their roster and I think he's been absolutely fantastic
He's allowed them to play inside of the current meta.
Note that any good team inside of today's meta
has a dedicated shield player who is very, very good at that role.
I think that's exactly what Smith has added.
And these are some fantastic stats
for when he's not on the shields as well.
We saw him go crazy with the boss, G.E.A.C.C.
And on top of that, they had two experienced players
with a load of fragging for it.
That's the citizen, that's that shot.
So if you think about it,
they've got a really good shells player.
They've got two experienced fragging heavy players.
So with the three of them,
now is the best chance for them
and to finally make playoffs.
Yeah.
It is.
And we'll have to look at the map as well,
because it's just the best of one between these two now.
Looking at it, we're going to Laird.
That is a map that Fnatic actually won last week
when they played the Belgium matches final.
Absolutely.
It's a map that Fnatic have not stopped winning to be fair.
They've won it a couple of times in kickoff.
They weren't beaten on any side of kickoff.
They've won it against this stage.
It is literally one of their favorite maps,
and they get to start on the stronger side there.
Yeah, and it's a directory match from the last time
these two played each other at kickoff as well.
And already then, Fnatic had this in secret.
of just the three players were different from the side of secret, but still, it's a map that
they absolutely love, like you said, and defeated. So on the side of secret, it's a question mark,
but like I said, they have nothing to lose in this matchup.
All right, well, a big match for both these two teams. Pressure is on, but that's what we like
here in the final week of EML Group. She ever castles with us, the Marla and Penguins. All yours.
Take it away. Thank you. Thank you very much. And, well, we're back on EML. It's about time, Nick.
I know that over there it's been crazy a heatwave in EU in general, but in EML things have certainly been heating up
We've seen teams that historically haven't done very well
Exceeding expectations and one of those is fanatic
They're looking orange hot and they have the community preference over teams crazy
The runners-up of the Six Invitational this year have been in dire straits
and this is Fanatic's chance to do what they haven't done in the last two years in EU.
Oh, it's incredible. I mean, it's so hard to keep track of all the storylines that have been across all the various regions,
but the fact that Secret is now like a bottom-up to Region C and all the roster changes,
if you haven't been to the Inlet, what's going on?
Well, they're fighting their way back up, and I think that's why this story right here,
Fanatic vs Secret, is actually a very high-potential game to be a banger,
because it's two organizations that have made significant roster changes, who are fighting to get back into good shape,
well, in different financing, they're fighting to get into good shape, period, because they've been in the bottom for a while,
and they're doing it in a layer, a map that is newer to the game, that is still not, you know, 100% figured out,
so I think, generally speaking, super key for this one.
Yeah, 110%, like you said, where the newest map, one of the newest maps,
but let's not forget about Fortress, but let's also not forget about Clips like Casino,
I hope so for states too, because I think for the fortress rework was just accepted with all the norms. It was played instantly by every region. And still now it wasn't like a like a one time thing teams still frequently take us to Fortress.
Oh yeah, and it really doesn't take long for these pros to figure out the best way to play these maps.
You said that Mare is reasonably new, but I feel like we have seen so much of it in the last year.
That teams have really figured it out and it's starting to see almost a staleness until teams start to pick things up.
Oh my god, I love this. I love this. Team Secret. I don't know if they're calling fanatic chickens or if they just have a little bit of fun.
But as we let up into into basement defense for FNC, and like we've been talking about with the team in the studio as well,
this is a high stakes game for both of these teams. Team Secret currently only a single win on the board at the very bottom of the standings.
Fanatic on the flip side on the verge of a potential top four finish, which would be even better than just a top six to get into the first top four.
you're just one game away from the end of the stage.
That is where they set their sights.
So the first hit's on.
Canaphanetic play on the set pressure,
and can secret play a bit more loose right now.
Just get that reputation in,
getting more and more experienced roster,
and place, you know, sparrows to their opponent.
Financier reflexes on the Blitz with Noah behind on Dukka B,
a very classic duo for roam clearing.
But sadly, I one could say, with the Dukka Rework,
you can't just call with that global ability
and hear all the roamers' locations.
Now you gotta target a specific defender and really, you know, get the red pinks out first, like the demos, choose the defender, and then hope them in your buy area.
That's gonna slow down their clear a little bit, and it's while they're just taking their time, it's gonna be Blitz clean one angle, Noah holding the other, and just like second by second, slowly getting close to that bomb site.
It's not gonna be a huge roaming presence, but we got a dead shot up above. Maybe look to 4 flank.
Grenade out!
They are the fastest entry team in the league at the moment. The average entry happens with
1 minute 51 seconds on a clock which is already elapsed. So this is funnily enough a slow round
the secret. I think you can partially attribute that to Fnatic. Very much playing a shoot
drones and fallback strut. Yes, they're just playing at fairly aggressive angles but I
don't think his intention here is to continue fighting forever. He will actually go upstairs
It'll be a friend, and that's Noah, catching him off guard.
That's the early kill for Deathshot.
Nice little shot through the wall from Wizards.
And a second one on the quick ADS.
Fanatic looking phenomenal.
It could well be a flawless kickoff for the defense,
for the boys in orange.
Well, look at that one slow roamer of Deathshot
playing to die, become the whole team,
just fighting together with another one.
It was with the Yokai intel as well, the yellow ping formation,
having a dedicated drone worker on the bomb site,
playing an anchor position. If they're rushing the bomb site, DP will be there to take a fight.
If they're clearing the roam above, you send those Jogad drones and get the yellow
information. It's again playing two sides of defense with both dead shot and wizard hitting
some gnarly shots. I love that. Love to see the confidence out of wizard the young lad.
Noah was one of the hottest properties during the old days. And for him to get taken down early
is always impressive. How many famous trackers in Doki because they would see that round?
Like Zero, right? Like we didn't just use any of the gadgetry. They were drilling everything
kind of loosely as to taking the ground and then it was like kind of deep into the room here when
you're by the staircases as you go you're playing by Greenpillar I guess we gotta go fight that guy
but I don't think they had a wrecking early enough to like utilize the gadgetry so no one just walks
He walks down a hallway hoping for a backstab but because they have yellow information, he loses that gunfight against the GCC.
So it's very small things going on for secret, but it speaks to the confidence of Fnatic and how they have a 4 plus 1 strat where their shot can die immediately or you can get a couple of kills.
In either outcome, the rest of Fnatic could still play out their rhymed, strategicy sound because they still had the Goya Fire, the Acrotones, the Staircase, etc.
So they're just going to play two layers to the defense.
Of course, Ticca have three new players in stage one
and already had two new players in kickoff.
So they've had so many roster changes.
Citizen had a brief stint with them as well.
So he knows their systems, I'm sure.
But this Ticca, the mastery of moments like that
when you're trying to clear home,
that isn't just about being good players.
That's about having the chemistry as a team.
And they just haven't had a lot of time to get reps in
as a full five squad.
Let alone the fact that most Oscar-flexing drills
don't have quite as much experience as the main guys
on the roster.
In fact, drills only taken down Oscar quickly to follow.
There's so much confidence for Tito to mirror with those.
It's desperate now for Team Secret as dead shot.
Sheiks on through the smoke and farms two more.
Team Secret, two rounds deep, yet to find a single kill.
Again, it's a 1v5, logged us out of the building.
no less than a round with a spare grenade doesn't even fight the kill either. I mean,
you can look at these rounds and go, is a Fnatic doing a great job of being disruptive and lashing
out and getting those kills? Or is a secret being sloppy on the attack and side? It's a bit up both,
but my god, the sheer confidence and teamwork synergy from Fnatic right now. I mean, they're
making these rounds way too simple. We're just taking hits.
It doesn't take much here or fanatic to win the rounds, they're really just peeking.
It's no crazy complicated, counter-stratting, no crazy complicated, you two, yeah, I mean
great.
They do it together though.
It's round DPEC, yeah, he enabled the aggression of the Rhymas with the Yo-Kais, in that second
round, like you said, it was well timed, even just the R6 room peeked there from the warden
of Deadshot, really well timed, knowing that his teammate was trapped in the corner and
he could peek out through the smoke, but again, I think the onus is on secret here to contain
that kind of aggression.
I'll take the tactical time out.
I mean, at this point, the only logical thing to do right is you want to slow down the game
in my mind if you're secret.
That can be with more shield play, or it can be with just holding angles and expecting
these swings to happen.
I know even if you're expecting them to go aggressive, you can of course still lose to
gunfight, but there's a matter of having two guns on the attack, looking in the direction
of one defender, because these are individual kills with Fnatic mostly, like here in the
breach, that's a solo swing when I got in the hallway, here in the closet, it's again
Fnatic forcing the swing here, but they had a blitz, but Fexi was playing scared and peeling
backwards and used a smoke against the ward, which he can see through.
So it's Secret having one attacker here, one attacker there, and they can't help each
other.
Now, slowing down the game, there's one operator that does it, the best of all, and it's going to be the Monty.
And Fletcher's currently on that operator, but then comes the other issue.
This is the tertiary bomb site. This is not really the area where slowing down the game and playing in Monty, step one, step two, step three, is super common.
Either you gotta fight top floor and fight for the full map control, and then if you survive that room key up top, you do a bit of vert, then you hit the bomb site.
A lot of teams choose to not do it because a lot can go wrong, you can see fours beneath, fighting above, and if the defenders want to, they can just drop down and hatch and be chasing nobody wasting precious time.
So a lot of teams do a half clear, they take the minimum amount of their control and just hit the bombs directly, like the sands, the ying, the glass, the munty, whatever kind of combination.
Upon this here, this is probably the roughest bombsite for munty to exist, but they start off well, Oscar from Secret will get the opening page.
Crucial, it's not just the opening pick, it's the first kill the team secret have found.
Okay, nothing to scoff at.
And look, yeah, you're right, there are a couple of different ways to attack this site.
I feel like the most modern and effective way to do it in the current meta
is you gotta hit site while you're executing on the top floor.
And we see a lot of teams try that, a lot of teams fail with it though.
But you often don't have enough time to hide clear top and then go for your execute
execute because the defense gets so good at burning time on that top floor and retaking
it in the late round, but we'll see.
They have the opening pick.
Also onto the solos, one of the most important operators for this fight.
Now they've burnt that C4.
Still another C4 available here from Citizen as Wizard looks to try and get aggro.
This could work.
Feeling confident after his three kills so far.
Wow, cannot believe you didn't get a kill, nor get killed there.
kill Dan, but Lexi quickly comes in to take you down.
Immense progress, good kill from Smith.
Lexi gets a little bit baited.
3v4, but the monkey's gone down.
This is a desperate attack though.
As Oscar quickly gets aggressive,
he takes the last one, stand the round is over.
Pretty much as soon as it starts,
Team Secret are on the board.
Very beautiful.
I mean, that actually comes down to them
winning the individual gunfire.
So Oscar starting off with a huge opening pick,
taken down the solace.
And you said yourself, it's a very valuable defender to get rid of.
And the reason for it is it changes the wind conditions for the defense.
They can't just play, you know, for plant information,
see where the things are sitting up at and falling back and, you know,
playing the layers.
That I gotta play a little bit more desperate.
And it's where we see them throwing an early C4 that at most
will do a bit of damage to Monty, but never get the kill.
And then start swinging a bathroom window with a shotgun, which again,
you can do it, but usually you're only gonna go for that play
if you are feeling a bit desperate.
So, Fnatic want to aggress more and more and more and Secret finally being ready for it
and winning their fight get a beautiful round.
But then comes the problem.
Now Monty's banned.
It's really well prepared for by Fnatic.
So they start off banning Solid Snake and Glass.
These are relatively fast paced operators that both do well at rump clear information,
that's the Solid Snake, and of course the mini executes or the side executes in the Glass.
So you're both weakening the early stage of the round and the late stage of the round
with these two operators.
Then you play three rounds and try to figure out what can Secret leverage to make their
attacks better.
And in the one time they win, in the one time they show the Monty, now that's gone.
So with this in my mind, Fnatic can keep playing the map, keep rolling and keep playing
Akro in the early stage because Secret, they've banned Bandit Kite Mirror.
They've banned the things that protect the walls, that protect the bomb side, especially
on top floor.
So Fnatic, they don't want to bonk it down and hide away, they want to keep fighting,
and are going to keep fighting without the Monty Gaston, which favours Fnatic.
Yeah, I don't disagree, I feel like there's no question who's won this set-up, right?
Especially as the tertiary comes on through.
But on the flip side, I think there was clearly something just going wrong,
something not adding up for secret in their first two rounds,
and it's not as simple as the UTIL brought to the table.
I think getting one round under their belt is just a massive win.
We lost one player in doing so.
Closing new Megaman!
Yeah, they should be a lot more confident.
They got their headscrews on right then.
No, okay, we can have the win rounds here.
Even without the Monty, it's fine in theory.
Oh, what?
It's there.
Disaster through now.
You're into the Nether?
Yeah.
So I think it's the same.
Oh, don't call me this.
I'm not sure if it works this way anymore.
If you put a Goya canister on a Barricade
And if in the rips down the barricade, the fire doesn't pop either, because it just gets like removed.
And I guess the keeper works the same for us, I mean, because it just happened in front of our very eyes.
So they lose a bit of stall potential, flicks the tanks at C4 to start half his health,
but it's gonna be drills picked up that shot, that plus one player.
That shot will either be the first to die or the first to get a kill with this current Fnatic playstyle.
That's the tinted by design.
He has been successful in the past, but in the previous two rounds he has been dying early without getting a kill.
Don't say player in the league right now by the way, that shot.
Ooh, nice aggressive play from Mowgli, but it gets caught by Smith.
I like that Mowgli tried to play a bit aggressive, but now one of the most experienced players
on Secret is down.
Without a kill so far by the way.
Be careful, the swing comes through.
Citizen traded.
Critical one from Noah, but it's just so chaotic.
I don't know what Secret are doing, they're executing all at once or separately.
These 1v1s lost, now leave them in a numbers deficit.
And they're not given to use the correct operators in the right location.
Gryan Flakir was not taken any of those fires initially, but this play could work out.
Oscar did a good back step.
Gets the player, gets the cam, and with smoke being gone, they have a lot more space to work with.
Only a few good canisters are well left on the map right now, so this 45 second timer is more or less accurate.
These 2BP shine that little cabinet there as well, so they're nowhere the insolence on the bomb side.
Now, Oscar and Noah has to try and link up someone in the middle.
You're going to stand two of the ends of the bomb site.
It's going to come down to playing as North in the next 25 seconds.
Good info.
I like this.
I'm through it now, deep into this tie.
Oh, Oscar!
Oh, beautiful headshot with the very nine!
Wizard!
He's had a moment already in this game, but he will not get a second.
Another round on the board for Team Secret.
a big 2v3 and it feels like they're back into this game.
Not the round I thought they'd win, but sometimes you gotta have a hero step up and ask her with the backstab.
He opened up the possibility of a round win, so well done for him.
But going back to how that round started off, you know, Mowgli wide swinging the single wall in garage
when Blackbeard is right next to him, right here.
If you look behind Mowgli, Flex is there at Blackbeard.
A grenade and target, you know, 65% health or so, you can take that fight together.
Blackbeard can play the distraction game, you can try and like, fake, you know, ADS,
and flip the shield down and take the fight 2 vs 1.
But no, so Mowgli dies solo, then the guy 2 is right dies solo, then Blackbeard is left alive,
and he knows if he doesn't take a fight right now, he'll get flanked and be fighting 1 vs 2 if you die for nothing.
So now Flex is forced to just take a really bad fight on his own, and he dies as well.
So it really comes down to Secret winning off individual prowess rather than teamwork and coordination.
And honestly, it's not the end of the world because right now they're getting two attacker mounts,
they're tied to a score, and if they can just keep doing this and go like two, three rounds in attack,
which is the one I got into, they go on to defense, I think that playstyle can work a lot better for them.
So it feels like for me, the worst is kind of over for Secret, and it actually tied up to two.
I love how quickly we backflip right off the off-radar bands come out and we're like,
ah man, Fnatic really won these off-radar bands and then Secret wins one more round
and we're like, never mind, Secret are through the woods, they're out in the open fields again.
I think they are. I still think like, Opera to Ben selection, prep work and game plan,
I do think Fnatic are still winning and still ahead, but I think Secret just had to get that
second round guaranteeing the pocket and then side switch and then like that should
Theoretically be enough whether it's actually gonna be enough to have to find out but it sets the table pretty currently
Secret just crap their pants in the first two rounds. They called that tactical time out. They said alright guys
We just need to get around under our belt to remember how to play this game. What's a nice way to do that?
Let's just stack behind the montane. Okay guys. It worked. We don't have the one
I guess we've remembered out in a place
Hey, even the post got up almost in times.
This is how it is. Straight before you work out, or before you play Pro League,
just get those, uh, the muscle memory going.
And we've seen mostly these, like, very slow and cautious
beginning rounds of secrets since that tactical timeout, and I'm a huge fan of that as well.
They're just kind of stabilizing it, not taking any huge risks.
And also respecting Deadshot and how aggro he's been this entire game.
in this entire game and speaking of that shot, you see her again,
top of the rock stairs, C4 on hand, looking to be the playmaker every single round.
He's gonna go and C4 it, it does a little bit of damage onto Oscar.
He did very well and been far worse than that.
I'm sorry that wasn't Oscar. Oscar took damage elsewhere from a thought trap.
Oh I thought it was actually as well.
No, no, I couldn't do no damage to Mowgli.
Oh, dead shot, he's still on it onto the stairs. Man, how do you clear out a warden like this?
Oh, low HP, there you go. Nice save from Nell, follows up with a quick peek.
And now, mezzanine, which has sacrificed, have a look at this provision from where he's at.
He can't just get out safely, just barely, as the keeper barriers will protect him.
Great movement, using the gadgetry and staying on smiths here on the clash,
from his first plate operator short bar on the stage and he gets all this information,
but it's a lack of planned denial. It's just the three toxic babes,
but I guess with 30 seconds left, that's gonna be enough.
Secret somehow has to problem solve this position.
Oh wow, they're doing that by trying to flip the switch, go elsewhere,
but now they're gonna do his citizen. He's taking down no one, two, eight,
down a second, looks for a little bit more! He's gonna die flexi!
Finally a trade from Oscar 1v2! He doesn't have the diffuser!
Gonna have to recollect it, indeed he does.
Can he plant our six room watch miss and wizard or in the other bombsite? No
He's gonna get close bring out the shotgun secondary
But the problem is he's going up against two foes and they can take him from both sides
Beautiful play from wizard and a third round for fanatic
Very well done again
It feels like it all comes down to the opening pick right now when you look at a fanatic's defenses
When they can disrupt the main plan and just kind of weaken them and give them a few problems in their path
they're floating, things are going great.
But when they lose that member early,
which again will usually be that shot every single time,
and you give secret, just a little bit of map control,
you know, they can work the hallway,
they can get that main breach, it looks so winnable.
But then they had that second layer.
It's a clash.
They didn't have the time, the operators,
or the tools to deal with Smith in this round.
So they had to flip it.
So they're jumping into a window, into barbed wire,
with a thorn trap going off,
with the Blackbeard Fault to take a solo gunfight
and it's just not pretty.
And maybe a little bit of question mark there,
to Flexi, I do think you can play
a bit more greedy on the Blackbeard.
When your teammates jumping in that museum window,
as I said, into a bar buy, into a phone trap,
they will guarantee you die.
Even if Citizen doesn't shoot back,
the Gatchi will just take you out.
Flexi has to just go, you gotta just ADS.
Because Citizen is the person in a difficult position.
Does he fight the Blackbeard?
Does he fight the Nomad?
You know, he could get shot by Nomad
before the phone trap goes off,
but he's scheduled to trade him.
Flexi, instant the ABS and just try
and play the trading game,
because if the blanket lasts alive,
once again, you should be losing that battle
the majority of the time.
Yeah, I feel like part of that just,
it's not just game sense and the knowledge
that that's the right play,
but again, it's team chemistry.
Yeah, it really is.
Knowing, just having a vibe,
like just knowing how a teammate plays so well
that you don't have to be able to see their outlines,
it can be taken another direction,
you don't have to make any comms.
You just know the timings and the way that they play and the way that they think.
You have full confidence that he's swinging that window in that specific second and going for a peek.
That is just something that I think Team Secret might take more time on.
Even though of course we have some long-time teammates, obviously Oscar and Flexi have played on many teams in the past quite some time.
No, I'm only in our long-time teammates, but it's just something deeper than that.
You have such dramatic roster changes twice in a span of about three months
Thanks a little bit of time
Yeah, you don't have that student picture stick
You know what really helps out a good old 3-2-1 crown down
But all the cameras have been the same time that can be tricky as well
Lion King goes out, Dexter just brings away basic pink
It's the kill set from all the time for a constant map, same location
Places alive from life before, no one sets to board them
They've all died around the blitzboard, feels like they six-founded a row
This really felt like a game which could end up a 3-3 at the end of the first half, but
now Fnatic have found their two picks and two players have fallen back to site.
Dpex actually technically off-site, but I think he's going to start making his way down.
Indeed, Deadshot also doesn't want to overstay his welcome.
You might throw an impact here, he attempted, he tried to get out of the impact, but maybe
he did, yes.
He's still greedy.
I love it so deadshot though, isn't it?
Yeah, just a 4 cost one duck.
Out the impact, but he does bite off a little bit more than he can chew.
Good kill from Oscar.
Smith almost taking down as well on the vert.
This is the concern now, this is our fanatic Fomberlake.
Deadshot had to go big right in the day.
He got the kill, he got also down to 1 HP.
Flakes to less than half.
He's spent both his impact grenades and mostly bullets in his magazine.
Time saved.
There's the intro conferred because the place was low, and Oscar cannot check this by comfort because it's LHP
But they've got a catalyst even if Jailz works out. It's still winnable, but it's going to be a tough one for Secret to Clutch
Yeah, LHP on Oscar as well through the ban sheet
They're being up for Lina's side, interesting
A little team up with the player on the verge to isolate those Lina's side takes a little bit more damage
You cover the explosion, the X-Cars to get deep, it finds them a kill, however Fnatic respond immediately
And they do take the half. It's a 4-2 split for Fnatic.
Oh man, the 3-3 Dream is no longer alive, but I said James, you just need that 2 rounds side-swap and they can still do it, but of course they don't have a huge parachute.
I'm curious for the desk, what's the vibe check? Is 2 rounds enough for Secret?
That's a good question. We're gonna find that out in our second half, but for the sake of Fnatic, but there are 4 rounds.
In the end, the aggression nearly got the better of them, but it's something we're seeing throughout this whole half, though, well-paced aggression on defense.
Yeah, you can see that it's clearly their game is trying to show that they have the confidence and the momentum with them.
You can see it like, round one, round two, like they're absolutely flawless.
Not a single kill on the side of Team Secret.
And that's on the back of Team Secret falling to the aggression of Magic.
And it's already calculated in a sense.
If you look at most of these kills, it's not only 1v1s, it's two double ups almost all the time.
On every single spread out secret effects, Jack, I see players doubling up with each other.
That was the most impressive thing for me, was the team play from Fnatic.
You know, when people were in trouble, like here, right, they're playing because they're looking for the players.
What's happening? They're flooding to go and retake that ground. They're not giving up any ground whatsoever.
They win those two rounds. Yes, Secret, they'll come back with a couple of things tonight.
Maybe they'll go a little bit complacent round three and four, but as soon as round five comes in,
your big game, your big name, players, citizens, join the roster, going up against his old team.
Massive 3K there to win them the round.
I mean, he's getting pushed by two players, he's getting pushed by a Blackbeard.
Every one of us, you yesterday in ranked, me yesterday in ranked, we would fall to that, right?
He doesn't, he plays really well, he isolates the gunfight, he's 8-3 right now,
and that shot is also pulling his weight, although he's a greedy Frenchman.
He did stay too long enough.
He did stay too long over there in filtration, he just felt like he was enough, but I will say this,
it's working for these guys, we highlighted them in the pregame, Jack, and they're the main win conditions.
So you're telling me that they, as we highlight in the free game, they got up to that in the corrupt matter.
They brought in these two big names players, it's an in-depth shot, that are used to qualifying to events, used to making events.
And now for that, I can actually challenge them, they're looking good.
That's not a Quink-a-Dink, Leo.
No, it's not a Quink-a-Dink. And if we look at all the other side, where are the experienced players that are supposed to be the fraggers?
If I look at Mugli on the side of Zyka, he's supposedly carrying his weight.
He doesn't have the excuse of not being surrounded by players that he hasn't played for a long time with.
He still should be able to perform.
And right now he's 0 and 5, I think.
He's got multiple opening deaths, like, he's struggling a lot.
I think Mowgli is one of those players that he's a very risk taker.
He takes a lot of risk, he takes a lot of engagement.
The French Hurds.
Yeah, exactly. That is a great way of putting it, actually.
He's a French Hurd, and in old secret, it maybe got covered up a little bit.
It maybe got masked by the fact that the other four were operating so well at such a high level.
This is a completely new team.
So maybe Mowgli needs to change his risk habitat just a little bit,
because today he is covering the cost in the team.
Well, Breaching is going to be easier for Fnatic with these bends here, but then Deimos and a Kapital are banned as well.
Yeah, interesting. I'm assuming that's a complete counter shot by the way. Deimos is being abused by the vertical play.
It's so strong right now on that map, especially to deny the banatrix.
On the other side, Kapital probably abused, I think, on the bomb site for the Execute.
Yeah, quite a lot, and stayed for the Basement.
That bomb site, and also this bomb site specifically for the Desk position, if you're going to play via his army,
We're not yeah, we are seeing actually on the side of mogul in here. I was great to clear off the these army on the desk
All right. Well, it's just maybe a few more rounds in this second. All let's see how it turns out
Thank you very much
I'm curious as well. You know, it's um
It's it's a good day right now. I think it's a connective and I think that this broke it down perfectly
The cross fire is spotting helping each other. But that's so much easier to do on the defensive side
That's why I'm on Nykopium. I think Secret now will switch it up. They will do that same similar task in defense
And it's gonna come down to who's gonna be the better attacking team and we've seen Mowgli struggles
He is the French hurt as Leo put it and James now having a bit of a laugh about it
And it's true
He is that soul person who will do stuff and brute force a problem and when the other form image can work well and do their
own thing and make that happen successfully, it works well to have a risk-taker.
When the whole team has gotten a lot more unstable with the once and changes, Moply's
playstyle is now even riskier than before. Combined up the fact that he's currently
0 and 5 and that's how you find a much weaker secret. But I think once he defends, his playstyle
and his stats should change for the better because now he has less space to work with
and he's going to be better in that small space.
And as Jack said during that half time 5 check, Mowgli is playing one of the most important
positions on this bomb site as he is Army who, yes, he's peeking up right now, but
he will eventually fall back to the stronghold of the desk inside of the castle.
And Secret really want to hold on that position so much so they've even banned the Capitow,
which is primarily good at clearing that position and also the mezzanine position where we saw
Deadshot playing on defense.
So Mowgli, he needs to make sure he's not playing a risk-taking role when he's in a
power position because if you give up your power position just because you
overpick a little bit too much then you have really thrown around.
That's difficult though right? Because about playing that perfect middle line
off I'm playing the power position. I have to take fights when I'm strong but I
also can't take the fights that I'm strong necessarily because if I end up dying
despite being strong I'm gonna put my team in a bad position. So I'm looking at
stuff like no SC4, defying from the capitol. It's a shotgun and drills into smoke.
how can they leverage their tools to help Mowgli progress this round?
Right now it's about slowing down Smith's because if you slow down the Monty,
you slow down the entire attack of Fnatic. Monty has to get up a staircase into the battle,
convey your information, the location helps Secret, and then you start planning your execute.
So they've been spending a lot of smokes early on before Secret down for this exact purpose.
This is a good deep play though from the Monty here. It's very aggressive.
I wonder if there's a way a secret can catch him off guard.
I don't think there's any realistic way to land this C4 perfectly unless...
All the way!
...he's on the spot.
Finally, off the donor, amongst the baguette for the Frenchman.
As Deadshot goes down, nice gas as well.
Now Fnatic have to do some thinking.
Yep, and look at this.
As I'm talking about, problem solved in peeling back, playing the layers.
Who's now looking at 30 seconds left against the Goirou, the Zashangar, the smoke,
with all the babes about gone as a final C4 as well.
Well, now it's time to take him to the storm fast to get him to the C2.
I always got to be careful not to overextend here.
Monty coming up nice and close to him, distracting him.
He might actually land some damage.
He's gonna get killed by Wizard. Good play from Fnatic.
However, it contraps the momentum.
Secret's against the bay. No plan is on.
He's catching the scuser and he's been taken down!
Sin isn't in the 1v2.
Secret have weathered the storm.
We're talking just a couple more seconds and that attack could have been taken a lot more calculated
But because they were looking at like the last 10 seconds
They're forced to sprint in the building and not able to take the gunfights with enough time to ensure the highest
Chance of survival. I will say we saw incredibly beautiful
Monty push right?
Monty's in the hallway extending un-extending faking out the melees and you saw the outlands maybe on the back end
There's an attacker pushing the hallway behind the Monty and an attacker who jumped in the window at more or less perfect timing
So even if Monty dies, even if Monty ends up getting counterplayed
The teammates will get the trade game one for one and it just again means the communications there
They were synchronized. It wasn't about victory, but it was a great attempt of an attack
And that's what we did earlier
Yeah
Great example about how to use a
Shield to assist someone jumping in that window because we saw almost
Situation when secret were on the attack
It was the black bit trying to play and the black bit wasn't aggressive
Ironically because the black bit is typically a far more aggressive operator than the the monty
That's the thing about playing a Monty, right?
You don't even have to expose yourself that much to put pressure on because you know one way that you can put pressure on a defender
When you're playing Monty that you can't necessarily do with blackbeard
You don't do anything else just put your shield away because then suddenly it's like you're saying hey
But they think you're gonna because why else would you want to shoot?
I don't think that's a potential threat, it really is.
Okay, we're gonna jump out, no way!
He's pulling a death shot right now, he's just playing the 4.1 strat.
He's taking down Solid Snake, death shot himself on the entry, denial.
Now, Monty's staying in force with the ADC, if you lose this gunfight, that could just
be the round, so it's miserable not to fail to commit.
But this cannot be unmistakable, this is a huge loss to some of the finessees.
Thankfully, they've got a ton of nap control, they have to block through the penalty, they
Now partly from the Grimm, they still have all the right tools, but it's another 4v5 with less guns on the board because they also have the Monty.
It's not the end of the world because they still have the other critical U2, namely the Monk.
Of course we saw how powerful Vert was, fought in secret on their own attacks.
however you need not just vert but you need something to push those players
into your vert whether it's the Monty or the Grim perhaps even the Dockabee
this is where the winner lose the round filtration staircase if they can get one
or two kills on their vert the Monty kind of shoving them back into the line of
sight they can win if they could stall down the staircase for the next like 30
40 seconds they will lose some time against the Goryle the Echo even the
impact grenades having three available they can do a huge amount of damage for Monty
There's the Echo Stunt, there's maybe the Relation, and that might just be the round.
I messed up you!
Perfect play from Oscar.
Team Secret making the most of this Util, chaining it together the smokes with the Echo
Stunt, with this shot of the timing.
That's the kind of chemistry we've been waiting to see from that fanatic, desperate, but they
see the aggression from Flexi, Prefire, eventually Deepak will take him on down.
55 seconds is enough time, but do they have enough manpower to finish this job?
The issue is planning is out of the question now, they know Ekko is also available so they can deny it.
They don't have an IQ to figure it out. I don't think they can even call Oskar on the Ekko
so they can deny him from using the gacha tree.
So, in a perfect world, you get a kill or two here if you're fanatic.
But how do you get that kill? I don't know.
One more, maybe two Yogas left.
Yeah, they just picked one. There are two. There's one in lab and one in lab support.
I just noticed on the overlay from Oscar. He's getting caught by the top of the hill.
Oh, perfect! He can't use it! However, Mowgli finds two big kills!
There's him! 1v3, but he's distracted by the crossfire, and he goes down.
He'll fall to Noah, team secret. Bringing this back to defences on the trot.
It's funny how we're seeing the exact same... Well, okay, it's actually not the exact same,
but a similar thing play out of both these two teams on sideswap.
Their fights are happening in the same area and they're both facing the same struggles
and after just two rounds, it's another technical timeout this time from Fnatic.
Maybe they gotta go, guys, the aggression, you know, deadshot dying early,
Noah jumping out windows, we need to slow down our game and re-synchronize.
It's funny because this is the exact position Secret were in themselves,
where they fall apart early and they struggle on time, they struggle as they use Hill
and don't have the answers. It's going to be a close game, James. I'm telling you.
Now, what might add to that, the fact that Mowgli is actually getting kills now, I mean,
that's his second and third killer of the game, three and seven, but without him.
Secret might not have gotten that round. No one even said it. Good shit, Mowgli.
The thing is now, we've got one more round before we get the last operator bands to come through,
So fanatic they're starting to take this tactical time out a little bit early
I think it's the right choice better to take it at 4 4 than at 4 5
I'm in a big agreement with that the only argument they can have right is do you wait on to a third
Operator band to call it because that can change the conversation
But looking at what you've lost get the mini time time during the operator
That that is true. We can talk anyway. So it's like that is true
We'll take it now because next round you also get a very small amount of time
but it's a chance to talk to the kids.
I was thinking like they've already lost the Deimos, they've lost the Capitao, they've also lost Deadshot, he's out of here.
Bye.
So I was trying to ask like is there any soul operator that if they get banned that you go, oh my god, we should have had a tech time after this conversation?
And I don't really think so. If they banned the Monty or any shield, you got all the other three shields.
If they banned the Glass, you have the Ying, the Grim.
Because they were hovering Monty in glass here before we had to go for a quick attack.
So I don't think there's any big issues there.
I feel like Team Secret are probably going to ban that Monty, obviously we haven't seen this third round play out
of Team Secret's defense yet, but Fnatic for the first two attacks, they rocked the Monty both times.
And yes, especially in that second round, they dealt with the Monty really well with that Echo.
But from Fnatic, you're probably considering like if you want to keep playing the Monty, you can ban that Echo if you want.
I honestly think you probably expect the Monty gets banned. Yeah, don't waste a ban on the echo for it
Yeah, so that's a question for you because
One can argue that echoes a great Monty counter
But I would argue echoes even bigger counters or all the other shields because you're more exposed by default
So now you just be exposed, right?
Is it worth if you want to play the shields to just still give them the echo?
I think Echo is more valuable against Monty than he is against Blackbeard and Blitz because
like you said, Blackbeard and Blitz are already somewhat exposed so Echo doesn't change it
as much as Monty is the only way to do it.
There's houses until that Echo stun comes out.
If I'm Fnatic here, obviously we're not up to the Operator Bands yet this round but I
Genuinely think you ban me his army. You just banned something which is not necessarily a win or lose for one specific bombsite
But it's just a little bit good on everything and it also just makes things faster. You also like I see so many proteins
Forget to run enough DMRs to deal with his army
For the DMRs
It happens you need at least like ideally you need two DMRs on on your roster if you're playing against a good as army
Just because we're in a meadow where you cannot afford to have any operator that is
Indisposable everyone has to have a contingency like you lose your Hibana DMR. That's fine. We've got solid snake
You know you can take all you we've got duck or whatever it is like, you know hard breach
Oh, no, we lost our thermite. It's okay. Monty has tin can open us
I don't think that's so important these days on the other side, right? Let's see. So you're attacking now
You got to do your Alberta ban. We're expecting it. Maybe a month to ban looks it, etc
We don't want to go into the echo ban because we expect the monty so we don't care. That's the that's the current plan
What are you going for stuff like your
Tashanga smoke or Goryu in this case because we thought time was a big problem on both attacks a long time
They're getting stalled out all the choke points on the map
The Goryu is pre-positioned in prep phase so you can kind of see it you can maybe to assure it
You can always frag grenade it you control when you get rid of it with Tashanga and with smoke
You don't have the same benefit the only way to make this one because I'm going to use it is if you pressure them enough
To the point where they feel the need to use it, but you still have to wait for what regardless because you can't push through it
So yeah, yeah, I disagree with you on that
I mean the smoke and the glia have both been picked every round in that first top floor defense for secret
They tripled down to shanker the lineup was did shanker smoke glio as army and mirror and like most people would say
Yeah, well you ban that mirror. I don't think mirror is the problem guys. She's been picked once and yeah
I maybe honestly I think the smoke is good especially because you think about that basement
How often do we see people hold on to I forget the name of that stick it would we mentioned before it's it's rocket stairs
Is it the rocket stairs is like in the lobby when we go upright the top floor attack
There we have filtration stairs. That's that yeah filtration stairs the one where we saw the Monty died to the yoga
Yeah, the filtration stairs is just such a classic like you play your smoke there with every time
Yeah, and the smoke of his army. I think those are the two most valuable bands that you could probably go for here
The chanker is obviously really good
But to chanker without the smoke and without the Goyo because you're bringing Goyo counters
I don't think that's nearly as much of a problem
Also, if okay, someone is sitting there on there to chank a fire like you just know that they've got their gadget out
you can pick them. So then the final thought, right? What if you expect the
Monty Ben, right? So now you bend the Warden and you play Glass Yng of
around. Is that like a thing? Because Citizen, okay, so we're back in the game.
Citizen was hovering the glass before we had to go into attack. I'm just
thinking, there's a world where you play the Glass now and the Monty and you
force their hand that both is either or they're gonna play the other. You can
then say we're gonna ban the warding and we can play glass ying because you ban the
monty or they try and ban the glass of the ying as like a oh no you see what
they're doing and now you got the monty and you got the glass all the ying so
two of the three issues there is that small bit of mind game you can have
and then operate a face election when you're showing what kind of option would
like to play in all three first rounds whereas some teams they play only the
monty three rounds in a row they know it's gonna get banned away and then they
bring out that that plan B. So we'll see. I'm a big sucker for a water fan. I will never
dislike it even if it's questionable and it doesn't have an impact. I just hate water.
I just don't like, I'm complaining about it at all.
Just hold on. You hate Dokka B, you hate the water.
I'm a Dokka B merchant. So I actually love Dokka B but I'm not a fan.
Also it's a thorn you hate.
Don't look, we're going to go rework every day you're like man I can't wait for him to get banned some more in pro league and then check his banter in banter in APL quite a lot.
Yeah man, we got guilty as judge.
The smoke of the glow ray by the way, 100% pick rate.
As the secret they've dropped the exami since the tech pause.
They uh, the tech time around.
But yeah, the glies are still very much present. I want to know how that gets used.
We're going to have,
out of the ver.
Dacia had to find a fish to EMP the hole.
That's a big take right in the staircase.
That's huge.
Air Jap doesn't work either.
So now that that staircase is controlled,
it's going to be difficult.
I was going to say, Dacia wants the EMP to work
at the smallest, but mostly over swings into a DMR.
Like you said, this is a strong weapon,
and it gets chopped down.
So does Oscar.
So does Olaf.
And just like that, you know,
if an S from one point can hear it by pillow position,
they get all the kills.
I shot those from drills.
Need some more.
Take this from Citizen, but he needs to make sure he won't go over and stand, flexi.
I thought he might have had a big flank to try and clutch up the round, but not to be, Fnatic erupts.
They're really hinged on that. Big 2k with the bearing 9 from Citizen, the glass, but a great execute nonetheless.
Team Secret blew their load a little bit too early there, Pengu. They went for that big flank.
Love the idea, countering the Nomad going for a play, but Fnatic, we're ready to contain it.
And now the moment of truth, PENGU, what's it gonna be? Will we see that monkey man?
Shanti, Tishanga, Smoke, Goyou, Asami. That's like our big cook up here.
I want to see Smoke. They're gonna ban something boring.
They're in my ban.
Okay.
They're in my banster troll.
They're in my banster troll secret. I don't know what you're doing, guys.
There is the world where they were expecting a mirror ban.
And so if you ban Bandikaid, obviously we're talking about wall destruction, the only third
operator that can do wall destruction properly is going to be Mira putting the mirror windows
outside and Thermite cannot deal with that, right? So if you're thinking they're going to ban the
Mira, you ban the Thermite response, now they have to still struggle at the breaches and get like a
small hole, etc. But yeah, that's not really what happened. So now if you're going to ban
The event was a kind of blowdown, if you ask me, because now Mere will just stop the film if it was on the board.
On the flip side, speaking of Secret going too early on their push, I think it must have recognized that there's a fat in the ball when Motey died.
They already knew that Motey was there, the glass, etc.
They thought if we let them get to Bum to execute, they're gonna EMP our solids, we have no clue that that was going down, and we just lose.
So they thought we gotta do a disruptive play and stop them from getting there and there's win or lose on that beach
Yeah, it's a pretty prepared for
Active defense they're happy to say okay pause the press pause on our attack and just play defense for a second
Counter all the flanks take a little bit about controlling console. They want to stop
Yeah, I don't mind the guy
Motion goya would be picked every round
But as you mentioned the Goyo you can counter him in different ways.
You can bring Twitch, or crevice or some other utility.
But you can't do that with the smoke. You can't counter him in a different way.
That's exactly what kills the fucking man.
Can he have pizmo?
Yeah, I'm telling you the truth.
Not for a faster in this round though.
But deep back on the Sophia, an operator that got a very small change,
which massively increased the pick rate, went from a one speed to a two-two.
It's all of a sudden with that, so VH has picked a lot more commonly, got the can opener half-destruction, the gadget soft-breaching,
Flakes you get shot down early on the mirror, there's a C4 gone, and of course, a huge mad event to cheer for Fnatic.
But still, two minutes ago, they've done a great job to shangest it as well, mowed down half HP, this is secret fighting too early and too willingly, I think,
because they're playing for fallback, they're playing for plant denial, they're playing to play in close quarter positions,
Yet they're seemingly taking these spikes in the wrong area of the map.
Big moment for Fnatic and they can convert the 5v3.
It guarantee a point on the board. They'll get into that top floor with that point.
They kill from drills though. Wizard goes down.
A little bit quieter since the rehearse compared to what I saw from him on d-spection.
If he gets info, that double tap will get him a free kill, but I don't think he's going to have to step on mine.
He gets it onto Mowgli! So well baited!
They're playing perfectly.
They're breaching the wall while he's looking through that near window anchor and he said,
He's there now, he's keeping.
And he just double-punch from below and he will kill most defending operators.
If you're in close proximity.
Fnatic now have the Black Pit for push,
Sophia's stunned one more in pocket plus a Stullistic Scanner for intel.
They can easily find the whereabouts of Noa and Drills and there's no more smokes.
The only way to get an easy kill here is going to be a C4 or a nice shot from Noa.
Yeah, no has been spotted now. It's a reposition three plays and there are six room drills
Support
Got a real angle from no a bit of damage. No it comes out. Does not land
Made forcing him back. He's still worried about that black beard, but there's also an entrance into the side elsewhere
He has a good crossfire from drill but we he gets beat by smiths good first one from drills, but not to be
recomposure from Fnatic and they have claimed match point. I feel like this is
the battle of Smith versus Flexi on the shields because the shield operators
have been like the number one pressure point for both of these two teams'
attacks and there's a huge difference in how they're using them right. Flexi is
often never-adjusting, not taking the fights and his teammates are not really
synchronizing that aggression together. This is second or third time now where
Smith has like peek for input with the blanket from the structure relief and then
He goes back out the doorway, says 3-1, he swings ADS with Citizen and then Deepik holds him in the corner.
It's a huge difference.
That was genius from us bro, what the fuck?
We've never seen that before. That was genius.
That was genius from us? That's such a Ben thing to say.
Citizen is a...
I love how he holds it as well, Nick, right before it happens.
It's just good. It's really good.
It's the same thing that when Noah has to see 4 in the warden there and the 2D3,
The second he throws it and it doesn't find a kill or like an injured you pay
Let's go from like let's say in very positive jumps here a 50-50 even matchup
It's not really because you're down a player, but it's close to a 40%
The second as you for misses and black deal is like more than half HP you go from like a 50-50 to like a
28 and like it's so cooked
Because the only way to really kill the black without suffering a casualty is the C4 because if they do it correctly
They will double triple swing and they will trade one for one worst case
That means your one defender against them two attackers while they still have the solis neck gadget or Sophia concussion and whatever
So small things within the difference so far. I'm really thinking Smith here on the the shields in general
I think he's been the most instrumental player in the attacks
I love theater as well for Smith the young up and coming. Yeah British player that we haven't seen a lot of in the past
He's made his debut recently into tier one and sorry not fredish I was getting him in
wizard confusions, he's Ukrainian I believe.
Very excited to see what he can do with this roster, he's been that secret ingredient on
the shields for FNC.
And right now I think Secret must be readying the lack of, we also have the Monty brought
back again.
Monty might get banned on out but no secret say it's okay we know we can
always play that Echo instead. The thing is they did a very good job of
killing the Monty last time. Echo works really well once because now you're like
aware of it because Echo's Pickret is still village you can know in the current
era of siege and it did work early on now Smith's gonna be very conscious of that
say guys I cannot push the staircase until we call the Echo so he also
They can get up in the Yokai zone, so they get the ping on to Ekko, now they can call the Ekko, now they can push it, that's what they want to call.
That's the time that they have. Austria has to answer every single call, because if he doesn't, he loses access to the Yokai for the rest of the round.
They just gotta time it.
They can just spam call him, and look.
So now he has four calls in pocket.
As soon as the monty starts to exit on the flexi, that's citizen's time to just continue spam calling.
There's gonna wait. We're gonna bring out the final toxic bait, then pull the echo, then go.
It starts waiting here for 35 seconds straight, but they quite literally have no chance.
Surely not. It doesn't give a whore!
Yup, great minds.
Oh man.
Alright, this is from Drills. I think that they've got the reach, so here comes the call onto Oscar.
He's now answering his phone.
It doesn't matter!
Fucksie! Still gets away with the kill onto the Montagne!
FN still managed to recompose. Deadshot has to get active. Indeed, he does! Big kill for him!
F2. Massively active. Two players on the flank now from secret fanatic diving to the bomb site.
Is there an ability now to retake? The hatch is being watched by Deadshot.
With this F2, he's already found two big kills.
Now an opportunity for Fanatic to close up this round.
secret must read say it's Noah he's the last man standing cuz drills just
dropped the hatch straight to the waiting arms a dead shot and this twist
goes massive with a 4k on the round to brag the hell out for fanatic but I
think they're great these dynamic rounds right wherever they can double
playing for secret triangle for it just dropped their plate they just they flip
it they push deep on the side is a good execute and whatever else honestly
Finally, Fnatic have impressed me with today's performance.
Phenomenal showing from Fnatic another big win over the broad and we'll break that down
after this break.
I
to make playoffs obviously and good to beat my old team to make it there.
I was going to ask you about that Ben, obviously you played on secret for kickoff, didn't maybe
go so well with the results now on Fnatic. How did you feel going up against the old
team? Did you have any tips and tricks for the players?
Honestly we played them in that Belgium Masters thing and that thing was the easiest thing
ever. So we just went in the same mindset, like this is going to be easy and it was,
I don't know, like just kind of a walk in a park, winning gunfires, knowing what they're
they didn't do anything special, can't use shields, so it's just an easy game.
Speaking about your new performance and also Deadshot,
I think in general I've noticed some kind of resurgence from players with a lot of experience
that have played on many different rosters, and that arriving with this roster,
you two especially have stepped up drastically.
It's like you, it's your best performance on a team for years.
Deadshot is probably the same as well since he is days with Gen.G.
So, what do you think is the reason that you two guys with such experience, so many different rosters you've played with, so many different events,
it's the roster right now, where you're performing the best?
Honestly, this seems like a little bit different from the ones that I've been in, like, the vibes, it's kind of like strange, I just come into the team,
I was expecting like, you know, I barely know these guys really, like, especially like, get shot, so, coming in and I was thinking like,
yeah, I might have to take like a month, you know, to warm myself up and like, we just clicked like instantly, I don't know what it was,
but everyone just gelled, you know, we were having fun with each other and yeah, I think that's why we're kind of performing like a little bit better than before.
Sounds awesome, sounds very, very good. We hear you being very vocal during the games as well. Looking back at this one and maybe the stage overall, making it to playoffs, what are you most proud of with the team?
The mental resilience really, like against Rebels for example, kind of just trolled and the same with Falcons, like those games, we just didn't really lose because of like strats or they played better.
It's just lost because like we just did our own heads and now finally we're spinning it round
Especially with the twisted mind coming back as well
I think that really like gave us a boost, you know and helping our mental like not dropping those games
I think that's a great example there for a mental resilience citizen
Thank you so much for your time and good luck with your final game tomorrow against G2. Yep. Thank you. See you
Good to hear from citizen also about this whole stage in general his own performance
But the team the things he's proud of but again mental resilience shows how they keep on winning these three points
and mocked themselves in the playoffs.
And I think we heard that in the mental as well,
in the e-becomes, that he was the one trying to pull the team together,
trying to have the same momentum.
You were there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, it's important, it's important, A, to phrase your teammates.
Like, when he did this move, by the way, like,
it's not only that he's phrasing his teammates,
after he did this, he said, like, I just battered them.
I'm just so much better.
We're just winning every gunfight.
I remember also, Deadshot said something like this,
when they said, oh, they're just rushing.
Deadshot said, no, they're not rushing.
We're just actually ending the round earlier,
because we're beating them so hard.
And it's exactly the kind of confidence we want,
the fun that we want.
I think they're important here, by the way.
They started losing quite a lot when a secret went back
and it was 4-4.
There was the tech timeout, and into it, there was the rehost.
They used this time to cool down,
and then straight after they win the round,
that's very important.
I think brings back the roll momentum,
and that was such a big momentum shift.
As you can see on your screen,
three rounds in a row after that tech timeout.
I think Ben said he was proud of
their citizen said he was proud
of it as well. But I think
realistically that's been the
big change from fanatic
Yes, we can talk about
message changes and player
changes. But previous fanatics
of old really would have
crumbled in a lot of those
scenarios and they're not
crumbling out. They're getting
over the line. That clean
three points victory. Yes,
that's the middle class. We
will see fanatic next week in
the playoffs. Chances in their
arm, trying to qualify to the
UC, but it also puts them in
the best possible position that
they have to make top four as
well, which is massive because
again, it gives you a much
better chance of making it.
making it. It's two years since they made it to playoffs. Why you think about 2025?
They were dead last in stage one. So it's an incredible resilience from this team in
general that we're seeing. And we're happy to see them in playoffs. Of course, there
are still a few more spots to be decided in playoffs. And we have two potential contenders
going up against each other in our next match here all the day. Twisted Minds and GK. Now
I would like to take a look at the leaderboards and our standings for these two teams because
to the stage, I think we would have assumed that these two teams are going to be in their opposite positions in the scoreboard.
Yeah, I think so. I think, you know, we would have assumed that Twisting Mines' top four in the world with the Salt Lake City Major would be up there, would be established in the top four of EML.
And then realistically, GK, with how difficult they struggled, they didn't look good, they made a lot of roster changes.
We didn't anticipate necessarily that they would be doing so hot. And I think the context of Fnatic's victory just died when Fnatic comes to 14 points.
really puts pressure on both
GK and twisted minds because
GK are chasing that fourth spot, they probably
will make playouts regardless with 12 points
in all honesty, but then twisting minds
if they don't win this game, if they put
themselves, you know, out of this game,
they could put themselves not fully
maths clear out, but they could put themselves
very much out of contention. And just highlighting
twisted minds in those standings here, it's so important
for them to look at the form here, look at the
four different losses in the row, look at seven
points here, even if they win three points
and GK today. Even if they take 3 points away from GK, there's still 2 points behind them.
They're just jumping over shifters and ravels for Rally Steak, trying to find for that 6 spots.
So, for Twisted Minds, it feels like a miracle run. They have to win this in regulation.
They have to win Gamo in regulation. They absolutely need this.
Let's talk about Twisted Minds a little bit, because they started this stage show, well, you know,
just off the back of that great run in Salt Lake City, and then losses.
I mean, they had to play with subs as well, right? Good to confirm that today they will be playing with their regular lineup.
But it still seems like a bit of a momentum shift for that roster.
I think disruption can be massive to a roster.
I think this team deals with destruction.
Well, we've seen various iterations of the same group of seven or eight individuals
on this kind of roster for years at this point.
Ultimately, you know, they threw mad skills in there.
They threw key in there, but the guy on the screen dog will be back.
This is the full five and this is what they wanted.
And then going into this, you can see that how it's affected their momentum.
You see the twisted minds.
Last four losses in a row Leo.
I think that's been big impact has been the fact that they have been playing with the soaps and that's the big story for me
You look at DK 11 out of 12 possible points in the last four matches
You look at twisted minds one point out of 12 possible
So like the momentum is completely different from one to the other one started off the right way and then have been
Crumbling the last four play days. Diki they felt alive something shifted for this team
All the way back to the heretics game where they won in overtime after this they started dominating
Not only beating teams that are struggling or that are in the middle of the table, but also beating Falcons.
That's a team that really is coming to become one of the five Rates, not only for playoffs, but maybe even to take that fourth spot that was left by Christian Mainz to go to EWC.
Yeah, I feel like that big victory over Falcons is a good one for JK.
We talked about a momentum shift for their potential to overtake that other mental organization inside this matchup.
the other team. We've got
a lot of players in the
team. We've got a lot of
players in the groupie the guy
on our screen. So in the
interview last week as well,
talk about this assigned
underdog position actually
gave them the fire to really
step it up and forced their
way into play us positions. If
I was them out, I'd be playing
with a triple my shoulders. I
think you know the transfers
in maybe didn't get the most
Yeah, the most love on social
media, you know, especially
and let's be fair. Some of the
previous players and when we
were the same week, Chris
added Rex and played really,
So to make such drastic roster decisions and obviously to take heat from from the community as well
I think yes, you'll take the heat
But also you use it as your own motivation
They started the stage off not so well, but I guess they've kind of trusted the process
They knew that they could come good and I think what's important with key care as well
They really played to their strengths the guy on the screen there sucks
But also Yoko as well both of them really play well off the back of actions from elsewhere
They've now got probably playing the shields being aggressive
in that front line and then from there the magic players on this team can make a huge impact.
And as we see the players on the screen here I just think of a revenge tool you know I think
I've asked was trying to prove that he was worth to be imported to Brazil. Yuga was trying to prove
that he was worth it to be imported from NA. I felt what it was like to go in a roster when you've
been an import. The pressure of an organization financing your visa the fact that they're paying
for you to fly to a whole different region. The fact that they're making sure that you have a setup
in a foreign country. All of this investment at an organization puts you on the way when you're
in import. I personally, I felt that pressure when I played in the NA and I felt that pressure
even more when I played in Asia. And I think that players like Yoge, players like ASK, they can feel
that pressure as well. And I think they're trying to prove it now. It feels like a revenge tool for
that team. Can I tell you what I am disappointed by so far with DK? Only two out of the five players
I've got some shots going on in the background, but we see a shirt for sharks every single week
Changed it up. He went for one last week then to and now he's at a different shirt this week as well
And it looks like you post joined him. So the team have very much bonding
I don't know what's going on
I'd like you guys are talking about the players, but all I could focus on was like, hey, that's yet another shirt in
Workup time. I understand it right. There's a lot going on in regards to sports in the world
I need to celebrate something right because you want to celebrate Italy in the World Cup
Yeah, that's it. That one's going to hurt hard in the Italian feelings, but whilst we have so much going on in the world, I think we focus back on this game here and we focus on the map veto.
To see where at best of one we'll be going to, 90 of them, that was the big game we talked about with GK, the potential momentum shifter without overtime win.
Yeah, that's the moment where I think everything shifted for this team, the start of this huge 4 win streak, that was against Emeritus.
It was a really bad game. I will say this it was a bad game because both teams were struggling both teams couldn't attack right?
Yeah, they couldn't attack it was a bad game, but it was a very simple performance from geeky
They managed to find that come back and show the resilience and it was the start of their momentum
So the one thing that I'm looking for it's not that offensive half, which they will be starting on it's their attack enough
How can they improve on that half specific?
Unfortunately, it's a map that they actually love, you know, it's one of the biggest preference map
They played it at soul Lake City. They beat we born it
It was a really close game, 8-7, and it also had a dominating victory, 7-2 at Ika.
It's a map that they don't get to play very often, and, uh, I was about to say,
can we start the game, but no P9 disagrees.
Well, I think he's done it, he's done it last time as well.
Last time I saw this guy, I was like, he's gonna go, we're gonna go into the game.
He just left his chair, went for a toilet.
You always capture it when he leaves.
How many times can this guy get to toilet break as we're about to start the game?
I don't know, maybe it's not the game now, but hopefully he returns to his chair very soon,
because the lobby is when it's a game, it's when it's a start, so we'll send it back to our casters.
Thank you very, very much. It's time to get into Night Haven Labs.
Pengu, this is a big one. Of course, both of these teams having a very solid chance of making it to playoffs,
but surprisingly, Twisted Minds, who have the favour in terms of the community call,
I've actually had a really shocking stage one, despite their successes in Salt Lake City,
they haven't been able to replicate that so far.
While they do have an outside chance of making playoffs,
they're currently all the way down in third last place on the standings.
They need a full three-point win here, for sure.
They got to feel a bit desperate in the server.
They got their pressure on them.
The thing about when a team likes to customize, you know,
to go from domestic play here at ML to international grounds,
is there's a huge ping difference, I imagine.
I don't know the exact numbers actually, but there's gonna be some and that's gonna change the playstyle slightly
I actually thought the twisted minds would do better at home because they used that environment and having a slightly higher ping
Then when they went to land, but they proved that wrong because they did great internationally and now they've had a little bit of a struggle
Probably getting called out there in chassis and don't turn off your camera. We just thought it's still on, so that's a good sign
The question is, where is P9? Is the man in his care or is the man still gone? Because
like I just said, every time he's in the start of the matchup, he has places to be and it's
not at the... oh there he is, that's easier.
I'd love to see that.
So I'm looking at the results of these teams so far and there's something that these two
teams have in common. They're last four matches. They're on a streak, PENGU. GK have had four
wins in a row. Twisted mines have had four losses in a row. Not kind of the streak that
you want to be having. Twisted mines have lost their Virtus.Pro's Secret, G2 and Fadati.
The secret of this is a bit of a head scratcher in secret. GK on the foot side, they beat
Heretic's, Shift is, and then Falcons, and then Rebels, which is just a huge moment for
GK. Big ups, of course they were one of the other teams that made really dramatic roster
changes that currently in a playoffs position fifth but they can very much quite easily be
overtaken i mean even losing this game to twist his mind just to mind there are just two points
below them on the standings so gk have to be careful don't rest on their walls they need to keep
flying points here just in mind it's now whatever also mind you know if they played a gk crew they
should have beaten g2 as well but you know comeback happened they lost it all the time i believe
was something like that. So GK who could have had in theory an even stronger start to the stage
than what they did. So far though it's going to be GK on the defense is sitting back and waiting
for Twisted Minds to get into an attacking position because right now they're on the roof.
They're still taking their sweet time breaching this wall. There are really fighting force.
We saw an Islamic Q-Bear being tossed on out. That's when I saw them coming further. I think
they got G-Maw so clear it. But this does feel like a movement of a truth and attack from Twisted
my standards no we're talking nomads red lock grand that's your the jump in the
window and get interest so the bowler follow up they just oh it's frozen but
it's fine it's like you see for yourself not what we're gonna jump done
close to the AP I guess
that's a start to around love a bit of a chaotic stuff love a bit of aggression
I say they have no teeth and then I should just in the window he's just flying
in the building with no flop and he said it's a very hard show and things doing a
very twisted minds kind of like they're not gonna expect it we're gonna do it
this is geeking they're very clearly ready to swing when you enter the
building and that's why nobody else has been allowed in view during connect
they're trying to pressure the back portion but there's a two members
during the rush through the rush window the steam no key stuck outside the
building still as you say that J-Lad makes his way immediately up the stairs
and tricks, hooks, and pushes in through IT, taking advantage of that chaos and confusion.
He's the old American who wants to make a swing, steal and a dove, big kill, however
you bought quickly taken down. Now it's just the two imports on GK. And unfortunately, P9
has the number for yoga. It's arse, trying to get back on the side. Nice shot with the SMG-11.
1 HP. 1v2 is so winnable here. He has a nitro cell, and Trisk Trisk is very low.
How comes the nitro? That's a big, big, massive 9 bullets.
Trisk goes down, J.L.A. now has to clutch up awesome 1 HP, but he wins it anyway!
Big 1v3 for the Brazilian to get GK their first round.
And what did Leo say right before this game? When you're an import player, there's that added pressure on you
because they got your visa covered, they're flying you out,
you're living in a foreign country,
and they're financing the whole thing.
Leo himself, Alphama, felt that pressure
when he was in the important of America and in Asia.
But he said, players like Yogg and players like Asqq,
that he believes that they can actually thrive
in that pressure, and they can be those top players.
Very first round, Asqq is in an impossible position
to win one HP, nine bullets with this in G11,
and yet he finds a round victory.
He played the positional game perfectly.
He hit the shot, got the C4 in, somehow got it right in between the two softballs against the kill,
and then it's just thriving in the chaos.
The enemy didn't know where he was.
If he had been back to alcohol, it was pulling him to the ground to get the final kill for free.
First of all, it's a great push to get our rockers.
They could have gotten Rocky on the Asami. It was so effortlessly done.
But then this happened. The C4, whoo, flipped the needle.
It is the final kill as well. I've been trying.
Oh man, it does not matter what region in the world you're watching whether it's
APEC, Europe, North America, or Latin America, you always got Brazilians.
There are Brazilians in North American League, right?
Surely there are.
I mean, K-Nur.
Yeah, well.
So we have Brazilians in every single league since then.
Oh, I mean, we're running out of time.
Well, we have coaches there, so I love that.
I just love how pervasive Brazilians are.
I cannot get rid of them.
One of those things where the region started doing so well,
that everyone else started importing them,
and let's say Brazil as a region of its own.
Let's say they fell off a cliff and they stopped winning
any events in the next five years.
You would probably still have some of this in the
League of Legends or other regions that would be
both a good win or a win in those import spots.
Like, we're not going to get rid of them.
And I'm so bored because they put a great story
being, you know, once upon a time
the Nukes in the block, to be in the most
aggressive region in the world, to be in the
least structured, etc., and now just being
the world leaders. Like, they keep making
super teams into super teams, they win, win, win.
They don't give it to you much face time, for example.
The Nukes in the block are WCM's Expelliator,
Yeah, it's been a great story to follow but here in the ML it's G gets twisted mines battling it out and
No one is taking any world damage when I say it P9 gets swung by Garby's close pick for one and two
Love to see that
Might be a slow rate of fire, but that you and P packs a punch if you land those shots and grubby does not miss two big kills and
What a great set of ops to take down early grubby might buy off a little bit more than no
They're going deep right to third one. See you later.
And Jalab goes down. Three kills.
Finally put to rest by Tricks with the R4 Steve.
It's just him and so the king left.
One of those fights a nice angle. This is a really hard angle to fight.
He's not likely to get the angle here.
I don't think he's going to win this.
I have a bad feeling for him. He's going up against us.
Have you seen what that guy can do?
He's going to stick the corner now. He's going to see four plus the now.
It's gonna stay a scowl a finger the high area. Yeah, it's not gonna keep it up
So you can like fight for the breach you can fight for the dirt
They're just like not giving them anything for free. So don't have to be the playmaking state drops down the hatch
Has to find a pick
30 seconds oh
Bit of damage you can see where that went from exactly they're both on that look for camera
They don't realize it, but there's only one player in the bombsite right now and it's asking you claims both of the final two kills
Keeping his momentum from the first round ask is cold in the second GK two
rounds straight and twisted mines. Probably twisting in their chairs right
now. These changes I mean when I think of this roster I think of chaos I want to
see this solid snake I see a shield operator I see some pace and some
momentum in the serve because they're playing for execute they're playing
step one two three and they're doing it very very safely for the most part by
It's low like 1 minute 37. They only entered lobby and then they lose a player outside the building while I have on the window
Like they don't have adequate map control
They don't have operators that can like take these fights very convincingly sure they have piano demos
But he took a fight without using gadget to drop it and just died
So you don't find any value so like I said the shield solid snake some pace of good guns
You don't fight GK on the server one-to-one. It's not gonna be found. Can you reach the wall correctly in the perfect spot?
It's not going to be about can you get the perfect flank drone. It's gonna be about your entry
It's gonna be about that initial foothold in the building and getting a kill during
Five seconds to insertion yeah, I cannot afford to
Take a while to warm up into this game
I really need the full three points out of this one like we said before
going in third last place and you get top six to make it into the playoffs and
right now you've got shifters, rebels and GK all above them gatekeeping them out
of those spots and if Twisted Minds don't win today their chances of making
it to playoffs are almost zero. The only universe where TM lose this game and
still make top six is a really unlucky snipe for rebels and shifters where
they lose both their games today and then when they play to the next week
shifters win in overtime and even then I just admire has to win next week
I get a pair of six so you cannot afford to lose this game but they have to win here
and 0-2 down to the start is not up to a good start so they need to kick into gear
as a matter of keeping your own feet in their own hands of control there's
reliant on external factors that gave me that final bit of distance. They've gotten
a solid snake by the way, but they're still missing the shield operator. GK did
target the monkey and the blitz, but I'm just thinking to myself, there is a
Blackbeard, there is a huge healing keying, but they're not really happy to play it
just yet. Maybe trying to stay off the Blackbeard for the first two rounds has
saved him for the last half of the attack, but when he downs here too, it just feels
like it's a bit risky. This is tertiary attack though, it's gonna be statistically
easier for them now than ever like I worked with verticality because Doc's
in the basement they got mission mines on this side they can play a human on the
window jumping for information as well and there hasn't been an opening pick
hasn't been a ton of map control gained either twisted mines three attackers
still outside the building but Yogg turned his back to a breach I guess
another planning and they got the pick oh this is huge
GK is now that plant. The plant is going down. It's confirmed.
GK took way too much time trying to hold onto that position. Twisted mines just cleaned it up.
Nice idea here from you, Paul. The Keeper Barrier is trying to solidify his position in IT,
but just look at where TM have gone outside the building. Ask back on his feet.
Now technically there are numbers on the advantage for GK, but Hasham has certainly got something to say about that.
You've got players above and players below the bombsite.
I've found a pell.
Robbie goes flying.
Asked if he's going to have to desperately try and make this work.
And he's going to get spotted by Jalad on the window.
The DMR coming in handy to deal with that.
Keep a barrier.
Nice play from you, Paul.
Let's lock it up there.
And at the time, we'll take the way.
Beautiful.
And so Twisted Minds will finally get onto the board.
I mean, they do get one kill on the server,
Yark in the basement, and the round is completely over.
It's a phenomenal post-front.
He banned in the basement.
Floorsteam are upside down the window as well. There's no way to lose that initially gov mas and keyboard frankly
I don't know if yok didn't realize that he banner had reached the wall behind him
He was looking up the very two floors above him for it reach and you just get shot in the back
And you know this moment he impacts the floor and he's exposing his own location by holding that angle
He's showing hey, I'm down here. I'm a solace. You're gonna want to kill me before you're going for a bump set execute
And you just didn't really pay attention to that so very very small thing that falls apart for gk
Operator bands have gone out. It's gonna be a grim and a mirror
So a big focus here for twisted minds to make sure the walls all get opened up
And I think also maybe there's a world here where they were fearing to pass it by
a penalty of a throw might be because that's just gonna make it you know
Again, just I was talking the previous game with financing in secret so much how to creep
With the mirror being bent away banded in the kite you can play through my on a half the rounds
It's later nights you reach pop it open you're happiest ever if that's what you want to go for because with them you
Would stop sit
It was a much worse of mine that she only picks the thermite
played Hibana and tin can openers on the other side
But the grim was how they were getting tin can openers into their light up. So now that that's gone
I'll go for a capitao instead
Which I think is just as good like I don't know
I know grim is great and people love grim
I've just never been super onto the grim train
I've never seen him as powerful as a lot of these other power ops
And I think capital is still kind of underutilized by teams that maybe happen
Figure out the best places to put
Feel like tricks playing the capital here instead of that grim that's not a huge loss here
could be above
It's uh, grimace about getting information, and capital king creditors that get you a kill, or force movement, which in turn can get you map control.
I'm very much in the mind of capital, it's like one of the most flexible office games, he now has DMR, he's got heartbeat, he's got a fire, um, he's resilient, yeah, I just, you know, from the best place people go to the siege, or something like that.
In air jab, a flashbang, a 5,000 stairs, well, be a game successful, just punch you in the bottom of garage.
aggro nomads a cool play
tent again some info
disrupting dove there
from rubby
here comes this
what is this
this is cheeky
just waiting for the push to come through
here comes that nitro
beautiful
lot of damage
wow
it does clear out the keeper barrier
but it doesn't matter
because rubby quickly replaces it with another one
and dove is actually an engine
They actually could reinforce this over if they want it would be oh my god it's a swing quickly
Grubby finds the injured player but does get traded back I'd say that's not the end of the
world here for twisted lines but they are still fighting from behind and the wall is still not
reinforced out but they're gonna just clean the long lines of fire I guess they got the
marineser it's got a shotgun up close and they're working for the engines were smoking from the
They got all the right tools at GK, just gotta maintain crossfire, gotta maintain that discipline.
If you over swing now and just die to your T-M-R, that is how you lose the round.
Together the swinging sucks, wants something, and indeed he does die to a T-M-R, he called it.
But meanwhile, Ask also found his pick, and so Hashom and P9 are now pretty awkwardly trying to pick this round back up,
round back up, get it back on its feet. The diffuser has been lost on the mezzanine and
now Ask is playing up close and personal. Yogg with Sashom into a 1v3 position. DMR or
Rafa, the F90 in close range up against the shotgun. It's not going to come up. No, the
Brazilian is continuing to tear Twisted Mines apart. GK have really found their footing now.
It's a 3-1 lead, and Twisted Minds cannot afford to lose any more attacks.
I really love just watching how Grubby is floating on the map in the Caribbean, and
how Asker is supporting him.
Grubby has had a great couple of play days now.
We saw in the endless days before this match started, showing him the Hala Reels, the 4K,
etc.
And he's very clearly just feeling himself, right?
He's taking the 5, just playing the strong positions and rafters, just playing the Asami.
He is a playmaker.
And then usually you have asked right behind him and he's there to say if the 2v1 you
I'll make it 2v2 if you die I'll swing off your contact.
When they start flashing you because you don't have a Yeager or my I'll throw out my c4 in
a trade because either I'm going to stop the push or I'm going to delay the push that you
can see again and you're no longer flash bank.
It's how they put the calligraphers position.
So as can play off the contact of Grubby Grubby has to come in to just make play after
play and they are quite literally 2v5 or 2v3 stopping the main push. So Twisted Minds,
despite, you know, except the one round victory, they never have gotten the initial foothold,
they've never gotten the main push to be worked out, it's always been stopped, then it strikes.
And that's thanks to Ask Grubby single-handedly. The rest of the team, they're there,
Saks is one kill, Jork is three, you first three, you know, but they're only needed when Grubby
ask eventually fall which you know asks about his team to let time so far he's
always there to pick up killings
701 brother one
he's a farmer
he knows how to get a job done
we'll start a new site running bulletproof camera on goya that's a team player right there
I wouldn't have thought I'd be running impacts every day of the week
It's always about a value, right. This is a long-term talking point, I've always been a fan of.
Passive versus active value. You can play impacts, you can die with them in pocket, they'll do nothing for you.
You can play barbed wire, a BP, B-boops, as we call them, motion detectors. You get passive values.
You can know when that spark is cleared. You know when you can't go for a rush in that area, you know when you have some sort of information.
In fact, the C4s don't give you that. They can't get your kill. They can't get you a leverage somewhere on the map in the middle of the round
But they don't guarantee you do it every single time
I'm a Bob-R believer
Hello Bob
Confused a little bit of spaghetti
Yeah, that's a dang cool Bob-R spaghetti. No
Have you never done that? No, I've never been like I called them Bob-R
Can you clear this spaghetti for me, you've got meds.
We've got bobbles, that's Maestro's Evil Eye, that's a bobble.
Canopinels is the second they're happy to have you, right?
We have to go to those canopins.
I've not had spaghetti before, no?
You've got to be like, hey, mate, you've cleared my spaghetti now, so I've got canopinels.
And it's like, man, what are we doing? Is this a cooking show or...?
What's the need of this?
But it's about, like, streamlining communication and making long-word shots or whatnot.
Um and making things just like very very limited and unique
A lot of different teams in the region will have and also just for the vibes like so if so vibes like
For example, the c4 callout like pre-placed c4. I know some people say boom. I say man. Good
But if I use we use cat or dog depending on like if we ever want to see balls
I get different ways of doing it. Oh, nice. So mine stops to play here. He can try and fade out of my heart
Yeah, it puts tricks in a very difficult position now however
Main realized he's playing. He's so done for here.
Fall out! Oh, what a great shot!
He's treated the treat!
And he somehow managed to melee trade his blow.
Charlie, he's gonna kill Trixz.
And it looks like the Italian needs no spaghetti.
All he's got is a scorpion and it packs a punch.
Asham now 1v5 as he finds the first kill.
On to Yogg.
Desperate times though, called for desperate measures.
As his final flashbang goes out,
That, he needs to waltz straight into this crossfire and find every single kill you put on the other side with a DMR.
Already, we'll finish him off and GK find a fourth round.
Twisted minds are struggling as this round and this game starts to run away from them.
Oh, it's attack timeout into what should just be Sarge's dying for free.
It's a 2v1 Blackbeard Ram.
You have grenades and soft destruction.
You have a shield.
Socks is like 30 HP and then he gets not just this one kill, he trades against the Blackbeard gadget, wins the second melee because that's how priority works.
Now defenders are being favored and he gets both kills and gets out.
That summarizes this game. Whoa, that summarizes this game very well. Like you should just be winning that if you're twisted minds.
Like you cannot afford to lose it like that and lose it like that every single round almost.
I love it.
I love it.
GK, I really feel on top of the world right now.
A lot of individual moments, a lot of fire.
It's funny, there's, talk about teams that have had a lot of roster changes, right?
GK have gone through all kinds of changes over the last couple of months.
They're almost unrecognizable from the team that you played with last year in the tier 2 finals.
And the team that got so deep in the 6th and the T side qualifiers.
Of course, we've got a few familiar faces from the S.I. calls because a grubby in Upo who played in that old
Project Zero Team Heretics roster that ended up going and competing at Sixth Implementation in Paris in February
Unfortunately not doing incredibly well, but look, they had their moments
They do, depending on what they qualified was just like Dallas didn't mean a story right there
Well, yeah, because well a lot of people were saying that GK was probably the favorite team
Who was the other one? It was probably the current Heretics, the old Machiko roster that was...
It might have been, I don't remember.
I mean, let alone the fact that there were a lot of tier 1 teams.
Yep, that's what it was in there. We know those guys.
Yeah.
But GK, I don't know about you, but I saw all the changes that happened.
You know, teams like Secret, Fnatic and GK that have had complex changes.
Most of the time, it's like these kind of mid to bottom tier teams,
where they're good players get poached, like let's have the Secret.
You expect the results to be similar to what happened with Secret.
The fact that Fnatic and GK after such a long period of doing poorly and finally leveling up
Yeah, it's a surprise and a very welcome
Those time was just admiring to get in the driver's seat just one more round get that two four half both fall too far behind
95mmR is not every day we get to see it but tricks it's bringing it out. I think for the second time I could be wrong
They're taking a lot of damage though, vertically, that's the problem here, they're soft fought
beneath you, with the Val'Kam, the impact grenades and there's just so much explosive
damage in the round.
They're taking it nice and slow, they find the Val'Kam, they kind of sense that that
was a problem, but they're losing so many drones, they have almost no intel left, it's
just like face chicken angles, they're breaching the alcohol in well upstairs from Roanclear,
and guess what, they're not cutting off the crosses, so GK can just fall back down the
staircase, just keep peeling back the layers.
They can play in the basement staircase, they can play in the bomb site, there's only 60 seconds left to go.
At least the miners didn't have a steam kind of map control they did previously when they did win their first round.
They need a pick and they need it since there's still 5v5 so late into the round.
And it's so hard to execute onto this tertiary bomb site when there's no map control.
Look at that.
How the defenders, right?
Differently in basemen, you got three players on the ground for actually in the box side and ask above still in connector ready to flank
Yeah, into it and deny that plan. We need picks and we need to get a brute force onto the side
But this device is do not have a way in you for injured gobbled up to base
They get two kills
Confirm and copy that means they get side-accident as stripes back upstairs. He's retaken top of control and IT
They're going for a plan. Can they stop it?
We know that us can see we'll handily bring rounds back for GK, but now he's on the floor it calls upon sacks to make a play
But don't cover it perfectly yoke in a 1v5
1v4 he quickly takes one down to add finished off, but Doverkin holds down the line the twisted minds a much needed rounds
They fight back once again
dude it's one of those cases so desk friends what do you think so far good
game it is entertaining game for sure and I agree with what they were saying a
much-needed round there for Tristan Myers because let's be honest they were
making mistakes earlier on but it was GK there to punish them for these
mistakes yeah in every critical moment I think it starts in round one already with
the clutch that they lose to ask and in that one the one play I says like super
low HP by the way like it's 80 in the 2v1 he just gets the C4 and then
just waited there 14 seconds to play for and we see the game just running not even aiming you know
and then even here like they're trying to kill this player in 90 okay first player gets killed
caught up but that the second one looked like and then the third one comes in like it's really
weren't 1v1 for ump another try to clear the the the the elah there like she's completely isolated
she's got a nade at her foot and she wins the 2v1 like it makes no sense yeah it just really hasn't
been a good performance really from Toast in mind what so ever thing you know we think Ruby
Well, it's good in the game again making it happen. Yeah, even when they've tried to play together, they've really wrong as you saw in the other clip
I think realistically this could have been a 6-0 half
But for the fact that twisted lives could attack the storage control twice and play for a plant basically
Well, more or less pre predetermined set play if they didn't get that or if GK had an answer for that
This could have been a 6-0 half quite comfortably. GK have been very very strong
However, I would like to reintroduce the fact that last time GK defended not having labs
They got a 5-1 defensive half. It all went wrong on their attacks specifically. We're in similar territory here
They've got a strong defensive half
But what I want to see from them is can they now play to their strengths on the attacks when we saw them play the attacks
Last time when they haven't it was the similar style
It was a lot of lurking it was a lot of split across the map everywhere at once
But it wasn't at once and that was the big problem
They were getting picked off picked off picked off if they do it at once
They can find success
But this is also a difficult team to go against because 50 months do take a lot of risks with their individual play as well
So it goes back to East Wissin 9s confident enough to take those risks and win those gunfights
Because realistically that's the main issue of their attacks
If you look at most of these roam clears or these initial engagements
It's the fact that they're freezing the fact that they are slow super slow too in that first round
Trying to be one the first guy in that round on 90 try to 3v1 the game instead of going for 1v1
And especially on that round where they're trying to problem solve the other
It's the blibber of freezing and able to name the guy and then follow up on it
And it's the guy behind him just waiting way too long
So we need that confidence back on their side if they want to play here
Absolutely loving the bands from twisted man's here that being said the snake in the doke be especially of hockey can play
Especially strong because it's so individual with the doke be you can initiate any operator with the snake
You can clear half the map just just pulling the gadget out and then just very quickly on the twisted man side of things
I know the time when I know the time loss 1.2 points is really going to stretch the limits of whether they can make playoffs or not
This has to be a generational comeback if they want a serious one up
Well, you're putting pressure on their shoulders
But the question is do GK have the key what it takes to win these attacking rounds on the board
Oh, we see a closer game the second half starts now
It's a good question and hopefully we're gonna find out and answer for me the question that keeps bringing to my mind is
is what is going on with Twisted Minds and how do they get themselves out of this rut that they
have been in for the entire stage because it may well be too late if they lose today it will
definitely be too late unless if an absolute miracle happens they won't make playoffs if they do not
come back and beat GJ here so you know second chances we need to see the Saudis get back on their
bike and find a little bit more favor on their defensive side. There's two ways to do it and Leo
kind of screw up one of them right, the individual players lashing out and going for kills and win
their fights which they're failing to do so on the attack. The other one is just playing the crosses
like we saw from GK having one player, the other one moving around and then the second player
supporting him like we saw from Grubby and Ask playing on Kaira Rafters. You have a main guy
taking the attention of the second guy actually making the play. So as the mines for now they have
a storm roaming with the stories, giving the information on where the drones are coming from,
saying guys there's gonna be a backstab pressure on me to haul them, Jdy can move to the drone,
he's actively kite tricking as well, and there's a bit of a mini game right there, you have a kite
claw, then you get the impede, you toss a second kite claw, and then because you're doubled down,
you also have a two brow freeze, and you're stalling a lot of time, you're exchanging utility,
If you're successful to the highest degree, you will stop them from reaching this wall,
force them to take the hold of control first and then fight you.
And because of this happening in the middle of the round, now you see, oh snap,
GK now have to react to this. And they do have a maverick, but look at the IT wall,
that's only just been sliced open by Grubby. So does he have time to go under rooftop and
over and reach the other external wall? Or is he needed to drone Garrick's tailgolf
to fight the main, etc. His time is ticking away. Half the round is burnt, they've not even
He broke in the first wall probably until this very moment.
And for people who say, why do we see so many bandits and a kaiyid band
and suddenly other good defenders, for this reason.
If you pair up either the band or the kaiyid with the tibia, you can do so much damage.
It can be alleviated though, that pressure.
If GK are now very quick, and look at how aggressively they get into the building,
they could add a drop of a hat.
Now you can play.
It's a big thing here. Because the backslider wall of Leeching is skyrocketing, they know the attack is going to be cattle barbers and aqua, so they know where the attack is coming from because the walls are closed off, and they're treating the internal one now and cattle as well.
One form trait, a shawm gets a kill so they drop me, but now they have barbers control. They're fighting a single breach and aqua hallway that's the only pressure point here for GK.
In recent months, they know it because they still know which walls are closed and which ones are open.
Yeah, you're right. Gelad has just absolutely killed this round.
this round. With that electrocloire, especially...
Me kill?
Hush, I'm scorned down. I don't know how a nade kill has managed to land.
Jalad's in a very awkward spot, but he might catch the timing.
The Thorn Trap enables him to get the info for the swing onto Sark's 3v3, and it's GK
again forced to make a move. But they do have multiple facets of pressure at once, however,
it does come up to a 1v1 or a couple. Unfortunately for Yogg, that's not a good shot there with
that Nade, Ask makes his way inside, don't count him out. This could work. This could
very much work. The cover is good for Mjolnj, as long as Jalak doesn't win this fight, he
will have to feed a thread of the needle, swinging in quickly, both planes, fine kills, much
needed round for twisted mines. Beautiful Swinder at the end. Again, he's just jiggle
piquing from the Aqua Double Door saying he's gonna be either cataclysm afters or IT on
a small peek's lankle, so I'm jiggling for intel, once he shoots back, then the other
team will push from the pillar position and do a 3-2-1. Either you kill the guy planting
or you kill the guy covering, and then your teammate, in case you die, can win the round
from a strong position. That's really well done there, good problem-solving skills,
but it comes down to the Kaid and the tube brow. The fact that they knew they tricked
the meeting walls, they knew that there's going to be only two areas of attack. That
Top 4 Bumside is all about having a spearhead of 3 points.
You're gonna have the Aqua, that's happening right here,
Calligrapher, if you saw the mountain right here,
ideally you also get a bit of that meeting collector pressure.
If you get all 3, you have a really hard chance of winning.
It's that, or you get a buck below or a demo below to work the verticality
to again distract the defenders and force them to move around,
then you can pull them from I.T., Garage, etc.
The fact that minivals are close and they had the default came up is like,
they knew that there couldn't be any attackers there,
So they can send all defenders looking in only two directions, knowing that they're back and safe.
That's a big deal in that round.
The style is also strong here, which is a nice thing to do.
Can they keep that up now as we make a little bit of a tour around the map and do some different bomb sites?
Basement plate, very different in that top floor.
And of course, he can't always do one trip over a specific wind condition.
For Twisted Minds on the top floor, it was largely about the Harbric Snow.
Look at the line-up now, Nick.
No Cayud, no Tuba route, and it's not at all about Harbric Snow.
Instead, it's about road clearing and information.
We've got info on the Valor, info on the Solar, info about the Nile on the Mew, and
then two traps, Fenrir and Legion.
It really comes out how can GK take hand control and go for the twisted mines losing an early player in Dove and it's the regenerating util of the Leisure.
That's a tough loss and GK have two vert operators to spare as well with a three I didn't even notice a sledge, a sledge bug and Ram.
The win condition of a T.M. here has to be winning the run.
Well, to remind us they want to fight and GK getting an opening pick and as you said tripling down on work
It means hey because we have scratchbot and the red we can all wish taking a fight because if I die my team is
scheduled too much for me
Oh, that allows them to be more aggressive and take more space quicker
But a great job here
With a DMR a double stream coming through this can win you
And jealous half HP so just losing people to nothing right down the server
Meanwhile, they have people strong inside the building, spot the soldiers as well, and they can just break apart the map from above, or through strong straight ahead.
They don't need the birthings, they're gonna run them over, horse on team.
Yeah, round over. This is it.
Going to the tower, the twist of minds. Haasham, next round.
1v5, out comes the Deagle. The nitrous fell.
But the patience here from GK as they go in deep for it, he finds one kill at the dig, but quickly traded back by Upor.
A round does not get much better than that from GK. They didn't have to get even close to the site.
Grubby doing what they call in North America. Just sitting as a mailbox outside the bomb site.
Watching his rotation, he found so much value and GK have really
burned through Pistamines now. Five rounds on the board.
Pistamines have to be forced from here because they are to take away three points out of this game.
I love the voice guns we get, but just to put this into perspective again,
Chris Mines in 8th place on the standings on 7th points,
GK and Rebels in the playoffs spots in 5th and 6th are 12 points and 8 points.
If TM are to make it into the top 6 and continue fighting for a spot at EWC,
they need 3 points here. If they don't get 3 points,
their chances of making it to the playoff so almost zero.
They made every single round four in a row.
That previous round, I feel like you've done a simple fight as much as possible.
It more or less gets defined in the very open paper.
Right, Sark's took down a few of his Dover and Medesha on Aqua Stairs.
If Sark's dies, they have a loose roam around top floor.
They shot down the only entry player from the Aqua side of the map.
and it kinda like keeps the link of the Romans alive in Twisted Mines
because that Aquaster case is more or less the middle of the building
in these two kitchens, the cargo, it is the network of the wrong game.
One gunfight can determine so much if you take that gunfight in a certain area of the map.
So as a matter of again Twisted Mines, the right player in the right location taking a fight,
that's like their lowest consistent playing, or what Leo spoke about during the half-time vibe check,
Twisted Mines playstyle and how these individuals they work,
They thrive in high-risk engagements, but we just saw it in a previous round, maybe they're so
wisdom by the options of one-sided leap, where a lot of players would maybe take that gunfight at
all and then have a chance of playing it out over the next three minutes. Now we see Gillette with
another high-risk display, right? Jump out the cargo window, obviously he's in solace, he did notice
that there was no blows in the nearby location, but if you just get shot down by another player
watching the angle or if you're actually here to vault sound, he'll be a freebie. Instead of the
They both have HP, and GK are aware that H2M did recruit desperate guys to go for swings.
If you've gone soft, watch the angles, they're going to be coming for you.
Yeah, I really do think that GK have read it to this well.
They know that if they just post up and wait, hold angles, expect the aggression, they'll likely find free kills or at the very least free damage.
And here's one great usage of the ram to enable a kill onto P9.
They've been waiting for these jump-hasses, you say, and Twisted Minds are playing perfectly into GK's hands.
It's a free plant, no?
Yeah, we're all in the bomb site.
Where's the plant denial here from Twisted Minds? We need a big retake.
There isn't any. They're losing the fires. There's no C4. They're trying to retake a bomb.
They're not planting there. They're planting at the bomb site. So it's free.
Here's the custom grubby as well.
It's free!
It finds tricks.
It's a Hashgum with a 1v5. How many times have we seen Twisted Minds forced into a 5v1?
and a flawless round for GK. They're up 6-3, match point is theirs, and it is us a devastation for Twisted Minds.
Grubby's gone for a walk, he's done. It's not over yet. One more round.
And you guys have just made it five wins in a row in EML. What an achievement for GK.
It's just walking over them right now, literally, Robbie's still standing to talk through the
operator band selection.
I was gonna say that Grimm could be a good band.
We saw it in the previous round on the IZLE breach, using it on a care walk to just make
sure that they don't get swung, rather, while they fight the verticality.
And I think ASK as an individual has just had a ridiculously consistent game.
He's always finding value.
In that previous round, he's playing Thermite, and he's breaching.
He's covering, he's trading, he's planting, he's always in the position where something
goes wrong, he can go from like full support player to the hero of the round.
Because the round went flawlessly, he doesn't need to be enabled, he doesn't really do much
in terms of like the fracking, but he does everything else perfectly and still plays
the backup factor.
To his demise, they're so desperate in the rounds, they don't have a key recognition.
We said in that 3 vs 5 we gotta get, you know, a retake top floor, we gotta see plant denial,
well they had no C4, they had no base at Christchurch, they are retaking the wrong area of top floor
because unerunnately they had aqua and they could have denied the plant vertically if they knew the plant was going down
or if they had a C4, or an impact grenade, or anything else, but they don't.
They're just an operator with a gun in their hands and they'll walk it into a fight basically blind.
And the only thing they really had going for them so far in defense was their phenomenal first round attempt of top court.
Where they put the Kai Tubera in a real utility, and they make the round easier by knowing where the attack is coming from.
Ever since the rounds have been owed in dock on the other bomb sites, they have been getting destroyed.
Yeah.
And it starts to become a bit of a pattern, doesn't it?
Two Zemions won two out of the first three games, and they even pushed Falcons very close to 12 rounds.
And then they burst VP, they lost the G2, they lost the G2, they lost the Fnatic, and now they are about to lose a fifth game in a row.
This time the GK, who are on the verge of locking themselves into stage finals.
So I think it was Gelad that went the window last time, no? And then it's how it's shown this time.
This could be one of those cases where you didn't communicate the mini-play that you made before.
Because they were interesting and ready for it.
They were very ADS onto the window expecting that jump out to happen.
It's as slow as a gun who knew there's no drone still to stay more, it must be free.
And now let's just, again, they're holding these complete red angles.
Because they notice the mines would do something silly.
So it's like, again, they're desperate, now they're geek at desperate.
And the only way to see the mines being witness-ranked realistically is to hit some nasty shots
Because from an execute perspective, GK are stronger, they have man advantage, they got the EMPs out of the trade counter, and they got Twitch runs as well.
Flourish, they can kill the Glyre canisters, they're just peeling back all the wing conditions and layers, but they're the ones who have trade on both sides.
Tissamier just have no discipline today.
The Thorn Trap does down Yogg.
2v3, while he is on the floor, did Dove and P9 make the move.
Dove wants to swing outside, but Asker's watching for it.
Dove finished off.
The P9 and Dove are both under the pressure here
for twisted lines.
Big kill though for Dove again.
Loan HP.
It's a flashbang.
Briefly, Brian's P9.
A smoke we did a follow.
You've got to ask, they're so separated.
And Asker's deep into the bomb site.
He's got the revolver out.
He might find a kill, though.
They're for mine.
P9 spotted him quickly.
Train it back, you poor.
Just needs to let a single bullet as Dove tries to keep twisted minds in contention to stage finals.
But Yupo has snuck into the bomb site and is about to find that diffuser as well.
Goes and grabs it from Yoge's body and he can make his way into the bomb site.
This is a safe plan on the hard reinforced wall. No C4 available.
Dove tries to edge his way forward. Both players one bullet away from death.
Yes, you both have to go deep, he's going to plant now, out comes the revolver and it's a sigh of relief.
And one final chance for Twisted Minds.
The heartbreak on the player cams though, it's a huge moment, your teammate clutches the round and the player cams to a different story.
It's like, yeah, you know, that's a round victory, but we're fighting so hard and we're not getting very far.
We gotta do this again and again and again and the rounds are so difficult from a mental perspective right now, we choose the minds.
Because I said your win conditions are just vanishing you go for a hero play you get shut down
You play utility that I got twitch floors and EMPs. You're gonna try and go for a double trade
Well, there's some help in the gunfight anyway
It is stolen P9 fighting so hard for so long in that round and still comes down to this
Literally one bullet from either side will be a bound victory
You four couldn't find the pre fires because though we're just dancing around the pillar
Really leverage in the positioning
I'm not sure whether these teams have run the numbers on exactly each situation, but I'm honest
But by just guaranteeing over time. I'm pretty confident that GK on 13 points
They are guaranteed for playoffs because the only way they could get caught and pushed into seventh is
If either shifters or twisted mines end up on 13 points or more and that's just not possible now
There's maybe a world where even if G let's say GK lose this you know over time
They end up on 13 points. They lose the next game.
Shifters win both games.
Both teams will be on 13 points and it comes down to round difference.
But that is a really outside chance.
If GK know the situation and they should be pretty confident,
they have all but confirmed playoffs here.
Twist the mines on the flip side.
If they're aware of the situation, don't know that even by dropping any points from this game,
their chance of making it to the top six are almost over.
They need to win every single round here.
And then they need to hope that the Rebels and Shifters game goes against them next week.
And the twisted minds can also beat heretics in their next game.
Like you said, it's such an uphill mental battle.
And we saw that on Hachom's face cam as well after that win reaction.
It's not a celebration when your teammate clutches.
No, it's just a deep breath.
You just do that twice more and then with an overtime.
It's going to recompose.
I think they've been punished now on their individual,
like greedy you know attempts of a play I think if you're twisted-minded it's not maybe you do the opposite
you don't give gk that free kill you don't seek the fight one versus one I'm saying that but I'm
seeing dove and Jaila looking for that play and don't go for one for a trade Jaila gets one for
free can either fall back or stick around he's got the solar scanner can tell there's any drones
coming his way there's gonna overstay it's welcome but they're getting kills across the map right now
this is twisted-minded looking for that fifth round and closing the gap yeah it's all over the place
Nice idea to see for them. I'm not sure where there was specific info for Hashom
Blow that nitro
Was taken up in I'm hold the phone to V3 is very winnable here for GK
All about this confide
Yeah, this is how you lose them right? But it's the mindset. It's a place. I'll just mind it be confident
That's a free asking on deep talk at the case they got this fight. They're pulled above you
You pause deep. Problem is Jaylad can't deny this plan vertically. He can get so much info onto that position he has.
He doesn't know. He's not in position. He can't deny the plans. The plan will go down. He gets him in the post into the 1v1.
But guess who? It's Ars. Ready to clutch up big time. They know exactly where he is because of that bulletproof camera.
He quickly takes it down. He could go above and he can actually cover it with his IQ scanner as well.
as well. He also has a breaching charge for Vert in the late round. So many options here for the
Brazilian. As Jalad gets on the defuse, hits it once. Does he stick it, going deep? Ask and ask
the question and a response is not given. Twisted minds are ever finished in EML for this stage
as GK have locked in their playoffs position. Beautiful player there in the 2v2 as well.
Well, they're created by the Pillow James, but instead they're in the middle of the openness,
knowing that if the fight went down, they can win the potion by way of the force of the set ass walk for the clutch.
Do not go anywhere. We're back after a quick break.
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Well, that was a whole different GK.
We got to see there on the attacks on Nighthaven Labs, and that means that we have hopefully
a very happy groovy standing by as groovy we get to congratulate you with making it to play
ask congratulations how are you feeling uh yeah hello again well i'm feeling good uh yeah nothing
much to say the game was easy to be fair so nothing much to say groovy i mean he was going
up against uh an opponent that finished top four at salt lake city he was going up against
a play style that's difficult a player that's pretty difficult in hisham as well the game was easy
Let me say three clutches.
Three clutches, Gribby. What do you mean?
No, no. I think overall, to play against teams like this,
you have to understand a bit of their play style.
And I had to face the team a lot in Clare 2, for example,
like last year. So basically, we knew everything they're going to do.
You know, like, we knew how Hashemi play.
He's going to play for this jump out, hide in meeting, go like,
do this C4 hide there. So basically, I don't think there's a play
where you would like be surprised from, you know,
we knew about the C4 from e-box.
So we actually came to the game very prepped.
and I think now I mean that good team like don't get me wrong. I think they can fight for like big tournaments
but I think the way they play the game sometimes it's way way too
Too too easy to predict, you know, and I think that's what like made the game easy for us
You know, as I said, we had three clutches, but I think we also trolled few rounds, you know
like we trolled the the first defense for example like that tag for V2 on
on
Basement or storage was it so
Yeah, we trolled a bit but I think yeah, I mean the game wasn't like really hard to predict what they're gonna do
I think it was mostly us not being surprised and just realizing like that
That is our game plan that we have to follow and we made it work again, you know
And I only said it easy because Hashem always pushed me in ranked and I took my revenge in the ML
He beat me in ranked, set Bill to sleep and I beat him in the ML, you know, so I'm happy
I guess Ilo, you have playoffs, you know
No, I care more about the Ilo
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I think the balance between Ilo and playoffs is his current balance
I think you will take the playoffs for any day of the week
Yeah, I mean I would but I would take Ilo as well, you know, I need the champ
I need a chance to sit down.
Maybe we can team up, because we actually did it as well.
We've been grinding ranked as well, and we're stuck in Emeralds.
So you know what? We're kind of far away.
Yeah, I can hop on some rank tier first.
Greb, I want to talk to you about one of your teammates,
and it's a player that came all the way from Brazil,
that struggled hard his first few weeks in Europe at Kickoff,
and obviously he's asked.
And I want you to tell me a little bit more about how he's thriving in this roster,
How different it is for him,
thriving in this roster from third to kickoff,
because he seems to be an entirely different player
now that he's on this roster.
Yeah, I agree with you.
Well, after first thing,
like as soon as I joined the team,
I was struggling a lot with the players that are in you.
Like he said, he cannot really understand
how the teams are playing.
And basically, when I joined GK,
I explained to him that sometimes in you,
you don't have to think, you know,
because the way teams are playing,
it's the way you cannot explain.
You just have to feel it,
and you just have to play the game, right?
And I was helping a lot with us to understand that.
And we also changed the roles with ASK ASK is more free now, like of course I'm on the IG LRL now so I speak more than ASK.
ASK ASK has more freedom to play the game and I think it's the confidence that he got as well, you know.
I think like he has a lot of confidence and when he's feeling the game and he understands the playstyle, I don't think there's much that can stop him, you know.
I think he understands the game very well.
It's all in place, it's just adaptations, you know.
If you know how to adapt to the playstyle of every team, how G2 plays, how G3 plays, how VP plays, it's easy for you to get the kills and open the game for your teammates, right?
and make plays like this and like the clutch like just proves that he's experienced player, you know
like he knows how to
clutch situations, he knows how to handle the pressure very well and well he is a really good player, you know
So he deserves that I guess
Yeah, I think we've seen that in his game vision on the last round especially. He's the one that sees
That if the two guys are cargo, he can just drop the hatch and take site for free
He's the one that lives there and he's the one that gets the kill and then eventually the clutch
And I think we can see the value he brings to the team
Yeah, of course, I mean he was the first one to even say that guys this three cargo
I'm gonna drop side. I'm gonna drop side. For example, follow me. No, like he said, because he's bought a pattern, for example
And he saw it for it made it work and like I said, the game is all about the confidence and about the place you make
You know, if you believe that the play will work, it's gonna work
You know, because like it's hard to count it like a lot of plays in Siege
You know because the game is so fast-paced and I get just annoying, you know
All right, quickly before we let you go, Groobie
You already talked about players that you played against in tier two tomorrow
You're playing against the players that you played with in that tier two playing against Oscar and Flexi. How are you feeling about that one?
It's gonna be a good game. Well, I have nothing much to say about them. I think they're both really good players.
I think they're overall a really good team, but I think for them it's just like maybe they...
It's a too short time for them to perform that well, but I think overall I rate Oscar highly semi-flex.
I think they're both really good players and I was enjoying my time with them.
We made a side together, we made it out of groups and we played well. It's gonna be an amazing game from tomorrow.
Dragging against your friends is always nice, especially the people that you actually like.
And you spend a lot of time with, you know, with the outside of the server, so it's going to be a decent game.
Alright, awesome. Good memories to hopefully turn into a good game tomorrow.
Once again, Groovy, congratulations on making it to playoffs.
And good luck with your last game tomorrow.
Yeah, see you, good night.
See you tomorrow.
Oh, see you tomorrow. Oh, I respect it there. I respect how he stands on business when it comes to the enemy team.
Talking smack before his former teammates. Nothing but love.
And do you know what? I stood on business last week because he said it every single time last week.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Yeah, and we kept speaking to him because maybe he's the lucky charm, but yeah, it stands on business
I think the whole team for a decade is today you said yeah
Couple of close rounds couple of clutches that came up couple of clutches that they also lost there
Yeah, you know, um dove dove gets one. They got the two you can retake put us in mind
But I think overall especially on the attacks that was the one thing I was looking for I expected them
Maybe I didn't expect them to win this game. I expected them to improve on that attack
That's exactly what they where they did they get the full three points victory
They confirm themselves to play us and also especially that gaming at secret and while bottom of the league
They put themselves in prime positions to finish top four as well inside of this league. Yeah, it's a five win streak now for geek
It's it's a beautiful comeback from these guys on the back of ask also on the back of grabby once more one our time
Yeah, both here in the entry department four and zero in the entries
It was the one really putting you know geek in the right position to win most of these rounds as well
It's great to see the resurgence of so many experienced player on that roster
I'm just hoping that we have now a clear hierarchy with Gruby as an IGL and then you know the other ones ready able to shut cool
Yeah, now that we've yet confirmed yet another team for playoffs
It is time we move on to our big match of the evening two teams that have already found their way into players
We'll talk about G2 and Virtus Pro
The reason why this game is so big is because both these teams have not lost a single game yet so far in stage one
In fact, the last time we had a team not lose a single game and in a stage was in 2021.
BDS, that's how long it's been since we had such a dominant team inside our league.
The Onicolision course now because one of these two teams is going to lose their big win streak.
And there's even the potential for Virtus.Pro to go flawless in the stage.
Not lose a single point and we've never had that happen before.
Yeah, that would be crazy. It's literally, you know, out of nine single play days,
You go and you get 27 points, like that's just absolute perfection.
And I think if there is one roster that was not expecting to come up and do that, that was VP.
I do think that they were doing really well at the Cup.
I do think that they did have a good presence at Sonic City.
However, Jack did not think that would be in a position to go undefeated.
And that is because, yes, they are to play their left, but it's against G2 and it's against Falcons.
Yeah, they've had quite a great easy games.
They've now got the hard game here then around the over top three teams.
I mean, this will be a real
judgment week for them because
let's not forget that it's not
just this week. If they happen
to win both of these games that
we're going into next week with
a load of confidence. If they
happen to lose them that mental
kind of confidence resilience,
it will all get tested head
into playoffs. So as much as
VP are already confirmed top two
regardless what happens, they
actually do need I think to
their mental their mentality to
put in some good performances
here and it starts today against
you to now a team going
completely flawless. He's
unheard of. You know, a team
just going flawless is
You know, they're on the precipice of really putting their mark on this league table,
but they are doing it this week against some formidable opponents.
It is, and we talked about G2 so much.
Star player, Star roster, this and that, but something that we do see on this roster is a big romance as well.
In fact, last week when we spoke to the Supreme Leader about it as well, as the G2 fans like to call him,
he had so much to say about the current situation in the team.
I mean, the impact that Beta has on the team is like way more than just his,
I think he's an individual performance.
I mean, he's really close friends to me and Doki from like eight years ago.
So I think that brings, I don't know, like, I think there's a caster,
the French caster who said the Falcons would beat us.
And he mentioned like the team of Friendship.
I guess that's actually what we needed in the team.
We actually need, like, you needed more Friendship on the team.
And now with Banja, we have that, we have like a very good mood and Friendship wins games.
Friendship, sunshine, vibes, is that enough to go without on the feeder in Stage 1?
No, I wouldn't say this team of friendships is enough to go and end in the game.
Friends are well championed by VP.
Yes, and French and French would be an SI winner if that was the case.
The reality is that you need a quality team, you need a team that works hard together in strategy and tactical depth, and then you need a friendship.
I don't want to delay this game any longer, but there is still one more thing we have to discuss before we dive into it, and that is the map selected for this matchup, which will be seen between these two teams.
Ooh, a default clubhouse.
Wasn't expecting it. I think it doesn't necessarily fit the fiber of being in terms of the way that G2 will play.
Who will be sat on the attack clubhouse? He falls off into a lot of breaches, a lot of shields. G2 likes to play spread, so the map fundamentally doesn't necessarily fit their style, but they do play it.
I think they do like it. It's
kind of middle preference. I
think from VP. I think it's a
map that they love. They
absolutely demolished fanatic on
it all the way back in play. They
won obviously said, however, the
one thing that I do love about
clubhouse, it tests which teams
got the best fundamentals. So
if I'm looking at my top two
teams, both of them seven zero
in the league, I want to see
who's got the best fundamentals.
I don't want the winning on
cheese. I don't want the winning
on clutches. I want the
fundamentals to win. Clubhouse
is perfect. We said it was our
defeated with one of these that will end here G2 and Voters Pro on Klopphaus.
This is your game of tonight and maybe the game of the stage here in EML. Could we see
one of our teams in this league remain undefeated for the entirety of the group stage and potentially
the entirety of the stage itself. G2 and VP are both already locked into the playoffs but who will
the match. And it's not
the only one that will remain
at the very top of the
standings who remain unblemished.
Thank you. We're about to find
out it's your old team up
against your old arch nemesis.
It's cute to going against
brothers, but it's a lot of
history. He needs to talk
conversations and. Sadly not
that many of the players, you
know, there's no a car checker.
There's no joy stick in the
I think Pasha is one of my favorite right now.
We are a team at Land events, so it's a joy to talk to.
He's one of those players that very much lives and breathes when it was a teach, but it's
not too far from something as team-ish, where everyone's like, you end up in the world.
You're saying, guys, you qualify for Land, you got some experience, let's enjoy that.
Or it's a player like Joey Steak who was like, you know, the top dog for a long time was like, oh man
We saw and that's all fun. We didn't even go to finals
There was such a huge team Empire team was very humble and and lacked a bit of youthfulness now
This ever does not yet lack it all for youthfulness on both sides
Obviously, we've got the two young Frenchman's guys and they came who have been phenomenal
Vertus Bro have just been given a new look and new life ever since Dark came in to coach the roster and completely rebuilt the team from the ground up, only retaining Kasha and Dan, post six-invitational VP were phenomenal in stage one but that was just a taste tester.
Now as the the desk or the studio said
7 0 0 0
That's where
VPs hit understandings at the moment. They have seven wins on regulation only one of their matches has even gone to 12
Rounds so far and that was against team secret funnily enough every other team they've beaten seven four or better
Of course, they do have their two hardest games of the stage today
and the next matchup that's gonna be G2 and Valkyrie and G2 they're certainly
hungry to take down VP.
There's no start here I just kind of sit into the match G2 they banned the banning
kaib when I get through those walls, Veruspro did a bit of a this and that
the ace rather than hard destruction with the Monty being removed. I really like
the Monty ban because it's often ends up being like a like a mid game crotch for
where if they have a slow couple of attacking rounds or can't break the rune here for example
Alamau hop is in the Monty, it's the best of problems and they can keep going forward
VB says you're not gonna get that possibility at all
Activate!
You do the aggressive sweep
Okay!
Just like that, a C-Fone to Alamau, perfectly placed in time, takes down the Blackbeard
and speaking of shields in that rune clear, that's gonna slow them down significantly
It was struggling with those mid-jammers that was pre-placed upstairs in Master Bit, Truman connector
Now another top foyer is clear, have a shy girl, tracking Dan, seeing him in the basement before he's in that mid chamber, says,
Hey, there should be no more people except in the basement portion.
There's gonna be a 4 vs 5, G2 can now sit up, they can do all their heart destruction, do a little bit of the Kettles in kitchen and the hallway hopefully.
Just like we're thinking they're facing the basement, G4 is supposed to not be there, both shy men are working together.
Now we see the VP fell back to main staircase. G2 knocked.
Holy sherbet just yet. Using the Grimby's and holding down the double door.
VPS saying, hey, we're gonna keep peeling back the layers. We're not gonna give you any kills or free.
Nice.
Varner to clear the mirror window. I don't think there's any realistic way to clear off all of those pellets.
Now, VP are looking very vulnerable on the bomb site.
Thankfully, Keeva Barrier can come and plug that hole a little bit,
but look, G2 might be fighting from behind here, Pengu,
but they do have the ingredients to make this a half-keeper.
They must try to rescreen a,
to mask these beings spent and have them fly,
wanting some entry and stomping fines that
Shagga drop down to pit,
then just go and help as a backstep,
but with the diffuser, it's gonna be a split-second G2
so they're playing for kills rather than plant.
That's right, this is gonna be classic split-execute here,
With no flat intention, it's all about the frags.
Shiko needs to have a big impact, takes down Dan.
Stompin' has the point as well as passion for footage.
Straight Stompin' through the smoke.
It makes it three kills for the American.
Neko now quickly shuts him down.
The young boy's finished off
and the Frenchman finds a second.
Doki shut down, big clutch up.
And VP stealing the first round.
That's ridiculous man.
That is such a good first shot
the start of the spanking of a series or this game.
I mean, it was such a good execute
from T2 to start things off.
I actually think they played that better than VP.
They had Benjamaster, who's like a one health grim
with the diffuser in Moto.
And instead of making him the backstab
of who might get a kill, he actually initiates the push.
He goes first, taking the attention,
leaving players like Shaiiko and your Stumber
with full HP to get the kills
when very small are looking the wrong way.
So Stumber works down from the kitchen hatch,
Shaiiko walks down the blue hallway,
and they find all those kills.
But until then, those ones, your headshots,
SMG11, high-fire weapon, they can win you around
incredibly quickly.
Neko did that.
So the clutch went for VP.
But G2, I would say, in that 45,
they had the better strategy and execution.
Yeah, kind of, it's a big change
when you lose your flag below.
You want to go for it, and you've got plenty
of other tools to work with, and credit to G2.
They might have lost their main way
dropping down the kitchen hatch and going for an execute, but they still have
Capitow, Grim, Daymouse and Hibana. That is a lot of... this lady has different
ingredients and G2 are a very smart team. They're very good at identifying the
wind conditions, identifying the obstacles and coming up with quick solutions.
For example, the mirror window. I really want to get stopped in the credit. He's very
quickly dealt with that position. And they knew that his guy wasn't being a gun.
Benji used the Grimby to take ground. Toki and Shako used their Util for good as
as well. It's a nice idea, but VP, the first lock.
Now I gotta switch it up. The mirror, the clash, they're slowing down the tempo, they've
got the warden in there in case of any trickery with the smokes or the flashbangs. So there's
no easy fight here against VP2. As he's all tossed out, goes wide, doesn't find anything.
He's dancing cash, talking about smoke, and he has a barrier on the window at the door,
which means again they can peel back that layer. Normally I would stay a huge fan of
But look at the time James 60 seconds into live action. There's two full minutes and BPS rendered all the map control
Except for just the foam side and maybe was right below it, you know kitchen bar, etc
But just in super special because there's only one C4 left for the entire defense
So these players are very much stuck together in master
You can play a player in gym
You play your hand in mattress and play in bathroom and a player in office
You're very close together and I haven't mentioned the fifth defender. Where's he gonna play?
Either you're stacking up next to what you made in a very small space, or you're gonna play downstairs off the bomb site
It would be a free kill for any of the attackers
Give G2 the space to work out and execute and you know, I will pay for it
It's not a good fishing now for G2
Clear out the, oh! Clear out the global shield ideally. Rorik though, he's in a good position with this class shield
Dogey has one concussion left to try and put the pressure on that clash in the late round,
but the keeper barriers here from Naker will also miss his ring. Very hard, yes.
Super risky, super aggro here from Rorik, but you two try and focus up on the clash, I think they might.
Dogey is down nearby and could actually use the concussion, indeed he does!
It don't get a lot of damage though, onto Rorikova.
The stopper has fallen. However, taking down the Azami is a big kill.
I think the G2 need to avoid the launcher. I think they need to try and ignore him.
Here he comes. He has to win this run fight. Yeah, he does.
So now he locks down connector and locks down the back of the tower.
He's saying, hey guys, you can only attack from the middle jump ins. Plus we have defuser.
They're gonna go in to the bomb site.
It's gonna be desperate now from G2. They do not have the defuser.
They will have to clean up on the site and then go fight Rorik afterwards.
15 seconds to play. There is no time to get this done.
Well, the X could happen on the side for Benjy, and Alamow is up to Bokeh on the other side to take the diffuser.
Now, Rorick is left in a 1v2, and Alamow hunts him down!
How did he to win that?!
Oh, man, I feel like Rorick got sold there.
I mean, either it's the chaos of the round or the other members saying,
hey, you got the case, we got the bomb site, but in my mind, if you can just play inside of office
and have sort of a cross-style Rorick play in CCTV,
Fall back on main staircase give them the sight you don't need to die in the gym
Holy up down it's done up for me. It's this exactly give to get get the hell out of there
But they stuck around
They have passion behind warwick on a single point of health or he died
Right, it's taking a slave. But look where he is. He's in the rotating office. You could have played deep office
You could have hit another girl on the cash with the clash
Very well done there again, D2, they thrive in the chaos, they have 5 phenomenally talented
individual players that help us all that round, but it's all things like you've already
seen a little bit more help there and go on the same page, are you playing for the side
or are you playing for the case?
And splitting that position down the middle and doing a bit of both, it low-key costs them
around.
Yeah, sometimes all it takes is a couple of players being slightly misaligned for a period
of five seconds and if your opponents are on the money then you lose the round and that's
exactly what happens with VP. This is why I was really excited to see Claudehouse Pengu.
This is such a good map to figure out truly how proficient these teams are. Claudehouse
has been done to death and yet there are still new things that we see. It's such a phenomenal
test of fundamentals as well as a test of your strategy.
I'm curious if the VP are going to change up the approach.
Was that going to be a rush kill?
Uh, maybe. I still have to play Reinforcing.
Yeah.
Well, if Venge went for it.
Yeah.
Let's go over there from Bedel.
Venge had a gap finder.
He has that game sensor.
With the drone information as well, he's going to always land that kill.
Now, as you can up-givered,
I was going to say, has the advantage, but not against Pasha.
I guess, again, that isn't G11.
It can just win you any battle,
even if they're also against you.
Guys trying to get a fire the glass in the smoke grenade, but there's a gap
He's staying alive and the keepers granting him protection
But don't he's going deep for it. He knows he's still trapped in that corner
Smoke actually helps out. He does find one that dies to the Goryo fire in the corner. That's still worth it for Doki
He has gotten his value in guaranteeing that they take control Shikyo. Guess that the fuse it takes a bit of damage from trouble
Hmm
You see what happened here as he as though he walked up the staircase shy
Can you get a smoke in the middle of that fight to strout him?
But then Dan tossed an impregnate into the smoke pop in the great fire
So it was a great attention to shy go helping out great
He's gonna have a smoke himself anymore
And then a great counter to that from Dan himself with this single impregnate pocket trading his own life one for utility
It's pretty too in a winnable spot here, but not guaranteed
There's three toxic baits from harsh, but no secret made for the faster gonna come out
Will they push with it?
If I have a look at this, we have Fiddler from Alamow.
It's going to be a split push.
He finds the backstab onto the 1, but two players!
Neko also falls through Alamow.
What a beautiful backstab from G2's captain.
And a perfect execute, perfect pivot in the 3v3 to take the lead on Clubhouse.
Alamow has been so good this stage. I don't know what it is.
I haven't seen all of G2's games down to like every detail,
detail, but I've seen the stats, I've seen the clips and this guy's farming right now.
It's been a long time since I've seen him individually, oh there it is, it's been a
long time.
1-7-1, Katie, 70 kills to 40 deaths coming into this game.
The third, the highest rated player in EML right now, 122 EPS, and then Benja is behind
him on 119 in the second place, then it's Rorik and then Robbie and then Pasha, that's
Top five right now and number one and number two both sit and play the G2
Hey fourth, there's some five minutes to go right now with passion, lore and information as well
But this is like a classic animal around here in stage one and
It brings you back to like Mexico major days when him and Laguna's would like to be five against the old G2 roster and make that whole
Lower bracket run the 5cg for the tiebreaker and then somehow win the whole shebang like craziness of an event
And I'm always good at like the individual performance. Can I continue to back that up with most that keep going to look through and
Alamow absolutely kills it in almost every single category. So he's got the best KD 1.71
He's got almost the best KPR. He's slightly behind
Benja on 0.92. That's almost one kill guaranteed every round
And then he's got the highest entry percentage by the way
Allamow does 11 entry kills to only two and he did entry deaths at 85% of the time
He's involved in the opening gun fight. He wins it. He also has the highest clutch percentage
Tybus guys and Roryk at 33% of clutches one
Every time you get to a clutch nine you win a third of them
But he's not planning so long how good is he actually?
You know, I mean like I play with us at all times. All right. Here we go. Guess who has the most plants in the league
You're gonna guess this one. It's an obvious one in the whole league the whole league most plants
You get it yourself if you don't get it
2026
Six by the way, but funnily enough our mouse from the top five
It's an amount of top planter into he's not
Okay, okay
Doki and stompin with three. Oh, he's gonna do it all. I thought don't just give you the most plan there
But yeah, no, he's actually phenomenal right now and my mind is also I gilling so that so he's pulling in a lot of work
Maybe maybe earning his paycheck for once rather than trolling. I'm not sure saw but the Bitcoin dropped quite a bit recently
So I'm pretty sure that's like he's down and stomp right so this is him earning his paycheck actually doing
Yeah, also, you know, they dropped the other Brazilian
He's got to step up there's a good man representing his country under softball behind him and anima just broke in right behind him
So
I was gonna pop into a ton of damage if you can kill him, but he stays alive because he missed it lucky boy. Yeah, very lucky boy
He's that good
All right hold off on the glaze man hold off on my size my lock in then took a bit of damage to look before
You got both Benjen, both of them with Shaco and Daemons tracking players and Neko is better in the individual fight taking down the Daemons of Shaco.
The G2 they reset, they need to recompose and figure out can they find an isolated kill.
The answer is probably not. All four defenders are in the basement and all we gotta do now, right, very simple.
Play the call, watch the hatches, or do this, get caught off guard.
Some place the king of kitchen and that hatches is, you got all four kills in this position so far.
Roy will find danger though, maybe they'll toffer again for G2.
Let's stop the chaotic rounds.
Thankfully G2 are pretty happy to play.
He's separated like this, happy to try and find gaps and opportunities.
One bar down, a little bit too ambitious on the ADS.
Now stomping to 1v3, there's one, almost a second Neko.
Refrags with the pistol and VP back on two rounds.
Neko wants to, he just wants to win by his own doing.
doing. He is taking every fight, swinging every engagement. When Alomar tossed the grenade from
third door to third box, two different defenders would swing him right side of the tall box and
of course the blue door to the left. They're not gonna give G2 anything for free right now.
And it went from them falling back, falling back, falling back and playing that layers game and
losing to the executive G2. To them saying, we're just gonna beat them at their own game. Neko go
kill. He took the 5 to Shackle early, took him down on the yellow stairs, scared the
area, and then fight NMR and do a turn right after, like, he wants blood.
This is the game that I've been waiting for, Nick. It's funny, like, sometimes, you know, we get really hyped to see Fortress. New maps, where we get to see new operators, or
or up and coming teams, but this is just such peak siege.
Both of these teams are in the best form we've seen from them in quite some time.
VP, that's a no-brainer.
When was the last time VP was a serious contender?
I'm gonna say...
S.I. 24?
Attackers objective to locate a bomb and attack the enemy.
The best non-Brazilian team, I think it was a lower bracket final.
I think it was.
Fantastic game, ended up being a W7M.
Well, that's the last time. It's been two years since we've seen DP being compared to team.
G2, it feels like it's been a little while as well.
I mean, let's be honest here. The last couple of events for them have been a bit of a disappointment.
It's always a new family day at the moment.
Giving a conversation about performance and patience, right?
Because G2 have always had high expectations.
Not making it to a semi-final is not very good enough.
You know, getting out in top 8 is not good enough.
For some teams, qualifying is good enough.
It's just like different stakes, different rotations.
If Benjy had that 6th sense, he would have gotten a free kill.
But he's lost that right now because Orcs is right there, back turning to him.
He's watching the adults, what's master, expecting that to be the point of contact instead.
Wilken, I think my duty, I mean, while getting older.
And now, again, Wilken and Kill, as you said, so successful so far.
takes down passion or minor regenerative gadgetry lose a ton of value I feel
it's gonna be down to the same story here of how good can warwick be in the
clash and change the tide of this round
if a lot of writing that's what happens with these players this is very risky
from skies if he gets away with his life but not for much longer
Benja quickly on the cut, that's the problem there with the keeper barriers when you leave the gap.
Ooh, hello! This is an aggressive play from Alamau, Shako.
Has got an active dando holding down inside a bathroom.
Rorick is essentially trapped here on the wrong side of connector.
He's being cut off by Shako, but if he wins this gunfight, it might not matter.
Shako will swing him, perfect timing, a stompin, jumps in the window. That is a very convincing round for G2.
I mean, they've changed the entire playstyle, right?
They just play for the cuts and the rotations, and they say,
hey, they gotta make a move somewhere because, like, before on gym,
they're stuck on the bomb site.
They have five defenders or four defenders.
They can only play again in master, connector, and office.
And if you just have one guy benching a window,
you're bound to get a kill eventually,
because only Rorik with the clash shield
can avoid these signs of sight.
And I mean, when you keep off the window and slowly think in,
it's a safe shelter for me, but when it's a small gap in the bottom...
Good round, guys.
you become the freebie. It's a good round. Now, final round in the first half, and VP are going to
CCTV. It's again one of those bomb sites where it feels kind of unplayable, especially when
Operate like, Capitao is on the board, because we all know, CCTV, we're gonna have to pass a bit
of attack and catwalk rafters, especially don't see or my slash Jager, because that's how you
to make the decision. If they play as Tommy Yeager or I in a heavily-paying catalog, you might think,
let's not do race only, let's see, let's attack Master Bedroom connector and go for an A bomb
site. But if you don't have anything but this, and you have Capitao or Glass or a Monty that
seem like a really simplified, you should just reach the main wall step point, attack Garage
Step 2, and you win the round. It is that easy if you can consistently execute it.
It's probably just bombsite isn't it, there's just so few ways to defend it now, because
the attack has been so powerful.
I mean look, even with Bandit, I just feel like the attack has so many ways to nullify
that, that all it does is burn the bomb in the day.
I would be very surprised if I saw a protein fail to open up a wall.
You can always pick Maverick.
There's a few yet downstairs, you have tons of options.
There's a lot of ways you can do it, but even though it's very dangerous, I very rarely
see people counter the two-barrel high-e-banded with Vert exclusively because then you're
involved in getting flanked from Bar or Secret or Red Stairs or just the Vert itself.
And it's free.
No smoke needed.
There was a smoke in the garage door.
He walked past it, just found the pixel, takes down, skies are free.
And now, the other side of the wall, the rafters, the reinforced wall, but guys, in
2026, Thermite has three exothermic charges, not two, so you can pop Connector wall, Speedy
wall, and the double wall upstairs as well, leading towards the bottom side.
Also small note there, I feel like you just breach, I think you're really on the Thermite,
and then like the Thermite charge will pop the Dwario canister as well, and you can kind
of just wait 20 seconds, so I think you really want to dump it in here, get left side peak
angle, far right side of walking angle and it's a bit of both worlds. Stomping is rotating right now,
but it's important that you change one person to go on that prompt side repel outside
and change the positions. So he was waiting for Ademau to get onto the repel outside,
then someone can leave that angle and go reach the wall. So the wall at the top is going to over
the group fire, we're going to AFK for 20 seconds and then G2 will hit the bunker and execute.
There is one point of failure here, there are two toxic babes in pocket of Pasha. If G2 is going
gonna be too slow it could be around for some time but now they have those free
20 seconds to do nothing but coordinate what the next step is gonna be so time
shouldn't realistically be a problem.
G2 has the manpower to send players as well throw bodies right, the people first like
he's on for a potential flank he could always jump out the window, go for a
spray, there's backup smokes here as well and the DP that God sticks there's a
bulletproof camera they need to target I think that Shaco might have got it there
Hopefully he did. A big smoke that should be covering.
The Fenrir is making things very challenging though for G2, but they can throw bodies.
Pasha eventually tried it back. Out comes the bearing guy.
Right on the other side of Doki is Meiko through the smoke.
Figo pulls!
He's in the late sixth in the night, and Doki eventually finds him.
Shot goes on the floor. It's a 1v1.
Doki, if he roars, he's got the info.
He knows where he is on the red stairs to go for the revive.
It's risky though. Instead takes an aggressive angle.
angle. It's the confidence of a man who backs himself in. Shige can trans-gaffer info and
so he does, plays ahead, goes for the big doki, always on the front foot for G2.
Massive round from them and they split the difference at the half.
Four rounds at the end of their attack. The clutch is the bag in four for Pasha giving it 110%
the game. It's been a lot of
time. I mean, it's been a lot
of time. I mean, it's been a
lot of time. It's been a lot of
time. It's been a lot of time
in the round, but it wasn't
enough. It's a close game as
expected. But honestly, it's
been more of a dance than I
thought it was going to be.
What do you think desk is living
up to the hype? Oh it is the
way we were hyping up this
game. I think it is absolutely
delivering so far in regards
to the quality. But speaking
of the wind condition for both
these teams, because it seems
to be different on either
sides. Well, you've got one
team. You've got you two who
are playing very much for that
It's currently G2 that are winning out.
If we roll the clip from the second round,
what you're gonna see here is actually,
but as for, they're playing gym, they back off.
Look at the use of this utility for the mutes get away.
One keeps barry on the door,
one keeps barry on the window away.
Everybody is back to site.
It's great team play.
They're playing into the fundamentals of the round.
They're getting the clash back to site.
They've got the mirror window, they've got the mute.
G2 then actually have to basically go through
and they have some problems all bit.
It makes it very, very difficult actually.
There's so much utility and they don't.
They don't probably saw this so far.
Yeah, and exactly, that's the big problem.
The clash pushes back in, re-aggressives into construction,
even finds another kill to get VP into the main camp.
So basically, this is where G2 comes into their own
right at the end of the game, where they find a cap.
If you give them one inch, they take a mile,
they will sniff it out, and they'll find a way to win.
One single gap, Jim wasn't being covered.
That gets Alamo into the building.
He gets a first kill on the anchor players.
And then look at this.
They will, with Benja, actually go aggressive
on the rest of the anchors,
complete the target that that was a 2v1.
Benchand managed to go enough, he gets the other pick.
This should have been, this should have been a round win for VP.
Because of what? Because of the bans.
Then they didn't get banned, they can take Lash and everything.
Look at Elemo now, find another gap, and boom, that's a triple kill next side.
Gets a double on Qcash and then a third one to register.
So it's a consistent thing of like, VP playing for the strategy, playing as a turtle.
So many times we see them have layers and layers, that's the Azami, that's the clash, that's the Mier window.
Then play as a turtle close to Stytra to force G2 to problem solve.
However G2 they excel at finding one gap and when they do so they are absolutely amazing.
And on the last round finally we see an adaptation, a clear problem solving situation.
And I think the problem is if you let G2 find that gap in the first round, the second round
they really will start getting hungry for it.
They have the momentum.
Absolutely, you get the momentum and that's why we saw them kick on and they got all the way through to the last round.
Like you say on CCTV cache where they do the full clear they get the plant down and they play for an execute.
As somebody who likes, you know, records and first-time things, for VernaSpro to go flawless with their points is looking a little bit worrying, or isn't it?
Yeah, I don't think they're gonna strive in here. If I look at the two sides, right, G2 they strive in attack, VP they strive in defense.
On their strong side, G2 have marked all of the points here. And I think that now VP they're gonna struggle a little bit more on the attack side.
I think G2 have everything they need with a very different playstyle to defend their bounce.
Yeah, I think where it's going to come down to realistically is there's one guy for First Pro that can do it all, that can win it all.
But in my opinion, it's going to be Na'Qaul. Can he actually play those shields well?
Can he lead his team around the park? Because they are going to have to, if they want to do it flawlessly, win five attacks on the first.
Verdice Pro have not lost a single point so far at a stage. Will G2 be the first team to take points away from them? Let's find out.
some really great points from the studio and the stakes are really set here VP if
they are to be completely perfect flawless not drop a single point they
gonna need to win five they cannot afford to drop two rounds here and I can
see a lot of the arguments that the studio is putting forth about due to his
form and their play style and defense presenting a lot of issues to VP but
Thank you. Something stinks in my mind, like this little feeling, this hunch I've got.
And it's this.
The better siege is being played, the better the teams are, the more attack a side of the game takes.
At a lower level, yeah, teams don't know what they're doing, they attack as much, they don't know how to abuse these meta operators,
the defense is more comfortable, you have to make first move.
At the top level, it's the opposite.
G2 were really good on the attack. I would not at all be surprised if VP can mirror that as well.
I think it really comes down to how much disruptive play G2 can do. And that's why I'm looking at your players like Benji Master and Dohki, where they can just make a play.
But there's going to be a C4 from Benji Master, an Astu headshot. And Dohki using Skogul's shield to go for a back step later on.
They have that potential playmaking. Because if you let Virtus.Pro get to the bomb site and have 5v5, as G2 was doing very often when they were attacking,
They're gonna be scary opponent.
They got EMP to catch any plant denial.
They got a yin to create the chaos.
Goké because it blitz that can push you away.
It just takes space.
You're gonna want to get a kill early for G2.
It's either fishing a bar, they're fishing kitchen.
I think Goké's does his go-go shield inside of strip room as well as strip club.
Yeah, he does.
So they're just kind of seeing it kind of like attacking us.
Where is the gap?
Where is the area in which we can punish VP?
And right now there hasn't been one.
So there's just low Dp in that the layers as well.
They fall back to hatch, they start making the last few lines of sight on the bomb site, and they're reshaping the map for the late stage of the round, because they weren't sure if they needed it earlier, and they needed that extra time to start deburring the map.
Oh, he's in stock. Oh, they know about it now. He's now fallen back, and he's TP'd back to site. Oh, no, sorry, he dropped down the hatch rather.
Ah, never mind, he does no longer have his inactive shell.
Good spot there from Dan.
Doki's gonna stick it up for hire.
Here's the final C4 for the round.
Again, as I said, VP, they have a Thatcher.
So these C4s later on for planting.
Probably not gonna make it a bunch for my theory.
Might get almost two kills.
Dan and Neko both will take the hit and host their lives somehow.
But at 45 seconds left,
they still gotta do some destructive work.
Up off, work the bird.
is not going to be an easy round for VP. When they go, they got to go and hit it at the same time at full force.
Yeah, that Nitro is still valuable even though it didn't get a kill except a lot of damage from Tanako.
One or two bullets to his feet and that's it.
I like the two-round mute combo here, really making things challenging for Skies to open up the wall.
This round is going to hinge on whether the execute can be fast, can be vicious, and can be effective for VP.
Stomp and kill the two brown canisters keeping the D's.
He's locked up down! Pasha rocks down into blue!
Two big kills. There's no much time.
Benja is just up around the corner, but Dan spots him!
Element 1, D3 has to take the first fight at the bottom of the stairs. Dan is low HP.
Now into the post, we know exactly where he is.
Pasha has reloaded and rejuvenated for Virtus Pro.
Ridiculous!
Benjy was hiding in that corner by the mini-bawie entire round.
He never swung behind Stumpin, he never gave up his location.
He was waiting for that perfect moment to strike and to lash out.
And he was just taking, waiting down those first three seconds.
They're planting, it takes seven.
Two, three seconds goes by, he's gonna slowly creep up.
Crouching instead of sprinting because he knows if he gets that kill,
they will win on time since Edamaw was hiding in the back of the B bomb site.
But he gets shot down on the final second before saving the round.
There was NAKO planting with like 20, 30 health on the blitz.
There was a freebie for the taken VP that clutched right back, just like how the game started.
Being next to him for a passion by you, man, I've noticed he's actually favoring the Reaper even over the shotgun.
He wants that quick ability to just quick ADS, a little bit faster as well, running with that.
gets the LMG or the shotgun.
Well played from Gashua.
So close for G2 though.
VP, they've got a bit of fire on these attacks.
It might be a very different flavour of attack to G2's,
but you're right, Pengo, as long as VP don't get too disrupted
in the early round by G2's aggression, their executes are ever so deadly.
I think picking the Thatcher time and time again here,
just in case of a Kaid, because he can't find the 50th Vendor,
It's the way they used it last round to counter the view.
It's good flavour, you can stop the horn traps from popping, you can stop the mute jammer,
you can enable other operators, you can run to Namos or whatever else, even Solid Snake.
You can interact with a lot of different ganketry, but it's almost a case of passive vs raw value.
Often we see teams pick that for a very specific purpose, and it's often planned to now like
a sea floor, a smote, pipping at a rourke, or a sawmill to make this table a gadgetry.
It seems like Warstyke will bring it for something, and will figure out what that obstacle
will be.
And so far, they haven't used any of those CMPs that hasn't been necessary.
They've been waiting for the walls to pop open due to bing-a-masa-ping, two rounds,
and a spell down for a little bit of time, but it's again been peeping very heavy on
execute.
Again, the glass, the fascia, the solid snake, while solid snake is a roam clear operator
technique and speaking, you can see where all their feathers are on the side itself and they have this yellow clean sort of angle. It's not quite on the mark.
So close. It's such a maybe freebie, but maybe not freebie.
Nice idea. The lineup was just slightly off and I really didn't want to give away that position by re-droning it or droning through that drone hole.
Nice idea.
I mean that was 15 seconds three different people trying to navigate it together and there are five people in the roof of the building
They haven't even gotten into CCTV. They haven't gotten care to control
They have great drone work in terms of like they know that's clean like isn't
But if you're a foot in the building G2 also knows that there's no threat anywhere
They know they're working the windows know they're working for you know fishing for kills and you just sit back and wait and put down the timer
So they can try and lash out somewhere. Here goes trash for smokes
Danik gonna kill.
DMR makes sure work of all the Q of barriers.
C4 makes sure work of Pasha.
Oh, hello and goodbye, it's Wacom always shai-ko.
Dan goes down. Two players fallen for VP.
With no response.
As their advantage is quickly dwindling, Jitsu are locking up this site.
I'm not sold on this.
Once the computer faster, once the previous dash, don't know if I'm here because we're all dying right now.
Neko went down.
There's just Rorik and Skye both outside the building with 10 seconds to go.
And they're gonna die to a gas pipe on the crossfire, leaving just Rorik outside gym fighting Shai-ku and the whole damn world.
Of course, Benjo runs out for it. That is the only round that VP can afford to lose
in order to retain their perfect streak. G2 up to five rounds now. They've created a good amount of headway and they could remain undefeated here if they continue with this tenacity on their defense.
They're quite patient, Pengu. That's the thing. They're not just like twisted minds earlier today, jumping out of windows, out of desperation.
They make a play when they see an opportunity, but they also know what to sit back and wait for VP to twiddle their thumbs, waste their own time.
It's just about understanding the win conditions and when you need it to make a play and when you need to do nothing at all.
at all. And that's why I'm looking at v-piece attack and lineup, like even in the operator
selection phase. Last round, Ash and Thatcher. What was the purpose of their pick? I never
saw it. And secondly, they used two out of six EMPs. They used one out of two Ash preaching
charges. So they didn't even do much with the gadgetry. And then five people outside
the building, mostly on the roof, as I said, didn't take CCTV, didn't take bar below the
bomb site didn't take garage so they had no map control and then they only play a single
like bomb site rush operator which is a glass who is outside peeking through a smoke grenade
and the glass and the guy next to him just dies. I'm not buying it, I'm not seeing the
vision from VP, it just felt like nothing bird-bird around it so when I see a bit more coordination
now shown was a sign of Execute, an idea that was thought out that actually might work.
Sadly when you go and play against G2, even if you have an amazing idea, it's hard!
Nothing burger, because of the way that G2 plays such destructive defenses.
I think this is really what the DPS studio was cluing into during that half-time break.
We know the way that G2 like to play, and it can very much counter these methodical play styles.
G2 have really racked up a lot of resources in defending
that garage rafter's position.
VP have a hell of a lot of problems of it to do.
Their shy who is playing, take your stun to work day.
He's playing Calibur, there's some people who go to the whip
and you say, just keep your magnets.
Make you take these fights of all confidence.
It's just going to make a fortress here in the rafters
together, and they're fighting the world.
They're fighting the breeze.
They're fighting the thord.
They're fighting beneath them.
Stomping goes on early, losing a value
with the amount of his long-missed engagements,
Shaco gets injured and unlikely to be safe here.
Doki could try and make his way on over.
Oh, he's good for one.
Doki's happening, just five kills anyway.
Shaco doesn't need to be finished off here by the fire.
They need to prioritize giving that fire onto Doki,
but Doki takes down Pasha.
That's the glass.
He will fly alive, but the mouse survives.
If I didn't go through the revive here,
can he risk it?
Rorik on one HP,
Newst up by Alamow, running out the breach!
Alamow finally taken down, Shiko's on the floor, Doki one head, B-Tanker is the only one who's looking healthy right now for G2.
But Shiko's been picked up, Doki has regained control of the rafters and now Neko is at a 1v4.
Yes, one's on the ground, but the round is over.
VP no longer unbesmerged G2 and put a blemish on their perfect record.
But the very least guaranteeing OT, of course, looking for a relegation victory of their own.
And the way in which they're playing these rounds, you know, on gym defense, they do nothing,
because they recognize that VP, they have to make the first move. Then they go to CCTV,
and Stumpen looking for a play early on goes down. Shaikou Doki keep making a play like
our rafters. Benjy gets to the mix, Aninal runs out the breach. They're just fighting back and
just saying, VP, we're gonna take you down before we get to the bomb site. So they're switching
the win condition, they're playing proactive and they're playing static and it's making it so hard
to hear this pro because what do you prepare for? If they're adapting perfectly to what your attack
is going to be every single time before you do it, how do you choose your attack with confidence?
Because if you go fast and you stop you, that's a problem. If you go slow and they just don't do
anything and you just like, you're also not getting anywhere. So it must be so difficult as the IGLs
in the strategic mines right now in the server are saying this is going to be the plan. These
are going to be the operators. This is how we're going to attack. Because nothing's really worked
so far and it's not for one reason. It's for many small people. And it speaks to the depth
right now of G2. Something that I myself and I think many others maybe put a bit of a question
on our debt when this roster came together. Will this be a roster that has depth? Because
when the allies are poking in, they have incredibly talented players and they could easily pull
to the mines where they'll be challenging every gunfight and they'll be way too aggressive
and they'll not play super deep siege and they'll not have great fundamentals but this stage and this
in particular they have shown depth adaptation still have that clutch team of course individual
heroics they show us like the full spectrum if you will and opening kill. Yeah I think G2 have
five players who you would say at least at one point in their life were no brain
ash mains and now they have so much maturity and death right and Albinger is
the only no brain ash man. Okay everyone else has a brain at least.
Now they're just bringing everything just when the god fights.
Yeah sure, we can praise them as much as you want but what I was gonna praise them
not just for their ability to win gun fights but also use that death one way
they're so deep is their strap look. Obviously they played the Scopos one
Last time on the basement, oh, yeah, it's about to die.
Benjo's just playing ranked.
I've seen him do this one as you did before.
It's just, yeah.
It's gonna be it!
It's gonna be the end!
It was gonna be the most hyped up game of the day.
Two teams who have been undefeated and looked impeccable.
Dustbuff and Neko desperately trying to win the 1v1 against Bec.
He's dead!
Nothing!
G2 are running rings around Virtus.Pro,
and they remain undefeated in the AML!
The final round is a 1v5 where Blitz gets to close my flashbang to full effect
and expecting a second player to swing and come to his rescue
but there's no one there, complete mind games in Benja.
This might have been the most hyped up game and it's over
but don't worry, we got more games to come.
I
You can ask me something, you know what I mean?
What the heck is it?
I'll fight, let it go, kill me, kill me!
You can ask me, what the heck is it?
Our biggest game of the day and it absolutely delivered G2 taking
three points though that means they are not the only team that is undefeated
and therefore we get to speak to the winners we have Stumpen on the line to
ask him a few questions. Good evening Stumpen and congratulations you are the
only team in the stage that is undefeated how does that make you feel?
It feels good but you know we still got one more game tomorrow so nothing got to
be locked in for that one and undefeated so yeah.
Speaking of today Stumpen on clubhouse I saw that you guys banned the
World in IELTS, so Bandit, KG, and you were left to play against Mira, Clash, Azami.
I think a lot of teams would struggle against that, and despite that you went 4-2 in attack.
So what do you think is the main reason you were able to pull some of these rounds in your situation?
Were they ready? Most of the time, did you? Were they also in control?
I think we were playing a lot of split positions, so even if they had the Clash, we wouldn't just push in,
try to counter them. We just went around it and avoided their strat.
And we played good every round on attack, honestly, we could have won 5.
So our playstyle was working, like last time we played them, I think we lost 5 attacks.
This time we won 4, so we definitely made a lot of improvements since the last game
and learned a lot about how they play on this map, and we just adapted.
I think one of the main strengths that we've seen so far is the ability for you to find gaps
in a situation where I think of Alemao jumping in on construction on a casual site
and getting the triple kill, I think the gym bomb site where you guys jump in gym and somehow backstab
the entirety of the team, is that always going to be like the kind of playstyle that you're going
to find in fact when you're struggling to find a win condition and a few guys will poke around
and try to find a gap to spot. What are you doing? He's taking over all of the interviews
when I don't know he's not there and then when you're finally jumping on the interview he has
to distract us yeah I actually wanted to do an interview doki-chana you know
interview still so but with what you were saying it kind of depends because
like in that situation we're like I'll now jump in con we knew we couldn't play
for planet because they had like smokes and C4s so he made the call he was like
I'm gonna go push con make noise I'm gonna flash red and shaco I think of
shaco life like smoked or flame something they were like fully baited on
me and Shaco and yeah just walked in and destroyed all three of them so depends
you're not going to be able to
go into the last few months.
It's not a very good situation,
but most of the time, yeah, it
does result in stuff like that
splitting. Something we've not
we're not spoken to you on the
M L, like we just said, it's
been a lot of dokey interviews
and a lot of a lot of our moment
of use. How have you been
finding? I suppose from from the
last major, you know, in terms
of the roster changes and all
that in terms of the last three,
four, five, six months. The new
players into the roster. How
does this G to feel versus the
just like because how good we are in game but like just like the team you know
like we all like to get along really good we play ranked every day you know
stream together so it's definitely definitely a lot better than no offense
but a lot better than another roster like both in and out of game so I think
it helps us play better a lot. Do you think it comes through in the games as
well you know when you're in those tense scenarios the fact that you trust each of
them on the fact that yeah you've got that friendship and that kind of synergy?
Yeah, definitely like it helps a lot
Awesome, we see how the vibes are working out. I mean you two you are at least a top two team here with the big advantage going into playoffs
There's still a lot more spot for for playoffs might like to get your opinion on it
We have rebels shifters twisted minds and that heretics. Who do you think is gonna take that final spot? I?
Think it'll be shifters
Think it'll be shifters. Why?
Oh wait, hold up. Who are the two last games? I play Falcons today and who else? Anyone know that?
And then, ooh, should I just play, uh, was it GK? No.
Uh, the Rebels. They play Rebels now. I'm fact checking myself right now.
I'm fairly sure they play Rebels. So it will be like a better set.
I'm gonna check, but I think they play Rebels.
If I had to guess, I would say Shifters. I would say Shifters would be the last playoff spot.
Okay, ooh, despite having to go up against Falcons today, that's a...
Yeah, the Rebels game will be an insider.
Yeah, it will be rough. But Stompin, thank you so much for your time.
We appreciate you altering our questions here and good luck with your final game
Thank you guys. See ya
What a great one for G2 so far of course something talked about like staying on defeat it so far
But they got a lock in for one more game to do it against the team that has not lost a single point so far
There is a clear statement. I think it was a statement in the sense that
There seem to be no ceiling for VP looking at them. Yeah throughout the stage
However, the first thing we noted in this free game was they played only against on paper weaker teams,
teams that went for roster changes, teams that went through loss of form or slumps.
When it came to V, they didn't have that. They had that consistency.
But here is my problem and the label that we found here.
I felt that that consistency found a ceiling.
And that ceiling is when they meet top tier players that won six lintationals, that are the very, very best individual players in the world.
They sometimes get outclassed.
And I don't think it's going to be something that they cannot remedy, Jack.
But I do think that in a B-1 format, when you lose a couple of rounds that you should have won strategically, it gets in your head, and at this point you start losing all of the critical gunfights.
Especially with how decisive that victory was, I think the big picture for VP and G2 March on, and I think we kind of expect that G2 March on.
But I think for VP just sticking with them for a second, it makes tomorrow's game going up against Falcons very, very decisive.
the next game. It's going to
be VP and Falcons probably
second and third. That means
they'll play each of that
forest. What do you see? Which
means that be a one tomorrow
could be decisive. Now, if you
lose that they'll have lost a
G2 and then potentially
Falcons going into playoffs to
play for an easy spot against
that cell phone, which it can
mess with all kinds of mental
no matter how successful
they've been in those first
seven best ones. You know,
sometimes we get to the final
playday and so much is decided
and we're kind of just playing
But with the way that you guys are talking about it,
it seems like we still have so much to go for tomorrow.
Yeah, that's the beautiful thing about what Jack just said, right?
When we're going to qualify these top four teams into playoffs,
they're going to be in the upper bracket, right?
The team that takes the first seed will play against the fourth one.
Yes.
And the second and third will play each other.
Why is that important?
Because we're in EML, we're three teams at the top.
That's G2, that's Falcons, and that's VP.
That means that G2, they win all the way in the first.
Yeah.
They're going to avoid playing VP of Falcons for the EWC spot.
That's how big it is to become the first seed at the end of the game.
And it turns out very likely that you can, or Fnatic, which you would pack G2 to win that.
Obviously, anyone who takes GK or Fnatic vs. taking VP or Falcons on the VO3, especially for an AWC spot.
So we can get a good vibe check though from Falcons and how they are feeling and how they are doing in regards to that fight for the top 2 or top 3 spot redder in this competition here.
As they are playing against shifters in our next match here for the... for shifters this really is a do or die, right?
We talked about them, you know, if we have to believe Stompin, they will still make it
to play us. But as of right now, it is still looking rough. They were one of those teams
that could make it all the way from like, you know, was it third in a group to 10th
or something? In regards to that position, that's crazy.
Yeah, I think so. I think shifters have, and that is representative of what shifters are
showing us. They've got the potential to be really good. They've got the potential to
be really bad. And actually, if we take a look at their stats, we can see that the stats
really aren't supporting their ambitions. It's the fact that they are 33% in their attack
win rate, 56% in their defense win rate. A lot of 7 from 9 places in the stats leaderboards
shows their current problems that they've got going on there.
Absolutely, and I think we've seen that across a couple of games, Jack, especially the last
game we saw on Counter-Strike, it was a game where I felt like there were so many issues
where they were hesitating, they struggled to attack, and so I think we should take an
example of one of these.
You've got around realistically that they should win.
Let's roll the clip.
Because what you're gonna see is
they're attacking piano and exhibition.
They get a first kill onto a wall.
They get a second kill onto a solace here perfectly
with RIM and the Deimos track.
So that's perfect.
You set them up,
you've got a five versus three scenario, Leo.
And this is brilliant because they also know that skies
and Neko are both top floor.
They wanna do a full clear.
They can clear it out.
Yeah, at this point, the main thing is
you wanna pay attention to the wind condition here.
You've just taken two kills.
And you have all of top fall control and all these two players to pull it.
So now, Naive can take his gunfighter to Neko.
You have two players that can push into from top spiral and take that gunfight.
Preventing these guys to drop off.
Frank, he can maybe hold the flank and blast.
He can go and triple up on all of these guys.
Jack, we need a decision.
There's one minute left in the round.
5v3, they need clues to clear the top floor.
And that's exactly what they don't do, ultimately.
Naive manages to throw the Incandela, but Neko has already fallen away.
He gets away and then Skies gets demo strats.
This is great, but actually nobody's pushing through.
Skies decides actually I'm gonna jump out the cons window.
Perfect, okay.
So now the win condition in my opinion changes.
You've got to then clear the gown site
and then hold the retakes.
And that's exactly what they don't do, Leo.
They don't hold the retaker spiral.
They have a drone there.
The denarii gets all the way to the top floor.
And the main thing is at this point,
you may think, what have they been doing all this time?
Zero, 30, look at this, 20 seconds left.
And they're still trying to find a way to go into the bomb site.
Look at these guys, they're still up top back.
No one has fallen down, no one has went down the stairs.
And even then, if they're pressuring the lesion,
they hold the retake of the smoke that they know is yellow.
They hold the spiral retake,
and then they hit site and clear the lesion.
What don't they do?
They don't hold yellow,
and the smoke manager just to push in,
gets a double kill for free.
They don't hold the guy, top spiral,
he manages to get a kill.
And then from there is Panic Stations on the side of shifter,
kills the guy playing the hatch,
and then kills the guy playing the spiral.
What's the Lucian doing in all this?
Well, he's just absolutely chilling.
He's just absolutely chilling.
Nothing's happening.
He's unbothered.
And realistically, that's the problem with shifters,
is they get great control, but then they didn't do much with it.
That's the type of round that you want to be closing out
if you want to be a team that aspires for playoffs.
The main thing is, when they drop down,
you see that they want a hip side, right?
One player is on display window, the other one dropped the hatch,
one was bottom spiral, one was still up top.
None of them doubled up.
They're in a 5v3.
The only thing to have to do is stay close to each other
and trade and that's the main thing with vishitters the first part it's really
well done really well coordinated but they're liking the last part now they
can't allow themselves to make these kind of mistakes today because they're
going up against Falcons and for Falcons sake you know this is a roster
that we see continuously be one of very first two teams to qualify as the top
two or even as the first two teams to qualify to play us since 2023 and this
is the first time that they're not doing it what what seems to be going on with
What's this roster?
I think they've been a little bit inconsistent.
I think they've been a little bit on mess.
And I think the big problem for Falcons is that they're still adapting to a new playstyle, I think.
Yeah, I think they have a huge depth in the sense that when they're in June, they have a lot more flexibility.
And they have a lot more flexibility in their roles.
The idea is a little bit like Liquid did in Brazil, to try and hit the reset button with one huge roster change.
On the side of Liquid, they remove Hertz.
On the side of Falcons, they remove Saiko.
Huge, big names, a core of their identity.
They take in an amazing player, Maya for Liquid, Joom for Falcons.
And both of them actually have to live through a huge slump in the last few months
because they're trying to basically find back the identity.
It's an investment that's going to cost them in the short term
that hopefully will pay off in the long term.
It's one step backwards for two step forwards
and in my opinion there's one player who's really important for Falcons right now
and that player is going to be solo top.
And the reason is, Leakey Facts said it in the last week in the interview,
the game. We're going to be
able to see that. When he's
putting in the same energy as
today. This was in the game as
heritage. We are not losing a
single match, and I think it's
also got big shoes to fill.
He's got to be the front guy.
He's got to play the difficult
positions that strike up late.
Yes, it's sort of slightly
changed with you, but he's got
to be the guy that steps up.
This graph shows whenever
source also having a good day
and bringing that energy.
Falcons win. They win every
single game whenever he drops
below 100. Yes, I'll come to
have a close game or lose the
game. All right. Well, the
pressure is on for both these
teams and we see all the
We have to discuss before we can dive into this game, and that is the map between these two teams.
As we said, you know, pressure is on, more so on the shoulders of shifters, so for shifters' perspective, going into clubhouse, how fair is that?
I am struggling.
Oh, I see your question.
I have something else to say. If I was a shifter's fan, I'd be flipping my pants right now.
He's a little eclectic shifters, to go on an abundant strong map to train good at fencing.
But I once called this Falcons roster, when there would be, yes, the best club I've seen in the world,
I still believe they are one of the best production team in the world
In fact, the only team they've lost it to in the last year is the best team in the world in 5 days
Yeah, yeah, and shifters they lost it as well
Interesting idea. Yeah, so like we're looking at the team that has a no win rate on it as a team so far and a team that has
A five-in-one record in recent history on the map
So obviously not only are there the fabrics
They're also the fabrics on this map, but that's always the story with shifters every time they take a top contender
They will go to one of the best map and think, hey, we can take you down.
And most of them are more fun than not, that doesn't work out.
They make the game very close, but they usually cannot push it throughout the end.
So two things I want to see from shifters today.
Obviously, Dua died. Seven points left.
They need to top things in the standings.
So I need things like decision-making.
I need things like, Nafe is the IGL, he can make a call,
but I need all their voices to join him in that roster and make the calls for him.
He cannot see everything in that team.
And that hesitation that we just witnessed on that round on Consulate
is something that was missing hard because there was no decision.
We need players like this on your screen.
Blaz, Robbie, Blaz, player with experience making decisions.
I feel a little bit nervous for shifters, but the objective is clear for them.
Leo just said what they need to do is well to stay alive for the players.
Let's go to Clubhouse and find out how well they can do.
Thank you very much. Yes, the stakes could not be higher here for shifters.
on the outside looking it in
seven place at the moment on
the standings, but still a
chance that they can make it
to the playoffs. They will have
to give it everything they've
got though. Pingu and Falcons
ain't going to make it easy.
Falcons have struggled so far.
They're outside on the looking
looking in on the top four.
They're in fifth place behind
even fanatic and GK, but a win
here will rocket them up into
third place and give them a
Skipping that lower bracket, going into the top four seeding players, which means that they will be just one best of three away from EWC.
Now, I can't imagine there are many teams that feel more pressure to compete at and perform well at EWC than an organization like Falcons.
Yeah, with the players' interest as well, back when they also won his BDS fight, the whole minus cycle plus doom.
It felt like a pretty fair deal, you know, it shouldn't make Falcons much weaker, it'll give them more consistency and play style, what not.
Shaco's had plenty, too. Everybody wins.
There's a big question mark about Falcons' current skill level.
I actually think it's an excellent position for them to be in to struggle a little bit and not just have like an easy time storming through the EML
and then going to international ground and then maybe getting destroyed internationally.
I think having some struggle early, working through their struggles is gonna improve you much more as a team and expose those weaknesses of yours much earlier than, as I said, waiting for international ground.
So I think a lot of long-term wise, this is like perfect battle around the titles. And I feel like they're scaling and like peeking at the right moment so far in domestic play.
And I think this is one of their final challenges. Like I said, rocking into a play-offs position conversation, taking on cheaters who basically are here in a strong level of house of players.
players that would be like okay they've been getting better and better and
then now they're the real deal so can they get it done starting a basement
they seem the bands come out and to nobody's surprise I've seen a ton of
bandicoid band today and we have all stage long it's gonna continue to be that
way because preaching is that important and getting stopped by those two
operators sucks. Meanwhile Falcons, they stopped the objector-taker of the
Monty, and of course I have destruction of the Fermite, so nothing too out of the way here.
Keen to see what shifters will cook in the lay-round though with these execute ops. Might not
get a chance to play lay-round if Falcons have their way with it. Wow, Jim's the presser on the
scope us can I see stealthy man also like the idea we officially like over the
doggy fever first your plate is constantly play it right now you just
have to keep things fighting I think dr. D is great in certain situations but
that's not over-access with them you know she's not a one-size-fits-all operator
you have so many good attackers don't tunnelism on one for example Robbie
using the class here to go in deep from dirt tunnel leverages position
What?
Breed 8
Did he get me?
His own molting caster?
I'm not exactly sure
The double shield though might work out here
for shifters
and LASMO if you close the gap
However there is a backup
for Solotov
It's leak effect
coming back
from the hallway
helping him out in blue
He could still be big here
that could surely kill LASMO indeed
Solotov finishes him off. Wow! The air jet pushes him back.
Solotov finished off.
Rek needs to witness the second fight as well as LigaFak gets back to safety.
Robbie's found two kills now on the glass.
Shifters have the numbers.
No more smoking in the store. So, Glash is at the MR gun and he's just got a sharp shot.
Nifag is floating just near him with a good smell.
Florestle, it isn't taking the fights.
Into a crossfire as well.
So it's the guy.
So it's the guy.
He's got the flash, recharge, ready to take the fight against users.
And if you mind if you miss, he's got it.
Knock him down!
Wins the 1-Z-2 for NAV!
And shift us to steal the first round.
That's cold.
So in that particular instance, I actually think you played it perfectly because it's
obvious that it isn't G11 shotgun player and he knew that Leafax spent most of his
bullets getting killed just seconds prior.
So he's expecting a shotgun swing. So he just takes the fight pre-ADS thinking there's a high chance
I can win this gunfight and he also knows that he's actually very low HP. So you'll see in a second.
If the Spood forces it says crossfire, it's not gonna exist for a second or two if I can get the timing.
So right here, against the Shorty. Then as we close the gap, he's used his brain to his advantage.
Look at his health bar. He's literally one point of health because of one bullet hit his toes.
And here's the way that NAF has well played really carefully in that final 1v1.
After he got the flash he didn't immediately sprint and go for an ADS because, like you said, he was low.
A blind fire could have meant that his feet copper bullet, even while his opponent can't see, he can still die.
So he made sure to tank the first couple bullets, crouch, and then get the knockdown before confirming the kill.
the kill really well played there for Nate and also I want to give some credit to Robby
on the glass it's very hard I know that it's a classic position back in 2018 people were
doing it 2017 even the glass tunnel it's about as old as this game almost as old as
glass and scope but it's hard to do because you're walking to a thrilling crossfire between
AK's debasernal and blue with tons of cover even with the cover of smoke it's hard to
to win those fights. To train them to find two kills and to shift this to find the first
attack round we saw earlier today from VP, not easy to attack on Clubhouse.
It's not easy unless you get an opening, but your enemy is having a small mistake happening
or getting caught off guard or he forced the issue. And I like to use a force here, double
shield, glass the first round, double shield, they must hear the second. Frank will have
an early leaf from this round though being the ace of the heart destruction so it's
going to make it a little bit harder again for shifters losing a member early but I would
say all things considered you're losing one of the least valuable members so that you know as
I said double shield with demos that can make anything happen once you get in there
this d4 is not good enough sadly it's maybe it's pretty straight passing the breeze is excellent though
Oh, perfectly paired up as well with the impact, LASMO does catch, uses on the retreat.
Good work, from Chickas to take control of top red before.
Pushing that final incision onto Cache and then they caught the players rotating back towards the box site.
Surprised the Falcons weren't aware of that.
The Double Shield is so gnarly here, just peeking the windows for intel and they can't really die themselves.
they died themselves. It's not a matter of like, NAV is never gonna get a kill here realistically.
But he's saying, hey, there's one guy in bathroom, one guy in gym. Now they start to understand that, hey,
connector is clear, kill him working to office maybe. There's a pre-placed blue canister for default.
There's a player downstairs at pool table, so gym is gonna be a trap. I feel like in the perfect
world, you're trying to force office maybe? I'm not even gonna window play, but they're gonna go for it.
They're all stacked up.
Wow, they're gonna go deep.
Nafe, though, falls to the Goyo fire.
Robbie finds his pick.
Breeday also responds.
Falcons are doing well to not overcomplicate things.
I like that Goyo fire. It prevents.
Chips is from going for that.
Deepop lands his great shot from Breeday.
Sharp shooter today with the MP5.
Latsmo 1v3.
And yeah, he isn't gonna find that.
Good push from Falcons to retake.
take, recompose a little bit, find their footing, and some smiles on their faces, which is lovely
to see. A team that has a reputation for being a little bit too serious. They are the other
side of the coin where G2 sits as the friends team, the Larrickans, Falcons, equally potent,
but a little bit more serious. It's nice to see them crack a smile every now and then.
A little bit surprised about the attack though. They saw the gluer canisters inside of Dume,
a master bedroom mattress and they still said let's full send it. It feels like
one of those moments where, you know, going back to the pre-desk, when we saw the people
constantly play out, they were lacking a decision, so they lost essentially all the time. Now we saw
a decision happen, I would say maybe too quickly, where had they thought a little bit further or
that grenade that they spent on the office rotation, that grenade could have been tossed in,
When cleared to clear the canister, you wait that 20 seconds and then you go again.
So I thought they were rushing into the decision to have a poor execute if you will and it
just fell apart immediately.
They've got to clear fire I believe, last most of them between two separate fires and
advance you're slowing it down.
This is like a great tall spot to be in.
Thalc is happy with it though.
They're gonna go through their Bumset Rotation to go to CCTV where they got that good old
Yeager Castle setup.
And often it means either they're going to have to know that there's a bit of an extension
because of the barricades.
You can see a ping right now happening.
Or you actually often play lounge, you close off like stalk, main door, etc., and try to
help the guy playing catwalk.
But instead they're going to cancel for the extension of Master Q, and they have the
ADS, that's probably for catwalk, to help Juma from the Sarmay point there.
So they're kind of double digging, doing 12 things at the same time, with this other
line.
Shift is low, likely to just push with the shield to try and take as much ground as possible.
I like the word for Robbie as well down below.
Yeah, which is very rare.
I mean these days teams mostly go for catwalk takes, but no, instead it's a map clear.
From Jim across, and they're going to have to deal with players like Stolatov and Lika
Fakul on this extension.
This one's smart, right?
When you play the Yeager Assami, a lot of teams are not going to go catwalk because
that's a lot of utility so you go for master and that's where they have users in castle that are
falsifying that position plus they got the extension with the reinforcements both inside and on the
exterior wall so this is falcon saying there's not gonna be a gap you gotta fight us one way or another
so it's not gonna be a fair bit of damage and the solar snake is scanning all five defenders right
now from outside the building this is gonna be a tough round of falcons they're gonna stick around
because they're not gonna fall back yeah robbie could be helping here on the ver it looks like
like he will finally, well he's definitely a leek effect.
Alright, I guess he is one of the players in bedroom.
But I'm gonna find some vert shots off.
We need someone playing the cut though,
and that's Fred's job.
He actually gets a good read on to users
before he plays the cut.
He's about to get swung by a leek effect.
Perfect position for a stole snake to be playing by the way.
On the windows where he can get so much info.
Now, Preday is the one that gets targeted.
He's not really a free valuable target from Robbie
as he's on hard floor.
The real target here is Jume and LigaFak holding inside of Conn.
Shifters though continue their reign of terror on this attacking side.
Jume deleted 4v2 now as LigaFak and Preeto get desperate.
Jume must have thought that was a Blackbeard who was going from a head level down to the feet angles.
Probably assuming that that was going to be a shield player, but it was.
It was Deimos, so he used the gunfight.
We did a clock scuttle, that final clock speed in the pocket, he can choose when to cut off one of the attacking push angles.
It could be red staircase, it could be the window, it could be con door, either way, a lot of pressure being applied here.
Now I'm going to jump into the window to take control.
Oh, it's perfect. Great way to play it for shit, there's the call, it's getting a drag, be careful, that's your teammate.
Hold the phone, the clutch god is in the building, 1v2 now.
The gas is made to pop into the FEE info, the Ketastle is going to stop him from getting the third angle.
However, he's got info on the other player.
Red ping's thrown out onto Freck.
He can't go for the third fight.
He double thinks about it.
That's underneath again.
Open against an info.
That might get the kill, Freck takes a bit of damage, but no.
Nothing as of yet.
The gas keeps him at bay, but no, Freck.
Watching the vertical line of sight will take him down.
And another round on the board for shifters up to one over Falcons
Well, we were a nice shot there Frank taking both enemies down and it's he made with him
We're nice little one tap on top red stairs. It is a decisive push this time
I think we just saw the most ridiculous value from solid snake every single use of the gadget found at least
Three defenders he found all five he found four and he found three back to back to back
That means you have perfect information for the majority of the round of where the defenders are playing from
You also had a shield that can push in and take control and take the fight.
You had Demos Tracker who was chasing people vertically while you had Frank cutting off rotations while getting all that free intel.
Absurd amount of value in that particular round.
And it's just giving you different issues if you're falconess.
Do you gotta start worrying about playing the mute?
Do you gotta stop worrying about peeking the windows?
Like, here it looks like Doom was fighting a shoe player, so you flick down when he's actually fighting a Demos.
There's always small things he's struggling with.
with. Breeding almost touched it. It was a nice try, but if the cancel barricade made
it impossible to get the plant out of it. Let's be honest, he nearly crushed it. He
found one kill at a 1v4 and his opponent killed him. Okay, had the cancel barricade not been
there? He had the information, right? No, he didn't. He had half in because of the BP
that was red ping is a new use of planting green blocks. And he goes to the door and
done his matching and hit that shotgun on the guy planting. Then it's a 1v1, but it's
still the BPL life. That's almost coming in. If my grandma had what she did, or a motorcycle,
or a car, or a tractor, because what kind of bike it is, you know, what kind of wheels
are you on? You know, I just want to know what's going on with Falcons. The credit to
shift is they're playing some pretty damn big games right now, and I don't want to take
anything away from them, but let's be honest, you know, they've only won two games so far
this stage their next match is against Rebels such an important game because Rebels are currently
in sixth place that's the final playoff position and that's exactly the the place that shifters
want to be they need to steal that back so shifters getting a big win here makes it so much easier
to then get that win over Rebels next week it makes it so much more likely they will be able to
guarantee top six but you know they only two games that shifters have won this stage out of the seven
they've played against heretics in secret. They've lost to everybody else.
T Falcons on the other hand, but they've had some disappointing results. Wow, that's a disappointing
start to the round for Leuka fact. But do you remember we casted on playday number one? Team
Falcons lost to Rebels. Rebels another mid-pack team that Falcons should be taking down pretty
easily. Obviously Falcons lose to your G2s. Strangely, they lost to GK, but they beat everybody else.
I
Last year would be very surprising
Make it all back to my opening point in the similar story
I think this should be Falcons peaking and taking out she after is convincingly having some good moments in the round
Instead it's being a bit of a struggle
Yeah, this is one of your games that you're like, yeah, okay, let's get some reps in let's yeah
It is a good team and on a bottom feeder team
Their challenging falcons are the maps they're great at and they're beating them so far, on it.
Four things can change, but also big prices shift theirs.
They are making more decisions, they're getting more into the fighting,
and I think the last one, the shields have been excellent.
They're just simply staying alive and progressing throughout the round.
They've been abusing, if you will, in a positive way, all the power-ups.
The ying, the double shield, the themos, the dokopy, the grim.
Like, they've really been going through it in a showing depth and a line of flexibility.
Falcons got a bit of a suit to set up. They got a mirror in the bottom main.
They got a cast barrier protecting it. It's on a moto, making that a kill box.
And time is on Falcons' side.
They got three Toxibabes. They got a C4.
They've come up 35% to play Fokk roughly.
The shifter is when they want to be explosive.
They're just going to have some crazy with it.
Recall all the users through the document as well.
They've taken hell of a lot of damage though.
Good shot, though, from Fokk.
It looks like Ganbrede another team kill.
This time it's for Falcons, and it might cost them the round.
2v3 now.
LASMO on the shield can't get it to the bomb site.
He's a nitro for Breda, but he's not in position to use it.
Jume is the one who's in position to try and use the nitro.
So Breda will try and toss it over, but Blas is watching.
Some French on French action.
Jume 1v3 now.
As the German lands a gnarly shot, finishes off Blas.
LASMO's low.
Freck needs to Rose and you're right.
Trying to clutch up against the dark of the Amplits.
There's nothing worse than that feeling.
Shifters triple down another round on the attacking side, and Falcons are left flightless.
Sarts, you know the struggle of a round, they did the team kill, they get back dying early, the C4 disappears.
We're there that there are so many again small mistakes or small gaps here on the side of Falcons where they're just not doing enough in the server.
Meanwhile, Shifters, that was a really messy execute, right?
The NAVE almost died, sold to the Toxic Babe while he's trying to throw out his Kandanas.
He gets shot immediately when he sees the first enemy, but then everybody else is full
committed.
A decision was made saying, guys, we're going right now to fight the Toxic Babe to Roto,
and despite the Toxic Babe bottom lane.
It's now a level.
And because they're full committed, it actually worked.
There's a tech timeout for Falcons, and I don't think this is going to be a very nice
one.
out do better. We know we can do better. We've been doing better. Now we have to actually do it.
Yeah, chance for Julia to talk to the boys. They need to be whipped into shape. This is not
the Falcons that we know and love. We talked a lot about clubhouse. This is firstly, obviously,
the most default staple map, like we've talked about many times. This is where you
get your reps in. This is just classic siege. In 2026, you need to be good at clubhouse. But
But what's more than that, Falcons historically have really loved this map.
That said, in recent history we've seen far less of it from Lampingu.
This is the first time we're seeing Falcons play clubhouse in stage one.
They've played a hell of a lot of Border, a little bit of Consulate, and One Time Cafe.
That's all they've played so far in stage one.
If you look back at the Salt Lake City Major, they played a bunch of different maps.
played a little bit of club they beat CAG Shopify rebellion and NIP on that map they did lose it
to FaZe eventually but they haven't had any reps on this map since that event this is their first
time back into it they're against the mid-pack teams follow the team in the ML but not one
vying for the championship shift is a very honestly unlikely to make it to EWC I think at
At this time, people are looking at Fnatic to probably be that four team to join G2 Falcons and VP.
But yeah, if Falcons drop another game to a team that they shouldn't be losing to, that's three times in one stage after the loss to Rebels and GK.
That starts to sound like a bit of a warning sign, and of course it doesn't get any easier
next week, Falcons go up against Virtus Pro.
They can't beat shifters, I don't think they can beat VP.
We can thank almost dying early against construction, probably by the window or something like that.
The last one the roof had an angle.
Also just talk about the operative insulation here for a second.
Monty into A, is this a double harpage band against shifters, playstyles or something?
I like the idea of double hop bridge but you're looking like they're playing dumb shields.
They're playing shields, they're playing dumb shields, they're playing demos.
Don't worry, the hop bridge is not the one condition yet.
There's a bit of a missed input. Let's see if they can make a count though, because this is going to be about those reinforced walls.
Now as they combine on the board, spin most of their stylus, then you got the Ken Openers
on Blast and Striker, and they're getting off on single wall, they're taking the experienced
easy wall, and with that cutoff happening on the single, they're gonna fall back.
Like we saw from VP, just, you know, mass game against you too, on the very same bum
side.
But the difference is, Falcons, they have actually stalled for a lot more time.
They're halfway through the round, we're seeing that shifters don't have a ton of time to
And they're almost out of hard utility
Thankfully, I think they broke broken every wall that they need to and I'll get a kill again
Just early in the round the blast out it's off
But again, it's also make that mistake. Yeah, it's standing too close to a gas
But I don't know which one it was perhaps the one in con
Usual that Jim means there's even kitchen all this is a very late rotates
Blast is outside the building Jim will trade him back
but that just calls on shifter directly to the side and lets him down a bit too.
Trim will trade him on back, but quickly freck his data response.
Shifters saw the gap as soon as there were too many players of Falcons flying around downstairs
and they pounced on the bomb site. Great attack. That makes four rounds on the attacking side for
shifters and one final opportunity for Falcons to redeem themselves in this half.
Which stands a little bit concerned here. I'm not going to lie to you teams,
This is not the outcome that I was expecting
You spoke earlier about how if you're like a really high level clubhouse gets more and more attack or favored
I don't really feel like this is the case
I think shifters are doing great at the things he's got to be doing and I use the Falcons of falling short
That was after a tetra the time out where juniors chiming in they had a bit of a breather
They could recompose and they still lose the player early
They're dying on main staircase trying to retake the bonus slide mind you 30 seconds before that
They had three people in CCTV cashed the extension and they escorted the crash back when the hot-breaching happened on Cornwall
So did they all go back to the site?
They didn't go down the hatch or down the staircase just to go back up two seconds late like I don't understand exactly what's happening right now
This could be Falcon is trying to do something different. It could be shifters. It's just slain in a very unexpected way
That's what's done compared to it
I know where the shield was going to keep doing the bomb.
Again, the shield, the demos, the grim,
and now they're doing that with a finger to further boost asthma.
Like, 13 and a great job of just cycling through the power-ups
and attacking slightly differently every single time, saying,
I gotta worry about the game crash,
I gotta worry about the demo strike,
I gotta worry about the shield.
It's really taken thousands of people to speak.
Yeah, they're also been lurking a hell of a lot.
I don't know how she just managed to have so many players
who are on the front foot of the push
with the shield, and at the same time they always have Robbie going for a bit of a lurk.
I mean even just now we saw him using his shotgun on Baymos to open up an avenue into
dirt tunnel at the start of the round, while he's throwing himself in.
He's just gonna lurk straight into the map early, frack is there too.
This is a very lurk-heavy round for shifters, what is the hang on?
Got a field up in the sewer I suppose.
And they might know that there's a Valkyrie in the board, so they're thinking,
vertically, there's gotta be a guy creeping a bar or something like that.
Maybe we get a freebie, up the blue staircase, and here's my lounge,
how to shotgun.
The door's barricaded, but mind you, if anybody steps close to that door,
Robert will make quick work of it with a shot of a bullet in secondary pistol.
But League of Legends has a high bottom garage, hop on his cams,
have a chemo master bedroom, and garage and lounge.
So they don't know about Weber's position, but his door being barricaded
make the push kind of difficult. Can't sit around and look forever.
That's exactly where Freck is. That was a little bit of a mistake. That's weird.
Yeah, I don't know what happened there from Freck. Robbie left because he wants to play
in there and I think he's a nice player, but trust me, watch this, you guys.
See you for the first time. Doesn't land though. Thankfully for LASMO,
Well, the Solotov's down a nice angle with the DMR.
This is a good chance for Falcons to redeem themselves.
The 2-4 here is not the end of the world.
It's certainly not great.
The shifters are looking a little desperate now.
Look at the fact that we're seeing
LASMO can test that angle.
It's not ideal.
Robbie might be on for a kill here with the shotgun.
The LigaFac is hunting him down
and LigaFac is absolutely favored, I would say,
in this situation.
Now, Blizz has been finished off.
LASMO is desperately trying to take fights on the site
with the Blackbeard,
he's now one before there's just no universe where he wins this swing of
the swung it's a standoff who's gonna get impatient first who's a lot of
trouble and try and go for the one-for-one that's what's proning is
it's June it was always gonna be June James of course good runout as well yeah
take a big swing so it off that was a tough half but Falcons at the end of it
do at least find a path back into it. Two rounds, it might not be enough, but it's a start.
It seems like Falcons are taking a bit of a hydration break there. June drinking
from two different bottles, by the way, at the same time.
And don't forget to back the new eSports kids from Falcons.
Yeah, no, no, no. But this first half so far, good resilience from Falcons there in the last
round, so we couldn't even think they're anymore. But for shifters, we have to compliment their late
late rounds. Culture is what we're seeing on the Telstraight earlier. They're making it work.
Do you know what? I hate shifters. They're really annoying. They're really annoying.
I do that job. You think they're going good, and then they produce the rounds that we ship
on the Telstraight in the free game, and then you think, okay, they're really struggling with
these late rounds. That's the protein that fixes their issues. And they come out against Falcons,
so we can roll the clip, because they come out against Falcons, and it starts on the very first
round when they nearly do it again, by the way. They nearly do it again, because that was a free
first of two, but they come out against Falcons, and they manage to find success in the late round.
When we challenged them and we said, we need to be the issue.
Winning the round, I should win in the lay-round and not finding the opportunity.
They did win that one.
This one, again, they did win.
Team kill dies, but they get the 2v1, they get the plant.
And that's been the most impressive thing we have.
And I think that's the reason, actually, that their 4-2 upcomings is tough.
They've been successful, they've had their stuff together,
they've managed to find a win condition and they've executed it well.
And evidently here, like, that basement execute was a perfect 3v2.
They gained the right advantage, they killed the blue player,
They go for the plant, they have a double cover, like that's good, the lay-round cover is there.
Most importantly, how do they get to that point? And that's a second good thing.
They've retained what made them strong early on. We've seen it on that illustration, right?
The ability to win the opening kill, the ability to gain the control that they need.
What they lacked before was the late round, not getting exploited and actually making the right
call. And I think that Nate has been really good with this, taking the right decision,
everyone following him, and then making the right moves. That's why they go in attack and
and they take four rounds.
Now they should be in a driving seat to take this map away.
And I don't think anyone would have bet on shifters
creating an upset today.
Now, big picture, contact picture, playoffs picture.
Shifters, the result of this game arguably doesn't matter
because it looks like they're gonna have a straight shootout
with Rebels tomorrow regardless for the sixth playoff spot.
Falcons are confirmed for playoffs,
but should they lose this speculation?
It really throws doubt into whether they will actually
make the top four at all,
which really could shake things up with, you know,
GK Fnatic, they will be very happy at the troll.
There's all so far.
Shifters though, to make it a direct shot out between them and Rebels tomorrow, they do
still need to win here, because the really stick thing is, they're playing Falcons, but
Rebels after this are playing Heretics.
So there's a very decent chance that Heretics lose, so that Rebels, they're on 8 points,
they take 3 points, they're on 11.
If Shifters don't take points here, they're on 7.
It's already done.
So they do need, they have the pressure here, they do need to win.
They need the full 3 points?
I think it would really help them to stay close to Rebels because there is a realistic reason to think that Rebels are going to take 3 points against you.
You don't believe in heretics?
I don't believe in heretics.
Alright, well, Schifters are in the driver's seat. Like you said, all of the defense now is a second half of this game.
Well, you might not believe in heretics, but I'm going to have some faith here in Valorantkins at least and hope that they can get there and make it a competitive stage one for themselves and for communication purposes and go into playoffs.
I am
I'm gonna write this out. You should all the way here
I think that the way she does we're attacking is great
They fix the late round like we saw here in the disc book about both before the matchup and here in the
Half-time logic now you talk size. It's much more about every defender of shifters calling the shots
And what they see rather than one person going the shield operator and kind of just working forward and saying this was gonna happen
Now you have this into to work with you don't have your book a bit demo solid snake your shield operators
Like I said before to give you that kind of knowledge
So for Falcons if they can really solve their problems now and just dreamers attacks was step one
Go for this. Okay. That's a condis now. We go for step two. I honestly played nice and tight
I think this was very pretty to her into a
Look we said something very similar in the VPG to game earlier today and we were quite wrong about that
So I do want to reserve judgment at least a little bit here and give some credit to shifters for what they did in that first half
But you're right Falcons are a fantastic team and they are very capable of bringing this back on the attack side
Big thing for me for shifters
I want to see active defenses here now take the leaf out of the G2 playbook
Don't just sit back and wait for Falcons to do their job
Even if it is a five on site as it appears to be right now, I want to see off pace aggression
I want to see them really punish Valkyries here, force them to solve problems, and that's why I like what I'm seeing at a Blast, Great Night Show.
It gets caught up in funnily enough, it actually saves his own life, because it gives him the time to get back to start, without leaving time to watch him out there.
It's actually quite nice, he just buys you again so much space, and I'm not sure if that's really affecting the position, or a fearing position.
He wasn't going to take the risk of the gamble of, you know, the 50-50 gunfight or the C4.
So he pin is safe, and he's sure my assistant wants to choose the three.
But if there's a playing some old school siege, the impact tricking and kicking hatch,
that is really not a flurry of banners, so two pellets impact, two pellets impact the C4 pops.
Eventually the hatch will get over them.
But this is going to be one of those annoying things.
In recent time, you are limiting the heart-reaching, destructing, or destructing ability rather.
you have a ton of the narrators in the modal hat, so that's a no-go, can go in that direction.
That means it's gonna be dirt, blue, and hat strokes.
I thought it was swinging for a second there.
Oh, no.
Here it would have still closed.
It's maxed but closed. That's a good mate though, onto Frank.
He's already taken a bit of damage when his phone exploded. Good opening from June, however.
The fire from Mayfield keeps it bay. The second player looking to push in.
We'll still find a killer, and I must leak a fact, dropping down the head.
We'll lose his life, and Falcons suddenly feel their advantage slip away.
They need a hero, and Jume wants to be that man.
On the blackbeard now, deep into AK, Stolatov is isolated, separated.
Jume fighting another one, 11 kills.
He's doing everything he can to keep Falcons in the game.
No nitro cells left. The shift is to use to try and take the fight against Jume.
They can keep on the car.
Crap, I was trying to find the kill.
Jume needs to dash down.
There's no case to find it.
1 HP!
But Jume aims down, cites, and claims his kill.
First round of attack for Falcons.
Jume might not be a shield player, but he is that guy.
He was solo in the bomb site, 1v3,
while his solo top was waiting for the Goyo fire
to disappear, which takes 20 seconds.
While that's happening, Jume was fighting a player.
8k's chassis again church somehow finds two kills is mainly battling the mirror for way too long
and somehow still managed to stay alive throughout the entirety of that there was two seconds left
on the clock by the way and the diffuser was in no two or bottom main you see see that here rather
chassis it's so far away so june gets one soldier gets one they make the call we have to go for our
I think that's the most I've ever heard Jim speak he's a quiet guy he really is
he's a very quiet guy I love to hear him animated like that he can't breathe
don't guys not got me time to breathe he's spending his time getting kills
look at him go 12 kills he's got as many as leakerfax holotov and uses
It's combined.
The attacker's objective is to locate a bomb and use it.
Just zoom during zoom things.
But it doesn't why you picked this guy up.
It is, but the rest of the squad, you know, building around him, it's been hard on the
entries.
It's been hard in the opening kill department.
It's been a hard kind of finding success around zoom.
Even that around him, they get into blue, they get the challenging kill at the opening
of the attack and then it falls apart, right?
They just shot at 3rd, they just shot at Blue.
Jume probably only lived because he was playing a Sugar Breaker.
He was going to be a very tough spot when he's too much behind him.
Or a Mascarone.
But the round win is a round win.
And from the momentum side and the mentality speaking,
that is a very well-needed victory for Valkyrie.
That's when Luzer on a timer goes to 0
with Jume keep getting the lift, for example.
And Tosa can't get those kills.
He's going to fuck losing that like that.
Oh, huge. That's a cheeky wall by there.
Stop on the calendar
It's actually very hard to reach now first. Oh, yeah, I actually think your best bet is using two sets
That's one at the bottom and one is that you got really gonna do I just fall on the door
You just need two at the top
and it will break that but now it's going to work it's a volt hole in a second here that
Is that all the- I don't think so. I think the top part is getting there.
Alright, they can't even- It's fine. Okay, they got them here with the vertically.
Job done.
There's another fire I'm dying to say.
Solotov is distracting Blast for a very long time here.
He cannot walk through that. There's no-
I don't think so either.
I think this guy better just go-
Nice bit of fire though. Solotov does find a kill as well.
Sorry, he's cucked a little breach.
Turn him back.
But unfortunately because he fell off, it meant that Blaz was allowed to escape out of the fire from the Capitao.
Oh, the way Soltan still has more, he could breach.
Yeah, now he's finally getting rid of that bit of the top.
He's making a shoot off.
I think they have to show it off.
No, no, no, no, he got it. Trust me. Trust me.
You can now walk in the breach, okay?
New door unlocked.
Oh yeah, that's the bolt hole.
Now Blazor and Law of Fire, victory speaking.
Now he's confirmed by U.S.S.Creeze, utility there.
35 seconds, Falcons.
This is the shifter's position late game.
Can I make a decision?
It's gonna be the right one.
Gotta work together.
Shun grenade!
You said that Falcons could very well bring it back to 44 and Solotov going big is certainly
making his case for it.
Frek now.
1v5 in what universe is this winnable?
Absolutely none.
Breidey polishes him off.
Flawless round for Falcons.
Still, Breidey is looking pretty stressed.
I can't deny it, but the scoreline is tied.
I'd like to believe that what happened there, it's sort of got so pissed off about the Hibana exkairo
She said screw it, walks in just takes two clean hatchets and says guys just win the round
Please get it over the line because you he was fighting against Blast in bathroom
The nine like six exkairo pellets for like half the round
It's ridiculous
But hey, the guys are fire is a great work. They found a kill eventually and but this
Final two rounds go in the way of falcons. It's been a technical time. I called here from shifter
to settle how to play these upcoming defensive rounds because it's hard on
Klopphaus right now if you're a defender.
Yeah I'm starting to think like is this just attack a side of Klopphaus. We've seen two games today
where the attack is looking really good. You do think so, right?
Yeah, so I've always been a believer like you said like the higher level of
see you play at the more the game becomes like attack or favorite or it
becomes less defender favorite maybe I should say. I think Klopphaus is a man
where because it's so fundamentally orientated and strategically picking things apart you've always been able to like
four two five one six oh
weaker teams in the attack because you can just pick up any problem right the vendors have a lot of toys to work with
And ways to shape the bomb side and do whatever but attackers always have a clearing condition
Which is execute and plant because this is more of a lake map. So with the purpose
This is why the best teams, when they get to that high level, know that you can't just sit back and have a good set up on CobbHouse.
You have to do exactly what G2 did. You have a good set up, but you also just fight them every step of the way.
You go face-hard to fight CobbHouse, you know?
It is. It is. Maybe your fighting on CobbHouse is you pick up someone like Ben so who can just find kills out of nowhere.
And you just really have to get me a high-fell binge at Alamau, Doki, and that young guy with me.
Literally, though. Like, that's the guess to that point, where you just have to have people that will win 40-60 gunfights, but they shouldn't.
Or you might as shoot dragons and fall back, or you invest heavily on the run, you know, do a hybrid SSG run.
Yeah, see, you fall vertically, like, there's stuff you can do before.
You have to combo it.
It looks like if you know the burn for a heavy roll, right?
You play like Deimos do the bizarre snake, okay?
Then you have the bonker rate. You play ying, glass, shield, like
Clubhouse has all these
painless attack or favorite operators that can just like alter what the Wington is gonna be and with the current ban system
You can ban maybe a power elevator, but all the shields are open, then shields, now the power ups are open
Maybe you ban a mixture of both and I get all the harbors open which
It's just
Is it a troll here banning the guys
I might get but my dear friends are a little bit
Yeah
One of the harbors first night we saw a third my family today. I was Christian. We see a
Span that was Christian before I of course no longer
But I feel like we have all these super strong meta operators and it feels so hard in my mind to ever go to a Harvest Band because you're fighting the world.
I get Ace Hibana Bands in combo because then to know you get...
Well even on this map, like you know if Mira isn't for example, you can ban both of those.
And you kill them.
Wow, that's a hell of a lot of damage on the Dune, but Leak, in fact, able to quickly
punish Blyze.
Dune, though, who was a savior last time Thalker attacked his bomb site on the Blackbeard,
is going to be far more vulnerable from now on.
There's still two impacts on Nathan and one nitro from Robbie.
He's got a lick of damage and he goes down.
Hey, hey, give me out.
Do you switch, throw, and stab Dune and you're reviving the bomb?
Hold on.
That's a thought.
Is 20 HP worth it?
You know, back in the day it was 50 health, it was a super vital shot, it's one of the...
I don't remember.
It's a whole other time.
But it would be so funny if you did it for the memes.
You could have thrown back me, you know?
Sure.
I've lost so many team kills back in the day because people think you're going to...
The team that keeps them is the Maverick.
That's a really nice one.
Exactly.
Now, there's a couple of kills.
Funnily enough, NAF does end up killing June with the Pokeball, and LASMO gets aggressive
as well on the clash.
Shield already placed down.
Now on a 1v3, spot out the first one, LigaFak with the F2, you just can't count them out.
That's Falcons taking the lead, four rounds in a row.
LigaFak really stepping into his entry-fragging role.
I mean, Dume was struggling the main staircase,
and he was like peeling back as he was going to impact it.
LigaFak sprints in front of Dume, takes down the player bottom,
main, saves his teammate, gets the kill, and opens up the round like that.
Arbiter bends here, it could be a BB bend,
could be a Demos bend if I had to take any guesses.
on the flip side i have no idea it's gonna be mirror 3 but i'm completely wrong no mind
so double harpage bend and a mirror mirror is like this has been the case a lot today right
bend the kite into mirror super common because now you cannot do any tricking around the walls
which is excellent but uh it does again give me some fear that we're seeing a double harpage
bend the thermite and the ace and you can argue the case where like you know cctv
To cruise your walls with the thermite, they get popped instantly.
When your basement room clear, or basement,
the bombs on your room on top floor, same exact story.
Thermite has three extra thermite charges,
it's taking their shock from you, it's smoking, it's a flashback.
It does bring a lot of value, yes.
But I can't save a lot of time, right?
I was gonna talk about capitals, how the shields,
or the demos, or like whatever else, like the glass, the ying.
It just feels like you can.
You're leaving so much open for the taking.
And there you gotta be using TV in there, Capitao.
I don't wanna break some bombs out against Capitao.
It just goes hard, and I look at the second lineup.
Do you think they would even pick Thermite if it was open?
I mean, honestly? Possibly.
But Striker gets Nate, and hard destruction.
Capitao gets hard destruction.
Deimos gets hard destruction.
While the Thermite Beachers is nice.
Yes, and look at their gadgets.
I see a ton of hard breach.
Like the only hard breach bands I really see you getting...
Look, if you really want to open the wall fully, get Maverick.
You can do it.
You want a big hole, right?
The only value I see in hard breach bands in this particular game would be
if you lead into the mirror and their base and the Hibana together
and you try to impact trick any melee range hard breach.
I just feel like a little bit of a waste from shifters here, and we really had to come through on their defense because of their attack being so good.
And Falcons being rejuvenated in the second half, I really feel like Falcons should have just had to go deep.
I would absolutely be banging that black bead or something like that.
There comes a flash nana against you, you get a fixed player, the B, B and other blasts.
Thankfully with a few more, you can destroy those QB barriers.
First, get a second smoke into action, then go again.
It's also using broken smokes first looks like oh fire hold up. They're cooking. They're setting it up
The cans of the demos tracker they're waiting for something here a smoke here's a fire team can watch at the same time
Last most final covered one more to that pocket and you can't juggle in here
And he's actually gonna stay live for now. That's both fires gone and then last smoke from these bucket these been
Oh wow, barely managed to see him, but June still finds a kill on the LASMO, and the air
jab as well keeps it bay that aggro player at the top of red stairs, that's NAFE.
I like that Chips is still getting into his clash, but there's so many ingredients to
deal with it here.
Tarkins have taken a lot of map control, the rafters now held by Solotov, but it's got
I got one more smoke here being spent to enable Juno as the diffuser on the glass actually
could become the planter I guess because there's some smoke stream to utilize.
They're worried about the lounge which is you know a fair point they have blasts walking
back down and C4 buff from Robbie and time is taken away the guys are acting soon they
could just float aside maybe and stay screwed downstairs and blow up the whole site.
Oh wow, that's going to be...
Oh, bitch, before he is, what am I...
Oh my god!
Robby!
He might have given shifters a lifeline, but users and pre-day joined the fray.
Now, the two of them must pick up that diffuser and get it planted on the side.
Robby drops down below, Thresh still on the side.
He's going to have to take down that Garsevagi.
He could still deny the plant and time.
After the self-gun, he missed it, but still gets the kill in the post-plant!
uses the 1v2 out of repel, no flashbangs, no util.
And Robbie is outside garage, might get detected, he's peeking.
The Freck doesn't know exactly where users might be.
And I don't think Robbie's position is going to help.
Freck needs some more support on the bomb site.
Users can hide away, tuck and not be exposed.
Robbie running out from the garage,
Freck has to get on that defuse as soon as possible.
and Robbie. Oh my god! To get off! It was essentially solo with Robbie outside the building,
but he's clutched it up and shifters have finally got one back for themselves. Oh my god, it's such
a classic 2v1. We've seen this so many times throughout the history of Clubhouse and it's
such a tricky position. You can double swing the breach, you can go for defuse, try and bait it
But we all know if you give the attack at the rappel angle, you're doomed
So they know that the only thing they can do is send the guy out the garage store and start distracting a fight on the guy on the
rappel. On the cliffside uses no stat 2 so he gets off the rappel onto the balcony to use the cover
So he doesn't have a 2 versus 1, but a 1 versus 1. But that means that Frank knows exactly where he is because there's only one area on that platform
You can beat that's right here. Talk on the left hand side and fix point of view
Robbie was sprinting into spawn genes, where the attackers start their round to get as deep of an angle as possible to take down uses.
They've fraked off to win that gunfire. If he had died earlier, there's no time to win the round. It's all or nothing.
Now we're at breakpoint. It's my favorite point that we get to in any game, Hengu.
Next point guarantees that you take away something to put on the standings at the end of today and for shifting
They need every inch that they can get
It's a tough stage for them
They are like I've said on the outside looking in in seventh place only top six go through to playoffs
Every team in the playoffs is locked except for rebels
They're currently sitting in that 6th place, so they're gonna play later today.
It's not gonna be, well, I mean, it could be, in theory, an easier game against Heretics.
They're likely to get points away from that, and then Rebels and Shifters will play next
week, and by all likelihood, that game will essentially determine which of those teams
goes through the playoffs.
If Shifters even just get one point out of this game, that gives them one more leg up
against Rebels.
Sometimes he plays the back stabber, sometimes he's in the frontal of the fight, sometimes
he's last alive, feels like he's everywhere, now a small knee shoot him this year, a last
small tank in the doggie to call with the clash actually grants you the explosive resistance
so instead of taking 40 damage, you only took the 20, so it's always worth tanking the doggie
be called before they flash there.
As long as you have the shield obviously in your hands, otherwise it won't work.
What now?
So you flashed the air jab, now we pray.
Now we pray for time.
Oh my god, LASMO is lucky to have survived that, but look at this deep push here.
LASMO is surely cooked now.
The air jab was a big play, Solotov backing it up with some firepower himself as he's
got lasmo on the floor this might be where shift is fine that they are out of
luck leaker fact eventually catches lasmo he thought he was safe retreating
back to the start that falcons are playing this perfectly
now gets gonna reset restabilize take it one step at a time like they have been
so far on their attacks it's all about just building that very small advantage
and then just not letting go.
Making sure the flank drone is there and who's watching it.
We see League of fact right now having that responsibility
because he's spent his air jabs, his flashbangs,
he's either a gun or he's flank watching.
So right now he's doing the cover of watching everything behind him
and the rest of his squad team work forward.
When his team is ready for it,
you can join the battle for maximum advantage.
So, so this feeling is so on the money right now.
Go spread in with a type 89.
Flames another one. Could it be the ace?
NAVE's the last one left. Stuck in Khan, Solotov not sure about it but now finally has the read.
Tomb's gone down. NAVE tries to continue this 1v5.
Users puts him in the dirt. Team Falcons. Finally back on top and within touching distance of another victory.
Slowly but surely they're getting there and it feels like League of Thug. You know the more intense the game gets,
the more serious he gets about it as well. He had a quiet start when they were defending,
then he came the intro and attack and was starting, then he becomes the strategist that just, you
know, making sure that everything is nice and comfortable, the flank watching, then stepping
forward. I like the leapfrogging here from Valkyrie, right? What I mean by that is at the end,
we saw League of fact, literally just watching camps, watching camps, watching camps. He was right
outside the bombsite windows. When his teammates say, hey, it's time to go, he hops off the camp,
joins the action because he knows even if he lets go of the flying flight the next five or ten seconds
they're going forward into sight the flying doesn't matter because they're gonna be winning with that push
so they're just maximizing their own potential i always want to hear what he's saying man
he's so like i love to celebrate and straight back straight right
only one second of celebration that's all i mean i will say this shifter is
they have done a hell of a job especially their attack inside you know
there's a lot of stuff that happened and I generally just think that it is
incredibly difficult to play on defense like in every circumstance like we keep
saying that there are so many offers on attack that can just really shave up the
round in your favor and defenders don't get that many of those we see a lot of
same difference being picked around sometimes near sometimes the clash if
you're gonna do like a heavy throw if you look at like some castle what my
by Jager shenanigans, but generally it's going to be, you know, a side picker or rafters,
the guy playing a bathroom and gym defense, when you extend over, you're roaming maybe
top floor here in basement and falling back step by step, you don't have as much freedom
of flexibility. So it's about the small, the small wins, you know, there's a steam
board that can kill, you get to fall back to all of our defenders, do you, I don't know,
do the attackers get to shoot a default camcorder, do you have more int than you should have,
for example. Those small things all build into your side of winning the defensive round,
But for the attackers it's much bigger. We want to abuse this, we'll get it.
We want to activate this U2, we'll get that done too.
Because you have again, you have so much U2, look at this current lineup.
They have tons of heart destruction, they have EMPs, they have three grenades,
as well as a former solid snake, they have flashlights on the Hibana,
they have execute, they have roam clear, they have intel, they got it all.
It's one thing to have the right ingredients, it's another thing to play it.
It's such a way to put the pressure on and I think that's the key here for shifters
Like we said active defense one-clock for G2 against VP. This is good
He drew the bay a little bit longer
Use those Vulcans for as long as possible
You can always rotate the clash over in position to try and take the fight to June
But we know June is one of the most deadly things
that falcons have, doom on blackbeard on the basement no less
mayfus forced back, user still on the hunter, is aroma at large
and it applies all the way upstairs, a slow operator on the mute without the best weaponry
as falcons continue mounting up the pressure, peeling back the layers
this niche last end, door side of dirt tunnel, all the blue fires pop
the blast as a hero gets a killer as we're upstairs
That's all that's off in the grave.
That doesn't start on the back foot.
But like you said, they got strong operators to the top.
The big question here, can they force a gap somewhere?
Or can Joom just play the Blackbeard
and just get the push going?
No, or Blaze at a second.
He's jumping out from the uses.
Two kills, three gaps found.
He teams up with Joom.
Blaze is so far off, he needs to retreat back.
He might be able to drop down the hatch.
He needs to land his shot against Joom.
Both of the defenders have low caliber SMGs.
to take the fight against the Blackbeard, Jume, once again!
It's him, and always him, that steps up for Falcons, uses frags the hell out as well.
They are flying high again, it has been one hell of a stage, the Falcons are back on top where they belong.
All they needed was a side swap, and just take it nice step by step, get you on the Blackbeard,
fly at the air and let everybody fire up on the same page.
Don't go anywhere because I'm gonna have a winners interview
after we get back from the bridge.
Vroom!
to get the 3 full points from
this matchup and that means we
have users standing by to ask
a few questions about this
matchup. Good evening users
congratulations on the three
points. How are we doing? Thank
you. I'm doing good. How are
you guys? Good. Pretty good.
Yeah, pretty good. Pretty good.
Josh, do you remember last time
that you lost to the three
pretty good. Yeah, pretty good.
Pretty good. Josh. Do you remember
last time that you lost Club
House? The team. No, uh, so one
of the only times I could find
you guys losing clubhouse as a
team was to phase plan. Um so
do you have any ideas why
shifters would want to take you
to that man? I didn't see the
bends to be honest. But I guess
like it was just like a mix map
like a mid map story for both
Obviously it was quite close. How come it got so close inside of the game?
Because there was a few rounds where it came down to the very last second as well.
Yeah, I think our defences were a bit knackered, like I feel like they weren't doing much,
and we were just like all dying for no reason, like letting...
We were like giving them a round instead of them actually like working for it,
or we didn't play together. And then our attacks, I think...
I don't really know how many our attacks, I mean,
Jumin, Thay, Solotov both had like 15 kills each,
I think they were just killing everyone on the attack side.
Do you think they were the main condition of you guys fighting back into this game?
I think so.
Yeah, I guess I saw the moment of like completely flip at the moment where Sotok was eating four
kids or aces. I'm just wondering when you were... I'm pretty sure it was you who was standing in
that 1v2 on Platte when you had one guys running out on you on garage door and then
you're trying to cover the diffuser. How did you feel like you should have played that one?
because I will say this, it was really hard watch for us
because you could see the guy on the outline pushing you guys' door
and the other was cleaning you server.
No, I knew one guy was guys' door because we had a drone.
Or like around gears, there was no fuse like catwalk or garage
and then the other guy was like server breach.
So I was like, if I just drop off and then rappel back up
then the guys would diffuse and the guy like, he diffuse once,
I should have waited for this, I just played it bad.
Alright, well I use some more things where noticing is New Jersey free
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W media trading well users, thank you so much for your time and good luck with a big match
tomorrow against Vortispro. Thank you, thank you.
Always good to speak to him as well and get a little bit of an outfits of the day, kind
of situation going on, but let's talk about the players though because two players, big
saviours for Falcons in this match.
round by the way, two versus two, Jew manages to find the kill, and it's Solotov as well,
it's his next, and they get one each, and then this by the way from Solotov, one, two, absolutely
no problem. Honestly, the two of them, when they're sitting together, and you've said it before, right,
like, Solotov was the main win condition for most of the Winstaff, for Falcons, when he's hitting
his shots, nothing can really stop them. It's just not, not, never a really good sign to rely on
your big individuals to pull you out of this situation, but I think, like he said, he put it
Very well, right?
Actually, what the fuck?
What?
What's the difference?
What's the difference in EPS?
It will be entry.
It will be entry.
It will be entry.
It will be entry.
It will be entry.
It's 775%.
Oh, exactly the same.
Milo, our graphics operator.
Did you get lazy and just copied and paste the statistics for the two players here?
Actually, crazy.
13 kills and 14 deaths for the two of them combined in one single video, one in 12 rounds.
He would never do that.
In 12 rounds.
You can't throw him under the bus.
No, he would never do that.
Of course.
He's perfect.
But yeah, no, I think
Yep, no that does come from it
And we
Like I said it we did highlight in the pregame once all talk is having that energy when he is playing well
They do so well and I think it was quite a spirit come back because shifters were looking good
Shifters while looking good going into the half 4 to split and then Falcons they found a way
I think unfortunately if we flip the focus on to shifters here
It does mean that playoffs is almost out of reach because they will be while they are currently behind rebels
If rebels get a full 3-point victory, then that's done
But there'd be no playoffs and shifters no EWC and ultimately end up a failed stage
When they've showed little pockets of promises here and there but just not strong together for the full thing
Oh my god, this one. Okay, tell me that last game that last game today has everything in it
Because rebels if they win from what you've just said will be making playoffs
And what do they put them all the way at the beginning of the stage in my chair list finally I put them in there
We need a miracle and I would not count on bidding heretics being a miracle
Yeah, I did not fuck is right twice a day. What is a stop clock?
Why would it be a clock if it doesn't work
The time's gonna go round and it's gonna read the correct time
If it wouldn't be an email day without a crash out from our endless. It's a game. It's about clocks apparently here
But for for shifters make those but so far
They got five rounds
But that wasn't enough because in this final match of the day all could be decided for the final playoff spot as we do have
heretics and rebels going up against each other and in fact these three teams are
Promoted challenges series teams right that means that's all it make it into email for this year and
So far for these teams isn't great specifically focusing on heretics, right? Yeah, what is going on like this team?
They beat secrets. They don't seem competitive in any other games only one or two rounds one
Yeah, I think so so there their playoff dream is dead and gone and then just to back up the the Leo point about the rebels and
Shifters is now that rebels have the opportunity to lock playoffs in there are eight points
There's if they win this game and they go to 11 if they win in regulation
They'll be on 11 points. No other team to love them would be able to catch them. So for Rebels this game is absolutely massive that they're playing up against
Heretics. Heretics, honestly, they've been struggling Leo. They've they've not looked good to be honest. They're attacks. They've looked very disjointed
They haven't looked like they've managed any kind of control in the games whatsoever. Yeah
It's been a learning process for a young team with two rookies coming into the league
I just feel like I've not seen the experienced players really really, you know step up here. The reality is that Akui
Doro
Dora Lolo like its players that have been there for a full year and that looked worse and worse and worse and worse through
2025 if you look at stage one of 2025 these guys on your screen here the one that were experienced that was part of that
Magical roster were one game away from making EWC last year and all the way down to
last stage of
2025 they get regulated they fight their way back into chair one they get absolutely destroyed a kickoff
They get destroyed again throughout the rest of this stage.
I'm struggling to see the evolution from this team.
They've made it a little bit more competitive recently.
They've had an overtime,
but I think I need to see a little bit more from them.
And going against Rebels,
a team that has had their own struggles and all enough performance,
if there is one way to go out the big door, like I like to say it,
then though it doesn't mean anything,
it is by beating Rebels here,
by showing that they have some kind of hope,
because they've said it best.
Even between kickoff and this stage,
they were already thinking of roster changes.
Yes, they were. We'll speak about their opponents as well. You mentioned Heretics and Sturkels.
They have had there are some newer players on this roster. The same goes for the side of Rebels, right?
Some players making their debut inside of Tier 1, but there are also some very experienced players on this roster.
Now, that one player in particular, that we're talking about, is LMS, but he seems to be struggling inside the stage.
Yeah, I think we saw him playing so well at kickoff. He was such a good player, and I think we saw the huge drop of performance for that player.
I think if you look at Kickoff in general, and you look at his performance throughout the stage,
it's been quite inconsistent overall.
And I think we expected a little bit more from him overall.
Obviously on the right side is Kickoff, his first performance coming into the scene as the experienced player.
On the left side is Stage 1, his current KD, and honestly he's one of the worst rated players not only on the roster, but also in the league.
I don't really know what happened for him to really drop the performance,
But I think he's also maybe part of that inconsistency that we find in his team.
I think it's kind of symptomatic of that inconsistency.
I think if we look at Rebels and how they want to play, it's big, it's bold, aggressive.
But I think it relies on the players being up for it.
We've seen that, you know, a LeM's was highlighted in the head-to-head there.
And we've seen him actually struggle in the stage.
But we've also seen generational clips from him when Rebels have gone bad.
So when it's good, it's really good.
When it's bad, it's really bad.
And I think that's where I just want to see Rebels kind of find that,
with ground final consistency, what's the baseline performance for them? I like the fact that they're
trying to be aggressive, I like the fact that they're playing for streams of their new fraggers,
of these guys that are coming into the league that are starting to get the police that they can't
go toe-to-toe with anybody, but we just need to see it on a much more consistent pattern.
And that's the biggest thing, right? When Rebels are wired in, when they feel confident, they will
dominate and they can take any team they beat Falcons, so like you can see that potential.
Yes. And so what better way to do it than against Heretics, a team that has won five rounds
in the last three play days.
That's the biggest thing,
a team that doesn't have the confidence,
a team that doesn't have the momentum.
There is no weaker opponent for them in this league
to take them down, except maybe for Secret.
It's a sinking hope on the side of team Heretics,
and that's the perfect weakened target for Ravals
to secure a player spot.
This is rough.
That doesn't even seem to be competitive
in some of these games here,
with one or two rounds in total.
That seems like you're barely even making it
to scoreboard inside this matchup.
What for these teams are really putting pressure on them right?
They these are our newly promoted teams.
We kind of want to give them some time to ease into the league.
But still, if playoffs thoughts are on the line, there is so much to play for.
Yeah, I think so. I think, you know, heretics do have a very, very outside
chance, but I think realistically for them and we say about the new teams
that come into the league is about growth.
It's about opportunities, but proving you were.
And I think for heretics, they did flat line through kickoff.
I think that's the way to go.
I think the first time you
went to the game, you showed
some very early signs and
stage one where we thought,
hey, they've got something.
You know, there is the
learning secret. I think it's
getting secret where I'm
seeing like triple retakes,
big team plays, and I'm
thinking, yes, something
that and then it's even further
down the kickoff and I think
they'll take a lot in so much,
ultimately for her for her
takes in terms of working at
what works best for them. How
can they improve that because
it's not currently being good
performances, haven't resembled the performances of some of the other T1 teams across the board.
We're in five rounds in three games, it's really, you know, ultimately really performant.
And eventually we might be in a situation where they will look at the final versus
Geng and maybe this time giving up Italian as a speaking, you know, language for them in the
league and maybe look towards more English-speaking players. We'll see about it. I just hope we don't
get there. No, they still have two more matches of watch one here and today and I want to see
Let's see the map feature before we dive into our final game of the day.
Where are we headed to?
Our dive rush today has been great, we're getting in a bank as well.
Yeah, a really interesting map in the sense that both of these teams are actually really
bad at that one.
Oh no.
No, but I know it's hard.
But realistically, if I look at the record in tier one, none of these teams have won
more than three rounds on a map.
Rebels have lost it twice, 7-3.
Paratix have played it once against Schifters and Kikov, got 7-1.
I'm going to give you some hope
for her six fans. They were
very done on the map inside of
tier two. That was way back
where there is a home comfort
map for them. I'm trying to
give some hope and some
positivity. I'll see balance
me given these results from
these teams. I don't know what
we're in for on this final
game all day chaos. I hope is
what we get to see for our
final match all day. Devon
Thank you very much. It's time to go to the bank.
It's Heretics and Rebels, two teams that have really struggled, but for Rebels, there
is still a very real and likely chance that they can make it to the playoffs. It would
be a dream. They're currently in a playoffs position, six, the only playoffs position
that remains up for grabs, and they are technically competing with shifters, twisted minds, and
Heretics for those spots. However, the chances, sorry, the Heretics is done. There's no Heretics
the game. The first that
Rebels, shifters and twisted
minds for that spot. But
realistically, the big question
is what happens next week when
Rebels and shifters go head to
head. If Rebels get a big win
here, they can lock themselves
in to the playoffs. So
everything is on the line for
them and for heretics. Well,
they've had a real rough end to
their stage. It's really only
one way forward. That's still
Catch it up, happy days East.
I mean, this was doing a great job at hiding off the matchup, you know, bang, past performances,
you know, the tier two success story of heretics on this map.
I'm just kind of hoping for like a lot of heart.
You know what I mean?
Like they're gonna full commit whether it's gonna be a phrase you've watched or a good
push or a useful setup.
I just want to see them with a heart and commitment and just bring their all
Well, it's gonna be a bit of creativity. I mean I've seen heretics play in previous times in the email
Now it's been so much time with a play conchlet and they were just beating team after team on it
And they were using that to shock the shenanigans
And I lost that kind of definitely a play in the game. That was door lock in particular who was doing that five second
Because it's bang it's Matt that's been around for the most time so you have to choose all at most with the small
mini-reworks that we've seen
But sometime the team will do something that's a little bit out of the norm and make it work
This one is gonna be pretty standard stuff in defense with two broke high-trigger patches smoke playing on the surface staircase
Rebels they got a little bit of stents and they never remember the floor so they've already read into the two broke high-triggering
So the pair comes to play and once they hit the bums they got a bit of stents
Over the place with a little bit of folk a little bit of chaos in that zone
The question is how do they deal with this elevator setup?
How long do heretics try to hold onto his defense?
It's Haki at the moment.
Now the hard breach has exposed his position.
likely the hatch will be open for him to drop down in the late round.
oh
wait
oh no
2 freesie
and he's got a queen
surely can just slink away back into the
rafters now
it's up to rebels to hunt him down
he doesn't need to give them anything
doesn't need to give them a chance
It needs to be just to run away as much as possible.
He gets a little bit too close to the blue.
It's Bart, Bartzo.
Does not read correctly.
Ackwiy hit.
Was too far away to get affected by the stun.
Now, I mean, he's already been worth his weight in gold.
If he gets the limbs of Acid here, that would be huge.
But a limbs finally takes him down.
2v4, but into a 2v3.
Surely not.
I think it's going to get too crazy.
You cannot lose this round.
Ackwiy just restored the shoulder.
They took down the three most important taken operators.
You cannot throw it now here.
Lems just dropped the elevator.
Has she just dropped it now?
Oh, no, it keeps it happening.
They're throwing the rounds back to a 2v2.
They're very, very scary here.
The heretics, after what acrylic gifted them,
ask for the limbs, and all the ingredients they need.
They don't have to go for a typical push
to a 2v2, very different scenario now.
But Lolo's taking that ass up.
The lens has a cheeky little bit of usefulness, it sends light walls to try to make this work.
You can try to isolate these fights, but Dora will take him down.
Good first round on the board, the Heretics.
You know, I said earlier that sometimes a team can do something out of the norm and
get a bit of a spicy play.
How about hiding in the elevator that no one checks?
The one that you're not supposed to be in, the one where, you know, if the Blitz turns
around the corner, don't get me called, sure, a drone goes in there, you're going to be
as good as dead.
Well, that got them at 3k.
That is how you win the very first round bank. It is a frustrating way to lose it, but given that it was as serious as your scoreline
Not the end of the year, but they were just so pleased with this area because nobody ever played it
And the fade away
I still think that
Rebels they're really gonna be thinking
I don't know if that means something
Hey, it's Ali!
He's having a look here.
Bandit!
Okay, so we're obviously triggering the elevator walls here. It has to happen.
Because you could, like, trigger anything else.
You could also pre-place bandit batteries.
And they have the, like, the Heaven Walls towards Skylight,
but let's be honest, window repel on the bottom side,
they get shot through shirley, that's not gonna make a matter.
And let me show you the Kali, a classic stable pick for this top floor Bumset of CEO.
Very long range fighting, good view to clear.
It's also excellent gas, potentially like a castle or this gas boonie, just stuff to burn.
You can get a full load of it, this is a nice lovely thing, as you can jump out.
It's supposed to come out here.
Love that.
Bit of drum work, make sure that you check.
where the denari lasers are
it's all about lasers here for defense, Aruni and Denari
all about rappels as well
I don't know how they're going to clear all those denari lasers to be honest
they don't have a lot of util to do so
I mean one could florestone, one could cartilence later in the round
those florestones are going to be used elsewhere surely
you got barbed wire to take care of, you got pieces over there already
spaghetti spaghetti oh yeah there's a there's a lot of spaghetti to deal with
the paratix they are Italian if anyone knows how to cook up some spaghetti it's
them Fennel doesn't that's Zara where was that it's a long angle I think from
the rappel now it's a problem with his top flop upside so fickle and look at all
these so that I can't land off the battery breach in trying force pens will
for a trick and then get good catch here on the on the angle from links all the
The issue is, the enemy is out of battery, so he can't actually trick it, but it's good, right?
Either the wall gets opened up, or they will get a kill above, so they're just doubling down in the direction that they get to buy the soul for themselves.
And rebels are doing great job right now, they're progressing, they're getting a kill, they're getting damaged, they're reaching the walls.
They're not far from like, execute ready.
It comes down to where AS is going to use the roly polys from the sentence, and then final line charge.
They also have two more frag grenades in pocket, so if they find the enemy in the corner, that could be a freebie.
Oh wow.
He killed from low low. I think that was a lems trying to walk into Bobby from ATMs
But there's this fight about about to happen and asked that he's jumped in and he's actually dropped the choosing instead of going for the play
He's trying to pay that door up. He pays out of swing
To kill almost another one low low on the other side that actually has gone big with two kills has to get that defuse back
Marta needs to be the one to cover it but two days, but no lines
Yes to work with is getting wallbangs as well
Well, thankfully I'm taking the damage. Finally gets the killing blow.
Onto Lolo and covers perfectly. Great double from Marto.
And the French respond very nicely.
Very good. Like I said, they are making good progress.
They didn't get stuck in any of the pain points of clearing out of the utility or a player location.
That would have been a two-parallel. It was like a big win condition for the defense.
It's a good read overall. And it all starts in the operator, you know, drone phase, attack or re-pick phase.
if you can figure out what the highlight moments are gonna be in terms of like
area of the map or operator gadgets, also D-Mars man, okay with these kinds of lineups you can
get three, four D-Mars every single round. Obama's kind of 3D one, Flores 3D one, Doki
Doki drinks one, Lyon gets you one, that's four D-Mars. That's like the idea, so good just because
of the chip damage, right? You land one bullet through one pixel and all you need is another
the teammates do the same and that's a kill off and the not especially on that
top floor we're really really it's funny I think it was on the down the road
podcast Park is podcast where they were talking about who was one of the
players that was on the piece but they were talking about how obviously we
often categorized border and chalet as like small maps because the way that I
But funnily enough, Bank kind of become, even though Bank is a huge map, if you get involved and looped into that conversation,
because while it is a big map, it's a map where as an attacking side, you can get a lot of value from being outside the building.
Compared to Fortress, you don't get a lot on Fortress from being outside the building.
Right?
You don't get a lot on Consulate from being outside the building.
But Bank, you do, even though it's a big map, it feels like a small map, especially when you're using a DMR,
as a defender you're like oh my god this one meter is where the corner that I can survive in other than that I'm exposed
Yeah, I mean a map can be big and feel small
I think that's what you're getting it here right because it is a huge map and I think for a map design philosophy
I think bank, car powers and old punchlet is like my top three personal favorites
There's less rooms you're gonna be open with that one. I probably I probably I think it's big open rooms, right?
A lot of line of sight. I know there are palings a bit of problem, but I don't agree with that necessarily.
Attackers have an easy foothold to gain.
Taking molly is always free unless it's gonna be top or bomb side basically.
Here I bang it.
Taking skylight always free unless it's top or bomb side basically.
You always have a good foothold.
Strip club on clubhouse always free unless it's the bomb side.
It just feels like you can get in the building for many different avenues and you can always get the round to start before it ends.
where in theme park or villa or skyscraper and certain points you couldn't even get it from the door
neither can fennel i mean he was in the building but he's dead on the glitz
suffered a loss to his c4 vertically and that's going to take a lot of pushing power away from
rebels and they actually do have an iq on the board but haven't found any of the valve cams upstairs
yet and i think he's missed one oh he's a little bit like they've been trying desperately they've
been using both the iq and the twitch and they've still struggled but oh well the time will tell
Let's see what happens now for Lolo. He's exposed. I know exactly where he is, but I know as he could win this fight
He's never rid of Marto. I think he does. Oh spot that one. He's got a shot onto lingo
Oh, that looks a little bit more. Yeah, he is indeed chilling Marto wants to try and find that kill
But he can continue to take the fire on to the player on the spiral
He's also a little bit of support from Zara
And eventually pops his head up too much and Marto takes him down
good responses. Yeah, a little bit loose game they hear from rebels but they make it work.
Just double down and a 2v1 got a fight. But that elevator changes. We've seen this elevator before,
it's gonna happen again! Bro! Bro! Not again! How does that it takes? Got no other pick for
this position, I do not know. But now Martoni is to try and push deep and find that killing
post. He's 50. He brings out the super shorty. Seven bullets and yet he still wins it with the F2.
Absolute killing machine, Dora well poised to clutch 1v2.
As As As has no choice but to drop down the hatch, but Mato up with the F2.
The Frenchman on the French operator with the French weaponry.
Two rounds in a row, he's had a big impact.
Big chance for Rebels to assert themselves on this attacking side.
Oh man, this becomes a very close affair.
I think Dora's going to be a little bit upset about that one.
He plays it correctly, he's holding the hatch stop first knowing that the guy has to commit to it
And then you know you can prone, you can crouch, you can burn down the timer, you can pre-fire back
He was kind of just like
In between two decisions it looked like and picked the wrong one and this energy goes down
Mind you, his opponent had a single point of HP, so just one bullet would get the job done
But these guys are getting awfully close
Rebels, they honestly fight what these other guys are doing
Fennel does something like what you can see for, then they have to very tricky fight him with Lolo and Lobby,
they miss the player and the elevator again, and yet they keep fighting and they keep forcing the problem and they actually get up to Torrey's here.
Marge is just full committing.
I love the hype from Rebels like that. Gotta give them credit, their credit is true. Obviously it's been an up and down season for heretics.
it's been as the guest, it's been a tough slot. You know, once they lost that 6-8 overtime
game to GK, they've only won five rounds in the last three games, got three P-Shifters
and Falcons. On the flip side for Rebels, their first game in the state, U.R.I.C.C.A.
and it was hilarious, it was amazing, it was a huge game for them, they beat Falcons, you
know, at the time. And yes, since then they've had some pretty bad moments, they got 7-0
smacked around by G2, they got smacked around by Fanatic, but they got a win out of secret.
You know, it hasn't been enough wins to really take from a lot, but they just need a few more
points here and they can actually guarantee playoffs today. Crazy to think a team with only
three wins can actually guarantee playoffs today. And the way that they do that is by
getting a regulation win. Full three points out of today and the French will be locking up that
final spot in the playoffs, shifters and twisted mines will be having a pretty
sad end to their night. But if rebels get any other result, there's still a world
where shifters and twisted mines can overtake them.
A lot of players since he's watching right now,
favoring to want to get a win.
They're not really fighting from the active five nickel in the top spiral players.
They get early pressure, causing a comparison, but look at this!
We're gonna hit the bomb site!
It's gonna plant! No one's holding! No one's gonna stop it!
It's a 5v5 post.
Oh my god.
How often does that happen, especially when there's an echo on the board?
Now it's all about the post plant, locking it down, rebels are drilling a good job of that.
Don't overextend here, Mato. You don't need to.
Getting aggro on the site, Mato will supply and punish the Valkyrie, and Zara goes down.
I'm going to actually hit these one by one.
Follow it now. Recharge with Orchid, Fomato has been insane!
Shoulda get taken!
Nine kills!
And now, to find this...
One more flash!
Knees to clutch up, Sneeze Ball, takes a bit of damage from the shocker.
Now comes the flash!
Double digits, Fomato!
Big round for him, yet again, we are constantly screaming his name.
This is ridiculous!
LMG found the gap, he said, dude, just hit the bomb site.
We're gonna do some distraction upstairs.
If he dies, okay, you got the post, then Mato having the blitz, right?
You have four flashbangs in pocket, but you're fighting basically all five defenders.
And he's got the stairs' cage control.
He can go up the stairs, down the stairs, the hatch is opening, you drop back down,
and play for the post.
It's beautiful.
Every flashbang was basically a kill.
And he was playing pretty good here.
And the second when he goes for the second push, he'll get the flashbang right here.
Now it comes up.
It's like two seconds before the fight, the flashbang goes off to the ground.
get in this kill, he spins upstairs and then two seconds before the gunfight happens, again
the fire smank gets off cooldown. He's just playing that perfect space game.
Mato! Like you said, it's good to be in there. I love the hype. I love the hype. Dude is popping off.
Rest of his team has eight kills combined. He has 10. Let's guys think in for a second.
I mean there's also back to back clutches because he won V1 in the previous round of an area and
And then he protected you 1v1, but it's much more than that here in basement, it was a 1v3 essentially, really.
Yeah. Exactly that.
And like I said, the fate of Rebels and their playoff dream is in their hands. They get a 3-point win today,
which they're currently well and truly stepping up to the table and looking like they might be able to do.
Then they lock in playoffs, and it doesn't matter about their match next week against shifters,
it doesn't matter about twisted minds.
But if rebels don't get all three, then Twisted Minds actually might be able to jump over them.
It'll come down to whoever wins out of Rebels and Shifters, and then potentially if Twisted
Minds beat Heretics and Rebels and Shifters go to overtime, then they'll actually be Twisted
Minds that's been gone through.
But Rebels don't have to worry about next week, don't have to worry about their final
playday.
If they win right here, that's all that matters.
You see in the O'Glyce open area, but I should be following back down the hatches, incredibly
early on.
60 seconds in, and there's the full roam control now, wow.
That's a little early than the usual norm, that's not necessarily a massive issue, but
it doesn't mean that time is going to be favoring rebels, they can either slow down the game
and play even safer, ensure that all five attackers stay alive, and they get the perfect
time to execute.
All in this game, the key of victory in base will have more time than anything goes wrong as well.
Because one thing can still go on, serve our stairs.
Lolo is playing the warden, which of course can counter the Blitz flashbangs and his smoke grenades etc.
What you can try and do here is to like hook it before while you push with the Blitz,
while you damage track him and just send everything in this direction.
You'll catch on a stitch in the nade.
Activating Blitz.
That's huge. No one's disappointed. That was his way of turning the Blitz.
Ooh, C4 also gets a shot, so we can't even use that extra pressure.
Gets up close and personal, the flash doesn't matter.
There's Yoko, drone elsewhere, doesn't fully guard, break the shield, but it does make Mato think twice.
Activating Glam!
There's just any blitz at him, that's it.
But that's not gonna work, like where's the teamwork, where's Linko?
We gotta kill this guy, guys.
That's an area.
Is there more in here?
Oh, there you go, they're trying to bait him out.
All he power here now, four putters!
What about the hat? Big double for me!
Oh my god!
He cleans all of them!
Linko's the last one left, 1v5.
Good luck, my friend.
AK in hand.
Tries to bait him out.
Lolo could peek him at any moment, but he's still waiting with a shotgun.
Akui's come around the corner, hunted him down.
Great chance for heretics to get back into the game.
Like Reinder and Blender are in some fair where it all gets torn to shreds in a single instance.
That was literally nobody but the Blitz fighting him.
We look at Warden for a few seconds, we go back to the Blitz, everyone's behind the Blitz,
they just full send it at the same time and it doesn't work.
As I was saying, there's no obstacle that's gonna be served on stairs.
I guess the goal here is actually gonna be Dora because he stunned the Blitz right when the push came through,
was kind of got him that kill ninja bravo lolo bravo lolo bravo to Dora as well like
you said that we would not have been possible without it I mean the fact that it was a warden
that he wasn't getting flash and the fact that the yokai was there meant that he got
it to expose the blitz so perfect combo I think that both of these teams if they could get
a do-over of that third operator band they definitely would have I mean everything's
probably would have done the blitz and rebels probably would have banned
maybe it's five seconds left before insertions
yeah there's two rounds, there's been a lot of two rounds
nice, what is round?
final round of the half here, thank you
if heretics are able to go 3-3 here that's actually quite impressive to go
total so on the defensive side bank has in recent history been one of and at some
points the most
because I
prepared it right by six. Yeah
and I think the defense is good
this is where Markzware will drop
back to back launches and double hits
like four runners. Like if Markzware
didn't have a pop-up game and win those
individual moments, they should. I mean
we're looking at a 4-1 completely
like realistically speaking
that is insane to think about
uh, quickly the stakes flipped
well, like we said
this wind means so much more for rebels than it does for heretics because this could lock in
their playoffs if they win this outright. Is there a rat? Is there a rat? Is it a rat?
If it's the bombsite though. What do you think about the castle here? I guess not. I think hiding
from the mouse. Maybe it's another rodent. It's got a tail, it's got legs. That's all I have to
to know but what do you do about this situation here like you just standing in a room looking
at the opponents and repels and no one could do anything about it like you do not jump
up at the time you do not first take I thought he was gonna full send it fire imagine imagine
you got both kills for hip fire like then it's like oh my god my good lord I would never
done it myself but he's one of those switch-ups I mean again what are they
gonna do about it there's no Cali this time there's no Sophia they're gonna
smoke grenade him like boohoo I'm gonna move over here instead they can't keep
doing it spending a lot of time staring at Lolo on the clash and they're always
fine doing anything about it they can't they have no insurrectable gadgets with
the operator look no full of stones right they have a single semi-challenge
which you can't do anything with by the way like they have DMRs great James but
there's all they have. They haven't gone this way.
Yep.
I feel like this attack, thanks on finding Pigs.
Now, thank you, they've taken down the clash shield.
That does at least expose a little bit of it,
but they haven't exposed the castle barricades.
There's a Pig, but they do lose one,
but in fact more than one.
It seems like every player from Rebels is dropping out of the server.
And as I say that, Heretics will swiftly find themselves
another round on the board.
They do indeed tie us up at the end of the half.
half three rounds of bank defense nothing to scoff at for heretics no not at all I mean
that's a great performance right there and I mean I guess that goes to show who the best
analyst is right it's gonna be fresh because he made that final point saying hey I've been
watching those guys back in tier two and back then they were a great team on bank what do
you think you're saying Nick I've always liked you I've always really liked you yeah fresh
is beaming by the way that didn't out of nowhere all right it's only halfway through the game
by the way, and heretics have struggled in attack for the entire stage.
If I'm the type of elephant that's hard to live, it doesn't change anything.
Thank you for kicking off a fight between these two two, but I want to get to business because
yes, it's even at the half, but I think the general consensus from YouTube
is that for the majority of this, it seems like Rebel is in control and there's one person
in particular on the steering wheel. The general consensus is just like from the desk,
a Frenchman is carrying, and that's Martha. And if you look at the way he's been playing,
He's been the main stakeholder, the main win condition for Rebels, whether he's on the DMR with Lyon, whether he's clearing the roamers here, or whether he's playing the Blitz, perfectly played by Nick, although he has weird opinions about analysts,
is just how well the Blitz is playing here, just waiting for the Charger back to come after the cooldown, and isolating every gank's fight, flashing together at the right time, making sure no one is denying the diffuser at the same time.
And by the way, on that one, Valkyrie equaled on the board for Heretics.
Yeah. Six gadgets with Intel.
Do you know what?
How did they sense?
Yeah, you know, that was really at least one friend who was doing well today.
Yeah, about to with his average.
Yeah, because Mowgli was, you know, pretty terrible.
Shifters were pretty terrible. At least Marto was doing well.
No, I'm joking.
Now it's in jest.
Why was that happening?
It's what we need to look at.
Why was that happening?
Heretics were not defending their bombsite whatsoever.
The 2v2 that they lost on open areas, no control over their bombsite whatsoever.
And then they allowed a plan five versus five by the way, like you say with Echo of Arcary once they wised up to that
They were able to take that control
They got rounds five by holding the service there's been aggressive holding their bombsite the same with round six as well
So I will say at the half time for heretics free free is actually quite a good score. Yeah now we flip it
Yeah, now we got on to the side where heretics have really struggled. So yes free free is good
It is okay. It's probably less than rebels would have wanted
But Rebels get better from the side, and Heretic's on their weak side going into this.
Yeah, for Rebels it's on the back of two things. I think it's one, they cannot problem solve even the simplest stuff.
So when Heretic's decided to play turtle, they could not go and find the layers or destroy the layers.
That warden was a great example.
And otherwise, when Akwi gets aggressive here with his Fenrir, already in the round one,
I think that was the two-win condition, trying to disrupt the playstyle for Rebels.
However, like Jack said, Heretic's on a switching attack. It's a very stable, huge weak side for them.
Even on the attacker favorite map, I think that is a large issue.
So really quickly, who's going to be taking this one out, you think?
Obviously, Rebels. I tend by my point.
Do you know what? He might be the inferior analyst, but I do also agree with him.
Oh, God, no! I do also agree with him. I think Rebels will be a strong opponent for us.
Okay, before you two kick off yet another fight, let's see if Rebels can make that happen.
Can they clear it out in the second half?
There's no way I spy with Jack and I gas him up and he still goes against me at the
very end to close it open.
I love you both very dearly and you're great as well, but man, I cannot find the world
here.
I also cannot find an ally in this mess, so go Airtix, go Airtix.
Okay, they're playing Jackal.
This is either the most cooked, cursed round of all time or they're goats, okay?
There's nothing between them.
Jackal is one of those lowest pick rate, lowest rates attacking operators right now since the nurse that happened quite a while back.
But it's Dora. Okay, Dora? He cooks.
Did you say...
Yeah, yeah.
They did buff Jackal.
Okay, they also nerfed Jackal. Like, what do you want me to say there?
Yeah, they gave him grenades.
They re-adjusted him.
Okay, will you meet me in the middle of... He got readjusted.
It was like, nerfed buff. It was like readjusted.
No?
I think he had been nerfed into the ground and then they gave him...
It felt bad for him.
Like, here mate, he just happened to sleep.
Shut up.
He's like, you broke off your legs, but here's like a pancake.
Like when you're at work and you're asked for a pay rise,
but then they just add peanuts to your job title,
but they don't actually give you a pay rise.
We get more work, more supposed abilities.
Same piece.
I'm a great employee, yes, more supposed abilities.
Oh, please.
Well.
At least he's got some help by his big brother's Deimos and Solid Snake.
They're better into long breakers.
Rome clearers at the moment.
However, they're dealing with a cheeky little Roma in Marto, who, as we said, 10 kills so far.
Snowy doesn't seem to be aware that this is Skopos, who has teleported all the way up into stock.
Oh, that's a freebie right there.
If you track the Skobos, you can actually TP away, and the track's not going to do anything, basically.
So Monto does have a small mini play in pocket. He hears the demos right on the corner
Does he get the freebie?
Yes, he does and you gotta get right out of there my friend because she told me I see what happens next
You take the full before you say happy days. He's played the even numbers game
And I think there's also why Louis Russian in we all know that he TV that
So that a minute huh?
Yeah, you could like that
You know
They used to be hard to do and now things have been so much better to follow like
He's just like
He used to be nuts when we saw that happen. Oh, Dora. Dora was your jackal. Yeah
Just can't the value of the jackal
He's got a shotgun. He's got a grenade in pocket. I mean this is value James
Do you feel that Jackal would have actually been great at finding Marto because they would have seen the Prince go into stock?
Planting boy, let's wait. There's an interest other come on out. This needs to be shut out of midair
Oh, I think you just take a lenses head clean off
Now it's up to ask them Marto to retake
Very hard if not impossible retake Marto is all the way upstairs in tell us
wants to go for a bit of a flank. Aston needs to try and time this push well, but
now look at the way Heretics have fallen back. So passively now, one player at
top square, Mato might catch him, never mind, Dora's got him. Aston now trying to
refrag, but I don't know exactly where he's gonna find that angle, doesn't have the time for it.
Gonna want straight into the waiting arms of Zara. Great round from Heretics, fourth
around on the board for them, at what point the rebels start sweating?
One of the greatest Jack arounds of all time in recent history, I will just say right there.
2k, bro.
Yeah.
2k, tracked three times, spent both grenades, used the secondary shotgun for the deep server
wall angles that his teammate actually got a kill and an anti-c4 from, plus he planned
it.
But you can't get much more value from Jack on that, so again, I'm telling you, Dora
does it all, and he leads his team into a great round victory.
This was the real question mark for me, was Fenrir just kind of sitting there like gadget
active and like watching a rappel angle with his gun or does he have a knife?
Mind you, the day most of you won't pass these teammate and himself and no one realized
what was going on there.
A bit of lack of intel or sound cues I suppose.
Yeah, I think a couple of things that went wrong there for rebels
Obviously very separated between the two
Holding each other was anything kind of lucky that Mark so found that we say my life
And it was a 50-55 that he could have lost like he got swung
He said this mark mark two is not a 50 to the kind of guy today. He's like a 640, but default base
Maybe seventh. Maybe 70
We might be pretty much by name Shaco, okay?
Shaco isn't even a few people who have like a 70-30 default baseline.
And he actually does, like, he will take the most unwinnable gunfight.
Shaco, that is, he will win them more often than not, which is absurd.
And he's done it for so many years. That's like his talent.
Double players like that.
Yeah, but not with a doom in that.
There are some players that just don't take the unfavorable parts.
Like, they're a much more risk-averse player.
Shaco is not necessarily one of them.
hold up double disable on the gate which gets you the full value these days
you should be as no word cool down if you would imp them if you burnt them but
they changed that a while back so that's the EMPs them and then it burns them
people absolutely imp finishes oh yeah that's true
and the green bees for intel the question is can they get in the building and can they
get that hate that you said when rebels were attacked it's not playing that
opening pick and trying to isolate one of those members you know it could be a
frag grenade or caps of fire because they do have the tools but at the current
present moment I can't tell how we're going to get this pick yeah well I think
the first step is to breach the bomb wall. The problem is that Batrion is not in
position to do that. I don't want to buy Batrion itself. Which is nice in theory but
you ideally want more than just these three pellets you ideally want that left
fall as well if the band sorry if the thatcher was closer or on a roof even
you could even be that. That's the last one. That's how it seems to be the
ingredients. Perfect love that. The limbs obliterated out play. The fire
flushing him into the line of sight. It's not out in the woods yet for heretics.
Neckwish in the building. I'm banana right now but I'm playing with an angle. A mirror window.
A prefrontal wall create a shot and defended downstairs. Successfully
You thinkin' actually?
That's when I first found the works for Heretics.
This mirror window is awesome.
Gained a lot of...
The problem is now because they don't have the numbers to repel, they're sacrificing
a lot of the advantages that they did have, and there are still these mirror windows to
worry about.
The gravels are holding on to, but Dora has found...
Now, can Heretics look for a plan into the 3v2?
They still have a bit of time to work with.
Feno wants to try and get aggressive.
It doesn't know where he might be exposed to, and Marzo has been finished off.
It's just the trade game for heretics.
That's four in a row for the Italians.
They have well and truly solidified their lead, and Rebels are in all kinds of hot water.
Mind you, so like you said, right, you got a five-lit opening pick, and it actually came
off just a good drone.
They had a drone in lobby, one of the chandeliers of saw and limbage on the mirror in the corner
of the double door, and you said, they got to get the breach first.
did that. Then they used the dune information that they had for a long time and said, oh he's still
in that corner. Now you can watch him run away from the breach, the triple Hibana pellet, and then
we can just use the last capital fire from the lobby stairs itself and get the opening. Once
that happens, you walk up for free and we just kind of saw the round play out. Rebels caught a
difficult time out, but this is the final stop for them. Like there's no more parachutes or extra
lives unless you know their opponents were to call one later. So they got to talk this through
and they're going to come out with some round victories after this.
Yeah, that's right. It'll need to be four rounds in a row for Rebels to lock in playoffs today.
Otherwise, even a win in overtime, Pengu, doesn't guarantee it because there's a world where
we could even potentially have a three-way tie. If Rebels win in overtime, they go to 10 points
after today, and then if they lose to shifters in regulation, shifters will also go to 10 points.
And then if Twisted Minds be heretics in regulation, they will also be on 10 points, and we'll have to use a tiebreaker to determine which of those three teams goes to play.
Rebels won't have to worry about that at all, and they won't have any pressure in their final match of groups against 50s if they just clean in regulation.
That does mean 4-0 right from here on out.
I can link on the board here, you know, there is a little bit of lagging for Rebels, oh
and 8, yeah.
I hate to be like, I'm also on the L, bro, like, man, the L is usually good.
He's lagging out, yeah.
But I mean, it's, you know, Markzul had to pop off the first half, if you will, he
got like 10 kills and 4 rounds, or you're 5, he's done.
He was 3.
You had a 3k, 3k, 4k.
Okay, there you go.
Okay, there you go.
Two kills in three rounds.
Okay, three rounds, two other rounds, or one VX's.
And now he's gotten two kills further
in one round, but not.
So, he's obviously slowed down.
When he starts slowing down, which of course is natural,
you can't save every single round.
Just Lingo is not still yet to open up.
Can I get this big disparity of being a three, three half
into a five, three deficit?
Ideally, when I get either, you know,
the stardom keeps him out,
so he's now sitting on 20 kills,
or Lingo has gotten to like a five, eight position
and it's somewhat stable.
You should have pure nubbler scheme, obviously it's not that simple and you can win without getting killed by one player, yada yada yada.
But in that previous round on top of defense, it certainly felt like a lack of firepower to server and that's a freebie, Thor is droning.
You know, you get punished for doing the right thing sometimes and that's all of it.
Bro, when you're droning, the hub is too late and he dies.
Spurkin as a stealthy person who has died while droning, many times I'm sure, Pengu.
I've also fake calls to me being clear and then come one jumps in and dies and then go not bad.
Oh you say?
Nah dude. Nah dude you shouldn't have known.
Sometimes you blame the person that died.
Well who needs drones when you feel operators like Solid Snake which can close down the business too fast.
Ooh!
Careful Feno, don't have a pig here.
Don't need to give heretics back the advantage, but he hasn't been able to retreat back years yet.
5v3, this round should be 1, as long as they don't allow the refrags to come through, which is exactly what AQI has just achieved onto a LEMs.
Okay, if there's any way they can... Wait, he's in the bomb site. That's Riaz. Like he's literally in there.
and diffuses
I thought I'm square
if they can leave though
on top square holding the flank
and just get the diffuser case then
no mind
I mean who knows
maybe possible this is very strange
to see rebels completely
at the adding the bombsite here
they're not even camping the deep
they don't even know they have a retake
they surely do
Fennel would have seen it
when he got that shot it started around
maybe guys, I don't know
Very weird round, very very strange. The Rebels can actually get into the bomb site and plant everyone from Rebels as offside right now, kill us in.
As I say, that fellow does retake, hit the fire, does make things more challenging for Rebels, and now they start dropping back to side.
Here comes the retake, one kill for Rebels as all he gets before Rebels find the first of four they will need to lock in playoffs.
I'm not sure the heritage are overthinking that, they saw the case was down on the civil
stairs and it seemed like they thought that all the defenders were camping in the caves,
therefore they gotta start doing the backstep play, flying out the lobby stairs, you know,
going top square.
Obviously, we have to benefit of Silhouettes and with the neutral perspective here.
That wasn't the case at all.
It literally felt like rebels didn't know they had to diffuse her, but also weren't
playing for the bottom side.
So it was very strange.
Sadly here just couldn't get to the case and go for a plant. They end up dying the process.
Let's try it.
Capita up and away. Big fan of this. One of those big power operators that just makes top floor and basement so much harder to defend because there's few areas of safety just gets annihilated by the fire.
Then you're in the spawns as you saw those problematic top floors.
But there's good individuals here for rebels. They wander once, take out the opening gates, and that's it, even around.
I can't afford to make any mistakes though on this defense, you don't have to keep going.
Obviously you've won the tertiary bomb site and you've got to go down the basement, you've got to go top.
You've got to go back again to your tertiary and win that.
Like how on earth do you expect to win another rotation of three different bomb sites
when they struggled the last time they played this basement and they struggled as well on the top floor.
I was thinking the same thing actually, but I was just kind of processing what he was
going to lock in his final operator.
Grim is, you know, murderers on the scavenger.
Wait, why am I still throwing?
What do you mean?
He got his one.
It's scavenger.
It was...
Okay, okay.
Hold on.
Let me just think back.
an APL, wasn't it beautiful to be an APL player where a player played Scopos every single round? Yeah, it was.
Yeah, I did that one. I forgot who did it. We saw a huge Scopo spot personally. It was an APL.
Yeah, that was the very first player of EML I want to say.
Why is Scopo T played back onto a basement of Café?
That was revelry. It was Marto. It was literally Marto. He watched out for 1v3 against Falcons. I remember that.
Yeah, that's how they would cost the upstairs.
You can't really run off the game, right?
As cool as much as I've ever seen.
All right, I take it back, Markzoo.
After you pull that off, you can play it as much as you want, man.
Well, he's going to try and make his main play again.
He's in the main staircase.
I think he's going to be feeling bad here.
He shows it dry.
He's dead.
Wow.
Markzoo is not going to do that same thing this time around.
But, oh, hold up.
Akri started sprinting.
But the thing is, Ass wasn't in the nearby area,
So now he just gets one for untreated
But I want to be a piece of the act crazy thing about like getting a kill is there's actually like five players in the server
And you know, the stairs are fully clear. Nice shot though from Riaz. So it doesn't matter that we got traded
Still using the roamer up and alive
Individual right now in the server. Oh look it's here, some of the main stairs to shotty
He's not a linch losing the room in open areas like kitchen and he's gonna be done for in a second
but ass is going to come back up.
Oh, that's a nice one.
Oh, nice trade.
Like, Aster one might as well be on stairs.
Wouldn't be the first time Rebels have nobody on the bomb site.
You remember last time?
It's working. I mean, that's the case.
I mean, you just get open air and use wind now on the...
This is actually wind with maps.
Is it a strong position for this?
1v2, there's so much you to the speak of here.
I'm not sure about these drones. I don't think they do.
It's very risky
He drops down the time
How do you play this if you're heretics though it's so tricky
You just try it
You just re-frag well
Maybe be a little bit tighter than that
Oh my god are you kidding me
What?
Wow
Assa has really watched up like
He's made team heretics look very silly
And Asla has so much to be thankful for in that scenario.
Massive clutch for him.
That round he'll never have been one.
That was a 2v5, bro.
Wait.
He doesn't look particularly happy about it.
The whole game round was played in like open area
and bottom square on a basement.
It wasn't even really like a roam,
because everyone died on the staircase.
Like two kills happened here in the main stairs.
One kill happened in open area.
What happened in square?
Two here, but an inch.
Two here, three.
There was a drone in that position as well, man.
Crazy.
I mean, it was so underwhelming in a way.
They won the round, but...
They're not the sound that comes in the game.
I'm pretty sure he's realizing just how awful they played that round.
Oh, I think that's... I mean, I'll be honest, like, I didn't know how to cast.
I didn't know how to describe what I was looking at, because that was such a funny round.
Different, yeah.
But I think that the player comes to tell that story even better than I could have.
It's good things. Cannot believe. I never for a second thought that he was gonna win that.
Like, and then just out of nowhere, heretics throw caution to the wind.
I'm happy because...
Has someone called Kills now, by the way? Linko still doesn't have any.
It's about like, I'm just gonna say, reliability.
It's about taking responsibility to try and stay in guys.
We wonder about, okay, if this cannot happen again,
we gotta do better or change or whatever the case might be.
I have no idea if this is in the French,
but it felt very much like you lost
but you won't touch an area.
Just be guess only, just be guess only.
Okay.
So I want to speak a word of French.
Besides that, most people, cool.
Oh, that's what it means.
Ha ha ha ha.
I mean, if I'm laying, I'm saying that.
I think it was Lingo that had a visual crash at the camera and I feel in Spain when you're the one having a hard time and their ground is paying out like that, you're still frustrated because you feel like you should be doing better and your teams who are doing better are also like trolling a little bit in that round and you're ready for this fight.
Hold on here, there might be something. You can also talk about fire extinguisher and look through it.
Oh, here's an aggressive plane trying to go up the stairs.
There's a couple more.
Vinko finally gets off the donor onto the bag yet.
4v4, as Rebels try and hold on.
It's break point here. Whoever loses this round cannot look away at the three points.
Rebels need to spoke badly and Heretic seem to be fumbling the bag.
Finally hurdle.
Zara, thankfully finds a big pick onto the clutch king from last round.
ground can they get in the building now and force that plant down and one more
frag grenade here from Lolo if he continues it to dislodge the player
inside our janitor it's gonna be Mato the top fragger alive on the warden that
could change everything that's the last nade there are no more smokes no more
yinca delas so it's just down to gunfire to the two-finger boost so here it takes
desperate to strike first and get the initial pick and get numbers of answers
out the info that could be all good it's right there pull with a shotgun waiting
for the fight gets up expose himself Zara wants to jump over I think linker
has the reed on it as well look at him rotate it's given a lot of space up to
heretics the lens is still just waiting patiently rebels do not need to make a
move. This is it. This is going to lead you to the round. Right, here the shot. And there's nice first shot, control second.
And the third one, every single member of Rebels joins the Thray. Heretics, that's so close, but no, not to be.
And with that, they fumbled three in a row and let Rebels get back to exactly where they want to be on the verge of locking in playoffs.
one more round pangu and we already have our top six in eml locked down but now this is
where the pressure is highest right because they probably know what the stakes are right now
they know that they need this round inviculation it's going to be everything to them now heretics
could just do something crazy right now right go for whether it's going to be a rush something
creative a digital
I
Feel like rich really want to be annoying you just forced in the rush something extremely
Yeah, just do it. Yeah, I'm
I am all about it. And look you say the heretics have nothing to lose. They literally have
Nothing to lose. They're on second last place at the moment
and while they technically can
Go up a few places. They can't make it to play. That's no I don't want to
If they win this game and maybe get some points next week against Twisted Mines, they might be able to jump over at Twisted Mines.
We're talking about a slight increase in prize money of a few thousand dollars.
Yeah, I got a few thousand dollars. It's nothing to write about, nothing massive.
Hey, money is money.
Money is money, but I think what matters more is just the reputation, the confidence.
you're representing an organization a new organization as a free something as
well you need to be taking home wins even if you're not taking home trophies
so for heretics there's far less to lose and there is the rebels where it
feels like everything is on the line
time to watch
I'm a little bit nervous that first pick because rebels were gonna get the initial
I mean that that's gonna increase their win rates significantly
That's your number is level
Remember Lollipop played this bomb site is the tertiary bomb site
And remember everyone from rebels are picking up information
I know I know but I'm sure they're gonna lock it in this little round. Here's Linko
He's got tube to nature's barrel. He gets alive Martha drops his little potatoes
No one helped him on the smoke also used one toxic babes, so they're falling back relatively early
It's going to be hard destruction, it's going to be low down the ramps, they can do a lot
of pretty talents here, they got famous tracker.
I would say heretics are a favorite in the current position of all things, they got the
right tools for the job.
They even have door and blackboard, so when they want to go for an HQ later on they can
just drop down the hatch or walk in any of the bombs at doors and just really look for
a plant potential.
But it still comes down to us as a 64, who gets that first initial hit?
It's a good cut as well from Zara, he can completely control that elevator hallway.
The very least it's perceived pressure, at best it might even be a kill, but it looks
like heretics want to do what is fairly default to exactly what you said have the blackbeard
drop down the hatch, look for an execute, look for a plant, I have seen this gone wrong
a thousand times.
Mato's already low HP though, the lookings are flying the main staircase the moment they
They drop him to for retail to play on their appellate. It's not timing. He's gonna go upstairs. He's found the gap
You know
Zara and your right door has no cover beneath his self takes down Marto and that's the smoke
This might be the moment where her
That's going to push us deeper the plant is all but confirmed
After the linko you have to read day. Ask there's had a huge clutch on this bomb site before he's gonna have to do it again
1v4 as he finds the first of the TCSG heretics
Know what it feels like to fumble a moment like this. They will not give him the opportunity again
Little bit of damage on the road. They for us. Uh needs to get in position
To get on that diffuser
There are multiple players watching him and on from the third Lolo from on high
Takes him down and sends heretics into OT. Oh
Oh man, they've done it. They're crossing the upset round by round. They're piecing it together.
Heretics, again, if they can actually get into an execute position, we've seen it now on top floor, seen it in open area.
They know what they need to do. Now, there were a couple of gaps, a couple of potential mis-timings.
The person watching the flank on both the main hallway below and the top hallway above, he was flicking between on the rappel angle.
And if you have bad timing that's gonna leave just a couple of seconds where a flank could go through it
That is exactly what happened now
Thankfully it wasn't door on the blackbeard who died who was the most covering him and then he got traded back by the player watching the flank
Door then kills the smoke which gonna be the plant and liar and that wins them the round
But it's literally being a super precise and calculate round ends a beam of a clutch one for heretics
But they've gone to a team by attackers gonna go on defense rebels on the attack things who switch around
Yeah I am scared here very scared for Rebels they can no longer guarantee playoffs
tonight but they can put their best foot forward even just an extra point out
of the overtime win compared to the overtime last would be big five seconds
to go so as the standings are right now with Rebels getting the one point from
over time on point minimum that puts them onto nine points which means that if they
are to lose it over time to shifters tomorrow they will still go through so
they only need six points because then they would go to 11 and shifters would
only be able to go to nine so even if rebels lose here they've done
themselves a favor for their match against shifters but they can still do
it even better
So far, just close enough the game cleaned you, right?
We've seen the player canceling red balls when they're winning a bat round and it's
not looking too happy, so you want to finish off tonight with a victory, going to the next
playday feeling a little more confident about it, and just take away what we can learn from
this game, get better for the future.
But now it's going to be a bit of a util game, rune lasers and the hatches, it's going to
be a ward and a downstair, the stairs, which we saw what happened previously, and I can
turn it back.
What?
Freaking-
Reloading-
What?!
You can just- you can just walk in and kill him.
Mario can just walk in, hold right-click, press left-click, and deal all the most problematic positions in the game on bang.
But so, he didn't have his glasses activated, so he would have gotten flashed.
You can tell when a warden has his glasses activated because his eyes glow blue.
And so I think what happened is Mario just thought that the glasses were inactive, and he said,
Well, I guess I can just flash this guy.
That plus he's having a shotgun, plus the elevation.
You're right, the shotgun is never going to win a fight against a Piz.
Right.
Not unless you shoot at toes.
Yeah.
Not going to explode at toes.
Wow, big nitro.
Good trade, however, that kill will not be confirmed.
Fortunately, because we're having a shoot player on the spacing bones,
which means you can plant on the default wall and not get shot from the garage,
trying to block the MRA.
And that changes your entire position because they have another option.
That combined with the EMPs here on the Lynch's stature means they can then catch NEC4s even through a smoke if they want to smoke it up.
So Rebels looking very much prior for this one, but they're actually going to do everything the right way.
Get all the hatches, get the backs, that potential.
They notice a thin reminder, but they actually got destroyed with the hatch opening up I guess.
So now they could see the player in lobby.
While they're going for a server, plant and just get that pressure from both sides.
We just squeeze in heretics here in the final moments of the round.
He was just throwing a drone down there helps out a little bit now add that
extra layer of pressure. Dora prepared his nitro cell but I haven't
feeling Rebels gonna go deep here they're not just gonna go for a shallow
plant. Marto is low a shallow plant might not work thank you the plan one
year ago. Marto will catch the C4 but the EMP catches the C4. Plant goes down.
Marto will fall. Damage is done onto heretics and now they must retake
Linko up above. He's found a few more kills now. He's feeling confident and he's in prime position to deny this retake from Heretic.
They're playing watch the flank. They're taking watch of the hatch. Actually they're in the front of the hatch. They're smoking the corner and he goes down.
This is where Heretic's get back into it. Thankfully for a lens he's found one. There's not a lot of time.
Heretic's have to go up above. Linko is still waiting inside of admin office.
There is no way that heretics will be able to prevent this from above!
Linko's watching!
Reaza has absolutely no chances and Rebels will find their attack and they will find
yet another opportunity to take match point.
It's so clutch.
Alem just sitting with one EMP with that shirt against the one C4 and he catches it and
they trade.
The Blitz does die, but the plant is confirmed and we see all the other poses playing out.
I'm not sure exactly where Rheus was going, he was going like into a top-server stairs,
into the wall looking for a thank-watcher, but regardless, Heritage is not able to respond fast
enough, Rebel is looking. Dare I say, better and better as time goes on, but these kinds of engagements,
they shouldn't be happening, you should never take down the war that effortlessly,
but it's so little, no backup, no trade-off in the source.
That's like a once in a... once in a stage of anything that happens.
Yeah, and if you're the one walking around, you're really kicking yourself out.
What a good moment from Lolo.
Now Rebels have to do what heretics could not and defend this basement bomb site.
It's been an attack as paradise for a lot of this game, but
at the end of the day, Penger, it has been three, three halves.
even technically mostly on the back of clutches on the defensive side but that's
said you know from Rebels it's been clutches on the attack with Mato as well
he's had a big impact. Aston's almost caught up with him by the way I want to give some credit to
the whole Rebels squad this hasn't been a one-man show he could say the same on the
the heist, look at that, aqueous on 13, you got 3 players on 11 kills.
So again, a master of who strikes first, you know.
You just hear that, the smoke early, you get a 3p, you get a service there, it makes a huge difference.
It's gonna force the TP away, which actually I believe is between, is it ATM and then,
yeah it is.
Okay so they found the clone.
Yep.
That's it.
Nice little niche trick in the Barricade of Thors as well.
There is one small thing, the Barricade of the single door from the inside.
You can always tell where side of the door is barricaded from as a reinforcement.
If you wanted to really sell the bait, you need to have a teammate reinforce it from
the lobby side itself said you have no way of telling somebody was in there.
But yeah, I think heretics know what they're up against here with Marto and how much that's to go.
Ooh, good info from the defender watching the cam just calls out to Linko to go for that quick peek.
Although it goes down, that's going to be a tough flip following for heretics.
Losing the sledge is not the end of the world, but just losing a player in general is very
rough.
The still heretics have to deal with blue.
I don't think it's going to be as easy for them as it was for Matzo last round.
Oh, it shouldn't be, surely.
The lambs just want to, well, he's like, the most experienced player in the zero right
here, right?
He's trying to hold it down.
You know, the damper's tracker, he's going to move it shut for a long time, but...
Oh, he's loading.
Hasn't peaked the main stairs because he was punching the bob wire.
a bit of a maybe they're just playing a shock on each staircase but yes most
should never be in a line to die early on the space and bottom side you should
say something to go to the scope was for example
again these add by the demos this could be trouble he has no full-on server
behind him but he just sees a demo's track
they must have known it by the way it's handled in his pocket
That's true, getting P from below, one-players, he can't cover away with any kills.
It takes Aerotix a while, but they do finally confirm those shots.
I don't know if that plant spot gets the charge, but it looks like the hatch in the air is smoky, man.
Three Toxic Daves, 40 seconds left, he only just breached the wall, that would be run over potential.
They're probably gonna go for fire from there if he can have the hatch, it was a poison stash, but...
Careful, Linko's gonna find that kill, but eventually Feta goes down for one of these to hatch.
Mato needs to have his moment. He's had so many moments like it in this game and now a 1v4
Finds the first do not give him an inch. He will take a mile
Heritage forcing the plant down out goes the attack. It might line up an angle almost finds it. There's a second kill
That goes down into the 1v2 low HP, but don't count it out
pistol goes forward
He doesn't know where these two heretics players are once safely above the hash
But neither are picking him at the moment. He will have to take two 1v1s. Very unfavorable 1v1s and the bees
Will reveal his position if he marches too far forward. You're on straight through them. He might well get picked now
And indeed he will Dorot and put the nail in the coffin for rebels and we go to a
15th round to settle this marathon of a match
It wasn't going to be D2 vs pro going the distance. No, it was going to be team Heretic vs Rebels.
They're not going to go and need 15 rounds. You see from a limbs player cam as well.
They're not losing, they're not winning, but it just felt like they're not happy with the results.
They're not happy with how these rounds are playing out and I get it.
It's been scrappy siege. It's been messy. Again, losing the smoke on the main staircase.
case when you have operas like a slow pass who already lost the shell a thorn but all the razor
booms put a pre place on the map oh man heretics they're gonna call attack time out on seven seven
if to call attack time out to just really lock in this one final upcoming round
oh man i really hope they're cooking something special for this round yeah it's gonna be another
round of defense as well by the way. Do they go back down to the basement, Pengu? We've played
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven rounds of basement. Half the rounds in this game have been
played on that basement floor and almost all of them have been won by the attacking side. There's
only one defense win and that was Aster's 1v5. No, so that was... I don't remember that specific
round, but it was... I think that was when Marto got his pick on the Skopos off site.
But yeah, I mean if Ferret takes it to the side to go back down to the base, it just feels like a huge risk to me
but at this point what bombsite do you think?
Chill us out guys.
In a 7-7 game of Tom Foolery, you must fall commit to the bid, which would mean going to the 4th and never play bombsite.
It would be chaos to do that.
Hold? Ah, this is still pretty good though, I like the open area pick.
I do think by like a lot of metrics I actually rate open area over basement and top floor unless against like specific play styles
Perhaps teams that are unable to like go for like really said executes just because open air gives you like the whole map to work
You can start top floor drop a hatch lurk on the basement staircases
The bums of the self has relative good amount of cover. You can play hatches open, hatches closed
First you can reinforce the quad walls to bottom of the square, you leave one open, you can do some Kai 2 bomb trick, and if no, it's open, you can play Clash, like, I think it has a lot of flexibility because it gives you so much to work with.
It's very cheap.
I fully agree, I think this is one of the most versatile bombsites.
Because it is so strong to hold on the bomb site, unlike Teluzar guys either, unlike top floor, that just allows you to play so much more of the map and still fall back and get that niche.
Let's see how Rebels go on the attack.
Win here would be very valuable, while it wouldn't confirm that the playoffs would put their best foot forward going into their final match against shifters in their last playday of EML groups.
Heretics, their next game is against Twisted Mind, so we're also trying to fight for that groups, or rather that playing off-spot as well.
Heretics could play spoilers for two different teams.
What's going on?
The biggest Heretics fans right now are shifters.
They're probably watching this, just clenching, you know, they're like, c'mon, go around you.
You've always a 7-7 please don't do it for nothing finish it get the job done
Acre will take the people and take 40 damage
Fino can I call him again?
Acre by the way, he's put up to Marta
Marta's been a demon on
mostly
Defense right? Well attack actually, I should say
So he's been shining he's there again out of the lion
Is this Fennel with a gap maybe? Oh, they're no way, man. He won't stop, they'll be the end of him.
Yeah, that's not a gap. I don't know. He's laughing. I get it. I said he's one. Oh, here comes a drop.
Zara wants to go hunting. I think Fennel's got the read. He's got no flashbangs. He's elected to bring in the enemy fed.
They are hunting him down. Bolo is also dropped. Out comes a target. Goes on the door out, which is not one of the players that he's currently on.
the players that he's currently fighting.
Mato Minwiro speaks up from a barge and takes down Zara,
the other one for Rebels.
As they look to flood the site,
Lolo caught out of position.
St. Feria is inside of Archives.
It's protected now by both the Doka be called
and the Lion's Scan.
It doesn't get much worse than this for Lolo.
He's being locked down from Linko up above.
He takes the 40 damage.
Still Rebels are not rushing,
they're not over committing to this.
The lens is hiding in the corner as Linko polishes off Lolo.
It's Riaz doing his best, but a flawless round is one hell of a way to finish off what was anything but a flawless game from Rebels.
They needed the regulation of him, they could not find it, and so their fate will be determined next week between Rebels, shifters and twisted mines.
Not the cleanest of teams, but it was each game, that's what I'm sure.
Now LAM is in the rest of the brand, they have frustrations and now they can go back and watch
this game, learn something from it and go stronger to future playday.
For now let's sit back and find something nice to this.
Thank you very much guys, what a barn burner of a final game. We said it might have some chaos
between these two teams, a newly promoted teams, but that's exactly what we've got as well.
It seems like girls are gonna close it out here. It's explode back and then just an over time
Yeah, it does feel like both teams had
Look at it would show their talents as well like what one of the big things with Eric is I don't think that any of the players about whatsoever
I think that they're all really good players. They deserve to play at pro level
Lolo is perfectly able to go and get the triple fill with one on those stairs
At least perfectly capable of going hiding finding one spot with this and area and getting a multi kill
Yeah, every player on the side of Eric is gifted
individually, they got all these nasty shots, but the thing is, it's the same thing for
Rable's side. It was just a game of punishing the easy mistakes from each team, and so the
cool thing is, look at this by the way, that was the toucher that touched the C4 so that
he could plant. Both teams are capable of these small tricks, right? And the thing is,
when nobody's perfect, and when everyone is able to pull off their own main tricks or
multi-kills, it's gonna get very close, and that's why this game was so, so close, because
everyone had the potential to win a specific crown.
Rebels are going to rue the fact that they went to overtime though. Had they've got this game
done in regulation, which they could well have done, you know, they were very much in contention.
They could have done it, got it done in regulation. If they did get it done in regulation,
they would have been confirmed to playoffs. As it is, we will now move to tomorrow,
and that gaming edge shifters just becomes basically the order. And that is probably the thing
that they might be most frustrated about. Yes, they did win. Yes, it is still in their own hands,
but they could have got it done and they've ultimately failed about 5-1.
And especially I think the thing is they were leading 5-3, they were on the stronger side in the sense that
Heretic's always historically struggled in attack, they were the worst attacking team in the league, sorry.
So I think they all felt like they should have won that one in regulation,
realistically with the talent that Red Bulls has on the roster, with the upset that they caused in the league,
with the big teams that they were able to beat in regulation.
On paper, this should have been a clean regulation victory to go to playoffs with confidence.
And I think that despite the win, they will be very disappointed that they had to go all the way to the 15th round to win this.
Nearly that big glitch from Asa, right? That managed to get them the game.
It's always going to be a wood-acquitted shootout in situations like this.
Yeah, it goes to show once again the talent on both teams.
I think it was a game of everyone trying not to lose.
Really, it felt like it, right? A lot of hesitation, a lot of crazy moments, some restaking as well, some rushes, like...
And I think this game had it all, and I think it really highlighted both the strength of each team in, like, certain players that go and create some crazy situations.
And then the weaknesses as well, right? The moment where they hesitate, the moment where they make big mistakes, the misdrones, the gaps that were created for other players on the other side to go and create some insane multiples.
I think there's one player standing by that's currently listening to your feelings about this game.
But we'll ask Alems how he's feeling after this game.
Good evening Alems, congratulations on the victory.
That was a pretty tense matchup, huh?
Yeah, yeah, it was. It was close, then it should be to be an S, but we're happy that we take the win at the end.
Alems, are you somewhat frustrated by the fact that it went to overtime?
I'm not sure if you know this, but if you'd have got it done in regulation, you would have secured the playoffs.
But as it is, it does move through to tomorrow's game now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but at the end of the day, it's still in our hands, so I think it's fine.
And the most important thing is to not have lose tonight, so it's still in our hands, it's just us now.
How do you feel in terms of confidence going into the game tomorrow?
You see, looking at shifters, they've been a really bad momentum lately, like they've struggled hard,
where you guys have been a little bit more seesaw-affected, you have some really good games,
also some games where you're just a little bit poorer, but you've showed more, I guess, highest highs.
Do you think that you have the upper hand mentally in the game against shifters for tomorrow?
To be honest, even though the score didn't show like confidence, we were very confident.
I think we did some stupid mistakes and Ericsx played good on some moments.
for tomorrow I think we're gonna just play our game we are calm normal and if
we play good if we don't do like those stupid mistakes I think we win the match.
Alright well we've already spoken about you and your experience that you really
have inside this league. Technically you two still are promoted teams to
email from the Challenger series. Anything you want to say to Heretics
that they won't make it to playoffs anything that they maybe should focus on
or anything that keeps their spirits going at the stage too.
Is he laughing?
No, no, I have nothing to say.
I think they are a young team with young talents like Zarami and Riz.
They are very good players.
They just need to stick together and work.
And that's it.
Just keep going, keep going, keep going.
They have far, far longer career ahead of them.
That's it.
Well, as we spoke to you earlier about this,
it worked out for you as well to keep going eventually.
Thank you for your wives words and good luck with an important matchup tomorrow. Yeah, thank you
Thank you for the interview. Thank you for the casting and take you to all the fans
At rebels and see you tomorrow
Awesome. Oh, I like the call was there. See you too far once again. Thank you to a lambs for his words there
Yeah, I was and why is worse as well towards, you know the other teams and thank you for you know for making
Yeah, thank you for making a penguin wrong and making us right. It's it's the important thing in the end not really the two points
Yeah, just that we were still right
right, if I, and you just, turn your quotes by the way, because at the beginning you said
the heretics were gonna win. No, I'm objective, I didn't say heretics were gonna win, I said
they liked the map in the character series, and they would put in some performance, some
better performance than they did previously, so I was actually right twice, go me. I actually
agree with that statement, I will take that plus on my end, I will say that, I will say it once
again, I think that heretics surprised everyone by playing, you know, I think quite better than
and what they hit during the stage.
And I think it's also a testament of that team.
And that's what I meant when I said,
at the beginning of this match, just in the free game,
I don't think that they should go for such changes.
I'd like to see this team move forward.
I'd like to see them gel together a bit longer.
They've now had nine, well, they will have nine play days
behind them.
So obviously, basically, they're out of the playoff run.
But still, they've had a lot of experience now with kickoff.
And we should start to see the glimpses of hope
that we've seen in this game, maybe take them further in stage 2.
Alright, well it was a pretty one-sided day with how important this day was, with the exception of course, of the final matchup.
Looking at our results from our games, very much one-sided, as we say.
As you know, we're getting a 7-5, we're a 7-3 as well on the side there,
but I like how this keeps things exciting going into tomorrow.
Yeah, very much does. I think, you know, there wasn't particularly any massive, massive upsets,
maybe you've been the final game going into overtime, but you know heading into tomorrow
We actually have some huge games
You know the the leaderboards going to be looking very very tight very compact
We come from five teams for playoffs ultimately and then there's one game
There's one game that stands out and it's that second game
It's rebels going up against shifters because the top and bottom of it is if rebels win or achieve over time
Then they are fruit if shifters win then they are fruit and into playoffs
So that's all that you basically need to worry about.
And if we look at the standings after that,
I'm just trying to figure out if there were
where Twisted Mines can take over both of them.
So if we would be in a situation where you would have
on one side, let's just say that Rubble's wins in,
they lose in overtime, Shifter's wins in overtime.
So at this point, they're tied in a point,
we'd have Rubble's on 11 points,
you'd have Shifter's on nine points,
and Twisted Mines would be on seven.
So Twisted Mines could still win going to 10.
They would really tank, they need rubbles to lose in regulation, shifters should win in regulation,
and then somehow Twisted Minds would need to win somewhat like 7-0 to try and overpass shifters in terms of round difference.
Yeah, and then there goes the mini leagues and all sorts of stuff.
Exactly, so basically like you said, the rubbles, shifters game tomorrow is something that you do not want to miss,
that will define who will make playoffs, and we'll put a lot of pressure also on Twisted Minds and Herodix game,
because maybe Twisted Minds still has a shot.
and pick a picture of wise players in bottom because players will then qualify to EWC
and if you go on, should any of these teams go on to then go and win EWC,
that's 6-invitational qualification and that's the tournament that one wants to be at.
And S9 points. S9 points will be key because you're getting a lot of them throughout the playoffs as well.
So it's going to get you a nice solid base going into stage 2 to build off
and to continue that momentum kind of there. So a lot's at stake for us tomorrow. As we said,
we don't always get to have a final day of groups where there's still that many teams in
contention for important spots on the leadboard because it's not just a top six, it's also not top
two or top four, whether in regards to positioning and who you're going to play against in your
first match and who you'll then face once you drop down. So, so many implications but I think it's
time that we take some time off here so we can go calculate everything and crunch all the numbers
and see what the possibilities are and what the possible scenarios are. That is it for our one
to final day of EML groups tomorrow, 5PM, Perface, any idea what we're doing this time?
No drawing, any ease.
There will be a little bit of nostalgia, which will be really fun for any long-time
e-sport viewers on Siege, we will see some really funny clips, that's for sure.
And then, I think, is there something with hot sauce or something, I don't know.
No idea.
No idea.
But it definitely wouldn't be a meal for sure if we didn't have some kind of trip down
memory lane.
I think that's one of the things we'll be doing tomorrow.
But the best thing is that it's best thing for us. We just don't know. We just don't know. We turn it. We turn it. We have fun and hopefully you do too
That's the that's the that's the you
I yeah, you're completely banned from driving anything from the park. Yeah, that was that was questionable
But it's all right. We have a lot of different games to play of course will be done here tomorrow with Milosh at 5 p.m
A CESD so make sure to tune in for that when the stream starts early tomorrow and after that of course the all-determining
determining important final playday of EML groups.
We thank you so much for watching.
We hope to see you again tomorrow.
Have a good rest of your night.