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Welcome back to the APL. It's time to dig into our final playday of Asia. Here in the
Asia Pacific Earth and joining me as always, Pengu! We're back down in APEC again and
things are getting spicy. It's time to set the stage for the stage finals of one final
day of Asia and the exciting is today every single game has a reason to watch
every single game as some kind of impact or some kind of
Nick how you were covering last night I know EML it went pretty late now you've
got an early morning you're asking me you worked all night
through EML from like what 11 p.m. to like 7 a.m. and now you're here so
How much can you, how are you doing, James?
I am ready to get it.
I got my green speed and I'm ready to go.
Of course, let's recap what happened yesterday,
not in EU, but over in OCE.
We had our final play day and that is it.
This is the final standings, of course,
in the APL, only the top four teams go to the stage
for the final climb.
Now we know it's Chiefs, Enterprise Malifaux
and rival Esports who will be going on through
to the stage finals for OCE
and fighting for those two spots in the upcoming EWC.
But there was a particularly crazy moment yesterday, Nick.
Six targets.
A team that was right at the bottom of the standings
actually had an insanely crazy moment against Chakadami.
Yeah, the fact that there's just
going to be a clutch, I'm thinking, maybe it's
going to be a short series when I walk in here
and get a couple kills.
No, you get shot on immediately.
It's going to be a run through my planning
on the side itself with only 30 seconds to go,
just going for a desperate attempt here.
There's just this incredible 1v3,
then the positioning,
ice-litting gunfire,
so I'm used to the clip for yourself,
to place it perfectly.
Yeah, I love to see it.
Of course,
six targets are a team that have struggled a lot.
They've been a bit of a friendship team for a long time.
Goats like on the roster,
but a right who hasn't really made a name for himself
before clutched up big 1v3,
hitting double digits in the first four rounds of the game.
Absolute cinema.
It was a great result.
I gotta say, APAC really does deliver a lot of fun and crazy results.
And I expect it to be no different here.
These are our games for tonight.
And thank you.
Like I said, every single game.
Every single game matters.
It's completely correct, James.
The thing that you're going to think, OK,
one of them is going to be at stake here.
Well, for Fassada, the most battle for last place.
Hades will tour up against Ilavid.
That's going to be a story if anything can get out
of that position.
currently they're actually head of future tour but if they lose to them they're going to actually be overtaken.
That would be a disaster for them and in the final phase as well, give Daystar vs Waco literally the battle for first.
And speaking of these placements, let's look at the standings, get a better idea of exactly where everybody lines up on the points courses to me here.
Let's have a look at the standings for Asia APL.
Man, it has been a bit of a back and forth.
There's been a lot of hype here in this region.
And I think a lot of that comes from the fact
that we obviously lost a second spot to the major.
Yeah, in Salt Lake City, yeah.
Obviously, WaveR had performed so well,
the best out of any APAC team for the longest time.
And that really changed in Salt Lake City.
So WaveR and Daystar both went to the Sixth Medtational,
both went deep to Salt Lake City.
But then because, again, the prize in OCE
performed better, now OCE has stolen Asia's second spot,
Which means that it's a massive dogfight here, Waybo at the top, but of course Daystar are equally impressive so far, 6-0-0-0, and then a battle for the mid-pack in Orchid and Sol's heart.
And also Scyken Company, you know, the top three teams, Waybo, Daystar, Orchid, are all already locked in for Stage Finals, but we do have Sol's heart in Scyken on the outside, looking in Fury Elevate and HLT, unfortunately, can't make it.
But we'll see who makes it as that final team later tonight.
For now though, we have a bit of an old grudge match.
It's Fury and Team Orchid.
Or maybe I should say New Fury versus Old Fury.
Yeah, that's right.
I mean, for the longest time,
like Kolas with the head of this roster,
and now it's just dark remaining
and he's brought in quite a few up and coming gunners.
Labyrinth, of course, is a well-known player
for his 1v1 now performance at the Six of a Tational.
But sadly for Fury, it just hasn't been living up
expectations of that old Fury roster. Yeah, you see last man standing and I mean speaking about
their current history how they've been doing so far in stage one it's been a very mixed back of
results there's gonna be you know a couple of good moments where it's gonna be individual players
stepping up or the whole team working together but the consistency for Fury it's not been there
so you know Dark he's still here he's chasing the line trying to get that right result
for the organization and with the team but they haven't managed to get it here in stage
So really it's about the longevity, the long term for these guys and saying, what can they do in the future?
Going into stage two, what could they learn here in stage number one and just get better and better?
Because as you said, playoffs unfortunately, not within their reach.
Yeah, very much so. Elevate have had, sorry, Elevate.
Fury have had a bit of an up and down course so far.
And if we look back at their results, we do have a lot that it remains to be
desired. Of course, not a lot of wins on the board. They beat HLT
but that's the only game that they've actually taken the victory on while they did take points away from Elevate by going to overtime.
That leaves them with just four points on the board and some pretty embarrassing losses. Let's be honest. 7-0 against Wave-O.
Of course, Wave-O is such a good team, but yeah, if you kind of round against the best,
that maybe you're not in that conversation. You know who might be in that conversation? It's the other
tie boys, the now team Orchid roster representing Fury as an organization for the longest time.
BGMN, Critche, like Colosson, XRLotic, moved over to Team Orchid. They left dark behind
and now they've got peeps. It was actually ended up being the star of the roster, even
outperforming Critche technically by one point on his EPS. Okay. Yeah, those who've been
And Kirit J is going to be mentioning so much in recent times, and he's just keeping up with that power.
But he's actually, as you said, enjoying the other members, and he's giving Orchid not just one way to strike in one tip of the sphere.
They now have various players who can step up and really challenge their opponents both individually,
but also in the current meta of Siege, you know, with the solid snake, the famous, the dog could be having multiple strong players.
Well, you're going to need to have those on those kinds of strong, mechanical, requiring operators.
And we've seen the higher real right now, it's everyone making plays together.
So it's a really good look here.
I think the current roster of Orc, if it's the meta game really well,
you're clearing a lot of fun in the server.
So they're hitting all the marks.
And I mean, they're locked in the playoffs, so happy days.
Yeah, they are indeed locked in the playoffs.
But I'm sure that it's one of the first times that they get to
verse their old organization.
This game will mean something for them, even if it doesn't
affect the standings themselves.
Let's see where we'll be playing today as we dig into our map Vito, of course best of one
The final best of one that will be playing between these teams
For the group stage before we move into best of three playoffs is it gonna be there is it gonna be shall a
Final band to come from orchid and they take us to shall a now
We've seen orchid already play shall a twice
They've loved shall a and layer primarily fury on the other side yet to play this map so far in this stage
that you can kind of play a
map where strategy and like
doing all the pocket one off
strats isn't going to give away
too much your shot book. She
lays a very basic map in that
sense, right about perfecting
the way that you've always
complained the map and just
repeating the same strategy
so they can kind of keep
something in the back for
stage finals and deal with
these department. Of course,
as you say, stage finals is
really where the focus is at
for orchid, but to put their
best foot forward, they
would certainly be able to
they would certainly love to get a big three-point win over their old organization.
Theory stepping up into the big leagues, can they hang with players like La Colas and BG Man and
Critchey. Their rosters evolved. Let's see as we dig into the round. It's time to kick things off on
Shalah. I've got a loving chat of course. Monty Ban, it's a stable, it's a classic,
it's a necessity when you're playing against a team like Orchid or Loster on the shields.
Asami, we often speak about, for example, yesterday during the Immortal Dreams,
you know, operators that affect the entire map, every bomb site and they get picked without
having a high frequency. It can be the smoke, it can be the Asami, it can be operators that
can mirror on certain maps. And it's just about saying that, hey, whatever defense you're
going for, we're going to gain something from it by taking that away this operator.
That's the Asami. Now the Warden, that's a different story because the Warden says,
We're going to spam the ying, the glass, the blitz and get the flashbangs and smokes in there.
And it's actually very well read here because the warden ban came through and at the same time
it's ying in response. So both teams are having an idea of what the enemy is going to be doing,
go with a good bit of a counter play. It's a beautiful start. Yeah, I love that. Love to see
it. Always exciting to see the warden ban come through. I am massively a fan of it and
Like all this immediately jumping on that glass. Yeah, I love the fact that they still go for the warden bed
Like obviously no ying, but you can still use the smoke so you can still use that glass
It just Yuri actually haven't bought any you till that looks through smoke. Of course, you can bring bulletproof cameras
Now you can bring the maestro, but they're not electing to go for any of that
I feel really green some fire at the start right here. And as you can see they do not really pick that glass at all
No, they're committed to it and I think that's the right play to do as well.
I also mentioned operators like you know, you're Deimos, you're Solid Snake, you're
Dokka B and Orc could also pick in two of those operators and they're getting the IQ
in case of any gadgetry, no information, the air-cooled developer, etc.
They get the Lion which pairs so well with Dokka B and Solid Snake because you
can force through the standstill while the phone is ringing, force them to blow
up, etc.
And just like in restricting Fury's ability to rotate around the map.
That's a lot about what she lays about, you know, you're playing this master bedroom office one side,
but you're going to be having players downstairs in kitchen dining, holding solarium stairs,
going to have people in library trying to extend across the map as well.
Labyrinth was saying was downstairs, you get shut down, because when you got that solid snake
with a lion's skin, you pop it, you sprint in, you start taking those files as early as humanly
possible. That's going to put them into a strong position to start things off, especially
when you don't have any shield operators in play, which is quite rare, getting an opening
pick. It almost works the same as a shield. We just now have a lot more guns against the position
that don't give me a call and I keep downstairs actually using the scanner on Doku's gadget to get
the floor bang on the mezzanine player. That is something that we don't see all that often.
It's a super old trick that we used to have with Doku B when that operator was first released
but in recent history I cannot recall this being a dedicated play
but it was they called that specific defender it's super super cool.
And here comes another duck would be called follow-ards like maybe I won't do that while I'm on soft floor
Don't want to get in the way of crit J
Careful not to over peek here Damon. It's a lot of it is keenly watching the angle easy pre-fire
Sometimes you just got a lash out when you're in a deficit, but now three players trailing behind fury are not looking good
Oh really looks the wrong way the follow as well
the game. It's going to be
the size of the flawless
victory here. But he more kid
is tired off with a fast
entry. Then using their
gadgetry stabilizing around
further and just reaggress
when everybody's ready for
the push again. It's Shelly.
It's about the small things
and just perfecting the
thing you've always been
doing time and time again,
not giving away too much
strategy, but just getting
better at what you were
already good at. Great to
revive old ideas so we'd love to see it. Fury of course need to be careful it's
never fun going up against one of the top dogs in Asia with the run fury have
had so far especially defending a map like Shalai.
There's been a struggle that we've seen in Asia in particular this stage is
when teams like your your way bow your orchid your day star when they get to play
chalet the enemy when they're defending they're just having no fun and often comes
down to something as similar as like a lion d ma are caught in the cross and
those windows from the rooftops it's just so unplayable it's very much feels
like theory the only way they can be rioted within their defense is to
honestly get open and kill need to win that initial confrontation either it's
gonna be a soul roamer like labyrinth who's way off the bomb site
winning his individual fight or it's gonna be when all kid makes that mean push happen that fury just land their shots
I have a counter see for something like that. What this works, right?
Keeps rush in the building doesn't go to the scanner first
I suppose where it gets caught on time in there. That's what being in the basement must have been timing. I think
Maybe
Far Lord was on the stairs. Sorry. I followed my break was on the stairs
At the time or maybe just at the bottom of stairs
that's what I'm thinking as well but I mean that that's exactly how you have a
win condition now because now you have no more advantage now that execute where
you have like the glass that don't could be the capital their strong utility sure
but you have no more advantage so now it's much more than even footing false
orchid don't get that initial map control that keeps captain appeal is
round so this is already theory in a much more stronger position now comes
down to discipline can they convert this into a run victory can they play
close together and ensure that nobody dies on their lonesome I like the
creative tripwires as well from the Denari a lot of them on site I've seen a
lot of teams lean into the twitch and the brava on chalet to clear out you
too like this fortunately for orca they don't have that available they're the
ones that have to get away into sight and a way to clear out these power
positions. Top mezzanine I'm not exactly sure the way that Orc is gonna be able to
clear that right now. Warbing left soft actually makes that Denarii there's an
easy to take down. Now Denarii himself is long getting targeted. Oh my god, good
name to come through and the E1D forcing Firelord into some aggro actually
misses his shots takes a bit of damage from the phone falls back meanwhile
Lycolis not only finds the first one but also hunts down Firelord this is
great opening from Orchid. There's two smokes from glass and two kills and both of these got a spare set
plus others for Capitao. Double swing here works out so we're dealing with Damon working together
but these both of you calls are going through so you get a fair bit of damage from it.
It's a 3v3 with three both of you calls in pocket and still both cats are fighters. This is very
winnable for Orchid. Damon's gonna be in trouble. Should he just get the Capitao over here and
just get the job done right? He's stuck in the corner. We should know about it.
Yeah, there he goes. He comes to fire.
Aw, perfect!
Taken down to the vert from XRLotic, and now the Dockabee call comes out onto Roldini.
He will answer it. Doesn't want to take the damage, but of course he can be called again
in just a moment from B-15 seconds. Doesn't leave a lot of breathing room for Orchid.
Here comes the fire and the smoke from Crit J. Another usage of smart utility from
Orchid.
Seaford is still available as Darkman manages to sneak on through up against him.
He needs to make sure to deny that plant.
Critchey starting to force it down.
Beachyman hunts down Dark.
Rukini just needs a Seaford on land, but he cannot find it.
Beautiful play from Orchid to erupt into the bomb site to take down their old teammates
and win the round.
It was actually disgusting.
So I relugged it there, right?
They used a counterfire on the stock door.
That means that they can get pushed.
and it timed the final fire with the final line scan
so that they knew if the person was gonna move away
from the fire or maybe try and swing the door itself.
They get full information.
They smoke off the peep, the peep,
the peak host on the left-hand side,
and they drop down the hatch.
While that's happening,
they had X-Lotic with the line,
the amount of spamming a pixel angle,
knowing the defenders had to move
from the stock door into the bar,
and he actually just hit a straight bullet
through that smoke.
Quick day, literally he's walking around
smoking it with one second on the clock trying to help his teammates go for kills and it realizes
I do not have time to go for kills I have to stop planning you'll see it right here
he starts playing with 0.2 seconds or something like that there was almost no time left
there you go bit of hype and energy love that for them
we talked a lot about the uh history of dark versus his old team but something we haven't
mentioned as much is that Roldini and Farlord also had pretty decent stints on that old Fury roster as
well. I'm having a look back. So Roldini, he's played for a ton of different teams, you know, Q
Confirm and Xavier, which of course were formerly that awkward roster, played for Champion and Jaleida,
Arrival 7, Team Kiri even, wow, a lot of different teams, but of course did have a little bit of
of a stint as a substitute for like Holis and the boys. And yeah, the same case for
Fire Lord. He actually had a little bit of time on core about four months in 2025. A
year ago, he was subbing for the Fury roster when they had these Orca players. So yeah,
nobody really that's unfamiliar to Orca. I'm sure that the Tycoon is very tight-knit.
I'm sure that Orc would know exactly how these guys like to play BG man, big kill on the Fire Lord, taking out your DMR player right at the start of the round.
That's a tough pill to swallow for theory.
Another big victory. I mean, even in Orc here, they are, you know, having a tough start to a round like a strong finish.
I can only imagine what happens when they have a strong start. It just looks like it's going to be a flawless one.
Like, Labyrinth on Hell, Fire Lord dead. You're thinking, ah, they got the kite, guys. It's fine. No, they got a Maverick.
memory. There's a response. They just look at this.
Darkest running away, could get from the door.
Just right click left click.
It's a freebie, stays alive from the foreign trap.
You see for a pre-placed out down stairs,
but it's only Damon now on the bar
trying to hold control of the room.
Saddle has got a lot that Fury could do.
I said it was.
Such a significant deficit.
It will be flawless.
Surely Damon now being cut off by Lycola,
is bearing nine in hand.
It's a perfect round from Team Orchid.
now starting to steamroll their opposition.
What can you do for Fury?
This defense has been untenable.
So they had Aruni, they had Denari, they had the Kaikou,
and yet they still faltered just to sheer gunfights.
I feel like this is just Fury taking the fights
in the wrong areas, it's a matter.
You know, you can double down on utility stuff
like your Mira, you can get information,
play a bit of Vert, maybe like your Valkyrie,
like your echo, like a pulse.
They need to either change their playstyle entirely
or they need to take the fights in smart areas.
If you're gonna play wall denial,
you can't die before the walls get opened up.
You gotta, you know, play that win condition.
If you're gonna play the relay circuits
and the bubble shield behind it,
you gotta play that position
and not die to running away from a black pit
who's looking at you.
That silly individual mistakes and fury
and it shows a very big kind of macro problem.
The team is not the size
how they want to play the game strategically and there clearly is not
very strong levels of communication behind that previous round.
Time to take that tactical timeout right after the operator bands come through
for Fury.
Gotta turn it around right now. Yeah. It's again not a game with the highest
stakes because I guess I've said standing twice Fury are locked out of
playoffs or stage finals and all kid are locked in so it's not like all this game determines who's
gonna win who's gonna go out but it's still a matter of you know getting repetition practice
and no perfect ticket in series if you're fearing you've had a top stage upsetting orchid here in
the final play date that's a small victory and the best practice you can possibly get it's not
going to be screaming orchid off stream it's playing them right here in a professional setting
where everyone is trying a hundred and ten percent.
So we gotta see them put more into it.
And Fury got so close in their last game,
they took Elevate to overtime.
That's a big achievement. Elevate's a pretty high roster,
even though Elevate's staring down
one of the last places on the standings.
You beat some veteran players,
and that feels pretty good.
If you beat your old teammates, your old captain,
that feels even better.
And Fury have had some really rough
games so far this stage,
7-0 by Wayboat.
They've also had really good moments almost two points of Daystar there. That was a 5-7 loss for them. That is impressive. Genuinely impressive.
The Fury. That's actually a better result that Fury got against Daystar than Team Orchid did themselves. Orchid only got three rounds off Daystar.
Have higher expectations than what they've shown in these first three rounds.
I want to have to agree with you 100%.
I like the switch up here, right?
As it changes the playstyle, play either stuff like the mirror to a hard hold area,
so play Intel in verticality.
They're counting a mixture of both, not necessarily playing the Intel VRT,
but they're doing the maestro,
the three evil eyes gives you a ton of information,
denies the drones,
it can help peel off any ranged hot destruction for the mirror windows.
They have L-Mines for Intel.
It's a good look on paper,
now comes out to execution.
Do they have the communication going on in the server right now,
understand what the gaps are, which defender is exposed and vulnerable, who needs help and who should
be left alone. Just follow up, sadly his evil eyes are getting hacked by the brava so he's
impacting his own cameras now and that is the issue, playing the maestro without the brava
ban or if you play the maestro and you don't hide it during the drone phase successfully
because we all know the moment you see it brava will get a tech re-paping, you're not going to have a very good time.
Dark on low hp, hunted and shut down by crit jay, another opening take.
Good trade though, and here's a big one for Labyrinth as well
Peeps a little bit out of position there. I'm not sure why he thought that it was clear to go for a lot of money
Yeah, I think Labyrinth is keen to get out of that
Yeah, you're right peeps has been again like so do you know exactly how the solid snake works in terms of when you're detected?
Cuz it's a little bit different obviously if you're on a staircase
Yeah, you're at like a point five
But you often show up on the on the scanner don't you when you're on point five?
Yeah, so I couldn't tell you like every staircase is insane because I'm sure it's map specific
But whatever the in game compass is like coded via
I think that's how it calculates a right
So the in game compass says that you're on one for another. I assume the gadget kind of goes in tandem with that code
So exactly when the staircase it is
I don't know it could be that half the platform is operate half the platform is lower if you go left the right-hand side
I'm actually not sure in the specifics there, but it seems like peeps have died
Like you said twice now to slide elevation differences and not be able to scan his opponent
Well, we can see his elaborate this currently in the basement technically even though he's halfway up the stairs at what point
Will it technically be first floor tree labyrinth is likely gonna peak right now now is in the first floor as soon as he gets up
Those stairs, but he doesn't have the info
Or could start to realize exactly where labyrinth is on the flank and like all this also try and hunt him down
BG also where that position lepre is low. There's no diffuser here for orchid either.
Just one bullet. All you need to land my collars. Caught inside of the barbed wire. BG has to go deep.
They need to find this kill. There is no way they get the plant down here. And I don't think
they've got the time to go for the kills. It's desperate and BG man finds nothing. Fury win the
round. Great job there with distraction. You're a fury, right? You stole for so
So much time instead of barge is running around,
taking some fights and not really wanting to go for the kill.
But they say, hey, look at me, look at me, look at me.
Meanwhile, Foul Lord, who was playing my show
and the bombs are at the entire round,
was playing hide and seek,
playing deep in Solaria, I'm understanding, guys,
they don't have time to go for a plant,
because the future is down inside a bathroom window.
So they go into bathroom, go back to office,
there's seven seconds, that does not line up.
And they knew that one attacker was gonna be in bar,
so it was two separate 1v1s.
So Fioridis don't take the fight and therefore win.
And it goes back to the beginning of the round.
Playing the Maestro, the Ella, the Mira,
these are all operators that take away
a little bit of time on the clock.
Because now, yes, there's a proper counterplay, sure,
but that's an attacker sitting on drones
for 60 seconds of the live action phase.
Just trying to find the evil eyes.
It's gonna be people looking at Mira Rindogore,
oh, I can't deal with that.
Hey, my team needs to rotate on over now
and try to help me.
That also burns time.
And at the end of the day, that's your sixth ally.
the clock is your friend if you're in defense
shelle is a pretty small map though so you can get to site quickly
can go for faster executes but since losing that glazor seems like all could
have kind of changed their mind
in a way that warden ban is kind of nullified now yin and glazor gone
what else are you gonna use to try and capitalize on that
warden ban i don't know maybe a blitz but even then
i don't know
There's a decisive lack of shields, by the way, from Team Orca.
They've only played the Blackbeard that one time.
Wow, followed, man.
That is a width and a half.
I hate to see that.
That's a tough start.
Again, I mean, it feels like Fury just won a round off having a good,
synchronized plan, and then they go into the upcoming round and then it's like,
okay, now we're going to do a solo play, either we get a spawn peek,
or we lose a member.
And it's just again individual heroics versus the whole team being on the same page
Just now on the staircase and and peeps is gonna run into you, but that's true. You can pay them in further
No, not never die solo as well
He was ratting earlier like this is again
It's not really a consistent way of playing the game because look at dark Damon and Rodini
They're playing in bar they're playing in games room and they're playing messing a hole on top of library
They're obviously playing a very set position saying hey, we're waiting for Orca to get to us and they were gonna fight them
But then you have two people one guy don't respond peak one guy pulling and hiding trying to escape the drones home that the enemy misplaced
And they died so it's too very destructive strategies and plan and now here it can they can't hold
realistically unless doctors gives like two or three headshots here
It's time to do it it would be right now down three one
trying to scramble to save this half, spray through the wall, Orcid knows exactly where
he is, there's an F2 coming his way in the hands of peeps, his replacement, will be three
Orcid don't need to over complicate things, but eventually they will be able to take
control, maybe get someone on the windows of the library, maybe on the mezz window,
that would expose dark a lot, but it looks like instead they're focusing up closer
It's a sight. Look at XRLotic and even like Hollis trying to make his entry,
Peace finds one, trying to retreat back to site. Damon will fall. It's Rodini up
against the world. 1v4 is a first kill, but quickly traded back. BG man as Orc
could collapse onto the bomb site from all directions. It's a 4-1 lead for
them. Not enough for Fury to mount a successful half. I mean it was
honestly not a bad attempt in the second half of it because they had a
They're flying going to the arm's stairs,
get hit by an air jab, you know, they sprint away,
they're flying top blue, they're fighting mezzanine,
and that's actually pretty strong.
Given that there's a three-year-old's fight,
that's a great job, but imagine if you had a 5-0-5,
even fair fight.
That's the problem, they're not having
almost any of these rounds being fair
or in their favor.
They're always playing from the clutch position,
with the exception of the round that they did win,
where they had the advantage
for the majority of the round,
it was even at the very end and the one on time.
So I really just think that the individual players
got a cool off a little bit here.
You know, you have teams in the ML like your twisted minds
that their playstyle is just to always take the risky fight.
Always go for the coin flip
and just hope that it lands on your side
and that you're a favor.
And sometimes that's a great playstyle
because you can take down some incredible teams with it
but you have to also realize when it's not working
and when you should maybe try and do something else.
And I think that's where Fury,
their man should be at right now.
So final round in the first half, is there a chance of getting a 2-4 half, which isn't the end of the world,
the shallow defense is actually pretty decent, and they now got tons of intel to work with.
But if you have any members now going for a silly spawnpick and dying early,
it's really hard to enable Roldini on an operator like Ekko,
because can you afford to have an operator whose sole purpose is now sitting on camps,
if you're playing 4v5? It's tricky.
So I want to see people like stay up and stay alive.
Change it, mates!
Does that mean playing more passively? And if so, does that give too much ground to Orchid?
It's like, Heaps is already in the building. He's just using the Solid Snake every round to look like he's coming from the basement.
Gotta be careful around these staircases, though.
Yep.
I think my understanding is it will- so he's currently in the basement. At what point walking up the stairs does it become the first floor?
Because from what I understand-
Someone on the stand, looking at the gadget, like he can see, oh he might actually be spotted
in a second by that yokai coming his way.
Right, now he's in first floor technically.
Goes up close for the fight, but with the pistol out, Labyrinth will win the fight.
The LMI, thankfully for Fury winning it.
On the Westminster case, the second you walk from the platform and you go up the
last of the stairs, you're actually in the first floor.
On the basement of the fireplace, it wasn't like that, you had to go all the way
before you went through school so that could be the differences maybe I'm not
sure if you notice on the scanner from Solid Snake but even when like when he
was holding it he can see the stairs on the scanner all the way to the very top
of the stairs so I'm pretty sure that you would see someone if they're standing
on the stairs even though that's technically not the same floor I gotta
do some testing with that I'm not as easy I don't play a lot of demos I'm
a lot of Solid Snake to be fair and indeed still a very new operator
but that's a costume game right there we gotta put up the game James it's
time in our two-minute break between matches let's get on the school fact check it right now oh is
this a freebie dark is cool suppressor stick out there's no way no way he's not if he's dead
they're looking down a little bit he doesn't know if the breach is clear or not so he's just
hoping to walk in office past him he gets a freebie oh my god they do labyrinth has found one
Now he decides to stand up.
And while his teammates have died, they've done enough damage to potentially mask his position.
He still hasn't fired his weapon. He still hasn't exposed himself.
I think that Orcid might be punished here, but the thing is they're so separated.
They're not nearby to him.
Perhaps in the late round, he'll find a pick.
Coming in upstairs, XRLotic takes a lot of damage from Dark.
Eventually Dark's position will prove fruitful.
Like all us in a 1v3 he won't find it.
Fury, thankfully find a second round of defense before we close the half.
is still possible, but it only will be possible if Fury had been warming up into this game and are now
at 100% capacity because there were a couple moments there when they were playing defense
where it didn't look like they were on the exact same page.
Yeah, but of course, Shelle is a map where you can dominate on the attacking side. We've seen
that plenty, especially in Asia League. Remember every single waiver game we see on this map,
they have just abused the hell out of the Deimos docker beat, undefensive, abused the
the hell out of the traps and look credit to Fury. I really like the way that this is actually a leaf out of
Speakeasy's playbook on both sides. We had Orkid ban the Brava and the Twitch. We had Fury ban the Denari and the
Malusi. Those operators that counter each other on both sides. So Fury clearly want to ban the drone
operators to lead into the traps and Orkid want to ban the traps so they're not have to deal with
those on the bomb site eventually but of course with the current standing of the Operator
Bandphase we have a lot of traps on the board still available like your Fenrir, there we
go, I always get Fenrir and Denari mixed up. The Fenrir and the LR but we don't have the
Twitch and the Brava to deal with though I think this is going to be a challenge for
Fury if Orc could really go big on traps here and have a look at that line up,
We got Frost, Thorn and Fenrir, Jesus.
Even the Aruni, if you count it, Aruni of course no longer has the brava to counter her,
so this is going to be a really challenging attack half for Fury.
So bit of a funny thing to do, and here we are opting for it here.
You can basically say, screw the trap, screw the setup, we're going to brute force
away straight through it.
You can do that over this, like the kids, you're glass, you're ying, but you can
You just kind of throw so much utility in the face of the defender is that they are renegade,
they're frostbite, they're razor blooms, they're not going to really have much of an impact.
There's trap is all about controlling the map space and you know having a fresh hit
on that particular window, a front-up on a staircase and just playing around a lot of
the building.
With having this kind of direct potential you can maybe ignore half of the pre-placed
utility because that's the benefit.
The defender is put down most of the stuff during the drone phase, the tagger is
only have to utilize the stuff in the active round.
So there is too much of a set up on library.
You can just go from, you know,
a direct attack from office, hilarious, et cetera.
Right now it's a split take.
Little bit library, a little bit of solar.
Just taking the distraction.
I've been trying to force the rotation
and make them go away from library
so they can take it for free later.
But Orc and I are not over rotating.
There's still Hunter Masonian,
still things out of Piano Hallway.
Important not to over run and get baited
into seeing an execute.
Oh nice shot down the critchey
Dark is pre-firing as Damon walks inside where the damage taken a lot of damage. I didn't see where that was from perhaps. I
Don't know that he just taken a really good. Is that what happened?
I think a DMR tapping the toes the shoulder from this office line. Oh, I say I'm not sure exactly to be honest
It's a lot of damage onto a blitz. He's still vulnerable like two shots to the feet and he might go down depending on what weapon it is
fighting against him
Still a pretty solid setup here for Orc at the spot losing early mezzanine control.
In the Orc spot here, BGman is going to have to play the office position to his grave most likely.
Peebs going for flank on Fireplay Staircase, so they have different win conditions.
BGman can get a couple kills, Peebs can get the flank going, Exalotic also channel control.
It's theory we have to make the first move. Peebs shouldn't flank until they start going for a
for a bit of an execute because he needs sound cover and he needs the attackers to be more distracted.
With this smoke and this with the repel, there's going to be time to flank after his land scan.
Nice shot though from Lycolus, that alleviates a lot of the pressure on the window.
Indeed, they retake for Orc in here and they find the kills to make it happen.
Damon also will fall on the blitz. Everybody collapses, big flank from Peeps,
as XRLotic lashed out from the bomb site. A nice attempt there from Fury,
They put so cool and calm all can collect themselves and go through a quick retake.
I think it is so the right play, you know, that because they have peeps flanking and he's
going to flank like I said when they're going for an execute when it distracted and there's
sound cover, the smoke and it being tossed and out covering the office to master bedroom
holes that is signifying the execute.
So peeps starts flanking, but at the same second, the lion scan and the Indian
delas get spammed.
So now they have a choice to make either they push into the candelas and everyone's
blind in the bomb site and peeps walks to the lion scanner and gets red pinged and the flank is dead
essentially right or you say hold the nerf let's afk for three solid seconds wait for the condos to
be done being spammed wait for the lion charts to go away and then we continue our push together
because we can see here on office plant it's not a super strong post it's not like you're
planning you know on crop power cctv you can be in the repair house at the building or
back into spawn or it's like bank CEO where again the window repellent is so hard to beat it is just
the bomb planted pretty deep into a bomb site and you and you have keeps flanking like they cannot be
far away holding a DMR angle so it's about understanding when you can look in plant and
actually fight off a post and a retake and when you have to throw everything at the enemy before
they get the plant down because the enemy could just 1v3 in the post so very good understanding
they're from Orchid showing depth to their strategy and decision making and obviously having great
force at saying if this happens we'll respond this way and if they do something else we'll have this
answer. So Fury I think agreed to tip them around but they did lose one player early and Blitz did
take a fair bit of damage as well.
Oh all right bye bye peeps. It's two rounds on the road Fury have found a really early pick
onto a little bit of an over-aggro Orcid.
Man, I don't know whether this has happened because of scrims,
or whether this has happened because maybe people were paying attention to that
Speakeasy interview, but I just keep thinking about the way Speakeasy talks
about the meta and leaning into traps, and now I'm seeing it constantly.
I don't know what came first, Chicken or the Egg, but Orcid is so clearly loving these traps.
I mean, if I'm playing in Asia and one of the goats of the region is saying that this is how the mid-Ace is how the game should be playing at the highest level, I'm probably going to follow that, you know, because he probably knows more than I do if he is like that guy and he plays for that team of Wave or Gaming.
Here comes the BB push, not to be afraid, he can roll on back, sprint on the desk, it's just about to survive.
Create one HP to his name, but the speed you might elsewhere, making the plane and taking down the dook will be of leperence.
So Orcid, whatever a play is happening from Fury's side, they always have an answer.
Whether it's a kill, a rotation, or utility.
They stopped the whole push.
Yeah, I mean just look at the way that Furious stalled out.
Look at Kritchick!
Wow, look at this little rat.
He is this plant.
I mean, it's 1 HP.
You might as well go for something.
I can't believe how well hidden he is as well.
Wow, where's that angle from?
Oh, actually behind like all this.
Spray through the dining room wall.
Exotic.
Oh no.
Doesn't manage to get the trade under the Blackbeard no less.
That is a worthwhile exchange for Orchid.
See what I mean?
They always have a response.
That he seeming gets injured to a wall bang.
Xlada walks on over, he's the one who's guaranteed to be dead, will get traded. Blackbeard for his injured teammate. That is so worth it.
They still have Cricj hiding in the library. They have BG and Bading for him. Xlada is holding down the bomb site.
They might think the library is hidden, they've fallen back, but they haven't guys, there are two defenders up here still.
Cricj is going to be so careful, do not go anywhere with that fire. Oh, BG, man! What a shot! Out comes the nitro cell.
And that will finish off the round for Team Orca. Defense looking very well locked down.
There's nothing in the office working, huh? No big reaction, no causal celebration.
They just take it a nice step at a time. And again, always having good solutions to the
problems. And this is what I meant earlier when I said that Chalet is more about practicing
the same scenarios over and over again, having like micro adjustments versus going like
keep it to the strat bug and counter this and bring out like a new operator stuff like that you've seen this missing hold a thousand times and library hold a thousand times but it's small details do you jump out on a certain timing?
Do you go for a rat play? Do you high? Do you push? And I will say, okay, that's a great job every single round and making the right decisions. It also helps the players and future man, he's just hitting every goddamn shot and before making it much easier to hold on to that control.
At point, not a fun spot to be for Fury, a one that I'm sadly far too familiar with.
And you can see on the round summary, it's been not particularly back and forth.
It's really been a streak of rounds at the start for Orchid, those attacks untouchable.
And then two little defense wins from Fury and ever since the sideswap, Orchid locking
down two different bombsites, now going to third.
pushed most of their games pretty close with the exception of that way bone match
fury haven't lost this badly if this ends up a 7-2 that'll be the second worst
result from their stage which is such a disappointment going up against their
old teammates going up against or an orchid that actually hasn't been peeking
quite as high as we would have expected like I mentioned before they lost the
they lost the way though they haven't looked perfect.
Well it's not the expected outcome so far that's for sure. I wasn't spending a bit more than five but
it's been a tough time for Fury. Individually they have two players who are just not really fully
into the scoreboard. Damon and Father Fling are a bit behind the curfew 1-8 and 1-6.
When your shield player is having a super negative statistic it's not the end of the world
but it's often daemon either dying early as the shield player or his daemons are dying around him
and now having a shield is just less valuable so they haven't been able to utilize you know the
blitz in the very first attempt or the montee so far in the first few seconds gotta get a bit
in the mud of it here's pete he's a staircase daemon either dying or getting a kill almost
everything around the phone call going out targeting actually no mind it says don't be
going on drones right next to him rather check in for fire plays watching the flanks if you
If you get the timing right, I'll pop the scan of a peepsie.
You could get a freebie.
Oh, what about timing?
I'm just watching.
Oh, no, you're right.
The scanner gets popped from peeps.
Oh, there's no.
At that range, I don't think there would have been info.
Oh, what a shot from Damon.
Somehow, Peeps managed to find one and big swings
from like, Colas to take down Roldini.
XRLotic traded back.
2v3 now as Firelord and Labyrinth very scarily
staring down the barrel of the feet trying to execute on the bomb side now is
not gonna be fun you've still got that my throw up how to fury try and crack
this one that's a hard one again they have no drones did you have five
dookie because in pocket but I mean you can just tank him if you're working
just take it to the damage boy he's answering for like call us right now
you drive picking all these angles got have some sharp shots the issue is
the ones that isn't upstairs in the office amongst the bedroom, it's downstairs in kitchen
dining. If you look at the locations here of Orchid, they're all below by the side, playing
trophy, dining, and a West Main. They're just waiting for the attackers so the drop down
wall has a long down the staircase. It could go for a hard drop here, just a bit of a
cheeky hatch play. But this is the thing, Orchid are not exposed to those unnecessarily
dangerous angles. They're playing it smart, they're playing it safe, waiting for Fury
come to them. Now comes the
call. You're right. Orc. It's
so patient. Yeah, like all
this top Friday for his team,
by the way, this number 11. He
owes for a little bit more
beating and finishes off the
game and team orchid cap off
the group stage with a big win.
Fury cannot take the fight to
their old teammates and for
into the stage finals with their best foot forward.
Oh, yeah, very, very convincing game.
I think, again, the fact that they get Chalet here
in their final playday and they can save more for BO3
and just keep putting up stats and such,
I think that's also a very big story,
that when really strong teams are fighting a slightly weaker opponent,
when you can hide soft for the stronger enemies later down the line,
you're double-dipping because you still get an easy victory
and you get on the map without showcasing much.
So I really think Alter Today did a great job from the very beginning, from drafting to
operating events, to adaptations to the server, across the board just a phenomenal job.
Big game from 4Kid, lot of confidence, I love this new look like Holus by the way.
Jumping, retaking, top fragging, I want to know what's changed for this guy because
back in the day he was the thermite mate, he was chained to the support operators,
he wasn't given the freedom and look he's not the youngest player out there.
He's been one of the most experienced players in the region for a very long time
Honestly, how old is he? I'm gonna guess like 25 26. Yeah. Oh, he's only a year younger than me mate
He's he's ancient by e-sports standards and look at him still hitting double dudes 100% KST
Love to see that for orchid. It's really kind of just another day in the office
They only dropped two games throughout the group stage and that was to the top two teams and weibo and daystar
So business as usual, let's go and have a chat to the man himself like call us
Congratulations on a big win welcome on in for an interview
Congrats on beating your old team. What does it feel like to take down fury?
I don't think it's many anything if I
Different on any I mean because like you could imagine the at least like
like, to be a full party last week so, I mean today we just, um, uh, just full play, like
full fun and doing just some defaults, you know, like, nothing like, you know, not
much prep, you know, just like, chill for today. Yes, yes.
Okay. That's actually been a very big discussion in the EML, like the European
Pro League, about friendships are being very important right now. You know,
the meta is very loose, very aggressive.
Do you think it makes a big difference
when you're in a team environment
where you can have fun
and play a bit more loose on the server nowadays
versus having like a very strict Google here.
Do you do that and you don't have as much fun perhaps?
Do you think that makes a big difference?
It's just a hard question to discuss.
For my point of view, I think it's like,
it's just like depend on the situation
and depend on what we grab and depend on what is going on inside the game.
Because like, as myself have been playing a lot from a long time, right?
I always doubt myself that either I hope all the teammates to communicate to me better,
or maybe I just like need to chat my brain off a bit and just like play what they you know just like
how to look at them to play what whatever they're doing sometimes so it's a such a hard like you
know discussion to happen here but um my experience I think is just like you just depend on this on
the situation yeah thank you we talked a little bit about that like because you actually top
frag the game you were jumping out windows you were playing like you you decided to just
turn off your brain, focus on what was happening on the screen,
which is historically what players on your team like CritJ and Peeps would do,
but you've been being a little bit more aggressive and you're looking at a lot more confident,
you've been fragging out like crazy, is this a conscious choice from you to change your role
or change your play style, or is this something that's happened naturally?
Ah no, it just happened for today match I guess, since like for today, JG got like killed a lot during a defensive game.
For me, I think it just happened that in the enemy team, I'm not playing, not really like top operative.
I just happen to be there to get like a kill when they are off guard or like not doing the right thing or like
I don't know what they are doing basically cause like it's just like they are not like that much like over the tape you know
So it's kind of like an individual play and well, and as you know like today we don't have anything to do at field first
I've been in this area
Fair enough. Well, congratulations on a convincing win today
Of course, you still have a chance to make it to the e-sports World Cup
But you will have to continue that campaign through the best of three is that will come in stage finals
Good luck like hollas and we'll see you for next week's games
Thank you. Happy to see you
Thanks like hollas
Love to see a little bit of impact a little bit of the inside
I love how he was like, yeah, I didn't really decide to play aggressively
It was kind of just the opponent's were playing yeah
I mean I really enjoyed the aspect of using they've been playing for a long time
And he said the point where you sometimes you overthink it and you think oh like I do more here or not doing the right thing
I could really relate to that myself where when I start a month career way back in the 10 years ago
go. You're just doing what you don't really know what you're doing is right or wrong because
you're still learning. But when you get deep enough into your career, you get a deal like
what's right, what's wrong, what's been working for you, what you should be doing, what your
team is to be doing. And it's so easy to get stuck in your own head, negative to saying,
I'm not doing enough. I'm doing the wrong thing. And sometimes what you need to do, as he said,
turn off your brain and just play the game. Yeah, of course, team orchid and our locked
in for stage finals but we still have three more games today and each of them have high
stakes. Our next match up is the battle for the bottom who can crawl out of the hole that
has been stage one it's HLTORI versus Elevate coming up after this
Hello, I'm a pro gamer of Rainbow Six, and I'm currently working in the A-Peng NOS area.
The first time I started playing the game was when my family was the biggest influence.
Especially my parents at home, they loved playing games with two computers at home.
There was also PlayStation 2, 3, and 1 at home.
So I naturally got that kind of influence.
The first game I played was Metal Gear Solid 2.
I liked it the most, and I had a computer, so I had a lot of FPS and DPS genres, and I had the most fun time playing FPS.
I have a younger brother under 8 years old, and I also recommended Remosix to my younger brother, and we did it together.
I was in 6th grade in elementary school and middle school.
He's better than I thought, and I only teach him game knowledge, and I like the response speed more than the aim.
I don't know if it's because of the blood, but it was more fun than I thought.
I didn't get stressed out, and it was cute even if I couldn't do it.
I heard that my dad came from Cloud9, and I contacted him to think about what to do.
He said, rather, he likes his parents more, so he said,
If you don't do this, you're out of your mind.
He said, you have to do it.
I don't have a special memory because I don't have a national championship yet.
When I said I would win the national championship or go abroad, my parents were proud of me.
I saw that they changed my profile picture to a messenger profile picture.
It's embarrassing, but on the one hand, I'm proud.
I don't think it's bad.
As far as I'm concerned, he's a sports player, and I think that's all he's got to say about this sport.
I think he's a bit of a vocalist.
I've never felt any competition in other games before playing Rainbow Six.
After the game started, I felt like I lost to someone who thinks I was weaker than me.
I felt like I was being fired up in my heart.
I think this is how it happened because I kept working hard.
Looking for a scrap, the whole king of a scrap, Pino!
If he goes uncontested, the kid goes cold, that'll be devastating.
The grenade goes through, that's the swing!
Cyber and Bullet are able to get one of these with the kit so far away,
and Canadian down upstairs, Evert, wow, that was special.
It's a one versus three to hold, and they're pushing it from behind.
He's found one, he's got to get the vertical as well.
They get pulled off, two, we're down to the last three and four seconds.
Ryder's got another! He's held on!
He's gonna do it!
I've been a fear!
Take the 2-1 win!
Both players spotted, but the Rams can be made 6-1.
Oh!
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The Sartle!
Information from the Bs!
He goes in!
Come on!
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Oh, he is!
The Rams!
They cement themselves as one of the greatest of all time!
He's starting to get cooked alive, Oli, but he's using the stem pistols.
Look at this from the dark surely don't
Brilliant, let's play the year my book
Place the game hits the old buddy doesn't quite catch it
He's going back he's not quite sure he
This is an angle that you might be able to contest no unfortunately takes just a bit of damage here
Walk I guess the second one eclipse though
We'll get one turning it into a two V2 90 push it on the side the better will lose on this
He clips the last alive on the Ella.
Spots the head and takes up the ace for Wacken.
He will down V.C. Canadian positioning to pick up,
but that's going to result in a double-defeated first vertical.
As Forcher came in the round,
Necrux the final defender against vertical,
the ace absolute domination.
You'll believe in magic, Michael.
Team Wark does as they win the Mexico Major.
of course, in every league, there comes a time when we must say goodbye to some teams
as the group stage ends and we move to stage finals. We already know that Team Orchid have
booked their spot in the stage finals, but Hengu, on the very other end of the spectrum,
We have the bottom teams who were just fighting for pride and dignity, and that is the match
that we're playing right now.
It's the battle to avoid last place in the league, HL Tari and LFA.
Yeah, and I think it's very surprising that LFA find themselves in this position because
I thought going to stage one here that they're going to have a little bit of a better result,
but they are in fact fighting to just not be in the very last spot.
So let's do a little bit of a deeper dive here.
This is the roster.
You see the players.
You see the stats, right?
And I tell right now this man has individually been popping off right yet elevate
I'm finding success they clearly have a single lost out player that can really
Shenan Diggins Julie then they'd have two older players come back into it told you
hysterics they've been struggling kind of equalizing the performance in the
middle right but it is a team the synergy the coordination the
consistency it's just not quite there they have so many moments where the
in an advantageous position and get the kind of falter at the very last moment and just don't have that final push in them.
Yeah, it's a surprise and frankly quite a disappointment to see veterans like Tollgy and Hysterix make their return
and young Gunners like Anne Hyakau not be able to put results on the board of course players like Shibae
put around the block a few times and for barcode. But yeah, the real I think sad thing is not just the veterans perhaps
maybe having seen their time pass, but even young Gunners full of so much
promise like the Singaporean Enhicau who once upon a time Singapore was one of
the strongest leaders for talent in the Asia region players like Speakeasy
once upon a time hysterics, Lunametal etc. but Enhicau who's been a young
up-and-coming Singaporean just has not found success. I know he's invented a
lot of his frustrations on Twitter as well with the tweet that's now been
deleted about how rough this stage has been. And knowing Elevate as an organization, let's
be honest, we'd be very surprised if the team is probably not going to stay together at
least in this iteration in future stages. I think once that transfer window starts, we
probably will see some players get dropped to them. And you know, these guys really
need to be playing just to prove that they're worth keeping.
Now, the other side, the Catholic opponents, right, Hazel Tori, a team that came in during
kickoff, all the way from the CL into T1 competition, and they had a, let's say, a challenging
start to kickoff, right?
They really go according to how they wanted it, I imagine.
They go into stage one, and the big question, if all of us are watching this, how much
have they been able to improve, or improve, rather, and have they figured out more
of the play style?
You know, what you think about, it's usually all these guys are going to have
to be aggressive, they're going to play passive, they play strategy.
It feels a bit like he's a Tory, they haven't found their true identity of their own, so they're
doing a bit of everything and not really mastering one way of playing the game.
And that too was an elevate, which caused a ton of inconsistency, that, plus they haven't
actually had like a really high-deforming player so far individually, so they haven't
had those big heal moments either.
They're all lost as currently, and ending the stage here for Lega's elevate would
be a great way to end off
stage one and hopefully
in the future they can just keep improving step by step.
Yeah, I've had a little bit of a chat to some of these players behind the scenes.
Of course, they're coached by Vaughn, a bit of a legend in the tie scene from
coaching the Fury guys back in the day.
But this HLToy roster, formerly known as Dolphin eSports during the
Challenger Series way back at the start of the year, they've been
kicking around the tier two for a little while.
This was their big break.
They were one of the teams that we looked at and said, oh,
Thailand is starting to dominate.
They've dominated the Challenger series.
They now have more teams.
There are more teams speaking Thai in this league
than there are speaking any other language.
And that is genuinely so impressive.
And yet, HLTRI have failed to get any results.
The best match that they've had so far
was actually their first game, and that was a 3-7 loss.
Every other game, they have lost 7-1,
except for a 7-2 loss against Fury.
So they really just need to fight for any form of redemption.
a big win here of Elevate would mean so much to them.
Let's dig into the map, Vita,
and see where we'll be heading.
For the most part, H.O.Tori have just played
Lapps and Lair so far with one dabble in Fortress.
And as for Elevate, they've played a few.
Where will we see?
You do not want to see console it up.
I did, but the Easter Band is, I guess,
Elevate will show it.
So I had a theory here, right?
I was thinking, what if it's Coraq
and he's gone through a map that is
just survive the attack at one win,
which is a pretty stress, just kind of write it out.
But here's the minute, they don't want to do that.
And if you want a more like middle of the map to write it,
it's Delay and Knight Hayden and they are a fortress.
So that's a bit more in the intermediate.
Yeah, so fortress is where we go.
This is where both of these teams played their last matches.
In fact, HLT's suffered a 7-1 loss to Waybo.
Elevate got their first win of the stage
in an overtime game against Fury.
And now it's the last chance for these teams
to get a win on the board.
Elevate, yet to find a full three point win.
HL Torrey, yet to find more than three rounds
in a single game.
And this is the best chance they have had yet.
It comes down to their final match of the stage
and our final day of groups.
HL Torrey trying to stand up for Thailand
and for the tier two C.
Well, Elevate just trying to save themselves from future potential annihilation in whatever evolution happens with the future of this roster.
Let's dig into it and see what happens here on Fortress.
Last, then, right after it, clearly countering the pushing potential here from Elevate.
Wouldn't be surprised if a Blackbeard or a Monty fall after just to kind of again take that pushing power away from them.
them solid snake actually so a whole other avenue it's gonna be about roam clear information instead
elevate the they're doing the classic we want to breach the laws guys so they're gonna breach uh
rather ban the electro bros of bandit and kair it's something that we see extremely frequently
and james you know because email last night we actually saw a game maybe maybe two games actually
where a bandit and or kite was left unbanned and the thing they should pick that press a two brow and we're just watching teams
Stuck out at the building and yeah
It's been a while since I've seen it because the bandit kite band is so frequent in every region these days
But going back and seeing teams is waiting for the two buffries to end for 36 seconds straight would go you also on the board
I'm just thinking I understand why you're banning banning kites in the game
I get it because I too would not want to do that to myself
What's more, I don't get why people are banning the bandit kaede and not banning the tuba row because
Tuba row is what makes bandit kaede so good and in the current
Turret tuba has a DMR also you can't as the daemons, which has been really prolific as well
He also often runs the nitro cell. So he's just such a deadly fragger
I would say probably more so than the kaede and the bandit
Plus, I'm a big maverick advocate, I love mav.
I was an OG mav main back in the day when he had the fragnades, the original time he
had fragnades.
And if you play mav, you can kind of nullify the kaiid and the bandit, more or less.
Much easier to drone out whether there's a kaiid or bandit as well compared to the
Tiberow.
Hmm, I just look at the wall if there's any electricity that you'll know
Still being outside the building
Now I think it's so hard playing in T1 play right now
There's so many strong operators who kind of go between different ways of playing the game obviously one thing
That's very consistently played is time operators right the smoke to shank it the Goryo the two brother
We just spoke about bandit raking if they're really left open because the game was advanced a lot
We've gotten stronger defenders, stronger attackers, maps have changed, we got reworked, etc.
But we still only have three minutes.
And with all those changes, that's caused some maps and some bomb sites to just be so difficult on the attacking side to do it all at once.
But when you get the opening kill, which NICL is excellent at doing, that buys you time on the clock.
Now, you don't have to worry about the push downstairs.
You don't have to worry about being tracked the entire time.
You're also because you you're a liquid the day most I have to frag grenades to deal the you know lasers of the Nari or the
Gorya fire canisters which further can help you speed up the pace of the round. Oh, hello and goodbye Sun strike
two kills now
For elevator
Our third surely to come by Chatham and gets read to perfection and high Cal is farming
Three kills looking for a fourth. He gets it. Give him the ace
Flash is available for Sheba.
Blockoad is tilted, I don't know what's going on there, man.
Killers could definitely win this.
He just has to wait for the base to subside.
Two flashbangs in air jab and one more bean pocket.
There's pinnacle here for Elevator to utilize.
Can he bet it out?
Needs to create the sound cue.
There's one.
There's two.
There's a headshot from Hysterix.
Well played from Elevate.
A little bit dicey there, but in high count,
getting a 4k at the start of the round.
never hurts. He was like a villain. He was all covered in darkness in the play.
I guess it wasn't the lid off enough in the game visuals itself. And you know,
speak of the man, speak about his individual heroics and how great he's
been so far. Literally first round. He does everything himself. Just finds
the post downstairs, goes up, clears horse, was like a power position for
defenders. Here's the flank behind him, flicks him as well. It's
ridiculous. And I know that people are going to go obviously it's a Tory, you know,
worst team in the region right now. Sure, but in our camp we'll do this against
most teams. Sure, it seemed like Waybo gaming can shut him down and maybe
Daystar as well. But against everyone else, he can put up these kinds of
numbers every single playday. He's mad consistent. And it's also why, you
know, that fear of if Elevate don't get the right results, will they
just make a bunch of rust changes as you alluded to earlier? It feels like
a shame to not let a roster gel and have time to succeed. And we see this not just an APL,
not just an elevator, we see it across the board. If you look at Brazil, there are so
many teams that stick together through thick and thin. Think of Liquid. How many years
they stalked that roster in Brazil, never lifting a trophy. And there is still like
aiming for it and dreaming about it together. Then you have all the regions where Financing
in EML, Elevate here in APL, every stage, kick two players. And I just think you
You need a bit of stability sometimes, not fear for your job, because you can't get the
right results.
Because it's going to add even more pressure on to all the players, especially the rookies.
I think so many teams feel that pressure so often.
Always gets to them affects the performance no doubt.
To elevate hopefully they can get a little bit of confidence based on this game and
Maybe prove that they're worth keeping big big from so chef gets down in the process
Fishes him off with a twitch drone
That's one way to play it
4v4
As I say that an high-cow does what he does best good long thin angle against killers
So about slicing the pies you see you're cutting off all those angles you check in the staircases the corners the door
etc. Just like knowing when your crosshair aligns with the angle of pre-fire.
And it's something that if you see a player who used to play a game like Counter Strike very
frequently before siege, you can tell that in how they clear angles. And you get fears like
newer or exploit. They have that mechanical skill of how to slice the pie, as we say.
And I don't know if he's that kind of guy, but he certainly clears angles in a similar fashion.
Oh wow.
So I'm trying to find the five from the drone hole. Now the drone angle in the bottom
is a lot deeper than you realize. And that's why I'm trying to surprise
We're getting shot as well
Yeah, Chathamon also puts down an L mine
I used to get back to side safely. However barcode
Finds the opening on the bomb site Chathamon wants to try and rotate back good shot with the scorpion 2v2
Tenor wants to lash out as well. It makes a little bit of an off-pace play
Flash, but I don't think they know he's jumped up into this boost spot
Elevate, pre-fire quickly, Hysterix and Tolchi to cap off the round, another one on the board for Elevate.
Realized you see Tolji and Hysterix both thriving right now in this matchup and I think it also just shows the stylistic differences, right?
Hager, Tori, they don't play that modern style siege, very chaotic, very fast pace of always lashing out and going for kills in disruptive plays.
Tolji and Hysterix, the reason I think they're thriving so far is they're used to this kind of slower paced matchup.
matchup where things happen logically speaking because when they go up against like the the new kids in the block you know your day star your way
board that plays the highest level that new like gap finding meta they've been struggling individually because I think you can find the flow of logic in a given round
and it was something that we heard an interview yesterday at EML from who was grubby he said that one of his teammates I'm not sure it was asked
I asked him when he came to Europe from Brazil, he said I don't understand how the enemies are playing, I can't find the logic.
And then Grumpy told him, he's using to find, like, feel the flow. Don't look for the logic and then like analyze the gameplay.
Just feel the flow of what's happening right now in the server, because the meta right now is just so all over the place.
And that's how he does what they're missing. They're very predictable and they're very linear in how they play each.
it just makes them so easy to read. Wow what? Why is Fallen holding? Guys, watch out! Elevator,
I hope you're ready for this. Fallen is coming for you. Maybe I would just let them have
the win at this point if he's carrying that around. It's like, oh, we lost two rounds.
We're back in the battle. You can kill someone with that thing. I love Fallen.
He's always doing something. Whenever we're watching Fallen, he's always working
Yeah, yeah, toying with some sort of physical object
No, you're double dipping you're having this like desk job where standing still or sitting still and you just kind of
Rotting in your chair. He said, you know, I can do this with a standing desk
I can get my physical activity in while doing my job with the boys and I'm benefiting everywhere
where financially and physically that's a big win I love that I know some people do like the
treadmill desks I think fresh did that for a while right he was streaming yeah on his treadmill cool idea
very cool I'm thinking for my new home studio since I just moved I'm thinking of um getting
like a little bench doing some more weights in nice because it's quite a big room maybe I can
can do that. Yeah, man. You
need out of breath at any point.
You're like, wow, he's really
unfit now, man. I'm just getting
them curls is getting fit.
I do think that, uh, oh, so
I say a summit style event in
the siege, you know, you get
the place like a fake house
and you just like couchcasting
it and you can have players
like get a workout place in
the background is have like
that community vibe of people
who's doing whatever. I think
I know it fit a siege tommy very well, very loose, very relaxed, I was trying to see that.
I've never really noticed, like you said, how deep this drone hull angle actually is,
almost a bit of a really deep, oversight, I feel like Ubisoft stopped putting those drone
hulls in that you can shoot through, they started covering them, but this one is actually
massive, you can really do a lot of damage and see quite a lot through that drone
It's just something you have to be aware of if you're playing fortress
You're right. They did try and
Get rid of those kinds of angles. They've been as you said patching up drone holes
They stopped making them like this, but this one is set onto the radar for now
They've proven too strong. She'll cover it up later on
But now it's still uncovered
There's so the tax of them elevate no opening kill me like Cal. He's on capital duty
So can't just go around who's known some has to pay utility game
They're always being for a plant here fire fire flattie wants to need to hang behind them
Here comes the execute but even though barcode finds one
He gets traded back doesn't matter. Just told you is able to confirm that plant down inside bathroom
Enough chaos was created by elevate their high chill Tory on the retake and and I cal just continues to dominate
seven kills in three rounds
Elevate seem unstoppable right now
HL sorry keep throwing everything they've got even after the tactical timeout they find no success
I love the switch up here. It's very well done, right?
They start going aggro in the room clear getting the building get on alberas like you demos then they're okay
Well, if they're gonna bunk it down and play heavy utility, we're gonna play for a plant execute
So they're not gonna care too much about getting kills early
They want to get to the Bumside walls preach them and have strong power up stack
We just saw Kevin's on fire arrows cuts off any help and
Relocating back into bathroom and the bad looking just vaulted half wall and take down the smoke
hashtag
LYNH
Am I missing something here?
learn your
new
happiness
Let oh actually no, I know what I know it LL NY
Yeah, yeah, I don't know if I can sit on broadcast
I know this because of the the former SSG now dark zero boys. It's their saying oh
Always wait type it in a thing. I want to see if I have it. Let your something hang
And
It's callouts mentality
for Dark Zero. Sometimes you just have to L, Y, and H. Go for it.
Oh man. It's been a very big talking from recently actually called out. I'm not sure
the exact correlation was, but there was some people that are like tweeting at him
asking for a bit of the mental side of esports. I think it was when he was doing his episode
with Park when he dampened our podcast and stuff like that. It's been a very big
talking about the different mentalities and how coaching staff can approach things from like
strategy, management or in this time the mental philosophy of things. And a lot of players are
very young, they're inexperienced both as players and in life and having a little bit of older
coach and more experience that can help you mentally through this journey of these sports can be
super beneficial. I love it, I love it when teams and especially coaches really put that
extra focus on the mental aspect of the game. Sometimes it's not just about your skill level,
how smart you are, how talented you are when it comes to gunfights. Sometimes it's about getting
out of a rut and that's where HLTARI find themselves. Shibae also finding a big kill.
Barcode clearing that top floor with the Blitz, Elevate continue to dominate. Not much to say
here for HL Tori. They tried so many different bomb sites now and deeper to the fourth round
it looks like they're having no such luck here on the kitchen bomb site either.
Losing two players early is going to be making this house impossible. There's so much bomb
site to cover different avenues aimed at Chathamid. He's good at lashing out. He does it again.
I like how the demo so one of the most important attack and operators it leaves a
bit more up to bark of now leaving the front charge with that blitz operator
instead and when they're ready they could use smoke off an angle drop by the
flashlight from that hatch just get back in the action if you can get
close enough to any of these defenders and then the flashbang that should
just be a guaranteed kill
not really yet though well look if you take down and hike how many things
possible that's one thing I know about elevate he's got the majority of their
kills. Time's ticking away. Elevate needs to now redraw and figure out okay what's clear,
what's dirty. A big position on this bombsite is infirmary. Sun strike in this pivotal connecting
room. About to get focused up by barcode. It does go down. Great timing there. Told
you it doubles up. The Indonesian getting active now for Elevate barcode to finish
things. Another dumbet round for them. For you know, row and HLT cannot get into it.
And again, it's totally and, uh, and it's terrorist doing a great job. Again,
when they can just get to execute and take it step one, step two, step three, again, it's logical.
You know, Stan was happening in the server. They keep finding more and more success. And
you can see it from more and just pacing back and forth by the rest of his territory.
It's a lot of like we're trying this that doesn't work change your playstyle that doesn't work tag time out
That also doesn't work and that has literally been a total is biggest problem for a protein tire stage and kickoff
Like I said, they haven't found their playstyle
They're one way to play the game that they excel at more than the other styles
So they keep changing every round this that traps the now
Reinforcement playing open play D-Broom play passive room and it's the same result
Like you said, they've won at most three rounds in a given matchup. They've never gotten much further and
This game looks to be a very similar case like are they even gonna get two rounds at the current victory?
I'm not so sure
Attackers are moving to defuse the bomb
Attackers will drop the bomb diffuser
Just waiting now to see where the first point of con is gonna be here
You got over his point P. Okay, so oh nope. That doesn't mean
Again, you try something and you immediately get punished as one of those things were again
It could be a good idea, but now you're playing around four versus five
Tannels don't not found the scoreboard to do a zero kills and four deaths gentlemen has trying to be the hero like he always
has to try
It's a plank. I was just a primary all the way and he becomes a freebie himself. Yeah, I kill has his number
How many times have we seen ourselves in a fight?
Elevate every round man feels like it. Oh, there's a drone spotted your feet
Patience is gonna reward elevate here
And the way you lose a 5v3 is when you start making solo plays and at the moment
have no doubt that elevate are gonna play this well. Tenno's tempted to make
something happen. Here's the candela ring out, gets blinded for a brief moment, hits
the ground. Colgie wants to get active. You might be able to find this angle as
well. Tenno's just prone. And high-cow takes down Sunstrike. As the lion roars,
H. Altari fixed in place. Tenno and killers desperately need something.
good peek from Tenno. Will there be a response? Tolji is in position to look for something back as N-High-Cal from down below flushes him out of position. Killers now. 1v3, nice shot to Shiba. Tolji really come into his zone today for elevate.
a new look for this team as we see absolutely zero emotion on most of their
faces she bears the only one that cracks a smile great round from told you
though great couple of rounds five straights on the attacking side if HL
tari do not win this next round and defense I don't think they've got
anything in the tank to stop themselves from getting seven-odd
It's got to feel really good for
told you as an individual, you
know, I'm sure after having, uh,
you know, a return to one
competition after a long time
and hanging very tough time to
the start of the stage, you're
thinking a little bit like, oh,
maybe I don't have it anymore.
Maybe I'm washed off like
whatever. I think that could
very easy to be on your mind.
He has really found himself
in this matchup and sure it's
against an easier opponent,
but sometimes you just need
that confidence boost and saying,
okay, I can play at this
level. I just don't need to
do it against slightly better
opponents every single day and just get better and better and better and when
you're playing in tier one competition confidence means a ton more than you can
imagine. If you go into a game thinking ah man I can't hit my shots then I can
just make a break a gunfight.
It's just sad I've spent time talking to these HLT guys and they are so lovely
and they care so much about this game. You know, they actually competed at the Thailand
game show last year. You know, there's a huge, I'm not sure if maybe fans outside of Thailand
or outside of Southeast Asia would be aware, but there is a huge convention called Thailand
game show every year. It's larger than Pax Australia. And you came to Pax last year.
It was huge. And DGS is far bigger than that. HLT actually competed at the tier two
tournament at that event they've now played on land they have experienced as a five star roster
for quite some time and now they've made their first foray into tier one and yet they cannot
compete sadly three rounds being their best result out of any game so far it just simply
isn't enough they've earned this spot now they need to make the most of it and hopefully they
can take away something from this seven match group stage that they can then come back more
fiery and more strong with in stage two.
I can feel the pressure there on the horror store.
If you can break that area again and find that opening pigment like how it's going
to just give you a way to a backstab here and it's going to be all the room roost here
for the life and fall back towards the bottom side and you're going to get up so much
map control because of it so so if you just has to hold on cops to look at us
that early I like this a lot but then actually get chucked from where below
what what is happening you're in forebred okay that's one way to get the job done
I'll tell you what yeah I love to see that it's a great little cheeky
trick we saw from orchid earlier today elevated doing it too and told you is
on a test seven and one by the way this is what we've been wanting to see
from him. No matter what happens with Elevate, I really hope that these players who have earned
their keep can continue to fight for Elevate and fight in Tier 1. Enhica just waiting for
a chance to take down Sunstrike. He stands up, Toji finds another kill, and now it's
Tenno up against the World on the Techanka. He is being hunted down. Enhica looks for
12, and he finds it. It is a flawless finish to what was, an undoubtedly dominant
half for elevate six straight one round away from putting to bed this stage.
I want to talk to you for my country say trying to make my mind about it cooperate
I used to have some shots to give for ones you take
But then I took them all to hell and lost away
I mean, why am I listening to Morgan Gay?
Women is what works, now it ain't
And do my mind not thrill for hours
Telling all the vows of my monster prowlers on your face
How you spending days without me inside
That I'm phasing out, but I plays it who
And it drains me, I done made some who
But it pains me, you want the riff from me
Here it is, here it go
But what you did to me, here it gone real slow
But what you hid with me, bear it all, let it go
But I can have all from done, I hope this love of mine
on
big smiles for to told you nice to see him really coming into his own after a bit of a rough stage so
I remember one of the games Elevate played both toji and hysterics to the
Veterans who have returned to this roster. I think they were donuts or one kills
I think toji had the worst EPS I had ever seen in that game
So it's so lovely to see him really coming into his own
Of course, if there's any game you're gonna perform well, it's against the worst team in the league here
HLT always sadly fit that bill with how they played for their last seven games
Now they're staring down match point with not a single round on the board
Any rounds that HLT can get here would be nice. Even if they don't find the win
Just just prove that you can prove that you can compete because we haven't seen that so far
I'm gonna do a little count doing a guess just on the top of your head
How many rounds you reckon HL Tory have one in this stage?
So they played six games and then this one. Okay, just do off the top of your head
How many rounds you reckon top my head? I know they had a three seven loss. I know they had a
One one round through and a two round. Those are gonna go. I'm gonna go over seven
Over six rounds total
Well, you may now making it look less of her. They have nine rounds, but that's oh
No!
9 rounds.
Wait, what am I missing?
What did they have?
So they had 4 7-1s, 1 7-2, and then a 7-3.
Not gonna lie, I actually thought they got 7-0 more frequently.
They actually haven't been 7-0 to their credit.
That's one thing they have.
This would be the first time.
They average 1 point with no disrespect.
They average 1 point 3 rounds per game.
I don't mean it with no disrespect, but a lot of our games feels like 7-0s because they're just getting flawless like four rounds out of those eight rounds that they play.
Look, they got it.
Like it feels so one-sided.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Look, to that credit, they got one round off of Weber, which is one more than Elevate did.
Ha ha ha ha.
Okay.
So, even though we just more of a theory, they're still better than them.
Okay.
That's exactly right.
It checks out.
It's not, you always measure every team based on the best in the region, right?
It's about almost about how far can you take way more in a game not about how we can take your current opponent in the game
That's what matters
All right, HLT what are you gonna do on your attack? It's Monty time. It's duckabee time. It's lion time
I love to see that however Rome clearing downstairs. I almost never see it work out in favor of the attack
I am terrified for them
Let's see it
Great pixel important. Mr. XT is alive for now. He gets out of dodge. He springs on a way
Healing back the layers installing for time for any more motor because
Mr. X will take the damage
Loses fun in the process
Parkour hasn't been dealt with. He could do some serious damage here at the bottom of the main stairs
Down the music room at the moment. He does go for
No, he's not well for his fight yet.
Now I think he's going to... There's his killed big one on the Zoeshack.
And while Hysterix was hunted down, HLT have not weathered the storm.
This rerun from Elevate is well and truly alive and well.
Varko takes a bit of damage from his phone exploding and from the lingering fire, but gets out quickly.
A minute left to play, HLT's stall.
Ooh, told you a bit of trouble now.
They could use a fire but can't get into position safely and I tell us respect to a star call and I guess the pressure is all because they just find all the kills
What could be the great push gets annihilated?
By the boys on the side of a living and it was a very easy thing the others for them
It was indeed a 7-0 their first 7-0 win their first
regulation win on the stage comes in their final
match of groups. And sadly for
them, no stage finals as they
come second last at the end of
stage one here in Asia. Actually,
you know what? They come third
last because they jumped over
fury. Hey, that is actually a
pretty big deal. They finally
got out of the Dregs and
double their prize pool
because of it. So that is a
see the most devastating loss that they have wetted so far without a doubt.
If I'm Elevator right now, I am hoping that I've got a VPN on him.
Born doesn't know my location.
But it really has to be the shame.
I was hoping that, you know, people are just going to show me notary all
the weaknesses and they could work through it and then come in stronger
like I keep saying, and that just has not been the case.
I'm very curious from Born's perspective being their coach, what he sees
that one of the problems, right? Is it a matter of other players not learning fast enough? Is it
that the, you know, scrim practice is difficult? Because mind you, when Hitotorys have such
rough resource now in kickoff and stage one, it might generally be hard to find good scrim
practice. Because to be completely blunt here, how many teams would want to scrim them if
they're not able to put up more than a round or two in the given podium matchup? I don't think
you're way below your daystar, you're orchid are gonna want to scrim these guys very much.
And now the question is how far down the map does that actually go? Yeah, that's a great point
Like really simply who's scrimming these guys maybe siking I guess
But look if you're awkward if you're way, but you're probably not bothering to to scrim these
These guys it's just probably not gonna get a lot out of it
HL Tory need that experience of scrimming these top teams
And that's another reason that that you need to perform well in your officials that we don't often talk about because
Your performance in official matches leads you to have a reputation
at the moment HLT sadly do not have a very popular positive reputation they go
007
For the group stage they find zero points and a negative 40 round difference sadly nine
Rounds one to 49 rounds boss, but on the flip side
let's talk about elevate for a moment because while this has been a really rough stage for them and
Frankly a rough six months. I mean you talk about the old elevate roster that went to six in rotational
They were one of the top teams from APAC with the Brazilian boys,
Saito and company, they didn't perform well at that event.
Now this rebuild has happened.
We finally see Elevate get a regulation win on the board
and we get a chance to chat with N. Hai Cal,
the young Ghana, the young Singaporean
who has been such a huge impactful player.
N. Hai Cal, congratulations on your win tonight.
Commiserations on not making it to state finals,
but I'm really glad that we get to chat to you
because it's been a really hard stage.
I know that you've made it tweets.
I believe it's been deleted now,
but you've vented some of your frustrations.
How are you feeling now?
Hopefully a little bit better
after a win as dominant as that.
Yeah, I'm feeling a bit better,
but I would say we're not happy
with our performance this stage.
And I'm pretty sure like every friend's also not happy
with our performance, so.
So taking a little bit deeper into that, first of all, you've had a great time individually
in this stage, but this is a team game.
At the end of the day, you're all into performing well as a team to of course get those victories.
What are the biggest learning lessons you can take from stage one into stage two?
That's the first point of the question.
And secondly, is there any fear about the entire team kind of evaporating because
Elevate as an organization has been clicked to make roster changes when they haven't
been getting results?
So, learning lessons and sticking together.
For me, I would say learning lessons is we should not take anything as an advantage.
I guess we should try to build that, build back up by like the first form.
And for the fear factor part, I don't think we really need to be fear of getting dropped
Because you are building something and it's a progressive
Yeah, I really want to flip this and I'll talk possibly about you guys for a second
I like all because you individually have been a really phenomenal player. We've been aware of you for quite some time
I don't remember the first time that I saw you play in tier one
But I heard about this young up-and-coming Singaporean guy and obviously we've had so many goats come from Singapore in the Asia region
and learn a medal, hysterics, many others as well.
Speakeasy, for example.
And so I'm always interested to see up and coming talent.
You yourself have played phenomenally
and while Elevate, you guys have had a struggle,
you know, you lost your first five games,
you ended the season on a high.
So surely that feels a little bit better.
At least you feel like you have made progress
over the course of the season.
And if you look back, you got four rounds off of Daystar.
That's one of the top teams in the league.
What do you feel like individually,
You yourself need to focus on to get this progression continuing into stage 2 to get to that next level. What will be your focus?
I think my focus would be to continue to dominate the M3 part of the game and by the late game out, be focusing on the IGL-ing and relaxing a bit.
Are you doing the IGL-ing for your team?
I wouldn't say at the last two games I wasn't but from the starting of the stage I was and I was doing entry which is kind of difficult then we decided to just keep backcode and position to IGF while I had to fix the mistake there.
Yeah, of course, there was a lot of hype for us about your roster bringing untold
you in hysterics who are like legends of the scene from back in their heyday.
But I do want to give you a chance to just say anything you want.
I'm sure the Elevate fans are watching and yes, it's been a hard season, but I'm sure
that we're very happy to see that you guys finished on two wins.
So the mic is yours if you want to thank your teammates or shout out anybody at home.
It's all yours.
Yeah, I want to say sorry to the elevate fans for this bad performance this stage, but we will try to be better coming on to stage two and
The rest thank you for spotting my family my friends and my girlfriend give us but even if I still use this deal
Thanks, and hi Cal and yeah congrats on a big win today, and I hope to see you it for many more winning interviews
business edge right see you guys thank you see you it's nice to finally get
properly chat to n-high cow and I mean everything I said I thought he's he's
very shy I think he's just a little disappointed I'm gonna have an ego you
know yeah I'm sure just when you see in the server it's like the most cocky
arrogant confident guy right and I know the results I mean that he speaks very
deeply about the the emotional damage that these stages done right about you
You know, like you said, between the referencing scene that maybe he's not going to play next season because you know, what's the point and yadda yadda yadda.
It's like this this kid is so talented. He is so good.
It would be a shame if we were not to stick it out and go for a triangle.
But of course, it sounds like he's got the ground set mentality and there's a bit of a break now for elevators that haven't qualified for stage finals.
That's true.
And a lot of teams in this league haven't qualified for stage finals.
Two are about to play up next.
The winner will go into our top four and compete in best of threes for a place at the eSports World Cup and the loser will end this day to one campaign tonight.
That's right, it's Solzhardt versus Psychin Company coming up after this break.
Hello, my name is Nai Phatara Nai Phon, I'm from Leblanc, I'm playing Fully right now.
Since I was born, my parents open a game shop and I live with them.
When I grow up, I play games all the time because my parents open a game shop.
I like to play game in the game already.
And when I played here, I was invited to join the team, so I started to play as a player.
At that time, my family opened a run game.
The first game I played was a fun game, P.B.
Koi Bank.
It was the first game that I had a competition.
Actually, I played every game.
Not necessarily a game.
But personally, I like to play game in the game first.
If my parents didn't play this game, I wouldn't be a pro or play games like this.
When I watch the game, I feel like they're cool, they're cool, they're cool, they're a team.
There's victory, there's victory.
I feel that if I'm a pro, I would be able to win.
When I'm in the competition, I feel fun and excited about it.
I like to be angry, so it's fun to be in the competition.
Even if I lose, I'm sad that I have to cry.
But I'm happy that I'm in the competition.
If I had been in the game before, I would have been in a lot of competitions.
But in Thailand, there are a lot of competitions that I haven't been in.
When I was playing as a set go player,
my friend showed me how to play as a set go player.
When I played, I felt like I was having fun with him.
And when I stopped playing as a set go player,
I played as a set go player,
and someone helped me out.
So that's how I started playing as a set go player.
At the same time, I still had fun with the game.
Even though I'm getting older, I still think I'm going to keep fighting until I feel like I can't anymore.
My parents have always supported me, no matter what.
And the last time I went to Paris, I bought a car for my mother and father to share at Paris.
I feel that it's better than going to Paris to support my mother.
I feel like my life is the same.
I want my parents to see our future as a fighter in different countries.
Even though I'm not a winner, but when I came to see the competition,
it was something that I had to have.
I'm really happy that I'm a contestant.
And when I won the competition, I'm really happy that I have a son
who will lead me to the competition.
Thank you to my parents who have been watching and cheering for me.
I will do my best until the end of the year to stop fighting and love my parents.
down gonna make you stay just fine
It's not gonna be too late, I'm not gonna stop
Cause I got that collection
Yeah, yeah, yeah
That's what I'm gonna be then
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm gonna get into that love
I'm gonna get into that love
I'm gonna get into that love
They say I like it
I go la la la la
I like it, I just
Oh baby, sunny and amazing
A day for the day
La la la la la la
I like it, I just roll
Oh baby, time right to be right
Cause I'm in love
And I don't think too much
I'm happy, I'm on my own
I wish I could be your ex-boyfriend
I'm your angel
I'm your love
I'm your baby
Cause I want coffee
Yes, go on and on
I feel like I know
I don't care what they say
I like it, I go la la la la la
I like it, I just mow, mow, mow
This stage is fun, yeah, yeah
I like it, I go la, la, la, la
I like it, I just want, oh, oh, oh
I'm gonna say, yeah, yeah, yeah
And take the frontage, take the frontage
I'm gonna say, la, la, la
I like it, I just want, oh, oh, oh
I'm gonna talk right to be right
Cause I've been on it, I've been on it, I've been on it
I
here in the APL. Everybody has
their sightsets on one thing.
That's being champion of your sub
region and booking your tickets to
international events upcoming. We
have the eSports World Cup being held
in Paris in just a month's time and
PENGUT we have one more spot into
the stage finals to compete for
that place for Asia at
EWC. It's either going to be
Psychic Company or it's going to be
Sol's Heart. Which one remains to
be seen. It is a head to head between Joe Gore and i9. For one of these players, their ascendancy
will end tonight. It's not the position I thought we would find ourselves in, to be honest, because
on one hand, Sol's heart, you know, guaranteed top four in my mind. On the other side,
Si can come into this, but you know, a new front roster, you know, I'm not sure about
whether they was gonna be yet, they're actually causing some upsets. They're taking some names and
if they were to beat Solzhard today, they'll be a great end to their campaign and also locking
themselves into top four. Yeah and sadly it's been a tough stage for both of these teams. It's been
a lot of tough moments. Notably, I mean anytime where they have just seen themselves say goodbye
to their tournament hopes. I mean Joe Gore, he's been to such highs at the Six of Attational
with Daystar and of course Lowe's like losing with Elevate being dropped from both of those
rosters. Now he looks at trying to forge his path with Psychin company. Let's talk about this roster
of course. Formally known as Unreal Nightmare they got picked up by Psychin company for stage one
and this roster just hasn't quite been at the heights that maybe we'd hoped for but at the same
time we didn't have the highest of expectations for Psychin knowing that of course they came
through the Challenger series and competing in stage one as Unreal Nightmare. If anything,
the wins that Psychon Company have had over Fury, Elevate and even a dominant win over HL Torrey
has kind of impressed and perhaps even surprised us. They also took Orc at really deep,
5-7, almost took points away from almost sent them to overtime. So I think Psychon Company,
despite having some troublesome games, I think they also have a lot to be happy with.
I mean if a couple of runs went their way they actually could have had a very different story, right?
They've had some close-fought victories and some very hard-fought losses. Like you said, they had a 5-7 to work it.
They had a 7-5 ability and a 7-5 or fury. They've been putting in a lot of good numbers and they've been impressing me.
I was feeling that the weren't gonna be super consistent. We started from this stage
But if you look at their results win or loss, they have been very competitive. Yeah, for sure
Let's dive into their opposition, of course, a team on the other end of the spectrum with
all the experience in the world.
It's Solzha, DCH, Mark, I9, Mr. Punch, and Scatman.
Every single one of these players has made a mark on the international stage.
Scatman, DCH, and I9 were the core of that roster represented by representing the Elevate
brand way back four years ago, four and a half in fact, at the 6th Invitational
in Stockholm, in Sweden, and that team went extremely deep.
Of course, Onagiri was a mainstay name on that team.
I9 then had a step over on the then Orchid and Fury roster.
Now he's back with one of his best friends,
Scatman, on the same team, and they've got Mr. Punch
and Mark, who have proven to be really strong players.
And yet it's been such a long time
since we've seen Sol's heart really win when it matters.
Yes, they were champions of the APAC Cup in Tokyo
in January, but that was a tier two tournament.
Technically, it was not like leading to an international event.
They haven't had an appearance at a six implementation
or a major for many, many years.
And they are meant to be the best team from Thailand
for a long time.
We're now, if they want to join their brethren in Orchid
in the stage finals, they're going to have to win today.
They are.
And to get a win, you should get onto a map.
So we're going to be to take us.
That is the last remaining question.
There's mind you this game matters so much right when it goes to the top four
So you cannot hide strats or play it safe you gotta go to what is they're gonna be the absolute best case?
Outcome for you club pals attention from the Mentos or can't solve up the window appels
It's gonna be that club so we're going to a super deciding match up here when it gets into top four
I didn't play ups and it's gonna be on the most fundamentally sound map in the pool now
that is exactly where I want to go. I love it. There's nothing quite like some classic clubhouse. We
haven't seen souls hard play it. We haven't seen psychic company play it either. This is not at all
about what you can do to vibrate view the opposition. This is all about what happens
once we kick things off. And that's what's about to happen souls heart e-sport versus
psychic company for the final spot off the grabs at stage finals here in the APL Asia.
Now will it be this roster with so much history and talent that Sol's heart has not been able
to reach the upper echelon for such a long time or will it be the up and comers led by
Joe Gore, the Larkin himself on Psyche and Company.
Whoever wins today makes it through to the top four.
Whoever loses says goodbye to their stage campaign.
Let's go to Clubhouse Pango and let's kick this off.
Yes please.
Take me there.
over the band's actually very curious, because it's Clubhouse, it's not going to be as simple as like banning the shields or banning a Deimos, because I'm not going to be as influential as they are in some of the maps.
While we're excited about the map, all the players are leaving teams, because they said, you know what, we don't want to go to Clubhouse just yet.
We're going to have a quick review of the thing, because the player crashed in the beginning of the open up band selection, but we did see a Thermite band come out, and I think it was a kite or bandit in response.
So both teams, of course, playing very much around the heart destruction or heart breaching
starts covering off the walls, which is peak clubhouse.
It was one of the very first maps where teams really started practicing bandit tricking walls
on every single bomb side, and then, you know, a tag which would figure out, okay,
we can get like a grenade in the window, or a kevlar fire, or an IQ below, and it
became the Thatcher Sophia meta, right?
We would EMP the wall, and then Sophia stunned the drone holes and stunned the bandit.
and they respond if you started barricading the doors or blocking them with a clash shield and clash
came into the play then you could actually physically block the Sophia stun and that
wouldn't work anymore and over the course of like eight and a half nine years or whatever
we've seen clubhouses continue to evolve time and time again. It's one of the things I love about
Clubhouse so many different evolutions in the meta. One of my favorite evolutions was as you said
when Clash would actually not hold the shield out but sit with the shield on her back and
crouch down so that it blocked up that drone hole prevented there's a fear from concussing it.
Do you remember the first team or player that you saw do that because I actually
it was it was in it it was in a pack was it was it mentalist or was it uh
close?
Starex mentalist or?
Close you got the right nationality.
Come on.
Oh no.
No.
Come on you're gonna get this man.
He's playing later tonight.
Oh wait is it Speegy?
It was speakeasy. I'm like 99% sure it was speakeasy playing the clash, crouched down and I think at that point they were called in victor's gaming if you remember that.
Yeah I do remember that.
It was a crazy roster by the way. IG had speakeasy on it, it had hysterics on it, it had Nates on it, the coach that now coaches Chiefs.
Yeah.
Jigsaw who plays for EP. Oh, yeah
Um, I can't remember who the fifth player was on that IG roster, but man
What a mix. It was a deadly team. It was crazy
It was because we played in APAC South back then so technically team players that were in Southeast Asia and
Oceania could be on the same team. Ping was fun
But yeah, man, we've seen so many iterations on how to play Clubhouse
Has been seen since that's up here for me on my own and I know it has been such a treat to watch
But I want to stay on clubhouse for a second thank you because we got to see some insanely high-quality
Clubhouse last night. We got to see to play it. We got to see falcons, but we got to see that as a pro player
I feel like you have this was it a ball in a shit through like was it shit this
Was a shit throughs hold up. I was gonna say it was like a lower level team. I
I got it for you in just a second. They played shifter. Yeah, because Freck on the windows, right? Yeah
So yeah, I was gonna say we've seen we ought to see a lot of good clubhouse yesterday
And we'll talk about the evolution of how this map gets played out in the matter over the years
You know no longer are we really seeing many maverick tricks no longer. We're seeing there's a fear-bound
Place of what is the most modern?
Interpretation of clubhouse the most modern little bit of tech that you've been seeing recently
Okay, in the most simple terms, and this is gonna be so boring. It's gonna be capital.
I can bring capital on every single bombsite to like insane success. And while that's
sitting to always been possible, I feel like with the small box, the fire lasting a few
seconds longer, doc being weaker without the ACOG because you could play doc and just
heal yourself and tank the fire. Those small pocket cars aren't happening. So yeah,
We have a spend rate and pick rate, very very high, if not banned and picked definitely.
The other one is what we saw just yesterday in email, is actually the interactive Solid
Snake which Neon right now is actually going to be sitting on.
You can get so much value.
We saw yesterday from both Benjamaster and Freak from Shifter and G2.
They can just sit outside like the Master Bedroom window to connect the window on
a top four attack and you can easily find four or five defenders.
Because you can see into paragraph is CCTV cash connector and must admit to him and a little bit of office
So solid snake because the rooms are so compact and close together can just get absurd
I'm gonna just rapid fire hit you with a couple of different things that I've seen recently in Cobhouse
Let's see my face reasonably modern. You know, some of these like the cabaret out of the news for a while
But I'll hit with one. So it's the the black beard versus Goyo battle that happens in dirt
I feel like we see that so often black beer tries to take dirt
There's a Goyo in there maybe a smoke and he's popping his Goyo charges using his smokes
Just trying to burn as much time as possible
And then eventually falling back number two
I've got on the basement the church triple wall you leave the middle one soft with a rotate and then you
Potentially reinforce over it in the late round if you decide to fall back now
What else we got on the top floor?
I feel like cash is the one that gets really interesting because it's such a
frankly bad bombsite and so teams have to get really creative. Difficult to plead each. It is, my
favorite modern iteration of that is double reinforcement on the cash and cct, so the cctd
into uh rafters walls and then you just play someone in there and you know they're gonna die
and you just let them die and their goal is to waste as much time as possible.
I actually have one more, you actually keep the single wall right next to dch here into
connector soft you can kind of try to hold master bedroom from the side itself
creating a new line of stuff yeah it's a single wall and you could at least
open a time not to be still can put it bulletproof shield shield on top of the
green box you can actually have like a very safe position hold that line of
sight so I got another bottom in that that I'm seeing in times we're actually
seeing it right now it's players with shotguns and in general just playing
on the main stairs like Mark is right now, especially Peter the Denari Denari
and the spot from Sonic's I believe. Yes. We've seen tip three.
They were really good at this. Yeah. It's always interesting to see that the way things have changed for this particular round.
This is a massive road. He got two players upstairs in DC H and I nine not to mention the way that Mr.
Punch and Mark were aggro on the staircases, burning a lot of time from
scythe company's attack.
Doing a good job here from Soul Sartre.
They've got Choryo fire canisters, they can pop,
they've got Yolkites for intel, and they've barricaded
off the third floor so that they say,
hey, you can take their control, but we'll know
if you go in there, because you have to
bury the bear if you're hitting the bottom side.
Scythe will strike first, they'll take any red off DC,
hey, it's gonna be a Sami, so
honestly, at this point in the round, not the
biggest opportunity to lose here in defense.
You lose a bit of roaming presence,
causing Alon to fall back towards garage,
Time is taking James and as we're going to an echo and smoke which are the three people on the bomb site
They get stronger as each second is going by
Oh
Damage acro underneath that mark finds one likely gonna get people from the bottom main stairs have though very low on HP
Has to fall back
Don't worry too much about the smoke, but he's gonna have to when he's low on HP
We need to see a big entry here from psychic from somewhere for 25 seconds. They're having to pivot constantly
I don't know why I know I know that that was a bad call here neon punishes him
But mr. Punch immediately gets him back into the 3v3 with one gas left for mr. Punch remember cap is such low HP
They also have your ties up for scat man nice aggro peak from Mark
Psyching deep in the bomb site didn't realize that man was tucked away in the corner time for a plant from Joker
still a smoke available from mr. Punch won't be needed because Marcus swung him
from the road actually from the breach at the bottom of main stairs under the
church wall souls heart cap off the first round pretty handle a very good
layer defense heavy roaming with a solid bombs and you can tell the strategy
if the Romans get a couple of kills they can just win off that even if the
rumors die though it's gonna be about playing for time denial and that's why
see that a pretty different side in company being so desperate there's no
more time to make it a calculated play and droning and double chip triple
chicken everything also they had the solid snake unfortunately on the blue
staircase going for a backstab and there's a downside to that the gadget
doesn't reach very far into the actual bomb side so you can't really get
information to your teammates had he been in motor door or by bottom means
staircase he would have seen the player rats inside a church the player
playing back B that was Mark who got a kill as well and that could have changed everything in that round
so maybe second company you know being pressured by time forced a couple of errors which then
soulshark would capitalize upon and get around victory felt very well done that's basement
probably on paper going to be the strongest defense here um i will say the capitol thermite
ban does help out with both cctv and gym defenses because the kentus instantly popped open all
all the walls of the thermite and they can use capitol to clear either the rafters or
the bathroom position on either CC or gym defense.
So I do think it's also going to be a great job to do it with open events addiction.
It's one of the few maps where I will say a thermite slash harbinger van is actually
going to be a solid pick.
I was looking at Cycland to see how they looked to try and use what power operators are left
up because as we've said the capitol is going down.
A thermon I don't feel like is the biggest ban here.
I don't think it's usually a high pool.
We've got two dedicated high breaches and then the little spice that's brought is
It's not the most spicy, but it's a sense.
From Fang, what is his intention to use these Sen's walls?
Off and on, on the gym bedroom, the bomb site.
Oh, did he fall?
Oh, he fell.
That's a rip.
I think you might have tried to do the, the boost spot on the office hatch.
You can see it down the hatch.
And if you mess it up, well, that happens.
You, you fall.
So up he goes again, I guess.
And he does it again and fails it.
He will just die.
so uh not sure if we're taking that chance but you can get an angle like the drone sees here
you can shoot in towards the grid rotate etc it's quite a nice spot to be in but
likewise if you know that you're there you're an easy free fire kill
you know the hilarious part about that is juggle if he hadn't fallen off the roof he wouldn't
be 20 hp he wouldn't have died to one bullet to the foot
What could have been? Small mistakes I can cast ya.
Now souls are with that, they can kill back one more defender because you know they don't want to lose to many people in the roam game.
So all about the bombsite, the healer players, I was at the Tunze breach.
They're trying to go for a destruction, a flashbang, that deep bottom line of sight.
And they get a peek as well.
It's found now info from Neon as well on where these defenders are playing that's
such aggressive play from I9 uncharacteristic again to go down playing
too aggressive two rounds in a row with no impact no kills scatman cannot one
before psychic company on the board with a quick reply now nice and easy all
about getting an opening pig and just taking a step by step and this time
they had a backstab the solos think gadget actually finds a bit of value
seeing two separate defenders and they get the job done and that's the thing
about those Tuft of Bombs that's why they're typically harder to play it's
much more open right all the windows and connect them as the bedroom and getting
forth from the beaches on the exterior of the map there's so many easy ways to
die where you just don't have much of a fighting chance and clubhouse isn't a
map where you can just play a rune 2 brawl everything around that have
strong dmr players because you're gonna want to have like some wall
denial that's open or information or c4 or plant denial a strong operator with a good gun they can
clean freely on the roll the cancel for protection and a sounding for protection you're spread so thin
already you can't just go i don't need to brow play for kills you can of course try and do it
but then you just up against so many strong attack and operators and you're pretty sure to lose the
utility yourself so it means that side king can leverage that to the advantage and play from
from the outside of the building as much as they can try and force.
Now some of them go to CCTV, they go to the motions here, they got a Sami and Yeager for
cattle grafters.
So that means, and the doubling force tool that you set is like one of your favorite
ways of doing it, you're leaving a pair to die.
And the reason why this is so effective, Yeager is pure passive, right?
Three of the AS and Catwalking Preface, boom, done.
Doubling force tools, boom, done.
Now you just leave Einar and Asami, who has activity to achieve those Asami keepers
you can throw out whenever he wants to and even if you lose i9 you're gonna burn
so much time in this round and grenades and flashbangs and whatever else a lot
of teams may see this cover is set up it's gonna go for master bedroom and
that's where the second layer comes to play because they reinforce the tachuci
they outcast the bear case of further help they're playing a lousy master
they're really trying to cover as much of the map as possible and just
probably rotate people into the area where Saikin are gonna be attacking
from. I like the setup. It's always a lot of problem solving, so I can accompany.
So I'll start consistently want to play to hold onto a lot of map control. You've noticed
that in every round they've played so far, they just have to make sure they have a good
enough setup to have a healthy hold because last round they far overextended in connector
and that's why they just start dropping picks left, right and centre.
Cyclican starts to put some pressure on to execute onto the master bedroom side.
Fenglic throws out one candela. He's being patient here, waiting for his team, which is good.
The good thing about running shotgun, he can just walk up to that soft wall in bathroom,
smack it once, or he can also flash over the top. This is a good play.
I like the idea here. You should be able to surely win this fight.
On the other side, Bac obliterated, well played.
Nice opening for Scycon Company although they lost K3.
Sol's heart. At what point did they decide to fall on back? The Candelas again. Beautiful shotgun work from Fanglix.
Scycon Company really maximizing the value out of that ying.
And it's forcing Idyne to make a tough call. Does he fall back to site or does he keep on fighting?
Well, he takes a lot of damage from the dope to be called.
He survives.
Just barely. Well HP.
I expect their friends the same world queues and cognac at that one impact in at least to make something happen later on possibly look at this the
players are stalking corners those external angles are softballs it's off position at DCH I saw that in this shot
All right
Take a hell of all the damage and be forced to move
Now out comes the shettie can't win the fight triple
Well, Fanglix with the Ying Shotgun, low HP now as Aynine wants to try and get this kill, but he's caught off guard from outside.
Great opening kill there to put Scatman in such a difficult position.
I don't think he has the info. Impact is huge! That's per-denied!
Maybe, just maybe!
He can survive this round.
Five seconds, but Jogar looks for a reattempt. I don't think he has any Yo-Kai's left available.
He does!
How was his teammates not calling for this it could have surely rotated into position and won this round on time
But now he's forced into the nine possible task of going for a retake up the stairs
Gaff takes him down a second round on the board for second company
Honestly that is heartbreaking and you said it so well yourself. How does his teammates are telling a yokai open alive?
You know one thing is that the echo themselves got a track
You know where the yokas are how many are left alive, etc
But when you're actively in the clutch in that one me three you need to have your teammates help you out
Say hey, you have a drone you can move. Hey, they're going to this room, etc
And they had the ripings happening so they were clearly watching the cameras
It's not communicating which ones they were watching and what options they had to work with
So a bit of a sad way to potentially lose the round and
Actually speed of the echo it gets target banned straight away
That's a very unusual case, but it makes sense if
Echoes get good target pad! You guys are scared of me.
Solid Snake of course, that was what Nia was talking about in the chat.
Very highly contested operator these days. Like I said in the beginning, it was on email yesterday.
It was harsh on me, getting that constant amount of information.
And it's got the buffed F2, which is an absurdly good gun.
A bit of a fire pad difference there when you're going up against F2s and AK-12s and all you've got is like an SMG-11 or the Bering-9 in Scatman's case.
A little bit disappointed that he wasn't able to put a little bit more pressure though into that plan.
I mean, it's plainly echo for goodness sake, and he had a yokai up in CCTV.
Even though they planned that he cashed, he would have thought it would be worse just quickly jumping on that.
Maybe he was worried about them hunting him down, but he had the color from the castle practice.
You can't obsess too much over what could have been the last round.
You need to focus on the future and focus on the present for one.
And Pengu, presently I see that souls are losing on their clubhouse defense.
One rounds to two for Psychic Company.
That is not where you want to be. They should be gunning for a 3-3 or ideally a 4-2 split here.
Which is so possible.
Oh, really? I think it is possible at this...
When we were casting EU yesterday, Pengu, it's a different case, and we talked about this yesterday, the highest skill level, the more likely it's going to skew attack or side it.
That's why I think a game like G2VP is going to be attack or side it.
So I can soul-salt, I think it's going to be a different situation. I'm sure that you don't have to skew it.
So you don't think that these two teams are as good as VVG2?
I don't think that's a hot take.
I think they're better.
Okay.
Yeah?
Thank you.
Are you on the soul's hot payroll?
I
Am not actually
Wink wink I'm not but I will say
Not have been that much better yesterday
You're right
There's a higher defensive in rate than in other regions for that exact purpose and reason
I can eat just more challenging but none of you do this none of those injuries
are working out like that none of you just keep doing it as well the fuse a
key the ying shoddy it's mandling is hitched roam upstairs leaving everybody
to go up a staircase and try and take more bad fights because what else are
you gonna do now hold on a second a psychic company the real deal because
this is genuinely impressive the way that fanglix is abusing that ying is
crazy I'm genuinely surprised that souls I feel like they probably should
Instead they got rid of the solid snake, which I don't know. I mean, yeah
They did play it a couple of times, but the thing has been so good
Prefenlex both times he's played it
And that shoddy is deadly great roam clear from second company souls hard better hope that they can land some big C4
This could be massive
Scatman gets the down but not the finish off. Maybe they could go for a retake
like soul's hot have to get desperate they have to send two players out the main
stairs make some kind of a play
desperation is different in the name of the game right now and the thing is that
can change if you get a kill or two they can stop being desperate and just
stop playing that solid siege if not taken too many risks they got three
Tulsa babes they have a warden and a great spot but scavenging interpret
themos gonna make his individual life much hotter actually swinging it
Jack from neon is good for madman. I mean you need to swing in 20 seconds. It's time to go boys
So I can go to go now
But they have three candelars in pocket and they have jogor on the shield
Felix preparing the flashes wow pre-fire from neon. He reads get man to perfection almost doubles up
Then it comes to with the yin. It's a 1v4 for mark Felix another kill
My god these guys are so damn good
That's another round on the board three straight souls hot call your tactical timeout right now or reach your heart out
I've had enough
What a read from neon by the way like who beats they're gonna swing off the grenade with like 12 seconds left in the cloth because in most
Of his mind that Valkyrie the scap air just kept man. I was gonna say you just walk to the right hand side and ignore the angle
Now you don't need to commit to it
I actually think it was Scatman, he had to be desperate, went forward, ended up getting punished.
But Neon as an individual has been so sharp this stage.
I mean, he has an i9 stats out of his world.
And then it's obviously with both teams that they're doing alright,
and they're fighting for top 4, they're fighting for stage finals, don't get me wrong.
But they haven't been destroying the competition.
Yet they have individually put up some absurd numbers.
Can Solzhard afford to lose any more rounds here on the defensive side?
Well, according to you, it's gonna be a 3-3 or a 4-2.
I mean, I think if these teams are even at their current skill level, I would say 3-3 or 4-2 for defense.
If I can find a fourth round, Solzhard are in pretty dire straits.
I think that they're gonna be okay on attack.
I think they're gonna match for like maybe four rounds but like certainly not five and I would I think it was down to
One simple thing you're right like I nine
He's been like the player for souls hard like individually clutching injury a so in four
He's not his corporate yet now from my memory
I believe he's a better player on the tab in his defense
I was gonna be the shields of black beard or a solid snake is getting like multiple freedom to achieve things in the server
So I'm not too worried for them yet, but if we get besides one, regardless of what the halfstone looks like, and Aynine doesn't get fired up immediately, that's when I get worried.
Yeah, I think he's got to step up now.
He's on the yellow, which is the best operator to deal with Joe Gore on the Blackbeard.
Maybe we will get that head to head that we were so anticipating Aynine versus Joe Gore.
The L still has one Grishmott in pocket to try and take that fight to Jurgor
But I know he needs to be landing a shot
He needs to work on his positioning because frankly that's been his weakness in this game so far
I know it is a risk-taking player, but usually he wins those 60 40s
Usually he makes those gambles well, but so far this game. He's just been caught out of position time and time again
I
Isn't steady so I can come buddy very much playing for execute
They not structured from the mentally sound see where nothing can go wrong until we're ready for it to go wrong
And that is when you're gonna be hitting the mom side together
Then watch this easy with the camera pal. There's a bit of gap here bad timing and this kind of everything
I'm not gonna scoreboard he gets one DJs a second. Oh my god. That's exactly what they need to see
You're damn right. I9 and DCH together. Pairing up to lock down cash room. This is exactly what we needed from them
I9 is finally on the board and Fenrirzu has been so deadly on this ying is not allowed to have an impact
1v5 for him. He's good, but I don't think he's got it in him for a 1v5
That is unlucky. I mean we saw Dogura jump in CC window when looking at I9 taking the gun fighting
The teammate behind them was looking the complete opposite direction not going for the two versus one
This is one of those
Tactical timeouts without actually taking it where you can discuss what went wrong
Once you got to do better next time and while some people might say that it's boring
It is probably the best use of your time if you're a psychic company because you can conjure up
What you can fix the round to come and souls hard, you know, they they're in defense
They're a lot more restricted than what they can do because you know, they get they have a paper strap
They're gonna follow it. Their biggest decision is what we have to go to that's like the top is called to make or second company
They can go all about that operator. What about this one about this pocket strategy bring it now to be late. We save the playoffs
I'm right here
That's the second round first also and now comes down the final round of the half
One benefit of being a person here for their team is that they don't need to
Perhaps you use a tactical timeout as much. You can really lock in and talk to your teammates
Without necessarily that tactical timeout, of course, you don't necessarily have the time and you still can't talk to your coach
Even if he's in the room with you
But they can just stare each other in the eyes and say hey guys come on really lock in for this one
Here's an idea I have you can look at your teammate screen if you want to which is little advantage that you get on land and
And if you're in a team house, but you don't actually get when you're playing separately online
One final round. It's a basement defense. I'm really scared about one thing Penger and it's this ying
What our souls are gonna do about it?
And will they continue to roam as well because it hasn't been particularly effective against psychic company today?
The issues right if you don't roam
It matters like clubhouse like bank etc. The bomb sets themselves
themselves aren't necessarily like super strong as a defender it's what you can do
with the bombsite when you know you've gotten a kill in the roam or you've
burned a lot of time or they're spending like a lot of grenades or whatever
that's when the side becomes a lot more enjoyable so I feel like while the
roaming has to work out per se they don't really have much of a choice so I
can come here they've been so good at playing for execute they've been so
good at giving to the late states of around despite the roaming if you let
them have everything for free I don't know if that's gonna be defendable at all
so if you may just send one player off as DTH right now play play your life
you're a Sami you don't have insane value in the basement you can just kind of
try and take a five top floor try and hopefully get a kill and see what
happens but then look at the opposition there's a Danielson and the blitz
looking for you if they track you and find you you will die so he's gonna
straight back on stairs, sooner rather than later, and that is good value.
So you got a QB of value there, it covers off the angle from Jim Hatch that looks all the way down stairs.
I actually really like what you're saying. I feel like the priority here for the Souls Heart,
shoot drones, get back to sight safely, 5 on 5 on sight.
Even though you're dealing with really good execute operators like the Ying and the Blitz,
I think Souls Heart should buy their time.
their time and in the late round when you can read what the execute is happening like when there's 30
seconds left inside your backpack that's when you lash out in a 5v5. Use the keeper barriers in your
pocket to change the landscape last second. I think I just saw a triple reinforce on church wall as
well. I also noticed Mr. Punch is in position on the warden where the ying pushed last time. This is smart.
So I can come in and what they can do is you find the ward with the track we're
doing right now. He's in blue. Alright send the Blitz and Ying elsewhere. It's
that or you take the Ying into blue to distract the warden but the Blitz is the
main push power happening somewhere else as well. So there's a bit of bait and
switch game and the Gross Siden coming in shots so much map control so quickly.
They have a lot more time to kind of bait things out and see where it can take them.
Ani misses the shot. Verity does not find the kill onto a very powerful
operator, but he stays alive himself as well. Despite the hatch being opened,
despite the attackers being right above him, he's making great work of this round.
VCH back to side now.
After that, a bit of re-aggro. One last keeper barrier goes out, or maybe it doesn't.
I think he put it away. Ooh, I9's been picked. Where was that frag from bottom
main stairs? Oh, he was an attempted nitro cell from I9. Again, a bit of
aggression doesn't work out for him. A rare quiet game for R9 on souls heart. This is the
decisive moment, Pengu. We'll psych him go for 4.
I need Alton Warden and then use Kingsman's Elsewhere to distract him.
Oh! Mr. Punch, find this kill before he's traded on back. The Ying has been dealt with
in K3. Finding a critical kill to bring him back to the 2v2.
Scatman! Eliminated before he can use his smokes! It all comes down to DCH1v2.
No U2 to speak of. He knows exactly where the plant's going down, but careful cover!
Psychic company! Oh well, on their way to stage finals, 4-2 on their attacking half,
as we go to our halftime vibe check.
A big finish to the half for Psychin Company.
get the 4-2 split, they were looking for a phenomenal set of attacks. I have to say, a team that came
through the Challenger series that hasn't had the highest level of hype behind them, that has already
shown in this stage that they can compete with the top level, they are looking better than ever
here. And if they keep this up, then there's no question that they will deserve that spot in
stage finals. It's been a good progression here for Psychon company from the beginning
of stage one to the current moment and I think the fact that our final playday ends up being
a qualifying match into stage finals is a great story for them.
But on the flip side, you know, before the station began, James, we're saying
Sol's heart is probably gonna be at 14, they're gonna be in that conversation,
what they're supposed to be skill-level wise. Joe, we have, you know, a day style, we have
a way bowl, they're locked in first and second place and they're gonna fight that athlete
as well, literally. And then it was a matter of how good is Orc gonna be, how good souls
are gonna be. Sikker is gonna snuggle and sit. I actually, guys, went to conversation
too. And I really need to see some more heart here on the attacking side, because
souls hearted for an impressive moment, they've been falling a bit short. They
haven't been fully invested in the rounds, they've been falling early in the role,
I haven't been playing much together into the synergy and communication.
Now is the time for Ina in particular to lead his team into battle,
playing operators like he is right now on the Blitz.
You need to see Solzat be at their absolute peak right now
in order to come back and win this game.
Now, if you look at the standings right now, both teams are dead on nine points
with three outright wins, three outright losses.
None of them have ever gone to overtime, but because they are dead even on points all that matters is who wins this game
Doesn't matter if it's regulation or overtime. You can see the only overtime game here
In the group stage either these teams beat this match right here
That puts the pressure off souls a little bit. They don't have to win five in a row here
They don't have to win it in regulation doesn't matter if this goes to OT
They just have to match the four rounds of attack that cycle company found and then whatever happens and overtime
Well, we'll get to that if we do. No need to worry about it now
Focus up on just winning these rounds one at a time K3 though punishes I9 who has had an absolutely
horrid match
Two and six on the blitz taken down early the core fragger from Sol's heart
It's completely absent today
It's young good delivery now just falling back, right?
using the sami barrier from neon to get back from the blue staircase we saw before in the main stairs everybody was being back to
get their score to each other to safety they get their pick and they fall back
This is just the benefit of people to mentally understanding what are we trying to achieve with the Rome game?
It's gonna be killing five drones is you're gonna be getting a kill
It's the reason certain time like one minute 30 woman to 45 and then fall back and the second can meet that
you go yep now step two now souls I do all the hard work all of it the
cavity of the bug half destruction the candle burners and that eventually they're
gonna have to go for the final push of the round but without the blitz yes they
have grim for intel yes they have can deliver the flash the chaos if you
will but there is a warden and the fact that they only have you know one flash
things like smoke over it in the yin means the warden keeps trying to go
where the Ying is going. Or Ying is going to be warden here. Blue will say they cannot
attack Blue. The main push has to be elsewhere and because there is no blitz you can't do
two separate attacks. So there's one push going for Soulsheart and they've got 40 seconds
to set it up. I just don't think that they have the
utility to flush out these key positions. Even look at K3 he's been allowed to run
around all at the bottom of the main stairs past that angle where so typically you'd
see attackers covering this booth spot from neon is so devilish so difficult to take down
free kill that's a big pick from mr punch if you could have doubled down there that would have been
a gap what a shotgun shell yeah that's a massive long range shotgun shell there from calf time is
taking away k3 has snuck deep into memorial and found his feet on the scout man the coverage of the
yin ineffective against the warden pick second company are not under pressure and it's just
and uninspired execute from Sol's heart. Our fifth round on the board for Sikon Company,
two rounds away from locking in state finals and knocking our eight-packed cup champions out of contention.
It's a beautiful round. Again, people are communicating very clearly there from Sikon
Company and who's going to be covering what angle. A person has to watch Kitchen Hatch.
A person has to be watching the blue staircases because those are big back step
potentials they knew that there was no attack coming from dirt because that was
closed off for the most that round and then they also made a mini-play inside of
Modo where they get it free beyond bottom main stairs neon asking do you
guys have a coach
it's a bit of a parsley moment there we got like they do have a lot of support
staff I love the smack talk coming in I mean these guys are getting too
comfortable yeah they haven't played a lot of specularity they are not
respecting their elders whatsoever. But we've seen this trend not just in APAC but across the world.
It's time for new talent to come into the scene and we can't just rely on the nostalgia of what
happened four years ago at one Six Invitational that one time that a Thai team performed well
as much as it pulls my heartstrings to see Seoul's heart perform. If they're not up to scrap
and the second company will take their place then that is the future, the reality that we live
them and I'm all here for it and a day and a two-row freeze it's a gang about
just like burning down the clock as much as possible low key I'd love to see a
Goyo before to the table this round but this also kind of neat freeze with the
mirror window can block the half destruction of a therma charge in
particular and just make it more difficult because now when I arrange
half destruction given that single common wall might be tricky let's see what
they can do though they got the coups you will open up they're not in the windows
just get a master bedroom or gym the calf can just kind of freely move inside
of gym bomb site normally you should be you know threat feel threatened from the
windows but so it's not kind of skipping a step of the current moment
Looks like
More this souls are gonna do exactly the same they did last round thank you where they wait way too long
Oh nice little touch there. I noticed that neon actually managed to shoot the
The Grimm's canister before it it opened up and blue. There was a little nerve to grim a while ago
Just increases, you know, it takes for it to deploy and so you have a larger gap when you shoot it before it deploys
watch him, watch him contest it.
It's one of those cases where like, do you really need to do it?
If you get the kill, you might just win the round, but if you die on the flip side, you could just lose it as well.
And they're in a very strong position here for Psychic Inc.
They got so much control, utility pockets, C4s, they're too legitimate with my discs.
They don't got to make any of the first moves.
Soulsheart, they're moving their flying drone from basement blue up into the front lines
because they have no information.
Mind you, they could play demos, they could play Solace, they could play Toki, they could play any of the shields, but they're not.
They're stuck outside the building and only just in CCTV and now in-game construction.
Nice Nitro. Doesn't land. It's Mark. Cap has been found. Good pick.
The Scatman is able to backstab here through the destroyed barbed wire and might be able to open up the round.
Psychic companies seem to be at least somewhat aware of that they're taking damage left, right instead of Scatman finds his opening.
This is the eruption from Souls Heart.
We've been waiting for a flawless round for Souls Hearts.
Finally, they're on the board on the attacking side.
They need three more to guarantee overtime.
It's a quiet start to the round,
but that final execute,
everybody got into the right positions.
The back step main staircase,
work in the windows,
get inside a construction,
and it was a very quick one-two punch
when they were finally ready to go.
But if that's your four lands,
right before they execute and they lose that player.
If a gunfight goes the wrong way,
that can also likewise,
is flipped around in Scycon company's favor
and then they lose.
So it still feels like an all-enough
and straddling from soul's heart,
which is so risky.
Now in Scycon company, they take us to CCTV.
They bring out the clash with the hiding
inside the bombsite itself,
trying to go unnoticed by the drones.
Because if you can get the clash
without a counter operator,
you can lock down either, you know,
the massive bedroom and the construction kind of side or catwalk rafters even you
can try and play for a retake and walk out the garage door there's a lot of
opportunity for you if you don't realize what the enemy have to offer and
right now they have a no man they have a bug both can do some damage to a
price depending on where they're gonna be playing the operator but they're
gonna go from number to demo so I don't think they know this
Why are you two going to bring to deal with that clash?
Well, not really much.
Yeah.
I don't know, man.
I'm scared for Solzhard.
I feel like I have been all night long.
Ever since we saw Saikin build up that momentum
three rounds in a row on the attacking side,
the fact that I9 still only has two kills,
I'm going to be honest.
I don't think Solzhard can win unless I9 is going positive.
Like, is there a world where he can get a negative K.A. and this team can still win?
I don't think so.
I mean, the way to solve that is somebody else pops off massively instead, but that hasn't been the case, right?
We're talking a very even team effort here, minus I9.
It's 5-5 DTAs, 5 Formers of Pro-1s, 5-6 Skyrim, 6-9 Rockstar.
Like, they're all very talented players, but none of them are those kind of, like, star players that go and make plays, except for I9.
He's the only one on that roster that plays that unpredictable aggressive hangout.
He'll take around his fire and hands playstyle.
Aggressive now for Mr Punch.
He's got intro on the back of his drone.
He goes straight in after the charge goes off.
You get some high breaching.
Sprays towards the bomb site, but of course,
Psychic Company can just keep playing behind this clash.
So, this is an aspect of the game.
You're doubling from the office wall.
And the wall inside here is essentially soft and open dog with a shield covering it.
So during that like newer style innovation fuel and clubhouse
You got a flash in the mix, which is nice. Again, you get your own mobility
on an intel
But navigating this is tricky
You got the mirror windows the smoke has to be in spots of throughout this toxic babes
The main breach are all opened up because banding kind of in bandolay
It means that defenders are gonna feel so much pressure
Now there's an upset space if the attackers want to apply pressure in all those areas
I just mentioned it's we're gonna be isolate members one guy in the window one guy on the breach one guy
construction. If you lash out and just get one peek here from the company, the worst they do that's
going to be so much easier to fight the rest of the round. The psychic company understand that
we're conditioned so well they've realized that if you're here from Solzat we'll have to be cash
which means they have to go and play vert from down below which means the buff will be in stock
that's i9 and they hunt him down and kill him it's perfectly read by psychic company and now
souls heart desperately need to find
kills guys there we go a position
there C4 player down below the bomb
site as DCH floods inside Joe Gore
holds down CCTV
DCH is down but top red control has
now been manifested by souls heart
mark is in the room he needs to get
back in and look for a plan but he's
being flanked now by neon good kill
almost it goes around covers himself
with the clutch shield and the
The Nitro Cell finishes the round for Psychic Company.
One more round and they steal Solzhard's place from the playoffs.
Beautiful counter-strat again. Great adaptation, right?
It's pretty much picture-perfect.
It's about there's going to be isolated attackers.
Going for a last shot is a 1v1.
Then you're going to feel that pressure from the box beneath.
You send in the clash.
You open the door for that operator with a second gun
and gone and just chased down the box playing the trading game.
Bit awkward that they got stuck in the doorway blocking each other, but all in that it was
a picture perfect round from Psychon Company again, just playing the game of adaptation.
They let in Soulsheart, show what they want to do, and then they stop them.
And with this match point against them, Soulsheart will finally call their tactical timeout,
but it could just be too late.
Has it been left too late?
I feel like they needed to have a better showing in the first half.
They should have called that tactical timeout. Maybe when there were two one down. Who knows.
They went four two down at the end of the first split and now on their attack they've lost their
first. They win their second and now they lose their third. It has to be all attack rounds one
from here on out. It has to be three in a row to push us into overtime and then they have to
dig deep once they get there as well. Whatever side they start on attack or defense.
I don't know what I9, what he's thinking and feeling right now, but he just hasn't performed
to his typical standard.
And I think Soulsheart are really suffering from it.
Soulsheart are a smart, well-rounded team, but I think they're a little bit behind on
the modern meta, and they can sometimes get away with that because they frag out
like crazy, but right now, so I can't play perhaps some of the best C for them.
we've seen from them. I don't know if you agree, Pengu, but the read in that round on that active
defense knowing exactly what that push was going to go for as soon as they telegraphed the breaches
and started pushing cash. So I can knew, okay, well that means the win condition is flushing us
out of cash from down below in stock. They rotate multiple players, including the clash for info
down into that position, and they rip Sol's heart's heart right out. 10 seconds remaining.
It's been a very, very good siege.
I really spoke to Nebs during the interviews,
right, as soon as the support staff,
and they talked about the unusual roles that they have,
and how they're trying to make things happen.
And whenever you're talking to players, the support staff,
they're always gonna speak well about their intentions
and what's happening by the scenes,
but it's not always that we see the results
that kind of back up the conversation, right?
All we gotta coach for that and the coach for this,
and our focus is to focus on a teamwork or communication
or maybe strategy depth or map pool.
Then we see the teams put the same strap
and the same map and think,
what are you actually working on
because you're not showing any size of improvement, right?
The second company, they set up what they wanna work on
and they've shown improvements across the board
at such a rapid pace.
One thing is beating Soulsheart.
Another thing is in the fashion of which they're doing it.
It's their science team, it's calculated
and they're countering them
almost every step of the way,
so far it's in science, well,
we gotta see a little bit more teeth here
from Sol's heart. They don't have those usual heavy and execute operators. No, you don't
see the Demos, no Grim. Sorry, there's a Grim. I'm actually blind. There's a Grim. But there's
no Demos. There's no shield. There's not that punching power. Instead of doing stuff like
the IQ to the Valkyrie, they're really respecting the information gathering, which is going
to be one of those 3C4s being used from below. So Scabman can give them safety
to the bomb site. Sure. But what happens once they get to execute? It's just
five green canisters for information but not much they can act beyond that.
I really feel like soul's heart.
Do not have the ingredients to deal with this clash.
Do not have what they need to try and crack in.
They've tried the ying in the past before, but then and it seemed like,
hey, oh my God, a shelter to fall like that.
I know I'm going down again, two and eight today.
And it might be the end of the line for Solzhardt as a result.
If Errol might be again from the back foot 4v5 and we just said we don't have much of that execution power, they need it as many guns as possible and I understand it's not still up to the challenge.
She's now in the grave watching his team hopefully get this round across the line.
If not, that'll be the end of their state-run performance.
Big gap though found by Scatman. Didn't realize the jogor that the cover was not there.
K3 though immediately responds taken low, but a kill is a kill and Psychic Company still maintain control
Mr. Punch, Mark and DCH are now desperate and DCH has found his own way in through the tunnel
Mr. Punch is taking it on the clash now a plant is on the cards for Mark but he doesn't know where
is safe to plant he's got a cover and his teammates watch from every other scenario K3 goes down
DC H up through the dirt tunnel sneaks in behind enemy lines and keeps souls hot alive
The tiniest of details a back step from blue a back step from dirt tunnel just finding that teeny tiny gap
It's so freaking that we don't see the finger playing inside a dirt tunnel these days because you're stuck in a bad location
But this time there was indeed a member waiting there the back turn towards his enemy and it changes everything
mind you psychic and comedy being less experienced than you know causing the
opposite currently they're feeling the pressure of being about to win and that's
a real thing we've seen it so many times in the past even at international big
tournaments right they're like truck Canadian looking at a trophy going to a
grand final and yet knowing that there's a world where he loses it when
you get really close to winning and lifting that trophy sometimes your mind
can start wondering and it just kind of goes away from the game and I know this is the winning
limitations by any means but this is a spot for stage finals for playoffs which for Sight and
Combo is a huge stealer. You could find yourself a little bit distracted thinking oh my guys guys
we're doing it we're doing it and you start going a little bit away from the game that's
happening in front of you and if you let that slip oh my god we're throwing oh my god oh my god
come on god and then you start down oh man look around like that gives me some
level of hope because sometimes all that souls heart need is just players to
go big because they're not gonna win this in a pretty way I think that's been
been clear right now penguin like there's no universe where souls heart
look clean from here on out but they can get it across the line when times
get desperate the souls heart are a team that have the talent to do so
but historically they are a team that wins when it matters the least.
You know, APAC Cup, great to raise a championship playing in a foreign company in Japan,
but that's very different to actually winning a match that's going to qualify you
for an international, you know, main core circuit tier one event,
an S tier event, like a major AWC for an invitation.
That's where they need to be gunning for.
And if they can't even make stage finals top four in Asia,
then how on earth are they gonna make it to an EWC?
Psyching company, happen running rings around them.
Soul's heart, finally, just grabbed something
out of thin air last round, they need to keep that up.
Who's the best user of utility clear here?
Sophia Kanister pubs the shield, forcing back thing.
And Sky, again, you're peeling back the leverage.
Can you counter a Psyching company's place
if they wanna play down the shields, remove the shields.
If they got a mirror window, clear the mirror window, make them uncomfortable.
This time they got stuff like the Nomad in case of a class, they got it for flank watch.
They have eye and eye and good self-destruction.
Still got intel on the Grim Bees, it's looking a little better, I would say, for this one.
They all will come down to open and kill still.
They have Neon hiding in bar, you got Joghra in the basement, there's a lot of potential fighting flanks that can happen later on.
And the thing is, it's also hard to kill any of the bombs at players.
Those lurkers from Saigen company are going to feel the urge to rush back towards the bomb site and that's going to make life a lot more hard for them.
So it's likely they'll win on the rune clear or they're going to win the bomb site push.
Make sure they don't over rotate, like you said.
Where's the execute going to come from?
Solzhaar, C4 prepped here by K3.
Almost loses his head to the player on the double window.
Eventually he dies.
Here's the scout now.
Here's the execute.
As DCH comes in from the rear side, he takes control of office, takes down the warden!
This is the gap that soulsheart had been searching for, they find kills one by one, cap tries to rotate in, takes down mark, that was a diffuser I think.
And now the coverage from down below from Neon, the wind condition near for soulsheart has to be kills, they cannot afford to go deep and try and plant I-9 critically, finally wins a gunfight!
Neon into 1v3 and he's been air jabbed off. Time to go deep.
I9 clutches it! Ghost deep finds the kill!
Soul's heart will never give up and it ain't over until it's over.
One more round and we have overtime.
A sighting company very clearly scared in a Sera right now.
Why is Neon hiding and bar the entire time when his teammates are struggling right above him?
You cannot play very deeply going for plant denial when your teammates are dying in office.
dying in bathroom and they're all stalking corners. They're not fighting back. The warden is stalking
the corner in August's rotate. Instead of fighting beneath the hatch, fighting them in construction
and they're just dying running away. They have that fear right now. Perhaps the fear of oh my
god we might just win. They call their tag timeout. This has to be about just this
upcoming round because I generally think if you go into OT now and you really feel like
They're slipping away from that victory mentally that could be the trouble every second company. They might have to recover from that
One last chance psychic you guys have looked so good, but even right now
I know it's six five, but if I just asked you who has been the better team who's played today
I feel like it's a pretty easy answer
Obviously have all the teams with these two teams of these two teams right like which which which of these two teams
you think has played better in this map so far.
Scythian Company has been doing it.
I feel like it's hands down Scythian Company, which is not at all what I would have expected
because if you asked me which of these two teams has played better this stage, I would
have said Solzhard.
And look, they haven't played phenomenally, but they did get a couple of rounds off
Daystar, a couple of rounds off Wave, a couple of rounds off Orca.
They won some convincing other matches, but Scythian Company, I feel like they
They kind of only beat a lot of the bottom teams.
I guess in Solzhard's case it was kind of the same, but I don't know.
Maybe it's Fires.
Maybe I'm just biased from the old history of Solzhard.
But I feel like this is the most impressive ever
been by Syken so far in this stage.
Yeah.
And it's Solzhard who would desperately just
try to climb it back into this game.
They've had their moments over Solzhard.
right there's two rounds in a row now both in the back end of the clutch
moments okay I said to not be scared Joe Gore's
bottle jump out the blue window with a shot from beginning of the round fear it's
left to building James this is Joe go we're talking about this guy doesn't
I think he just dies.
There's a Jogor he plays again.
Unleashed!
Halt!
Halt!
Halt!
Halt!
Halt!
Halt!
Halt!
Okay, he does the drone.
I don't know what the drone is though.
It's okay.
There's it.
Jogor, do your thing.
And he's literally just doing his thing.
Yeah.
Well, it's uh...
One last chance before we hit overtime, so I can be going back down to the basement.
Which they did with the first time they tried it, but you know they've just lost it two rounds ago.
Sol's heart looked ready. First step of the round is going to be Aynine staying alive.
He has been the first death in three rounds so far in this game. Very uncharacteristic
of him. He's on the Blitz as well and I'm pretty
want to keep alive into that later on. Yeah, I haven't had the Blitz with this
push just yet so it's going to be a new look here if they can get there 5v5.
I'm very curious, if they need the Yeager, would you shoot them here on basement
pop-outs? And it could be because they're expecting some grenades or if they could
They just want to try and catch some of those grim bees because Cavitun, you know both band away, but you're often with the vehicle to try and counter
He was by a nine can't take the fight up
So it gets a bit of math space and grins the Goyo can as a typically as it gets shut with that map control
But yeah, they're there bunkering down more not a case in blue Joker C4 hits the modern scat man
It's just a buck. They got a stich for doubling down and the sledge had more useful in pocket anyway
So honestly, it's the better player to lose. It's not over just yet
I still think as long as you got some of those scrim bees are finally made and the eye not on blitz anything is possible
Remember last round that souls heart one on the attack under this bomb site. It was because DCH snuck into the light rounds
into dirt tunnel now
Excavations gonna detonate cap actually takes a bit of damage and tucks in the corner
This seems risky souls are need to have some pressure from the motor door to prevent
A3 from playing in this position. I don't know if calf got drowned there
Soul's heart now look to drop memorial, but any pressure on blue as well
Otherwise we'll see fanglicks hold on. Oh my god, mr. Punch goes straight in traded, but it's fine because it means there's a gap now
The soul's heart for looking time pressure the side fanglicks won't it be inside of blue as neon tries to go through a flank
This being confirmed for mark the choke or
gets injured by the frag after he finds dch. It's now a 2v2 as Mark finally confirms that
plant. I9! He needed to step up and he did! With the pistol of the blitz he covers his teammate.
Now into the 2v2. Be careful don't get too close to that fire extinguisher otherwise
he could get concussed out. Big kill for Mark! Into the 1v1! It's Niel on the warden
and he's made it a 1v1.
I can't get blinded.
I9 cannot blind him because he is the water.
He smashes him back, delays the time,
do it for the flash.
The warden's glasses have finished,
and now I9 has to hold on for as long as he can,
gets fired out of the bomb site,
he can rotate back over,
Neon still full HP,
but he doesn't have the time.
I9, when it matters the most,
stands tall for Sol's heart.
Overtime.
Here we come!
We've been waiting for this moment.
We've been waiting for I9 to become that guy once more.
And it's been a slow path to that spot, but he's finally here.
You see how much it means to him. He knows we've been dragged by the team in this so important series.
Falling a bit short of expectations.
6-6, mental shattered from the second company, a huge lead now lost, even numbers in overtime.
He'll swap back and forth in attack and defense, and he came off this push here,
uncharacteristic for a player like him to punch on the grim to say screw it, I'm going straight to
the door to the bomb site and starting this attack, and you gotta just be with me, and the
whole team for him. I would not want to be I-9's monitor today I think he
almost copped a smashed monitor mid game. That is a much needed a much
warranted celebration this guy was two and eight he's gotten five kills since
then I-9 has woken up. Scycon you've woken the beast now you better be ready
It's another defense round for Psychic company after they have just lost three in a row
Soulsheart are here to play. Could this be the first time in forever?
But we finally see souls heart show up when it actually matters
And then you see the comeback story three straights
Basement bedroom and basement
It's all based off kills. Of course that was in a post, but
They're taking names right now Joker once again unleashed doing his own thing hiding the strip club looking for a runout potentially here
This is the big switch ups in the technical timeout
They're playing with more news and doing riskier things which can't pay off
But mind you the reason and the way in which I can have been winning so far is not doing these things
They're doing this more out of desperation than anything else
the most risky position to be in for Jogorov. Let's see his teammates start dying on the
bomb site. It's a very long sprint back to Hoptim.
How long does he be patient in a round? Default cam is up, but into the round. Come on, guys.
Oh, Mr. Punch has found K3. Now Jogorov starts to feel like he cannot afford to be separated
from the rest of his squad. So risky here. The second company to go catch CCTV, but
is the only bomb site they have won on their defensive side even though it is typically the
least potent bomb site on the defensive side. They go back here after losing church arsenal twice.
What's the play from Solzha? You got your numbers. You look to try and collapse on garage,
but they're always going to have to keep the back of their mind. There is neon on that
clash down below in lounge. The hard thing to problem solve here is you're going to go for
for a default planet as a giant small clash
if you're trying to push deep.
Those are those things pretty risky
and difficult to approach.
This is spicy for me.
I'm doing this all alone.
He's gonna have shut down immediately.
There was no backup, no support.
They're all upstairs holding passive angles
while he's pushing so much damage.
It's Aynan again.
No hesitation.
He just sends it.
And now Jogor has exposed his position,
jumping outside.
Hello, goodbye to Aynan.
Finally takes him down.
On the jump out,
9, caught a little bit off-piece. 43, still advantageous for Solzhard as they look to clutch
match point, Jogor continuing to jump in and out. Solzhard know exactly where he is.
The final gas to come out from calf, Solzhard will have plenty of time to execute. It comes down
to the fire from the Tachanka and whether Solzhard sit back or go deep. And I think they
have to go deep. Mr. Puncher starts to go for a passive plant. If Fenlix is ready, the fire
You might get a 2 to 9 this, the fire has missed and now DZH goes deep, finds the kill on the bomb sites!
Jogorov against 4, Scatman shuts him out of it! 4 rounds straight!
Sol's heart, one round away from stage finals!
Jogorov has left the chair apparently as well, sacking company, now this is a troublesome part right?
We spoke earlier about the difference of being in-person online playing next to your teammates
and what that can do for the mental game and you know
Souls hot they are writing out the top times together saying one more round one more round you you have your turn
You'll clutch up you got this next time, etc. Psychic company. They're laughing. They're having fun. They are winning
They're beating they're upsetting souls hard in this match
But now they're losing and we don't have your teammates next to you to look to your left look to your right
and feel them together in the same room, you can easily just become a quiet, very like shell
of yourself.
We sit there and go, ah, this kind of sucks, you know, no one's going to be speaking up.
And look at how Neon died in the previous one.
We've seen them pushed with the clash.
Three people around it, just that going for a kill.
That was Neon fully solo pushing.
No backup, no communication, while the smoke into Shun get a hiding behind their deployable
shield and the green box on the bomb side they're disjointed and what has
happened and after collapse of psyching company remember a couple of rounds ago
they were taunting souls heart they were saying hey guys do you want to coach
we've got four you can have one of ours ever since then four rounds in a row
for souls heart i9 look he might still be going negative but he has been over
the last four rounds he's gotten what seven kills I believe and only two deaths now he's
turned it up hugely on the attacking side but now we go back on the defense for souls
heart it was utter strife for them they only want a single round on church and a single
round on gym bedroom so i can company got it dig down down deep deep deep it's now
I feel like I've had 10 copies just because I'm watching Psychon vs. Soulsheart.
We love a good bias, Caster getting excited for his favorite team here in Asia.
Wing Wing Soulsheart teams.
I don't know if they're my favorite team.
I have such a self spot for Scatman and I9.
There you go.
And all four.
Alright, let's start with you till the end.
That end could just be one more round.
Look at Saigun and how scared they are.
They're leaving this EZTV platform.
They're going back on their repels.
They've not opened the windows.
They haven't finished all the half destruction either.
This is not like them in the first couple of rounds when they're attacking.
They were much more confident.
They were quick into battle.
They were setting things up.
Where are they?
Every single player except for the ying is outside the building a ying is in pool table
Shotgun in hand just fishing for a kill off the head
Now just come down so they're gonna be executing puny from the windows grim bees can dead last and that's it
Now I don't know look the one thing I can say for second companies
Remember that first half, Fengling's was so utterly, unimaginably good on that ying.
I never wanted to discount what he might be capable of, but the flip side of that,
Sol's heart had truly woken up on these last couple of rounds.
You know, we're on so close.
Sees the player, sees the peek, bit of damage on a DCH.
Both players lit.
I9 still holding onto his position.
Waiting for a chance.
Here come the candellas.
One rolls in to office for Fengling's.
Is this the gap? Is this Neon sending it into the bomb site?
But Scamman and I9 together collapsed and everyone from Sarkin will fall.
It took them four rounds to bring it back,
but a fifth will launch them into stage finals.
Sol's heart are back up.
You can knock them down, but you cannot count them out.
And they will be making our top four here in APL Asia.
So deserved. Not expected after how this all started. Celebration, hydration and big vibes on their side.
And I mean it's such a contrast, right? Look at how they're behaving in the first couple of rounds.
Oh my God, we should be qualifying but we're losing second by the house as possible.
And then it was just, you know, Mr. Punch making the play, DZH making the play.
and I also came into battle and the full team was operating 100%.
We saw the skill kit level and we saw a second company go from cocky and aggressive
and overconfident, which was working so well for them into being more timid
and they're being scared in the server.
That final execute in a week of desperation rather than calculation.
What an unbelievable game.
That's got to be game of the stage for me here in APL.
Soals heart with everything on the line when I nine refused to show up round after round three six down
staring down match point after match point psychic company playing out of their minds and then a
Clubhouse souls hard decided to step up five rounds in a row for me attacking side and then one on the defense
I nine finally finding his footing. It is just so perfect here for souls
high. It could not be a more deserved way to enter the stage finals in the top four here in APLH.
Man, after I've seen them do that, anything is possible for this team.
Bro actually ended up 9-9, completely dead even after a run until it started. And it was a story,
right? We spoke about like the 3-3 half, the 2-4 half, and it's like, I think I'm down to,
if I land on the attack, I can get on the board and do it the best. And it's exactly what
he did. Man I don't know how any of the players aren't shaking up that let's go check on Scatman
and see how he's holding up. Scatman congratulations that was the best game we have seen this stage
just run me through what's going on up here right now are you shaking as much as we are?
I think everybody is shaking right now that's what I've seen match like
I'm so excited right now.
Amazing.
Incredible.
I mean, that was a very hard fall victory.
I'm so thankful for you that you made the comeback
because it would be such a shame to get so close and then win
and then lose in the end.
Obviously, given the fact that it was a hard fall victory to make Top 4,
do you feel like the competition and skill level in Asia
has risen that there is better teams now more than ever perhaps?
Well, I think right now, it's a team like the team is getting better and better, as you
can see, like, they start when they go through a major and then they come back, they have
the skill knowledge, they learn from the big tournament or international tournament,
so they can adapt and then be a better team.
Yeah, but for our team today, for our match today, let's say it's not getting to
us too much. Just gonna increase our power. You really did. I mean, you started quiet
but you built it up. It was a moment there, Scatman, where you guys were really struggling.
It was not looking like a good day. And then I can't remember which player it was on the
other team started talking to you in chat. I'm not sure if you saw it. They were asking
you, do you have a coach? We have four coaches. Do you have one of them? A little
bit of BM, a little bit of shit talk, how did that make you feel? Because I noticed nobody on your team responded.
Man, to be honest, like a real player, they got to talk after the match finished and win
their one, so we don't have to talk anymore. That is the result. That's all. We don't need to
talk during the game. Yeah, I mean jokes on them, you're the one who's talking to us right
Now, do you mind? Is I9 there? Can you ask him to come and join the interview as well, so we can speak to both of you?
Nah.
He's smoking, he's smoking.
AHHHHHHHHH!
Come on!
One second, one second!
Yeah! Don't wait and come back, you can have one after.
We'll chase him down.
My friends!
Can we, where the headset?
What, where the headset?
I know you were struggling and then you just went crazy on the last few rounds. What was happening in your head in that moment I?
Feel like I have to focus on the game. I'm doing great. We wanted to say congratulations. I nine that was such a hard game such a crazy game
I know you were struggling and then you just went crazy on the last few rounds
What was happening in your head in that moment? I?
I feel like I have to focus that the last guy you know what I'm saying so I have to confirm
I have to win I have to pay my I have to play slow I have to like let the last guy confident
you know what I mean so yeah that's what happening I will take that now yeah there was one moment
I9 you were playing in a clutch and you won it and you stood up from your chair what
What were you saying to your teammates in that moment?
I mean, I just planned talks from another team, you know.
I say like, it's from Ty, I say I hear Khwele.
It's me like, fuck you bitch, something like that.
I love you, I9.
Thank you so much for joining us on the interview.
Congratulations.
We'll see you on stage finals.
Thank you.
Thank you, Scatman as well for a fantastic interview.
Congrats to your team.
We'll see you in the Top 4 Stage Finals next week.
Alright, thank you guys. See you. Have a good day guys. Bye bye!
See you later, bye bye!
Oh man, absolute legend of the game.
I have a soft spot for those two players and look after that interview, Peggy, you can't play with me.
It's always a good story with these guys, always a good vibe to be found as well.
And I mean, it is such a thrilling and exciting position when you make that comeback happen and you're looking around and you see all your friends, you know, you're in that struggle together and you're slowly working through it.
This is also far today. It's been relatively quick until that match up at 2-7 and 7-0 and then we have to go to overtime of course.
And honestly, let's do it again. Let's go back to the previous up next team.
game of the stage. Come on.
game of the stage. Game of the
stage, man. We we literally just
had game of the stage. The only
way that that can get one up is
Daystar versus Wabo. It's number
one versus number two. The
battle for the throne of Asia
is about to commence and I
hope you guys are ready. Daystar
versus Wabo up after this.
I think there are quite a lot of characters in the game, and I think each character has quite a lot of skills.
It's not the same, but if you play Counter-Style, you will have a different style of music.
But in music, there are many different styles of music.
There are many different styles of music.
So I think it's more fun to play music.
Personally, I like to play music with a loud voice.
Like a pop-synth in OG.
For me, I like to play music with a loud voice.
I think it's something that has a lot of characters, and has a lot of gun and ability to make me feel fun.
I think this delay is often updated than the character.
The character has only a map, but the color has an update about the character and the map.
Well, I'm a good player, but I also have a friend who is very good at playing.
I'm very good at playing until I see someone who is very good at playing.
If I'm a good player, I don't feel like I'm good at playing.
Everyone is playing their own style, but if it's a competition, everyone is serious, everyone is serious, everyone is serious, everyone has a plan,
depending on the level of play that everyone plays, everyone is serious, everyone is serious.
If there is a team that is good, there is a team that is serious, there will be good things for me,
because if the team is not serious, then seeing each other in the next team will not love you.
I think that if there is a good quality for the team,
we have to give time to it, give time to the team,
give time to the staff, give time to the team,
stay with them and stay with the team.
There is something to say to make it stronger,
stronger, stronger until we become champions.
I
One plus one is two, it's two, you can't eat it
And I got you out
Like an F to keep us promise
No longer
Hey ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
They don't wanna bother
They don't wanna bother
They don't wanna bother
They don't wanna bother
They don't wanna, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Always
4th Rooftop
3rd Rooftop
4th Rooftop
5th Rooftop
6th Rooftop
I was in the last team.
I was in the last team.
I had to finish before COVID-19 came into my life.
I was in the last team.
and when I went up to the fourth stage, it was a very fun sight to see.
There were a lot of people watching us play, so it was a scene that I felt was one of the many spots.
I felt that it was good because there were a lot of experiences from watching.
Because going to the third stage, the fourth stage, the fifth stage, there were people watching and feeling it,
no matter how many people will watch.
The goal I want to achieve is to get the prize and I want to comment on it.
I'm fighting for the prize, it's one thing that I want to comment on.
The first tournament that I'm fighting is Rainbow 60, Operation League Tainan.
It's the first tournament that I have a fight with.
The player that I'm still fighting is only P.E.E.S.O.TIC.
The other tournament is the matchup.
From what I've seen, I've been playing with the team for a long time.
So I can see the sincerity of the team, which is very different.
The team is very sincere.
The players are very good.
The players are experienced.
I've been playing together for a long time.
When I went, I felt more fun.
When I saw the sincerity of the team,
I wanted to tell the team that I'm here.
They are very good at cooking.
I will do my best and make my team better.
The players I think have an impact on the game are Kit Jane.
Because she is a very good shooter.
She is the one who has been shooting and has not stopped her from shooting.
I think she has an impact and is one of the best players in Thailand.
I feel like if I meet him, I will make him full of energy.
I won't let him shoot me, I will be full of energy with him.
I feel good that Fully is interested in me.
Because I didn't have any interest in him.
When Fully came to me, I was full of energy with Fully.
Fully is now a fan of Fully.
He may have hair, dark hair, curly hair, hairpin, hairpin.
My style is still the same, I'm still the supporting version of the game
Dark is the second factor, and Dark is the third factor, and Filming is the third factor
So this year I will show you how I play, and then I will show you
I feel like if we are a team like KIA1 and if we do our best,
I feel like Orc will be able to put his heart into the game because he has to be with us.
If we do our best, he will put his heart into the game.
I will put my heart into the game and I will not let Puri make a mistake.
What happened to you?
Well, that was the first thing that happened to me.
In Thailand, there was an outbreak of COVID-19.
And I was able to go to the hospital in Anthip,
and then go to the hospital.
the game. Miraculous victory
for souls are coming back from
the 36 deficit against second
company to claim their spot in
the stage finals for Asia, which
means that the table set. We
know our four teams from this
region. Panger that will be
going through to the finals,
but unfortunately we haven't
yet crowned a champion of the
group stage. We need time for
World Cup, which is going to be in Paris in August. I hear through the grey find that there are still tickets available
I know a lot of other events have sold out so quickly
So we need to make sure that if you want a ticket that you get there in time before tickets
So I highly recommend getting it and look Paris isn't a half place
Half bad place to be pay me right we went there for Valentine's Day
You and me just a lovely little Valentine's Day in Paris. See little cafe
it was a great time. Definitely
going to get your tickets guys.
Of course, let's dig into our
match at hand. So thank you.
It's Daystar versus Weber gaming
the number one and number two in
this region. Both are defeated
going six and zero zero zero
zero. They are looking
crazy strong and work kind of
set up the story in the very
first play they sing. Hey,
there's a chance where a day
kind of playing in the first place and then exactly where we are now a couple of weeks
later.
And it's well deserved.
We're seeing if the pilot reels, how well they've been faring.
And the thing about Daystar that really has impressed me the most is their flexibility.
They're not like a one punch kind of team, one play star kind of team.
And they're actually matching Wave-O in a very similar fashion.
Wave-O of course are much more experienced, but Daystar, they're building a story of
their own and given enough time and maybe a few more international events here,
could actually give way but one for the money long term. Yeah, absolutely. There's a thing that
we were a little bit surprised about with Daystar. The fact that they managed to step up to another
level since bringing on Yao who was a rookie and we've talked to the team about it, which they
just found in my point. Thanks pretty much. And after that, they decided, hey, this guy's pretty
good. Let's bring him onto the roster. He's a young 19 year old and the team has been looking
perhaps better than they'll ever undefeated so far and taking down the stiffest competition in
orchid and salsar in cool 7-3 victories. But of course, another team that has looked so damn cool
so far and have had a roster change coming to this stage are the kings of Asia. Way more gaming.
Yeah, it was a big push, Margaret. Minus Ape plus Gotti. Can that be a stronger team or it's
gonna be weaker team perhaps literally right off the gates got to was the right fit it was not a
matter of like I'll be being the wrong fit it was not there at all but Josh he was just feeling
in exactly what they wanted and we spoke to speak easy by is like what is it about got to
in particular you choose to pick up because when you're away though you have free control you
pointed a player and they say yes sir I will join your team because you guys are the best
right now in the region you've been for a very long time they wanted a support player who
who doesn't take a lot of risks,
who can simply just stay alive.
So you give Gati a DMR, you put him on an angle
and he will be victorious every single time.
Yeah, for sure.
That's the thing about this roster, it's just star-studded.
You have so many old Reliables like your Gati,
you got so many insane Fraggers like your Turdster,
your Reefs, even Coven as well,
is part of that conversation.
You have the perfect mix of risk takers
and people who are happy to just play the win conditions like speak easy does and a new player to join the roster who has fitted in like a glove is got to speak easy said we wanted to pick somebody up that we just could always count on to never die and that's
I'm not going to pretend to be an NBA fan here. I know you're not the biggest NBA fan either. But I've done my research. And apparently that roster change back to 2008 was a pretty big deal. And I think it's pretty inapt comparison, I'm sure, from Harambe to Kossy joining me.
was a pretty big deal and it's pretty inaptive comparison I'm sure from Harambe because he's
joining me but I like it also a bit of respect as far as seeing that it's it's you know it's
a big thing that it happened and of course the payout has been equally good and that these are
one more question games who was matching what is that what we gonna play what happens who's
is going to remain undefeated. Only one of these teams will be able to remain untouched
so far throughout the group stage. I would love to see this is going to be an attack as
paradise and Daystar get to start on the attacking side. Wow. We haven't seen either
of these teams play bank with one exception. Waybo destroying fury seven zero. So yeah,
I'm Daystar. I'm pretty worried, but they did get the ban pick. So let's see what happens
We're keen for this one of course with cafe and bang to find out stay around there repelling the exterior angles
Etc. And did I just miss a god sees I would like really steam our place nature right now
This is gonna favor his particular playstyle when it comes down to teamwork execution
adaptation and depth and strategy
So I'm super keen, of course, to build a bang for the match.
I'm just going to decide who is going to be the number one and undefeated team here in Asia.
Weber Gaming and Daystar have represented this region at the last two international events,
both six-irritational in Paris and of course Salt Lake City Major. Only one of them will be able
to return to Paris, however, for the Esports World Cup in just two months' time.
We'll have our stage finals in the best of threes to determine which of those teams it will be, however, first we need to get a temperature tester of which of these teams are looking like the favourites here.
Let's dig into it. Capitale and Goliaths banned out by Daystar against Weber. Unusual bans.
Yeah, this is the thing about
This is about thinking about the attack in lineup right now if you're a flexible team
You can play the shields or the info gatherers. So let's think they must talk to be you can play the utile the grim
The game the glass you can play just like your usual whatever you can play a ton of harbingers
If you are willing to be flexible
That is the best way to play attack right now in the Korean given message because there are so many strong
operators that you can pick from and
And, you know, nowadays players have gotten really good at the game, they've been playing for a very long time.
If you go back to, let's say, a hungry back-in-prime, back-in-his-pins, I think, by the like, 20, what, 18, 19, etc.
He was regarded as one of the best Monty Ninh players in the world. He was playing in Europe.
And the reason why he was so good and so valuable back then is because we only had one attacker ban each.
So, you can ban his Monty, he's gonna spam the Ying,
or you ban the Ying, he's gonna spam the Monty,
and there's no winning.
Nowadays, we have more operator bans,
and obviously, the current system, you're defending,
so you ban two attacking operators.
Back in the day, if you banned an attacking operator,
your enemy couldn't play it, but neither could you,
so it worked both ways.
And what that means is, today, you have to be twice as flexible, essentially,
because the enemy can talk and ban you with two operators,
and then a third after three rounds.
So you need to be able to play three different styles of siege
utilizing three different kinds of meta games, if you will,
to succeed at countering all those potential opponents.
Wable, we know they can play fast, we know they can play slow,
they can play the fast entry, they discipline, they execute,
and the thing is, on bank you can do both styles.
They start right now, they're targeting the execution style of Wable,
taking away the capitol and the glass,
But as we said before, that leaves open exactly what they're picking out, the counter response, the intel and the shield.
So it was gonna be Blackbeard, last second onto a classic Monty from Spiggy Sieb, the Solid Snake, the demos, the WQB for intel and aggression, it's a classic Wable adaptation.
I love it. I also love to see teams starting on the tertiary bomb site instead of just going to the typical basement.
They have been really playing a part of their anticipated skill levels so far and they're
bringing some new strategies to the table.
It is a basement defense but a very heavy extension here inside of open area with the
castle which honestly you don't see that often these days.
I like this angle from Terzster though he's not running a DMR.
He loves this angle.
He's not going to deal with damage required I don't think.
Not without.
Yeah, he's I don't tell you he's not using the scanner to actually activate to see the player because that
Education instead. He's just using it by presence of a nation to figure out
Sending a message you don't do it on a demonstrate drone. Who's about saying I know exactly where you are
This other scanner will get that same job
There's a cast of parachute in the way actually
Limiting the amount of sight here from we both attack, but they had P. Just stuck in the corner in the court wall
That is absolutely worthwhile from Pika. Yeah, big disaster. It looks big easy dying if it was one-for-one trade not the end of the world, but
Thirds the team killing onto Hoven. You can see it's frigate day start to fall back. They said maybe we can fall everyone back to the thombsite
That's a tough one. I mean losing speak easy on the Monty during the roam clear.
That's a big loss to suffer. It's not much more difficult.
Taking several stairs control against the seal and the smoke is much more challenging,
especially with losing the demo track on top of it. This could be honestly way
but losing the first attack around unless they come off clutch.
Daystar's just gotta sit back, hold their angles, and just wait down this time there.
Xela has 3 turns to use in progress though, he can stall for at least 20 or 20, maybe 30 seconds to go.
Grenade it out.
I made use to try and clear that thorn trap, also clears his own.
Grown unfortunately, thankfully the solid snake doesn't need it here, we're getting a test.
That's used to base them?
It says B main stairway, so that is the base with the compass as well.
Very good point.
Interesting.
Yeah, I would have thought that would be the ground floor on the basement.
You would think that he's in the upper part of it, but no, no, no.
Yeah.
Platform counts.
If he goes a little bit up here, of course, that'll change up for now.
I guess he can tell that 20 seconds to go is time to push.
He gets shot down immediately.
Again, they start just waiting.
Reeps and Gotti, what have you got for us?
Not a lot of time.
Nice early pick from Soufflé.
Quick on the sticks.
Reeps 1v4.
Yeah, wow great first round for Daystar, two kicks at Ragnarok, Pat is that's why don't
you?
It's gonna be a Daystar round cut and dried, Picker smugly taking a sip of his tea and
I don't blame him, he really did have a big impact on his run that round, finding his
one and done and hurts to getting that team kill, it didn't feel like the round was
very redeemable after that 3v4.
I think that's worth noting right now is I'm just thinking about the operative bands, right?
They use the optical glass and cavatile go into that late-run execution kind of style.
There's a very high chance they bend the Monty as the third pick.
They know that Wave will and speak easily and loves to bring it out whenever they can.
But if they keep counting the Monty or if the Monty simply doesn't find success in the rounds,
there's a probably don't-de-Monty problematic, and they bend something else.
and then we can keep playing the Monty and maybe get a couple of rounds this
kind of keep that in the back of your mind for after the third round is played
out what they end up bending in the end. Now we will do a touch up on this but
bending out the Assammi and the Mira it's gonna make top floor CEO a lot
more challenging. You do have passive barricades if you're gonna bring it
not for this round that can give you some protection. There's still a clash
available as well that you can bring to some protection also important in this round.
But the more common operators in the asami and the mirror has been removed so it means they start to options
Either you play more spread out around the map which would have outpouring. I think you can do it easier
I can improve information a C4 beneath etc or
You just start taking fights. They have now on to brow souffle on the Aruni
They have 2 dmr's actually I take it back. Yeah, I was playing MPX by the way
That's that's a crime
right anyway they could even take us to DMR fights but it's just now to play to do
that yeah I was not gonna join you hey he's new to these teams alright he's
allowed to make a mistake I'll let this one slide that was a rookie he's had a
great state so far and it's why they started to beat it for god's sake
here we go here's the dmr angle for suflate be careful it's got to you though
well renowned for not overexposing himself instead he just achieves his
goal with the util he's spotted out that arena he now knows he's dealing
with the dmr and now speak as he can come and try and support as a
of a terrorist rolls up, trying to clear more utility.
Suflate really needs to have a big impact in this position.
He's so vulnerable, apart from so many different angles
at once.
Ooh, how has Sealed been allowed to rotate there?
Gossi's playing so passively that he actually
wasn't watching those rotates.
That's the thing, when you're playing in this passive
position and you're good at not dying,
it means you're not taking a lot of risk.
And that does mean there's a gap sometimes we found.
When you're on your drone, you
can't die but like what you can't actively hold the angle only share the
information of what you're seeing with the drone itself way more respect in
day-star at home in this round no one's make any risky plays the way to the
speakers slowly make it up the staircase burning the thorn traps time
and time again C4 ship as well they're really looking to shut them down and
this chip damage it might just be enough to see for lands
They're just baiting.
We're going to try and create gaps.
Wow, Reef's cut off on the upside down repel by Suflay.
Yeah, Speakeasy is very low HP as well.
Finally, cut down as Suflay, hoven from the repel.
Wago had been looking to try and expose these players
and shut them down for quite some time,
but they still have done a good job of not overexposing themselves.
I think Wago got me down.
these players are getting aggressive now.
Terzter essentially fighting a three-way crossfire.
It comes down to speak easy, have a big impact.
And Terzter to try and help out speak as he finds one.
Gotze will go down, but it is worthwhile here for Waibo.
Now it's just, yeah, with his MPX against two players.
No diffuser though.
For Waibo means they might have to push for the kill here.
Terzter gets that kill, needs to look for a safe spot
to plant.
There aren't many.
There seems to be info on the site here for Daystar.
Down needs to try and get active. Rotate down along the hallway.
He's got so much info. The red pig has come out. The pre-fire.
Big Nitro!
Gets to the sepulon, the after the plant goes down into the 1v1.
Hoven finds him.
Far too close for comfort, but yeah, cannot get it done.
Weibo reply with a round of their own.
The fact that Weibo has a fight so hard, and the server tells them the whole story of how cable Dave's on the matchup.
They're not getting anything for free.
Nobody in pick, I mean Speekies is getting his Monty but he's down to a single point of HP struggling to move forward and
Interesting to me they actually put striker or sorry a sentry in that round seal here
He was playing impact and C4
Almost like he's just being a shield counter because that is so much explosive damage
Sadly didn't get the second impact all towards Speekies and that might have been able to get the kill earlier on
But mind you the defenders of Daystar went very tough positions
They're stalked by the main staircase, stalked in the elevator, stalked in the quad window room,
finding people on the Spiderman rappel lobby, the ATM rappel. It's a nightmare of a position,
especially about the Asami. So it's one apiece, label, load to try and get another one here to open area.
Let's see what they end up with because they're still going through their attacker replays,
changing up potentially a lot of their operators.
I was gonna say I love seeing speakeasy on the shields, but he's actually gonna switch off it onto the Zephia
I love Zephia. I'm so excited that she's back in the meta at least a little bit. Get to see her occasionally
I do wonder if the Ash-Zephia combo here is actually just to do it the castle baronades
We've got four castles it could be brought to the table by Pika and now you have four explosives from Waybo to deal with it
I just forgot to playstyle a wave about the variants of counter plays, I mean, they're
a big team fan of Flores Twitch Brava, just like the NTU operators, holding a quick pick
door to seal.
They have maybe a spawn peek attempt there on the rappel up from the stock windows, shut
down.
There's open area bums that is a lot about holding map control you start top floor you peel back
You're creeping the basement staircase you hold the bombsite itself
And you really are playing around the clock and the fact that bank is a really good map
But you're falling like this one two people to an oven that is gonna make your life a lot more challenging because you're losing
Bodies and you're losing map control
Yeah, come mate don't over peek. I never mind he picks as soon as the smoke goes down
That's a nice shot on the Hovvind. Only one player in deficit now.
I like that Wabo is so good at playing fast and then slow. They know they have the advantage, they play slow.
When they want to take risks, they play fast and they do it together.
But they don't seem to have a lot of vert here. A lot of teams will look to try and take CEO and put the transfer on the players.
There's some info, a lot of damage on the souffle. Reaps will finish him off well played, well coordinated by Wabo.
but azuki is quick to reply and speak easy as he's down
3v2 again this is loseable here for weibo
they got a little map they got archers tellers they're pushing the bomb side
then they would set through a yaw as now and the main staircase and he's like you're just
he's just speaking around but the phone call is going to go out it's going to get injured and confirmed
that final bullet from the dmr did enough damage to cause the injure and with that they're
going to get the round because we've just so far away with the monster period gone for that fight
right. Weibo lock in a second round leading to the one. I do have to say like that was
unwinnable in the one v three because he his phone hadn't been called and he was only on
about 15 HP. So that would have just been spammed. It could be caused while the other two players
peak and there's literally nothing you could do. You have to answer that phone. Otherwise
you die and if you're holding your phone up then you can't play again. You're
so well.
See it. Does the monkey stick around? It will. So Ying target banned and then Smoke in response.
I mean now two things will happen. One, T'Shang is gonna get played a lot more commonly as we see
already here because you need a plant denier and that's gonna be your T'Shang obviously.
Secondly, you can just do a lot more pushing potential now with the shields because Smoke
You're easy fast stopping to any sort of push, because you don't even know you have your SMG out, you toss your bait, you pop it, boom.
Tshanka has to weapon swap, find the line of, shoot, it flies in the air, and then it covers a much smaller terrain.
So I feel like now you can really increase the pace for Waco if you really would like to.
There's listings to stop you. It also makes Skulio of course a bit higher in value.
You know, we're always going to pick you in the basic problem side. So there is strong pig in general and
The plan will stay the same for day star lay the clock, right?
They got Goryu, Tubera and Tashanka
So the big question is can they stay alive on the roam and fall back in time?
If they even got to go for them because they've reinforced all the open area hatches
Five seconds remaining. No shield lineup from Weber
I wonder what the players with the smoke band is typically, I see a smoke band, I think
you want to abuse the shields because smoke is one of the few ways that you can deal with
those shields.
But I guess not here for very well.
Well it's last time they attacked the bomb site, they essentially won the round before
they got to the bomb site itself so, sorry they ended up losing the round, so they
ended up having most of the battle be on the roam.
it was much more of a Rome centric defense from Daystar.
This time around, Daystar, much more fallen back
onto the bomb site.
You can see all five players anchoring.
They're going to try and use primarily the time
delay of the two-brow Goya Junker.
Well, they were still going to clear the map though.
Instead, the downside of so many strong attackers
existing is that everyone has so got them valuable.
You can't really spare anybody.
Homeless and ash previously and that's one of those uppers that you can go for kills and you can die and it's okay
You're just like an intro to good guns sort of
But right now either you got hot destruction you got self destruction or you're necessary for this
so
We're sitting back waiting there goes up the first soda canister
They can stall for about 12 seconds each gear or take so we can be here for a little while if anything happens further
That with the good five of the server stairs
means that we will gotta just keep droning measure the flanks are locked
down and then once the fire and freeze stops again I continue their push
forward but there's gonna be people on blue staircase a case several stairs
waiting for them so the big question I guess is it's gonna be a server take
with a challenge peak on the stairs which with a flank you forgot to might
be possible but do we go for a frontal attack which did not work the last
I don't know what he's saying about God, he's such a passive player, ooooh.
Good night show in theory, now he's detected by the Grimms bees, wow I cannot believe he
finds a kill, eventually traded back sure but that's a lot of damage to deal, takes
down Hoven.
Hopefully, Hoven has used most of his Util.
Weibo now poised up for an execute with the numbers advantage.
Problem is, there's still a lot of plantarles.
C4 on Su-Fle, Anazuki, with all the Shamiko launches.
If Weibo used the numbers advantage to overwhelm the site,
Daystar might not be able to do anything about it.
I think you're flood here for sure.
It's not an off-location and just trying to catch a C4 mid-air.
The good hashes are going to also change the tide of this round
here one more take the can cover all the angles oh good catch there on to y'all
little bit of damage down reaps tempted to drop down the hatch in the
eventually he will and turk say is there to cover up the player inside a
garage as he and see if they're not in position but plan has to go down got he
starts to force it desperate see fucking win the round oh he's still
forcing it as the C4 was shot out of mid-air speakeasy Dixie Wayboe
Re-stabilized to win the round on the attack.
Another time where they get tested to the absolute limits.
We're talking 0 seconds, you form it, if you don't hit it, that's it.
Terzda asking in chat, bro, who died to a grenade?
Seale said, bro, that was instantaneous.
It's not that common that we see a grenade kill these days,
because you can't know how to cook the grenades, but every once in a while, you know, it will happen.
And if you bounce it off a wall, it actually blows twice as fast,
fast and then kind of like bounces into somebody's arms it will seem instant from their point of view
they start will call it technical timeout and talk things over they're not looking in bad shape at all
they're just missing that final one percent to go from a round loss into a run victory
sadly that final one percent has went three rounds lost in a row i know
and for Harambe to get his word in and coach time out yeah it is
But each round has looked a little bit better than the last for Weibo, in the first round
it was a bit back and forth, but at the end of it when it came to execute Daystar looked
much more solid.
And then the second round on that top floor it got very close down to a 1v1 that Hoven
won.
Third round, pretty good.
Pretty close, but the fourth round the most decisive of them all so far for Weibo.
Again the fact that they shot the C4 out of there, that could have been a round
winning play, the Suflate.
Wayberg looking solid,
but we expect the attack to be good here on bank.
Attackers need to locate and diffuse bombs.
Even if Wayberg go 4-2 here,
I don't think Daystar, you would have to count.
I think they definitely still have a solid shot
to get in this one.
Attacking on bank is where it's at,
especially on this top floor bomb site.
I mean, Daystar have really tried to lead
into the castle, not just on this top floor,
but a couple of different bomb sites
to try and create more solidified, safe positions to play.
Hard to do so when Wago is so insistent
on repelling on so many different positions
and then sending a shield in to displace your players.
We've got Gotti on the Canter rappel
and you've got Hogan or another player on the CEO rappel
and then you've got Speakeasy walking
on you with a shield.
I didn't think you're gonna have very much luck.
Attackers are heading out from the Uniball.
I'm not curious if it's been easy size picking the black beautiful operators.
It's only because it's very challenging to play the fight with here.
You do get a good gun, of course. You can technically stab an acorn if you want it to.
You get frag grenades, sure. But the act of staying alive on a top floor
attack is anything but a Monty if you're a shield.
I'm gonna be watching this very excitingly
this to see how it manages. Of course you could just be a window repelled player with
the shield in his face on screen too, also a possibility. But now we've got our wave
of turrets to do the duty of playing Flores, which means locking in for about 60 to 90
seconds, using your gacha, getting those terrorists in there, using the soft destruction
of Kessler Bear keys, playing out some Bow Blight, the B keys, and when all that
is done, and Turc can play the game, but it's done, that's when they can start
for
is that he's seen a household and it's
what's he getting maximum value out of the ex-cars
that's a great thing about that
uh... the barna especially compared to the ace right for breaching can't go
was is
you can also just do two pelts of time
get rid of the castle barricades also just create lines of silence where
Now it's time to get the canto walls.
Look at how passively he plays.
He knows exactly how to do this.
Whatever he's taking, unless necessary.
Now, Gotti hasn't found any cure since he's sitting on a bunch of his C.S.S.
He's looking at Steven's feet, and he's injured by the way he's fighting.
Oh, there we go. Oh, nice shot there from Mizuki.
However, Speakeasy trades himself out with the Nade.
Guarantees that that kill is found.
And now, Gotti on his passive repel, cut off Seal,
Does a little bit of damage to him repositions
So on play he's now being called. He's also the last one standing
You can't get on his phone and turns up will take him down every round more convincing than the last for Wayboat gaming a
Daystar after their tactical timeout have nothing to say in response
So where does that leave them now I mean I guess we always pull the
side swap card right that's always going to be in the back pocket it's bank it's
hacking side if they get the two four half it's actually it's pretty right on
track you know and there has been some very very close moments where they
start very well could have won the round you know planning with zero seconds
and waibo etc this could have easily been a different story I think you just
get one more in the half it will be enough to go back to face me by the
looks of it. It's a tricky moment to play. There's not much like flavor you can really
change around. You've got to have a little bit of a room but you can't overcome it to
it and you've got to fall back and hit a pentanyl. But we saw how that happened last time so
I'm curious what they can do this time differently to change that result.
Yeah, I think the smoke ban is a really good one from Weber because I don't think
like you said Daystar can rely too much on plant denial because firstly, the Goyo
They're just gonna get hunted down by the twitch. Weibo love twitch
They play a ton of it and it's very hard to stop the twitch from countering your Goyo
Secondly the chunker well in order to make the chunker work
You have to have a number of damage or at worst even numbers because the chanker is gonna be sitting there on his shimiko launcher
For ages and exposed to a rush
Last time weibo had a 4v3 to show you couldn't afford to stay and sit on his gadget
Smoke is the perfect middle ground where you can't necessarily counter him like you can the Goyo and also
he's a lot safer than the Tchenkaris so I think Weber really hit the nail on the
head with that man and they themselves are digging deeper into the strap book
look at Terzda he's got the Reora what's his plan with that also can I say
very rare do we see a New Zealand operator being played by a Kiwi player
love to see that one of the few things you can do here is you know let's
assume that you know the runcare happens your 5v5 whatever you can
actually close off the A bomb side door so they can drop down the hatch and plant in basically a new
location because without that protection at the rawar gate you just get seen and shot and that
that'll be the end of it of course. It's great until we get C4. As soon as the C4 impact already
finds completely the kill issue as well. Sure the array but didn't think about that. Yeah ZZ I
met that in writing last time I played. I had my rawar I was trying to play that operate a
a little bit more recently and I was like oh you know I'm in such a safe spot I
know the rabbit C4 I'm definitely impact on it
bonk just punch it run straight through and I die and I said okay
so that's a bit of a very strong counter of course
not every roar getting or the roar is getting close to though
but the wave will definitely have a different approach to this round
and I'm sure they have another way of doing it that's not what I'm talking
Another could be back portion maybe and also close off this elevator the door
So you're a bit safe for the backstop potential you can open at any point and then
Go for a backstab because they did change role recently now the door opens almost instantly for the attackers, but very slowly both the defenders
Very curious to see what his eventual plan is with that gadget for now though. Daystar have just been falling back
Pull five on site for them as two minutes have elapsed what progress of Weber made
Oh, I stay five on site technically Pika isn't actually on the objective. He's still extending into server a
Very powerful position, but one he can't afford to lose without dealing some damage and unfortunately for him
Speekies will quickly take his head clean off way bow and now in the numbers advantage
They can start prepping for a plant problem is time is ticking away
We still don't have a breach on the main wall. We need speakeas to get position to do that as soon as possible
possible.
I like the time for this final thing, but it doesn't matter because I gotta find all
the picks and there's no little pen in the aisle right now so they can just walk on in
and go for it, but they can prone-straight through the bomb site and see where he's
going for it.
Yeah, they're not going to be able to go for a default plan.
Oh, speaking of, he is going to breach it open now.
This is way too late.
We need turds to get active with his Ryoro, but instead he's on for the flank watch.
He finds one kill.
That was the idea with the Ryoro game, covering main stairs.
unusual to see seal finds one before he's traded on back way bow stealing the
half five rounds in a row day star need to get back into it in the second half
otherwise it's over
undefeated in taking the first place here in Asia and APL. Now it doesn't mean that you
win anything necessarily, but there is some bragging rights, there's the whole seating,
placements, etc. But of course there are 14-30 locked in for the stage finals. Winning here
is the first step for way to say we're gonna take that one spot, we're gonna go to GWC,
we're gonna once again represent our sub-region at the international grounds. So winning
The only thing today is not all for this team, but for Daystar it kind of is.
If they can make the comeback happen and take down Weibo, even here in the best of one,
that is going to change the conversation a little bit about who's controlling this
and who's actually favorite to qualify.
Yeah, without a doubt.
This has been quite a rivalry built up for Qwass sometime, and Weibo tend to be the
team that we look at.
We don't say they started the Kings of Asia and people would say excuse me what but we say way
But the Kings of Asia and there's a very good reason for that nobody has been able to capture and even
overall the whole of the a pack region only recently
Have we seen?
Enterprise overtake Wayba with their win at the Salt Lake City Major prior to that
You know Wayba had been kind of the Kings for quite some time
There was a moment where I kind of took that but Kaga so inconsistent
that it's hard to really back them in.
Waybo have really made a name for themselves.
They've also beaten Daystar every single time
the two teams have played by the way, Pengu,
which is every single stage for the last two years.
And Waybo never let up to Daystar.
It would be a monumental growth for Daystar,
especially with a rookie player like Yao on the roster
to get one over their much more accomplished rivals
And of course the end of the day the goal is to make it to the eSports World Cup only one team from this region
Will be able to qualify that will happen in the stage finals
It's likely gonna be Daystar or Waybo and let's be real penguin
Most people would be extremely surprised if it is not Waybo that makes it to Paris
I think it would be an upset if it's anyone other than Waybo even Daystar
I agree with you there, on the lights, near strong start zone, downside of having that
one five-hour stat, you don't have much of a safety net if anything goes wrong, we no
waiver will push out eventually, there will be that one round where they have no business
winning but they will do so, it always happens.
Now we spoke a lot about Gautze and the new guy on the block here going into the
game he has had the quietest game of the state so far and I don't mean that in a
negative he's zero two and seven in going to the seven down here he has gotten
seven assists only dying twice each one of those is like a one little just one
shot into the leg of someone with his dmr 100% I guarantee it he's holding
the angles man and he's lighting them up and he's giving the call out person
has rotated back to side person now left side and then someone else
still live as the kill and that's all he's doing.
Exactly.
He died twice, he's insane, a whole half.
That's what shows the success story,
is the fact that he's only died those two times,
rather than looking at his kill counter.
Although he's going to combine with the assist, but still.
Jobs turned well so far, for God's sake.
And now he's on the echo duty, just watching Jones
and Blue Stairs and wherever else.
This is a tricky spot for Suflate.
Because again, when you're down 1-5,
you don't want to walk into the garage
with Nürquid's coin flip this 50-50 can reap.
So you're gonna walk away and that's like the confidence in the risk assessment. Okay, you can ever fall to take this risk
We need this round. I'm gonna go elsewhere
But now what's the nuke actually it's just two frag grenades and a gun
You don't really have a gadget the whole point of having the canok is to go for that game Frank eventually
Happen yokai EMP. It's this up the push similar for one trap as well
There's then big trouble. Oh
Yeah, but that's the might be out of fine one never mind. Yeah, I'll pick some
well timed with a Zookie lot of damage these day-star players and Hoven
lashes out and takes down Pika as well not sure what that was was Pika
brought him in, scared as he dropped a hash that would be a very crazy wild
play to see from Pika. There's got to have many yokai's left that's my
question. I got one at least with his E and Pete still actually that's some
quite some time. I got the Shanga fine and the C4 they just
spend a final touch of the days someone to execute with no second of the clock
he still doesn't have a yokai here this might be a little bit of a distressing
moment for way both way don't have their typical plan for the shooting it's being
forced the fire denies the plan from a zoo key by the skin of their teeth
waybo just barely win the round and with it it's match point in their hands
oh it's a little bit disappointing right the timer is getting low you know
against the echo of the smoke to Tashanka and they still opt for a default planned location.
Again, there's two ways to play that round. There's you seeking the play and making the
round-winning moment and there's you making the default thing and hoping the enemy makes a mistake.
Are we really going to assume that Weibo would mess up the default Tashanka fire lineup? Is that
that they were throwing flashbangs and smoke grenades and demos tracking and creating all kinds
of chaos right? They were literally in server on the hatch and planting default. You cannot expect
the team when you fight in the first place here to miss that. So that's a small mistake I think
from Daystar. I'm not sure that's panic or nerves, but whatever it is it's not good enough
against the way, but that's why they're now down one to six. Five rounds in a row, is it
possible I'm gonna be honest I don't think they start despite the
achievements that they've had this stage so many huge wins I mean you look
through their stage 7-4 win over elevate 7-3 over awkward that was a big
moment when day star said we are not just competing in the mid-pack we are
up there with Waybo 7 over awkward then 7-3 over souls hard those are the
other two teams we're gonna be in stage finals alongside day star and Waybo
and Daystar have already taken them down, both very convincingly.
7-5 on the Fury, 7-1 over HLT, 7-2 over Psychic Company.
All very convincing results. Strangely, the closest was actually against Fury.
Not too dissimilar for Waybo. It's been 7-1s, 7-0s, a 7-3 and 7-4 over
Orkut and Solzhardt respectively. And Daystar not even being able to get
more than one round here would be a surprise. Gotti though, player who we've
commended for his ability to stay alive is the first to fall and it's smoke as
well it's certainly around when you want to be the last one to be in the server if
need be I guess there's some safe break focus
because he's in the class can give some protection they normally wouldn't happen
this bomb site they have a DMR of hovin who's looking good today so not
done yet for day start but they do by themselves some valuable seconds of the
clock giving how so do we need to attack an attempt
are they plan this though they have just a sense project a wall to create a
you know a shrouding effect but it can get shot through I guess there's no
plenty now though with that's a dying I mean that might just make the
difference I mean they truly bomb size you cannot afford to go for a 5v5
plan. This bombsite is so exposed for the defense you need to as an attacking
side put so much effort into forcing these defenders into exposed positions and
finding frags. And that's why the defense likes to fight so much. I like the
Kali here to counter the clash. Each shot from that sniper will knock the
shield back and expose speakeasy for a brief moment. Hard to actually land the
shots on to speakeasy when that happens. Don't answer the phone though for
Reeps just at the right moment. Hoven is down by the way.
Waybo really struggling now to stay alive in this so exposed position a whole
minute to play with for Daystar but that's a critical kill for Speak Easy.
And Azuki takes a hell of a lot of damage. I didn't see how that happens.
It doesn't matter because Steel has gone big three kills off the round.
third to Lordfall as well. Daystar. Finally a reprisal after losing six rounds in a row. They are back
into it. They're convincing in a very good push of an execute, honestly again. By getting that
opening pick on Tugatti, they open up the door for that plant with the sense of all the chaos
and the smoke grenades and they just shoot through the smoke because they hit a couple of
good shots. They went in the round. They didn't need to overcomplicate it and there was a
There's a nice way of problem solving the clash as well.
Why fight the clash head on against the shield?
We can just kind of plant right next to them because they have no idea where we're planting.
There's no solace, there's no cameras, there's no BP, there's nothing.
It's a good understanding of what's in front of them.
Only problem is for they start, they have to be flawless.
They're staring at match point against them.
They gotta do this again and again and again.
Yeah, that's right and look, it's gonna be a very different kind of fish once we move
onto different bombsites.
That top floor is honestly one of the most unique bombsites in the game.
Can you name any other bombsites in the current version of Siege, which are so hard
you have like one meter square, but you're safe to play?
It makes me think of Old Consulate top floor, where there were so few places to play
It was safe that we would literally hard extended the yellow stairs. I don't know was your
Your hey there. That was you. Yeah
The closest I can think of is like at top floor on chalet again, not a lot of safe places to sit
I was thinking still play inside
Border top floor armory like I decided so like it's why you'd hold like 90 CC fountain
Great room these stairs these days, but yeah
Yeah, there's this category of bomb sites where you really just hinge on specific power positions
if you lose them, you are cooked.
Yeah, and yeah, I think that's really the story of what happened there.
On the top floor for Waybo, Daystar found their picks, but the problem for Daystar is
like to say, they're going to have to do that open over again.
Waybo will have basement unlocked in two rounds of time, and I wouldn't be surprised
if they, instead of repeating the top floor, decide to go to start from open area now.
You know me I'm a big open area believer. I quite enjoy that bombsite myself
Then you work around the map locations using as much as possible
I'm just giving your point a lot of different stages to around because think about that previous top four attack
The round begins with the attackers from underappels and from there
They can do the breaching the droning and even the killing because they found two pigs
Then they wrap one in and they stop them immediately. That's all you got to worry about
With open area, you gotta take top floor, then go down the staircases, take a bit of the middle of the map, like Archive Stiller's lobby, and you gotta get on with the hatches, maybe because I caught your window, then you fight your way into the bomb site, and you still have a couple of minutes.
There's a lot more steps to it all, so.
And that's again, like you said, that top floor of Bank Steel is very unique.
it doesn't offer a lot of options for attack or for defense but ever since
they ate up the rule for defenders and every attack I have in them again and
whatnot it does feel like almost every single gunfight is just so unfair
obviously favoring the attack and that's how you see things becoming an
attacker for your map rather than a defender for you since that time
We'll see what they start doing now as they are changing up bombsites.
Love the amount of castle we've been seeing today by the way.
Hoven's now jumping on it.
Castle and Azami in combo.
That is the great combination to create a real fortress, bulletproof panels, bulletproof
barricades, trying to create as many power positions as possible, and trying to soak
up Util.
the attacking side we've got nades and we've got the flores ratero joints to
try and clear a lot of that utile. I expect we'll see from daystar a much
more typical top-down clear than what we saw from weibo. Weibo actually didn't
look to try and take CEO and get vert to clear archives and tellers instead they
they cleared that by taking top square and lobby and pinching those players
together without vertical pressure which is very unusual most teams will go
for that which is what they started to do with the right thing I had a dream about
Ram the night action I think about it okay is it can we talk about this on
broadcast is it no no no no no it's about the gadget it was like the
evolution like we have a stage to walk to Ram
yeah the memory just came back yeah whatever you're gonna keep elaborating
or we leave that to our imagination of the game that's all
soon play with a good shot takes down a reaps who's had a fees in gaming
himself but nothing too wild it's turns the students showing the score board on
from the side of Weeble and a lot more even striker there from the side of Deastar.
It's quiet here from Weibo, they're not looking to lash out, they really are just sitting back and waiting.
I don't know if that's the right way to play it, especially with a player down.
Daystar look a lot more competent on their attacking side.
Speaks he's just waiting to be given a free kill. Here comes the doka bee.
Of course after this round there'll be a chance to get some operator bands in for
Weibo. Third tanks the fire moves past it. Great second kill from Yao. He has been
so strong for Daystar and on the black bean having a big impact. Third
if he finds this kill could surely give Weibo a chance in this round but
but it's just him and Hoven.
I think Deistar have realized both of these players
are on the top floor, they might be able to flood the site.
Stranger to the side control, that's a problem.
I think I'm gonna start planning on BB covering.
This retreat should be almost impossible.
Now it goes to Nade, Hoven has to wait for it.
Now it's a retake in a two versus four for Turd
and Hoven, Turd's just being watched by Soufflé.
He goes down and Soufflé quickly gets active
for the second.
We'll see both of those kills in the kill cam.
Cold as ever for Souffle, Yao also having a big 2k.
Harambe a little bit happier about that.
It's a second round now in a row for Daystar.
And a seventh round out of the nine that we have played
that have been won by the attacking side.
This is getting to a point where
we will feel a bit uncomfortable
or rather they look a little bit uncomfortable
on their defenses,
know where the attack is coming from, the pacing and as you said very quiet round. No one's really
taking any fights. They keep letting day-star walk into Jen Hallway, turret checks to fight,
they get to the bottom side, their team checks to fight. Wave will call attack time up being up 6-3
and you know what happens? Every time they call a timeout they win the upcoming round. I think
it's 100% successful for all the games we've cast this time. I don't know if we've actually
done the numbers on that. But I remember this has been talked about for quite some time. Even
back at this presentation when we did get Skrabani to do the tactical timeout conversions,
Waybo really stood out as an outlier ever since Gohan has joined the coaching staff and really
taking control of this team. There's something about a Gohan tactical timeout. Of course,
Harambe also gets a chance to talk to his teammates. Unfortunately for him,
they didn't convert that tactical timeout they took on. I believe it was round three
After Weibo got up by a few rounds Daystar did not manage to come back in that half not until they moved on to their attacking side
Weibo on their defense. They just need a second round here on this half and that'll be the game done
Small things to write speedy court middle of the C4 rib
Garti dying now turns into roll without much of a fight
right. Pretty calm and chill so far in the player camps and I mean worse case scenario
you do have OT but I don't think we were too worried about this game you know we're making
it like the battle of first place but I'm sure if we both win and we speak to Terz there
or anyone in the player interview they're going to go nah man today's game didn't matter
we're looking forward to like you know the stage finals the qualification because we
as a team it's all about making the international tournament this is another in the office
type thing but when you start losing this game i'm sure that that nerve you can kind of feel a
little bit more and go okay maybe we maybe we do need to try like 110% because it's not actually
that easy and that's because it's skill level across the entire sub region of asia it has risen
it's gotten better and better there's more competition now than we've had in a long time
yeah that's right it's been a real funny shake up in asia of course seeing day star
I now go to two international events in a row and only seeing that Asia have a place for one
In the upcoming EWC it really puts extra pressure on the whole of Asia. I'm gonna put some pressure away
But of course they don't have the luxury of just doing that. Yeah, we want to come first
But if we come second, that's finally still go international
But you know teams like day star teams like orchid and souls are they are all capable of going to international events
they've all been to international events before. The sum? It's been a longer time between drinks
than others.
When you're seeing how Tiffany seems to attack, like the way you pull on their attack inside
versus Daystar is a very different pace that they're setting.
I got the maverick in the mix because I saw the kaiyaku in the drone phase.
That's a great counterfeit of course.
I'm a bit cheeky with the capture band and you stopped playing the kaiyaku.
It's one of those half deal with this one.
Yeah, it's cool.
You'll notice that Azuki immediately jumps on the maverick.
I only see Maverick DMR by the way man, well how times have changed?
See how he goes.
I've actually never learned how to do the hatch in the most effective way.
So I do this, then as soon as he's doing, but I just do it like that, this is not the most effective way.
It doesn't matter, all that you need to do is get a certain amount of damage on.
so it's it's if you go around the perimeter of the hatch it's two and a
half which is the same as just doing what he did right then which is two lines
and then half a line
it doesn't matter where you do it
wow look at that got he's got a kill boys
he's got a kill boys
we found that seal is as well taken down reaps against smoke dying early by
that's what happens when you play on that extension of server stairs, about 50 seconds,
daystar again has to be perfect, they're up against only a single C4 here from Holm,
who's playing in that vault red position, waiting for the perfect time, there's the
church blows with Asuki and he wins up that engagement, now two attackers from lowland
health, they're now one spare Sami in pocket, we can try and make some rotations happen
but those DMRs, they will beam down the heal barriers very quickly, I think the
I play here is for to keep that keeper in pocket use it if it comes down to a retake use it to disrupt the execute
That's the right way to play it. Oh the names are coming through
Zuki big name
Wabo do not have the plan denial. This is how it's chance
He doesn't deny the plan, but he does get the plan to into the post now
It's up to a Zuki and seal to cover it off
otherwise Waybo will claim first place in Asia. 3v2 on to the retake with
seal up above the hatch he's waiting patiently. One tick from Speakeasy, the
coverage from Bull. Got it! Get it together! Speakeasy hits the defuse and Waybo
gaming achieve what everybody expected from them if undefeated a 7 out of 7
run through the group stage here in Asia.
It's down to all the hints of gnarly shots there on the moss.
He's getting two kills with a single magazine,
the guy covering, and shortly after the guy planting.
And he's taking nice and slow.
One guy's gonna protect the half, one of those kind of e-fuse,
and they hit their shots again.
Wave over the victorious, they go flawless.
They are locked in number one seed here.
And well, we said before they're gonna be the kings,
And now they have locked in and these are groups, they are indeed the kings of Asia.
They are for now, best of ones are in their remit, they are very much confident to take any team in this league in a PO1.
Can they do the same in a PO3? I'm sure they'll see confidence for that as well.
And just to give a testament to how good Wato have been, let me read off all of the results for you of the group stage in their 7 games.
seven games. Seven one of the
second company seven zero over
elevate seven three over
orchid seven four over souls
heart seven zero over fury
seven one over HL Tory and now a
seven three over day star
never push the distance never
even having to play 12 rounds
in a game. It doesn't get much
more dominant than that.
There's an internal system that we've been building for a long period of time that they just have in the works, right?
And this is the benefit of having a long-term roster, as you get that synergy, you know, how it should have worked.
Also behind the scenes, what they need from each other, you know, every single day,
whether it's going to be behaving a certain way or chickening in with people, how the emotional state is going to be.
You know, we see Speakeasy, we see Turd, and they're very two different people.
Teres says often like at least once the camera right is like high ego confidence guy. He's the injured
He's the fragger speak easy. It's just carefree always happy and enduring life and whatnot
They have a good and deep understanding of how they work as a team
And I truly think that makes a huge difference in how consistent they are in this
Absolutely, there's no question of the best team in Asia is but of course it doesn't mean that way but guaranteed a spot at the
They went to last year. They went very deep, but they do have to perform in best of threes, but I think they couldn't be happier with their group stage so far.
Daystar play really well this stage, but at the end of the day, there's only one king in Asia, and we're about to go talk to him.
Welcome on in my friend and congratulations on a flawless group stage.
I could say how you feeling after that, but I can see right look on your face at it
It seems like maybe just another day in the office
You guys never really expected me to push D by any team in this league
Yeah, it feels good to act at floorless stages like we
like a span of like two years where we'd win every single game in the group stage over and over and then like
Last last year stage two and like this year's kickoff was like a bit shaky
So it feels good with a new edition of Godding.
Like, it feels like back to our winning ways.
It's awesome.
Back to dominance.
Nice.
I mean, the stats show it.
Jim's without every single victory scoreline so far.
I see you guys have not been tested, but never need like 12 rounds.
You know, you always win it pretty cleanly.
Just talk to me kind of loosely about how you view the current meta of the game.
It's a very big talker point of various regions about what the current way of describing
siege in Q1 competition.
in a very simple kind of fashion, how would you describe the meta of tier 1's each?
I think one word would be fun, like you can put your own twist on the meta,
like you don't have to be good at one certain thing.
There's a few things you can do, especially with like the op-pands
and how many power-ups there are in the game now, especially on attack.
So I think that the game's really fun and you can be creative
and do whatever you want to do, to be honest.
You don't have to be good at the one meter rate of play the game
Just on that
Okay, you mentioned power ups and attack so this simple quiz is a fun and defense as well if you just find the attack inside
Depends on the map some maps like bank
Defense
I'd say this season I'm having a lot more fun on attack like there's a lot of good weapons like
Ash, Ash Acox, Ash Acox, you know, F2 is back.
Um, even the new assault rifle, like that look he has and stuff,
just a lot of like fun guns to play, turn, a lot of fun attackers to play.
It's fun, it's fun time right now.
Yeah, it looks like it, especially when you guys with six rounds in a row against ASA.
I hope you're having fun doing that.
I did want to ask you, uh, a little bit, roll the dice back,
roll the memory back to Salt Lake City Major, of course.
Um, we've had a little bit of a chat to bag in some of the EP guys.
Obviously they managed to get the better of you guys in an elimination game over, uh, at
like city major.
That was a big surprise to a lot of people.
I think a lot of fans and, and like even asked, we kind of pegged you guys to EP about
here and just on that one day EP stepped ahead.
It sounds like they're very confident that they still sit above you guys.
How do you feel that you stack up to not just the rest of Asia, but the rest
of APAC, seeing teams like CAG go flawless and APAC North, Enterprise and Chiefs not
go flawless but look pretty solid down in those years.
Um, yeah, it was simply a surprise to me when we lost to EP2 in Salt Lake. It was a pretty
interesting time. I think like, especially in practice results lately, we've got E.
I think we look like we're back on top, especially in those top teams like EP, YoKag, like
DK and stuff. We pretty much smashed everyone in practice, so I'm hoping to get a rematchy
game in CP at some point and reclaim our crown, the APEC champions. But yeah, it's
good. There's a lot of teams in APEC that are improving. It's not even just the top
one team in North and OCE anymore. Top two to three? Not a bad scrim anymore, so I
can definitely see improvement, even in our own region. There's four teams that
very good scrimmage like souls heart or good a star. It runs improving together which is awesome
the region awesome for us so yeah. Of course it makes it more competitive might make you work harder
for it but at the end of the day it's good for you guys too so congratulations on your win on
your fourth run through the group stage and we'll see you next week for stage finals. Thank you
and see you guys. See ya. What are the insights we get from turd a little bit of game specific
stuff I wanted to ask you about the reyora I don't know I just it's a Kiwi
operator I'm sorry but now it's cool to hear especially the fact that he was
surprised that they lost to AP and Salt Lake yeah I mean he's always gonna see
there but I could totally see it you know I think Waipo went to that thinking
they're gonna go very very far and we thought maybe maybe not but but they
for sure thought do we're gonna do it yeah for sure it's been a great set
of games tonight some smashes some really tight games none tighter than our third match
of the night.
Psychic company versus Solzhan went head to head for the last spot in the stage finals
and there was one guy that really got Solzhan over the line he was asleep for the first
half of the day and then he woke the hell up we are so lucky we got to chat to him
in the post match interview he had a few choice words if you missed it go back and
watch it. Holy Shoses. That was such a good game. And it's just so great to see I9 giving
us a level of fire and passion that we know it for.
Yeah. And especially because, as you said, he started slow going 0-4, not getting any
kills. He was literally on the rounds, they were down facing match point in the comeback
began. He died first. And he's okay. He's going to be watching his team from the
grave and he's relying on them to do this job without him. And hopefully if
win he can then stop showing up that's exactly what happened because there's
more where this clicked for him right there in that clutch with the blitz in
the 1v3 he was just fired up. He's got a dog in him. Oh man he's so back we're so
back we had a pretty fast day overall we had a 7-0 which is not too often we
see those 2-7 of course the overtime game and we just saw Waco make quick
work out of Daystar. Overall, I think that Asia, APEC North, I think all the sub-
and APL have been phenomenal to watch and to commentate because it's been more competition than ever, more games, more teams to watch and follow.
It's been a phenomenal stage so far, but the stage isn't over, we have stage finals coming up, we also have more APL tomorrow night.
tomorrow night, APAC North will have its final playday of the group stage and while we know
by all likelihood which team will end up being the top in that region, things still remain to be
seen. As for Asia, we know already who the best team in this region is. I think a lot of you
knew it even before the playday started. It's Weibo, but maybe you didn't know who the top
four would be. It ends up being Daystar in a convincing second place. Team Wolf is firmly
in third and Solzat only just barely ahead of Cycling Company.
Yeah, I mean to be honest, nothing too surprising. I mean the opposite would have been a Cycling
Company would overtake Solzat earlier today. I've been like, whoa, did not see that one
coming, especially with Cycling Company not having the greatest start to the stage.
Solzat of course having not succeeded recently and more like domestic Slash 2 competition.
But overall, I think the top four is expected. I'm very happy with the 14s because I
I think it's going to make it a very competitive
um chaos across the board. There's no free side of the bracket and we're going to get
B.O.3s. It's about damn time we get to see some of these teams go ahead to head. Maybe
Daystar will get their revenge in the best of three. I'd love to see a Solzhan or could
be a tree. That matchup is always absolute cinema. But tomorrow we have four more best
of ones coming in ATAC North and guess what? We get the first place versus second
place teams. We get the third place versus fourth place teams. We get to see who's
going to stay finals for APEC. Until then, I hope you guys have enjoyed Asia this evening and have a lot of fun.
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