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and welcome back to Crefazer weekly show here just before the start of eml every tuesday
And it is time for episode number four. I'm your host Milosh by my side are three wonderful guests
You're not analyst when you're on here. You're just here to have some fun. Papa my laxing and fresh. How you doing today?
Good very good. So it's a deep. I mean look at me. I'm crying. I don't know
You know what we should do this you know that trend when we both look at our child at the same time
And then he's older than both of them
And then whoever he picks is the one that he prefers. Yeah
yo people usually do this with like their animals and I was already talking
to you there's all the stories that you need to hear my friends today there's a
bit of a nostalgia trip because we're all old in our own way right yeah I'm
more so than some more so than more so than other not even like some people
I also think you, how old are you?
How old are you?
I'm 32.
You're saying the same time?
It's 42.
32, wanna go?
I'm 32.
I'll let you walk.
Come on.
Good Lord.
Well, you know what?
That gives me seniority in this case.
Our game today is more, our first one at least, is going back through the time in events.
Because right now in Siege, we have, of course, a special event that's happening in the game,
it's Mew Protocol.
It's the fourth edition of Mew Protocol that's happening in the game.
And I kind of wanted to look back as what sort of events did we have in the history of Siege?
And I guess my first one has to go all the way back and let's see if you can remember where this is from
Where were you when you watched the operation Chimera reveal?
Do you remember when was that that was so that's?
2018 yeah, yeah
And where were we where were we that was 2018 that okay now may no that was 2018 was
So one year before I was playing gamers assembly
Okay, yeah
No, I was wait wasn't it wasn't an first SI 2018 they revealed operation Chimera
I was the question who came with operation camera what operators lion of course and
And I think yeah very good. So did you know that it also came with a PvE mode? Yes. Yeah, have you ever played it?
I missed that PvE mode. Oh, I think I think the community at home very good
Let's let's run the clip in the meantime as we're just talking over this because are we counting points?
And we're not doing points for this one. I'll tell you lion and think I came with it target points
Outbreak I'm someone who who enjoys PvP, but I'm getting old so playing a lot of PvE games
something that helps me relax and PvE and outbreak.
I really wish that we got it in the game.
I think collectively as a community,
especially for the pro say,
I know everyone liked using this over terrorist hunt
at the time to warm up and being able to shoot
the aliens that were infected.
It's different to T-Hunt, that's for sure.
Completely different.
One thing I actually really liked about it
is also just playing with your friends on.
There was kind of created a whole different atmosphere.
Kind of brought us back to the Rainbow Six Vegas.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, honestly.
The co-op aspect was so cool and also what was crazy to me was the timing of it because of course it was a PSY28 in with Camila
but then Outbreak as a whole, like as a game, developed and released a bit later if I remember well
and then just after that we get hit by Covid, which is like the first two years of Covid.
They were more shadowing Covid.
It was actually insane, you know, like the timing of the thing was insane, I felt like.
The conspiracy theory.
Yeah.
Like a little bit Covid as it happened.
Incredible marketing strategy.
I can't believe they did that as a PR.
You're talking behind COVID?
Anyways, anyways, that derail, but yes, it was a lot of fun.
One thing that they had in it as part of the mechanics is that you're reinforcing was a lot faster,
and I wish we kind of get that to make those prep phase bits a bit shorter in the game.
I agree.
I don't know if you remember how fast it was.
It was very satisfying, yeah, it was super satisfying.
But yeah, that is our first event that we've had.
Let's move on to our second one then.
My friends, which one did we have coming after sugar fried?
Do you remember anything from this event?
Yeah, those skins really made it.
It was so fun.
So fun.
Was that the one that was captured?
That was the team deck, Matt.
Yeah, well, yeah.
It was captured the flag.
It was the middle.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was by far one of the best game modes, easily.
That's like 20, 20, 20, 30.
You could spawn kill.
That made it even better.
You could really ruin someone's day if you went in with a five stack.
This is the kind of man.
Sugar fried.
I mean absolutely. I think we got some pretty good fun game modes in Siege.
100% that's why we're going through them. Sugar Fright came out in 2020 and it was really fun to see.
2020, yeah. I mean six years ago I thought it was more recent than that.
No, time is linear unfortunately. Sometimes I forget we're in 2026 and we'll be on.
2020 feels like not that far. I know when you see people like dying to groovy that's running around on Castle UMP,
I know it's crazy, it's doing that in a big two-six.
Though, our third game mode is one that I really like, which is Rengoku, which, thankfully, is coming back in 2026.
I'm sorry, I know Gushjanka's out there, Jake, that Maestro skin right there, the player card, probably one of the best things in the entire game.
I would give everything to look like.
The Rengoku, by far, probably has the best skins for the operators out of any of the events.
But that's the one where you throw the Kiba barriers, right? You throw the Kunai?
Yes, we've already came back twice.
Art is once.
I remember playing it.
We still did it's fourth edition.
The other one was Bandit, Monty, and...
It's too good.
It's too fun of a PvP game mode to go around like that.
So when that was the first time that it released?
2022.
2022, yeah.
Yeah, it makes sense.
It was fun.
And it was a lot of fun.
It still is a lot of fun.
Our next one is one that I guess ended recently.
Rainbow is Magic.
That came back after a few years.
Hi, it is you'll notice that kind this part of a lot of the skin packs. You can see it even our big screen here behind us
There was a lot of effort to make sure that my Moroccan man looks good
Yeah, he goes. Oh my god
You ever tried it. Would you ever do the beat pink in the heart?
I might actually you could really well I will give you 50 euros to
For me a lot more to remember when we did the Halloween show exactly
Yeah, yeah, but that was with with the
I feel like I've seen the T'Chonka one.
Yeah, obviously that's pretty.
No, I had a couple of the events from the cosplay.
The original smoke one with the fairy.
Fairy helmet.
I still rock that today, right?
And I have the ember rise on the bottom of the fairy helmet.
That's disgusting.
We're in awful fur and that is disgusting.
FBI kind of got that one out of me.
I can't believe you just said that.
The fact that you said I still run ember rise.
I do rock that T'Chonka skin though.
It is pretty sick.
Yeah, it is pretty sick.
With the unicorn on top, yeah.
I've got the chibi about how much.
Yeah, how much you want for it?
Did you buy the original?
Wait, wait, do you remember when the first siege Chibis came out for you to purchase?
No, I actually have one from the very first that I bought myself, but my wife would I have a collection of around 30 of them?
We have a he said it once a lady
Milo said it he was talking about my wife
Because my wife
Yeah, yeah, yeah
No gamescom 2017. It was the first time that it was out where you were there in game. We're just talking about it
You're on elevate. I still have a mousepad that has your signature on I got to see what that signature looks like
So that's currently not up. I know it's not up to date. That's for sure
Hey, change your signature through the years. Well, I actually just developed a signature before I was like every other pro player
We just write your name and that's it now. Actually, it's in cursive and there's a nice little Ellen
I'm glad you don't play anymore. No one cares about it
You will show up to our meet and greet still
Well, yeah, yeah, they do when we have them
Sometimes well
If I'm lucky next up is no brawl one that I remember I was actually we was so I was all this
I know so ace was playing it a lot, but I was playing this on the train back to and to my home
On the actual
Digivie that I had this on and it was fun. Is this the one with the snowballs and capture? Yeah. Yes
Okay, okay, yeah that's the one headgear. I remember we played
Who did we play it was like me Fabian ace desk and we played against the full Cavana team before me?
I'll play you I'll play day. Oh, I'm not gay mode. It was so it gives us an idea of when that was that was like
I had to be pretty really funny. I think I was joining them. Maybe I don't think that was 20 20. No, it's 21 22
Yeah, and it also came it also came back
So it was on I guess the the holiday season of both years back
back. It would be nice to bring it back. I'm waiting for the one that is pretty important
here, so I hope you didn't leave it out. I don't know, I have eight in total and we're
at number five. Let's go to six now. It's redacted one of our latest ones that of course we brought
with our latest operation and that played March to April. And as again, Revolver, Ocelot,
Revolver, try to say that really fast. Revolver, Ocelot, is what we got but also right in for
Jackal, there's some cool skins and the Redacted mode, at least when I played it, was a lot of fun to play.
What's the skin mode?
It's one of the more recent ones.
And it's a remake Night Haven Labs for it.
You get a super cool, on Jackal's gun you get a super cool, like, mythical skin, that like, super cool animated stuff.
I bought all of the packs to get it.
And then I realized, I realized it was on Jackal's weapon.
And then I was like, wow.
Oh, that's awesome.
Yeah, it was...
Do you run PDW or C70?
Well, C17, because that's the one that has the...
So he doesn't play Jackal.
Yeah.
But I know one who plays Jackal.
People used to just always play Jackal too.
I don't know why he wasn't in professional play, a lot of work, and they can...
Ah.
It was everything, wasn't it?
Yeah.
Jackal back then.
He actually was pretty well played.
I know.
Back on Coastline.
You're old, huh?
Yeah.
See, he feels it, he feels it now.
Next up is Grand Larceny.
That is event number seven that had some cool skins in there, but also it is coming back
Later on this year as has been announced in the year 11 roadmap the coolest thing about this event
This is coming from someone who way back in the day played a lot of battlefield
There was a lot of micro destruction and Glen Grand Larsonie
You could destroy all the floors all the walls the only thing that state are the actual pillars that held the the map together
It was a bit satisfying everything. Yeah, I reflect right the original one. Yes. Yeah, you could you could break through you have the old car
is very 1900s theme. As you can see, there is a bit of an inspiration from Peaky Blinders
and I won't add more to it. There it is. There's a warden. Nice cut, right?
Not the best cut, but yeah. It's better than Baby Shark's haircut.
It's a toupee. It smells like water. Shelby.
That's literally the end. That's the whole idea. There you go.
I think you could pull it off as well. Yeah, let's do all the things.
Especially when you curl your hair, I'm not gonna lose more of my hair for this. I'm already balding
Minoxidil is not cheap. I tell you that
Anyways, I'm just being very honest with you number eight though is mute protocol
And it's happened. It's come back multiple times our latest one. Yeah comes back into the UMP. That's again
I'm so lucky. I actually got gifted the code to the skin itself. So reach out to me lush
Okay, I'm history be soft also reach out to him if you're I count this band. Yeah, what oh no, that's all I made just
He's been getting everybody okay, I see credits at me los a medic on socials right? Yeah, yeah DM him on Twitter
He does frequent giveaways if you DM them so definitely the M. Jack. I need to show you. I was looking for graphics
Actually got sent an email leading up somebody actually sent me an email
to tell me hey and in Arabic I'm not gonna say who it was but you know who
you are send me an email in Arabic saying hey please I'm such a big fan you're
going to Salt Lake City could you please send me a skin I can buy it off of you
and say we don't do that number one number two I'm not gonna sell big city
what kind of fan are you come on yeah you still got 10 codes no I didn't give
you a code then yeah I'm a bad friend yeah sorry I mean you would know you
You would know. Gentlemen, those are our eight events. Is there anything that kind of, for
you, we might have skipped out? Did we mention an event that you really liked, Gabe or not?
What was the event that you were thinking of?
Yeah.
Showdown. Showdown.
Oh, yeah.
Showdown was by the hands down, I mean, at Doctor's Curse, but Showdown by far is like
number one for me out of all of our events. And we've had some really good events, like
Sugar Fights at Close, second for me, but, what did I just, Showdown, Showdown, yeah.
Do you remember 1v1, Golden Gun?
Huh?
Do you remember the bullet gun?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was a good one, but I don't know.
Showdown was different.
Showdown was something different.
Showdown got sweaty.
Showdown got sweaty.
I played Dr. Cass on the long digits.
What?
Yeah, we did some, as some of the UK talent and people
in the community did some recordings
from the UK, but getting the day when it was like the first one.
Is that one of the reasons to bring back theme?
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Bring back theme.
Why did we just go back into that?
That was the cross reference.
Well, I knew what you were doing there.
Gabe, I know that-
I am theme.
Speaking of sweating, I think it's time for us to take a little break.
Come on over, it is time for our official prep phase hydration break.
It's time for it, gentlemen.
There you go.
Make sure to have a drink.
Pass it down the line.
Same reflexes as when you were playing by the way.
You alright?
It's just thank you.
I just threw it at me like I put my hand up here and it somehow ends up here.
I didn't even see it.
Actually it wasn't a little lower.
So yeah, hydration break.
What's your favorite drink to have when you're really looking?
No, it's not what you're supposed to do.
You're supposed to, don't forget to buy the new
Rambo 60 Sports skins on the eSports shop right now.
The Legacy set.
Yeah, as well.
And the Falcon set, and the Furia set,
and the Loud set, and the Shopee Fire button set,
because all four of them.
And none of them are marketed to Sunday or Thursday for that.
But that's not even the first one.
Milo's will do it.
You're talking on social media.
And don't forget to go DM me on Twitter for free jersey as well
from your favorite team.
No, I voiced over the one for BDS
before they stopped being BDS anymore,
so what do I know?
This is before Boston.
So, good drink.
There's a replay of my throat.
Can we bring that back?
I didn't actually see it.
There's a replay of your throat?
Yeah.
Oh, throat.
Hey, wow.
Wow.
That's what I said.
I got real close.
You got a real close.
You got a little inch in the floor.
Yeah, real close.
And you would have been in trouble.
I would have been, but we doubted it.
I'm here for you.
or does the bottle. I just love how precise our team is with Replace and then on the purchase.
Well my friends, we have a show after the... That's our hydration break, that's okay.
It's not my show, so it doesn't matter anymore. But moving on, it's maybe something different,
right? Because Ann is hosting all of NAL and EML this week and also PrepFace next week on the last
I was gonna say that.
Oh, good lord.
Adi's everywhere.
She's fast.
She's fast, Siege.
Well, that's a lot.
Well, stay on.
Thank you very much PR firm Leo.
Now let's head back to the next bit.
We got some clips and some players.
Because, I'll say this,
again, we got a bit older.
But we grew older by watching
and living Siege. Some of us competing in it.
in it, some of us pretending that they're analyzing and coaching, some others pretending
that they know something about the game. I just won't say who it is. But I asked you
guys to give me players that time might have perhaps forgotten and for us to remember those
players and their legacy that they left on our game. And first up was Leo. Let's play
the first clip.
It drops down, but nope, a bit too slow on the return.
Red group is one, he gets two kills.
That's a three kill for him, can he get the fourth?
Canteracaddy's already upstairs,
lot of fire down into Red group,
and there's not much that he can do.
He still has the nitrosalda chuck, can he find it?
The kill comes out, Red group, he clutches it!
Canteracaddy going down, I cannot believe it!
The 4k from Red group!
Yeah, I was on KS at that point.
You were on KS at that point?
No, I wasn't.
No, you were on the other side, right?
Of the clutch.
I thought it was cool for three reasons. First and foremost, Redgroove, an amazing player.
We never forgot about him.
All the way back in Room Factory, 2018.
All the way back, Room Factory played SI. He also then played with the best Swedish lineup.
Obviously, really good player. Three reasons why the clip was good.
You were casting and he was losing to a clutch.
And one of the coolest clutch ever, by the way, the thought to go and see for the window.
Very clever.
Really clever.
Bring back Coastline. No, we're not playing that. I love Coastline.
But no, yes, but it needs we occur about a game between so so let's do let's start a petition to redo bring back thing
Rebacking bring back being don't don't but remake coastline. Anyways, our second one is the same clever thing
Our second one was selected by you gave so let's roll the club
Diogo has perfect line of sight, but we'll be able to get the kill on a shot to bring it
I'm very low on HP but two players remain as well as the smoke 10 seconds to go and there won't be much for something to do
Oh my God, the 1v1, there's no time.
Oh, what are you doing?
What the hell are you kidding me?
Shout in the clutch kick.
If anyone could have done that, I believed in it.
And he did it.
That's stage, man.
That crazy memories.
Do you remember?
There was a photo from that event where NA got first-rounded
and all NA teams were in the bus.
Yeah, we took an NA bus to go get drinks that night.
It was rough, but you know, you make the most out of it.
We all had a lot of fun.
had a lot of fun. There was a lot of good memories there. But I mean, Chate, I mean,
that is a historic player. I love the dude. Close friendship. He's still streaming every
day. I don't forget. I don't think I forgot him. Yeah, but most people don't know. He's
a world champion. Yeah, it's true. But also, I mean, by the way, yeah, exactly. I mean,
all the reasons why, like I chose him, but also, I mean, just as just as a competitor,
I mean, we also use the keyboard the same way, which is very, very different than most people.
My index finger is actually on W, my middle finger is on A, my ring finger is on shift,
and then my pinky is on control.
And thumb, obviously, spacebar.
It's a little unorthodox for sure, but it gets the job done.
Arthritis don't exist.
Don't exist here.
Do you know what was funny about Chatter?
He was the best team I ever had.
He never stopped.
I mean, literally never stopped choking.
When he was so good to be around him.
When he left G2 when he took his break or whatever it was, I was honestly surprised.
I think anyone's going to be able to replace Shatay.
He was a very, very strong support player from EU.
After they won SI together in Penta,
and that famous Penta EG Grand Final,
well, he took a break after Kanto was picked up two weeks
before the event to boot camp with the team in Berlin,
and then flew out and actually ended up playing really well
in Atlantic City, but they lost in that final to Team Liquid.
Do you guys think that if Shatay didn't retire
or take a break then that Kanto would have ever
got that same opportunity? Yeah, I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. Because four
Penta players that stayed on that roster took a chunk of the salary to pay Heno Chaya.
That's how good he was. So whatever happened, he would have landed at the top.
But that's what I'm saying though. And we know this, that just because you're a really
good player doesn't mean you're going to mesh well with other teams to get that same
opportunity. That's what I'm saying. Obviously joining the best team at the time that understood
the game at that level, I'm curious if he would have had the exact same or relatively
close experience that he might not have had if Chateau never, Chateau never quit.
Well friends, our third clip goes to you, Fresh. Let's roll it.
It's like the push is going to have to come in from Pillar's door. We've got Titan with
Defuser in hand. Beautiful for Keenan to open things up there. Gets one onto Solotov. There is
the potential for getting the defuser down. Titan just comes off the scope at the wrong time.
He knows there's a man in the corner. He's going to be shut down. That's defuser down, but Keenan
to get the killer gets
time back on his feet. This
one could be successful
challenging into the utility
where he gets one gets two
top of price there.
Somehow come away with the
round. They're playing
playing better here than they
are now. Yeah, I mean, this is
a scenario they might need to get
the coach into some for a bit of
improved performance. My theme is
actually coaches subbing in so
in a little bit of contract pager tree and then did he play for it did he play
for Tim Ireland I think so yeah and see yeah I think he did yeah I think he
he has maybe a resurgence he hasn't played for like four years and they were
like Keenan get back on it yeah but I mean I was also happy to see Titan in
the clip because Titan is someone that we love in a door but we love him as a
person and he ruined multiple host teams but we love him as a person I
I was the one to pick the next clip. Let's move on to that, run the clip, please. Save us.
A
first ever event in Japan that was back in Tokonami November 2019, by the way, tickets
are still around if you want to make it and actually be part of the huge event that's
going to be headlining in Osaka this November for the major.
Can I just say that crowd in Tokoname, the Japanese crowd by far, the best crowd I've
ever experienced out of any single event, out of any single region I've ever been to,
they cheered for everyone.
They literally made everyone feel like they were the home team, win or lose, love that
crowd.
I'm super excited to get back to Japan.
Can I also just say that clip's so much better now I'm not seeing it on my timeline,
So much fun, but it is a great clip. Thank you very much. It was very obvious, but it is a great clip
I will thank myself for doing it and thank the Japanese fans that showed up back in Tokonami
I wonder how many of you will also be around for the Osaka major later on this November
I think it would be great to continue the loop where it's seven years later
And the fan base is still growing strong in the region. Yeah. Yeah, he was playing you were playing you were watching from home
Yeah, it was a nightmare. We lost to Ira Wolf and I got kicked out. Oh, yeah, you were telling me that. Yeah
Yeah, thank you for being great. Uh next up Leo. You got to pick a clip. Let's roll the next one laxing who had a great start here
Oof
That's one foxy picks up another kill on the shuttle as broke is just gonna peak everything slash tosses out one toxic
Dave, but he's a man on an island
He'll get it down on the mark and there's still smoke there to possibly stop a push
But he's gonna get doubled up on slash takes out foxy pulls out the shotgun
They're gonna need to go for a plant Mark's coming out. He just needs to hide but the time is in there
Flash you do I need to live cloud nine. What are you doing?
what
That is a cloud nine
Right there. We just have to say it. It is a C9 low
How are you doing? That's it. How did it feel to rewatch this incredible round of clown nine?
I mean, it was a great experience. Yeah, great. Yeah. Hey, that's one
Who was the gym player who like had the diffuser could have planted and then because he was scared of someone in bathroom
Went away from the diffuser then went back and and just lost around wasn't me
No, I couldn't tell you who it was. Yeah minus black plus blacks. Oh, yeah, I mean that was minus lacks plus
Flacks I was that was a crazy experience a lot of people don't know about that that one day
I mean I got dropped because I wasn't at the team house
and they needed to drop one and then I was just the solution and then all of a
sudden like a day goes by they scrimmed with a couple people and they were like
yeah let's get you back so super fun experience in my career very funny moment
I didn't really I was kind of like okay sir your dropout your back so we live
in that memory was definitely something I mean that was that was insane from
slash you know if you give if you give a pro player the right the right timing
the right 1b1 the huge mistakes make magic well speaking of magic you got
our next one, Mr. Magic Mike. Let's run his second clip.
Ma'am, all alone outside, but young, all alone on his roster, he's gonna end up picking up three kills!
Oh my god, what is that?! God! Go on, kill! Who does that?!
That was incredible back in Milan. It's sad to say that EG ended up losing that entire thing to the Canadian White Stairs incident.
I was gonna say there's two things I think of young that club and then the face he makes when it goes wrong on
Just before the white stairs
No, yeah, Jack was there. I was there. I got a picture with you actually. Yeah
It was a great event
Relatively, I think we're like I love and I lost I was wearing it the worst outfit
I've ever worn on stage true green khaki joyers with a blue lustring jersey
That was the worst possible thing and I don't know why I had like one leg showing up like this on the on the picture
I don't know what was going on Milan. Yeah, okay, and then you know left you right after that as well
Yeah, yeah got first-rounded lost to phase and then lost who know to G2. Yep. You know that Dan had joined
Team Empire now Virtus Pro literally days before yeah the week before
The stage or the season back then ended and then he went out and became the MVP of the entire tournament
Yep, in that pro league final because of his golden boy work that event to
Nope, no, that was really major
And that was I mean dad won that but there was also fours that had gotten to the semi finals
Yeah, it was a full you
After beating giants in the quarter finals again your favorite organization. You just a guy that everyone kicks
I'm just literally like, it was the stepping stone.
I was Leo always on the stage and always ready to lose.
Leo, all I'm gonna say is I'm so happy that you're here with us.
That's biting on to like the third place and there's first, second or whatever it was.
Jack, you had our third pick. Let's bring it up and see that pattern.
You have to do something. Either this gets aggressive or Vitality lose the game or potentially vote.
They're just all stuck in study right now. They can't push forward.
Ten seconds still to go.
get to kill from himself but look at all the blue filling the kill feed hungry tries to get one back
Gurg is going in the house and got to try and deny they do get it and chaos on their final game of
Regulation matches get themselves a win chaos win. Can you believe it?
Not a tie. You know what I think to say that's late because what hi three no coach play in sub and in I
I couldn't remember why the next one couldn't play that day and then the second bit is because it was beaten Fabian and I thought that was absolutely hilarious.
I mean I thought James's commentary had been the challenge.
He's got a lot better than Fabian!
Hi, Marina!
There's just two things in that entire thing that he manages to get out.
We'll see anybody with a bit of work can end up casting an SI Grand Final as Dev did with Tengu.
Well, it...
What a nice witty witty for James.
That's the right one.
If James can do it, anyone can do it, guys.
Our final clip of the evening. Let's play it.
This is an angled end. He might be able to contest.
No, unfortunately, he takes just a bit of damage here.
Owaka gets the second one. Eclipse though, will get one.
Turning it into a 2v2, 9-day push on the side.
Defendant will lose out on this.
Eclipse the last alive on the Ella.
Spock the head and take the dead.
Was that Ace for Owaka?
At least the 4k.
What? Ace, the ace for Owaka in the round.
There is the memories that were formed.
that was back when Fox did the Waka Waka Waka on the desk and what had happened is that
Waka was not able to beat Rogue. It's the first time that we had a Japanese team
actually playing at big international level. They had played a year prior earlier in 2017,
but this is the actual first time that we're seeing competitive games
out of a Japanese team which is pretty incredible. I know we all remember the olden days of the
the squad nor Ringo.
Yeah, yeah.
Not the scam part, but the actual competition,
competition part.
Yeah, we pushed past the scamming part.
But I mean, Waka was a hell of a player.
Super nice, super fun.
I mean, that entire team was extremely friendly,
always nice to see.
The Japanese Bull, Pena.
He was like superstar, content creator,
at the same time, amazing player,
Friday, pretty, pretty cool.
I can tell you, he still loves Siege with a passing.
That's for sure.
Hopefully, we get to see him.
in Osaka, we'll have them as a guest of honor,
if you ask me.
Gentlemen, thank you very much for joining me today
on this fourth episode of PrepFace.
This is actually my last episode of anything,
siege in this stage.
Next week, we'll be back for the final one of PrepFace
in this stage.
It'll be Anne in here because she's covering
everything basically.
From here till the end, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
EML starting off in just a bit,
and I'm hoping Twisted Minds don't mess it up again,
but that's on them to analyze it and talk about it.
Eric, we'll see you next, oh yeah, Eric, thanks too.
We'll see you next time.
Oh
I
And it really has been a while since I've played with the EML, hey, what's up Jack?
Can you guys film me in on what's been going on on the stage?
I mean it's pretty simple, right?
You have three different teams on the last playday that can make it two playoffs and
And those are Rebels shifters and Twisted Minds.
Let's go step by step because I know you're a little bit slow in there.
So Rebels, how many points do they have?
10 points.
Now, shifters who are playing Rebels, how many points do they have Jack?
7.
How many points do you win?
If you beat in regulation, Rebels 3 points.
So we've got Rebels on 10 points.
We've got shifters right now on 7.
If they win 3 points, then 7 plus 3 equals 10.
And so now we've got two teams on 10 points.
Now, Twisted Minds, what happens right now?
They have how many points? Seven as well.
So what's happening? We have seven prongs.
If they win, that's plus three.
They go to 10 as well.
And what does that happen?
That means that's three different teams.
I equal on points, 10 points each.
And what happens in that scenario?
Exactly three-way tie.
Got it!
day of email groups and as you two are saying of course there are eight there's a possibility for a
three-way tie for the final remaining playoffs while there is also play for today my name is Anne
I'll be your host in the studio joining me we have alphama and fresh and guys we did not communicate
this but somehow we ended up with a shade of green and something black as well how do we manage to
do this it's the green light for this that will go to playoffs that's you know we've got to think
I think ahead, you've got to think the vision, the colours.
Alright, I've got a confession. I bring five outfits every week.
You two will wear in green, so I join you.
You just ruined the illusion.
No, I'm sorry. We were already very vocal all the time.
Sorry.
It seemed like good chemistry going on here,
but I guess not. We do plan things here.
But let's dive into what happened yesterday,
because a lot happened yesterday, right?
We started with a few teams confirmed for playoffs.
Some playoffs spots were given away,
and one could have gone in the way of Rebels.
jump into the panorama and review our playday from yesterday.
By looking at the monster first, we mentioned Rebels because one player really put in an effort,
but just barely missed that on making it to play us already.
Yeah, that is Mato. Mato, the Agile and Savv, Robles went completely crazy,
especially that round with Blitz where he isolated every gunfight they needed,
especially Pospillant here. Look at how he isolates every gunfight.
He waits for the cooldown, flashes the first player, then he goes back up the stairs,
And as the cooldown is back and we hear it, boom, he flashes that player and gets the kill as well.
Jackie plays that last one to be won perfectly. Mato was crazy.
Yeah, absolutely. He was crazy for his team. His team obviously got over the line.
As you can see, team got over the line in the end. They got the win.
He's still in their hands for the playoff solo. They may, may slightly have just been disappointed,
but Mato on that blitz. That's literally a run they should watch if you ever want to be a blitz player,
because he was perfect for that. The plan, the engagements that he took,
the distance they got between your pros and the distance they closed when you need to evolve it perfectly.
Especially with how big shields are in our current meta.
We'll move on to our moment, the craziest thing that happened yesterday and saw GK make it to playoffs.
We're talking about this round from Ask a Beautiful Read on to the situation.
Yeah, I think so and he was very assertive in his decision in this moment when the new two players were off site to drop the site.
And then you fought play for LeBlanc, did get killed after you got LeBlanc,
and then asked Clutch to open the one versus two as well. Really, really good play from him.
And I think Gruby mentioned in the interview, he's really trying to find his home inside of the European seed.
He struggled with it right at the start, but right now he's playing out of his mind.
Yeah, Kikov was a bit of a struggle for him, but I think that it goes to show when you invest in a player like him of his quality and you give him enough time, eventually we'll bear fruits.
And today he might prove so. They've already made it to playoff, they make it to top four, you know, maybe.
So there are things that I think we, you know, we tend to use as an example.
I think the example of the redemption of ask from kickoff to the stage is a beautiful one that sometimes imports
They can work. Yeah, something we love to see here in the eml
But we'll pull up our schedule to transfer into the must see and kind of start preparing ourselves for our big day ahead
Now there's one match. I want you to focus on that is the match
Which could be a straight shootout for the final spot. We're talking about rebels going up against you
Yeah, it's shown on the graphic there second game of the day Rebels against shifters more or less a straight shoot out for the
playoffs between these two teams. And I think yes, there's a couple of limitations that
might change that. But both of these teams, it technically is in both of their hands.
Rebels, they get a point, they're through. Shifters, they get a dominant, dominant victory
there through into the playoffs as well.
And the Fartham's VP game, which is a very interesting one in my head, because we finally
get to see if VP can actually contend with the very top at EML. Yesterday, them losing
to G2 was a first question mark. Today, they can prove that it was just one mistake, and
they actually can take some of the biggest teams now, and they're ready to break that
So that's what I'm looking for.
Well you mentioned some permutations for the possible scenarios for today.
For that I would like to see our standings so we can have a crunch at the numbers like you two were doing earlier with Miloš.
And have a look at where we find ourselves right now, right?
Given the numbers, given the possible scenarios that we have.
Yeah, we'll do it properly this time and we won't joke around either.
And I think it's important to note realistically is that we've got a lot of teams come from the playoffs, five out of the six teams come from the playoffs.
So that's the big thing to know, but it's very, very dominant in G2, VP, they're up there at the top of the lead.
And then you've got various pervitations going all the way down to Twisted Minds.
Peritix and Seeker, unfortunately for them, are out of contention, Leo.
Yeah, so now if we look at the two races that happened today, basically, we have two races coming out.
We have A, a first race that is about making it to top four, and B, the race about making it to the playoffs.
The first one is if we look at the top four right now, we look at three different teams here on this graphic
They can make it to the top four why is that important important because they will make it to the upper bracket of the playoffs
And so three teams Jack, can you tell me what's gonna happen?
How can they make up for between Falcons geeky and fnatic?
Of course I can Leo this one is a little bit complicated as well
So if we look at the different permutations for top four, you'll notice that Falcons geeky and fnatic
They all play separate opponents and what that creates is a scenario
So, basically, where Falcons are set in third place, if they get a point or if they don't get a point,
they actually can have massive implications on GK or Fnatic, GK play their game of a secret, Fnatic play against G2,
and those different situations can all apply for their games, Liam.
Yeah, now, looking at obviously the rest of the race, we're going to have the playoffs race, and this one is the most important one.
For teams that have struggled throughout the rest of the stage, they are trying to grasp that chance of maybe making EWC,
And it's three different teams. We've talked about them a little bit, and it has to be Rebels, Shifters, Twisted Minds, all three kind of trying to fight it off as Rebels and Shifters are going to play each other.
Twisted Minds obviously have a different game. Very important, all within 3 points, Jack. So who's making it?
Yeah, this one's a lot simpler. And the reason that this one's a lot simpler is because Rebels are playing up against Shifters and then Twisted Minds play afterwards.
So if we bring up and show the flowchart for the top six, we can actually see that actually
should Rebels get any point, they will qualify for the top six. If shifters win in regulation,
and it's 7-0 or 7-1 or 7-2, they will qualify for the top six. If not, if they win 7-3 or better,
they open the door for Twisting Minds to put on a performance and get their victory.
And there's an outside chance that their thoughts with Twisting Minds could qualify.
It is. Yeah, there's still a lot to play for as we said. I like this flowchart as well because
really helps you understand. Okay, what happens, what possible scenarios will be the outcome of that,
and it helps us understand what's going to go on because I'm not too good with numbers,
but there is still a lot of numbers involved today in our matches. But we will dive into the top
four a little bit more because I think you already mentioned it right, and the teams that are part
of that, we made a beautiful graphic for that as well to kind of understand there's a lot of different
outcomes and a lot of different scenarios, but what does it mean for these? So because there's
three teams there's a lot going on and you can get into all kind of weird and
wonderful round difference scenarios but the top and bottom of this is the
Falcons reach six rounds or not because if Falcons reach six rounds they're
confirmed so if you're a Falcons fan all they need is six rounds but they can be
confirmed with other permutations so I think it's worth taking a screenshot
coming back to this as and when it happens but realistically GK basically
need a win to confirm if not they open the door for Fnatic however there's
various permutations because they are all very close on points and very close
on-round differential as well. So overtime, come into play, tie breaks come into play, heads come into play as well.
And so as a reminder, Falcons, they play VP. They played a very strong opponent today,
so it's not a given that Falcons reaches these rounds. Whether it was against any other team,
I would have said, yeah, maybe possible, but against VP, it's a huge challenge. And so there might be a world in which Falcons
not only are not that dominant team in the ML anymore, but on top of that, they barely make playoffs,
and they're not even top four, and that would be a world in which obviously they lose to VP, and then you see Fnatic and
and GK overtake them, that would go crazy.
Well, I feel my pulse are in to rise
with the way we're talking about these games
and the possible outcomes from it though.
I mean, making top four is big, right?
Cause you start in the upper bracket,
you have this extra life of making it to an international event.
So that's big for these teams,
but given that Falcons play such a difficult opponent later,
if we focus on our first game where we have GK,
they might be at the driver's seat,
making it to top four, playing against Secret here,
arguably an easier opponent,
given the track run that Secret have had so far.
you're going to get a lot of
money. You're going to get
a lot of money. Yeah, they
absolutely are. So if you
get back, you probably look to
that graphic and you thought,
Hey, that's that's crazy. There's
so many permutations. If you're
on the boat about that team, it
is very, very simple because
I've got the permutations for
the GK. If they win, if they
get any when they will make top
four, and that will put them one
game away from either. You say
should they win that upper
bracket game if they end up
losing over tea, you can see
the permutations if they then
go on to losing regulation.
compound. Essentially, we consider that GK and Fnatic are more or less in the head-to-head
and GK basically just need Fnatic to do what are for them today, is ultimately the top
and bottom of that.
Then GK, they have a very different form, they have a 5-win streak coming on, they're
playing against the worst team in the league so far, so like there are multiple things
that put them in drivership, they also have one more point than Fnatic, so right now they
really have their fate in their hands. And for GK to confirm top 4 in EML, I think that
would be massive, because it's not only for them a huge comeback from Kikov, but on top
of that. It's the proof that all the three research
that they made were worth it because on paper, the four in
the ML means maybe top four to qualify to WC.
Yeah, that is huge for four days players and for this team as
well. You talked about that win streak, the momentum that they
have going on. We saw yesterday as well, very good strategic
play against Mr. Mines. I knew exactly what Mr. Mines were
going to do.
Yeah, I think that's the thing. We're seeing the synergy
coming together. We're seeing the vision come together, their
game plan to come together. And actually, I've got a clip I
want the viewers to listen fast, because starts call something
A lot of things that Geek K are now getting right.
When you're in that form, you're in that momentum,
all of these things start working for you.
That was a big reason why they confirmed players yesterday.
What's beautiful is that usually you get to that point
when your fundamentals are there.
Because that's when your base is clear.
When all the strategic default strat are there,
that's when you can add on top the small counter plays.
And that's beautiful to see from Geek K
because as a reminder, three roster changes.
Like it's a team that was put together
only a couple of weeks ago.
For their opponents, those basics aren't just there yet.
I mean, even Twister alluded to it earlier on
the stage, Siegfried having a really rough time, having made so many roster changes and
we already know this is going to be their last match in this stage as they won't progress
to the playoffs.
So all that stuff for them to do really is to play doubles out for good, maybe?
Yeah, it is trying to, I guess, use the experience that they can in the spirit of, okay guys,
we're a few weeks now, maybe more than a month actually away from EWC.
This is our last official playday, like let's try and get as much from it as possible.
And as we said, I think it's a huge disappointment, even though this was supposed to be a stage where they were rebuilding, where they were training a lot in anticipation for AWC,
they were supposed to make playoff, because there are some points at stake, because there's more at stake than just AWC.
Yeah, I think so, and I think it's important for them to go out on an official, on a good note, I think, because that's the last thing that will be lingering in their mind the next time they step into an official,
which will be at a LAN event, which will be in Paris in, you know, in a month or so's time.
and I think the guy who's screened that mogul I think he's very very important to this roster
He has his ups and downs
I think maybe got a little bit exposed yesterday
But he needs to you know maybe rain that in a little bit become the top player be the top player that we know
He is maybe not take so many risks because I think a little bit yesterday
He was potentially a little bit of a liability to this team as you already noticed going to be their final match
Let's show off that final battlegrounds as well then for secret see where this match will take place
But it's a fortress. Yeah, and this one is gonna favor DK a lot in my opinion because they almost be G2 on the map
G2 is one of the best fortress team in the world
And it went all the way to have a time against DK however for secrets on top of that they played it twice this stage
They got 7-0 by Falcons and they lost 7-4 to Twisted Minds
So clearly there is one favorite here. Do you know what? I like this for DK as well
Actually is the last two months that they will play yesterday they played Nighthaven
which is where they corrected their cost,
they cost corrected their attacks
when they played it up against Heretics,
it was when they played that game.
Now they're going back to Fortress,
which was very similar.
This is the map that they got to six rounds on against G2,
and then ultimately, you know, struggled
and ended up losing the game.
So their cost correction on that, heading into playoff,
showing that two of your weak maps,
and now strong maps for you,
is a very strong position to be in.
And of course, we've just seen Saksa.
He's got a different shirt.
He's flexing his collection.
He's flexing his collection.
Look at that.
I hope they would have worked out yesterday
I hope my numbers. Yeah, I
think we're going to give him
a little bit of a break and
throw it over to YouTube for
the first game of the day. Thank
you very much. Wonderful team
first game of the day.
Thank you very much.
Wonderful team.
And now we get to travel all
the way to wherever Fortress
is.
Fill me in, buddy.
We find ourselves on this
the final playday of the best
ones of League of well
opportunity.
Fortunately, secrets only
opportunity here demo.
Not be the worst in the League.
Not really a credit you want to
to be fighting for the final
day. Probably when you'd be
happy to have. Yeah, I think
you just plan for a bit of
pride now is that for team
secret. Obviously this is not
went to plan with this new
roster. They've really
struggled. I will say, though
that I think the second half
they've looked a lot better
compared to the first four
playdays was really immeasurable.
I thought from team secret
completely wrong. We've seen
They actually will get a win in the mix of that. And I do think that they have had some comparative gains
Well, I think that's the sort of split right is let's be honest
It's the team in turmoil coming in towards the split and coming in towards this year, right you
You would look at it as a new viewer
You'd be like how is this team for them so far and you're like oh because the team is entirely different. It's you know the same packaging
different insides and
I mean, I mean, I mean, it's
really, really, really, really
trying to get rid of that. And
it's the opposite of GK. I think
who I mean, credit to groovy
being like, Yeah, I'll be back
tomorrow. I'll be back tomorrow.
He's proving that really, really
right demo for a team that's
also sort of all that's gone
through a rebuild. They have
come out swinging at the back
after this. Yeah, kind of look
at super. We as always a good
better. You're able to take nine points in that week. You're also able to beat a really top side
in Falcons as we know. So I think GK, they've proven that they can run with some of those
big teams that we always look at in towards that top four. And really good opportunity for them
to cement themselves as a top four side. So will they be able to get themselves that accreditation
They'll be able to get themselves locked in as a top four and so preciously only be able to get themselves that extra lifeline
That is really what they're playing for here right now
We have to get themselves third and fourth means that they'll fine be here in the upper bracket starting off against either G2 or
Virtus Pro, but fine they'll be in the upper bracket. They'll get that extra lifeline
They'll get that extra chance to just sort of get themselves warmed up
Into what's best of three which is a highly different beast and who knows
Maybe they can even pull off a little bit of magic.
Those teams, I'm sure one of them might be unbeaten and the other one only beaten by the other one,
but still, teams are there to be beaten.
Let's start here, a bit of a trade of hands, Flexi.
There's a drop down in the black beard, and at least they can scratch somewhere.
I actually know it quite quick in underneath the stairs,
as Flexi takes a lot of damage from the drop,
and you're reading those rules to Deimos,
but they can just pop their way back in,
in fact the Deimos almost got cooked out there,
that was blind, found in the fire itself and almost flumbed Bade because of it, GK's been
able to sort of hold them off on the drop and that's a lot of damage, just getting in
the building and even then barely.
Yeah, you can see that GK hard bit the shields as they ban two of them away from GK which
does force flexi into the blackbeard and again towards the tower side it's just not working
for team secret as they've been slaughtered by grubby. He was really being on fire over the past
few play days for GK and this is just going to be a clean sweep inside the first round team secret.
I've went for that clear coming in from old tower but you can see the traps, there's goya flames too,
everything that they needed to slow down that shield that pivotal kind of operate that we look at.
We're being a big heartbeat for secret and these clears
Just not gonna work for them and for drills now just the case of how many will he take with them?
The minute left he's gonna go up sorts gives himself up and sword is yoga
Now this is where GK just in your hands. Yeah at this point right? He's still gonna get in towards horse
Got no more utility outside of a single Selma. They have shotguns. They have slug guns and they have groovy
I think they should be able to just keep this off because think about the like anywhere that you're having yourself as an
Anyway, you're having yourself as a routine
It's going to have a crossfire and well there is that immediate cross fire the first round
Because GK they held pretty firm and the fact that they sort of got themselves into the five-versus-one position
There was barely a scratch inside the building
that's what they want to do.
They're able to do that. Really
well. So yeah, very poor attempt
from team secret. Need to try
and get a little bit more
on the side of GK wait for of course that Blackbeard. That's what they wanted to target. They're able to do that really well
So yeah, very poor attempt from team secret
Need to try and get a little bit more creative than that
Oh spit Jarny's he goes to grubby scam and he's got the team secret chair behind them play it against team secret
Look, players have journeys.
Yeah.
And if you go on a free chat, would you get rid of it?
No, of course not.
It was silly.
You know?
Unless my org was like, you gotta, we're replacing that chat.
I'm keeping the chat.
Yeah, as long as they give a new chat, no problem.
Yeah!
Like.
It's great to see the sort of expectation of players and I guess kind of eye on how it's going to carry on towards the best threes because he's a player that has at times sort of international stages struggled when you sort of get into the mix there.
the mix up. I think probably he's certainly an up-and-down career. There has been moments
where things haven't worked for him, but it's been fantastic, for example. But certainly
with GK, things are going really well for him and he has really had a good stride so
far in this stage. And right now he is leading the way for his side. It's a very early trade
within the first minute, Mowgli. People take down Ask, but Ask is still able. Well, it's
little bit something gets no one. Now hopefully, we'll see if we can try and fight a second,
but there it is, that man that we just mentioned grubby with another one. And once more,
Team Secret's just getting absolutely obliterated flexi on the Blackbeard. How do you lose that?
You have a shield, keep it in your face, but now, GK once again, stopping that initial attack
from Secret, and Secret just relying on clutch players now. Wow, both of them pretty bruised and
In fact, one of them, a little bit beyond, has never a loop from the round, leaving just...
Drills left, a four versus one.
At this point it would just feel like a bit of a pity kill, obviously without the two
shields they can't quite get themselves a route through, but Groobie doesn't even want
to give them any more, yes!
Shot across the desk, who's to blame?
I dunno, but a timeout might be called soon.
I mean obviously for secret we've seen this before we've played this video on quite a
number of play days where they just don't look in it it looks very limp I think it's
very predictable what they're trying to do obviously for GK they're aware that pretty
much all secret can do is play off a shield and that's it I don't know I think I think
the side of secret. They need to try and think of something else. Is playing it too basic, is obviously not working for them.
It's always the sort of
question of pressure. I think it's a fair one. Right, when you get into this final play day, when in effect
secrets, split is over. It's done. They can just sort of sit and watch. They're not going to qualify for anything.
They're looking at the hopes and dreams and the prospect of building further forward fine, but that's fine
Here on the map that can be a bit heavy that can be the flow
You're up against the team that has the other side of pressure where they've qualified fine
But they're still in that sort of upswing right there on a great track record recently if wins
And they want to keep going at pushing
It does feel like
As you said that there's some sort of structural differences here doesn't feel like they're pushing as hard if that makes sense from secret
We've seen them have better fight on the day. We've seen them fight again
I mean they almost took it from VP right if you played it together covered
This since that play day since they sort of bought their way and then lost and then suffered
Just feeling like the foot is off the gas a little
see if somebody can set that for secret they have entirely dropped the shield
approach blackbeard not being chosen by flex instead he's gonna hop on solid
snake see if he can gather some information all clear as how it goes but
soon as he gets that alert I'll know who they're after and what they're hunting
I mean, for GK, he's scattered though, wouldn't say that they're necessarily playing together.
I mean, look at Ask, he's just kind of off on his own.
He'll be drawn down, and now he has to fall back, so nobody wanting to hold in towards
that top floor.
GK happy enough to give control of top floor over.
Seems like Robbie actually went for a bit of a wander there on the smoke, was able to
pick up mobility, but that's still a smoke bomb without burning any time away.
Yeah.
It's probably fine. You know, he's 8 and 1 now.
He was probably feeling a bit invincible, but it's a trade kill.
Very important though. It's something that they otherwise wouldn't believe
and don't get themselves looked at.
Yeah, we've had three opening kills in a row.
Fine, but this has had an immediate response.
This has had a question that's going to double down,
and he looked at the previous two rounds.
It's a 3k from Ruby. It's a 4k from Ruby.
Now, just one, but now it's down to, oh no, ask.
Here's the man who sort of sealed the final round. Last time had an absolutely
thrilling day. He's about to be surrounded by the two remaining players.
Oskar is just sort of stat watching, wasting and always instinctively trying to
re-empt the fight, lean in. Change the mould of what they think is gonna happen.
There's stun support that's coming around, but you talk about buying time. You talk about gadget
and wasting it. The key was getting him stung. U-Port tried to save the man inside the medical
room but I thought he was put to sleep. There's the swing round. It's going to be a very narrow
firefight. He didn't actually save the man at first but he gets the last.
I'll be a timeout. Totally. Just think for secret.
It kind of, it feels as if they are losing the round before they can even think about
attacking the bomb site.
They are at a massive disadvantage every time we hit the final minute.
Even if we get to the final minute.
There's no structure right now for Team Secret, it just feels like everyone is trying to do
their own thing and that's it.
And then they're losing these individual engagements
It just feels like that those first two weeks again for Team Secret just nothing to look at everything's going wrong
Yeah
It's tough and you do worry if it's sort of a
sense of phantasm about it
No time out
No conversation if anything that might be the giveaway that they're sort of just going through the motions
Well, it's still a game of three halves there's still chance to sort of rally
Obviously we don't get the benefit of being in the comms we come really here this sort of stuff
We can only make estimations based on how we've seen this team play this split. This isn't us just sort of
being like oh
Lowering the board, blah blah blah.
This is a team that has some really great moments of fire and spark and they could still ignite.
They gotta do it soon here.
This is an attempt to drop an opposite end with a sort of black beard.
The damage has gone at this point, it was an attempt to part of that push, but they're not going to do the same thing either way.
Instead, play the chance of the glass and smoke so you can sort of drive your way in.
get a snake on that body of your field.
There's a lot of gadgetry, obviously we saw the Denari sort of in the final throw to the
previous round here.
It seems like a horse based approach this time round.
Can I actually get rid of some of this artillery to sort of help them outside at the very end.
Any attracts?
Once more for GK.
T-Sarks has got his Denari's primed and ready inside a horse.
Also a shield.
Give him a little bit more safety.
Again, it is this extension of GK over towards Bunkz.
No shield being brought in by Secret instead.
The wild card pick is going to be flexy on that blast.
Asuka, quite a few smokes as well from Oscar too.
So four smoke canisters, and it's going to use his first one to try and drop him in towards Old Tower.
I need to rotate Yago over, I think, for GK.
If they realize they're smoking out, it's probably going to be a blast.
Then he'd try and get a bit of that counterplay moving.
because he's very swiftly grubby, happy enough to fall back, give up control of the tower,
just goes back in towards meeting, so for GK, not wanting to risk it or take any chances,
they're actually going to reinforce up Meet and Wall 2. At least for Secret, they have got some
form of foothold, and well, there's a turn now for Secret as they have got the opening pick for
for the first time in the game.
Loading magazine.
Well, what can they make of it?
What becomes the end of all? What becomes the drive?
I may have heard that there was actually an attempt to call a timeout by secret just before,
but unfortunately they called it a bit too late.
So they actually intended to have the timeout earlier, which is good.
it shows that, you know, I think nothing about it was enough that we were talking about it, so
maybe they'll be able to pull it off the back like this, but it's flexi gets double, you
port does fine one in and amongst the mix of it. Moghi has gone down, it's a technical three
versus two as they get finished off, but flexi picks up the glass, picks up the secondary and
picks up three bodies for the round and is also gonna pick up some plant points by the looks of
it now wait you could really stop this it's being held I cross fight and as us
Chris
galing at C4 at the top the point quite get the body the drill show gets his
one they have around demo they have a bit of hope
I wonder if they're gonna call the time out I mean they just don't they've
cancelled the time out yeah I was thinking that I see you don't really
I call it now things have looked in the open up. You've got around on the board and
I have to highlight that playing towards horse. That's a lot better from team secret. Yeah working together
Should see on the highlights. Obviously the opening pick I think is always going to help them out
But it's using that smoke playing together forcing to in free horse
And see the guy who can only look one way so you will get that trade which was very important
I'm really good timing on the player inside of bathroom.
That's because the bathroom guy was so preoccupied with everything going on inside of me because
the attack at the same time they went together.
So will we get that five?
As I said, it's always the possibility with this team.
It's always been.
It's a rough split for them, but it's one of those sort of things where if you look through
some of the individual rounds, the individual moments, the scores as weird as it is to say
aren't as bad as they look like they are, right? It's that sort of deficit. If they've
not been playing horrendously, they've not sort of been absolutely blindsided by the
games. They just haven't been able to find a rhythm, whereas a lot of other teams this
split have. But here, they can try and pull themselves a second one towards this split.
They can try and get themselves just a little bit extra of a balance, I mean, not too round
towards your attack on this map, but a map that has seen a decent amount of play, rather
or less in fact, it is the top play map for the league so far.
Generally has about a 58% defensive win rate, being able to put pressure on towards that
is obviously what they're trying to find, but to get the benefit of that is the latter
half of their game.
Oh, yoga.
There's a boisterous peak, but it works out for him.
Fine's flexy, so the value that you could get out of those drones is
going to be null and void, and oh no, that's really bad timing for Oscar, but
Flag Flag I think has worked for him, but he's trying to crawl through it,
and Oscar just says, hello!
Catches him out, I mean Oscar!
What was that all about? I mean, I don't really know.
And somehow, Grylls is in the site.
Well, what can I try and make of it though? There's a little bit of keep away from the far side.
Doesn't matter how deep these two are, sort of putting the pressure on towards it.
If they cannot really get that kit, if they cannot get the cells safely in, well, they've got to try and find at least a kill or two for the trouble.
There's a little bit of dodge and weave either way, but unfortunately, anyone weaving right now is groovy.
Well, that mode just spins on the thigh, and I'll just get some self-estackin'.
As the fear goes down, it leaves him...
just outside at the breach.
Now, U-Port is also down.
And he's within the crossfire, right? What do you do here?
Yeah.
And then he's radically through. Can't...
It gets them. At least it's there now.
They take their time out here, or do they hold it?
Place your bets.
I mean, do you use it now? You've only got one attack left?
Yeah. And I think that's also the question that you have.
But the way it's going, they don't call it now, are they going to get an opportunity?
What do you wait until it's 6-1? It's, uh, kind of a weird one, certainly with
secret. In this attack, scattershot, if anything,
I mean you have players try it's the same thing as what I mentioned in the first three rounds
But players all try to do their own thing
You know Oscar by himself towards tower
No, there's one thing
It's it's just not working in conjunction the only bit of team play we seen was probably drills and mogul a trying to work
Up the breach, but you need other people a need more
team mates around you because you're essentially walking in to a freeway
crossfire you can get swung from the bunk store it was me you've got the
head holes inside of games a lot of angles that you have to check and you
still have manpower to do that
I'm fine around I'm fine with swinging on the wall
getting themselves a bit of a blinder as a line up here get themselves the sense
in get the kind of looking off and I'm wondering if they might try and do
something a bit direct right now if you've seen the previous round you put it
well. Oh! Flexi's in the site. It becomes that element of what they build behind it, as you said.
Sort of solo play isn't really working. Going wide isn't really working, so maybe a little bit more
of a spear driven straight towards the heart. They've obviously still got the ram to get the
control of the virtual cavity. They've still got the chance to do it, but curious if they try and
congeal a little bit closer together. The destruction of any utility on the other side of
if that door gives themselves a little bit more of a avenue later, and the surprise tool
may pop up for now. It also plays into, I guess, that ban of no Goyo. I think Goyo's
obviously one of the, if not the best, operator to stop a quick rush onto a site. You can
just have that on, you know, one or two choice places, and you've bought yourself 20 seconds.
It's going to be clear, we're using big heavy hand utility operators but as we learned the
last time, GK are happy enough to kind of forfeit that top floor control.
They're not too fussed about if Secret want to move in and do the vertical work, they've
got other areas that they can fortify in towards that first floor, they're happy enough to
extend in towards a man, dining for example to plenty of safe positions.
So, four secret, yes they have the top floor control, but it all comes down to how they can handle.
More than likely, the retake I think from GK, they don't have any flight protection, which is probably the only way you would have.
You know for a fact that GK are gonna be looking for those gats, you're gonna be looking to try and go for those slints.
But it just depends on how secret they want to go about me, so they could try and go fast here and come for the planting.
This could be potential for them, they're crapping other than the Setswolds right now.
And it's white team who we need to keep an eye on.
He has the Buzzer. Where's he gonna go?
All ten players still standing and Yoha is almost breaking that.
It's a shame to get in themselves, but sort of stretched inside the site.
It's a stand they're happy to give up that top floor.
And they have a single C4 to try and play against it.
Potentially a very sneaky tricky.
Or Razor Gloom.
Both of them C4 rip, we're going to no avail.
There's a bit of damage done.
Oscar's able to find one. They're dropping behind the sense ball itself and sweeping their way. There's a man
close around to the side. In the meantime, he slipped himself back to a bit more of a
pressure point here and held tight. And they're trying to get the plant in. There is Flexi making
the move. Now at this point, GK needs to try and bite their way back in, but it's traded.
By backing him forth, the kit gets caught out, and there's Oscar catching one ball for the trouble
that's moving. It's one and two! Does find themselves now, and the one versus one, but five
to go for the fire. It's
Deagle's a dawn demo. And it's
something that G K locked down
ask most of his kills within
that site play those two rooms.
And after that, well, let's see
what our studio think. Thank
very much. Yeah. So my great
was from asset. He really is a
star player inside this much
alongside groupie already
I think so far, it's nothing too surprising.
I think we expected DK to be dominating this matchup,
especially starting with defense,
and really highlighting the gaps in the attacks
on the side of secret.
As you can see here, when they get aggressive,
first and foremost, it's Groovy getting crazy
and getting a triple killed in the first round,
in the second round, and then he asks,
and it's the two of them.
The most important thing to me is whether it is flanking,
whether it is designing at some point,
they're gonna fight on the room.
Whether it is giving up the room
and then fighting all the way the execute,
We've seen throughout every single stage of these rounds, Jack,
a moment where it's GK that decides when they want to play, when they want to get aggressive,
and they do so together, and it's Grubian-ass getting multi-killed.
So, often from time to time, but I really like you, Leo, especially when you take points for what I'm going to make.
I was going to say, the one thing that I've really found good about this, half in particular,
the one thing I've really enjoyed, is the timing of when GK again versus when they're taking Meringue.
Wow.
It's always on their time, even when teams secret ourselves from XQ,
They know when to get aggressive, when to find those engagements, and then you can see the fruits of their labour there.
Ask Groobie, both of them in one half of Rainbow Six Siege, 71% cost, both of them hitting the double digits from high KPR scores.
They're absolutely just controlling every round it feels like, and these two are profit and the cost of it.
22 kills in six rounds. They're just trying to do the massive math in my head.
Freaking a bit per round. Combined.
Yeah, that's insane. They're killing more than half of the opposing team every round on Everett.
Yeah, that's right. Yeah. That's insane.
Yeah, that's bizarre to think of, but they're playing with a clear objective in their mind.
I mean, the top four will lock them in with an extra life in playoffs.
Yeah, yeah. So just to reiterate the stakes here is that GK needed to win.
Any win will lock them into top four, which will get them one step closer of their goals for achieving the WC.
If you're in the upper bracket, you get to play the upper bracket game. You win that, you are qualified.
And I think for Gike even if they were to lose, they needed the best loss possible without being over time lost.
And even if it was a regulation loss, their worst case now right now is a 7-5 loss.
So they're putting themselves in a great step.
Only two rounds to win in attack and I think this will be a great test to see Gike win back that map.
Because last time we saw them play it, it was against G2.
They struggled a little bit in attacks, which has become such a good site for them now.
So it will be a very good thing to see them playing a weaker opponent
and especially showing all the experience that basically accumulated throughout five wins.
Now, she's had a very, very small nerf as Dokka base, so she came out and got reworked,
but if you remember all the way back to the GK against G2 game, how were they found the success?
It was on the back of the Dokka base. It has pretty much been palaband against GK once they've got
on the attack. This time, however, Team Secret have decided to let it through. That means Blitz,
Solid Snake, Grim, Dokka B, all of them up and down.
Wow, there's so much to play with on the attacks here and only two of our rounds!
to stop GK from making it in the top four. Can they do it? Let's find out.
What was that? The last thing that Leo just said there? Grim, solid snake, blitz, all open for them.
Oh, what do we have currently? Although one of them's just been changed towards Flores in the
bottom left. There is a lot for GK to play with here, damn. I would say cheese operators.
And do you think this one's going to work out? I don't think there's so much more cheese. Just a
It's a lot of information that you can gather.
You've got the trifecta open, you've got solid state,
you've got the demos, and also Dokobie,
if they want to go for it.
So for GK, information should be no issues at all.
For secret, more fear in the fast, aggressive ways
that you can get yourself into the map.
Because again, I think sometimes
from the top floor bomb sites,
dropping into old tower, dropping into construction
can be difficult.
So that's where your yings and your glasses
be very very valuable because it just makes life easier just drop and shoot away don't have to worry
about somebody holding the angle you push them off that angle with your uterine
now i talked about how you can be direct in direction
and they seem to be eyeing up a set of stairs here which is shield is perfect for clearing
and with the chance the C4 can be low over the top they've only got one to try and work
even in a smoke of oscars going to see how much time they can actually buy themselves but the
The earlier they put this pressure on, from the damage and from the blitz,
the earlier they can draw all of this away from them.
It's the imminent's already gone, but it's a bit of a bam-off.
To get you way inside the start, get the first foot in, you can see that they want to bait
either another smoke or...
either another spot there, there's the...
Ooh, taken out!
Well, that's slightly quicker here, the grenade was bounced round and missed the barbed wire.
Hopefully put the pressure on towards the player and the smoke is just out of there.
He can play this game slightly further afield and well, they're slowly gonna reveal that maybe somebody is in holding this position
But without the drone still gonna be another 20 seconds of shoulder-checking
That's the driver very tough position. I think without
Well for secret they do buy first up and goes grubby a really good
That Mowgli has been able to find Oscar just needs to be careful here
but the team are rallying around them,
G-dras is with another, and here comes the Blitz Jogger though,
not gonna make that a kill.
Zaskar just about got through the rotating time,
so now for GK, yes they've got control,
but they're losing man by the second here.
You pour over the shoulder of the shield,
they're able to find one,
but you can see the secret of just swarming and encircling them.
Very, very well played there,
they sort of baited them into the pressure,
they had to swing the combo,
you could see it on the sort of shoulder of the smoke,
just through the outlines that they were going to move in
in as soon as that third smoke and a stone picked off one player. The Deimos wasn't able
to react. They weren't able to get the trade. And since then, they just never really let
that wall down. They made sure everything was responsive as a team. Great first round.
Great first hold from them. Yeah, really good from secret. They knew straight away what
GK we're going to go for, wanting to force the fights up in through the Eagle Stairs,
in the smokes early, give them a breathing room, Oscar does well with getting himself
out of that position. And then for secret, they start winning engagements that they maybe
didn't do previously. You know, Mowgli appeared for that opening pick, slows down Grubby,
a player that you want to try and target, take him off the boards, drills up them with
another one. They were very quick to react secret. As soon as they knew what GK were
going for, everyone rallied around Oscar and made sure that Oscar was going to feel safe.
We're gonna have people covering from the keyholes inside the bedroom.
Stop anyone pushing in through the tower.
So yeah, for secrets, it's a good start.
You need quite a few more of those rounds though.
Still a very healthy lead right now for GK.
At this, you're still looking towards that tertiary, aren't you, though?
You're looking towards the idea of finding, sort of, you know, getting the control here
on the top.
find success on one of these two but that tertiary sight, that's where things get a bit
skinny, a bit dangerous for the hold itself. Obviously when you're looking at a decent
defensive ground, when it's sort of up there, it's kind of in the middle, 78%, it finds
itself looking rough overall of the pool in this region, but it has quite a lot of plants
on it. It's something where the objective, if anything, is being able to sort of play
driven and at this, maybe that split is going to be something that costs, oh my god, asking
groovy they're 22 and 5 between the pair of them the rest of the team aren't
and this becomes that team game right if this is an objective so we've driven
back that's when you sort of need to have a bit more of that five-sided swing
that we've seen from secret build up throughout this now
these guys try to lead in a fight it's actually yoga get the open out there
It goes more than one ready
Hold on
More of a slower play ground here from GK
It's gonna take their time use the util operators
Get themselves into positions that needed to go back room in there and for you poor tried to play off that grim
but
Actually, it's called out. I believe I've ever barbed wire which actually gave his position when Oscar able to take him down
But for GK they are just a fortune their hand
And moving all the way in towards me and asking them absolute tear drills to serve with the kill.
But it's too little too late.
And Grubby, the other man they need to worry about, gets the final kill.
Asking Grubby, running rings around them.
Yeah, okay, remember when I just started that point being like, maybe you'll five me to...
No, no, no. I was wrong.
Just send the two of them in.
They're 22 to 5, 6 now.
Well, it's just, what can you do when these two are playing this well?
It's not just been today, obviously the pair of them have really had an absolute storm
at the end of the season.
Gribby is from the start of this play, they're the fourth best rated player inside EML.
Asked the 12th best rated player.
Let's go!
Nice one.
Oh, that's two, that's two.
While we are forced.
Six-two.
Six-two and only a single round.
Now separates GK from getting themselves cemented
in the top four.
Getting themselves that body and this much momentum
into their favour.
Oh, they are going to be eager for those best of threes.
of threes. Back end half that they've had, right fine. They open up first playday, 6-8
lost towards G2, 7-2 lost towards Fnatic, probably had people a little bit worried,
and then the 7-4 to Virtus.pro and you're like, okay, how's this season going to go?
And then 8-6 to Heretics, and you're like, maybe not well. But since playday 5, just
better, better, better, better.
Well, here we go.
Actually, the final round of our first match up here in our final playday.
Before we head into, of course, the, almost to the knockout stages, is that a little bit too, is that football fever getting to me there, knockout stage, you don't use that too much.
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What's this?
It's gonna be here for GK.
That's gonna be an early death.
Dan goes, ask, flexi.
Ooh, he'll catch him out.
actually jumped in through the window very early on. It's not often that you see a solid
snake get caught out like that. Don't know if Flexi could be just decided to challenge
it nonetheless. But yeah, not a great start for GK. They've lost their solid snake and
one of their two top performers is gone. Maybe it's the second one wants to try and go into
the same place and he's going to go for it. But Flexi now with two. He after referred though.
Robbie is waiting for the Z2 and flecks him right into the crosshairs.
And yeah, it's just not great.
Again, Team Secret, they had a really good lead and GKVN was squaring up.
Three players a piece.
Oh.
By himself.
Just a second of safety, but he's waiting for some support to come through.
And there it is, Groobie.
Gets onto a task, gets a bit of drills, finds one, and Noah gets Groobie now, you poor.
In a one versus two.
Got Naurin drills to try and peel his way through and I'll trip away to do it.
I'll make some of this whole a bit more awkward this.
Oh!
Nothing more awkward than that.
Court, clean off.
Well, still fighting.
Still in it.
at least for now. Team Secret able to win out on that bomb site.
But now there are crossers where do they go back into their bathroom site,
which I think obviously for GK, I'll be thinking, okay, we kind of seen what they
set up the last time. We can try and learn from that. Or do they try and maybe go
downstairs? It looks like it's going to be the bathroom site that they're going to
walk in so for GK they've attacked it before to see if they can adapt to it
maybe change things up last time they went very direct coming in from Eagle
stairs we'll see if they change it up and grubbing that F2 is just I mean both of
them in the F2s
now I don't want to say that the divide of the team is getting wider
group you'd ask now but the pair of them they're close to 30 kills as a duo the
rest of the team haven't broken in stuff they're taking pictures they're on the
they're on a tour yeah it's I'm trying to think about the games that might have
had a deal I don't know and never really wanted the game to extend a bit so far they can get
Sarkz is basically that, you know, that Will Smith meme where he's taking pictures from fresh bits of L.A.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what Sarkz is doing. Just there.
Enjoying the journey?
Look, is it a foolproof method to beat teams in the wild? No.
Is it great to have on the day? Oh, you betcha.
You know?
Same point, obviously.
Obviously, generally things are capped free even as a double player is a little bit south of the border in terms of getting themselves on a positive KD.
Mowgli and Oskar, he's trying to pull themselves up a bit.
But otherwise, you know, Mowgli is sort of in that IGL role a new sort of roster, a new team, a new build project.
You know how vocal he can be, but I think it's one of the things where, you know, how many rosters...
He's going to keep that MG around, and I'll find it's very jammed pretty quick, because
they're just trying to get at themselves pressure across the top floor and in towards games.
There are nobodies dead yet, so certainly one of our more slower rounds that we've had.
I think the opening kill has kind of been hit within that first minute or so.
GK.
Gonna do their due diligence here on their drone work.
See what they can find out. I can only assume that they're gonna try and target in towards horse.
They assume where Yaga is kind of lingering with that dose.
They'll be great at dealing with a player in a tricky position. Of course, that being horse.
So we'll see.
Team Secret can try and go against that.
Sartre's opening pick. Finds Oscar the smoke.
smoke. One table of fire out, one, oh no, secret now, get a little bit desperate looking
for kills and is backfired on the massively.
U4 makes that divide two players of a difference and then there's a minute left. So no remotely
and V-drills have to try and stay alive.
Now the problem is there's still a lot of track utility working against them. Look at
V-drills screen, he's called, he's tracked, he's all under the pressure but it's actually
going to be the hold from the coverage there. They want to try and stick their way past this.
They said, but it's going to be a grenade. There's two more. Make it a flawless end.
Secret, unfortunately. Stay at the bottom of the board for G-Case.
Cream up and guarantee themselves up a bracket. Yeah, G-Case, never in doubt.
The goal was that first half, of course, a 5-1. And we talked about,
this is going to be in the storyline, I feel, on stage for us. If you have a 5-1 lead,
It's not often you see these things stop there.
Yeah, well, statistics are one thing, and so is repetition,
as we find ourselves doing what we do and heading to a break.
I'm not gonna waste
I ain't gonna get any gold
Breaking the break in the dawn
If I had a job here, couldn't be done
You're gonna get it
You're gonna get it
You're gonna get it
You're gonna get it
You're gonna get it
You're gonna get it
You're gonna get it
And with that victory, GK confirmed themselves top 4, meaning they will have an extra life
when it comes to the playoffs bracket.
We get to speak to the winners as we should have Gruby on the line.
Gruby, I'm pretty sure you said we'll see you tomorrow in the interview and that turns
out to be true.
Times go faster, we were talking about qualification yesterday and now already top 4.
How are you feeling?
Well, I'm feeling great.
First thing, hello.
Hello. He also said yesterday we're gonna see each other again today. Yeah, I mean that was a good game
You know like I don't you know to say besides like we knew that we have to kind of win games like this
We knew that secret is kind of in a bad spot right now with the
Everything so for us. I think it was just like understanding it and going for it, you know
Yeah, I think you had a lot more to lose than than things to win
Well secret had a lot more things to they weren't really playing for something where you guys you were playing for
playoffs and top four especially right you were playing for a lot more than
them and so usually teams in your position I guess they would be in a
situation where they're trying not to lose and not really playing to win I
think I didn't see that today I'm just looking at your statistics look looking
at you personally and ask the way that you guys played you played super
aggressive super confident in defense especially where the spearhead with
thorn try to disrupt them as much as possible how come that you guys had that
mental state that confidence where you in theory had the most pressure in this
game. Well, I'd be honest, if you like, I don't think we like, did even care that we are playing
for two or four, you know, for us, it was just like another game that we have to win and we want
to win. And that's all pretty much, you know, it's not like we spoke, oh guys, it's like important
game, we let's play this way that way, we just said guys, like another game, like another day in the
office, just like, go to the server, do our job, like follow the plan, like if you're gonna follow
each other and listen to each other, we're gonna win no matter if the game gets hard or something
like this, you know, so we were not thinking about, okay, we cannot lose, you know, we have to win,
like we're not thinking that maybe for us it was like okay let's just play guys you know have some fun
do the vibe stay last game of the of the group stage so you can do more on the playoffs right?
Gruby um speaking about the playoffs actually you'll be playing inside of best of frees um you'll
be going up against quite a formidable opponent in G2 or VP which everyone you end up playing um
and I just wanted to ask you about the map pulls because yesterday you played night heaven labs and
I feel like you corrected a lot of things on that map and the same with fortress which is a map you
played up against today which is a map you played up against G2 was that the case with did you want
to go to those maps and prove to those teams that actually you'd fixed some of the mistakes
on those maps?
To be fair, we didn't really think that way, you know.
The way, like for us, the maps that we just played, like for example, today, 4th, 3rd
of the laps yesterday, it's like, we just felt confident on the map.
We knew that, okay, the people can show up, like as individuals, because they like the
map a lot or something like this, I know there's certain mini-plays that it always works for
them.
So, it was mostly based on that, okay, the guy wants to make this plan, he knows it's
going to work.
Let's play this map, for example, you know, it's not like, oh, we fix, we have to show
show it up like I think it would be the opposite you know if you'd fix we would not play them
up you know could you want them to take into it so you could surprise us okay yeah it would
be the opposite you know yeah okay I like it Viro space well since the group stage is
now over groovy is there any moment that you look back on in this group stage that you
think was your favorite to get up with GK? With GK I think maybe not the favorite one
but I think the losses that we had early in the stage I think it helped us like develop
the team a bit to better understand that this is not the level that you want to be and we
have to do better you know so I think this was the best moment for us and then maybe let's say like
the best for me as a player I think it was the heretics game that we won 86 after throwing the
games but we showed the mentality there that okay we lost the rounds we made it over time but we
showed the combat we can win the games you know and I think that was the extra moment to boost for
us as a players and for everyone you know so that was the best moment I guess for the team not only
for me. Alright well that mentality has made you log in top four so once again a big congratulations
on that and we'll see you at playoffs.
See you at playoffs guys, I'll be there on the internet
when we have no problems.
Awesome, awesome, thank you so much Groovy.
I like the call for this, but it's emitting in the team as well,
why it's not without a reason that they lock in top 4.
No, absolutely not, I felt like, and I'm glad Groovy mentioned it in the interview there,
felt like a real turning point in that game against, against Herytex, you know,
the fact that he did that very fast in the beginning actually,
and he came on and he said, yeah, we've won, but we'll just strike it with it,
We will fix it. We do know that we've got issues going on and we're struggling with
attacks. And they start a new bar. And they have. They are the most informed team in AML.
They are in screaming hot form. They're winning every game. They're doing it with style. They're
looking good. They're finding gaps. They're playing the meta equivalent to how a G2 would
play the meta, how a Fiora currently would play the meta. And they're going to a stil
with absolutely everybody. Big asterisk on that, that their next game is going to be
against G2 or VP, who have two of the most punishing teams inside this league. So I think
That's the next step up. They proved they can overcome someone's birthday.
Now it's a lot of stepping up to match it with the biggest and the best team in this league,
and they lost to both of those teams inside of the regular stage.
100%. And I think we have seen that potential at the glimpses of it when they beat Falcons in that stage.
We've seen that they can beat some of the players.
There should have been a G2.
And it should have been a G2 as well. That was all the way at the beginning of the stage,
when they were still not in the form that they are at right now, which is what,
a 6 win streak out of 9 playdays, that is insane.
And so it's two things, I think it's players that are super confident, we see the numbers
on the Grubbys and on the side, absolutely amazing, incredible, double digits, the guys
who had 22 kills after the first six rounds, so like, what can you do?
But also I think in general, it's the overall team that has grown, that has mature, that
has found its identity, and is now able to leverage the confidence of a six win streak
to take out some of these big names that they lost to in the BO1, big one for GK to make
up for, but a well deserved one. I'm excited to watch some next week. I really am. I think
they've been a real breath of fresh air since that turning point because at the start of the season
they were very frustrated to watch. You know, they didn't look great at the start of the season.
They've been a big fresh air. They're in good hot form and I think they'll get tested next week.
It's a high quality opponent. It's a bigger map pool. It's a whole best of free. You're changing
a lot of the dynamics from going from best of ones in regular stage to putting an EWC
qualification on the line in the best of three. So yeah, cannot wait to watch. And mind you,
even when GK was trolling at the beginning of the stage, they still pushed G2 into over
time so a lot is possible for these teams for next week when the playoffs start but we'll talk about
the standings just to briefly reiterate how things are going so far in our final playday
of EML group stage before we dive into the flow shop because that's the kind of thing that we're
going to focus on for this second game we now see G game currently in third locking in the top
forward that is absolutely huge but we need to focus on that final spot in playoffs spot top
6 is what it is on for here. Fight for the final spot, and it's not often. We get somewhat of a
straight shootout for that final spot, so we'll be on the edge of our seats for that one. If this
rematch is anything to go about, back in kickoff and playoffs, it was a 2-0 for shifters, a 7-0 even
on map 2 in that situation. But for this time around, looking at the flow chart that we used
earlier on, what is needed to determine our team? Well, you saw those two teams that you've got
Rebels, you've got shifters. Rebels currently hold that safe position. Why'd they hold that
the situation they've got 10 points. Shifters have got 7, Twisted Minds have got 7. So what
that means is that if Red Bull get any point, they will go on to 11 points and they, therefore,
will be uncapturable no matter what Shifters do and no matter what Twisted Minds do. However,
things get interesting for Shifters and Twisted Minds fans because if Shifters manage to win
it in regulation, that is the only thing they can do to qualify for the playoffs. If they
do it at 7-0, 7-1 or 7-2, then it doesn't matter what happens to Twisted Minds. If they don't
I'm going to do it by that school and let's say they win seven, three, some four or seven, five, which they could do. It relies on the twisted mind games. And if I'm not mistaken, they're going up against heretics. So actually, it would be squeaky button time for both of those teams at that point. So, you know, realistically, that's the flowchart. That's the situation.
You're rebels fan. You need one point. Shifters fan. You need big, big, big scoreline win. And if you're a twisted minds fan, you need shifters to win very close margin. And then you'd need your team to go crazy at the back end of the day.
And as we saw on the screen that that was behind me basically you've got the clear you're here right you've got rubble star in the driving seat
They were in the driving seat yesterday. They could have confirmed playoff yesterday
They missed that one single point that they needed shifters
They're the second best team at possibly making it and their fate is in their hands for Tristan minds is such a tiny
Scenario right so obviously right now
I think the pressure is on rebels trying to make this happen
And there's one player that we're looking at on our screen right now
is that mean initiator of the rosters on the side of rebels? If you put him in a head-to-head
against the player on the side of shit, just to really emphasize that pressure, who would it be?
Well, these are going to be the two players. It's going to be Mato and Nick. These are going to be the
ones that are the brains behind the operation. Now, when you're in a game today, and we'll go into
the match shortly, but when you're in a game and you're in a high pressure scenario, you need your
ingame leader to be the one that steps up. That has the calling game of his career that gets his
troops galvanized around him so that they can go on and win the match. Mato's been doing it pretty
he's a really good player. He's
a really good player. He's
really, really good at
pretty well on the side of
rebels. You can see his
individual stats are good. We
highlighted him in terms of the
free show today with the
Blitz play with the plan. Got
his team over the line
yesterday when it was needed.
They've been probably
struggling a little bit
behind. That's why ultimately
shifters are in this
situation. But, Nate, the one
thing he's got over Mato. He's
done it internationally. He's
done it in North America. He's
done it at events. So when push
comes to show this is where he
really needs to prove that
And so straight shootouts, if you don't mind, we already talked about this head-to-head, a big pressure on the shoulders of these players.
Now I kind of want to know what map we will see for this straight shootout. What map will we see this calling Masterclass on?
We'll do clubs, and honestly it's a map that we haven't seen a lot from these two teams, shifters.
They've never played it with the current roster, with NAF as an IGL, and for the set of Rebels we've only seen it once, and it was against Fnatic.
It was a really close game, they lost it eventually 7-4, so not whatsoever what I expected to see in such a critical game, a map that we've not seen that much.
So yeah, looking at that one, I just don't think there is a clear favourite, very unknown on the side of shifters.
I've got favourite with Fairybot, and I haven't loved it so far, which is kind of it, it's Clubhouse 2.5.
And you love to bear with me when I say this, but what it relies on is fundamentals, it relies on breaching, it relies on taking map control and setting up an execute.
with three very viable bomb sets to do that and some limited rush opportunity. Very, very similar
to clubhouse in the way that the round kind of feels in the process of the round. And the one
good thing about that is we're really going to see which team has the best fundamentals from this,
which team plays the shields the best, which team takes the map control the best,
shift us the team that you see on the screen actually. Problems struggle with this the most,
they've had good early rounds but then late rounds taking up control and finishing rounds
really has been their problem. So this is a good map to step up and show that they've
Improved on that and well, they're gonna have to improve on that because I have to don't know I'm just going back to the
Team identity and the playstyle identity from the two teams called by mouth or called by knife
I feel like I look at shifters and I see a team trying to work on the fundamentals going step by step and delaying a lot of
strategy cohesion and goons the strats to win and look on the side of mouth
Oh, my toe has a way to cool that's closer to savage for example
He's gonna get in on that bit gonna do on that shield and it's gonna be the first layer
that's gonna go for the anti-room and that's gonna be really involved in the action and I think if we compare it to steps
Have we seen use that explains why Mato right now even though he's the rookie even though he's younger than me
He's got so much better stats and he's useful in so many more rounds because I think that Nate is sacrificing to himself too much
Whereas Mato gets involved in action a lot more the other important thing to note on this map detail and this picture is that
Shifters are gonna be starting on the defense and rebels gonna be starting on the attack
Why is that important because generally the Achilles heel of rebels has been there attacking?
and in the game, this needed for shifters where they have to get a roll on. I think the most important thing in that map,
Vita was starting on the defense. That's where they're going to find the momentum.
We put the pressure on. One more playoff spot is up for grabs for both these teams. The battle goes down on 90 of a lux.
Well, who will win this drag race towards the end demo? Now, there's two teams in our lobby and three watching.
to be one of these last two
teams in this lobby that
claims that six spot. Damn it.
Yeah, both teams coming into
this matchup with, I would say
a kind of mix bag of a super
week as well. Obviously both
sides and both sides are
going to be a little bit
different. But I think that
I would say a kind of mixed bag of a super week as well. Uh, obviously both sides able to pick up wins in that super week, but that it was just the one. Um, so certainly I think for shifters, they need to try and find a bit of momentum here in their final game to get them in towards that top six.
of the game. We're going to
have a really good morale and
momentum going into this. So
what will be the story of
today? What will be the story
of our game of the day and
will live up to the
expectations that we will set
game of the day and will live up to the expectations that we have all set upon it. I sure hope so,
Demo. Can I level with you for just a second? No. Can I be honest? Can I- what? No. Well,
that's a shame. It's gonna do it anyway. I'm sick of 5-1 halves, Demo. You and I-
Yeah, it's been so consistent. We've had an insane amount of 5-1 halves that we've gone through in
and EML and give us a tight fight.
Give us even halfs, treat us.
I beg rebels and shifters,
because then it might mean that both teams
are giving us everything and everyone can leave,
or at least a little bit satisfied,
but probably one team less than the others.
But it'll start, he, the shifters,
on their defense, both electric spams, no bandit,
no Kaid, makes this site have a little bit more
of a problem on the approach.
You can see the shift has gone for that extended hold.
at use of the Samcams, Malto's just gonna get himself eyes in the sky inside the warehouse.
If anyone does try to rotate back via that big aspect of the angle, they might be caught
out. There's a bit of pressure back and forth, but it's just gonna seem to get himself in
towards Animus. A good point you've made as well about the
fans with Kade and Bandit gone. Every site is going to be affected by this, as we know
for labs. A lot of hard breach will be occurring. So just to make that kind of easy passage
a lot easier for Rebels. I'll just speed things up. Let's feel as though they're going to
try and go for a pretty generic default plant. Going to C4 though, will be expelled but doesn't
pick up any kills for it though. So now this is where you might be worried about shifters
have enough to stop a plant going in there they have the denial. I think maybe with that single
kill it forces rebels but they maybe have to try and go for a bit of a hunt here on these rovers.
Now as I was pointing out last time these two teams met rebels we're only able to take
three rounds over the entire pair of maps. Try obviously to desperately fill back in the
Best way to start, Freck is able to find one, just drives himself in Fort Fenno's position.
He's utilized in the gadget, gets himself a bit more space. Now they're aware that you're aware, but
he's swinging a 90. Well, punishing well before it.
Still, they've lost the line, they've lost the docker bee, they've pulled back two kills though.
There's the two romas gone. At this point, okay, things are leveled, but they've still got the
structure of the site to contend with. Yeah very important that they was able to find two picks to
get themselves back into this round and don't forget they do have a way into the site. They previously
went and opened up that single soft lock in towards Animus. They have the hatch open. They can start
working a plan and the only denial that shifters has is pretty much trying to get naïve upstairs
and to use those impacts. So a lot of pressure now comes over towards Martyr and hold on to this flight.
Oh, there's a steady removal and a pair of them.
Splash finds Linku and leaves just Mato alone.
Oh, it's been pairs of kills that have fallen either way.
But Mato's turned to see if he could break the mold and get three.
Fourteen seconds, though. The kid on the second story and one player.
What are you guarding it?
Yeah, I think we can know where this round is gonna go.
Instead, we're gonna have to try and scream their way towards the kit.
Can't even make it to this point.
This shit is open up with the first round.
Oh, Nathan's gotten really good timing as well.
As Mato is rotated to try and set up the whole cargo stairs, Nathan's went,
and then he's been able to find the demos with the shotgun close.
So yeah, unfortunate there for Rebels, but I think for shifters,
they knew their wincon in that 3v3.
A minute left, you've got no denial,
but only thing that you have is try and get that souls upstairs,
and that is what they were trying to attempt,
was they get Nathan in a position
where he can stop those planks going down in the bomb site.
And once he gets upstairs into that position,
it's very difficult then for Rebels to try and pull it back out of that.
Obviously it didn't start off well for Rebels.
They had to try and get two kills in return, and they were able to do so,
using the good information operators that they had.
Did just that moment as much as routine to the rotate.
Nafe comes up and kills his teammate.
Not the perfect start, I think it gets first to call it, but hey, continue as you mean
to continue in here, up towards the top floor where maybe the limitation of the hard breach
is going to be something that finds itself a bit more of a cost, it's not entirely unusual
to play towards this.
We're going to see if they can do as, you know, balance with the knee, it gets an extension
from the mirror, they're not turning on tricking as they get both deployed quite quickly.
out towards IT though and the trick is gonna be the catch potentially on the
clip of it get a C4 out there but the pressure on towards the Hapana
I might want to see if they can meet their way on towards the connection and the
jungle side now there is somebody off in the office the pressure starts to
actually mount elsewhere there's this game of the mirror window
Yeah, I think whenever you don't have the KD, you don't have the bandit, you need to try and slow them down in some way, shape, or form.
And certainly for Mira, yes, we know the power that Mira has of placing the windows to obviously hold angles.
But this little mini-game of having the opportunity to impact trick off some of the hard destruction,
it's just, you have to do something, and I think that that stops you the best if you're going to get placed in the bands.
Yep, but obviously for rebels don't think I'll slow them down that much just have to be very cautious
And there is a C4 ripped and ready
Oh
Fantastic work
They're gonna be struggling here for the outreach now I do kind of wonder how that came to be obviously
Unfortunately, I blow this siege timing even hits our purpose at point
Well there, the fact that the Thermite was obviously so cleanly pressed against it, you expect to see for hours at Breach.
Yep, they just trusted that they're currently a bit of better intel and it was a sort of lucky lineup, but either way...
...kind of an obvious base and body to drop. Now the Breach happens on towards the side of IT, but at this point all he's doing is watching his friends' names turn to crosses through the outline system.
They do get Robbie in the left sub out, caps the back of Blaz,
drifts into a fight, you probably didn't expect to be taken.
That's suddenly, look at the positions,
they've got themselves prepped up in.
Now they do still have the kicks.
They can isolate just a single approach
on the side of IT with the Monty,
where they can put themselves in a good position,
but the way the defenders are spread out,
they're gonna have to play against that single hard wall.
That is their point of contact.
They're actually gonna have to take two different guns.
Oh, I know.
Pulled themselves back in last move.
Somehow gets the tail end of it.
It somehow slips away.
Oh, Linky, not quite there immediately.
Does finally find it 30 seconds.
But, Nathan, he's been able to reposition, I think.
He's not good for himself on towards IT instead.
He can be a little bit more of an active threat
if they try and plant on either side.
And you can just play this based on sound,
based on that creep towards it.
I think he's well aware, he pulls away again.
We do that with the worst possible time, now he's got a little bit of a baiting game.
Pop him past the window either side, Nate.
He just has to waste time at this, he just has to keep a distance, but...
Destruction seems much more palatable.
Two rounds, but could not be closer.
Oh, Nate.
Called in that 1v1, didn't panic whatsoever.
He counted the bullets before he killed the player. He just knew he has to bait out that type 89 only has 21 bullets. Don't forget
Hey, that was the beginning of the end of that round wasn't it? You can lose that for my immediately
This reliance the fact he's peaked that
After surviving the element I thought he's gonna be dead to rights obviously an alimine being thrown at a shield
Yeah, he follows up with a kill, but then he gets to pick away anyway
3 from that point, obviously try to contend with the fight once again, after it's fair enough you don't want to get too far away from the site, it's just in case it's still...
I think there was an opportunity where Rebels could have just doubled up in one player.
Did you think I might have separated?
Oh, definitely.
The shifters player worked.
So I think they almost had to make the decision.
Did we go for a fish?
Or did we go for the guy inside the connector?
I mean that map was what they worked surely wanted to go for, and then, yeah, they decided to go fish.
I just think a lens, they didn't need to pick, I think he's right the L of mine, could have fed the information
but his team was right beside him, you know, so I think there was an opportunity there but
that's how it goes and shifters have an opportunity here of having a full clean sweep on the rotation
of Nighthaven Labs if they can successfully defend this storage
and looking at Rebels, how about we don't lose the format this time, I think that would be a good start
It's about to get hot!
They've done it!
So I'll get the pipe off of us.
You can see that they're obviously concerned about the chance of the pressure underneath,
but it's the C4 more importantly in the hands of that player
that can cause a bit of danger, but don't worry,
mind if there's a bit of a slow here, and the keeper plays against the smoke canister,
one wasted.
At least that was a cause-of-kill, it had some of the end of the world,
Well then you can see, getting in, getting out, causing problems, pulling back.
Okay, so they can just try and drive the shields in, but there's the first C4 that nets the body and now that's one, two, down.
The lens does front-fract in the meantime, they're just gonna try and keep applying the pressure here as last new stuff is next and they keep on driving the Robbie!
Stop that, it's almost down with the beak!
What a dime gets to...
Oh, that's it, dropped out. There's two players currently on the floor and that's not one of them.
Oh, how's he done that then? How has he done that? I thought the blitz freebie. That means
there's a guy who just, your back turns and Robbie just turns around with a deagle and
beams and oh my well rebels have tried to hit that top floor with everything and
the kitchen sink and it hasn't worked a lot of traps being brought in as well
really good value I think coming in from the Fenrir in those Fnats were able to
slow the approach over towards fish and because players had to slow down and
stop obviously there would have had to be the kind of three to one call from
Rebels, but if the kind of if one team out of the two or slowed it leaves the other two in a very difficult situation
That's kind of what happened here with the the garage side
You know because these players
Were very very slow getting in towards fish
It then left the Monty by himself. You see obviously the Furamite just walked in had no idea he was still there
Just created up a separation
So yeah the traps and a vital role in that hold
And for rebels you are looking down a very long barrel off, but they're set another another big maybe 5-1 coming our way
So it was the one thing it was the one thing I asked for
You know the one thing of my Christmas list
Very ml stage one
Was not all 5-1 halves
Listen it's down to rebels to try and break that mold and
I really don't want to be in the situation where you start to see this filter away from
them because how much are they going to beat themselves up about some of their earlier
results even the ones just early this week we sort of you know a fanatic got off to such
a strong start and then things got a little bit wobbly during super week at the start
people were like, Oh no, this is happening. It was tough games. Fine. But Oh no, you know,
and then they were able to pull things together, get themselves that win, lock things in here.
Where Rebels is obviously, you know, sure they've suffered a couple of big knocks, right, including
the biggest of the split and 07 against G2. It becomes that question of right when it took
Falcons to task in the very first game the sort of sixty-eight and this sort of took people but by surprise and
Drive of heretics those sort of partial points
How much you gonna cost them
Anyway shifters hey happy to continue as they need to continue
I'm gonna see where they can try and get themselves to, damn it.
In a big attacking half here from Rebels, and there's something that Jack had mentioned.
Rebels have struggled massively on their attacks at this stage, and certainly now if you look
at this as the kind of consequence of that, this is the reality.
You will suffer these kind of big round differences where you blink and you're down 3-0 and you're
really clawing back any rounds that you can.
For shifters things are going to plan, they're trading well, players are gunning.
For shifters I have an opportunity now of doing another clean sweep.
Get that basement access to them again.
See if Rebels want to change things up.
There'll be a full on top floor clear.
You've got plenty of information operators to make that happen.
We'll spawn out a few players upstairs.
Just depends if they can capitalize on that.
Well, that's when the first one to go down, Fano.
If they've been picked.
Hungry for more, he's in for storage, but that's the Simon what? No!
No, they didn't see him!
He just thought, oh, he's just playing.
I just, a game?
He's playing a game on the football, but no!
Oh, steering me, shifters.
They've let this round go bagging, and now for Rebels, opportunity to get their first round on the board.
Well, with a full versus one, they're better. Let's be honest, the timeout isn't had some reward and result.
The position of the Blitz hasn't slipped them down instead. Rebels drove themselves through on that round very, very well pieced together, and they can breathe.
Oh, it's each time and I actually thought that Fano will obviously, you know, 50-50.
Do you hold the door?
Do you hold the rotate?
How'd the rotate?
Nafe comes in.
But no, Nafe just sees the guy playing foosball.
And that was it.
Oh.
Well, we didn't really see the basement be attacked at all.
I mean, that was every kill off site.
Yeah.
a bit of a change of dynamic. Obviously there was some aggression that was away from it
in the previous bit. Outside of it.
A run for yester. Yeah, let's just have a fight.
We've had some tactical rounds, let's just roll.
Either way, we'll see how this starts to slip now.
and further in they have one maybe maybe right five one heart who knows
if I can try and just cement something else the fact that they take it on tank and assembly
and remember that one sort of piece to get back Rebels looks a little bit all over the
shop not in terms of like just confused or anything but they were all over the map we
saw a daimos trying to drive in on Swarth Animus and get that rotation open to the same second
that we saw people droning out before and doing these sort of approaches. That was instead
a renviestifying, but it felt a bit more direct on towards cause. They wanted to try and wrap
around these kills and wrap around these players. Now it's clad, clad is playing, the extension
and so it's just the connection side. Just peel back when the breach gets opened, it's always
going to get opened. Right, fine, you can get the meek side and sort of slow it that way,
the utility is still in the pocket and the fact that they have those impact TMPs means
that they're pretty clean and also hey look, surviving hard breach doing their job has
definitely moved on this top floor.
Thankfully for Rebels they have got the no mass so the flash pickup here from Blast which
is very strong as we know.
Thankfully you can just sit in front of an open breach and hold it down.
It is very strong.
you have got the counter, most of you know the flash was happy enough to let that phone
be blown up. So outside off the air jets, nothing else to worry about. So Rebels, looking
pretty default, it's going to be the connector take alongside having IT open up. I'm curious
to see what the plant position is going to be though. I would assume they're going to
try and get themselves in towards connector, in towards E-box and plant E-folding behind
the pillar. And I think with where our lenses are right now trying to clear out these players
from 10 positions, and yet it's a good job. Linko able to find Blad as he gets caught out,
and that Deimos caused them a lot of issues. That is the first roadblock out of the way with
here for Rebels. They're in really good shape. Somehow they've hardly taken any damage from that.
Finally he goes down, and now Rebels just flooding in through the bomb site.
They're brilliant, brilliant, flood of cover. They sort of called it. They made sure they moved
to the back. Fine, you missed one or two, but you can find opportunity elsewhere.
two rounds in a row here, Rebels, since their conversation, they have some new ideas.
And they're going to make sure that they demonstrate them.
Solid pair of rounds as well. As you said, it's felt confident from them. It's felt a bit in
control from them. It's also felt a bit sharper, right? When we were talking about that site last
time, when we talked about the approach they had last time, you could sort of see very different
scenario, the two versus two, but there was a little bit of a back and forth. Maybe confusion
is too strong of a word but consideration as to which way they wanted to go that was direct
that was this is our execute let's keep going our things are mapping out we still have the execute
we still have this plan and thread it itself together shift us let's look at themselves four
they can still get themselves that sort of tithe that is desired and deserved from this half but
otherwise demo we might have that thing that i wished for at the very start
a close game a close game there has hardly been any of these as well a
stage yeah there's been what one two three four five
just six which two of them have been rebels which have been that's it's not
not being that much of a close stage if you get a look at it from that perspective.
It has been very cut and dry in terms of who has looked confident who's been able to win.
But this game, never a lot is on the line, don't forget.
This is where you expect to see teams really push themselves to the limit.
For Ebble, it's a great attack in the last round.
One thing simple, didn't try and over exaggerate what they wanted to do.
They kept it straight to the point. They checked off. Okay, let's do this. Let's do that and then we go
See if they can try and do something similar
And look at this here from Feno below with the IQ
It's all a visitor. Yeah, he knows somebody's here. So blasts. It's a game of chicken, isn't it? Yeah. Oh, do you see them though?
Pre-firing, hoping to bail it out. In the meantime, Navel's taken some damage.
They've only gone a little bit longer than they thought they otherwise would.
Just peels back, no. True, a damage done. Both of them taken.
Bit of a bite, but otherwise. Still has the momentum flashing over the top of the drive-in.
the knockout. Mato, very confident, very ill advised, I think. It's the one-two of that
approach, straight into his warehouse, with no near enough work done, and wow. So far it's
been a 100% conversion rate, whoever gets the entry kill wins the round itself. Will
this be the same statistic.
Setting up recon droid.
Yo, that's it now.
Big breath into the breach,
but that alamine pops and
frack. It's a very easy kill.
Lems,
second up, a fact.
He's able to get the down, but again,
frack is there with the immediate
trade, and Rebels just move in
one by one, feeding frack these
kills. Look at the positions both
these players separate it from one another. So Asta and Feno both have to try and find
their individual kills so they can open up this round and oh no! I think they have to
get stuck in the road! I don't know what happened there but Frick, once again, is happy enough
to get another trade. Asta walks down the stairs and Frick with another trade!
Listen, some people might call it baiting, some people might call it positional awareness,
people will call it a round win and we will call it to our studio.
Wow, thank you very much. That had us at the edge of our seat there, but this is how all these
rounds have been going. When we look at it, every single round matters. It brought some points
and making it to playoffs, but this is how all these rounds are getting played out to the very
final detail. This game is so delicate. It has so many implications. Every round matters. Let's not
remember that. Shifters need a huge victory and it looks like they were cruising towards it,
to be honest because you know you get to round 2 to be honest they nearly lost the 4v2 here that
would have been absolutely crazy but what you want in in when a round when rounds matter so much
when you're in a game that matters so much like this you want to win the big moment start off on
round 2 that's exactly what they do an 8 wins that 1v1 and it carries on into round 3 actually
where when they're getting full play they've got the blitz so attacking them actually it's Robbie
that turns up with the deagle the double dig gets the kills manages to win out the round and it goes
really really well but then Rebels take a timeout. Rebels take a timeout after 3 and then they managed
to find a way back into it. They bring full clear operators, the Snake, the Teimos, the DokaV as well
and actually they managed to find a couple of rounds. So it made it very finely poised in terms of the
whole whole game and the overall situation. Shifters did manage to get it done. 4-2 on that
defence split. So so far job done just. Yeah just about and I think the main thing is about
this attack side. I think for our Rebels we've noticed that it was a big struggle for these guys
and it's actually a big struggle not only for them but for shifters as well. If you look at the two
of them they're two of the worst attacking team in the ML and so if you look at the rest of the
competition so far it's proven to be one of the worst one. However where do you make the difference
for Rebels and shifters? Why is Rebels ahead of shifters right now? Because they have a better
defense side and so this is my bait point going into the next side. Shifters are now on the back
foot they have the advantage of having one for two but at the same time they're going on a much
weaker side going into attack and Rebels generally speaking have a better defending team. The main
thing I want to see shifters fix is the lack of plants as you saw on the screen only five plants for
eleven on the side of Rebels they need to be on this kind of path especially more objective oriented.
Just a quick vibe check on exactly where shifters if you're a shifter fan where they need to get to
they need to be winning this game ideally now at this point 72 so they need three attacks in the
that pretty much would confirm them for playoffs if they win it any more than that it goes through to
the swiss demand game which they obviously really don't want. And just thinking of shifters I just
think of yesterday I think of what we've seen against Falcons you know we saw Rebels struggle
against heretics yesterday and we saw shifters almost beat Falcons yesterday that should mean
something in terms of momentum shifters they should be in driving seat here but we felt it
throughout the game the pressure is on both sides here. And then the bands Kaden bandit so yeah
walls easy. We see a long close, we see a long this map. Walls super easy, no problem with those
walls whatsoever, even though the range hard bridge is gone, the firm might be available.
So it'll be about impact tricks. I imagine the clash is going to be in play, the exami is going
to be in play, the beer is going to be in play, plus the trap operators as well. So that's where
shifters are going to come in. That's the big test. They're going to get the initial ground
control, no problem realistically, as long as they go through the process. But how can they deal
with those powerful defenders? That ultimately is going to determine whether they go to play off
Shifters have it all in control in their hands, but in this attack in half, they risk letting
it slip through their fingers of making it to playoffs.
So how will this second half shape out?
Can they just do that little bit extra?
Can they just break their way through?
Can they ruin Rebels' day and probably consecutive months?
Or can Rebels do what they need to do and get it done?
Put in the shell and play.
What about the fight?
It's not... So for you it's not gonna be all my weeks ruined, it's my mums ruined.
It's not how you're thinking.
Yeah, I mean, what?
Look, look, it's a bomb.
Yeah, if all they've played for it could stop now.
If it doesn't, it gets to play a little bit more stage from the fact that it's happening on the 30th of the month.
Well, that's just kind of fun.
Ha ha ha ha.
Ah! Oh! I think the desk has kind of stung up.
Now, Rebels, they're gonna be in the company side into the defense, and for shifters, they have to go on the worst side.
So, I think before too, it's still doable for Rebels, I think to kind of strain quite a few defenses along because they're good in defense,
and obviously shifters also look pretty weak on this side.
So I think that's a fair representation of what we've seen in the first half.
But what's very important though, thinking about it, that Rebels were able to get those two rounds back at least.
Yep.
Oh, massively.
I mean, as I said before, like this isn't the most uncommon sort of statistic on this map.
This is a place that they can get themselves locked in.
Let's see if they can try and just do like a further pause game.
The full read, will they swing behind it?
They put a keyboard on the other side of the door.
Gotcha.
Yeah, gotcha. Lock in.
It's a heavy, dirty game, but everybody knows they're vying for very important territory.
I like it so far, from shifters straight to the point of a catwalk take.
Once I want to mention how easily they open up the breach, I thought we were going to have
a deja vu moment, but...
And that's where the fatture is there to deny those T4s.
So for shifters, just going through the motions, you've got control of catwalk, really good
position over here from Asa, still in that pulse.
And a lot of information, you can very easily see if shifters are going to switch up their approach and go somewhere else.
Right now, so for shifters, garage is where they want to be.
Why is the whiffed diffuser though?
It's rotated all the way over towards connector!
Oh ho!
Quick little push in from Fano, was able to get Robbie.
Frack, once again there of a trade, maybe could have killed him before his teammate died, I don't know.
But for shifters, looks to go, looks to be they're going to change up their approach and try and flood in through connector.
connector. Oh, what happens?
Test the head off of an ambitious nafe.
Before he gets traded out, everything
is being batted back and forth for the shift.
So he's finally finding the extra key.
Mark's always doing his best to bite back into the site,
but instead, it's suddenly a three versus one link-goo.
That's a big moment.
It's earlier, aren't he?
Holding on towards IT, but as soon as he goes for the cross,
I mean, look at this.
Just the setup of the three guns.
Instead, he's finding his own keepers.
He's finding a post-barn situation.
Now they can just peel back.
They don't want to, though.
They want to win their first attack.
Yeah, strong from shifters. Nice and simple.
Getting the breeches opened up, taking garage, rotating your push in towards connector, in towards electrical.
I think the big moment was probably whenever... I think it was...
It was a Maro on the, the form. As soon as he left connector and went in towards meeting,
Shifters then knew they had an extra man that they could use to flood because
Morrow is not in a position to stop anyone pushing in towards the bomb site
apart from connector but Blaz is always going to sit and just hold that guy
anyway so for shifters they...
Oh he knew, we've seen that you know. But again as soon as you kind of have that
feeling as we do is overwhelming you go for that chance you have the shield you
overwhelm the lambs you're able to trade them out you had the players over
towards catwalk still doing their thing you know that's the beauty of that
take whenever you've got it control whenever you have catwalk moving around
in the site all of a sudden becomes very difficult because you know that you
can get shot in the back from any moment and that's where the split takes come in
you know so proficient from shifters they're really impressed with that first
attack two more slowly neat I can't quite remember the numbers game on what needs to
happen for twisted winds and it's obviously down to all of the being on the glows points
right but shifters need to get the full three so they're on ten and then twisted winds
need to get the full three so they're also on ten and then it comes down to head to head
around difference. That's why I sort of just get that static noise. So instead, let's say
for the sake of argument, shifters, they're just trying to put this one to bed right now,
get themselves that three points. But obviously end that sort of dream here of rebels.
The ground difference getting worse and worse by the fight.
He's trying to steal himself back in towards this engagement and all he needs to do is
make it to OT.
But it's not going to be the way to do it, Blast.
Get the O-turn on 11, just need to trade it out, see if we're buying some time.
And a C4 was missed by 3 demo!
Bartow from deep!
Absolutely bodies the approach.
Oh, that is a stinger.
As we see that the police car chases them, they've deployed the track stickers on them, on the road.
It's just completely stopped this attack from really going in any way favourable for shifters.
Yeah, all rebels have to do is sit in their hands.
I mean, you're still up here though, and it's all you don't want to do.
You want to be giving pigs back now for shifters?
It's a 3v2.
Still, I mean, difficult, of course,
for shifters to try and pull this out.
But yeah, now they do have a bit of a hope.
Look where Feno is.
He's still upstairs, by the way.
So what is that?
A 2v2 on the site of the Gringo for it.
What's going on with this?
I don't know.
Like, you can see he's looking for the fight as well.
He's trying to put a bike back on the front,
and hoping that they're too distracted by elsewhere.
But in the meantime, they're getting bodies from above.
needs to activate sooner rather than later he's still not aware now they've
dropped down now it's a two versus two but what was kind of achieved there
really that thing and waiting that's not the gadget you want this going through
the door that isn't gonna be the lock in that's going to the pistol fight right
on the door it's crossed that was great interaction between the pair of them
let's put the ramps from space to get inside but with 18 seconds they
repositioned they have themselves in a 180 dime swing here it's gonna flush out
one side, look towards the fight, but Feno finds it.
Woohoo, close to the finish you'd have been.
Ha ha ha, but they claim it.
Almost, a disaster from Rebels.
A funny moment where the demo stinks.
Oh, I'll make that door.
Ah, hard breach gadget.
That's always a fun one.
And yeah, for shifters, look,
think the rounds was done and dusted really with the C4
as we all expected, and we all free them to basically look at it.
They didn't even just say, ah, ah, wow, this is us, this is life.
Yeah, listen.
You almost have to freeze for him and say, well, we're shifters,
you're probably wondering how we got to this situation.
Let me share my story right from the start.
Yeah, I mean, if it was a round that took everything away from them,
Oh god, they would have been there for a long time, hey maybe it will be, there's still a chance.
As long as we, you know, or as long as they keep themselves sort of tipping on towards this point,
as long as they keep themselves off of sort of the match point and that's there.
Again, Rebels just need a single point from this game. They could get to OT and lose it.
They just need the three rounds, right? They just need...
Let's try and get this to swing into their favor. Obviously, shifters still have their time up.
But as they get the breach open on the top,
they... keeping a Q9. That's the same sort of story as before, Tamo. Double electrics ban.
I'm trying to know that those walls are going to fall.
Yep, again, simple enough.
Shifters.
Not really had too many issues with getting up walls, so far in this act.
Once more on the top floor, there's going to be no exception.
I've had a lot of a change up though from the last line up.
Got a blitz now, rather than the blackbird that they put on.
And also, this prize pick.
Brack on the glass.
Well, as he is able to get that C4 just in time,
I will freeze it at momentarily,
but, unless he will try and waste another C4,
that wall will be opened up.
Can't believe it, Tibber, he's in a gadget.
I never, I didn't even know he had a gadget,
I never used it, so it's just a gun.
It's fine.
It's fine, fine, but there's a wall little fall eventually.
There's also still two of the four C4s left.
They can try and push some devastation, but then you look at what the attackers still have.
They threw everything in their pockets, right?
They've seemingly not used any to draw out this attention and this focus.
They've got all the smoke canisters they could ever want to lead.
They've got the doors of Rourah. They're going for a play and a take here.
Is it going to be direct through E-box?
They're getting the flashes out over the top.
There is still some concern.
Yeah, we're a bit sorry.
There's Acer actually getting the first.
Swing out for the second but it's Grappy, Robbie and Nafe find one a piece of limbs, gets glassed in the meantime.
Gets probably keeps things level now they've set their way inside there they're gonna play on the back to the blitz shield
They're all the way up towards the mirror window but it's Robbie that gets one and 11's doing everything he can to keep things balanced
Slip past his army just survives a narrow angle and Robbie needs to reload pulls back but it's a limbs for three!
The IDL when they need him the most shows up
the ball. It's just not.
leaves just Robbie alone again.
180 position right that cost
that as soon as he swings on
towards one, the other is going
to put the pressure on to
water in the final side of a
hard wall in the lambs for four
what around for the man to show
up. Yeah, fantastic from
Rebels in that to V1 to the way
they position themselves. You
from rebels. Obviously, shifters, they tried to go pretty heavy in towards E-Box and then
also using the Aurora in towards top Catwalk because that's a position that they took last
time. You know, shifters, they had the Blackbeard coming in through the top rafter's window,
didn't have to worry about the last time they attacked. If you're not going to go for it,
then you need to try and do something. If you still want to work IT, which is obviously
the intention was to work IT alongside that electrical push. So you bring in the Aurora,
locked off that door. I think the issue was losing Blazz as that other connector player,
I don't think did them any favours, because you would have liked to have another gun kind
of pulled onto the roadside and could maybe jump in towards the bomb site too. The rebels,
they were, they were having a fight. Who's got the really bad mic where it was just static,
Who's that?
He's got an upgrade.
The, like, old Xbox 360 mic.
Yeah.
As soon as you talk over a certain volume just becomes more useful.
That was, but it didn't sound pretty.
What is one round, isn't it?
Exactly, right?
It was 5-2.
And then you blink and then you've had two rounds there where Rebels have broken up.
Now, as you look at how those two rounds have pieced together,
Five seconds remaining.
Lens got a 4k, Martau got a 3k.
Fine, it sort of built up.
One of those was a magnificent c4 for the watch.
And there was a lens pretty much picking a fight everywhere.
The amount of times somebody would die on the level of steam
and the lens went, no, I will take one back.
Seemingly back and forth.
Now, the pulse should have the read on all of this.
Is he just going to try and swing out?
He's seeing how far the player gets.
Yeah, the player is off.
And I'm just gonna try and get this red all the way, but currently nobody's having it,
means that the pulse is a little bit more cautious in having to play that position.
This is a big round. Rebels means that they have three in a row and they've leveled up,
and they only one round away from taking the all-important point that they're after.
press for shifters and stop them at them now and put themselves onto that match point.
And number ten, very important for both of these teams is the situations that are played
before them and shifters are bringing another shield this time it's the Monty in.
If you kind of think of the Monty you think okay let's get straight to the point, they're
just going to walk up and just go bang bang bang, here they are, kill them.
Oh, wow, bang, bang, bang. Here they are, kill one of them. Get killed back, right, T-Fenno.
Again, it's very fresh, cranky, narrow angle there, and yeah, right, the health is...
Robbie slips away, but you might be able to find the tail end of the same fight.
The Monty, in the meantime, is drawing out, he's only fine, but they're a little bit isolated.
A second C4, hoping for the best, but instead it's a repellent, instead it's last move,
getting a lead, and it's the man of the moment, the previous round.
Now, mate, he's trying to drive himself into the site, but they're all above him and around, and he's just sort of just...
Oh, no!
...handling themselves towards Mato!
We won't be able to see a tight game that desperately scratching up towards the heavens!
I'm hoping to find an angel, but unfortunately, it just seems like it's not a miracle to be rebels, though!
They get things level demo!
Oh, my...
I mean, this was just a big
blunder. I mean, they thought
he was he was safe before his
team were going to be covering
in catwalk and pose a lot of issues but not the case at all. I mean this was just a big blunder
I mean they thought he was he was safe he thought his team were going to be covering catwalk but
not the scenario. They're feeling it getting the impression that they're feeling it.
this though I mean they just need one round right and that's it and it's the
pressure that's on the other side of shift it is they know their wincon is
different their opponents well aware of it have they left this too late should
they have done it after two rounds rather than give themselves one this is
the equivalent of taking it on map point anyway. Yeah. It's a time we'll tell now because
the worry is rebels have also just completed three sites in a row. The shifters know that
they're up against a challenge. It's going to start here on the basement site where a
see full sort of ripped everything away yeah yeah um I think it's there's a point that you can
certainly argue where we didn't really see shifters have a full go at attacking the site which
might be the only kind of benefit you can see uh from it obviously last time
the ram just goes like it's gone don't even get a chance to formulate the attack whenever
never really got to see what they want to do with the shield, I mean they have the shield
and they have the Fatcher and they have Firmight with Smokes, I could only assume it was going
to be flood the bombs like the Smokes and then just Fatcher away, any C4s that could
have landed, I think that's what they were trying to go for.
Not going to go for this thing though, based on the lineup, this just screams let's clear,
let's get the vertical with the ram, let's play things by the book.
Yeah, I think what Mr. Simmons has said where there's such a scrappiness that's coming from the side of rebels has just
really changed the momentum of this game. The first half the opening conversion drove the rest of the story. The second half
won't. It's been the tale of how things have gone.
Oh, there's another way that it can go!
It was looking for the upper story, but unfortunately
was the ground floor that had his name and number and now what if they lost the
twitch if they lost the player who won them around earlier
they've got to try and pull back as I said though thankfully for them the
opening statistic hasn't really been a lead in but they've got to try and work
together because otherwise they'll fall apart
getting one, they're gonna swing with the shotgun for two!
Damn it, we might be about to confirm our sixth team here at the top.
And all the twisted minds can do is look on outside of the lobby with their head in their hands
and all shifters can do is pray to Nathan Glass that they have a saving grace.
The top rope drops one.
And Nathan, he knows it's not the end of the game.
I mean this has got three more to find, but it is the end of their chance for playoffs.
Regardless of how this goes, Rebels have confirmed themselves to be on 11 points, confirmed themselves
out of range of shifters and twisted minds.
Twisted minds.
Yeah.
now they also cannot catch fanatic as well so at this point they know they're sick they
know they love a bracket but they've done enough five to six five I just love the fact
the shifters called the timeout.
Often the called the timeout immediately revels to start jumping out windows.
It's the best way to do it, it really is and at that point just...
Just a month shifters immediately.
Oh, well they're happy. We will see them again.
But, right now for Rebels, gonna finish and I'll win, the gift shifters, the 2 points,
they'll win it, we'll see, they'll have an opportunity to win this in regulation, obviously
for shifters, really good opportunity, has went begging for them, they're flagged 2 up
another 6-5 down it just shows how cruel this game can be
I said I wouldn't have closed back and I know it sort of feels like it's over and
it's not but it's safe dive. What a comeback. Blast, get to one out.
I'm gonna slam stuff off the board. Obviously they could still sort of get a
couple of points and if twisted mines lose they finish seven. Just put the pressure and
twist it now I think don't they? Yep. Because it's all the kind of, you know, place towards
the bigger picture. That we often talk about.
We're struggling a little bit here as the walls are being opened up and oh no, oh the
breach!
There's a little bit of screw-whip!
Oh, assa!
How do you mess that one up?
Should have been a freebie!
Oh my, but it doesn't matter, Rebels!
Fire back with two!
Oh my, but it doesn't matter Rebels! Fire back with two! After I've still deployed more traits come in as a Razorbloom kill!
Now it's a 2v2! 2v1!
Who knows what way is up, and who knows if last move could put this one down and get themselves in towards OT.
Again, this great positioning. Maybe the fish player is a bit too far away, can put himself
in close, you assume he's moving behind the C4.
Oh, quite net it, but it doesn't need to. And meet the orc comeback for Rebels.
Five in a row on the defensive half for Rebels. The desk mentioned how that's the strong side.
Shifters have struggled on the attacks. There it is and black and white
Well, there it is then there we are into a break before we're back to the desk
I'm breaking next and I'm running out, reckless energy I'm never signing out, I'ma keep it going till I hang the nut, I'm breaking next and I'm running out, where my earphones stuck and my money out, cause I can't get down from the funny nut, I'ma keep it going till I hang the nut.
Congratulations on making it to playoffs. Yesterday was a little bit stressful. How stressful was today?
To be honest it was not that stressful
Like labs is a map that we like a lot, so we are kind of confident even though we started the map badly
but we like I said we like the map so we managed to add up very fast and and
Get back to our track
Yeah, how did it go in the game when you guys switch sides because I think that was really the big turning point for you guys
you were led 4-2.
Eventually also, when you switched sides,
Schifters actually reached that fifth round.
So you had a crazy comeback, multiple round wins in a row.
How did you build back the momentum?
To be honest, I think it was the fact that it was like easy readable, like the rounds.
All the time they attacked, it was easy read, like we know what they're gonna do,
so we just prepared for it and that's it.
We just adapt in the round, the positionment, the way we want to play the round and stuff.
Lance, did you have any wise words for the team today? Obviously you've been in a lot of
situations like this to hide pressure, the stakes on the line for playoffs.
Some of the guys haven't necessarily experienced that before, so did you have any words
to them to deal with the pressure?
To be honest, I'm with some young players, but I think it's in my role to guide them a bit in this moment and type of games.
To be honest, the goal of the match wasn't to... Obviously you will say don't stress and feel like this, but it's human.
Everyone can stress and feel like this. It's a big game.
But I just said to the guys that we just need to stay focused. We know the map, it's kind of our playground.
So we know how to play the map, we know how to adapt. We just need to play what we do in scrims, like usually.
And we're going to beat them and have fun and trust each other.
Like if you want to do a move or you want to do something, just do it. Don't hesitate.
And that's it. It was like the mentality we had on this map to be honest.
And now, looking at the team's performance, you guys have made it to the playoffs, so
that's it, like, six teams are there, only four make it to WC.
Looking at your performance at kickoff, you were impressive in the groups, you upset a
couple of teams, and you made it to be a threes, and then I think there was a huge drop of
performance when you made it in the playoffs at kickoff.
What are you going to do to make sure this doesn't happen again going into the playoffs
here in the stage?
To be honest, I'm very happy because we are kind of a new team, like a young team, a young talent.
And we went on the playoffs on the first stage, like the kickoff.
And then we go on the playoffs again.
So it kind of brings consistency, which I'm very happy because for me it's very important to bring that consistency.
So it shows that kickoff wasn't like luck or fluke or whatever.
So I'm kind of happy with this.
Now we need to do better than the kickoff.
I think it's not hard to do better, regarding the performance we did last stage against Schifters.
So, we'll try our best, keep working and keep evolving in this league which is composed of great teams.
So, we'll keep ranging and keep playing and do better. That's it.
Awesome. Before we let you go, Alams, anything you want to say to the fans who are supporting you?
Yeah, thank you for the interview.
a lot. Thanks for the casting, everything in the crew, the analyst crew, everything, everyone.
Thank you to all the fans that support us at Rebels. Thank you a lot guys, muchas gracias
and see you in the playoffs. Awesome, thank you so much for your time, Lemson. Good luck
next week when the playoffs starts. Thank you, bye-bye. I think a very interesting point here
about the consistency and what it means also because this was a team that yes made it to
to playoffs and kickoff, but realistically kickoff,
many people could have claimed that it was on the format
and that it was the bad group,
so it was easier for them to, in the two weeks period,
make it to playoffs, to do so a second time in a row
across a full stage, I think to me,
is just a big statement.
And just looking back at this game, Jack,
I don't know how you feel that I think in general,
when it mattered the most, when they were down to five,
when they needed to go and have these big, big moves,
Mato here, the triple C4 kills,
the aggression on Catwalk, finality, little bangs,
everyone was getting hit.
Listen to these guns, like everyone was getting momentum.
But they're making plays together there.
Look at that peek out onto,
I think it was Lars Murs on the switch.
It really was that C4, that triple C4 was the star
at the big momentum swing,
an absolute capitulation from Jiften.
And then listening to just the scuffs here,
you can see this, the complete difference momentum.
If you just hear the difference on one side,
He had shifters that were super quiet, were completely shut down.
After having led 5-2, they needed only two more rounds.
They could have made it.
And on the other hand, you just listen to the others,
and you can see the hype.
You can see the aggression.
You can see their faces.
They had a very different energy going into this.
And honestly, I'm so happy to see these guys finally
live up to these expectations and grasp the final slot
into playoffs.
We said it before, they were in a driving seat.
They took their responsibilities and they made sure this was going to happen.
Yeah, they did absolutely incredible stuff though for our balls.
The very final round, they snatched away this victory here.
The point is already enough, but then to close it out so quickly after they get what they wanted
and that is the most important thing for this matchup in regards to the standings though.
And unfortunately for the tension of the rest of the night that does remove a little bit of, you know, stress regarding that sixth spot.
We see there were two races, Jack.
Yeah.
One race has ended, and that is the playoffs race.
Twisted Minds will be missing playoffs
after being the best EML team at Soul Lake City.
Shifters who were supposed to benefit
from Twisted Minds dropping the ball,
who was supposed to be the consistent team
that made it to Munich before,
should have been making EWC realistically
if you just looked on paper at their performance
in the last few stages, have missed playoffs as well,
and out with the old, in with the new.
I think the one thing it's shown actually is we've now got much much much more competitive
email than what we started with what we thought we started with all the way back play they
won. We thought a secret might be a week before heretics might be weak. That transpired,
but that kind of cluster all the way from eight place up to what fourth place now is
absolutely anybody's guess is how that's going to shape up long term.
All right, well, I would love to have a look back at the power ranking that you made at
the beginning of the stage at some point and see how that's kind of like made it made
us way out. But you know what the good thing is sometimes in this league, we sit down with
players and we get to hear about their stories, how they got here, everything they've conquered
to get to this point, but this time around we were lucky to also sit down with our analysts
to kind of see everything that goes on behind the screens and making power rankings,
crashouts on the streams and crunching numbers.
Hey, my name is Alfama, I'm 26 years old, and I used to be a professional player on this game,
and I've been an analyst for it on every sports broadcast for the past four years.
Hey, I'm Fresh, I'm an R6 Esports desk analyst. I previously was a team analyst for G2 and KLC
I think the one thing that Jack brings me is, first and foremost, he had the experience.
So when I started this job, I had no idea what to do.
So he took me under his wing to kind of tell me.
And I think he gave me a frame in which I could express myself.
I think where he really shines is he will find a way to tell a story that I will never
think about.
Sometimes I just throw an idea at him.
Here is the story I'd like to tell, but I don't know how to execute it, I don't know how to tell that story.
He's going to find some cool statistics to just show how this player has done this thing or this story that I would never think of.
So that to me is like his superpower, his ability to tell stories in a way that no one else can.
I think what Leo brings to the broadcast and what he brings to the Amnesty Desk is an unwavering commitment to be better in everything that we do.
He's always striving for how do we do this process better, how do we make this better on the broadcast?
And you can see that through the televisions that he does, that's the first thing that came
on and he was like I'm going to make televisions amazing. So we went from it just being a top
down drawing some lines to now we've got these cool cinematic shots and we really get to tell
that story and express it and that's been a big reason why you know for the ELL, the EU desk
in terms of the growth that we've had. When I was a player and when I started I think I really had
had a great game vision, but I was never one of these guys that will have a crazy aim.
So the way I did things to make sure I was going to go pro is I specialised in being
a support player, having great comps and bringing synergy to a team.
Joining G2 was kind of crazy actually because I'd never played the game at a professional
level and Hengu and Fabian were two massive names on that roster.
And I realised that they were big jokers, but actually they would listen to me as long
as you have valuable input and wasn't afraid to tell them no.
There was one time at the Six Intersional 2020, I had to convince Fabian for four hours to play
glass on a site where he just did not want to do it and he was sat in the corner and was like,
I'm not doing it, I'm not doing it. I was like Fabian, you are and you will and it will work.
And eventually he did it and it worked against BDS at the time and he was like, I should have
listened to you sooner. So I was with G2 and then I moved on to Chaos through 2020 and then
after leaving Chaos, to be honest I was actually a little bit dumb with the game and that's when
Ubisoft UK came to me and they said hey we've actually got a fill that we need on our tier
three broadcasts. Would you like to fill for a couple of days? And I thought okay yeah it could
be fun why not. I've never even thought about doing anything on camera and then I enjoyed it
and Ubisoft sat me down the next week and they said you you really know your knowledge you've
got a lot of knowledge about the game but your on-camera presence is terrible but we'll work
through that with you. One thing that people don't realize when they watch their broadcasts they
Spare often judge people because they see the outline of the players on their screens.
They tend to forget that the players that are playing, they don't see the outlines.
And most of them, they're advancing blind.
And so most of the time, the intel that they're gathering is not enough.
And so they have to make miscalculations.
Sometimes they have to take decisions that won't be the right ones.
But that's what's making the game insane in my opinion,
is that some of these guys, they're able to make the best possible decision
based on very few information.
That's the best idea on my mind.
I think there are many things that we see that viewers don't set home first and foremost because we're given more information.
So when they watch the game, they watch a masterful collaboration between the in-game director, multiple POVs,
three cam top down, but the in-game director needs to choose what is showing to the viewer.
So he's like crafting live with like multiple POVs, a beautiful scenery. That's his job.
Our job is to make sure that we have access to all of these theories and we always focus on the most important and interesting stuff.
So we do watch Freddy's pulling together, but we also sometimes only watch the top down to figure out what's going on with the rest of the team.
And also sometimes have the team comes sort of like, wait, I'm not reacting properly, what are they saying?
Okay, so we get more intel.
So those are things that we get and we hear that people at home, they can't get.
And then from that, we extract, I guess, a depth of strategy or depth of information.
That's kind of cool to know, like, oh, we know the background story of why they came up with this rush.
And it's crazy for us, because we, like you say, we get to see everything.
But then there's tools such as the match replay tool, which you can go in.
And then you realise just how much a round of siege can come down to one moment.
So there's a very famous example at Six Invitational, where there was a plant going down on Nighthaven lands.
And the defender threw out a proximity alarm near the plant, so that the Fatcher would then EMP that and then knock the C4.
We thought that it was a C4, so EMPed the wrong thing, and then the C4 followed and he was like,
oh no, and then blows up. Incredible.
And I think that's one thing that people don't realise, especially at a pro level,
is one round can be one or lost based on one micro-decision that potentially nobody has ever
even thought of. When that happened at the Sixth Computational, nobody had even really thought
of that before. Now it's very commonplace, but, and that's the crazy thing about CJ, it's got so much
depth to it.
And that is exactly why you two are sitting here, to really describe every intricate detail, all the in-depth and stuff as well.
But something I really enjoyed in this interview too, is you two kind of being very humble and thinking of our production as well in all the little details that go into creating the things like the telestrator segment.
And all of that, the work that production does behind the scenes, we got to have a peek in production as well, which is quite interesting as well for our viewers at home.
But the work that goes into that to really create the product that we all try and put out to get here.
It's a real, it really is a real team product, you know, we're on the fair, we're kind of doing it here, but we're supported by so many people behind the scenes that ultimately make us look good, and they'll go above and beyond for us as well, which is, you know, obviously, why EML and the majors and everything works so smoothly.
That's the main thing for me is they make us look good, and I hope that they make you entertained, and that's the big thing, like, graphics, the replay packages, the cinematic packages, the illustrations, well, all the things that you see put together, it's a team of about 10 people that work behind the broadcast.
that you don't get to see but we get to work with them every day and so to these guys a big thank you
because it's thanks to you that we have such a cool show today. I like to think that collectively
we strive for being better than just good enough right that's the kind of idea that we have with
the broadcasts here but that's also the stuff to be expect from our players because just making it
in the top four is not going to be good enough you want to make sure that you get even higher to
then force yourself against easier opponents for the matchup after that and that is going to be the
the story for our next matchup here between Falcons and Verdi's Pro. The last time these
two teams played, it denied Verdi's Pro the chance of playing Main Stage in Salt Lake
City and this time around, Verdi's Pro might have the chance of denying Falcons and making
it into a top four position. So a lot is on the line for that, but Verdi's Pro need to
lock in. A seven game win streak and the yesterday, what was the big reason for them losing out
that game?
Well, I think we saw their coaches go on Twitter and trying to explain what was going wrong
with that team. I think it was a real big test for them and Dark said, we lost to G2 today,
we started very unfocused and it just kept getting worse during the attack. We definitely
didn't play to our full potential while G2 was very confident. The next match will be
a great show. Apologies to our fans. And I think it's exactly the reaction we expect,
right? For VP, it's a team that was super consistent, flawless up until yesterday against
G2 and it was supposed to be a big test. Here at Jack2day, they're facing Falcons. I need
a reaction for them. If they don't win, I need them to be combative. And at least another
the top four. You know, the
the top four teams are very
likely to play Falcons next
week in the upper bracket for
a spot even you see. So this
game is a precursor that you
already said Falcons have
denied the ones they can now
deny the two three times, you
know, over the last three or
four months, so I think for VP
is a big step up and then just
a reminder for the top four
Rex Falcons. They do need one
point to secure top four. If
not, then it will go on to the
next match in the fanatic
result. So six rounds is going
to be enough for Falcons here
bracket as well, which we keep on talking about. That is the importance of making it
to top 4. But, since this is a bit of a preview of a Vesto 3, today we're actually just at
a Vesto 1, and that means we only get to go to Lair.
I don't know what's going on with these two teams, but every single time they play each
other, it's Lair. The last two times that Falcons have played Lair was against Virtus
Project. And they're going to Lair third time in a row. Like, what's going on with
this? I don't know. It's a weird one. And then also, by the way, it's been really back
like Falcons they won the last one very close to 7-5 and VP they won the last one 7-4 so like it's
it just keeps on changing between the two of them. The top teams will often have one map that they
just seem to always end up going on and maybe Lyra is it for these two, Leia. It's a weird one.
I don't know but it's really back and forth and so out of the last two times they played it,
we'll see who is the one that wins the best of three I guess, of flair and who makes it and who's
the king of flair between the two. And then we'll see as I decide and I'll explain another
Imagine if you could see the BF3, that would be cool.
A technical BF3 inside a BF1 will be no, this is very likely a matchup to get next week as well in a BF3, that is too many numbers.
I say we get the game going, send it back to our casters.
Thank you very much, Anne, and Leo, and Fresh.
We find ourselves here, I'm going to get into a second minute, we've been laughing a lot, we'll get into that.
I mean, I think that 66% in favor of VB. Is that high? I don't know. I thought it would be
I thought it would be a lot of
games than that. You've got you've got two sides here who know are great.
VV is obviously the kind of top commodity this year. But then again, you look at
falcons and they kind of got the pedigree. They've got the experience almost
the back up, don't they? So it's a weird one. It's the weird one in that we've seen
obviously falcons struggle, which we're not always used to seeing. The fact
that they haven't secured sort of top four. Yeah, it's the same play day that GK
have done it fine but you can't have done it and you have them you know taking some
uncharacteristic sort of losses and long matches and yet that is pro unbeaten until
they got beat by the other unbeaten team on paper as solid as anything right yeah
but you know there's even the split by the program first for all this
Falcons this is a game where you sort of get yourself driven and you find
everything balance and you could find on the best day you would look at this and be like this is
going to be an all-time matchup right and it often is it's just falcons haven't always been on their
best today recently they're still trying to find their shape after obviously the big big roster
change other one on the year of jumen i think for falcons you can get out and they're not the same
unstoppable force where they come in every stage year after year and pop the pops yeah they've
They've obviously had that shift.
Shaco moving away from the site this year
has obviously been the biggest change
we've seen come out of this side.
Really sexy fact joint.
So I think maybe Calico Falcons, yes,
it's kind of new territory for them.
It made a big roster change after a long time,
bringing in June, and they've just had
to kind of work through that.
But I said Falcons still have to at some points
a little bit wobbly and certainly can be taken advantage of
for VP like you mentioned outside of the G2 games nobody has really been able to touch them.
Well let's see if they will be humble to demo.
If they have two losses in a row here now the immediate pressure will be in fact
driven on get rid of the hard breach on the side and more than practice unable to get rid of that
It does give them obviously the angle they can open on, put the pressure on, and stop them going so aggressively on certain swings, but for the meantime, it's not an entrance route, right?
The idea is you wouldn't need it to be, unless you're really coming up with a plan B at that point. Get the things in underneath, try and find and force the players further and further out.
So we're fragging it.
So they put their pressure on towards Rocket stairs, but probing approach from the side
of Falcons.
They did their toe-ins on towards Arkbond towards Rocket, across the hour of the site
itself.
You can see obviously users on the far, far side of the duck beak can still have a bit
of an impact, but otherwise they could probably put pressure on towards the Ark window.
Hmm, where's Brody, just don't giving them a thoughty yet.
for VP they know the score looking at the lineup it's traditional you have the
smoke you have the tachanka it is about keeping those important operators alive
have you skies on a more aggressive position using those smokes early to
deny access to bathroom as they know they still have that tachanka can't just
rotate into the default position look at where falcons are they're not gonna go
Cross infantry ops and look for that default plant position in the side of the rainforest. We're all building out of the shift towards green.
You know? Well, she's lost her first player in June as almost the dust as well.
That's the problem that the tank has actually mauled him out of that position.
Oh, no, for three days. He's stuck in a hot position with two mortars on either side of him.
he's okay still for falcons they've lost that extra man and they still need to
try and work this plan
now this thing is always gonna put big big limitations depending on what you've
already done and where you want to go three days in the meantime the kit 30
seconds it's just gonna have to try and drive the fight here on green and all
supporters come around to set uses one towards that art window is gonna get a
bit of a pinch pressure but they don't really need to go through the immediate
swing out until the force starts to come through a bit of a confusing fire there, but he definitely
can't swing for a second as the shield wants to slip its way inside. There's a swing round
pressure on towards the black beard itself, but it's due over the shoulder that gets two.
Fine skies, fine stands, fine seven seconds left. They're just going to send themselves
in. He's off the three, it's fire either side. He's got to watch two different directions
and Rorick goes down in the meantime, they've got to cement the plant and they can't quite
get through it. Doom! So they were trying to find their structure, but that's one thing
He can always do just make around his
Forekite get things off for June and
For Falcons wasn't a lot going on for them. You kind of looked at them and thought right
You've got the black beard trying to work the plant. They're still at a chanca. There's players tucked in pretty difficult positions to deal with
How do you kind of win this and I think this is what we've talked about with the top sides?
They've got players who can just step up and went around off the backs.
And that was really it for June. Just appears to have a double kill and all of a sudden, BP have collapsed
because they've lost those initial two gunfights for June.
So, four Falcons, structurally, wasn't, I think, in a great position
because they did lose that opening kill, so they could just be stalled out with a chanker.
But whatever you have a player as great as June, who can just pop up and surprise you
with two kills out of thin air, that is the difference maker.
That is the game changer.
And that's what Falcons have in abundance.
And we've kind of seen that throughout this stage.
I don't think Falcons have been fantastic.
I think they've been decent enough to get them to where they are, but if you actually
look at some of the rounds that Falcons have won, it is sometimes down to players just being
out of their their mind and making these insane plays you don't necessarily see all the time
at the moment you're seeing all the time for falcons but it's just the kind of question of is that
going to be sustainable for long enough because for falcons it's not the case of oh we want to
you know we want to qualify for events i think for a side like this that's the given you're going
to be at those events for this side it's winning those events that's what they're after and if you
want to do it in the national stage you need to clean things up in your your own region you need
You need to make sure you are the dominant side.
So, the Falcons, I think getting into a top four,
don't think that'll be the biggest issue for them.
And obviously they're in top six.
We'll see them in the best of breeze
where we expect them to do well.
It's how can they kick on from that?
They're already kicking in deeper to the round now.
We're getting pressure on towards the side of the site itself.
They've got themselves handles on the warehouse.
You can see tube from the far side of the left,
they're trying to put the pressure.
They want to get the pinch on the back of this class,
but it's almost like they can keep sort of pushing them
back in towards the site. Well, with the lineup they've got, with the person they've lost,
they're not going to be doing much first. Galatyr's the stairs, he wanted to be in Lockers, and
he was. Briefly. Then he got killed. Now, if the man daps a bit and clashes on the board,
there's a lot of awkward, that they're going to have to try and just wriggle their way around
here, and go for the pressure itself, they can still see the pings above, there's still
the best of being watched, and it's like some two stories of it. Pasha, with the solar,
There's a long, long line up in a easy, easy drop on towards Alton's player to try and
slip their way through.
He uses a bit of damage from a swing through the fire and what's going on here, no, man.
Sorry, mate.
A bit of traffic on that fire line.
It was like my right game was at full an angle, and that at least, uh, excuse me, wait, there
needs to be a clip played right now, it's just a Desert Tim and Olly, thanks, I'll try
Oh my god, I wrecked the other night.
Hilarious team kill.
I'm glad that...
I'm glad it existed.
I'm glad the class is still standing here.
Yeah.
It's just holding the line.
Backstab. Is there for me?
Factifies too.
Now it's potentially doable here for Falcons
You could just put the shield on ya mate, but no!
Can't you play God up? Oh, it's the Reef like!
It's a flank on a flank!
Rorik, what's going on?
And now Solotov!
In the 1 meter, it's been spawning its head again!
Up and down, back and forth!
Solotov, he should know where Rorik is and Rorik thinks,
well, I'm happy here, I'm gone, 10 seconds!
I'll leave it at hands of Pasha, he's above in the solace!
should be able to stop this, seize the plant position, has the shotgun, but Rorick beats into it anyway.
Wow, almost a turnaround there for Falcons with VP, Rorick especially, able to hold on.
Flank on a flank. It's like a hat on a hat, just got out of there as well. It was great,
great cool, great, great read. It was like, oh, I don't want to give him this fight. I don't want
to give it a one versus one. Every time we turn back to pasture, it just seems he was doing a little
bit more home demolition and try to find his angles above. But most importantly, he was there when
they needed him the most. G-FAC obviously getting the 3K, almost getting him back in. It's just
brilliant. There's the drive. Get some stuff on there and just swing after swing in the class with
the shield. Not where they kind of want the shield to be at that point. And there's the flank on the
the flank. Massively important. Heal there obviously if he had to condense himself to
force, probably around. Even with this solid spot.
Might have to make jokes about the video though. Was on left.
You saw it, it was a wonderful sort of demonstration of Leo and Thresh.
Yeah.
How great they are.
Two very humble kings.
Very humble kings.
I was about two minutes about how great they are.
Great at their job.
And I was just so humble.
Meanwhile, it's the Glacier Festival.
They've been humble.
Yeah.
We don't even go on camera nowadays, mate.
I'm changing this.
The economies and shambles.
Oh, well.
At least you can hear us.
And like, what? They're only on camera for like, 2,000 hours.
That's true.
Yeah, that's it.
We're making these jokes because they might have their airpaces in.
Yeah.
I'm excited to see my WhatsApp layup.
What a piece.
We love them.
What a piece.
VP, they're able to snatch back that round.
As he said it, the delicate balance of great teams comes down to clutch moments.
Right, when you have two of the best teams against each other,
you almost expect to see more of these football players because they force it out of each other, they force that extra mile.
That's sprint at the end of a marathon.
And then we come because you've got somebody hot in your tails.
And that's where they're sort of getting themselves set up here.
Towards Master Arthur's and our sixth run.
No one's choking. Pumping its pressure around, but otherwise interrupted, unimpeded work,
all the fighting rocket stairs. He was not aware of it. Paster actually ran on the back.
Another flank. It's a lot of those so far in this game. Good target though from VP, realizing
that hey, there's gonna be a demo downstairs. We need to try and get on to him and make sure
he can't do what Stamos does best. Clear players out of their strong positions via
the vertical holes that you can make of course with that pistol. So now for Falcons, how do
you clear away this player off and rock at stairs? Rorick is in a great spot right now.
He's even lost his phone, so there's not much that users can do against him and if it is
a shotgun, who really wants the challenger? I dare say, nobody.
So this guy's going onto this down, they put out in the smoke, they try and put their pressure
along the side, they've got C4 over the top, which will buy them a second! That could not have been
a Tide of Martyrs, as I said, the Monarch of my success here is those!
Two to three. They're on each other's shoulder, but they've got 30 seconds to try and crack into
a site. Now they've done some of the hard work, but the problem is that to Chanquer and that smoke,
they cannot just plant on the default. There is no way that that can happen whilst Virtus Pro are
paying attention, and that's probably what they're discussing right now. 20 seconds, do you just
They've got to see if they can try and bait out at least one of these engagements, but they're covering the door as well. Why not?
They still have 12 canisters and another smoke sent. Everything on fire make it literally impossible.
And what can they do here, demo? Absolutely nothing. But watch the seconds flip away and watch the bodies follow suit.
Yeah solid from VP. Never in doubt good utility at the end there to make life a misery for the remaining Falcons players.
Obviously that opening pick doesn't help them a lot in this game so far for Falcons they've lost every engagement at the start.
So it's certainly a stat that we're always interested in.
At the moment, BP on top of that, freeing out on the opening picks, the Falcons, falling behind just a tad here.
Obviously this was the issue, it was that war it was, the war that you just sit here, cause a lot of pain and misery,
Shucked on close. I said who really wants to challenge it and then you still got all
that util in the back pockets. You can just stall that around with. Clear. Clear and dry.
I think they're for VP. No issues for them. Let's first them now into our third bombsite
choice. This is always the interesting one. I think out of all the bombsites, I also think
this might be my favorite just because I like seeing how it plays out. Because you have
have to be very precise in terms of what you're going to go for.
Yeah.
Two ways to attack it.
You try and clear above, which as you know has its own problems because you're basically
attacking the top floor again and that can be a bit of an issue.
Or you try and go direct, you try and ignore the players above, but then you need to bring
in certain operations.
You need to look at your sense.
Your games, for example, who can block the line of sight, impair the vision of the players
upstairs holding the vertical angles.
And I mean you look at the fastest line up, I see the sense, so they can go direct if
they want to, they take in towards green.
And we look towards down on that soul, it's being the key figure, actually trying to stop
that plant.
It's a very punishing sight, like if you make one mistake from the attack perspective,
Brown's done.
It also, I think, it's also one of the sights where it lends itself well to creativity.
The creative option is always gonna be sort of best pushed on towards a territory site,
on towards a site where the unexpected is harder to prepare against.
You get established routines on your primary, on your sort of secondary.
You get routes in and that sort of cone of possibility, I've always found, gets wider
and wider as things get further and further out.
Why not bring something a bit more interesting?
This could be the sort of closest drive about that, is that high enough green?
Obviously they want to try and get themselves set up to catch, right?
If they can be in this position on towards that window, watch for anybody to try and slip their way down and then...
...take them and push them off. But taking them and pushing them off is that challenge, or it's above.
Ooh, and Skye's is no longer in that central position.
E-Fak gifted an early body there and, well, what a falcon's gonna make use of it.
I have a good go now, the Falcons try and ignore, some of the players above can still stab them.
They try and venture too far towards green as they've got a player stuck in wait for them.
Skybridge can be soloed off but as expected, Falcons now working the site, they have the
sense for a reason. Dan, that is who we look at. This is the player who has to try and
stop this plant from coming in. A minute remaining. Balkans, making a good position to try and
go for this. It comes down to the counter play.
The counter play is unfortunately not going to cost it the first plant being put together
and they're actually going to stick it out because it might be the only plant that they need
because they're able to pick up every other body perfectly placed and very well watched and now
a four versus two post blunt. I can see if they can try and fight out towards EFAC first of all,
but only he's got that secondary and he's more than happy to let it sink around the corner.
It's a selfie. I'm going to get very far with it though. I'll play it by Rorik, but that's one
three more still to find as well as the kit itself. They've got themselves the whip,
that's great intel and a great double for june. Yeah, great from falcons like that.
Having that, uh, can I extra man the fact that they were able to win that opening pick?
They can then start forcing players upstairs. Yes, we know that falcons were gonna look to
use that sense of just walking into the bombsite and planting under the cover of the screens.
They weren't really too fast and taken the entire top floor. They're still happy enough to give the defenders that
But as all of that pressure is being applied, whenever the slings guy just start rolling in,
Freddy starts moving into the bomb site. Those players with VP, they're kind of caught in between two mines.
Do you one, look down the birds and hope you can stop the plant coming in? Or two, do you fight the players above?
Either which way it's gonna end with either the fusor being planted or you losing your life.
The players that they send him upstairs, Solotov, he doesn't matter if he dies, he's there just to cause a distraction.
Dan had to stop tracking, he had to kind of pull off from using his gadget to kill Solotov, and then that's where Bridey's able to find the plant.
So for Falcons, it's plant oriented, it saves that's their main focus, and players are happy to put their bodies in the line to make that happen.
This level tagging is kind of everything that we want from this fight, right?
It's everything that you would sort of go into this engagement, as we said.
On many other days, this is your blow for blow map.
This is your sort of set up and knock them down game.
This is your one of, let's just sit back, get the popcorn out, and let's just let two
great teams going ahead there and sort of getting that and has it been them at their
best? I don't think so yet because starting to get the taste of those moments there's
little flanks, there's little bites, the little drives there and as I said the
previous site but as they go a bit wider you can see now Breede they're trying to go for a
similar approach they did last time cut their way across the flank on the flank
might be the driver. Don't really seem interested in the verticality, do you think?
No direct again. Falcons, very keen on establishing their foothold into
blockers and then trying to formulate their ideas from that. Nice, that's it.
This is very well for last time. Upstairs on the solace. These are the double sets of
floors. We'll pick up a little bit of utility.
With the VP, you should be aware that Falcons are just going to run it back pretty much.
Just do the same thing, try and go very direct over the horizontal side.
It's interesting enough that Jim's actually in towards that top floor now and maybe on the hunt.
By himself is a great operator to go room hunting for you.
If you can get him into the right position, in towards the middle of the map, you can get a really good radius of course with that scanner.
They can find a whole lot of information.
I think right now for Juma, don't think it's the case of trying to hunt these rumors.
It's just toward them off.
And yeah, he's been able to find Pasha doing that.
Pasha boosts the aggressive play, loses that engagement.
And now for Falcons, they sit one man up, a little bit of a ver- it can still work if
they've got hatches now that they can utilize.
For VP, maybe have to try and go a little bit aggressive here.
At this point, that leaning in, as you said, getting aggressive might be that.
You can see Roryc drips himself outside. He was slightly round the back of it, but it buys the space.
But that and Skye is the C4 over the top for Solotov, has a double down response for a two versus one.
Both these teams now went to step in, and both these teams keep hitting hard.
Oh, this is a great game.
VP and Falcons going blow for blow.
and Falcons this time around successful on that basement site, but that early pick onto
the Solis makes life very easy for them. Once again, I mean, similar last time, it was very
up and down. It kind of swings back in for Fus and the lead and not for Solitov. Just
cares his way in. Tray in for Tuxin. He'll find kind of big kills as well with the Neko.
I think they got caught out didn't they by the the air jab three kills for him in the rounds
Dp
I lost that thing that they had earlier. That's too in a row for falcons and
Falcons opportunity here a four two half and they're not too shabby
I think that's always the element of it right where the vidas pro for how strong they were
There's a famous adage about horses. What happens when you get knocked off, Demo? What do you got to do?
Hey, he knows the very classic phrase about horses. One of two. Do you know what the other one is?
What's that?
When you lead a horse to water, you can't make it play in the maximum rank without forcing them.
forcing them. Three to two and you can go on the one. Yeah. A lot of horses would walk
in the bars. Oh, that's how could I forget about alcoholic horses? Truly a cornerstone
of comedy. Something in my long face. Oh my god. Okay, there's so many horse face
phrases. We just always love horses, I suppose. Anyway, what I love is the chance to see,
you can see the double mirror window, it makes that breach on the other side awkward, but
now they can't trick it so much they can pop it and put some pressure on, but they're
playing with impact and they know that was going to come together, but the impacts they're
playing with are just G4 based, they have nothing to directly stop that outside of shooting
them and making the use of the utility a bit more tight bag.
When you look towards the utility there, we've got two shellmas to play with and that is
it for the remaining hard breach.
I don't know if that user is just watching Joom slowly into the building, I need to keep
going to school with the mobility of the jankers causing problems on the approach of the top
of green.
Quiet, the moment here for falcons who dare say that things are going to explode very
suddenly of course with two shields is usually how it goes. Keep an eye on where
Brede is gonna go, he's the player with the diffuser, so wherever he wants to go
that's the side that Falcons wants to target the most.
Who was thinking about just playing in towards the green so you can maybe fly
to pick into the exit door but I was turning his attention I assumed towards
either Artwind or in towards Batram. There is now this course pushing in towards
Rocket Stairs, they have that much ready to see if they can grab the shot just
Just run straight through the gas!
Ah, Skies picked up an easy double!
Doom! Oh! Never mind!
Responsive to the zone stalls when it's down, but...
A.B. could still be recovered.
Doom has to make that big survive, but no!
A barbed wire baits him in.
He just had to punch it.
And because of that, Dan takes a very easy kill for users in the same pause.
Able to find him, and...
It's gonna go for the revive now.
So after all of that, it ends in a 2v2.
I mean he has to go for the revive right and it buys some time for them to reposition
they still have to see for this they obviously have you know just shy of a dozen in the shumiko
launcher now it recollected the kit but the breach is wobbly there's no way in other than
this door in the Dejanka they're holding the split on it they're pre-fire with the LMG
the smokes and the blinds come out he can't quite hit the fire itself but they've got
to move behind it they're blinding themselves in and amongst the mix of it and he's open
The cover, Pasha, gets the man with the kit,
those that use it, pass the drive-in
to the engagement, but Pasha holds out,
and again, edge of your seat rounds,
and again, both teams just swinging haymakers
at each other's holds,
and we will send it to our studio to break it down.
I feel like this final round was such a good display
of everything we've been treated to so far this game,
the excellence, and we expect this game
go to full distance but even these rounds are going to full distance as well. Yeah it's high
intensity gameplay from two teams that are exceptional at this game and it goes a lot of
the time in the late rounds because that's the win condition for VP realistically. If you look at
this round in round three you see Roryx then he's three forward to goal this position onto main
stairs despite the fire he will get a second pick here and eventually just like in that very last
round he gets traded. It's the same scenario yeah two kills on the main stairs and a trade
But the thing that we see here, like, look, the gas grenades, the fire, beautiful, right?
And then you look on the other side, Jack, and you see that the opposites Falcons are perfectly
also able to pull their own late round situation, to win their own executes.
The trading game is insane. Every single time they kill someone, a trade comes in,
up until the very last round, where it's the same thing again. It's beautiful.
This game is a CHPR stream, isn't it? It really is. It's teams taking map control,
allowing map control, getting to the execute, testing the execute, there's no hubris plays,
there's no mindless aggression, everything's calculated, everything's timed to perfection.
Except for when you punch a barbwire with a shield and you expose your head on the site.
Okay yeah, apart from that. But generally these two teams, and it's like watching a chest match
unfold in real time, with the two IGLs going at it, with the two teams going at it in syncing
synergy, and I think it's really, really high quality, both for these two teams. I think from a
of a Falcons perspective, especially. I'm really happy to see that because we've seen
a lot of them play. We've seen them play a lot of maps, you know, such as border, for
example, where actually they've, you know, it's about gunfights. It's about aggression.
It's about showing off individual ability. We've had to see in solos of the guy on the
screen there. Drop crazy numbers. We've seen them play those kind of maps, but then to
go into a map that's a bit more strategic, a little bit more thinking and a little bit
more working through and problem solving. It's been great to see, especially against
a team with VP whose strengths are just that.
And then going into the second half here any kind of operator best we expect to be taken out on a map like there
I absolutely love these army man. I feel like teams don't do it enough on this map
As I mean so strong on pretty much every single bomb site best special on that top floor bomb site
apart from the one that you showed Leah where you can now double impacts with a Zofia apart from that, you know the
I think his army is strong, but we don't see teams go for it
We tend to see them go for bandit and then Kate and I would imagine that's exactly
play what that's probably what go for and on a set of Falcons no surprise removing as many shields as
possible because they're gonna play VP and we all know how they abuse them. It's almost like you
guys are you know this is your job and this is something that you do on the daily basis talking
about the expected operator bands but let's be honest this game so far has been an absolute
feast to be watching and makes me very excited for the eventual best of three that we get between
two teams before we get there let's continue with this best of one well we
will find ourselves back in an even half demo is something that you and I have
felt allergic to or maybe hydrophobic of it just slips on past us here we have it
and here we have it with two great teams in great moments as well don't get me
wrong you know you sort of look towards June 9 and 4 or a second 5 we both have
But it's never really felt out of hand for either team to take the round.
Yeah, I think it's been a great display of seed from both sides.
And I think obviously for that first half of VP, they put the red blocks in place.
You know, they knew what they were doing, they had some really strong power positions.
And Valve has just smashed into it, and they came out of that.
You know, sometimes worse, sometimes actually pretty good.
good so both teams have not shied away from one another there's no timidness at
all inside this game is very out of it of what both teams want to do but now we
have the sidespitch this is where things are going to change it up. VP what's
their attacking philosophy how do they want to try and tackle Falcons? See
Falcons I would say are very worried about the shields because you've got
obviously Neko is being the kind of resident shield main in VP for the
first time in a while there's no shield. You know Neko instead is on the glass so the flash isn't
going to get as much value. Same with the Ella. I mean obviously still is going to have its
benefits of course but I would say those two operators brought specifically to counter the
shield play that VP likes to have. At this the player against or what can otherwise not be there
is going to be instead of Carly stepped up into the mix not the most common operator but
Yeah, when you're playing against the shots, maybe just trying to put some deeper destruction
on towards these mirror window holes, these swings that otherwise are a bit more comfortable
to let them impact play, but yeah, missed and just sort of hit themselves a little bit.
That's all right, that's what keepers are for.
pretty default right now for VP.
Alls are being opened up.
Now you're moving towards the side walls.
They've issued out of that mirror window
to be in place there.
Asher, opening pick for him.
Just sitting out and enjoying a good time in the rappel.
And Rory also makes some pretty big strides with that shock
and then hand takes into a rocket stairs.
So everything now for VP is going well.
They have what they need.
They've got control of mezzanine.
They've got the breeches opened.
All they have to do now is run up some of the uterine saltwater and white.
Zoom takes a lot of damage, but it's still standing and can still try to be a threat.
You know what, he's capable of with a single bullet.
Just trying to do the same with a single bit of health.
You can see the clash is going to be a problem here as well,
but as the pressure comes in from that swing,
the two rifles, it's guys that actually rifles through and finds two.
Roryk, the first to go down technically, but not entirely out.
And he can't quite finish the kill off either way, but Dan's gonna plant in the meantime and draw the focus and aggro an attention away there.
Watching, well covered and baited, the fire is too little too late and he can't catch them on the way out the door.
A wonderful execute there.
From VP and they've just sort of disappeared now.
Towards the A to... fine. They found Pasha, but look at this for a retake.
Gonna do all the nightmare you're gonna have trying to get it.
And at least one.
That is all.
Yeah, fantastic for VP.
Using the util really well.
They knew what they wanted to do.
Again, very traditional, very default of a take
that we're used to seeing, but done
to an extremely high level.
I think the fact that they knew, as soon as they have
that bad advantage, they can just
start overwhelming the players in sight.
No, Brittay has to make a decision.
Does he hold to the chanker?
Does he just sit there, keep using the molotovs, or does he have to play gun up because he
starts getting pressure faking?
I just can't sit here.
If I have my launch trial and a guy swings me, I can't fight back, I'm dead instantly.
And I think that is the difference maker.
Because VP were able to find some of those picks, I think it was a 5v3, was it, that
they sat as they were kind of starting to work the plant?
Then they know they have the extra few men they can just utilize, and they do it so effectively.
the Falcons. Maybe ship up more of a fight I guess in towards Rocket, but at the same
time whenever you're being grimmed and being yanked and a glass is also there. I would
probably fall back, I think most people probably would fall back. You don't really want to sit
in that mess.
Out of this there, I'm going to fall back to a different site if they can try and get
their luck elsewhere here Falcons. It's the weird sort of split of how everything is pieced
together for them, right? Obviously we've talked about the expectations of these teams,
we talked about it when we had the very beginning, the sort of split of how well they've been
performing as teams, and the fact that it was, I think, about 70% roughly people's
favorited, the Virtus Pro is taking back itself.
We began to sort of break down of it, and how they've been operating as a team.
And it's not that they're a million miles away, they're the third best black and team out of everybody.
The problem is that they're sick for the fence, it's where they really sort of disappear.
In the meantime, Virtus Pro joined the best attacking team with G2,
and sort of started to play there in the second best fending team,
till you guessed it, G2.
Oh, they want to start that approach at least, oh ho ho, it almost caught him.
Well that's two of the nine lives for the cap there.
I'm going to have to try and blow up the van with this advantage, beating the sledge.
To break some of these holes for these roamers that are now just falling back to site.
So Falcons have completely moved on from holding that mid floor.
Happy enough now to fall back into the safety of the site.
So now for VP, that's about securing their staircases and maybe rotating Dan now into
the mid-floor and start using that slide-chammer on the actual site.
Keep here in a massively great position, mostly because look at the time, I mean minute and
remaining, you still have to go through the struggle of taking in for a boiler.
The boiler is still on board.
We can actually in the final few seconds or so, so for VP, time's off the essence here.
You can see the whips that they've applied to the know about the solace, june.
He's holding off towards the warehouse side and he's about to find some pressure on the
door but well I don't know about him, tracked by the daemon, comes to try and step in towards
the fight before the catch really comes together.
They want to learn of each other but there's always a pressure that can come from behind
june so we've got to try and fight his way out.
Look at the support that's come through but he can't quite get out of there in time.
He did buy a little bit of precious time down, is it going to be enough to try and convert
them?
No says pasture, as he cuts past one and the shield drives its way through on towards the
heart of the site itself.
It's now a two, no it's a one versus four demo, Vertus Pro, another brilliant collapse,
but in the final 10 seconds the dying froze around itself, they just cement it, Vertus
Pro to attacks in a row.
Oh, so good from VP once more, they're attacked so strong.
I mean, again for VP, you kind of look at it and they've only just gained mid-floor control and they've a minute left.
And yes, they have to move really fast and they're able to do it.
to do it. Now for Falcons, that's three rounds in a row that they've lost. I mean, the tide
has certainly turned and not in favour for Falcons. BP in this attacking half. Absolutely
mustard. Well, now what the Falcons do? I mean, the top floor hasn't worked out, the
basement hasn't worked out. We're going to go for the mid-floor. Going to keep up the
rotation. At this, I mean, you just kind of have to play as it's landing, right? It's
the first time that we've really had a distance between any of these two teams. Obviously,
we've actually got a really nice pattern going on. If Fankin's got one, then both teams
got two. Now, Virtus.Prior have three, so we are people that love to track patterns and
those pattern tracking brains that have got us so far, maybe. Falcons are about to get
three rounds. Maybe that's just wishful thinking. Thirdest pro. I'm not gonna say that we go
back to horse stories, but at this point they're very much well on their way of gapping towards
a decent result. The two attacks in a row and how they're able to make it work
is such a little bit of time left. It's actually something synonymous, you could say,
with some of the players on this roster and Yorg itself, with that late time execute, right?
There's a little bit of time left but they've done all the work to lead up to it
And then they just trust the collapse and here we're getting that through right here. We're getting
On a map that sort of offers itself well to prep offers itself well to build and cook time
Stimmers like a delicious stew
Don't tell me we're gonna be no more or four-sponsor me no
Oh skype is moving to killing
2-2 need them.
Yeah, we had a situation here for Vulcans, where for E-Fact,
it's a bit of a mixed bag here and the opening kills and opening deaths.
Has been involved in all of them, and he's 1-2 and lost 2.
This is where now may cause issues, because we see what Vulcans were able to do on this side.
Whenever they hit the Man of Vantage down VP, they've got to make that free players ahead!
Sure it's just a matter of time before they walk in and plan, I mean they've got half the round still to play!
Falcons!
Have absolutely muddled themselves in this round!
Here's this!
Take a bit of damage from the track, Stingers went first swing against Dan, he's still in a good position.
And Brita as well.
End up maybe a bit of a challenge for him, he himself takes more chip damage.
See the sense wall goes up today, doesn't know where to look.
The VP not wanting to jump the gun just went till everything's perfect and now
they're gonna go. It could actually be any potential things that could uproot the plant.
Jeff plant goes down. No VP out through the angles.
Really just demonstrating what has got them into this position right throughout
the league and the split. How well they're looking in how well they're looking back
out as soon as they've got the plant in place. The objective the way that they
just thread themselves in. Yeah, you know, we don't have to look bloody everywhere because
that's where Virtus.Pro put the pressure, that's where they built themselves too and
that's just round after round of excellence.
Oh VP, untouchable. Just on fire. Last time whenever we seen VP play, uh, Lair, it was
against Team Secret. We kind of walked away from that game thinking Team Secret maybe should have
got something. Because I don't think VP were massively impressed. I think there's some rounds
that they won that maybe they shouldn't have, but here today against Falcons, it is so just
straight to the point they know what they're doing and they're doing it in fantastic fashion.
It is such a strong showing here from VP.
and three attacks in a row.
Falcons is a little bit too late to call the timeout.
I think so.
But hey, we saw some timeout magic earlier on today, right?
We saw the best timeout magic possible when they're in a sort of strike place.
Trying to now think of different lightning based shanks, but there's not as many as horse
based shanks.
No, damn.
They're half-lap-flopped there, aren't they?
Ohhhh, well done.
People have decided that they think horses are cooler than lightning.
Please, leave your feedback in the comments.
Falcons, they've decided that...
Well, it's not too little, too late.
There's still a way to teach an old bird new tricks.
I'm just kidding, look at this.
There's one round like that again.
It's going to be one of the kind of deaths that frustrates looking back, right?
It's being caught like that. Beautiful take by users, but at that point, too little.
Unfortunately, too late. Here though, they can still have a conversation. Every single round is a fresh reset round, right?
Obviously, I don't know.
The fact that this game is sort of going its way, and...
Well I'm not gonna say they have an easy time over if they don't statistically they
probably have a harder time over it but Fnatic will be very happy without this game
of going and their chance at getting themselves jumped over Team Farthings and getting in towards
the upper bracket. Yep, opportunity, now a rise is here for Fnatic and less Falcons can
make a big ol' comeback. The way that VP have been playing their Siege is unlikely for them
at this point. VP, I mean they've won every defense that has been thrown at them. Out
of the three defenses, we're going to go straight back in towards that top floor. Like last
time we were here, VP just very standard, taking in towards ops, had the players push
up in towards rocket stairs, default lock position, yeah, no problem for them at all.
And one thing I must add too, is that for VP, they've already played the shield once.
I mean this is now their third round out of the four where there's no shield and again,
sometimes we kind of look at VP and think oh well you're always gonna see Neko on the shield
so he's always gonna be playing them.
He's able to do it without using the shields.
Just don't need it mate.
Don't need it, never wanted it.
Yes, Falcons. You can see that they tried to breathe out a bit there. Obviously, there's
no clash to meet the maker and just wants to play with an AWP a little bit and to be
very easily, pretty brilliantly last time, very responsive towards the pressure they
needed to apply, able to put the pressure on towards the mirror windows if needed, get
some of that range pressure in, but it feels, obviously, in looks. Basically, in the upper
or selection falcons they're more happy to sort of let them build as they wish and not
really give them those avenues of use. Instead, the glial pressure breathing out on towards
the sky walkway. You can see that, well the glass wants to take the fight, they have the
pings on it. They're actually going to slip their way down, wait for some support, you
can see they've been threat for the double up and I didn't even need it really, maybe
We gave them two objectives to hit, but that's now a first body.
It has taken some time out.
Yeah, C-Fact again.
Another opening death form, twice in a row.
Not great.
And this is where VP wanna be once again inside of Ops,
ready to open up that wall.
Just gonna take some time with it.
All three cells are still at the disposal of Skies.
Are they gonna use this glass?
I think the glass is more focused on trying to take in towards bathroom corridor.
I don't really see the glass be used all too much in towards the main site.
Use this on the pressure inside of bathroom as those condalers are in-tossed every which way.
Now VP, looking for the plant opportunity.
Wow, good catch in the end of that C4, but 20 seconds and everything is still on fire
and they still have a decent amount left to use, but as the slow-top goes down, as does the users of 5v2.
technically that's the problem they're playing on the back of a bit of trust
there and now it's just really left there's a matter of you have six
jimikers they can just do that. Virtus Pro brilliantly back absolutely swing
that one the defenses and what seemed like it could be a bit of a narrow
battle in the first half reveals itself to instead be that Virtus Pro train
Do we have a station and where is it heading?
Still a break.
Come on!
Stop!
Let's go!
What the fuck are you doing there?
Pick up the face.
I ain't no fucking wanker
I ain't even gonna count you
Bring it right to the door
If I didn't tell you it couldn't be done
I ain't even gonna count you
To get the ass shit
We want the ass shit
Lights, lights, camera, kill
You get the ass shit
We want the ass shit
I
And just how Virtus.pro got denied playing Main Stage at the last of Falcons.
They now denied Falcons a shot at the top four.
Virtus.pro take the full three points and we get to speak to them.
We have NapeL on the line.
Good evening, Neko.
Congratulations on the victory.
Thank you very much.
That's the group stage done.
How are you feeling?
Yeah, group stage done.
I mean, feeling great about pitching Falcons.
It's a good team, so it always feels good.
I've done anything great about pitching Falcon.
It's a good team, so it always feels good.
And also, a good feeling, because we recovered from yesterday's performance.
We played very bad this Saturday.
And today, I think we came back and just played like VP plays.
So I'm happy with that game.
Yeah, speaking about the game itself, I think really the attacks were incredible.
Like, to quote something that I like very much in your team, Masterclass Bliett.
I think that's what he said at some point.
I was actually seeing Masterclass at the same time, so I just found it really funny.
Were you guys afraid to show these attacks to Falcons, knowing that you might be playing them in the playoffs?
Because I saw some innovative stuff, the Ying on Main Stairs, the Kali to stop the clash,
the Ying shot gun from below to kill the one playing there in the desktop.
There was so much new stuff, I loved it.
But I'm like, are you showing all of this now?
I mean, I'm gonna be honest, it's not like crazy hiking strats we showed.
Just like they, it's just depending on what people ban, like they ban our, like my shield.
So we'll spam the good ops we have, which is like heing, blasts and about the Kali.
Like we always have that crazy Kali player, only the one and the only one.
But yeah, we already added him, I don't think we showed like crazy strats.
So, yeah, I'm finding what we showed this match.
In terms of the game yesterday, Neko, obviously, it didn't go to fun.
What did you feel went wrong in that game?
Because essentially, that might be something that you maybe need to fix going forward.
Or was it just completely a one-off?
Yeah, I think it was probably just a one-off.
Like, I think Dark, like our coach, was just fully right from an outside perspective.
He just said, I don't know, guys.
I feel like you guys came after a full night off, you went to after-party, doing everything,
you didn't sleep at all, no one was talking, no one was playing together.
I don't know, maybe you were stressed and anything, but I think it was just a full off day for us.
Everyone was bad, it's not even like one guy selling the match, we just played bad as a team,
and so it resulted in this loss.
And yeah, G2 played well as well, I don't like, you know,
People always say when you lose, it's because only you play bad, they also play well.
So yeah, when you're against a team like G2, if you do these mistakes, you will get finished.
I feel like it's a very mature way of putting it.
But as you said, Neko, the group stage is now over.
Looking back at it, your favorite or maybe your best moment to get it with Voterspro?
Sorry?
Your favorite or your best moment in your opinion with Voterspro and group stage?
My best moment about this stage?
Yeah?
Ah, I mean the whole stage, just winning almost every match, it feels great, the whole stage.
If I have one moment, I don't know.
Just winning, after winning a match, I always have that good feeling.
So yeah, just the whole stage was feeling amazing.
Anil?
That's awesome.
I'm very glad for that.
Neko, thank you so much for your time and good luck next week in playoffs.
Thank you guys, have a good evening, bye bye.
Alright, I'm glad to see you're very happy, Neko, because it's only feel like it feels like a bit of short time since we had a Nego interview, so it was distraught even after winning, right?
But they won so much in this stage, and here again today, a big one against Neko.
It's been really great to see his growth as an individual across the last year, I will say.
You know, from going on a team that really didn't have expectations of making events, and it was maybe a surprise when you made it even with C-Lux, yeah?
to now a team that's absolutely dominating the league, more or less, you know, is in the fight for the first place,
depending on what happens in the next game, and just puts off, what do you say Leo,
an absolute masterclass of a game today as well.
Yeah, honestly, as soon as they switched to Attack, I was just baffled.
I think like, the climb back as soon as they went in Attack was just like,
just like a beautiful masterclass.
By the way, amazing free-cam there.
Our free-cam, operate our own game now, it's easy, caught every single kill, so,
Kudos to him.
Yeah, it's just going back to this.
The ability to just completely circumvent a classic set up with Warden, with Azami, with Smoke, with Tachanka,
to leverage the Kali, to leverage the Yingshotgun, to leverage the Glass.
It was beautiful.
It was beautiful, honestly.
And it gives me hope because we were asking the question,
question, is VP good enough to be the consistent team that beats all of the weaker teams but
can also beat the big teams in the league? And yesterday we were afraid because of that loss
against PSU. Today was a big test and today clearly the better team was VP like in all
accords. And I thought today was the big test because like I said they will be playing up against
the Falcons and the G2s. Maybe not for you to receive qualification that will be determined
but actually in the rest of the bracket to be EMR champions once we get past that phase.
And I think mentally, if you'd lost to both of them in the two best of ones leading into the playoffs, it could have caused some kind of spiral as it is huge performance today.
Masterclass, they'll be going into that just absolutely ready to go.
Like Salt Lake City all over again for them having to play against these big EML teams only.
But, Wave 4 of Warriors Pro have just done this kind of opens up opportunities, right?
For Falcons, this was their missed shot.
And that means there are opportunities for other teams to grasp at that top four position.
And that opportunity is definitely there for Fnatic in their next game.
Exactly. So in terms of this who makes top 4, we're looking at the table on the right-hand side of your screen.
Now we also know the GK results, so we're looking at the left column because GK got themselves a regulation win.
So what that means for Fnatic, therefore, to qualify, they just need a regulation win.
Doesn't matter the scoreline, doesn't matter any of the permutations that would have changed based on the scoreline.
They just need a regulation win and they will pass Fnatic, Falcons, and then they will make the top 4.
But they just did a win jack against G2?
Yeah, honestly, any other day of the week doesn't win perfectly fine.
But the issue more for Netekis, they're going up against a team that has this stage been undefeated.
The only team to do that so far.
And there's a very funny story in that because we talked about how long it's been since we had such a dominant team.
That was all the way back with BDS in stage 3 of 2021.
Kessler's player was on the roster.
That was Shaiiko.
And now he has a chance to do it again with G2 five years later as the dominant team to go flawless in the group stage.
Speaking of legacy, can you imagine like going through a full stage, not losing a single match five years ago?
Then five years down the road, you join a new team and you're still in a position to still go undefeated.
It's actually insane. The longevity of that player is incredible.
And also they're doing it after having played, you know, Falcons, VP, like the big names.
And no, it's only up to them to beat Natix.
One paper, they've dominated that matchup every single stage.
And I want to say he was a big part of it as well.
He got a 4K in one of the games where it was 5-6 down on 4K.
So he managed to get a 4K to win them the round
and then they went on and won the game from it.
So Shaco, big part of it back in 2021, but big part of it today in 2026 as well.
And you know what?
I'm just very confident that he's going to perform today
because he's on with his classic warm-up.
She's going in social media and having a smirk.
It is the main thing that Chaiko does to prep before a game.
As soon as he's in lobby with this, he's ready.
We'd love to see, I mean, their honor, their pride is on the line for this matchup, right?
But for Fnatic, what we are looking at is that one key for them to defeat G2
and be the first one really to take the victory over G2.
It needs to be done with clever plays, like we saw yesterday.
Yeah, yesterday I have one example I want to show of the team play that we see on the side of Fnatic.
You're going to see Solisnake, that citizen that is able to track if someone is going to play behind a desk.
Pay attention to the camps.
There's one on the test. You can double impact there. Double impact there right now.
Left side by the bomb. I can tell you...
Look at this. The double impact from the Zofia.
And look at Azami. The main strong position that needs to be removed.
Got from that one.
Wow, that was genius from us. We've never done that before.
That's genius from us. We've never done that before.
That's a cool mini-play, a cool innovation. We've just seen plenty of attack innovation on Lair with VP.
It's cool to see that Fnatic is also able to bring on some new stuff.
We all know about the Zofia Double Impact from below, but I don't know for some reason it was not a classic
to be brought and to remove that strong position behind the desk. That's not well done by Fnatic.
And I just love the synergy in the comes that we're hearing. That's a new Fnatic that we're seeing.
Speaking of those console players you heard there at the very end, talk about this massive.
the game. And I'm sure you've
heard a lot about this massive
something genius that they've
gone there. He has some kind of
information on the very specific
player on the side of G two,
right? Yes, it was just on your
screen going up against an old
friend in Doki. Um and they have
played together on multiple teams.
That is cast. They were free
teams together. They're on G two.
Obviously back in the 2022
2023 era. I played Berlin major
played a few different events
together during during that
era. They were on Navi, of course
the team with him at the same
time. And back in the day back
in tier three of the UK with
them and them as well, and they
will be playing together come
the end of the year at the
Nations Cup as well. So these
two players long story
history together. They'll be
friends looking to get one up
over each other. All right, then
let's dive into the map that is
needed for this best of one here
to the remaining in this group
stage last time around it was a
704 G2. Do you think FedEx
starting on defense on coffee
can get any rounds on the board
today? It could probably help
them a bit. I will say this to
a bit I will say this these two teams they've tried to play the map recently and both times against
Twisted Mines and both times they lost it to Twisted Mines that was the old Twisted Mines of
course the one that was very strong not the one that missed on playoffs. G2 tried to play it against
Shopify Rebellion at the select city major it went kind of well they still lost the map but it was
very close so overall they have the upper hand they're still the favorite in this and Static have
barely played it the only example we have is the one the one game they played against Twisted Mines
which was a hard loss for them.
Just a quick reminder on stakes here.
Fanatic need a regulation win.
They get the regulation win.
They'll be in the top four.
That's two chances at EWC.
G2 already confirmed top two.
They get their win.
They get the flawless streak
and they will finish first place.
But the downside of that is
they'll probably have to play Falcons
if that is the case next week
for the EWC spot.
All right.
Well, the objectives are clear.
Though they are very different.
G2 can go undefeated.
And Fanatic can grab his top in the spot four
Let's find out who gets it done on caffeine.
Thank you very much, Desk.
And we find ourselves, wow, wow, wow, wow.
Demo, wow.
Did you do this poll?
If I did, it would be, it's a 500 on the one side.
Yeah, I think so.
Uh, yeah, you lot have your favorites.
Uh, people at home, uh, the Desk of their favorites.
I think the only people that have favorites in themselves right now
is potentially Fanatic.
But Cinderella's story starts with a couple of things and one of them is being an underdog, I guess.
What I'm having ugly steps is this, I don't know, a long time since I've seen the movie.
Fanatic. All I know is the starting of defense on Kappa 8, and that is.
Partly a pumpkin turned into a carriage.
I do find it a bit crazy that there's an opportunity here for Fanatic to finish top four.
We've never seen that before. That doesn't happen. No. Not traditionally. But not traditionally
if you could talk about recent seeds in EML. See if we don't finish last. That's also true.
I think that's the thing about EML is currently there's been so many big roster changes and
So how many fundamental changes are the cause of Rostez?
We're in a little bit of an alternate universe of EML this year compared to the last game.
It's a weird one, because I'm just looking over the previous stage results for this fanatic side
since the organization joined us here inside of EML.
They've went from 6th to 9th.
And then a 10th, a 7th.
And then kick off a stab
So for this team getting top four it would be the best result that they've had
Hey
That's pretty good
growth we love to see it even though yeah
Some roster changes in amongst the growth growth some roster changes
some roster changes a
Lot a lot there's only two people remaining
from the right jaw line up and that is D-Ped and Safus.
There's only two there, the Remainders.
Everyone else has been chopped and changed.
A lot of people who have came in for the chopped and changed
have been also been chopped and changed.
And even those guys, they got chopped and changed too.
There's been a very long process over the past two years
for this side and you have good credit to them.
Finally, things are clicking for them
and they have been a very enjoyable side to watch this stage.
I think two sets of things have noticed that change.
every single person watching and playing and also their ability to win maps which has truly never
been higher than what a way to start it. See you later Shiko. Stay outside mate. I think he did this round.
Impressive. Good opening pick. Good operator as well. The hate down being the florez.
Smiths and his loyal shield, maybe a little bit more safer of a wizard with the second
on to stopping a C4 and G2, this could be a stall out for them as they've lost the
ram, thankfully they still got the back who of course can do the vertical work but in
losing two players and in return getting nothing, he's got a great look here for G2 so they
really need to try and dig deep here and find some pits. First and foremost, but that can be difficult
for Fnatic. Look at the util of this little hand. They've got plenty of denial. They've got Goyo.
They've got smokes. They've got an echo. So in terms of going for a plant, that could be out of the
option here for G2. I'm going to sort of say there, obviously, you know, you've got them opening up
there with the double kill. You've got them sort of staffing themselves up, but they're doing everything
they need to, which is don't let them get comfortable. It's cafe. It's G2. It's a team that,
Let's be honest, they've probably come into this map a hundred percent sure they're gonna win it,
and they might, but we also know they're a team that can get pressed. They're a team that could
be on the back foot. They're a team that can sort of be struggling at points, and everything that
you do to sort of put the pressure in is going to be a benefit. There's Wizard for a third for the
round. He's finally put down by Alamow. Thinking back! There is just Alamow left, and the bar is
is trying to catch the swing round onto him.
They're just leaning in, citizens.
Further and further, pressing the pressure
into the bottom of Brown's stairs.
The impact would have been his end.
They couldn't quite get the catch,
but you look at the fact there's still smoke coming in.
Oh!
Smith was on camera.
Nine seconds.
The barbed wire, if you just run through,
it would have killed him at this point.
They've got the split, they're down the corridor,
looks at the position of the citizen.
He could just do that.
Yeah, easy enough there for fanatic. I mean, wizards.
Buena's team and a great lead at the start of the round.
Take it down, Shaikou and the C4 to eliminate Stompin.
And we knew that G2 were always going to be chasing the round after that.
So a really good start here for fanatic.
G2.
It's a bit of a slow one there.
Again, the way they were playing it was pretty traditional, pretty default,
I think, on the side of G2, looking to play in towards that vertical game.
But as always, you have to be careful of those C-4s.
So, fanatic. That's the kitchen. Done and dusted. Where are they going to go to next?
I mean, it was very quick as well, right?
It's almost the third element of Blinkton. Oh, we're one round down there.
Oh, awesome. Mucky.
Yeah, you could see you were far away from that.
I'm aware of it, right? He tried to get as physically far away from it as possible.
He was tucked into the corner on the solid ground and...
It's one of those things where if they had an extra inch you might have survived.
Oh well, unfortunately that's the nature of the game, buddy.
Look at the bands as well.
In the Nomad band, just I think it's the fear factor almost into the G2 slide where you don't have the safety of being able to stop the jump bats from happening.
that's what's happening. Oh,
it's great down on this side.
Great. That makes you feel a
little bit uneasy. That's one
thing that G2 need to be weary
off, of course, but look at
lineup. I mean, they're
happy enough to allow for that
if they want to. That'll be an
interesting. Situations that
would be comes back to bite
them the long game. C four.
Early use that C four, but
here but instead maybe look for the runout and that garage wall is opened up
you could maybe look for it just depends of Alma's gonna be an exposed
position or not
this is tense this is tense is gonna go for it and OH! Wizards went stick and jump!
we'll let the fire another day!
yeah we stopped by them!
OH!
Season! Outside the building as well, lived up to the cursed graphic we saw on the desk by casting Toki further and further!
They pushed them further and further back!
Shiko found as well, and G2!
What's going on? It's like a haunted house they've entered!
There's ghosts and skeletons jumping out every corner!
Alamau's cut his way through the site itself and stompings there for moral support on the
shoulder with the shield, but Fnatic had got the kit elsewhere, dropped by Venger on the
chadge of it, and Clash is just being a prod the shield away, dropped down on top of it,
didn't even see it, I said it was like skeletons, maybe it's ghosts, it isn't for through it.
I don't care about the fact you gave them eight percent. They've already done better than that.
Oh, I love the webcams as well. I mean, I think Citizen surprised himself with those skills. He was impressed himself.
And then it kind of got suspicious messages. No emotion. I play Siege. I play Shield.
I mean, for Wiz, I think Kehone is going for that, isn't it?
isn't it oh and but like his whole story this map has been that right get
that's a second shot and half of us as surprised as the rest of us
I love it, hey?
Two out, tonight we've come out, it's doing it.
Oh, that's good.
I'm defeated up to now.
And like, I think for G2,
still want the finish first, in the lead, no doubt about it.
We know that the Goldsland missions are aside.
Oh yeah.
VP winning, means VP are back on top,
but G2 have the opportunity, if they win this, they go first.
the game. Yeah, I think I
think I'm going to be. For G
two. After one still do the
business gets banana. Guess it
may be viewed and certainly the
public view as. Uh, one sided
affair. You still have to go on
to do the job. Right now for G
two. This is not the start.
They're looking for. No, this
did sort of threat of the
elements of it, where you know
there's a lot of up and down
choice obviously they're due soon they want to win every team that locks in
wants to win their games but no more than duty they can't they're up against
next you can get matters what team is in a lobby against them but they have the
sort of fate of setting up the game for Virtus Pro as well and as Doki gets
deep back there's at least a bit of that sort of squinted pressure through they
found one they found that opener they found a breath and they've also found
themselves in towards the site Benja with the kids might I add the drone's
gonna buy some safety they can see if they can get a plan as the sort of E1D
works away but oh gang you've missed the box here it's off Benja might be able to
get out of the site he's gonna get the fight elsewhere they pick up two kills
but now the timer is on right they're gonna try and move her and move her
Closer and closer and they had to watch it that shot with a great reputal
But Shiko is the end of that sentence less than 30 seconds and I'm stomping
You just sort of keep playing that reason who to smoke and drive himself close to the side itself
There's the smoke pressure and Shiko he can't quite step there, but instead they're gonna go for the fight
They're doubling up and they're doubling down
Oh, why G2
Certainly a case of the lights are on but there's nobody home
Benja found himself alone, with nobody near him, friend or foe, who's by himself.
He gets the plant, and I think there was a moment for G2 where they realized, hang on
a minute, he's planted and he's died.
None of us were near him, they could diffuse, and I think that was almost the stress for
G2.
When we see Doki just running upstairs, full sprint, trying to get into position where he
can stop a plant but then he gets gunned down. We've seen stomping with smoke outside a pillar
door has to run through the gas to get himself in the position to stop that plant. I mean
the key person there was Shaco. All Shaco had to do was stay alive because as long as
he was alive he was an issue for Fnatic. If he dies then you could just go for the defuse.
This was who they wanted to target. But Shaco just quite hard to get.
Two to one, and this feels like we've had three rounds in the space of one round.
Right?
Am I crazy?
Everything has been lightning.
Everything has been as quick as possible.
Let's get in, let's get it done.
Neither of these team wants to sort of rest in their laurels here, and G2 have done work
to bounce back from the first two rounds, sort of being slipped and taken away from them,
and you know you let towards the spread of everything they're building as a team
they're getting themselves locked in as you said they saw an opportunity no one
in the site let's try and put a plan together great team spot opportunities
and the best teams capitalized upon them and that's what GT's been able to do
there but it's not the fanatic to make sure that that just becomes a slip in the road
on their cafe defenses and doesn't become a lifeline for GT to grab on to
Here we go. G2. One round. Let's see if they can gather a few more.
And now head in towards that kitchen for us to perform something we read.
That's the approach going to be this time here for G2. A little bit more focus I think,
in towards Bakery. I didn't really see this. We touched at all last time.
Bakery was not an area that G2 wanted to try and wander in towards, and Ben,
Benji, just like Rasha, I'm just thinking, I'll just slip in here and I'm like, oh, what a pick!
Finds the echo and once more, Fanatic have let an opening pick, just be given away for free.
G2 in the lead by 1 kill.
Most have been able to find that the Chica server denial operators have been
dealt with very early on here, I mean.
I mean, it's just absolutely ripping through them at this point, and
And, you know, it's that opportunity, it's that idea of they can sniff it, they can find
it, they can drive towards it and they can punish you for it.
If you're not locked in, they'll lock you out and at this point, look how spread out
they've got two players still above, deadshotting, wizarding, just gonna play up to each other's
backs and make sure that they can't get a clean approach, but otherwise they have nothing
to deny this other than guns, right?
They're just gonna hope they can catch them as they slip their way through.
yes vertical angles can be an issue but don't forget while pretty doggie is
he's the capitan he can use the smoke bolts on the verts so I don't really
think that players being upstairs can be that much of an issue and look to just
leave an alibi while here just on an upside down rappel to stop them taking
in towards red perhaps enough to give them the vertical playing well it's just
down the wizard and he knows the players right in his window alimars not aware how
close he was and stop and then holds the verts so in the end fanatic they've
We've attempted a retake, but Alomar, we was pretty much just being Batman, the entirety
of the round, able to stop that flank from happening.
Okay, GT, GT, they've sort of, I think, had those early two rounds as a root awakenings
and then gone, no, no, no, wait, we got to stop this now, right?
They know their strengths, they know that they can sort of take a runaway train and
put the brakes on and then dislodged in their own manner and they're all happy and smiles
about it because those three rounds it's excellent from it's everything that we've sort of come
to anticipate from a team that has had more ups and downs than most teams on more international
stages than most teams.
Bomb located by attackers.
But for now what can they do now?
Because it's a defense side on cafe they want to try and get as much as possible they're
They're obviously qualified for the top six, but they want that extra chance, they want
that extra lifeline, because either way, every team looks at any other team in the top six
and goes, I'll have to beat them.
If they want to get their way towards the top place, you've got to be able to get them.
And it starts by getting that extra lifeline.
Oh, now this is where G2.
They start getting into their element, that side that everyone fears in this league, and
themselves that number one side.
I mean, certainly there is an argument here, of course, for G2, depending on who they're
going to play instead of playoffs.
They finish second, and they'll be playing GK.
They finish first, then they'll be playing back in, so it's really that question of,
for G2, what's the matchup?
I think they'll agree.
It doesn't really matter.
How's Benja again? Just flipping in. He's like the fun of the opera, obviously.
Have you seen that music? I don't remember the same ZZ back.
They're blotting. They're gonna see if they can speak a blot. They've gone for the jump out.
Shaco's just gonna hold on towards this and put the pressure on towards it.
No, he's not. ZZ back. The diamond in the rough saves the day.
And now that wrist not quite baying off there in a three versus two Smith is doing as best to get out of there
He's on the side of a narrow fight and maybe didn't need to take the risk in that manner
Oh, and they'll be
Be irritated for not playing that kill, but you can see
Benja well aware of it, but doki this opens the door for his movement round the back against the drop onto one
He's still on the camera. He's still on the catch the speed for debate the play on towards deep egg
We'll just call this
But instead they're playing this smart demo use the Intel operators for their strength get the track on force them further and further back
Now they do not have the kid obviously
Because they tried to cement it inside the site shit is and we've seen his cool hands played before multiple times
And we know the history he's got
They still prep up it's a minute it's so much time
to them to operate with and
I'm sure if there's, I mean they're obviously getting a read somewhere, there's a bulletproof
camera that's got some perspective on them, but not enough on towards the white stairs,
they've got the kit in towards the site, they're gonna do the track and go for the plant amongst
it, it's a very clever bait, but it's a bait that he's not quite happy to accept, don't
he's instead gonna cement it as the cover, there's the C4, but it's a TK!
And at this point, Benja, all the pressure on him, the fight on 90 is gonna be a pre-fire
around the door, but look at the health, and look at the finish, and look at the smile!
Citizen! I mean, beaming.
Oh, he's done a great 1v2.
Citizen, a great game here today up against G2, his old organization.
and fanatic. Well, you can argue probably should have lost that, but an unfortunate DK isolates
that 1v1 and the citizen takes advantage of it. Look, I think for fanatic, we'll have
to talk about Benji. Once again, just somehow able to find an opening pick out of nothing.
Maybe more traps, that's the only thing I think maybe fanatic need to look at because
that's it. And certainly, I
think for G two, they're
exploiting that fact. They're
exploiting the lack of traps.
It's the sort of time and time
again about it that causes the
biggest problems, right? The
That's why they have the player and that's what he's done so well for them G2, but he said the fact that he's been able to do it
Three rounds in a row and almost cemented three rounds
Look how narrow that fight was as well
Well he's having a good time with it.
What is it?
It isn't.
Laugh through the pain.
Oh that's why it was sad, it's a tech pause.
I get him.
Well give us a smile, come on.
I should fix Smith. Smith could be Robocop. Okay, normal way. It's like some of the VP
guys sometimes. Remember it's always like the shepherd after win, shepherd after loss,
shepherd after clutch. He's like the new shepherd we have in the league. There he is.
You thought shepherd left the league? No. Shepherd's Regen. Well, shepherd's still coached
of UK, but we don't see them on our screen. Yeah, we don't get them in player games anymore.
We need a live chappered reaction to pop up. Mrs. Carrie in the torch. Sorry, was G2 Plesh
just eating the fingers? Yeah, exactly. How do they build that synergy, as pointed out
by our in-game director. Easy.
By eating their hands.
The next guy next.
Pre-2 for Fanatic.
That is not what I think people had predicted so far.
Don't keep in mind we are dealing with cafe,
and sometimes we have very turbulent map
depending on what side you start.
I mean, for all intents and purposes, obviously,
that previous round. It was a
great clutch. Um, but clutches
aren't the sort of. Dictator of
faith and pace. It could have
very easily been. In towards
you to his favor. I think the
facts. You know, you look at
little individual moments in
that round as well that the
clash being caught out by the
pressure of bender and you can
see that they sort of wanted to
apply pressure and they just got
caught out by dokeys movement
But either way, we'll have to be back in in but a moment.
There is the element that the three rounds fanatic has won, obviously the opening round
was blizzard with 3K, citizen got a 3K and the second citizen has a clutch.
Now they're having to have in some regards big individual player performance to net things
over the edge. In the meantime Deadshot and Smith unfortunately they're one and nine between
the pair of them. I'm not going to say it's going to be the biggest dictator, obviously
it's still early in the game, you're on defense, if your fraggers are doing the business, fair
enough it's a team based game. And we also saw it earlier on where in GK two players
just went I think well just about 30 kills between the pair of them if not 29
sometimes it puts a lot more pressure on towards players that are already playing
that high-pressure role playing that entry role. He's like 3-2 fanatic. They can get
themselves one more defense get themselves at the 4-2 they're probably
pretty happy with that. Then you should look at the fanatic stats also from
Cafe. The attacks are actually a little bit better for them statistically even though
they don't have a massive amount of history on this map. You kind of have to
go back to almost stage two because kickoff and only sent one time. Whereas for G2 not
All the greatest of maps, I think the deaths kind of alluded to it, the previous two times
that they've played it, hasn't been great, last time they played it, lost against Shopify.
So yeah, we'll just see how this fight around the half goes, and then see what happens whenever
we see that side switch up.
Anyway, G2, last time they were here, Benjy was able just to, the diffuser and nobody was
kind of near him.
So I think for Fanatic, I'm happy to see the trap operator in the form of the Malusseesaw will just stop at any of those little sneaky plays that Badger wants to go for again.
Oh, Miss Selma though. It's gonna get the second one though.
Now, this is actually the longest we've gone without somebody being caught.
If it's sort of the opening picture of how a round likes to go, this being the slowest
approach.
I'm not really sure who it works into the favour of because Fnatic's greatest strength
is stabilising G2's approach, but maybe this.
pulling away is going to be the something that makes him a bit less stable.
The impact's down. I'm not entirely sure about it, but they're pre-firing the
opposition. In the meantime they've driven their way across. Doki, where are you going?
Doki was so hungry for blood that he doubles it across! In the meantime they
did obviously lose Alamow. Shark from Scotland decided to swing through and
I might leave it up for three years, Benjy gets another. What a quick way, maybe, maybe letting them set up.
Wasn't the thing that works best for them. Who's to say?
Well, actually, neither you nor me, I think that's
strictly done for our desk to say.
All right, and then listening to this first round here, Beast from the Player Comes as well, the Star from Phonetic!
It was great they were showing so much aggression
Yeah, they were they were really really good in the early round. They started out on cafe defense
They were getting aggressive. It was peaked. It was run out. I think actually G2 really didn't know what to do with it
The first couple of rounds, you know, even that's it. I don't think you expect them to get there. Exactly. It was confident
It was aggressive last look you turn right
Sorry, I just find it really funny. Do that again
That's just fine. I actually do it again one more time
Exactly, that's what Fnatic were doing to G2 for the first two rounds, like we're yawning.
And I think G2 really felt a little bit railroaded, a little bit shell-shocked by it.
They'd steamrolled Fnatic the last couple of times they played him, but this was a big, bold, confident Fnatic.
However, G2 did find a way back into it.
Yeah, initially they were stunned, and then there was the cities in clutch, and that's the three rounds, right?
Yeah.
But you have to look on the other side, the attacks from G2, and with Benja doing some crazy stuff.
Yeah, honestly, listen to their comments as well, and you listen to what they're finding opening.
It's just so fascinating to look at, to see your player find that gap in the defense of Fletik.
Yeah, and honestly, I'm happy and surprised to see not only that on G2's side,
they're still living up to their expectations that we have of them in attack,
but also on the side of Fletik, one certain player, Citizen, who's playing really well,
who's experienced, who's facing his former teammate, and who's doing so well right now.
Do you know what? We talked with the free game graphic of the Mook cookie,
with a halftime game graphic of them as well.
Citizen and Doki have been playing, they've been going head-to-head with each other,
and we've got the combined stats
for the combined player.
Jokey's in, and you can see
actually both are off in great games.
Citizen started off early.
He's got 2.6 KD.
He was absolutely cooking, playing out there on the go-yo,
getting those clutches as well.
And then Jokey came back into it the second half.
I think the very final round that we saw on Damos there
was really, really good from him.
Still a strong performance considering
he's attacking Kafe.
Note that both of these players back in their day
were considered entry players.
Neither of them got an entry inside of this match
so far either.
Eva, but if you're a fan of the storyline of the doki going up against citizen the two pros going at it
Well, there you go. It's currently citizen winning out in terms of EPS with one more clutch
That's why that he's got he's got the clutch like that's a good bonus
And and a clutch with some teabagging as well
Which we always appreciate a little bit of threshold king as we see on the other side the band starting to flow
I think the mountain by not a surprise the castle not a surprise ever
So powerful, especially on the top floor bomb site.
It makes the guard a little bit safer as well.
So you can cut off some windows on Cotangiano.
If you're new to this game, you'll think,
well, Castle, not really used operator.
On this map, it really is.
Attackers, the way attack like to play on this map,
they like to just sit on windows.
You can literally cut the map in half
from so many windows across it.
It's basically three big squares stacked on top of each other.
So it's so strong to be able to see on those windows.
If you castle off the windows,
it means you've got to bring soft bridge
to get rid of those castles.
And for soloist ban, also so strong on this map because of how vertical it is, you can deny the
plant from above when it's basement, just like this, and you can do the other way around when
it's on the other bomb site. Also great roaming operators, and we've seen Fnatic abuse it on
wizards, so it's good to see it ban on the side of Fnatic. Okay, so so far we're liking the strategy
of Fnatic with the operator bans here. It changes from the KBatic ban all the time. But it's a top
They need that mega nation win to lock in top floor, can they do an attack as a plus?
Well, can they do it?
Seems to be the MO of the day and last time we talked about that half way through a game,
well things sort of got a little bit interesting.
We are still battling back and forth, we are still up in the air of possibility and we
are still picking up a key in the eye of those two other teams because remember, this is
big seeding game right it's not just the fact that fnatic can get themselves the extra lifeline if
they win this then obviously furthest pros challenge and UK's challenge changes to their
showdown it's going to be something they want to prepare for as they go on towards the best of three
and oh that's because rebels is out of the mouth they have to find the open one towards citizen
And what the king of a previous round is, he's thrown for now.
Come on me, reloading!
You can start there for Halimao.
And we mentioned plenty of times before the stellar stage that he's had.
It's actually considering, you kind of look at Halimao and you look at the other four players around them and it's...
You know, Halimao's not just going to roll over and think, oh well, I'm just not going to sit there and do nothing from the side.
I'm not just going to be the IGL. I'm going to get my hands there and I'm going to prove that I'm still as good mechanically.
mechanically and got to be forgotten about when Millie's done that. He's made a really big statement for himself on the stage.
He's still going strong here.
Magnetic.
Land down on their first attack, not a great start for them.
Thankfully, they still got the backups off destruction with dead shot on the back, so he's going to have to rotate his way in towards that mid-floor.
Start ripping it up and he won't do so.
So, Gnatic, ideally, using that sense, they're probably going to look and try and drop in
towards Freezer, cover off the lines of sight of Banjo, who's currently inside of the IPA.
That's going to be the main man to pose him a few headaches, and Banjo also maybe thinking
about, hang on a minute, that's a misnade, almost kills Deepak.
That could have been a, that's a disaster.
Yes, no, you know, they say start, I don't mean to carry on, and so that's not how you...
do it, bend ya. Bye-bye. That's what he wrote on the side of that bullet before he put it
to the back of Wizard's head. Maybe a bit of revenge from the shenanigans. Wizard was
pulling on that very same door on his own defences. Doesn't now mean in the final minute,
look at what Fnatic has to work with here and look at what they're still going to try
and get through. They're all stacking themselves up for the approach on towards Freezer and
they're being frozen out themselves. They took her out, putting the damage and destruction
in and just fire and blind you into the smoke itself. Smith finds Benja. But now he's got
to find a lot more as DPEC doubles back on the two versus three. A bit of hope to build
behind the shield itself. But there, that's probably the final nail in the coffin. That's
their best. But unfortunately, too much to get over. G2. First defences theirs. Yep,
G2. Easy enough start for them. Nothing too much to worry about. They kind of knew what
to expect there from Fnatic. Opening pick helps them being able to double down on that, eliminate
wizards. Yeah, simple enough for G2, just not a lot really to talk about there from
Fnatic. They have a struggle for them. Very similar to kind of how the first round went
in this game. For the G2, a pretty slow start, just really couldn't get anything going in
the round. I think we said here. Yeah, well, again, so long way to go yet in this hat.
Well, that's going to be on the desk later. Don't even want to know. Don't even want to
I guess not. Anyone? Anyone any comments guys? Anyone? Listen, some people just make good content.
And he is one of them. He's one of them. For the longest time you and I have cast
Stokey's since the days back in
Prendays and he's always been a
character. Always been.
Oh, he's got both of these names back since the Prendays and Citizen is happy to get that
over and kill on towards Stokey. He wanted to have a brief look outside and I guess he
got that. But then he got a brief look at the whole round.
I've got a really nice round there guys. I'm gonna hop on the multi now. I'm pretty sure
that I'm- yeah, that's good. Oh dear. This is fun.
I have to know, man, so they still have some flank protection, but they've lost citizen.
Lost a sort of top fragger around itself and as I said that was the worry when we got over to the woods to turn
Of the half and that G2 they're all kind of building their own repertoire
Their own catalog of kills in the meantime smith's first kill just came on the previous round itself
That's obviously one and seven hasn't really been able to get his teeth in towards this game and
It's a game where when you're up against you do you need all of your fraggers firing right you need every single body in person
and the pressure on his Benja gets deep as well. It's Shaito finding Smith and G2
they've just sort of found the response towards this. I might be about to break
a bit of a deadlock here and do what was done for them when they were opening two defenses.
Still trying to fish for the shotgun and I mean it's a risky play. Alamow has got the pigs
Oh, he can't quite get the player, is it?
Threads the needle with the DMR, which isn't recommended selling.
Plenty of DMRs in the game, as we know.
Always make sure that the...
I think both sides have to obviously deal with.
We've seen a fair play of pub, of course, too.
On the defensive side, Stompin'.
Oh, I thought he was going to try and wait there and line up two of them, but unfortunately
Deadshot spread across the room and he was kind of caught between two and Deadshot punishes
him.
It would have been a double kill there for Stompin, but somehow walks away with zero
of them.
You're so ready for the surprise research that sort of said it's the map you need all
of your friends firing found to this round so far.
with the final 10 seconds. Oh, he's just an easy pick! Deadshot! Maybe check that boys'
headphones. How far had it got away with that? No idea. It's a free V2. He's stomping
should have had at least a kill. Deadshot sat him down. Then it goes to 2v1, deadshot
the final. What a funny old
round. The fanatic have been
able to claw and nowhere. Time
out gets called by fanatic.
I mean, as I said before, it's a
nice thing to do at some points
You can't gauge all of your success on clutch rounds, they had that opening body, then everything went away from them and they just couldn't really get themselves locked in, you know?
Citizen's got a lot to talk about, as your friend does. But who knows, these opponents are better than Citizen, right?
right? Oh, fantastic. Still in this game. I mean, this was the moment here. I didn't
get one here. In perfect information from a Valkyrie camera, too.
Oh, yeah, please.
Well, please, everyone.
He's really active.
Yeah, bro.
Activate camera.
Listen, he has been revived.
I'm going to see him in the back of a jazzy.
Oh.
Jimbo.FNC.
Well, that's the nickname for a dead shot, isn't it?
10 seconds left.
Wow, we are far.
Yeah, maybe.
There's the socials captain option there, the jimbo for huge freekilling.
I like the idea obviously there. You know, when you're talking about why they took their time out,
the fact that Stomp and Miss those Kales or Miss that moment, again, it's nothing you can fully rely on,
they need to be more aware of what G2 are doing and the positions G2 are taking
and that they were aggressively picking out a red skylight in that sort of situation.
It seems like that is the idea. They've got the drones obviously
tracking and chasing somebody not too far on this the coverage of any run out with the air jab
Safer they park all their way across
You can see there's just that caution now being fly
Both teams never is such a close game
I don't want to be the first person to make a mistake, do you, so you do have to be cautious.
Of course I'm not like Cafe.
I haven't been able to get at least a forwarding towards top red stairs, and
the players in Skyline Windows 2 that you can reloading.
Try and restrict the movement, I suppose, of players on the side of G2.
Loading, no back!
There's just a few players also downstairs, plenty of C4s to go around, and
If there's a Valkyrie on board you would expect there'll be some form of combination with information in supplied through the team
Who's gonna make the first move or maybe who's gonna make the first mistake?
Well, nobody seems to be giving in the way obviously Shaka was almost
Caught out but look at by the time it's gone look what they've been able to get a hold on the C4 and the grenade shuffle
He's everybody at the dance, but oh it's the C4 out the window they get to one as citizen
This is where Cross to get stomping and almost follows through
but Ben does have to get one before he's found out
Citizen keeps on trading dead teammates, but...
We still lost Alan Thiembräck
Nobody in sight, others your players are below
And don't forget, while for your citizen as he's gridlock
he was able to gridlock off the white stairs and this makes it very difficult in average E2
And Doki has had to spend a bit of time clearing away the track stingers and I think they know exactly where he is
He's been able to creep up and
Oh my oh never mind. Oh, he misses the shot so season still live
Still has to try to work that plant has to reload the SMG, but they should know where he is and dead shot
Cleans it up
Fanatic
citizen especially
Just
Leads with a banner
I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I
was it done and dusted for G2.
You know. How it was sort of
piece together. What do they
say? Not too long ago of I
want to see more from dead
shot and then dead shots hit in
a three K in both of the
little spot that element and yes this has been brilliant the way he was
maneuvering and making sure every single death went traded right he's putting
the pressure on that happens so he was in we could see him eyeing up that fight
just before then this happens so he keeps pushing on he doesn't let them
breathe and make sure that they can sort of keep reading that and you can see
obviously they have that position they had the two underneath but they had the
read that he was on the sort of you know the door and the repel player was going
there to offer some support as well. They were like, well, that's coming. Let's just
get, he can't get both you on the rappel outside and me on the sort of new bow at the
same time. We can send this.
In fanatic, they've pulled themselves ahead. It is an exact sort of balance back between
these two teams. It's just been, you know, pairs of rounds apart from fanatic, one little
sneaky one in the middle but now I have that chance to break them on get three
see a single bullet just whizzed past dead shots head they're not giving
unfortunate timing it's okay I'm in the smiths there
So that entry in towards garage now, and if our kitchen defense wants more for G2 that
will be easy.
Time last time they were here.
Phenatic will be changing things up and they're certainly doing so.
Shaco, first pick on the citizen, kind of forced through with that smoke using the glass,
but a C4, takes down the shield.
All you have remaining is this glass and oh no, failure to launch here for Phenatic.
Unless that shot can try and appear with some kills, but check the wrong angle, Benj on the field over that DMR.
But Slotter right there for G2.
Itching, not working out well for Fanatic, but G2. Successful on it now, twice in a row.
It's so weird that it just felt so sort of clean, right? But at the same time, as you said, that's the one that they've been able to get in twice.
And at this point they're still going to rotate their way around to ones that have been taken away from them
In good spirits as often are the fact that this is a 5-5 in this position
It's a very strangely based 5-5, right?
And more than anything for now they can played a brilliant game on
Cafe they found opportunities and that's from superstar players. That doesn't really matter
They're making sure that the pressure is being felt by the side of G2, but
It's all just a play against feeding, it's all just a play against that sort of build-up
in towards Master 3's.
Why, I'm asking, I'm asking, has a habit of showing up.
It is a tight affair between Fnatic and G2, and for most of G2 winning the other side's
kitchen, yep, in the lockout, no problems at all for them, Fnatic really up to par in
their kitchen attacks. It has been the other sites where they have found the
success.
How they go about things here for an attic, looking at their line up, but it seems to be a
little more slow paced. But obviously the good luck again that Citizen has brought.
Religious length to the most part on these midfloor and top floor attacks. I
I mean, obviously I think whenever you see the Nomad man, you're gonna need to take it.
It's not hard whenever Nomad was up, but still would like to have it, and Shaiq would really kill it.
Wizard is there with the response on Pillar Door.
We're seeing a... they must trade it for a Legion.
I would say G2 probably have won that utility battle.
Yeah, I mean, I think it's sort of a takeaway, right? Especially with the Tad.
I mean, Deadshot has been in a good position, fine, but is it an equal gun trade-off as well?
The pressure that they can apply, but it's still have intel that they can gather, obviously, with the line, but then...
You know, the late round denial that the Suset comes across it, you've got two ripped and ready-to-go C4s here, based on the back of that pulse.
Ben just put those back in front of the stump and is ready to go.
F1D, the catch on towards, but nobody is moving as of yet.
Fanatic.
parcels and packages of land, but they're not being offered anything for it.
It's losing a little bit of a lulled silence and wondering.
Why is G2 pulling themselves through? The pulse still has the read.
Look at the position. All of this is being fed.
I'm trying to combo that with a C4.
He misses that, but Stoffen doesn't miss his though.
and G2 off the back of the information that Alamo has been able to provide have the
advantage that they were hunting for and fanatic.
Manning for the players who's gonna make the move I mean we have looked towards
Citizen. Kind of move things in direction that fanatic want to go for.
But if he's gonna be able to do the same he's actually in a bit of vertical work
maybe a transport wizard here we are slipped in towards Pillar. I mean look
you've got one player type they have a rough awareness on where they might be
Although maybe they're just pinging something further on.
They know about Mozi. Doesn't matter.
Somebody else has got the kill in the meantime.
Benja has the coverage in 25 seconds
in a two versus four
and they haven't even been able to knock on the door
of the site itself. It's pressure.
Either side.
They can't even find the pulse on the secondary.
He gets one.
Okay, does get one for the trouble, but not for very long.
G2.
Hey, once again.
another pair of rounds. Seems to be the MO of today.
And Swellth, I mean they've been able to win a site that they were not successful on the last time.
That is good from G2.
And there wasn't really much happening I think from both sides in that round.
Yes we had to kind of early skirmish but it was kind of trade still a 4v4.
But then there was the moment where Alomau had a great call using the pulse, using the scanner.
scanner is able to spot out certain positions.
Don't, don't even, don't even though.
Were they, again, were they sheep noises?
I don't know, it could be anything.
Yeah, yeah.
Who, who knows?
Um, yeah, but as I was saying, all, all it takes is just that one call from Alamau,
We've got the information, go carry with the C4s, one C4nets to kill, and a G2 of the man advantage.
And I think they were just hoping that Wizard was gonna make the play whenever the kills that come for Wizard gets flied from red.
Right, so...
So, G2!
They are the ones that have secured themselves.
At least the point for the trouble.
And all of this doesn't give them the jump back over the top of Virtus Pro, but it does
Can no longer get the clean free
I believe that means that they will not get the fifth and just double-checking
My notes as I scan through. Yeah, they will not because Falcons have both the round difference and the head on them
The board is locked
Friends, the board is locked, Fnatic!
They can only get themselves tied up, points-wise with Falcons, but they lose on both the round difference and the head-to-head anyway.
So whichever it is first, gank doesn't even matter.
In the meantime, if you want to try and break the unbeaten record, that's the fun thing to steal away from the winners to miss.
Get some stuff, the second kill of the game, and unfortunately suffers immediately afterwards.
First lead GT though in the three versus two.
Now Stompin is in prime position to try and tear away on anyone that might go for the swinging.
And towards the side of the plant and Doki on the deep roam is the SMOKE!
Not always the most... conventional.
Ooooooh, big engagement citizen.
Bob Lemp's equally so the shy guy who says in terms of the head chin, to Stompin and finds him, and Doki just drops into him, almost got the head flyer drop shot!
But it's citizen shuts it down and we are going into overtime. Who would have seen that?
Not the view of prediction, most for sure.
I mean, it's a shame that it sort of happened this late.
Sorry, I choked on air. I forgot how to be a human for a second.
We've all been there.
Yeah, it happened.
but they can still blemish G2's sort of record. You said it before, we have not had a lot of
over times in EML at all, but G2 have been there twice and won both of them.
I didn't quite have the effect that Doki wanted on that late flank.
I think.
Nice.
Still.
Six apiece, everything's square and even half.
It's kind of impossible to even pull out who's going to be the one that's ahead.
As I said before, it's this beautiful pattern where everybody who's been getting two rounds
apart from one instance got one.
So if I'm to enjoy my pattern brain, as I talked about earlier, humans with their pattern seeking brains,
Fnatic get one round and then G2 get the two afterwards.
Okay.
And if that happens...
Another thing to mention, but I don't kinda get that.
I see it.
I think about that.
Did you talk about that? Oh yeah, I was freaking out.
Yeah, I did.
So...
I do talk a lot.
I don't blame you.
I'm just looking now at just the situation for G2 now, because obviously they don't get all three points.
Because they beat VP, they still just need the OT win, and then they'll be in joint points with VP, but they'll have the round difference anyway, so...
So, G2 need to win it, they want to finish first.
finish first. It's got to be the lock in. I think there's the element as well. Obviously,
you know, if they want to get themselves fast, if they want that sort of set up in position,
like who would you rather go against right now? GK or Falcons kind of neither like the
GK are in a really, really good form, but we know what Falcons are capable of. And you
know, that top four is a very solid top four. I mean, it's very solid top six to be fair.
form that some of these teams have started to develop on them, what they can do.
I think Rebels and Fnatic are going to have a bit of a potentially rougher time, but
they're both in the lower bracket, and I'm in as we've seen today, Fnatic can surprise
us.
I might even still be the ones to break G2's record.
I've only caught, I've said it before, Fnatic played it very well when they were on the
defense, they're sort of shaking the approach, and there is a trade comes out, those who
He gets one, Miss gets the other, but Doki doubles down just playing under the skylight.
You see me got the first dropping in on the back of the flash at the noise.
But otherwise, he's looking for three and he's able to find it.
Now that puts us into the four versus two, and maybe the pattern has been taken and changed
a little bit into the modern art territory.
I think for G2, just shows the power that they have, I mean Doki has already shown it, and
Uh, I believe run number six just walks in gets a free piece. He's not exactly the same walks in gets a free piece
Listen
If you know what you're good for and you know what you're good at do it
They say if you do what you love you never work a day in your life. That's incorrect. You still have to go to work
You just hate it a little bit less
The patterns ruined
Oh, unless?
No, yeah, the Banturant. I couldn't, I, I, okay. This is a very drama thing.
I was gonna see if it would still be one of the 51 drum rudiments. Shout out drummers and percussionists listening.
It's still not a rudiment. I'm sorry.
It's not a paradiddle.
it's not a double stroke roll demo you know all of these right you're well aware of the
51 John reasons you have a deep musical background don't you don't I from your days of dance
I'm creating a law for you I think you just needed a bit more please don't we've talked
this okay sorry try to make you exciting anyway six seven for now I didn't even mean to do that I
feel seven six come on you should know this all right 2026 you don't say six seven I'm thinking
get away with it you say seven six now come on check out that I killed me as well please
seven six and it's a five versus four. They've lost wizard. They've lost the
demos. They've lost the drag on that Intel to push in towards it. They've got a
shield that's trying to sneak away around the obviously open up an option
for later but you can see them steadying away with the vertical
destruction but at this point the problem is they don't have the track on G2's
players. They've got to put a lot of faith in the dead truck to get them the
angles and with the chance at either of these two C4s getting rid of the slag
that would be a bit of a death knell in the round they had the eyes on towards
the rotate but surely I'm going to participate it you can see they want to try and fight the shield itself what
don't know if Shiko intended the pocket Goyo
he intends to find a fight damn it he's looking for isn't he doesn't know do
You wanna walk up red?
That's where he wants me to go.
Back to the post though, it torts!
Small but no, this is a fountain.
Oh for fact, at least they've got the kill back.
Smith though has helped you and welcomed into Baker River.
But ours, but Deepak!
Binds free in the round and now
Benja has a 1v4
that he has to deal with.
My, oh my.
Fnatic, look as though they're gonna take us all the way in around 15.
The Fuser being planted, then Gibi and Pepper, two players stacked up on rads.
Who's it gonna be? Who's gonna find them?
Smith's looking for the information, he knows where they are.
Smith even takes to kill himself.
Fnatic, where did that come from?
Deepak?
My word.
Very much.
Out of nothing very much out of the aether
Very much very punishing. I say the complacency of the side of G2, but to said great teams they look for a
Sort of gaps they can exploit they look for roots
They look for advantage and deep x an experienced shotcaller one on sort of international stages
No seeing this time, or buying, or whatever they were doing, could be about to lose that
unbeaten run.
Oh my god, I've been fucking huge there.
Wow, fucking shit, 50 per month.
Fuck.
And a jet jet.
Woo!
Well secured!
7-7.
Here we go.
We're gonna get ready.
Use it if you have to.
An attic.
On the defense.
Can't go into kitchen.
Another kitchen history.
That's been played up twice.
And they've won at once and lost at once.
And they've won at once and lost at once.
And they've won at once and lost at once.
And they've won at once and lost at once.
And they've won at once and lost at once.
And they've won at once and lost at once.
and they've won at once and lost at once so it is up in the air
hold on for G2 they have won this bombsite previously
what's it gonna be for G2?
so it's gonna be
pretty standard I mean the room clear operators are also stomping on me
on the ramp should be just the
a spot for a take.
And there's everybody stepping themselves in on this thing.
Playing the Echo drones, leaping team farther and further forward.
Shaco's almost the first off the board, just sort of playing their way in.
Flores.
This is set before as well, the Echo drones are just green at intel, it gives them safe
passage right, it gives them clarity, Deadshot has the coverage, Fnatic's not leaving any
of these exchanges to chance, I set before Citizen's been great at that trade game, making
sure he's there to save lives if needed.
I hope he's aware that somebody's in pillar, but it isn't, but misses the point.
I'm going to try to get him to the left, but I'm going to try to get him to the right.
I'm going to try to get him to the left, but I'm going to try to get him to the right.
kill and a 3v4 is where it stands by hoping he's aware that somebody's in pillar but
this is it, misses this opportunity now he's going to be spotted out, it's wizard, it's
also been found out, now it's a 2v4, one player off site G2, maybe go for the flood,
you know exactly who they're looking for, it's going to be Smith, the phones is buzzing
away and Timothy goes down G2, get it, at the end, my word, water game, but G2, just
them out, get an overline. They do not like taking the straight and narrow path, T2. That's
for sure, 3-0 T's, 3 wins in them and 3 long games for them to go through but they are still
at this point in best of one phase undefeated as they progress through it. We, for the fourth
It's time tonight. We'll head to a break!
To be the last shit
You're not here
For the last shit
Face, face, camera, head
To be the last shit
For the last shit
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
I
I
and
and
and
and
and
Bar and Grotter off a game, but G2 walk away with the victory.
And therefore we get to speak to the winners.
We have Toki on the line.
Toki, good evening.
Hello. Congratulations on the victory.
You are undefeated in stage one.
Do you know when the last time was we had a team go undefeated for a whole stage?
I don't know, but it's probably me again.
So yeah, whatever.
It was the teammate of yours, though.
Oh, Stefan LeBlanc.
Yes.
He definitely had this.
20-21. Stage 3, BD as the last time we had a team go flawless, undefeated in a group stage, so nice fat to have, isn't it?
Yeah, he's still cheating then, so whatever.
A 5-year record broken, and you had to be fnatic all the way on the 15th round to make it. That was very narrow, Jack, what happened?
Just, ah, I don't know, like, they, like, geez, like, we really gave them the game, you know, like, just win, guys.
But no, it's fine. We tried it, we tried in the end, and some close rounds that we shouldn't have been very, shouldn't have been close, like, I don't want to name any names, but my Danish partner team-killing me, and I want D2, but...
I don't want to name any names, but the guy with the curly hair, the big guy.
He was saving you because a C4 was coming straight on your neck and he just let the C4 lined up with your head.
You know what you call that, Lio?
No?
That's a mercy killing.
C, C, you were trying to be a good teammate. I'm just trying to play devil's advocate here.
Yeah, yeah.
Hello, Jack.
Yeah, Jack.
Was you aware of who you played thanks to making the playoffs if you won or if you lost?
I think it was like Falcons or GK, right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Um, so, you know, for
a place to come out and be in fanatic because, you know, presumably it would have been a
lot easier in your mind to play GK than Falcons or are you not thinking about it?
Um, no, I don't think about at all. Actually, I think GK are, in my opinion, top three team
right now in Europe. So, uh, yeah, I don't think they're any, any fools. Uh, Falcons,
I think, again, always a strong team, you know, or you can never say it's going to
easy game but I think they're having a little bit of breathing troubles right now so uh yeah no I mean
we have four teams in Europe that are really good the rest are really bad so yeah we have to be we
have to be one of them you know what I mean? UQWC is already clear for you it's like GK,
VP, you and Falcons. Yeah and actually you know who didn't qualify for UWC all the teams that
cancelled scrims on us all of them they're all gone all of them we have names I might not even see
see them next stage because they'll be gone.
Pisses me off.
Turkey you cancel last minute.
Sorry.
It's okay.
That's right.
Carry on your man.
Thank you.
You won't get through the system.
Use the platform that we're giving to you.
It's just it's just like I'm not here to name names guys.
I'm not here to name names, but there is a specific team.
That cancel scrims 20 minutes before the scrim starts.
Go ahead in a row.
Go ahead and they begin with a T and ending with the mines.
Stop it! Stop it! Like, oh my god!
I wonder who that team is. I really wonder.
Adoki, one more question before we let you go.
Before your game, we listened to Falcons' comps.
And during your game, we listened to your gums, of course, as well.
It was a stark difference.
At some point, we thought we were disconnected from you guys,
it seemed to speak, because there was no talking at all. How come?
like you so in sync it's like a neural link chip
just send the signals kill him kill him
there was times during prep phase in like 50 seconds into the round on your
defenses it was just silent we were like are we gone if we disconnected
yeah and then like the time out comes you know the two minute break between
and Romario comes on and he's like hi guys that's it
two minutes
Alright, well, WConsolby, they still helped you in the game out here, though.
You remained an undefeated team, and don't give a wish you best of luck in playoffs next time.
Undefeated. See you next week, guys. Bye-bye.
Awesome. A lot of words to go, so that's not so specific teams, but hey, we see it.
Could a Synth-
Oh, this moment, look.
Oh, there we go.
I don't think this before would have killed him actually. I just realized.
Oh, no.
You're trying to defend Benji.
I never helped him sleep at night, but hey, a barb-butter, but you too.
It was a big slap for them. Five years since we had a team go undefeated and they managed to do it.
Yeah, and I think realistically G2 have made... I'm not going to say G2 has been slapped on,
that's probably the wrong response in it, but for the longest time, especially those inside of EML,
and in international events, the one team from Europe that has been consistently hacked up has been Falcons.
Falcons. And then realistically, even during this stage, during this whole group stage, VP
won this big unwritten run, and G2 were there alongside them as well. But nobody really talks
I think the fact that they've gone out of there, they've gone for a statement victory and I, I, I agree, but I also somewhat disagreed, okay? I think if you had the choice, you'd probably put Geekay in the, in the, in the bracket to play over then Falcon's, but the fact that G2 still came out, still won the game, still put on a performance, yes, it was, I would say free-flowing, yes.
in the in the in the bracket to
play over them. Falcons, but
the fact that you G2 still
came out still won the game
still put on a performance.
Yes, it was I would say
free flowing. Yes, it was a
little bit loose and fast, but
they got out of the land and
they got it done. That's what's
important and they are the most
fun. They are the defeated team
inside of the ML. All right.
Well, that was the final time
you see these two teams at least
inside the group stage G2 and
as the very first team, despite
of it, the same amount of points
as voters pro impressive, but
done so far in this stage before we move on to the final game of the day is listen to our pro players
pro tips to help you out from some from june we have some from noah we have some from other players
as well um we got some from you guys yeah but we were undecided whose pro tip we should pick so
we decided how does how better to settle it than with a good old classic game of rock paper scissors
So, pro tip and roll tip, okay?
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
Well, someone like in the Rock Paper Scissors,
whoever wins is the best of one by me.
You won, all right, you ready?
You ready?
Okay, three, two, one.
Oh, you're going up.
You do three and then go.
All right, cool.
Three, two, one, go.
Come on.
Ah, yeah, okay.
Okay, well, I think it's safe.
We're gonna go listen to you fresh as pro tip.
Hi, my name is Fresh,
and this is my EML pro tip.
Deimos and Dokobit both require you to have a pink
onto your opponent,
but you might have a sneaky drone somewhere
and you don't want to use a red pink.
So what you can do is you can yellow pink
the opponent's utility,
and that will create the marker for you
so that you can then track them without them knowing.
When you're droning inside a prep phase,
you might put a drone inside of a really stinky area.
And when you want that and you're playing Deimos
or you're playing Dokobit,
you don't want to be redpinking
because you want to preserve your drone.
So, as you can see, I've got my drone inside of lobby here.
And if any operators place any utility,
just as the castle is doing here,
I'm able to yellow ping it.
And you can see on the top of your screen,
it goes from an operator that I've not seen
to an operator that I have seen.
So that means that when I'm on the doaker bee,
I can then call them without them knowing
that they've been red pinged.
I'm glad they were getting these kind of little gimmicks and kind of tips and tricks to help
but at least win some rounds in our reign games.
Maybe the two teams are playing in our final game of the day.
Well, these are the steps as well, because let's be honest,
it has not been great for both Heretics and Twisted Minds.
Due to the results earlier today,
Twisted Minds no longer have a shot of making it to playoffs.
This is the last time we will see these two teams inside of stage one.
They better go out with the bang, because we don't see them anymore
until September.
We'll actually into the map veto,
because I hope we can settle this for once and for all.
An exciting map, but we're going to the most default, basic one there is with K'lpaus.
Yeah, and I still think it's interesting in the sense that I think that
Christian Mainz have thrived on the map recently and also on the side of Eretix.
They tried to play quite a lot and they lost it twice already.
They did make some of these games a little bit closer, but I will say this.
The only hope that I see for them is them starting in defense.
However, one thing that we've seen from Eretix yesterday was
they made things closer by being super aggressive.
You remember Akui getting super aggressive, getting a triple kill.
You remember all their players on the team trying to, I guess, bring the pace to the lineup and trying to destruct the team in front of them?
I think that's something that they will be able to achieve in defense.
The main weakness of that roster still and has been ever since kickoff, the attacks.
So it's a good news that they're starting on the defense here.
Just to remind the viewers, no playoff implications whatsoever of this game, no standing implications.
I think for actually the only implications that this one is for, is from relegations, from the end of the year, because it will impact points.
that is the only thing and maybe
just a little bit of team
self. What now we know that
these two teams will not be
going into play after waiting
on the final pairs to join the
lobby for this final matchup
for the day. You can dive a
little bit further into kind of
what happens with twisted
minds are because they had
such a good start. They were
our best performing email team
in Salt Lake City had a good
start in stage one and then
all of a sudden. It went the
wrong way. Yeah, I think so,
and they've not looked so hot.
They've not looked so hot
And I think it doesn't help to fly the fact that they were disrupted. JL had came out and this is translated obviously to read out in Arabic, but this is the English translation of it.
So they wanted to apologize for everyone that's cheering and that put their hope in us and let them down.
Doesn't like to make excuses, but we went through a lot of circumstances. This league, it's not public what the reasons were for the fact that they had substitutes.
And this might actually claim to the fact that they did have to cancel scrims as, you know, I would infer that they are the team that starts with T and ends in Wisted Mines as Doki did just say.
and maybe do cancel scrims on G2, whatever.
I think they've clearly felt some kind of disruption,
and that's never good for a team.
But it's not about how hard, it's not about getting hit,
it's about getting back up once you are hit,
and that's what TwitterMind effectively are feeling.
They've been hit, they're gonna miss EWC, you know?
They're gonna miss the event that they'll set their goals
and they would have wanted to go to that.
They've just been on that high of Salt Lake City,
been a top four team in the world,
but now it's about how they bounce back from that.
Yeah, I also think that from their organization's perspective,
It's an event that they care a lot about because they have the present minds
They want to be involved in as many games as possible and realistically every time this team was playing at the WC
They had a deep run and even then before it was cool game gamers 8
They also had super deep runs that when that's when we first got to know these roster
It's being able to play international all the way back being able to beat some incredible international teams when no one knew them
So obviously for them to miss that huge events. It's a huge
that's a huge problem for them.
So, I'm hoping that at least they go up the big door.
Ooh, the French expression, making a spread toward
for the very final game of the day.
Well, we already know it's going to be the last time
we see these two teams inside Stage 1.
The good thing is we're seeing smiles on their face.
It's time to go out with a bang up. Clubhouse is ready.
Thank you very much. And to be honest,
I will actually jump back a little bit
because I know that you gave the pro tip to either of those two.
the game. But let's be honest.
You're the one who pops up in
the middle of the screen, saying
you give teaching lessons. They
are in your shadow. And we are
in the shadow of a good final
game demo. Yeah, I just want to
add on to what Jack was saying
as well. Implications are still
I mean, a few s I points in this
game. Don't forget, you know,
depending on where you finish
and with shifters slipping up.
It does give twist the times the
opportunity of finishing several
which I mean, may not seem like
So you'd walk way of 100 so there is still I think something to play for
Well, let's see
How much play they've still got I think it's very fast day obviously twisted minds
You know, they didn't hit the level we expect
But there's reasons for that reason so that we don't know there are roster that has changed quite a lot
Inside the server obviously they've had multiple different swap out days and pulling things in and put themselves back together
they just couldn't play at full
strength and unfortunately. It
means that they won't be able to
get themselves in and they'll
have to sort of sit out and
watch. But otherwise it's good
spirits and that we could run
and. As I point that sort of
precious swing because we know
what they could do on an
international stage. I think it
was the furthest to men. A team
has ever been was it earlier this
year? Yeah. Yeah, making I
mean, I think the players that
you see on the side of the
you know, you think that too was Atlanta. I think it's where we kind of seem like the first showing. Um,
off, you know, what the men are reaching to do on a big stage. Uh, and also I do think it is quite
unfortunate as well that, you know, Bob is obviously back in now by police back, but it's just it's a
little bit too late, isn't it? Which if it's a bit sad, you know, it would have been great if they
didn't have those issues, especially inside super week, but it is what it is. What can you do?
You can only just play the game ahead of you and that's what they've done, and they'll find themselves watching on the little line, but we know that it's a team coming back and back.
Heretics in the meantime, obviously they've not sort of finished bottom of the board in terms of how this has come together, but they've definitely had their fair share of struggles.
They haven't really been able to sort of get themselves into the pace of it all and
well
But everything I think they're the only team
Obviously when you're looking at the grand scheme of things you're looking at the affiliate team
You're looking at the chance to get points to keep themselves sort of
Surviving in a way from the bottom of the board they are on zero and they will stay on zero in that grand scheme of things
You know there's a chance with minds that
Because of how things went on earlier on the year it will change
It's part of the Oakville Leone ranking, I believe.
Rebels and GK, they've been able to pull some of the points themselves.
And that's that sort of split.
They'll put the pressure on Secret, don't really have to worry about that. They're a partner team.
Here.
Dora.
Watching and waiting on to what's done.
They're just not rushing into anything. In fact, Rios is gonna rush up towards the floor and the fight is around!
quickly put down there goes P9 there goes the nomad and there goes perfect start for this to find
first start for her things
you know that goes perfect start for two oh there goes the piece oh i missed it there
no that was it that goes down all right i was like oh okay um i'm not mistaken well i mean it's
getting worse for them isn't there's another one for for doran's heretics it's looking pretty good
Good ol' Isaac, great swing there from Reigns as well, and twist it, not looking great for the man, they're all dead.
Oh.
That happens.
That was quick.
Happens sometimes.
Very quick.
I mean, heretics.
First round's theirs, very calm, cool, and collected, right?
There's also the element, obviously, now that they're playing with Dov back in, they still need to get themselves background onto it, and...
They'll play to have fun and they'll have fun team but the thing is Clubhouse is a map.
It's going to be one that does play towards I think in some ways the favour of Heretics
because it's a very fundamentals driven map right.
It's something where they can I guess have that piece of mine have that sort of closed
down.
You don't want twisted mines on a loose mobile map.
You don't want them on something that they're going to have Hash on just swinging every single
angle and putting the pressure back on.
Here you can build formula and make them have to solve it
Either way
That's the first
Favour only five more to go mate and then
I can count I can count seven stop telling people I can't
No, I messed up and I expected you to know no
I've never... too polite.
It's like there was a video parker
I saw me talk about casters
We tend to not like correct each other on mistakes because we say a lot of words
Mmm, occasionally you make mistakes and you're only then...
Incorrect, I think
Human jet's way too nice. Every other caster is just in it to
Get one over.
Yeah, accountability is key and a clash on a window is key.
Hello.
It's making me shiver.
The way he came around that, then,
all that window was, uh, oh, oh, there's, like,
what is this?
It's a Hibana trick.
It's Pengu's Hibana trick.
I hate it.
They put the pellets on, and they wait to pop them,
because they put them in all of them.
Goodbye, Hashem.
And then you just rip down the castle,
and put the castle back up, and you've removed
that Hibana pellet.
Well now the castle is not going to do any more of that because your life just kills the castle, roots the castle trick really.
Yeah.
The fact that he's got away with it is, I'm not interested in this thing, but...
The heretics will give this flash a little bit more safety.
That's, although not really interesting holding instruction.
Said, they back in towards the bombsite and hold the heretics.
Far accountant 4 in the bottom site.
Out for it, missed the mines.
See how they want to try and approach things, they've still got their own shield as well.
Don't forget to have one of the blackbeard, trying to make things happen.
The knight goes in, trying to stem off that clash.
Oh, careful for him, gotcha, Razorbloom is there.
And Jalad now, gonna be licking for a little bit.
Still for heretics.
I don't know if you feel like it's gonna try and play behind these Kiba Barriers,
as we know, are such a nuisance for that bedroom.
to block off lines of sight that the window players would like to have, and the gateswiz are trying to come in with a clash.
They're just going to stop your man's approach. Where's he going to go? What are they going to do?
Well, Dora shuts down your lags. You can really do anything from the side of it. They'll flash around the corner, but they're still going to make them weigh in.
And with that pipe being so late to burst, well, they're just sending it. Just gets one and two, but Dora massively shuts it down, leaves us in the one versus one P9.
30 seconds against the clash of Lolo.
Now, has recollected the kit and sees exactly where that player is set up.
What do they want to do here? They're just gonna tuck themselves behind the hard wall,
force them to move away from the shield. They're...
Gating for it! And, I mean, that was a bit of a gamble there, Lolo, for that side, right?
Now 10 seconds left. He knows he's got a stick. He's baiting one more swing.
It's not gonna happen, P9.
It doesn't take the bait this time, but they have to pin the awareness on where the player is, so where's he going to go?
Will he try and sneak his way out via the machinery?
Dropping over the bed!
Oh, how he's crossed the divide when he doesn't get much further! P9! Big clutch!
Oh my word! I mean, P9, he could have stuck it earlier, don't forget!
Good of...
But he somehow pulls up away in the second time.
He just thought that he's not going to push me, he's going to try and play the mind games and he wins that 50-50 and obviously that engagement.
He swing left, he swing right, what's it going to be?
Did not look great, this was the moment. You have to give credit here at the Tricks.
He needed to make a play, he needed to do something, he was able to kill two.
He then allows his teammate to have the 1v1 in bathroom.
What's going on in there?
I had a BB in the monster.
I need Milosh.
I need Milosh to translate.
He's screaming.
Oh.
Yep, it was well played.
Well played from P9.
One piece. A weird method of getting there, obviously, but sometimes the bar for the course, right?
The fact that, so as you can see, we open up to the castle play. We open with weird sort of steels back of utility and strength.
Korea's got the opener on towards Hashamu's. We'll be able to have an impact in the game as a yes.
Still big clutch, big play.
They get themselves leveled up here, still with the clash on board.
I wonder if that will be something that gets removed after this round?
Otherwise their eyes on quite close.
Are they just going to see if they can slip their way inside?
Lucky gift for Solid Snake.
Nothing.
The clash certainly be targeted as the the ban right now for
pistol mines as that is in the second time that FOLLO has picked up the operator.
Obviously did close some issues the last time Fortress Clines and their attack.
I'm just gonna try to get into the bombsite here because there's a lot of pictures!
What's going on?!
He just run out of bullets, run out of time, run out of room!
Okay, I didn't realize that.
I'm just gonna try to get into the bombsite here because there's a lot of pictures!
Run out of time! Run it out of room!
Okay.
There we go.
I think the trash is being sped up.
I'm setting up!
It's one of those games!
Mm-hmm. Yep.
It is.
Silly slippy time.
Oh!
Silly Siege isn't like...
a free man up red stairs. You don't see those.
I love that they went with the strategy they cannot get all of us, and then 10 seconds later, oh, I guess they can.
I went on the clash, even though they found the Izami.
Look, there are ways to play around the clash. What we just always had really hit.
Well, there were two bullets left and he still had to go at the one tap.
two one this point and everything feels a little bit fever dreamy but to be honest
that's sometimes what I love when you get into games like this right when
everything's locked everything cemented and it's not that they just had their
hearts broken obviously at the start of tonight was that mines had a chance it
It was a narrow chance, but it was a chance, and the less...
Eh, I got cruelly ripped away from them what it was hours ago now.
They've gone through the seven stages of grief, and they're charging up red!
Three bodies at a clap to see what happens!
That's the energy that we need. No Hibana.
More limitations on the hard breach.
And now his army, as he said, and Keebers, which is always useful.
into the basement site once more. No roamers or heretics, so just that mines can make light
work of the general stuff that we see, get all the hatches opened up, get the vert work
in, and start formulating where you want to try and go to your plants. Now, I think the
important thing you have to note as well from heretics is they have brought in a bit of
while could operate one that we don't see often that being the maestro. So in that case maybe they
want to try and a little bit more vision, a little bit more information on where these
custom mind players want to try and go from. It can also be used really well. That maestro camera
specifically inside a mobo, if that doesn't get dealt with because I mean you have to either use
a gun six or an eight to remove that because if you drop the try and punch it you're probably
going to get killed. That maestro camera looks directly onto that triple wall, typically where
an H-Charge or how bad a pellet would go. So the fact that he's able then to remove that and keep that tripwarp stop,
if are a part should I say, is going to be the kind of problem solving that fusta mines want to go around
if they choose to open up that tripwarp.
Shalak takes the next chunk of damage, not quite knocked out though, they've been able to have a little bit of better survivability, but a maestro problem.
I'm just going to try and cause some problems from above obviously the limitations on how
the gas machine can get itself affected, the impact will have impacts, no it won't.
I'm quite able to remove it.
Instead the zaps they're coming from all around you.
There's a chunk of damage, one more and it would have been the end of dogs but instead
it's a trade out, there's the smoke that gets the end of the man that's trying to plant
in the meantime, that's the minute but four burst is three.
Slips inside the smoke across the side, it's self defined one.
Now you can see them all prepped up ready in dining room and they don't eat something delicious.
The Italian Sean Oak was in, Riaz gets on towards Trixth, finally ends that run.
They're just that way, he's trying to break the Hatch-Oms on the far side and get a gift
from down the main side.
They're sat waiting for him and they're not quite able to get it out, it baits him, but
trades out.
And now Hatch-Oms.
Oh no!
Oh, it's about to do some play by play.
But he's always got the capabilities!
And then he realized that he gets to swung the M0 and 4.
He's just been decapitated by the bailiff.
And for heretics, they are successful.
Once more on that basement, Twisted Mines.
They've been feeling a little bit of heat here and
are now going to go for the time out.
Again, pretty generic overtake isn't from Twisted Mines.
on to drop in towards the hatches. It's just the blue take didn't really take off the way they
wanted to. Yes, they're able to get a guy in the blue, but I don't think they had the impact that
they were probably hoping for. Another thing as well is that Jalad now has been able to get the
opening kill twice. So heretics have had that man advantage lead and they squandered both of those
opportunities. That's enough of a warning that they're going to have time to talk about it.
I think it's the sort of unfortunate reality of how this is shaping up and the fact that it's
hitting in such a weird way across the board of everybody seems to be
some more problems for twisted minds. Maybe that's just the benefit of defense, right?
Alright, maybe it's the benefit of you having to put the pressure on to the approach in that ominous ticking clock in the top middle.
Just let things down now, we have time to talk.
Let's just try and capitalize upon something that they weren't quite able to make happen before, though this was the site, obviously.
take away the conversation to entry kill, but to be fair, Riaz got it onto a patch off,
but it's the sight that P9 clutched it out. One versus two, made their way on through.
Narrow margins, for that I'll say, it wasn't a sort of post-plant one versus two, but he
fought to get himself there and he played against the clash and the dying throws, so
they've been able to make this one work, even when the wall has been sort of against them.
Let's see if they can try and make an approach.
A really similar start of the line-up.
Flores and the Capitao.
Just to maybe force some pressure on towards
maybe the chance of castle barricades,
maybe the chance of a clash again.
He's looking for a sneaky hill.
He's going to ask his teammate to destroy the barricade form
forms so he doesn't make any sound and maybe just go for a quick peek into the
bomb sign and find the kill. He's just gonna stay steady and hold that angle onto anyone
rotating towards destruction. See for rip here now. That's maybe just back away and he does so.
He's aware that someone's in behind that mattress, probing again if he picks but
erotics. I'm pretty regimented here at the moment not wanting to give anything
away as a ping, spot out two of them, knows where they are, main force of a twist at mines,
now establishing themselves in towards CC and I'm sure in towards Cache eventually.
After that, still to play. Not much has really happened, not much to talk about. No, maybe
that was what they talked about, was let's try and slow things down, right? Let's not
get as flippy with it. Let's see if we can try it. Just cool things off. Freeze it out
a bit. Yeah, there's obviously a pushback, but he wants to swing the door and he's taking
a chunk of damage. In the meantime, there's still a lot of utility in the pockets to be
approached here for twisted mines. If you use the florester, it's fine, but they've
got all the capital bolts and the beans. A couple of grenades that they can use. The
first is there, the trait comes out though. P9, there's the capital bolts gone. Just one
in and across the crossfire I mean now that this player on the back is gonna be
able to stay for holding on towards the heavy gym gear. The Echo Drone is kind of
reading all of this too to hopefully hit the stun if they make their way inside.
Still just catches a razor bloom it gets rid of the Echo though. Now the second one's gonna have to make its way IN ZARA!
Doesn't even need the drone! The assist in the kill as Dove goes down and
three kizara once the Dora. And the last is Riaz's to take. Really good patience, I think,
from Heretics. Just happy enough to give map control over to Twisted Minds. They don't
want to expose themselves in any way. They know it's going to be a bit of a struggle
for Twisted Minds to try and make things happen if they maybe don't have an extra man that
they can utilize well. It's very regimental in terms of how they're going about things.
unlike in the the patience of it
you hear the highlights again
when their first kill came in at in around about the minute mark
and it sums up how slow it was but they just knew to play with their windcalls
they knew that they can just support that act as best as they can
to provide them information to stop any form of plant wanting to be attempted
yeah more played by heretics
sometimes it's a bit frustrating for me, because characteristics just look so loose and they
look like they have a bit of freedom, whereas really the whole stage, they've been pretty
uptight. You know, I don't think that the Italian way of stage that we're used to seeing
especially over the past year, whenever we kind of seen the Italians in flux, I kind
start with Ebb coming in, I think the Navi Corps many years ago and then we've seen the
Wild Project and then just slowly and surely the Italians are just starting to get added
into the league. We have a full Italian roster here. We just didn't really see them play their
best stage this stage and it's a shame now that there's really not much to play for here for
Heretics. And they start to pull that some pretty good stage. That's almost a conversation about
it right is, I don't know if they drank spot on the desk the other week, is it a team that we're
we're just going to sort of see them fall down towards tier 2 and then absolutely control it.
And then come back up here and struggle against the tier 1 teams.
That's something mental, because we know what they gave, but look, we get to see it.
It's not that there is such a big divide between our tier 2 and our tier 1,
we've heard some amazing runs from EML sort of tier 2 teams and
at this point it just becomes this thing of like, well this is how they should be playing all the time,
but unfortunately it's only how they play when the pressure is off and
Whatever can sort of fix that
What's it's way
Goldless I point to prize money. There's gelat
Anyone takes a lot of damage for it gets caught out by the second. Oh my gosh
That's every single grenade possible for P9
To get real as if the kill in the meantime drives the way up the stairs but drops down to a razor bloom
Oh, he's gonna fight his way out on the hatch and he gets one
he's being surrounded they need to get this follow-up kill he doesn't know
that a player is down but in the meantime tricks gets one more down does it
get out of there does escape
lol it though. Going on towards the site where is Akui gonna go?
who's stairs all the way back up yeah? Oh long rotate and I mean what a fight
going in towards the bedroom side and they're still not stopped. This won't be one-oh!
But the limp Nade that P9 had thrown is able to get the kill. That was just a Nade to move
somebody in behind the reinforced wall. He didn't expect to get a kill out of it.
As Aquey just ran up the stairs and Primus sacrificed himself to jump on the Nade.
And I ran up the stairs to see what our desk has to say.
Well, what do you get when you put two teams that have nothing to play for against each other?
You get chaos! That's what this whole game is about.
Yeah, and what's a limp nade?
What's a limp nade?
Limping is like...
It's a nade, there's limp.
And then a nade, but a nade cannot limp because the nade doesn't have legs.
No, limp is in like...
I think it was, yeah, it was like on its final few seconds just like rolling.
So, like, imagine when you used to cook nades.
Mm-hmm, and you so explode on the floor. Yeah, would you just threw it without cooking?
It would be a limit night because it'd just be rolling a man. Okay, so I think it's I think it's such a
Good metaphor about the game that we're witnessing
So far is a limit it is and limp night because it feels like we're on clubhouse and it feels like we're watching border
That's what I feel. I like we're watching right now. It is chaotic. It is trade for trade
It is somewhat aggressive somewhat disjointed
It is a clubhouse game where usually you're trying to play for the objective and yet I'm seeing attacks that are completely split out
I'm seeing 1v1
And there we go, here's the late night. Oh my I just feel like we're watching a game
We're like what should be objective-oriented
Attacks that should be coordinated and cold in three two ones
It's just so many 1v1s all over the map and and heretics are quite good at it
I will say this they're quite good at jumping in and then getting aggressive
That's why they're they're winning here. However, just like always heretics get to defense. They get the head start and then comes attack
Yeah, that's a big problem for the problem realistically like I'm I'm worried about the next half because I'm worried
It's gonna we're gonna see the same thing. So the same disjointed plays the same lack of cohesion
That's gonna get punished from the side of two sent minds at aggression this time
I feel like we're watching two teams that have the same struggles playing each other feels a
It feels a while away from the VP Falcons game, doesn't it?
Yeah, true.
It feels a complete while away from that game.
And I think you can see why both of these teams ultimately
have ended up finding themselves at the bottom of the leaderboard
at the bottom of the standings.
And the one thing that I did like about Heretics
after having my defenses was all the problems
they were causing for some time.
They were playing the clash.
They played the maestro.
They played the echo.
They played loads of Yeager as well.
Those Solis were super annoying.
Solis, yeah, the fawn.
They have so many different operator varieties.
It was quite refreshing to see.
And I think from a Heretics point of view,
sparks that granted they're against a team another team that's struggling but
there are sparks that has been good um what I'm looking for for heretics now like
you just said is they're getting onto the half way they're traditionally really
really bad at yeah and they're really really poor at actually I think there's a
lot of opportunity here if they stay tight they stay compact they go for more
or less the full clear if they do we've seen a lot of tillies eat for the last
six rounds so I'll be real if a lot of free-form usage if they keep it compact
and keep it strategic and metaphorical yeah they can find success yeah a bit
more default a bit more fundamentals that's what I'm hoping to see
because I don't think they really, I don't think Twisted Man play to the strength of the map in attack
and I think that Perotix has the potential to do it because they try to play fundamentally well
and together in the last few play days, it just doesn't work for them.
But if there's one map where you can do it and it's pretty much layered for you,
which steps you need to take, it's Clubhouse.
It's the one map that everyone knows how to attack properly,
so if there's one where they can get together and go step by step, it has to be that one.
And as we can see, we're waiting on one of the players to rejoin the lobby,
in the lobby so this gives us all that time to discuss the halftime bands that we're seeing.
Um, very much anti-breach denial, being banned away from the attackers, and then the Monty and the
Capitao as well. Yeah, I think the Monty's really relevant. I think you see the Monty, if you think
about the various bomb sites at Clubhouse, you see the Monty on the basement, usually going down
dirt to not have a cacan ad to go anywhere. Blue, mudu, yep, always useful. You think about the
gym bomb site, you see the Monty doing the cross clear, and walking all the way across the Angra
And then cash, the garage tech. So Monty's really, really good. The overshields, I would say, live a bit more situational.
So that's why you see the Monty tech, right? And the capsules are the same. The capsules are so good for removing that garage position as well.
For blue, for blue embasement, so strong. Blue from stock hatch, obviously you have one guy pushing oilpins.
Yeah, also that as well.
Half of the time when you're playing against BDS, it was Shaco who was playing there.
I can tell you, you did not want to play blue against Shaco because it was super annoying.
So it's always the same thing, that the capital is going to fireballs behind the kind of like
vents machine, I don't know what it is, like the generator, useful at every single one
site on the event gym.
And I think that's why this is two really good bands for heretics, thinking about it,
because in terms of, sorry, two really good bands for twisting minds, because if you think
about that, it's kind of, you get rid of the Monty, you get rid of the Capita, it allows
you to actually play those positions, it allows the defenders to be super strong against a
team that's got pretty weak attacks.
And the main thing is, because heretics go for the default band again and again and again,
and I believe that personally, I think it's a mistake.
Because when you're a team that's going to struggle, I think that you need to go for
less default bands.
I think that removing Kade or Bandit on Clubhouse, everyone knows how to do it.
When we didn't have the bands, we knew how to do it.
It's kind of easy to do it.
And so the thing is, when you do that, what do you enable on Clubhouse?
Azami will be playing in Rafters.
Azami will be playing in Blue.
Azami can be playing in Gym.
What do you enable then after that?
Mira can be played at the same time.
Mirafor Basement, Mirafor Gym as well, you know, all of the strong things are really with the DMR, like all of these stronger players, they're completely available.
We're obviously just fear crafting a little bit whilst we wait for the players to get back in the lobby, be glide amongst you, you might have seen that there was a couple of players just dipped out during the halftime there.
Um, could come purely actually, as you take a sip of your coffee.
Sorry, I'm just a bit French.
It's okay, it's okay.
I get feed.
2 Brawl Bands. In my mind, it makes so much more sense to run 2 Brawl plus his army than
it does to run Bandit and Kaid. Because you can always deal with a Bandit and Kaid with
many different methods. If you deal with a 2 Brawl plus a Bandit or a Kaid, I understand
why you wouldn't want my mess. I understand why you just get rid of the Bandit and Kaid
and then the 2 Brawls left in play but useless. I don't understand it.
much theory crafting but there was a lot of theory crafting at the beginning of the stage as well by
you in particular Theo. Do you want to come up here? Oh it's my fake time on the stage!
We get to come here, let's go! Well this is perfect but due to the little delay that we have with the
players joining back the lobby, it gives us some time to roast Leo. Okay can I preface this nice
thing? No, no, no, no. I had not seen a single match from any of these teams since Solacity.
Okay, that's your other pre-mester. Let's just walk through it.
Falcons, your number one qualifier sweep that we see, they ended up finishing in the fourth place.
There's no ranking here.
Okay, okay, there's no ranking.
G2 did finish top, VP did finish top, Twisted Minds.
Currently, 2-4 down to Heretics.
They were in the bottom of the table.
They were the best team at Solexity coming from EML.
In what world do you look for them to qualify for DPSC?
Formal results never guarantee any success. Exactly. Exactly.
It's not financial advice, past performance is not indicative of future, but thank you very much, finance advisor and so we can move on to Team Steeve.
Team Steeve got the word right here, here we go, right.
So just if I deemed it secret to me as a contender inside of this league with three changes, one for Key and two guys who are free to see in theatre.
I will say this was my hot take that turned out to be a very cold one
Because I thought that you have no I you have movie you have two amazing players
Yeah, and then you add the drills who I thought deserved the tier one shot for a long time
I thought it was a really good rookie. I actually don't think he played too bad
I don't know things considerate. I thought it was really gonna flourish
I thought that flexi was the best performer with team heretics at SI so I thought again someone that can bring shot calls get the can bring
Vision yeah, I like in my head makes sense that they're gonna be good
Also, they won't play with the pressure of having to qualify to do this all they did because they're all already qualified
They didn't play with the pressure though. Well, we move on to the next one and this is the one I'm really really excited about Leo
Because I got accused of being a fanatic some fighter you get accused of being a shifter some fighter you put shifters in contenders
And they failed to make
Yeah
Put them in top six realistically
I put them in top six because I believed that there was the last team in the last stage of EML that made it to the major
So I was like if one of the big names is dropping
Shifters has to be taking this spot and you agree with me. I actually agree. I feel he made sense
Yeah, I think they were a huge disappointment. Do you know who should have been the team snapping absolutely snapping at the heels of this
First in my surprise shifters, but the most established call that some of the wrong time on that team, you know
Think of robbing. Think of break even blast. That's really hard like and then
How does that team fail? It just shouldn't have.
It just doesn't work. But it just doesn't work ultimately.
We can spend it more positively though. Because there's a team you put in needs a miracle and wealth.
They got a miracle.
Oh, we've not got through the dark horses yet.
Yeah, true.
We got the dark horses. Geeky.
Geeky was a dark horse. I think it's pretty fair. They had made three roster changes.
So it was a question Marcus wouldn't have worked enough.
I think that's positive.
And for Fnatic it was always up and down.
You never know which medic you're gonna get and eventually they learn about you
There's just the right amount of points to make it into playoff. So I think it's only fair
I think I would have I should have swapped contenders and dark horse. Okay, and then for rubbles. I think it's more so that
I think like many people I expected that they managed to go to playoff and kickoffs
Also a little bit because of the format and it feels me wrong
And I'm so happy about it because it's a french team that perform well
It's players that came through first. Maybe reveal themselves in tier three in French lands
Then made it all the way to chair one. It's a beautiful story three rookies on that line up
I don't see if I had to be proven wrong. I'm glad it's that team doing it. Yeah, I agree
I and I also think in fairness
I think we thought that the top four of email was going to be so stronger that they were going to be next night night
A day difference DK
We just didn't know they came in and slotted in that fifth slot and then the fanatic even again
I'm probably over the bomb the expectations of Leo had. I don't think this is such a I am taking piss
And I do absolutely rebelling fastly your TLS that actually went to shit
I don't think it was too off at the start. It was pretty good
But like many things you can start well and then go very wrong
I I have a question one more before we hopefully get back into our game very soon because all the players are in the lobby
What it seems that didn't make it to play us and we've had some crazy roster windows, especially before kickoff
Do we expect any big rostery shifts?
Yeah, I think it's sad because they already made one at kickoff, they already made one going into the stage.
So they're like at 2-4-2 in terms of roster changes.
But I just don't think that this team is going to gel the longer time.
I think we're very privileged as we get to know them.
We're very privileged to listen to Singles. I think they need a vocal voice around them.
Yeah, true.
I think they need a vocal voice around Nafe that's really, really good at giving them information.
I don't think they currently have that between probably the last one or blast that you know depending on the roles and the
What if they need somebody decisive that can give him a very clear picture a lot of the calls today a lot of the
Shot calls went wrong because he felt like he was operating in the dark
And we'll spin it back to the game that is currently starting here though because as you already mentioned
These two teams will not be making appearance inside the playoffs
We
We will see these teams maybe you know, we'll see the teams and then stage two
But we will maybe see roster changes. We heard it from heretics themselves.
They work widely, different players going into the stage.
And I think both of these teams have barriers to making roster changes, particularly if they were going to.
They both play in a non-English language, which really limits that roster pool of players that they can go from.
I'm not worried for Twisted Minds. The talent is there. It's the team that went to a semi-final at Zilexity.
They just need to figure out things in that team.
And we don't know where the circumstances were, but I don't think it's a problem within the roster.
I think if I look at the Italian roster of Heretics, the player pool is a little bit more shallow.
So do they stick with an Italian roster? If they need to make roster changes, can they speak English and can they go find English-speaking players?
It's a question mark. I love to see a full Italian roster, though. I think that speaks of EML. And as we go back into the game, let's go!
Yes, somewhere in the back of the mind. So these players that might be playing a part. This might be their last rounds inside EML.
They got to give us there all in the final half of group stage.
Well, thank you for our wonderful expert desk, holding the fort down as we hold ourselves
steady and ready, screaming ahead towards the final half of our best of one set.
Now, they said not really much to play for in terms of the immediate.
But there's a bigger pictures demo and there's so many other pretty prizes upon the mantle.
There is?
Still, SI points you have to try and compete with, of course, if you're twisted at mines.
I think 100's a lot better than 75 and again, you never know what stage 2 could bring, but the mice could have a complete turn around and
maybe those 100 points they're probably thinking, yeah, good thing we did get those at the back end of stage 1.
Heretic, so we'll open up with the first pick.
They've got the ying, don't they, if you till with that ying and that crimp.
Maybe lacking, I think, maybe the nades, because there are goyos on board, that might be the only issue that they'll struggle with, so
So McFarack, wait, was he again the Info?
The way Soul Snake is, you have the one.
So you maybe have to try and collect others.
Sorry, I had a moment there.
I needed to see how that came together.
It wasn't how I thought it was.
There's the pressure on there holding on quite aggressively
here to stop.
They're driving a flame.
The United's the cover!
Bait it in!
Thinkin' it's a free fight in the meantime.
Double up in our
Acquie entirely caught out there
Nice bigger than his stomach
And a gun smaller than his opponents
Yeah, no makes that there's go yours may be an issue no lip nades
I think that may be Leo's new favorite thing now. He was so amazed. I love your lip nades
He's so French. Yeah, talk it about him
This would be an issue for them, Dora though, is able to sight not only against the sight
but also against the defenders and heretics!
I've just warmed their way in!
Too many people off-site and twisted minds have capitulated heretics in a very good shape
a form five to against twisted mines
well suddenly again we have that moment where it's oh suddenly they're inside
the site the fact that twisted mines you know lost that opening kill pulled it
back realization of heretics just how loose look at the position of the ram as
well how free the whole team was to get into the site
5d for heretics here see look at is the real big brains of the
Okay then, this is the point I was thinking of.
So.
The progression continues into what's heiristic, showing us their best on the day when...
...they're at the least stressed.
Maybe someone just needs to lie to them.
You know?
Maybe they just need a really convincing liar on the team to be like,
Oh, there's no... there's no way on this game.
I like a really good actor to be like,
No, this is a no-pressure game.
And then...
they'll play like this all the time.
Well, I had a bit of a struggle to get that one open.
Bob is there.
It's the only form of real denial that you have based on the bands.
And the hand paid off the board.
Three real estate for the ramming on that Fermite.
Oh, mirror window.
There's a temp to be opened up and
Pouting to the speed!
Early misses out and shooting off the Fermite charge.
Oh, they're maybe gonna try and send the Blackbeard down in through the logi,
but no, just gonna be an angle hold right now.
So for heretics,
they're just giving themselves as many options as they can.
And...
Eeeeeeeeh!
Oh, I'm so, so worried there. I'm really proud of him. I've missed that in the kill, but...
I'm able to pick up tricks and heretics in a really good spot right now.
They know where the majority of players are in towards Snatch and holding top red.
You can maybe just try and ignore them.
Maybe try and flood in for Jacuzzi and in for him.
I'm giving the three players over here.
That's exactly what they're going to do.
They're going to try to flood and find the solo player in Jalad.
What is going on?
It's just Hasham left. Jesus, lost as anyone would be a flawless here.
6-2. I mean... heretics, you're giving your fans this hope but...
Just remember what you can do, right? It's that... it's that real underline.
Remember who you are, Simba. Italian Simba.
This is turning into a bit of a whitewash, isn't it?
Just the mines have not came up par.
6-2, so much space for heretics to win this out.
I'm in really good opportunity spotting as well, being able to see that hey there's
three guys over here, there's one guy in the site, let's just go for the one guy, trying
to hold about four different ways into the site.
In my word they take that opportunity really well.
Just at mines maybe, I've just thrown in the towel, I've cut up a white flag.
It's, you know, I guess it's the double edge split of it right where they're trying to throw themselves back in.
They've obviously used their time out by having these conversations and then since then they're just rebuilding, putting the pressure back on.
It's just the heuristics have got this extra element. They know the cost and the weight of this game.
And then the cost of what can come next. This is their last sort of teething game for a period of time, right?
They've otherwise got to sit and wait and go back to scrims and
Sort of balance on it. Twisted Minds, they've had a rough and rocky, but Steve has different reasons.
Oof, an Azara.
He doesn't get anything out of them. They can't get anything out of him.
Oh, they have the breach. How far through are they gonna try and drive with this drone and the E1Ds?
They're fucking it happening at the end of it, and he's not SHY for things like that!
God damn it!
That is the L Classic out, the Hash on Peek, in effect by the Crater, and two of them stacking up against the Shield!
One of them can't see, but thankfully the other can!
Heretics have tried to send in the Shield, and it's been repelled.
And Heretics now in a pretty difficult position.
And for Dora now, he has to contend with the player to his left.
Two players to his right.
And nobody wants to make the movie here from Twisted Lines, a player in the shoulder.
I just think it's gonna give him a stall out here unless Twisted Lines are gonna give away freebies!
Oh, dove, we'll retake position in towards Generator, look at this.
Rotate though from Reyes, but oh, he's actually been clothed up a hatch on!
He's left to gap in his own keeper, and he's died because of it!
A freebie free now!
He's in with the LOL.
In towards the old chatter.
Confidence we've not seen from Heretics.
He and I know.
He's round the back.
He can do a back stab either side.
Oil pit on the shield itself.
If he can get rid of Dora.
There's a job.
Longer.
Well, in the meantime, he's getting the kill inside.
He's unable to isolate.
They're no maddened.
Oh, he only just gets it, but...
The split is across.
It's a one versus one. Riaz, as you said, has the kit caught by the air jab. It
pries him a handful of seconds. The C4 doesn't make it, but neither does the plant.
Oh! Knife edge margins. The bees will give him a bit of an early warning.
But he's ducked in underneath the keeper. They don't know!
Another tricked keeper can be the cause of dismay.
Oh, but the game has given away either side!
Onto secondaries, both of them, no, back to the primary, but he's running out of bullets
to make it an extended fight, more of a fight round the back, but it's ring around the rosies!
And he must have the signal!
Fuck this P9!
I won V1 where I don't know about the players but something of mine was clenched that entire
time.
You really didn't know where that was going to go.
He went for the knife because he was all out of ammo!
That's all he could do!
Ah!
Breathe, everyone breathe!
Breathe in exercises quick!
Hello, are you alive?
Uh, are you with us?
I'm sorry.
Emmy can't come to the cast right now.
Get the depot.
That was the top shot, this is where it was that little pro that he's done look at his
own speed.
One shot left.
Nice.
Woo hoo.
Gee, how quickly his arm was moving for that flick as well.
That arm was putting in overtime.
Oh.
I think it's against your chest at minus, how long can you keep that up?
because the heretics of by far and away look the better side I mean really solid
in a lot of the rounds they've been I think on the same wave flight from what
it takes that they're doing I think the opportunity spotting has been has been
classed as well that's for twisted minds few individuals as obviously played
apart don't forget about one of their gym and bedroom rounds I mean P9 obviously
had that 1v1 that he won. And even there was a believer 1v1 in the other attack that they
also had. Also in T9. He's had three clutches so far this game.
I'm back. I'm back feeling good. 6-3.
Maybe this will be the spiciest day of the day.
It's great to get a rush of adrenaline this close to 11pm.
I'll see them later for these two things to be fair.
Looking across, waiting for just to catch here heretics.
The other people's minds that's keeping themselves close to what's on the core of the site itself
Breach comes across almost gifted, but in the meantime, Lolo takes a lot of damage elsewhere
Slipping around underneath but it's only really heretics that are suffering until I say that
Prius gets to land
Somehow
A delicate dance on the window isn't paving the way for twisted minds
But it's brick by brick built here by heretics inside the site for the plant and they have the others caught on the other side of the site
Still we've seen surprises slip on by before right past
The cats and somebody repel the door and doubles down in fact as a flawless end
Do a very chaotic final sprint
And a very gay out again, two of the best of ones there, mate.
Oh, fantastic!
That was an excellent game.
I mean, I twisted my spread to two of them.
It was entertainment and it's finest.
Well, and that is our finest done.
And that's where all the finest of fine desk.
Oh, wow! Thank you very much!
What a game that was there at the very end.
Chaos is what we saw in the first half,
and I kind of can see it as well.
That big 1v1, we saw in the long 2 final round, the head is at the edge of our seats.
Just wondering what was going to happen.
I thought that Lintnade was going to be the most important round of this game.
And still there was that 1v1 amazement that was really crazy.
Are you ready for this?
It's coming, it's coming, it's coming!
That one we won.
I'm going to look at it, three bullets.
I did the bailiff.
It was. It was fast paced. It
was very, very happy and
surprising to see how it takes
not only get the defensive
half that they wanted, but then
follow it through on their
attacking half getting free
out of all the only one that
I think it's something to hold
on to it's something to
grasp onto for them. Yes,
something's didn't look right,
but it will be mega for them.
They did just be if we draw
this all the way back, and if
this was play they want, we
would all be going absolutely
mega right now. The heretics
beat a top four team in the
world, and that shouldn't be
underestimated because
twisted minds currently are
top 14 in the world. It's a
it's a good final goodbye from
them. And as we say that, we
also get to speak to them for
one more time. We are joined
Congratulations on the victory here. Dora, the stage didn't really go your way, but you end the stage with the victory.
We see all kinds of emotions on your face as well during this game on the player camps. How are you feeling?
Well, it's a victory, so obviously I'm feeling well, but it's just not what we wanted for this stage.
So, yeah, just feeling disappointed really, even if you don't.
Dora, I think we've seen some glimpses of hope throughout the whole stage for you guys.
I think we've seen you go and get some over times against some big teams.
And today I think was a statement of how you can play like these attacks especially,
which was your biggest weak point throughout the whole stage.
These attacks were really good, like finding the right opportunity, finding the right gaps,
rushing on Basement when they're doing an extended hold,
pushing here in Gym and getting the plant down when you've gotten exactly the control you needed.
That's exactly like the potential that we see from the team, it just does not come up alive, I guess it's not that consistent yet.
Do you believe in, I guess, the potential of the team to make that consistent into Stage 2?
Consistency is the hardest thing to achieve in this game.
It's very hard to have five players on the top level, five players always performing, and that's what you need to be very good at this game.
this game if someone makes a mistake just a little mistake all the round can go bad for everyone so
I believe we can do it because we've shown we can do it yeah it's just a matter of practicing
more getting comfortable doing it so yeah I believe we can do it. Do you think pressure maybe
played a part door obviously when you had some things to play for maybe people on an individual
Basis felt pressure, maybe had some hesitation, whereas today, when effectively there wasn't a great deal on the line with players having been missed, you put in probably the best performance of the stage.
Possibly, yes. Because I don't think I do feel the pressure, even though there is, there is always pressure.
Everyone that says that they don't have pressure, it's false. Maybe they don't feel it as much, but there is always pressure, playing at this level.
So, it's very possible that Prefer does a lot against us, and today it's a great example of it, possibly, yes.
Dora, when you first came into Tier 1 with the match-core roster, in the first stage you managed to go to the playoffs,
and you were, if I remember well, one game away from qualifying to a big international event,
What do you think is missing for this team to achieve the same heights as for your first stage in 2025?
Well, again, I think consistency.
We've already talked about it, but especially being consistent on communicating with each other.
I feel like there are some games where we're very active in the comps and some games where we're just dead.
I wouldn't say anything and therefore there's nothing to do.
There's nothing we can do in those games if people are not active, if people are not
confident with what they're doing, that's the main reason why you lose games.
Seems like you have a clear idea of what needs to be improved for stage 2.
Before we let you go, Dora, anything you want to say to the fans, especially the ones in Italy,
that have been supporting you guys?
As well, I'm just sorry to disappoint, that's all really.
All right, Dora, we know interviews like this are not easy. We appreciate you taking your time
and talking about your emotions with us.
Thank you so much, and we hope to see you again in Stage 2.
Thank you guys, have a good night.
Thank you.
As I already said, interviews like this really are not easy,
and I think you can see it on the face of Dora as well,
and the way he speaks, the emotions are, well,
getting to him in a way that this was not the stage they were hoping for,
but he got to really appreciate that a player comes on here and talks to us about
even when things go wrong.
Yeah.
Just telling it how it is.
Yeah, and it is fun and games for the viewers at home, you know,
They watch these these pixels. They watch the game and they go. Yeah, these teams are good
These these teams trash, but for every single team inside of our league
They're full-time professionals. They're working day in day out trying to improve
They're putting that profession on display for everybody to judge it including us and
For heretics, it didn't go well. It didn't go right
And even though they won ultimately they failed on the goals that they set out as a team
So yeah, it's very very hard and then to come on here ultimately defend that I'll be asked
why it didn't go right, is a very difficult thing to do. So big props to Dora.
It's finally a pro player I can relate to. Because when we interview major champions
and stuff like this, I can't say much, but I've been a team that is at the end of the
standings. And honestly, I know how it feels. It feels horrible. You feel like you're working
hard. You think that nothing is taking. Every single player, you change what you're doing
because you think that what you've done previously is not changing. It's not working. And then
you're like that maybe we're losing because we were changing stuff all the
time and it's just it's a nightmare. Yeah you start thinking a lot of things. Yeah.
Hesitating inside the game outside the game changing your plans keeping your
plans. It can all go wrong and like winning and losing above habits and
you know unfortunately trying to break those habits especially when you're on
the losing side of things very very difficult. There's time for our teams to
fix those mistakes and really iron out the cranks going into stage two but as
we look at our results from our final playday of groups in EML here we got
over time big overtime with that G2 for that a game but in the end you know
seeing rebels make it into playoffs is that what we expected starting today?
Yes, yes they were like I think in my opinion they were the favorite out of
the three guys they could the three teams they could make it yeah
they were in the driving seat like they had everything but there were five two
down yeah true you're right yeah right two down and part of that game so yes on
on the before the game I pretty much expected where we expected it to be we
We expected the top four with GK coming in because they had the statistical advantage
to be in the top four, and we expected Rebels to make six.
That is exactly how it ended up being, but inside of the games today it was a little
bit closer.
You know, you think about the GK game, sorry, the Rebels game going up against shifters,
shifters have full control of that and arguably should have won it, and you think then going
up also about the Falcons game as well and how they got absolutely outclassed, they've
ended up in fourth, which for them will be a very, very disappointing stage.
some surprising facts like just look at the bottom three of our league shifters
twisted mine and secret that's insane to me like if you just think of the
names of the organizations of the players on your rosters think of blasts
and shifters think of twisted minds think of Noah and Moogly it's not even
just names it's organizations and achievements class two partner
organizations that achievements one of those teams was taught for SLC the other
team was in the S or the other organization was in the SI Grand Final
just what four months ago. Yeah. And all the team was in Munich as well. Yep. Made it
barely made it to a playoffs if it wasn't for that one round against an ID. So it's
it's weird to see this kind of shift in momentum in the EML. But if we do look to the positive
and we look towards next week, it does leave us with some pretty banger matchup. The good
old classic G2 Falcons for a slot at EWC. You will be treated to that next week Monday.
and that's just that. Also
for this pro. Yeah. And that's
the one I'm looking at
because coming into this, we
could sit here and argue we
can be pretty assured we feel
like G two Falcons of VP will
all qualify to the BC. The
GK the fact that GK and
rebels one of those two teams
will definitely qualify
because the loser VP GK drops
down to that game against
rebels. I think is it's so
good. It's testament to both
of those two teams and how
they've improved. Yes, Rebels
GK coming in in really, really hot form, one of those two teams representing our league, I think it's really, really good.
So basically just looking at the bracket, the only thing that you need to do is win 1B03.
Yes, it doesn't matter if you lose the first one, if you're all the way up there in the upper bracket.
Yeah, as long as you win 1B03, you will make it 2EWC.
And that's already the rule, like 16s in the playoffs, you're only eliminating 2.
That's why you only need to win 1B03.
But then of course, if you're in the upper bracket, you do have the extra life.
Which is very welcome in high pressure matches like that, but we're excited to move into Bessertrees with our playoff starting next week as we say goodbye to four teams leaving EML for stage one.
That is it for our group stage. There is still so much seats to be watching this week as we have the APL, we have CEDA, we have NAL, SAL.
It is still all in front of us for the remainder of this week, so especially if you look at the still get your packs, keep your eyes peeled for that.
That is it for us here for the group stage.
We'd like to thank production,
like to thank you guys here as well,
players, your teams, everybody,
you guys watching at home.
So we hope you have a great rest of your night
and we'll see you next week Monday.