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of our sub regions, but we have to cap off the group stage for eight pack north. And I'm
really keen to see which four teams we got a stage finals. Last time we kept up Asia,
though, how are you feeling after what was a pretty crazy night of games?
Feels pretty good. You know, when the when the stage begins, you never know what you're
going to be met with on the very final playday. Sometimes you're going to have maybe no games
matter for qualification. Sometimes you have better for first battle for last. We've been
pretty fun. They're lucky so far because both yesterday and today, most of the games actually
Yeah, and we had some really crazy highlight moments as well. One in particular was that game added more than anything else on Asia. It was Psychon Company versus Souls Heart battling it out for that final spot interstage finals.
And for most of the games, Psychon Company were looking like the better team. I9, the star player of Souls Heart was doing nothing until he did this. And this was the moment Souls Heart put everything on its head.
The score is 6-5, they've been battling back and forth, like I said, I9 not really showing
off to the level that his team needed him to, he was 0-5 at one point on the scoreboard
and then this moment, he makes it his.
He brings his team to overtime, he will stand up, he streams, he fists the air and the whole
team just roars in celebration and from that moment entering OT, they just take it because
they are fired up and second company went from this kind of egotistical, confident
to be scared in the server.
Yeah, it was crazy to see what souls are achieved once they finally clicked into gear finishing a little of all this round.
Can I just say notice how I nine is typing right now. He is typing sit, sit, sit, sit, sit, and mark was just putting questions in the chat.
It doesn't get much better than that for anyone that didn't watch that game at the very least go back obviously you've seen some of the highlights from in the game.
from in the game go back to what's the interview with scatman and i9 i9 was hilarious
yeah it was it was a good time and i mean the story was you know so i should be quantifying
oh no they're not gonna get it oh no they're not gonna get there and then of course you know
main character syndrome they do get there in the end spoiler yeah of course uh but it's crazy what
happened in apak north just a few play days ago we've had similar moments of really important
critical games in the mid-pack, and Fyrex and Skars were battling it out so hard as well.
I think a lot of people, after seeing the Fyrex rebuild, were expecting them to be the ones to go
deep, but Skars pushed them so much further than we ever expected. They had to beat Fyrex to keep
the dream alive, and I certainly didn't expect that to happen. I mean, coming into this game,
we really thought that Sterex would be the better team.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, this was an upset for sure.
And there are so many, as you see in the higher real,
like really close moments.
Post plans, people counted it using a couple seconds to clock,
slanting and dying or planting.
Like this came down to so many of those late round chaotic moments,
with scars.
I mean, they thrive in.
They have been that team for a long time, similar to CAG,
where they don't want to play a normal, usual boring round of siege.
They're going to get a bit crazy with it.
You see the direction here as well? It was indeed crazy.
And when I said left, you might be asking, well, these are our settings.
This is currently the situation for Apec Morph.
CAQ by Vero still on top, no surprises there.
But who's in second place James? Is that finally KineTrope up there where they belong?
Yeah, it is crazy that KineTrope have finally broken through him for the longest time.
It was KineTrope and Skars kind of battling on the outside while Kat and D-plus were fighting for that number one spot.
both of those teams, you know, of course, the Brazilians at D plus being so good.
D Rex, though, compared to kickoff when they changed almost their entire roster,
just kept looking man.
They ended up seventh place in kickoff.
They finally have a good roster again.
They're up in contention.
It's crazy to see KineTrope has jumped above both fear X and D plus,
but there's a chance that they will lose that second place
based on what happens in the matches today.
Of course, unfortunately, at the bottom end of the standing strippy main
telecom double rx and can you be my energy they unfortunately do not have a chance of making stage files
no they do not and uh we have a very kind of fun situation in front of the shooting okay because
we have this graphic right here now this might feel very chaotic okay but james and i've done our
very best and trying to simplify this with some words james take it away well essentially here
pingu we already know that kag and kinetrope are locked in for stage files yes but only the top
four in APAC will go through. Right now we have D plus, BXX and SCARS who are all battling
for that spot. Only two of those three teams can go. So of course in the purple, those
are the situations where SCARS and D plus qualify in the pink, D plus and FXX qualify
and in the orange that SCARS and FXX qualify. At the moment you can see SCARS are very much
on the outside looking in and they will play before D plus and FXX play each other later
today. So SCARS against Trippy, what they need is to get the best result possible.
they need a regulation win
as soon as trippy gets six rounds
which by the way trippy did last match against
kinetrope that then scars can't make it
so they need to not only win but win in regulation
and the more convincing that win is
you can see 717072
that increases their chances even further
and then on the other side they need
defloss and fear to not go into overtime
because if that happens they're going to
stand the answer looking in because that means that both Fieryx and Deplos will take the final spots.
So they need themselves to win a regulation and then they need either Fieryx or Deplos to win the game in regulation as well.
Yeah and what that means is we won't have the full picture of who makes it to playoffs out of these three teams until our final match of today,
which is Fieryx versus Deplos. That is a big hit up because both of those teams are still on the rocks.
Now fortunately for them they could actually already both qualified based on the result of the trippy scars game
Which is second up if scars really?
Struggle against trippy that fear X and D plus will go into their final game already knowing the result
But man what a roster of matches today, Pengu that third game is insane
Cag by the way, Cag by Varyl new name or on that later. Yeah, and Kimitra
That's number one versus number two right now in the league
Yeah, so I was told us first right battle for last the start things off battle of potential qualification
Battle for the very top and then final qualification match like I said
We were so lucky yesterday in Asia that most of the games mattered in this exact same story here for north
Let's get into the first game here RRX
Go for it's gonna up against. Can you be my enemy?
This is a set is the battle for last place
You know if you had a winner here they will go to second last place and the loser will stay there in the bottom
So it's about just getting a slightly better result than worst-case scenario and I'm not gonna lie to you
Look at it packed open how competitive it's been
I think it's completely sensible that it's gonna be our RX and can you be my enemy fighting for this final spot in the bottom
There's oh we're doing squats guys
Getting a little bit of exercise in before the game starts
Look these double RX guys have been playing in the league for quite some time
you have been watching APL for a while. You will remember the enter force 36 roster up
and coming Japanese team who actually had some huge upsets over the years. They're their
main stay name in Japan for a long time, but they have really struggled in this stage.
Funnily enough, being a little bit of a fun fact for you, they actually played this invitation
or last chance qualifiers and lost to team Anios, the Australian team. So they've been
around for quite some time, but trying to get out of the bottom of the stage is going
to be hard. Now, they technically have won a single match so far, but it was in overtime
against Trippie. And yeah, I mean, that was a pretty crazy game in its own right. But
unfortunately, we cannot say the same about CYB and their opponents for tonight. Can you
be my enemy? Windless at the moment. But in their last game, Pengu, they took five rounds
off of CAG. And yeah, I remember we chatted to CAG afterwards. We were like, what was
that's going to be a very
interesting game. I mean,
I think that's going to show
anything about maybe the most
recent form that could make
this game a lot more
competitive, and maybe they
can get themselves a bit of a
victory. But this is the
problem, right? Every team has
a vastly different playstyle,
so if you're not going to see
a G while they are much higher
in skill level and the rest of
the competition, they play
their niche. Maybe can be
maybe just deals well with
that. And RRX going to have a
different approach to the game.
So can they get five rounds?
Can they get into a regulation
can they get five rounds? Can they get into a regulation? It's maybe who knows?
But I think for now we're just gonna have to look at both of these two rosters and say,
okay, can this show us good for the mincems, right? The very basics. From the
entry to the drones and prep phase, to the operator pick selection, and of course
the operator ban selection. Because when you're at the very bottom of the
standings, it's not gonna be one small issue here that's gonna make or break your
game. It's all the small things coming together and painting that bigger picture.
So I'm really just gonna adjust these teams today and looking at them from the
their core for the Minstals off R6.
Yeah, and like we've talked about,
it's not just about the standings for these two teams.
They unfortunately will not qualify to stage finals.
But firstly, BME obviously will be trying to
put themselves on the map, gain more support,
not just of course for fans,
but also being respected as a team
that is worth paying to play this game.
We're sponsoring, worth building up a storyline
for the underdogs here in APAC North.
And I think they made a bit of a case for themselves last week
with that result against CAG.
But on the flip side,
double RX also got five rounds off of D plus last week.
So it feels like both of these teams,
even though they have struggled throughout the group stage
so far, might just be peaking at the sunset
of the group stage.
Let's get into our map video though,
find out where we'll be playing for our first,
match of the day in our final map for these two teams. We've seen a lot of
chalet out of double RX and it is banned straight up by CYBME. Clubhouse is where
we head to and looking back we have actually seen double RX play this
PENGU they got smashed 7-1 by SCARS whereas BME they played fear X and they
got three rounds. If there's anywhere that BME want to take double RX I wouldn't
should be able to come back
and say that this is a bad
that for. No, no, no, at all.
And also speaking about how we
look at the teams and for the
men's of the game Clubhouse is
the map for this is going to
come down to all the small
details right this set up the
road clear the execute the
micro details and most
importantly, taking the right
operators for adaptations
and counter so I'm super keen
for the map to actually be
clubbers here and ending. You
generally the stepping stone of any team here in Siege.
I'm actually looking back in the history books.
Of course, we had kickoff earlier this year, but prior to that,
we actually had the Challenger series,
which was how the teams qualified through to be in the APL,
the teams that weren't already qualified.
The ex-Enterforce 36 roster, now double RX,
actually were the champions of the Challenger series.
They made it all the way through pretty much flawlessly.
And it was, can you be my enemy that were a real underdog?
They got knocked down to the lower bracket by Vite, which were a well-known Japanese team,
and then eventually got their revenge and took down Vite in the lower bracket final.
But what's funny is despite both these teams coming from the Challenger series,
we never actually got to see them face each other in that Challenger series tournament.
And so it's finally a chance to see what these teams look like going head-to-head.
That's exciting.
It's also like, you know, we've tried many different, you know,
format start the years of seats. We've had like round robin where every team played each other
ones. We've had like two separate groups of four or five where you only play your portion of the
group. Um double elim single elim best of twos. We tried so many different things and there are
certain formats where you will only play that opponent like you said one time in the full stage.
That is right here. You'll play every opponent once but the fact that these two Scots are new
so to speak and have only faced each other now at this point that's the crazy part.
Yeah, I mean, technically we did see them face in kickoff in the lower bracket. But again, that's the only time we've ever seen them verse. And that was with a different name, of course, back when our LFO no name was what our double X was called. But yes, for sure, it's crazy to see that these teams have only essentially
actually versed once before this is now going to be a rematch. Last time they played Pengu, it wasn't a very good look for CYBME.
We were really hoping that maybe against a weaker opponent than they faced earlier in that tournament, that they would prove a better result.
But they got 7-0 on Chalet and then 7-4 on Clubhouse. So we're now going back to Clubhouse and double RX are looking to hopefully do what they did last time again.
side of that I think BME are in potentially their best form and perhaps their best opportunity
to find a win than they have so far. It doesn't matter that double RX already beat Trippy earlier
in the stage if CYB and BME win this game they will make it through and if they win in regulation
they're guaranteed to go over. If they win over time unfortunately they won't make it because
double RX will still have more points than them but for the focus here for BME like even if you win
But it's only in overtime and he's technically still come last.
I think that's a massive statement to make.
So finally, we got our first win of the league.
ZYBME hasn't found a single win here in stage one or even in kickoff.
So technically in tier one, they remain witness.
That's also the part about, you know, the weakest teams
playing each other at the end of the stage is that you're fighting really tough competition.
And when you're fighting enemies that are just beaten you 7-0, 7-1, 7-2, etc.
one can argue that you can learn so much from that because you can go back and
analyze it but when you're in the server just getting completely dumb stood over
and over again it's often just more frustrating than anything else in a
perfect world you'll play let's say the most evenly skill level enemy to
yourself and play a slightly better enemy every single player because then
you kind of like leveling up with the competition but that's not how it works
because you can't make that happen it wouldn't be balanced for everybody so
So you'll just have this kind of like, let's say random bracket, and it just happens to
be that the most even matchup of both of these two teams have been avoiding each other until
the very final playday.
And it had to go up against your Titans like your KineTrobe, your CTE, your Diplos, the
Fieryx is much earlier in the stage.
Yeah, for sure.
Now as we're just getting into the game, I'm looking back on the stats for how these teams
have performed so far.
Like I'm curious to see, is it any like notable, better attack win rate, better defense win
better entry stats. I'm looking now, unfortunately, can you be my enemy? I mean, just by the nature of them struggling so much, have some of the worst stats in the tournament, you know, for example, the worst entry rate at only 38% on the flip side, by the way, for reference, the best team at entry in APEC month is D plus Keir with 62%.
But can you do my enemy actually seem to be a lot more comfortable on defense?
I'm looking to have a 38% defense win to only a 16% attack rate win compared at the double
Rx who are 31% on the attack 29% on the defense.
So perhaps double Rx are a little bit better on their attacking side.
It's always interesting to see how different teams kind of shake up in terms of like what
they're better at, what they're sad, where their strengths and weaknesses might lie.
And I mean this is a talking point that you and I went over the last couple play this because we're from EML
Into Asia now into big north come back to back to back and we're talking about how like all this map
You know, it's actually like a tag or favorite for this in this reasoning and when you play the and this is your point
But that I'm making because you keep saying this and it's true at the higher and higher level of seats that you play
We tend to see defenders being less and less favored
We'll still have like a 51 52% etc. But it becomes less and less essentially here in a pack north at the very bottom of the standings
We have teams with honestly a personal attack and we made and for good reason
Yeah, stop sure
I'm sure another thing to note is I'm looking at the player stats at the moment from the league
Obviously, we've got two teams that have really struggled at the bottom ranks on the leaderboard
So you would expect that their players are probably gonna be on the bottom right
But if you look at Arcus who has been quite a standout player for a while
from
double RX even on his previous teams like enter force
He's actually the 16th rated player in the tournament. You know, that's if you take the top three teams
I mean theory should be the top 15
He's number 16 for a player on the seventh place team this time with only one win
It's actually genuinely impressive that he is going positive
even just as a bare minimum he's also got two 4k's that he's managed to achieve as well
So I'm keen to see Akasu of course a well-known player
He's been fragging out for a while and he's been on this roster for a hot minute, too
I hope to see him continuing to be informed
But I do have a feeling that today is likely to be a bit of a one-sided affair
I don't expect BME to be able to fight on double RX's level
But stranger things have happened.
He sold that last week with CYBMA's result against Catech.
I mean, again, I generally think that there is so many
potential things that can happen.
You know, that we talk about longevity, consistency,
and at the end, it's always gonna be,
always gonna end up being about just on a given day,
who's the better team, who's the better player, right?
Yesterday, we saw Aynan struggle
and Solzhard for that reason was also struggling.
And then he steps up, boom, entire team shifts.
So when you speak about an individual player, you know, if they can find the fork, if they can find the kill, find, you know, that's their game to shine for that one moment, that can literally make or break it, especially when you're in a position where you haven't found the victory yet.
Because that's going to be a lot of things that click in.
So when you get that final piece, that one piece that you're missing, it can shift you from, you know, a five-seven loss to CAG.
into maybe going into another time, for example, and just getting that one port, that one point on the board.
So we're looking at the smallest of changes here for these two officers that can make a breakthrough game.
Now, we've got just a minute or two before we get into the game, but I thought maybe we could just have a little chat about the rest of the league as a whole.
Thank you. Of course, we've been following this region very closely. It's dominated by Japan at the moment, and obviously CAG and KINATROPE currently number one and number two.
And then every other team is Japanese except for trippy D plus and fear x two of those being Korean
Rosses one being a Brazilian roster playing from Korea
That means we got five out of our eight teams from Japan to
Korean and one Brazilian very much Japan is on top right now
It seems apt as we're going to Osaka for the major later this year in November
But I just want to throw out a couple of questions out here and maybe some talk
Okay, let's let's go like the
Who's to the hero of the stage who's been like the surprising dance of the stage and who's
I'm gonna hit you first. Who is the hero of this stage could be a player or could be a team
Who is just the first one that comes to mind that you want to take a place in this term?
My hero is obviously gonna be kidding. Oh
Because kidding show of their team that we've been rooting for for over
You know, I think a year and a half now and they haven't really began to develop it wanted to now
They've been playing at the highest level so far. They've been exciting. They've been chaotic and they've been playing the style that we enjoy to witness.
So that's been my hero for sure. And I think you would have to agree because you've been gassing these guys up for so long as well, Deems.
You've got to agree with me here. Give the heroes.
Yeah, I'm so keen to see Kiddotrope take on Kag later. I'm really curious to see whether they are able to hold a candle to the top dogs in a pack north.
Of course, we are about to get into this match.
It's double RX versus can you beat my enemy?
Stay with us.
We'll be back for the match to begin in just a few minutes.
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We're back into it for APAC North.
Of course, we're about to get into CYBME versus double RX.
It's the battle of the bottom since the battle for last place.
And I don't know which team is going to come out yet.
I got an inkling.
It's going to be double RX.
But like we said, CYBME had something to show us.
But like we said, CYBME had something to show us last week here in CAG.
Five rounds they got against them.
Cormomo's just made the funniest joke I've ever seen apparently.
Often like his life depends on it.
What do you think? BME got it or is it just double Rx?
I mean, the brain says double Rx and I think my heart does as well.
I think they've just been a little bit better.
It would be it would be quote-unquote an upset if they were to to lose the camp in my enemy
But again one out fighting for the craze of stakes
You know we're talking about the second last place and two points the last place team on zero points
You're almost as fighting for your dignity a little bit
You know getting the final win ending the stage in a positive note after a rough couple of weeks
On a flipside I kind of just wish to get into like overtime and both teams had like a great great match
high quality depth of course back and forth and you can take some some good
memories waiting this one yeah I personally just hope everyone has a
nice fun time I hope everyone's enjoy playing Rainbow Six Siege I hope we
don't see any dog meat I don't see we no thorn dog meat
look we get clubhouse that's always fun thank you it doesn't get much better
I can't even miss.
And with us everybody, we're into it now.
It's BME versus double RX.
These two Japanese teams have struggled thus far in stage one.
BME yet to find a win.
Double RX only finding a single win in overtime.
But whoever wins this match today
will claim that second-last place.
Get off the bottom of the scoreboard of the BME.
It could be their first win ever in tier one.
So we're going to start rolling in.
We'll see a little Firemite, a little Kaid action as well.
So a good old Electrobrows, Kaid bandit, reach the wall, it's easier.
I beg and I plead, let's not make this a double hoppage ban.
Firemite I think is phenomenal, I'll accept it, but do not hit us with another one, okay?
There's so much heart destruction in Siege these days, I just, I hardly find it worth
it to get rid of two breachers when there's so many strong attackers.
Don't give me that!
Don't give me that!
See you later!
See you later!
I love that!
Awesome!
I will say Akasu is a bit of a Maru thing.
We've seen it many, many times.
It is known.
It is very much known.
I wonder what he's playing.
He's cooked with Maru on the clubhouse.
Of all the maps to play Maru on.
I don't know if this is the one.
No, no, that's that's pretty much right unless you're like ton of usage really know that they roam a lot and you want to get into the
Building like in the first five seconds in gym window or something
Yeah, yeah, I don't know look at my squad to Canada. So you can always use her as a hard breacher
But we've got two other operatives that bring those as well
She's got a shotgun primary. She can do verticality if you don't second there like she's super flexible, man
And it's gone
What a shame. Damn shame.
It's a case of there are just better attackers available.
I imagine we nerfed all the strong attackers.
It would actually leave armor being super playable.
So it's not armor that's the problem. It's everybody else's team.
We've actually got a lot of attacker-sided seed recently.
I don't know if the day we must lie is not going to be blitz.
It has anything to do with this, but we've seen a hell of a lot of it.
And there's B and E going for a pretty ambitious run here.
right here they want to hold up to a quad of map control got three roamers on the top floor
one on the ground floor as well the sole player on the bomb site yeah of course supported by both
the good canisters a bit of a camera and you're playing to smoke yourself so you can really
stall on any potential washers and pushers meanwhile a fight happens mile comes into the blitz
probably gonna be confirmed shortly oh wait a second it's not a copy great little flick of the
the rest of the shoddy and he stopped the push. That's a hell of a lot of damage under you,
you know, I'm surprised he managed to land that shot.
How he just barely managed to crawl away from the fire, but look at Akasut, he's already
down. Now, Koromomo is the last player upstairs and Asfell is alone on the bomb side, double
RX. Now forcing the push onto Asfell, he's about to get detected. Little bit of a wall
bang onto Akasut, not quite enough damage. Koromomo wins this fight upstairs, put him
the trade back. Hello? Is
everybody home on that shotgun?
Blast double RX. Still on the
bomb site. Take the first round.
It's such a good round beginning
there and even try you stop the
main push publicly of fires. The
Romans are still alive doing
damage upstairs. You have three
toxic babes in the asphalt as
well in the basement. And then
still it falls apart. The very
small things, the details, right?
The shotgun not connecting, maybe
Again, it's a matter of the very fine details, but double RX, they showed us that they want
to get this one over with quickly, simply just rushing in round number one.
And I guess this is Akus' thing.
He always starts at Amru because then you can just attack a re-peak onto whatever it
is they end up playing later on.
I actually remember the first thing that did this very commonly was TSM, back when it was
like the GEO, I mean, I guess when they won it was I basically, GEO Merc, Global Achieve,
Yeah exactly. They would hover like glass blitz every round or something weird like that and back then blitz was not like a metal operator because it's called the shield rework.
And then they would always attack a repeat away from the glass and the blitz until like their actual operators like sledge or IANA or whatever the mechanism was back then.
Akusu, there you go, okay, Flores.
So he's hovering the armor until the team discusses what they need.
The reason why you do this, by the way, because I did actually ask TSM back then,
is let's say that I will just pick this sledge.
But then after discussing the bomb side, my operators we need, etc.,
my team, they should be the one playing it.
Now I need to go away from sledge to an unknown operator,
so my audience can pick sledge, and then we gotta figure out what I'm playing.
By picking super uncommon operators to begin with,
with anyone can kind of flicks pick the main operators instead of switching back and for
fire discussing stuff so it's a very small amount of detail no big deal
run out goes successfully we'll throw out the freezer door and takes mile down immediately
that's the most with maxion it's a huge pick and now we're just gonna straight down that glaze
I think we're seeing him now, is this, do my eyes just see me and we're Maverick tricking
in 2026, man.
We are Maverick tricking.
Oh, we're trying.
We're trying.
Oh no.
Wait.
Here we go.
Let's go.
My deepest sympathy is you are.
It is pretty hard and these days people are not Maverick tricking a lot so it's easy
to get out of practice but man I love Maverick tricking.
I love Mav as an operator, and I hate playing against him, but I love playing him.
The laser's bad, it's like, please let me get the laser, even if they're too far apart, it can't get the angle.
Can't get the Glyokanis to do instead, so a little bit of value gain.
But oh, you're right, Mavric is all about the fine details.
You missed one pixel on the bottom or top end, and you will not get the wall opened up.
How is- okay, I was gonna say, how are you alive still, but-
What?!
No way!
You're gonna get the kill, you're gonna get out of dodge, they're out from the fire, and we are chilling.
Can I just say he had ice and then the fire was put in that like we need we need an interaction where the ice can is the fire
Yeah, a lot of people are like how to brah surely stops the fire if it's what about my personal
What if they both can't reach up like you put the fire on the ice on fire
And then you just have like this water sound and then like nothing happens
And then you can actually use capita to counter to brah
I was gonna say like you know, it's with them a charge of thermon on the wall
They are too far from on the wall to take avatars out on the wall.
That would be so good to say.
I mean, they're comedic.
I'm all for interactions, but that one might be spicy.
DoubleRx are locked out of the building right now.
As I say that, he's just in there.
That's the bomb site?
He's just in the main stairs, I guess.
Bro, he's just in. He's even on camera right now.
Asphalt is sitting there pinning him constantly saying,
Hey, by the way, there's still a guy top main stairs.
Is she not gonna shoot the camera?
Well, I think it's fully committed to it right now, you know, going fast and I mean,
credit to KB my enemy, they're really run out of freezer door, shutting down demos
and just doing a bit of counter aggression.
I think it's great.
The worst thing that could happen is they start getting a bit scared about how confidently
double RX are playing against them and they let them run over them.
No, they're very much fighting back.
Gonna go to basement once again.
And this time just gotta stay sharp and not get caught by surprise in the rushes.
pushes. This kill right here though, Grim B the entire time, so full intel, but it's also one of
those varricades where the DMR actually might not be the best gun in the game. And as when you're
in a close quarter engagement, a lot of movement happening, you have a slower ADS speed obviously,
and a technically slower fire rate than alternative weapons, where you get one shot headshot of all
the same. Like, think of a weapon that has like a super high fire rate, a super low, like imagine
It has 51 bullets and 0 recoil, but it does like two damage a bullet it would still be a good gun because much a headshot
It would still technically just one tap anybody if you could just aim for the head
And that will make any gun technically good
Imagine there was a gun right exactly like you say really high rate of fire really low recoil
One bullet headshot every body shot actually heals one HP
I mean, I guess I would say that I was pumping it every round because you started to HP.
I can only kill you or not heal you.
I can't give you a benefit.
That's like, I tell you a gameplay, you can only lose 100% but you can't say much more.
I mean that is insane.
And only lose 100% of your savings, you can actually gain more than double, triple, quadruple
that you have some early fate as well
Mario and has been enabled to go big
he's gonna run out of building take some
names decent dmr but a bit of a bait
different duo using kandila from
dirt on the site is trying to force
being me into over rotating perhaps
thinking oh no the rushing again let's
get back to the bottom side which they
all have it's a much more turtle kind
of round this time they got the the
clash to brawler saw me the mute even
They're just bonkers down and waiting to go back to them
Yeah, I mean they got the value that they need and I think that switch up is nice
It's good sign from BME. I don't know whether you're an active shell is
Offsite oh, he's not gonna be able to use it cuz I guess who takes him down demon with the F2 he seems to be
WRX have now got themselves back into the rounds for V4
map is clear
No, I'm blue at the moment
might be a bit of free real estate here for double rx
mind these PLC things you can be successful here you have to go big or
fade away he's the beating it actually
interesting I don't know what the point is of doing that smoke that just means
that you can't they're not taking the bait oh there you go they're taking to
blue though it's successful now there is a key with our keeping now from over
Picking here doesn't matter. They don't need to over commit to this fight
Don't be though gets off his shield and onto his gun now. He's left all alone
He's just the case tunnel, but he does have that diffuser 45 seconds
Double R ex decide to play this are they gonna run outside?
Jinus will take off the main staircase into kitchen hallway
They might just go from the back and the front at the same time and try and just circle with that clash shield
It's smart
just keep scanning him, hit the gadget and I can see wins the fight it would
have been funny this a gunfight from both sides but the clash shield on his
back somehow saves him from the guy behind him when he gets the first kill
of many 180s man I'm living in another universe today oh well nice idea there
from BME double RX win the round now we go to the final operator bands what do
we think Penger there's nothing particularly to me that stands out
maybe a day most just because so many days flash so wrong flash a bottle what
okay the bottle one is a big part of the crash but like I can see the angle
the he bought it was coming yeah but let's be honest does it take more than
one round if you'd be like yeah never again let's just get it on it's like
like it's like playing as though could be a day most and it track you
specifically like three times in one round it's like no get it down I don't
care. That's me every time I die to a thorn trap I'm like we're banned this you know we are not
gonna see one more round. And I mean that is the big criticism that some people have given a new
operator rank ban system is people just tend to ban what messed them up in the most recent round.
So let's say they play they play kevira and they get like an interrogation yeah you ban it but you
would never ban it if that didn't happen. The big cap kill you die to cap it yeah same story it's
It's funny how it's so biased, right, that the human mind is like, oh, I had no fun this
round because of this.
I don't want this one now.
I'm playing against a bandit and he doesn't put any batteries down, but he gets a full
game.
My ranked team mate's a bandit.
Of course.
The gacha didn't matter, but that's not what they realized.
It's just about against the multi-kill.
Yeah, not what they don't realize.
There's an OG spawn.
get it oh damage you deserve that my you should be spawn peeking with a DMR
instead of the boss G yeah it's just not enough damage on that boss G unless
you're landing a headshot there's no point well that's crazy there's Marimo
on the DMR and Rooney that is like a free spawn can known to man he's gonna tap
tap tap tap 21 bullets but instead not for the case as well as burning a gas
Actually, I'm gonna finish him. Well, he's not finished off entirely, but if he crawls away, that'll be a miracle
Waiting man
That speed of demise look at that
Unlucky prefire fortune
As well as back on his feet by the way now has snuck deep into blue. It's funny being
By anybody inside blue. That's two rounds in a row. They have fall for the blue and now Marama trying to get back to site will suffer
Lionel Rourke locked these defenders in place, Sikingo is also being targeted by the Deimos.
Akasu is low, needs to be careful. Sikingo now moving forward.
Another gap found by the attacking side. Now, stepping up hugely for double Rx,
Akasu threw the vent for the final kill. And it's a third attack round on the board,
two in a row onto the basement. BME are really struggling.
And it's credit to double RX. They're just printing in, taking map control, and like
you said, they're finding the gaps. They're like, hey, they have a low presence of holding
blue. Mal, you can just sneak in there with line and see what happens, and they do so.
And they don't just do it as a solo play, because they did have that other player on
the blue staircase window, upside down, I believe. And that means that if Jin dies, you know
Marimo is going to be in that area. And the only way back to the bottom side is through
Mao who's in blue holding them. So all of a sudden you can trade your teammate one for
one, get a bit of a bomb site control, get access to help your teammate in dirt tunnel,
pop the gory canisters and when that just kind of went around eventually. So it might
seem super random, rushy, careless, but I do think the Double RX has a lot of thought
behind these positions. I had a feeling that maybe seeing the clash band would tell us
that double-rx gonna go for a lot more shield plays and yet they haven't they've
picked off the blitz again they've only played that blitz in that very first
round of the game I guess for them it might be somewhat side-dependent we've
now seen B&E lose three rounds on church arsenal basement only one side of one
has actually been up here in bedroom
Okay, that's a question right so just okay, that's that's why you look at a marimo almost
getting a window back there.
Do you think you die to a one-shot headshot to a barricade because like you're sprinting
past it trying to get somewhere right and then I just die.
How do you feel when that happens to you?
Not great.
Okay.
But if I have info on someone, if I have info on someone and I like make a quote, what
are such a big part of the game and I like yeah the bangs are awesome right like if I yellow things
make them slightly less skillful but like if I have a read that someone's in a specific spot and I
can wall bang them that is like such a good feeling right but like if someone's just spraying down a
barricade or one tapping just for fun and it like shoots me it hits me through three walls and I die
like that sucks so maybe there's a point where they need to I don't know maybe you know one shot
headshot doesn't work, but like maybe it does like 50, it does like extra damage, I don't know, like...
Yeah, 2x, 2.5x, multi-plak, I mean that's what most games do, right?
I mean, my case is only for when it's unintentional, because I'm with you,
if you have to read a yellow paint communication to somebody somewhere,
and you get that wallbang headshot, it feels amazing, but you know certain players like
Thoppy and my former teammate, he would literally get wallbanged every day, like at least once,
when he's sprinting past the window at the door, because Amy is shooting down the barricade with no intention of shooting him.
Because I don't know that he's there. And that feels awful, right?
There's a bit of a...locker-unlucky.
Ooh...
How long does that hold on here? He is frying and he's gonna die, surely?
Rather, Karamo...gets completely obliterated by the Capitao's fire.
Akasu just waiting patiently, holding the angle. He's about to get pushed by Asphal who wants to refract your right.
11 and 1 for Akasu. Asphal shut down, still hasn't found a kill. Same story for Sikingo who's the last one left.
It could well be flawless. Never mind. Akasu's fallen. Sikingo is finally off the donut onto the breadstick.
For a little bit more buddy has been watched from down below and from up above and finds gin
One v. Three this would be a one v. Five ages from the fabrics tricks the wall, but Adam and British
It's gonna have to walk through the Grims bees or wait them out one HP by the way you use waiting with the bailiff and
Now we get some with the pistol very convincing round for double RX
it's a 4-1 lead on the attacking side and sadly can you be my enemies are not inside this game
well they're not an accuser completely popping off as well i mean yeah he's finding every gun
kill he's finding every entry and whenever they're trying to flank him and push two versus one he's
still winning in those scenarios as well so it's a very tough position he did a great job before
the game started mentioning him in his individual performance and let's say he had like the worst
game of all time, maybe this would be, you know, a close series, but I had the accuracy
of having another one of these games, is meaning that it's a 4.5 currently and probably looking
for more.
They're droning him. They're droning him actively in the 3v1.
Sweaty tryouts, look, they won.
This is the right thing to do.
Well, like we said, they only need two more rounds to guarantee
7th place in the league because we already saw double rx get two points on the board from their win in overtime
Over trippy, which means even if be any end up winning this in OT be me will be on two points a double rx beyond three
So for double rx really they're so close to getting the job done
Do you want to know the prize money difference between 7th and 8th place?
Yes, tell me
It's the same
2,000 USD or I assume the local equivalent for Japanese yen I assume would be there's a slight difference in SI points
75 for last place a hundred SI points for second last place
But let's be real has any team ever
qualified to SI on points but come
Last or second last in one of the stages. I don't think it's physically possible. I mean, I mean it would be just like win a major
You have to like go from last place in stage one to the second major in winning it.
Then they go to Osaka, and then they win the bag.
Yeah, they win Osaka, and then...
Now, it would be fun to go back and track it that's ever happened, because often the
teams that qualify for majors and win them, they don't get last place ever.
But there have been the rare...
No, no, sure that's never happened.
We've never gotten last place and then won, I don't think actually.
I'll take it all back.
Well, yeah, theoretically possible.
Unlikely though.
Now back when there was the open qualifiers, again you could qualify without even getting any position, but usually it also was not when it has not happened out of effect.
We're getting stalled out. Again, on the Monty pushing Dirt Tunnel, he can be toxic-baped away.
So there's Snow's attack so far from the Blarix.
Well slow is fine as long as it's steady and with a Monty slow and steady is the name of the game
especially when you bring a second shield to the table.
Karma is created of rotate. I like to call that wall ash wall because back in the day we used to see a lot of rushes through there.
There was one team actually Nikko's old team and I see order back in the day.
Every single round they would have a buck play above and then create a
Runnable hole in ash now and then March of Monte through it
That was like their default strat to take attacking basement like every time it worked like a charm
But unfortunately, I don't think Kormomo is likely to maintain control the bottom and stays actually coming upstairs now
Now finally with the DMR finishes off his opposition up in stock and a big pick on the bomb site for Rackus
Who Kormomo's in an awkward spot now trapped at the bottom of main stairs
as the attackers flooded into the bomb site.
Goffy's got no idea what's going on.
Koremomo's the last one standing in Akasu.
Shortley has him dead to rights.
To close up the half, BME will need to fight to the net.
Rely on Koremomo to do so.
1v3 now for him as he's trapped out of the bomb site
from the fire, being pre-fied from every which way
and Akasu is hungry for a 50th kill.
Quick headshot, 15 kills for Akasu
and a fifth round for double RX.
as we say goodbye to their attack cars.
So the big question that you asked James is can double RX actually just like devour can
be my name today and I was thinking no I was hoping for a close game over time something
like that.
You can start talking about Akosu and how he's been having fun a lot of times getting
4k's etc and just incredible individual performance all of which you were talking about has happened
Okay, August was like 14 and one.
I simply let that ridiculously getting every entry, every clutch, every kill, every one
to have no one can stop him and they have had themselves a five, one half starting attack
on clubhouse.
Yeah, we thought we were going to be up for some is a kayak but double rx of the full
on the cause a chef's table experience right now.
They are devouring BME and no, no, no, it is delicious.
No, no.
So they say, Akkosu's saying a favour round?
No, no, no, no, no.
So he's like, hack man.
Getting those little white blobs one by one.
Yum, yum, yum.
He's got 15 white blobs by the way.
15 kills so far.
15 kills.
Yes, he was close.
If this ends up going, imagine a world where D.V. come back.
We go like 15.
They could legitimately.
Like a piece.
Legitimately well recorded.
He only need we've only had six rounds
15 is a lot more than six like we could if we go to 15 rounds and he keeps up this pace
He could easily get 30 kills
And that's never the number for I we've never seen the 30 bomb in
Proceed not an official tier one competition. No, no even online. I don't know what the online record is
I know the SI single map record was 27 right for on a Geary. I don't know if it's 27
I want to see as well. I believe it's been tied
Yeah, this is always a trigger. I think it's been tied
But I think 27 is well in a single map young or do you get an organ against rogue? I believe is that correct?
I remember that very I remember that
It's really how that states with you, right?
I guess it's a a quote-unquote random game probably pretty low stakes, but before you get it dropping 27
I'm like, it was a high stakes game. I think that was for the elevate
I wasn't getting eliminated
I don't want to leave yet!
I don't want to leave yet!
I like this.
It comes a mirror trick.
Is it going to be picking up?
I think it will be just picking up.
Good bye to the A-cell miss.
Nice.
Well, if you got that one.
Does it go for a second one now?
I wonder.
Oh, really? Poly under the beach. Hold up.
What are we...
They're going to sense off the mirror window breach
And glass and a carrot store with a smoke grenade. I'll a there's some funky siege. I'm all for it
I'm not sure what the vision is here
Is he gonna be the brush? Let's wait for the two friends in the grass breach
This is your two problem, and we're just waiting with we're waiting to play the game or rather be near waiting
We're just watching there we go
There's no other operator that just like added a little minus
time for the clock. It's like, I think that was 10 less seconds.
It's essentially what Tiber has been doing.
You are still holding the last summer.
Yeah, folding on for now. I mean, to be fair, James, he's not being pressured a whole lot, right?
They broke the main wall, they captured some of the interior wall for Catwalk.
That got destroyed by the back grenade, and now it's a stalemate.
When you see a core mobile in the glass into action use those smoking aids to create effect because they are
completely stopped right now
Here comes
smoking aid
Come on in his hands
If they overcook this a little bit too much then maybe you can find some time in on the defense to lash out
But no here comes the smoke
Mamo is not seeing a lot. There's a good chance though for Yu-Yu to catch Mamo as he tries to make his way inside.
Yu-Yu's gone big for a double. The whole point for Mamo was to prevent Yu-Yu from being able to do that.
He's going to make it!
Absolutely farming Yu-Yu in garage.
And now Gopi is getting peaked from outside the main bridge.
I guess it gets smoked off doesn't matter double RX are wiping the floor
With BME today. It's a 6-1 lead and sadly for BME. They look like they might remain winless in tier one
And the question about you know, how big is the gap from the second last to last place? It's pretty significant
This is not a a close round. It's not a close affair at all
it is double R is just running over BME every single round and I mean to be fair
they're not really progressing the round to hold off a BME right they had the
glass at the ace there they had a clear plan in mind with the glass in the sense
but they don't get to actually execute they don't really get to have a ton of
gunfights this is gonna keep losing the individual fights Mara must be keeping up
six and six dead even but other than that it's a bit of a rush shilling across
the board and the marks could just finish it here maybe they're going to
basement they got a very standard lineup only surprising fact there's gonna be
the all my super common in pick rate these days I do generally believe you
can play some yake all my and just catch some grenades and flash whatever else
and get some good value but again there are so many good defendants in seats that
it's a matter of what you like to play and also what guns comes along with a
gadget because that's of course something to be considered what do you think
wise guns though I feel like you've got two pretty good
right this plus I have never liked the mp5k like you know before the hng 11
yeah so we didn't always have this hng 11 spot yeah i was an mp5k man back in the day
yeah no no i played i played smoke i wouldn't dare touch me even if i like the
gadget and like c4 school all that kind of stuff i never enjoyed the mp5k for
whatever reason and i've never liked the orc either
so i'm just a fan of mine i feel like both these guns are pretty good i mean
these days to be honest there are so many better weapons like i'm a vector man so like
you can't mirror angoyo like you're absolutely not beating those with the with the mp5k
thinking is right in the end most guns and seeds are pretty good because like time to kill is so
fast and whatnot but also matter of like personal preference some players such as demons would like
it's in v12 or 11 or whatever then there are certain weapons like mp5 and rook and dock and
the T5 and leech and anyone can play with those guns at a high skill level I think because they just
you see what they use but then you have weapons like 85k in the arc and I think those are like
a niche case you're gonna have players who like them who enjoy them but I don't think the average
player is like oh my god amazing weapon and I found that category
least favorite gun in the game
I
To vera says in G. Oh my god, don't I guy I just I actually hate my life and I
Or it's so slow it has no damage. It sounds like it's his I don't know it doesn't do anything
Love you love the T5 love the T5
I
This defense guru so hard to crack here the BME even though they have an open pick
Watching out a position like Arcus is gonna be now impossible. Looks like they're gonna go for a church execute LFR
Going out maybe
Comes down to how well the denial will be placed. Oh
Nice wall right now. I think they should I think you definitely
should like that's a great usage of an ash charge to cover up that mirror window
this is Jim this is your time of reinforce you got one left I mean I
think you must be considering it surely
when it drops you can be in trouble
here it comes
the gas pipe!
beautiful play using the gas pipe Jim doubles up
Sekingo and Asheville the last one standing Sekigo will fall
the game and the stage, the
double RX. Finally get a regulation
win on the board. And sadly for
BME, they remain witness until
long. As I'm sure the BME, but
I mean, I gotta say here, that's
actually very impressive
gameplay here from the
position double RX. If they can
play like this against more
teams, and I think I'm done to
like confidence between Lucian and server, I think they might even have a better result.
The only issue is that Apex Nord have a lot of teams that thrive in this kind of aggressive
carry playstyle.
You know, they have founding fathers, CAG they play here, Kynotrope's current form,
they like it.
Scar is another playstyle.
DeFuzz are from Brazil, the players.
I feel like if they have this playstyle in like Asia or in Oceania, I think they might
continue these hard-peach results.
But because they're in a region where Ema and us also does it, it's so much harder
to get wins this way. I do wonder what RRRX would look like without our
consider he did get 16 kills in that game 16-17. A lot of kills in that match 16
and 3. That is an insane score line. BME as we say goodbye to them for the
stage. Sadly there isn't a lot to work with of course their best result for
the whole stage was a 5-7 loss. Albina gets CAG which is pretty impressive but
Now they got 7 0 by D plus 7 3 by 3 x 7 1 by kina trip and now 7 1 by double
Rx sad day to be it can you be my enemy fan?
But double Rx on the flip side at least they end on a high the only when they had up until this point was an
8-7 comeback against trippy now. They have a very decisive win under that belt
Yeah, and I mentioned good experience to go with it. I am curious if
If given today's success, if they were going to stage 2 in the near future, with the same mindset of like, hey, let's just have the confidence to play our plays and try to run down our opponent, because I think confidence might be a big issue for them.
When you go up against, like I said, you're likes of D plus, CAG, Kino Tog, stars, you have so much respect when you're from Japan, right, against your opponents.
maybe two months sometimes need to have that inner ego saying we're better we're gonna take you down
i believe in my gun skill and just do what it did here against bini i do wonder what happens on
the day when aakasu isn't getting 16 kills are they able to win their matches let's find out of
course we have an interview up here with one of the players from double rx hey welcome on in my
my friend congratulations Jin on such a big victory 7-1 was that what you
expected to happen today? Thank you so much we so I'm really glad in our being
won our last match. My team made a great and really carried me
Axe, Axe 6 in here, I get so much for the spot, you're a crazy player
Yeah, it's uh, we yeah, sorry sorry you go
We do our best in stage two
So please keep cheering us on
please
We will give I think to today today's match very fun very
Aggressive and you guys look like you have confidence. I think if you play today
every day in stage two you're gonna get more victories so stay confident believe
in yourself and just try your best
yeah definitely believe yeah definitely Jin I want to ask later this year in
November we have the major coming to Osaka in Japan it's the first time we're
having an event in Japan for 7 years. Are you excited? What does it mean for you to have
a Rainbow Six major in Japan?
I'm so excited. So I'm from Osaka. I'm majoring in Osaka. Yeah. I'm so happy. My cheese
career. Invitational in Tokoname? Five years ago maybe. That was so exciting but I'm not
played pro league, but now I'm playing pro league so I'm won for Osaka major
did you go to Tokename in 2019 were you there in Tokename?
I'm not mean, but I watched.
OK.
Nice, nice.
I hope that you can come to Osaka for the major in November.
Thank you so much, Jin.
I want to give you a chance to speak in Japanese to all of your fans.
Anything you want to say?
Go, talk to your fans.
Thank you so much Jin! Bye!
Thank you!
Thank you so much!
I love that. I'm getting more of Jin.
I instantly regretted attempting my Japanese.
The bravery from him to like come in and I could see he was reading off his phone
his phone, some notes that he had translated, you could tell. But I have so much respect
for him for coming on. I know that, you know, culturally, a lot of Japanese players can
be very shy and not want to speak English unless they're extremely confident. And so
I'm so grateful that he gave it a go.
Now we've spoken to Jin now twice and it's been a pleasure for those two times. I felt
bad because I didn't know if he was finishing as long as I helped him because it sucks to
to sit with it, right? But then I ended up interrupting and I was like, Oh no, please,
no, I'm so sorry. Like, ah, no, I appreciate him doing his best. I really do because I
know the players, you know, you're shy. It's complicated. You want to say the right things
to your fans, et cetera, and it can feel super, super scary to go in there if you're not super
comfortable with the language. So yeah, no, very grateful for Jim for gracing us with
his presence. Congrats to double RX, a big seven one win. Of course that caps off their
But it certainly doesn't cap off the night, Penger. We have only just begun and our next matchup means everything for scars
They're taking on trippy after this break
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The first thing I had to start playing was the influence of my family.
My parents loved playing games with two computers at home.
There were also PlayStation 2, 3, and 1 at home, so I naturally got that kind of influence.
The first game I played was Metal Gear Solid 2, and I liked it the most.
I also had a computer, so I had a lot of FPS and DPS genres.
I had the most fun when I was playing FPS.
I have a younger brother who is 8 years old.
I recommended the game to my younger brother, and we did it together.
When I was in 6th grade or middle school.
He's better than I thought.
I only teach him game knowledge.
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I heard that my dad came from Cloud9, and I was thinking about what to do with him.
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I think he's a bit of a vocalist, but I've never felt that I'm a competitor in other games before playing Rainbow Six.
But after the game started, I felt like I was losing to someone who thinks I was weaker than me.
I felt like I was getting burnt in my heart.
I kept working hard, but I think this is how it happened.
The punishment looking for a scrap, the whole king of a scrap, Pino.
If he goes uncontested, the kick goes cold out, we're demonstrating.
The grenade goes through, that's a swing.
Cyber and Bullard are able to get one apiece with the kit so far away,
and Canadian down upstairs.
Eever, wow, that was special.
It's a one versus three to hold, and they're pushing it from behind.
He's found one, he's got to get the vertical as well.
He gets pulled up, Tim, we're down to the last three or four seconds.
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Take the two-one win!
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He's going back, he's not quite sure.
He...
That's a good guy to call.
A few seconds, stick it, Nassle, stick it!
This is an angle that he might be able to contest.
No, of course, he takes just a bit of damage there.
Walk, I guess, to the second one.
Eclipse, though.
We'll get one.
on the side, the bandit will lose out on this.
He clips the last alive on the Ella.
Spots the head and takes that.
He's ace for Walker.
He will down VCE Canadian positioning to pick up,
but that's going to result in a double-decky
for Spurticle.
Left 4 for Davis around.
Necrocs the final defender against Spurticle.
The ace, absolute domination.
I don't believe in Magic, Michael.
Team 1 does as they win the Mexico Major.
qualifying for another part of the progression of the system that we have, this tiered system.
And that's what happens today. We need to find out which teams will be on a stage finals,
Pengu, and the one team that we perhaps didn't expect to make it, but is on the verge of greatness,
is SCARS. Once upon a time, three years ago, at the very first debut of the Blast Ecosystem,
these guys were the Japanese champions. They even beat out CHE, and they managed to go to the
Copenhagen major in your home country, Penger. They even made top-class at SI knocking out
SSG and how far they have fallen since then. I feel like the beginning to this stage for them has
kind of set the tone now because it started off in the beginning up against KinoTrope which I think
is a pretty big rival. KinoTrope has been on the open up for a very long time but they've
quite gotten there. Skars have been kind of gate keeping them actually from the top five,
6 conversation etc. but they lost to them in the very opening playday 5-7 and then scars
from there on you know they had some decent results they became an enemy 7-2 that's whatever
then they fall in a close fashion again to D plus also 5-7 loss so it feels like scars
have just been you know two rounds away effectively from going from maybe making it into playoffs
into what could have guaranteed them to be there in the first place they've just been
a little bit behind the curve and the reason for that is I generally think that this region
has gotten more competitive, with the likes of Kiddentrop stepping up onto the
competition that we expect from them, D plus still being here, C, E, G, B, and P form,
and of course, Fyrex with a new version of their own super team. We got many more
teams than usual fighting for that top post. Yeah, it's become more competitive
than ever this stage because Fyrex are back in the conversation and they
weren't in kickoff. And of course, Skars fighting in that mid-pact with Kiddentrope
for such a long time. There's only space for 14 in the stage finals. We had six
in previous years, of course, when we had playoffs and kickoff was a completely different format.
So the pressure is mounting for scars and they're going up against a little bit of a rag tag bunch of
mumbling minstrels in Trippie main telecom. This, this roster, which unfortunately has kind of been
coached to peach pieces is essentially the remnants of that old PSG talent. So like if you follow the
continuation of the team and their Scott in the league, it was PSG talent and then they became
help us LFO and then just gradually fear X started coaching more and more of their players
and even Gotti for example he went and played in C&L now he plays for Weibo and when does that
leave us right now with an almost unrecognizable roster from what was an ent- you know once upon
a time PSG talent and they've done something that's interestingly we've seen happen in a little bit
of different APAC regions, they picked up old formerly retired players like Shile and he's made
his return and unfortunately for Trippie Man Telecom, all we really learned based on their
performance is that it is really hard to feel a competitive career roster in Rainbow Six because
that player pool is so small and Fyrex have really left up all of those complicated players.
Yeah, so it's like scars are fighting for you know survival and to the track into playoffs and then it's about playing
Squals here on the other side you know tripping they can just they can stop them from achieving it by just taking them down in
regulation themselves or even going to OT
Tripping actually had a good start though. They had a very good showcase a 7-3 nature and fortress
But it's against can you be my enemy and I got all had that thing. Oh my god
We got another team in the conversation for like top dogs, right?
No, that was a bit of a one-off. They took down the weakest team in the region on the first playday
The expectations got set away too high from my perspective and then they were struggling ever since that
I would like to go to a couple map for them. So I'm curious whether Matthew will take us, you know
They have gotten their only victory on fortress
So if you do the catch there, it would be in the middle
Yes, but they've gotten their only victory. Oh, it's in it's either guys
nothing. Now scars, they have beaten double RX but it was actually a while ago in kick-offs
and not quite the same level of counter-shredding you can do there. So it comes down to who's
the best in the server at the current given moment. Both teams would have a lot of showcased
gameplay here on Fortress and it is still the newest map in the pool in Tiamatization.
So very exciting. Now the way that Chubime Telecom, they got that initial first victory
is they just had aggression, they had coordination,
they did a great job of just getting in the building quickly
and that's why I was thinking,
oh my God, they're really a good team
because they showed such a good sign of teamwork
despite being a new roster.
And then, as I said, the results after that
has really been supporting that story sadly.
They ended up going 0-7 against D-plus right afterwards.
Then they had a max OT against double RX
and then went 1-7 against CAG
and then 1-7 against V-Rex.
really has been a top story of a trippy. It's been a funny situation because they've been annihilated
three times by the top three teams in this league. D plus, Kagan, Thierryx, 707171. They've had two
close losses, double RX and Kino, and they had one regulation win. So they've seen a really funny
place. But to be fair, scars have also been a little bit all over the place. You know, seven
winning, double RX, seven doing BME, and then close losses to Thierryx, sorry, close losses to
to KineTrope and D+, and then a win over Furek.
So it has been up and down for both of these teams.
So just kind of talking about the operator bands here.
We have Solis, Nick and Ying.
The Solis thing in particular, a huge fan of.
That was one of the key operators
that Trippie Mint Telecom utilized in the first playday.
That, Blackbeard and Beimos,
that's the big three power that they love to bring.
Trippie, they're very,
I'm gonna say like fundamentally oriented team, right?
They're gonna be banding stuff
like we see here, your bandit, your mera, maybe a smoker glue.
Things have stopped you from progressing the map very quickly
because you want that freedom to thrive.
The issue with bandit and the mera though in combination
is that you are leaving open the kite and the tube rail,
which can really stop you from achieving
a goal of reaching those walls.
And that's why a lot of teams opt for bandit kite first
as a pair, and then you get that third opponent there
often being the mera.
Fourth is very new.
But a lot of teams have figured out the map extremely quickly.
It was almost like a night haven nap situation, where every single region very quickly welcomed it into pro play.
It was crazy to think because Fortress before the rework was only in ranked and casual.
Has been ranked for a while, thankfully.
And it was not liked by almost anybody, I feel like.
But then a couple of changes, now it's loved by everyone.
High pick rate, played internationally and domestically.
Chal goes down early, a returning player who hasn't had the best time so far.
It's hard going from let's say ranked 1.0 version of the game in Pro League to a ranked 3.0 version of the game because the game is a much better picture.
It's a very fast-paced game these days.
Yeah, we've seen the same thing happen in Asia with Hysterix and Tolji.
These guys coming out of retirement.
The Zoomers play the game quite differently these days.
Skars you're doing to peel back their defense
Fish like trying to get some damage onto this blackbeard
NL cannot afford to take any more damage and Harper gets active nice kill and now the numbers are even
Continuing to peel back the layers Skars want to get a little bit more damage before they fully fall back
Fortunately for them look at how low HP NL is any shot to the foot and he should go down
That's gonna nuke him
perfect from Skars
TMT looking pretty desperate. The thing is here scars just have to fall back as much as possible play their cross crossfires and
Make the most of this numbers advantage
And you can see the crossfire in there playing the hallway with you kids holding the tall walkings
They're gonna be off the contact when you first in the tribal fire bullet that's gonna turn you to hate
It's my turn to swing now. I'll get that to you on force gunfight meanwhile horse store action
First new wreck on the asami locking things down with support as well from ashore on the smoke
So this is starspeak 2v2 across the map. It's very smart and we'll take together
Yeah, unfortunately TMT I'm gonna struggle to break into this once you have your crossfires and numbers advantage fortress becomes
Well a fortress a lot of these bombsites are very hard. However, the Mali
makes it a 1v2. Now this looks winnable. Remember Nina's low HP. One shot from this
high damage commando will be enough, but Wachoi says I'm not gonna give him the
chance. Out comes the shoddy. Skars looking solid in this round. And they need to.
Again they're fighting for a chance to go into a playoffs and while it's not fully
in their control, they need a regulation victory to guarantee that at least
they've done their part of the job. Then they will watch the game later between
D plus and Furyx and seeing what the exact result will be and then we'll know
the final spots in that top four conversation. So if scouts were ever
gonna lock in 110% it is right here. We cannot afford to see them throw
man advantages or getting sloppy in an end round. So the fact that they're
playing this discipline off the rib is a great sign for them. As I said they had
two people working together on a horror store and two people working together on
the meeting side as well. No matter where the main push will come from
we have two defenders working together. We can ensure a bit of a trade game and
increase their odds of being successful.
We're gonna see Double Shield up for a second that Blackbeard was teased out.
I don't know how I feel about Double Shield on Fortress. Fortress is a map that kind of reminds me a little bit, especially the top floor of Fortress.
the top floor of lair it's one of those maps that is kind of linear has a few
joining rooms lair or skyscraper any of these like big maps with a lot of
choke points that could be hard to flush out and you really need to have
split pushes you can't just tunnel vision from one side because the defense
can just hold those crossfires and lock things down
Yeah, really extension here from scars, hitting the towers, the hallway, the main staircase
falling back one step and reinforcing the walls.
And it's a very small thing, but if you do this a couple of times in a round, kill a
drone, fall back, reinforce a wall, fall back, kill a drone, et cetera, you can easily burn
45 seconds without doing anything, because you're still alive, you're just getting slowly
back towards the bomb site, and you're looking at the enemy's resources.
You're gonna have smoke grenades, frag grenades, flashbangs, but drones and the clock are also two different kinds of utility.
And that's gonna get lower and lower with this kind of approach.
And this is all enabled further by the kite of Wreck.
He's got one kite claw, two positions on the wall, and another one in pocket.
We're not gonna spend it actually on the room, so now they fall back another time.
They reinforce the bathroom wall. They have a kite for spare in pocket from Wreck still.
And they still have two more reinforcements to fall back even further.
And look at the timer, almost half the round has been burned away, and Trippie and Telecom has only entered the first or second room of the building.
It's very well played here from Scars, but it's very unusual playstyle for them.
They're very passive, very much just waiting, forcing TMT to make the first move, and perhaps it's an adaptation knowing that Trippie are a very slow team.
However, now very close to Washoe, the Blitz has info on his position.
The washway says you know what I'm I just fall on back. Oh God
Falling back indeed. Yeah trippy really I would have thought they would cut him off on that rotate
There were long lines of sight open, but no they haven't really punished and now as they look to approach the bomb site
I don't know. Are they gonna try and hard reach this? Maybe
hopefully
You have to catch at least to deny the kite calls
We got the right speed with the dog, T4 goes out, doesn't fight much.
And it took a bit of damage and a blitz by the shuddy earlier, but has enough health to make a play later on.
But look at this, Scarcer 2's in the battleground now, fighting them by the bomb site and even impact tricking the wall as well.
So Demix Selma charges are completely unsuccessful, they can't get a proper breach going.
So now their stock peeked in this hole, of fighting on two separate single doorways that then straightens the bomb site with Goryl Fire and Toxic Gas.
Almost on the table here.
Yeah, 15 seconds to play only one of the 10 players in the server has fallen and L is low HP
Shial finally finds a big but there's just no way that the plan is to be possible
Mina gets aggressive for two kills coming up from the stairs make it a third that's four kills in the round for Nina
Shial in the 1v3 not gonna find anything
Patience is proven of virtue the scars
Trippie main telecom just far too slow
I love this stuff in the skies. Again, as I said, it's very unusual.
They're a team that will take you to border in Chile, fight, fight, fight, spawn, peek, fast pushes, aggression, disruption.
And they still have that little bit of disruptive playstyle, but they're doing it strategically and about utility.
Like I said, they fell back at four separate times.
They only spent half the reinforcements when the round started, and they spent all the other ones in the middle of the round.
Making sure that they could start somewhere fall back close to walls and they keep giving trippy like this is the fighting ground
JK they fall away. This is the fighting ground. JK we keep falling back. And you see trippy
They're just itching very slowly forward because they're thinking there's gonna be a fight happening here
And then when they turn the corner, it's a triple reinforced wall with a kite claw
And then they try and sell my charge it open then they get impact tricked and I said, okay
Um, they should have put a fair might but if you think back to how the round started to look right when you have all those
two out of three walls being forced and you got a head host on the third wall you can't throw at it because you're under
Under fire you're gonna get shot so you're gonna bring your range top each like an ace or an Hibana
But those are much more prone to getting tricked up to getting impact trick in this case
So scars it is completely outbrained
Trippin main telecom in that second round and yet they still have me that pop enough for the 3k
Flank on main stairs or central stairs rather
It's nice to see that styles can flex their muscles a little bit into different play styles. Yeah
like we said in year yeah I think that's probably the curse of this team for
longest time and back in the day they were linear for Japanese team but still
had a lot of spice compared to the foreign teams when they went to Copenhagen
for example like they're running a lot of shotguns for example I think washoi
was running a partner shotgun of memory serves we just saw a lot of crazy staff
and it was really cool but yeah they tend to be one of the slow more
methodical Japanese teams and recently that meta hasn't really favoured a lot of teams.
You need that perfect balance. You need to know how to abuse the meta ops.
Of course for Skars, like we had said, what's important here is firstly, you need to win.
Secondly, you need to win in regulation. Thirdly, the more dominant a score line, then the more
chance that you have at making it. Because at the moment of course Skars are in fifth
place, whereas B and K, Fear X and D plus are in fourth and third respectively. In order
for scars to jump over them, it will depend on the result of the fear X D plus game later
today. And let's say scars win 70 their chances based on the possible score lines that fear
X D plus their chance of making it a way way higher. But if it's only a seven or five,
there's only a few potential score lines out of that game later today, where scars will
I want us to make sure.
And perhaps that's why they changed their playstyle for this matchup.
Because if you want to boil it down to a simple explanation,
Scarce are playing a more consistent and safe playstyle.
Not safe in a bad way, but safe in a good way.
Look at this though, the push comes in at the ready for it. Nina with 7 kills.
And Nina's been farming today, Waxhoye helps out.
U-Kills on the floor, but Nina for another one!
There's a good reason why Nita is the sixth best rated player in the league at the moment and he's going to get the revive on to UK's.
Wreck was detected briefly by the Grims B's but he's happened to just sit back in his position.
He's the only full HP player left of Skars, so even though Trippie only have two players left, there's a lot of time on the clock and if they can isolate some ones of his low HP players from Skars,
This could be a bit scary for them.
Yeah, so two tools are two flashbangs from NL.
That's all they have to work with.
These crossfires are so deadly plus there's a lot in action.
So Rex and I play the anchor position
and play off his contact.
Nina gets the ninth kill.
You guys are the final of the round.
Another round for scars three and zero.
And they're just bonkering down.
They're saying, hey, we know there's a trip here,
not really going for executes.
So we'll just make them fight for executes
every single round and just have the right
to stop them was the warden countering the flash and smoking it was the smoke babes from Nina
stalling out the main push to go you again limiting where the attack can come from and what what do
you bet if you're tmt do you bet the smoke or the go you do you bet the kite because the walls
are a problem and you feared the thatch band possibly it's going to be a rough journey here
on the side trippy need at least two round that was safe to have a good shot at this but like you
you said earlier every single round Kira's scars are so important the less
rounds they lose far better for them
of course in the Trippy Dashboard time now we also get a chance to scars to talk
shop Trippy they don't have the same amount of stakes on the line as their
opposition in this game they can't even go up in their placement at all I mean
even a three-point regulation win for Trippie here, they cannot get out of sixth place.
Even a loss here, they will not drop down. Actually, wait, they might drop down. There's
double RX and L on five points as well. Hold up, check in. I am checking that. I actually
think that... Yeah, so after double RX's result, Trippie have actually dropped down into seventh
place, which does mean less prize money and SI points. I hadn't realized that, but look,
If Trippie want to jump back up over double RX, they just need any number of points.
In fact, they have the exact same round difference as double RX, which means it goes to head to
head.
And do you remember that game, double RX, 1, 8, 7, you know, overtime?
What that means is if Trippie lose here, then they'll have a negative round difference and
they will stay below double RX.
Unless if they get to overtime, if they get to overtime and they make it.
actually funnily enough we now have stakes for both of these teams if trippy gets any points
gets six rounds then they will get sixth place in the league over double rx and scars will not
make it to playoffs scars cannot afford to let it go to overtime they have their full bombs
are rotation with the first three rounds they've banned the final operators scars are for the
the Grimm to be removed, they're like, you know, going to the Grimm Capital Blackbeard
Monty, that would be like the four hour choose between as well, they all kind of do different
things.
The thing is, Trimps is struggling across the board, there hasn't been like an operator
that's been saving them, they've been trying the Blackbeard, they've been trying the Capital,
they've tried the Demos earlier as well, and it just has really worked out for them.
So I like that Scars aren't overthinkingly going, oh you know they think that bit a lot
Let's give it a bit of it. No, it's not for you, but it hasn't been an issue for scars
So just keep it in the game. They're playing trap operators
they're playing denial of the pushes and
Scars the thing about them is that they're playing an unusual play style playing for the layers and falling back
But if they wanted to switch it up and play that front forward aggression, which are kind of doing right now
They can just flip it. He's still got there. What is this trial? We're gonna drop down
We're gonna die Nina the breeze gets the 10th kill zero deaths by the way
And this is what I said now the scars up in the front foot and not falling back and playing the layers they're taking the fight
That's not a school I see every other week one zero zero zero for Nina
Ten kills zero zero assists. He's calling 11 immediately onto 11
He's really turned it up today for scars when they need him. He's there now trippy in the two versus five
We are tired of the damage on to Nina, he brings out that shotgun waiting for Demali to come to him on the bridge and he finds a third kill in the round, it's just NL left remaining, Wreckham come around with the impact grenades and fish like locks in a flawless round for scars, Trippy took the tactical time out and scars made them eat it.
Beautiful.
Beautiful again flipping the momentum in the pacing right after a tactical from your opponent is genius
There's trippy. They're talking about all guys are gonna play slow
They're gonna fall by they're gonna make you waste time
you got to be quicker in the beginning of the round and
Going quickly as a passive team is great because you're just taking map control for free
But then scars from being a passive team to being an acro team and now they're going really fast into people waiting for them
I mean you saw how shout that is the opening pick and I'll drop down the tower with the black bitch shield block in his head
He's gonna stay alive shout follows right after and would die to need a hold an ankle or swear it was there
Getting a freak you gotta have the outsides while you're dropping down. Yeah, you're gonna fall into hip find you
You don't have a chance
So should be speed up at the wrong timing because they're expecting something from stars and this is why the best teams in the region
They can usually flip it from slow to fast, from counter play to pick it apart, to whatever it is that they want to do, you know, vertically, horizontally, because there are so many styles to siege.
We spoke to Terzda yesterday at the Waipo's victory, and I was curious how he saw the meta from his perspective.
It's because he has a very different approach than, say, Speegies and his teammate, and he said, it's a fun meta.
You can play pretty much any operators on attack and defense.
defense there's so many strong ups to play you're not forcing to just the shield meta or just the
util meta all of it kind of works so you get to shape it every single round with the information
you have available and as flexible a teammate you can really play any sort of style you'd like
i fully agree scars i've really dominated on this defensive side
Nina wants to go for a flank man. He could be on 13 and 14 here.
Get in yourself. He was willing for the sound cover. Yeah, he seems to have to make some noise here.
The Tracks thing is going to give him so much. He doesn't matter. He can honestly tank it and find the kill.
Impact and then immediately goes for the kill.
Down goes Harper. 13 kills, but he is limping now.
recent buff to gridlock means that Nina cannot sprint for quite a long time
after he gets affected by those trackers. Finally that debuff has subsided and he
can rotate away away freely. That's a really costly start to the round for
Trippie. You might think to yourself why didn't it go for more? He's 13 kills right?
Yes he is. He's being disciplined. He's not happy with trading one for one. He's got 13
kills and zero deaths. He needs to get at least two of his kills before dying right?
So it gets the one freebie, starts the receiving welcome, and it falls back to another regression later on.
It's again this discipline plays off of the scars. It's very calculated, and it's just playing the most consistent way of the game.
You know how you kids is getting baited by his teammates in a good way here?
He's trying to get another rat kill, just hiding in bathroom, or he's sleeping behind him taking a fight, or sure that is.
And they want him to walk into the bathroom and think that it's clear, but it's not.
Oh my god, 2-1! Can't confirm the kill though! Surely that revive is not possible though.
Fish like just needs to get active. 2 players on the floor, out goes the gas, he wants to
confirm that kill with it and I think he should be able to onto Shial. He must have missed.
2 players still on the floor and Elf throws out a smoke grenade to try and cover it. He
gets Shial back on his feet. Demik surely to be revived shortly after as well. 2 shields
back up but one very low on HP as is Demik. Yeah I think from the gas on the
fire here we'll finish them off. Impact trading seen down before. We
shed a thermal right about now on the blitz close corridor. Good for the
flash but cannot ADS for the gun because the crossfire is there from the scars again.
It isn't limited communication and teamwork 14 and 0 for Nina.
Can anybody stop this guy? Finally somebody shuts him down!
shuts him up and they'll have to sit the rest of the round out trippy have their best chance so far but
ret quickly puts a stop to it two big kills for his army demik on the donut and finished off it is
five in a row for scars another master class i try to be i think their their problems are showing
right they they called her attack tamad a couple of rounds ago and they couldn't figure things out
out. The issue is if the players in the server are not able to, you know, solve the problems
at that correctly, the coach is going to have to call a technical timeout. And then they
can give input for either a specific round coming up or more like a general top down
base with the guys, you know, play slower or play faster or whatever. One very big issue
that I find here is that Scars keep reinforcing all the walls leading to the bomb site. And
when you play the ace, we've seen it twice now, they keep getting impact trick on the
which means you're just creating the mirror window effectively like you can shoot back and forth because it's opened but you can't enter
Scars won't have any real pressure on the opened up walls because it's just a peak hole
They can just turn their back to it hide behind cover and take the fight in doorway
They need like a third one or they need to stop playing the Hibana set of the ace
The issues are going to make for this now or 5-0. There's one round left and a half and so we turn Sherry kitchen downstairs
This run is not going to be about the hard breaching. So Trippy now are left wondering again. What do we do now guys?
Do we go for like a glass shield, rush trap? Do we take top floor? Do we dive into CaliTee?
Do we go fast? Do we go slow?
Now they have a brava and the only thing they can haggard brava are default camps and the milusi traps.
That's like pretty low value I would say all things considered.
Yeah.
I agree. I very much agree.
I feel like Scars have really flourished on the defensive side here, and I got a bit of a theory pangoo.
So I've talked to our admin. It turns out that Scars actually won the coin flip to determine who gets to pick which team bans first in the ban, you know.
And Scars decided to be the team to ban first, which means they don't get the last ban, because essentially, whoever bans second, they get to choose the map between the final two available.
Whichever team gets a last ban, in this case Trippie, the other team will get to choose starting side.
So Trippie had to choose either Fortress, which is probably going to be defensive sided,
or Shallay, which is probably going to be attack sided. And what was important to Skars,
more important than which map it went to, was starting on the favored side.
Because that means they can rack up an advantage and hopefully get a 707172,
which increases their chances of making it through to the playoffs,
based on the fear X versus D plus result later.
I think this is some 300 IQ prep from SCARS.
you kill? Oh it's Ram, let's fall back downstairs. They can have the top floor because they can't
break the floor apart and then we'll get another one. 15 kills to his name, now they can fall
back to staircase or they can keep fighting. But the point is here, scars of three people
just waiting in the bomb site itself, meaning they will drop down the hatch and they don't
have any shock destruction. Is Vs dead? The Ram is dead? Wind condition wise, TMT, they
are starving. They have no solution.
You can't go 0-6 down on AK.
Trippy have not looked much worse than this.
It's sad to say, but it's true.
How do they get back into it in the 3v4?
Get that defuse back to Mali.
Take that top floor, but as you said, what does top floor control mean when you don't
have any vert?
That's the whole point of getting top floor control on this map.
I mean, it's just cool.
You can see it here, you know it was clear they have no drones, no time to go, if I pop that 20 seconds, the gas can push, you can watch the time if you want to see it, that's all you can do, and if not, you'll find you.
16 and 1, by the way, NL in a 1v4, honestly guys, get Nino to kill.
Ah, where are you, where are you going, where's he come from?
He's gone, scars.
6 rounds in a row, a perfect half and now all they need is one more round to put their
best foot forward to make it to stage finals.
I ran like a python, had enough of the tall, they be hushy
Got my limo, came up off a nested, does he gon' hang up like Jankers on Chosey
Indy, my niggas and Rissy, she frozen, he didn't bring out the game like I thought he
They don't make me no baby to show it, the stankers, I'm here for the trophy
Made it long, where they cannot appeal, show them mentalistic on a peel
But you think it cost me out the deal
All I know is how it came in for the note
Since it touched down on it for the throne
I don't know what I'm trying to feel, just burn it up, burn it up
My money gone, project wrong, feel at home, got the juice man it made
I'm calling game in his face, I'm the slim, hit it, jade in the game
My people long, won't be long till we all see it, no, I'm still in the stage
Get rid of what I do, I know to get tight on how I move
I still ain't get a ride out from these juniors yet, I knew he would claim it
He was cool, really I was just playing it by the rules
I ain't got nothing to lose, but most of them won't know until I show em and that's why I did try and keep it smooth
Did it all of my plans, just to prove that I can make it all real without they losing
I think for the whole long plan don't stop me soon
All I know is I can't be for the know
Just a touch down, all I wanna do
Down to the world I ain't trying to feel
Just run it up, run it up till I hit a beat
It is a dream come true for SCARS.
We knew that they needed a win in regulation.
We knew that every single round that they got better than that, a 7-0, a 7-1, a 7-2,
increased their chances of making it through to stage finals.
And this, it literally does not get much better than a 6-0 start on the defensive side.
If they can cap this off in the first two or three rounds here, Pengu, and really the
pressure is on for D-plus and Fyrax led it today.
Scars by trying to go for a record of fastest game of all time with Ben Thorn and Ella as they enter the attacks we know what this means look at the line up
Few splits they must doggaby. I mean get get a think and they're my friends
You're gonna be flying in the server Nina looking for a 24 minute 7-0. That will be a ridiculous kill for round tally
And this entire game has this been you can argue to say that treatment telecom is not played the best each of all time
And that would be true.
But I'm going to also say, for starters, the scars strategically have been so impressive.
That with Nina's individual performance, that is how we've gotten to a 6-0.
They've been individually better, they've been more prepared for fortress, and they
very clearly were like, okay, fortress is very likely to happen because it's Trippie's
only victory so far on this stage.
Let's just tailor some strats here.
Let's do some trickery and make a half length to exist on the attack.
and they did a great job of that on all feedback sites.
I really feel like Scars have to keep that defensive momentum going here on the attacking side because,
look, they're in the best position right now, right? 7-0, it could be incoming.
A 7-0 or a 7-1 means that the only way Scars don't make it to the playoffs is if D-Bus vs. FHER-X goes to overtime.
who wins outside that 75 to the plus 75 to fear X scars will still go as soon as
scars drops to a 7 to win then things start to get more complicated it means
that fear X winning 75 scars won't go so they have to make sure that they lock
this in as soon as possible don't let the momentum get away from them I do like
the two main telecom Monty Ben here is one of those like again super stable
operators and on fortress it works almost like if they you just push down any of these hallways which normally are
Unplayables and attacker months you can do that, but he's the only one who can do it a blitz can't I'd like to
Account you don't have the same level of protection
So TMT say you know what let's not give them the free access
So is it scars and I'm relying on getting opening pick
Forcing a fight somewhere or using stuff like your demo striker grenades or blitz for example try and find a nice
main chamber which could very well be hopper. So it could be called keep it broken, thankfully stays alive.
Nina fishing outside the window through the 16 kills and the smoke bin is here in the main staircase
slowing down the push. If TNT can survive this position and fall back towards the bombsite perhaps
they got a good 5v5. In fact they got a 5v4. He mildly is on the board, was short in the grave,
no more proper heart destruction for scars, only Ken open as a Nina who is still outside the building.
still on 16 kills with only one death by the way. If I'm NL here I'm probably not
gonna peak this. Nina, likely to win the fight, who takes a lot of damage. Both
players do. NL is getting targeted by both the Deimos and the Ducati call. He
answers his phone, doesn't want to go low on HP. That's a little bit of map
control now taken by Skars. They are fighting from a disadvantage after that
early pick onto Washway. Time to get breaching. Nina can open up the wall
good to have that redundancy after Warshay fell. But Trippie Main Telecom have fallen back with,
well, one C4. No gas babes, by the way. One impact grenade. It's not a ton of useful plans on the
late round, but it's something to work with. I'm trying to take Horses and Troll of the Blitz here.
Widow is a rat in the bottom side. Dole Harbor is hiding behind the black box to the left here
of the goldfish slide. That could be a problem because whatever any grenades are clear of them.
Yeah, that's gonna be a big problem here for scars. If they don't know about Harpa, he can deal some massive damage.
15 seconds, Nina needs to go big. He's currently cutting off the rotate back to side.
Demik has fallen, but NL will quickly find Wreck. Harpa on the bomb site has been dispatched with, and Nina's found a 17th kill off the game.
game. UQ is going for a triple. Scars on the verge of making it a seven to nothing.
But Shile finds Nina. That's the most deadly player from Scars today.
Now he's being targeted by UQ is on that famous one impact in pocket,
but he needs to use that in a 1v1 against the Blitz. He does so.
Fish like takes a lot of damage, but Shile gets flashed and has to fall back.
Now he's about to meet the Blitz once again.
gets knocked down it's GG 7 nothing for scars and if i'm fear ex or D plus right now i'm looking
over my shoulder because scars is heading their way oh they've done the best possible job at
putting themselves in a conversation for playoffs 7-0 the best result was it you know passable always
But was it realistic after the struggles of this stage?
Maybe not so, but everyone played it 100% and Nina individually phenomenal.
I mean in that final round it was looking a bit like they were baiting, they were fishing for kills,
weren't getting in the building, they literally entered the map with 56 seconds left.
And in that time they breached, they smoked, they pushed into horse,
and Nina who was outside the building went into main lobby, up the stairs, breached, back down into main lobby,
into main lobby out of the building and back step the horse later he was everywhere in the final
round and the back step was successful scars across the board such good trip work going into fortress
huge huge game for scars it did exactly what they needed to they won with the best round difference
possible and now it's all on d plus and fear x if that game doesn't go to overtime then scars
are taking the spot of the loser of that match. Trippy, what a rough game to finish things on.
I mean, two breadsticks on Demik and Harper. Not a lot of kills across the board, but for
Skars, really, it's one guy who stepped up massively. Nina on 17 kills. And I got to say,
unless it's another player in one of these other matches goes nuclear, I feel like we already have
our MVP for the day. Skars needed not just to win that game, but they needed the most dominant
result possible and Nina was a large part of helping the team. We've had two stories now,
he's in Asia, it was Soulsheart and i9, why they needed that hero to step up in the comeback
because they're playing from the back foot. Today was Scars keeping their own dream alive,
it started off by beating Fearix recently and then going to today's match against Trippie
and I'm not going to say that Scars needed a hero in particular but they needed that 7-0 and then
then it becomes Nina, like the iconic player, Nina break clean together again that makes
that magic happen.
So exciting for Skars, but also really quite nerve wracking now because they've done all
that they can.
Literally they've got the best possible result today, just have to sit back, watch firstly
a very exciting gag game coming up against Kinetrope and then later after that Phyrox
versus D plus, which is the one where they will be waiting with baby breath to find out whether they make it the stage finals or not
It's crazy to me to think that look if scars do make it that means fear X or D plus. I'm missing out fear X
That's super team from Korea that's been highly anticipated for a long time or D plus the Brazilian import roster that went so deep
I believe was a top 12 in Paris at the six meditation just a couple of months ago, whichever way
I think the way this ends up
playing out is going to be just
such a surprise, such an upset.
But of course for Scars today,
just such a big win.
7-0 is everything they could have
hoped for.
And thankfully for us, we have a
chance to chat with Leo from
Scars.
Their coach, Leo.
Firstly, congratulations.
You did so well.
Thank you.
7-0.
It's the best result you could
have asked for.
What was it that you think made
you guys win so dominantly
so dominantly against Trippie, what was that little bit of magic that you needed to win 7-0?
They're really, I'm really proud of them. We are very nervous position,
very difficult condition to the playoffs, but they play confidently and aggressively,
So we can win 7-0. So we are so happy with that.
As you should be. Obviously Nina popped off, but I think the whole team played very well today.
Did you go into today's game on fortress with counter-straps in mind because you'd seem to be played in the very first playday?
or is this just the usual style for stars because it looked like less fighting today and more falling back
Reinforcing wall falling back reinforcing wall and defense. It seemed like more structured than aggressive today
Struck struck. Sorry. Sorry. I don't I don't understand what what just say. Sorry. No, it's okay
Sorry, it's a very complicated question
question. Um, I'll try and make it simple then. Did you go for counter strategy? Like
you say, should we play this way? We do this? Or did you just play your own game today?
Um, all game, but I, I know their style. So, so I, I tell them my players, what the,
what we say is good so um so maybe counterstrat but yeah uh sorry but still you're all right
i yes yes i already know that they are still it is the important thing
themes okay leo uh before we say goodbye uh there is one question i have for you now
I don't know if you have done the calculations, done the maths yourself, but we've worked it out.
Scars can make it to the stage finals instead of Fear X or D+, as long as Fear X and D+, doesn't go to overtime.
So I want to ask you, which team do you want to win?
Is it either Fear X or D+, if you got to choose one team to make it with you to stage finals, which do you choose?
the next game, I think. Yeah.
Yeah, I think. Okay, perfect.
Well, we'll see if you're right
later today. Congratulations on
such a big win and we have our
fingers crossed for you that you
can make it to stage finals.
Thank you so much and I hope to
see you next week for the
Yeah, thank you
Legend as always love to see it of course that is a 7-0 we've only had one round one by the
All day, but that may well be about the change yet next one up is number one in the region
Versus number two it's kag by varrel up against kinetrope
It's the battle for top technically even if kinetrope win kag will still be ahead because kag are
undefeated at the moment, but I think if Kinetro be cagged here, that really does shake things up
even if the standings don't change at all. Of course, at the end of the day, we'll find out
who our final two teams are going to the stage finals, because FIREX, SCARS, and DPLUS
are not yet confirmed. There is still so much to play for here in APAC North,
so stick around for our next match. Cagged by Varel versus Kinetro.
The first time I met Siege was when I saw the 2014 trailer on YouTube in the second grade of middle school.
I think this game will be my favorite.
It's very exclusive and it's a 1-inch FPS game with a very attractive feel.
I also applied for the beta test and did the beta test.
At that time, there was a party called the game together in middle school.
There were six or seven people there, so I kept going around the rotation with a day and night.
At that time, I didn't have a lot of competition.
I was still sleepy at the time, but I was still going up to the competition.
I was just a little bit...
I was the only one who didn't get out.
The competition I had was in 2015 and 2016.
I had a pad competition, so I knew about it, but I started to have interest in it.
When I saw the Manticus FPS, which was released by the Paris Major,
I felt like I could be a professional player in Korea, and I felt like it was cool to play in the world.
I think I became a professional player since then.
I know Faker, and I know a lot of famous eSports players.
I felt like I was talking about someone else.
I think there's definitely something wrong with the game I'm playing in.
The most impressive team is the old Furi.
I think the five of us were the most impressive.
I think we're the best team.
We've been ranked since 2017.
We were in the top tier, so we had to match up with the players we used to play with.
We became close to each other,
I became very close to a player named Waka from Norarango.
I also became very close with MbTailer from Mantis FPS.
We played games with him.
We played games in Japan and Korea.
Then, at the end of 2019, Cloud9 and J came in.
I was playing games at home with my usual friends.
I was on Twitter DM.
I was wondering what it was, and I opened it up, and it was related to the offer.
At first, I didn't really believe it, but when I talked to him, it became more and more realistic.
I showed my closest friend who was playing games with me first,
and then I contacted my parents to see if I should really do it or not.
After I got the offer, I went to the Japanese walking alley and learned Japanese.
I was just going to get a regular job, so I was going to live, but no matter how much I think about it, I don't think it's going to be fun.
So when this offer came, I just said that this side will definitely be more fun and life will change, so I think I chose this team right away.
In order to say it, the first thing is to work hard, play games together, and improve my skills, and teach me a lot.
Especially the reason why I started playing Japanese is because I learned Japanese while playing games with my friends.
That's what I'm working on right now, and it's easy to play while playing games.
I think it's a very good influence on the game.
Thank you for your time, Wakante.
Do you remember 2008?
Thank you so much for teaching me Japanese and CG.
the game of the night. It's
the best team in the region
versus perhaps the second best
in the region. We finally get
to see cag by barrel and of
course, why does he keep saying
cag by barrel? Thank you. We've
had a very exciting
acquisition. The most
infamous and well renowned team
Well-renowned team in the history of Japanese siege has had a little bit of a new signing.
Yes, Kagasaki has been acquired the Rainbow Six Siege Division by Farrill, an organization
that actually has a bit of a history in Rainbow Six.
That's where you talk, you know, when I stop talking, that's typically when you start
talking, Pingu.
No, but sorry, I just had like the loudest sound came out of my ear, and I thought for
a second you were playing in Frank, I mean, I was thinking what's happening, but it's
exactly just like somewhere deep in the browser somewhere my PC is like a trailer just by
playing it fits in the world.
So I'm just like making a comment like alright I'll build up this thing toss it over to Nick
and then you just dead quiet but that's fine.
I thought it was a prank if you could drop shit and try to clear up on me.
Please please please be quiet that's the you can be quiet now thank you thank you.
Alright k my barrel of course fantastic it sounds a little bit like a fragrance a fragrance
like you know latest in the Coco Chanel although off Jacobs it's k my barrel.
So that's the way I'm gonna be thinking about them every time we say they're roster now. Of course, you know them. You love them the runners up of
reload in Rio just over a year ago and
infamously one of the most well-renowned rosters in the region for taking advantage of the international events
They've been so many big events and they keep gagging them
But now picked up by barrel very exciting for them. It's a huge organization in Japan
and an organization that like I said,
we've actually seen before they went to the Copenhagen Major
with their old roster.
Funnily enough, the old roster that represented Barrel
outplays for Kina Trove.
So it's a little bit of a grudge match.
Let's see if the New World curse
will be haunting Kage today.
I certainly hope not because nothing has haunted them
thus far in the APL group stage.
They have been perfect.
They took down D boss in their first playday and that was pretty much the hardest game that they had all the stage long
She's any sitting there just a bit of flexing their fores. I love to see it
They're important of course the the good the old the new the key neutral boys
They're roster not gonna seem to be the hyping up for a long term that has not really seen the level that we would like to see from them
Until this moment they are at their prime their best level so far and they have some familiar names here, right a Gator and Gator
They're rather formerly from CIG, far enough back, and they still have some old strategies
that depth in players like Kawa, who loves to bring operates out, like your Maestro's
and maybe their layers, kind of their tricks.
So now they have aggression, they have strategy, and they've also found themselves a ton of
consistency here in A-Pack 4.
They've had great results.
They've gotten, you know, tight matches, like a 7-5-8-2-1 scores, and high-speed most of
against the weaker opponents, they're taking names. 71 over KKV enemy, 73 over DoubleRX.
They did have an awesome against Trippie, bit of a blunder there maybe, and they also,
of course, had a 73 victory over D plus. They have taken almost every of those major
competitions down, and that is how they find themselves locked in second place.
Well, I say locked, but it could be taken technically.
Yeah, well, that's the thing, they're on 14 points at the moment, I can interpret,
canotrope where it's D plus and
fear except behind them on 12
points and they have to play.
So if either of them gets a win,
there's a chance that canotrope
could be overtaken and it would
be sad to see because this is a
big moment for this canotrope
roster. Their first chance to
make it into the top two. They've
never done so before.
Of course, their coach, he played
for the roster back in Copenhagen
three years ago. Not to mention
and Gatorada played for that
Kag Rossa for four years before retiring and now
eventually coming back with Kinnotrope. We're going to go to
Lair. I love this map. I am very keen to see what these guys
are cooking because Kinnotrope haven't played it since their
very first playday and Kag played it twice right at the start
of the stage. What are we going to see here? It's time for the
battle at the top of the table here. The best teams out of
Saka or perhaps better known now as gagged by Varyl and KineTrap going head to head for all the models online
You know what's kind of crazy? I just had a fact check this James, right?
Would you believe me if I said that in every single team from region here in stage one there is an undefeated team
No way really yeah, so so I was thinking about because we just had way bold go undefeated, right yesterday
Then we worked EML, where we had the G2 VP game, where they were fighting for who was going to go undefeated into the second last playday, and then I just checked for certain NA.
So just take it from the top here, right? Waveball defeated in Asia. In MENA, we have G2, who has gone into overtime three separate occasions, but one all three, so they're undefeated because they've been winning, right?
6-3, then in North America you have MAD who is going to be 6-1 in terms of like 6 regulation victories and 1 overtime victory
So they're also undefeated and in SAL face plan is 6-0. So if you have CAG
Win this game as well
You're gonna have an undefeated team in almost every single region on the very final playday
Of course, there's still a playlist that I think for any on SAL, but for EML for Asia and for North
we have an undefeated team. That's really cool. Since of course, B.O.3 is still to come as well.
It's very possible. I would not be surprised if Keg by Varel get the win here, of course.
The organization picking them up with former Varel players, I should say, on the KineTrope side,
Kawa and Akai, not to mention Akamesh, their coach. It's an exciting time to be Keg. However,
We do have a little bit of a thing in Siege, a phenomenon that we've observed over the years, and we call it New Org Jitters, and we've seen it far too many times.
Is it going to be the curse for Cag today? I wonder.
Do you remember when that actually, I think really got cemented as a real curse? Because I do.
And what's all of this?
Is it?
Is I 2018? Okay.
Team Liquid.
No, Liquid. So Liquid joined, right? And they actually got beaten and sent out by, oh no, I just lost it, Mindfreaks.
Yeah, Mindfreaks.
So Liquid interceded, they had the big Brazilian team, right, that the NESC and all that kind of stuff, and they were going to go for a deep run, big organization, big Brazilian team, etc.
They lose to APAC, which back then was a huge deal.
And they got sent out of the tournament by minefreaks and I was I remember watching but like that's the New Yorkers because every team who would get a new big
Organization or like a name change, etc. They would usually lose the very first international tournament or not qualify at all
It's been a consistent thing across all 10 years of siege going all the way back to my fixed liquid base in 2018. Oh
Yeah
No, G2 won Paris Major. They actually leveled up after getting a fire, because I was pinned to G2, right?
I love how you say that. Like, just humble brag, pretend I wasn't there. Yeah, we. No, it's...
But we actually had that fear back when we were playing. Like, we brought up a,
Haha, we're gonna lose Paris Major, we're gonna first round it. Haha, oh no. And then you make it fun, you think,
Okay, the curse is not real. Yeah, exactly, but you know, like some players they're a lot more um
I don't see gullible someone work, but superstitious like you believe in those small things and curses and you have like a game
They're rituals like left you on first right show and after
You eat the same meal for game days, etc
Actually curious if any of the oh my god, chg plays or something like that
I call you with the finger LMG
Bit of PTSD be brought into my mind because as an MMG meta at some point back in 2021 or so
And that was a scary time as a small case and you live in player
It was a very quiet start here between CIG by Vero and Cunitrope
Not a respect in the server no one was stepping DD going down first and the more passive players with CIG side
That's a clan demo was fighting the opening pick. Oh
Anizen classic against a shield player no less that is just so typical isn't it?
Still one shield remains for KineTrope, Kar-Wau on the Montane.
By losing IEGator, it's going to restrict a lot of that frag and capability for this team.
Aggro shotgun from Chibusu. Chibusu has been the best player in the league.
Number one rated, 128 EPS, just closely followed by Shureep on 125.
The Kar-U, funnily enough, a support player, is not too far behind.
Oh, he's now on the finger this time around an operator. We don't see often likely used to buff those shields
But unfortunately we haven't seen that black bit have any impact in this round and Chibisu swings with the shoddy up in close range
And then with the C75
Kinectrope falling apart
And there are the clarinakai who saw fire away
Sarkin shots it on the first player you just declare in a doorway no beach nor way in no time
So we're gonna try and go but he's holding a passive angle. We'll get his exit frag
and the rest of CG by Varyl did join in the phone shooting a teammate's dead body, an
easy first round victory based off of some small me plays C4 below and a shotgun close
by the museum window, that's then the man advantage.
Good start for Cag by Varyl, KineTrope not looking particularly inspired on that top
floor unfortunately, but lots around still to go.
Attackers need to locate and diffuse bombs.
Down into the basement now for CAG, and I am seeing a Scopus pick.
What are they cooking? We've seen so much Scopus recently.
Mato in the EU absolutely loves it, and I don't blame him because he's had some pretty
insane highlight clips on it, but I mean surely are we in a Scopus meta?
I don't think Scopus has ever actually been like a dedicated Troll Pig, but it's definitely a Bumside niche operator, where like there's a place at a time for it, you know?
But you can always go for a deep roam and you always fall back to side by teleporting, where you're not going to be stalking though, oh my god they're watching the staircase, I can't drop down the half, like you always have a safe passage as long as you do it early enough before you get caught, of course.
as long as you do it early enough before you get caught, of course.
I think Scopus is, I don't want to say underrated because that's probably the wrong word, but
they did receive that small buff recently where you now have the Aruni punches on the
Scopus robot.
And because of that, now you can roam the top floor, you can punch a hatch, drop down,
play more vertically, because you are so limited by your two impact grenades before.
Now you can open hatches, open walls, and keep the impacts for shields for example, or plant
or not pending our wall denial for something that's like ace to some of the chargers.
So scores are a bit more flexible than previously.
Well, the roam game is very much alive and well.
CAG considering falling back.
Anything's going to do so.
Typically we have a smoke playing on these stairs trying to delay time,
but no, CAG looking to play quite a bit more aggressively.
Quite an active defense here.
Much more far and away roam.
Chibisu all the way on this top.
The mutant is very close to a player.
I think he might have just heard them get off drone
They'll be careful long range tried to be very risky from Chibis who usually he wins those but not today
He's first picks and
quickly zaka to follow
Yep
It's kind of falling apart
We still got some playmakers in the server where the rule that's very much active your two players both DD and shereed
Have a good idea about the attacker downstairs, but he's hiding behind the pillar
They can get nice and safe, they can play the acro playstyle, almost like CG by Verrabley.
They can also play that discipline step one, step two, step three.
On your inner five versus three position, like a bug, an IQ, and a heart destruction,
you're going to want to play it slow.
You've got to do all the right things, step by step, watch the flanks, watch the drones,
and just not throw away this extremely big man advantage.
almost that he wins the race when you're up 5v3 but you gotta make that regular
progress and they don't have a shield to rally behind now Annitson is
reinforcing over these walls on the bomb site
did he just stand still and the drone missed him? because he didn't shoot the
drone and the drone didn't see him they just like it's a T-Rex vision they only
see movement honestly there's been like a minute here without a lot of
progress from KineTrip. I'm not seeing a ton of vertical pressure. The buck is outside the building
and now a flare has fallen. This is how you throw rounds like this. Aigator, the very patient
and Carlisle finds one too. Cheery detected by the Grims Bs. The 1v4, no defuser. Oh, he doesn't
really have a safe place to stand. Carl is trying to peek him. Gatorada finds the kill.
First round on the board for KineTrip. Very good. This is a nice little early advantage. Stabilized
keep going forward and I think when you're in one of these you know big
stake map okay it's not a big stakes a big game rather right you're fighting
for like the the king of the top so to speak while you cannot overtake CG
Barbera in points taking them down there in the best of one here and saying hey
we're actually gonna be like the winner of group states it's better taking down
the best team and having a very good stage for ourselves I think that is a
big deal when it comes to Kina and having an early round victory it gives
you that bit of confidence like okay we can hang against CG Barbera when I
I'm just going to get completely obliterated.
When you start going 0-2, 0-3, 0-4,
that often just leads to a 0-7, because you're
combing into shots.
So now there's a good fighting chance
in the back of their mind of Kino Trope.
And they can play a bit of flexibility.
As I said, they like to play the shields, for example.
But they also love a good capital round.
They love a good dream round, a good sense round.
They're not shy when it comes to trying out things,
even on game day which can lead to some funny uh some funny rounds and some funny moments.
I'm curious to see as these rounds progress, as we're going to see those niche operators.
They're also one of the only teams in the world that plays Maestro Defense.
Yeah. One of the teams that we, one of the things that we have really praised both of these
teams for is their creativity. Kindertrip always been a team that likes to try something a little
bit aggressive, try something a little bit different. That's what we expect to see from them these days.
But yeah, I mean that round was nice, but really it just felt like they were converting about 5v3
They didn't have a lot of crazy fire to them
outside of that
Let's see though as Kinectrope have to attack again
to a different bombsite and CAG
Moving to the split
It's very much info gathering base. We've got the Valkyrie and the solace and want to be making plays
but well-informed players. They'll be timing their aggression smartly. And, man, is this
fake? It'll work. Zaka's hiding underneath the window. Will this drone spot him? It jumps inside.
It does see him. He's now exposed. How does he decide to play this? Does he double down or not?
He's going to stay alive. He's got impact on me. It's got the aggression knife hovering him.
He's just on the shield, but there's a awkward gunfight, but he wins out it anyway. What was that?
Did you see that as well James?
Bro was moonwalking in a gunfight and it was just like a freeze for a second, Saka survives,
Gatorade is in the grave, Akaiu is sold in the building, his shotgun is on the blitz,
so the shield power is lost here from the kid because of the entire push.
He's tripling up.
Watch this guy go.
I agate against five.
Yeah.
Good luck my friend.
You're gonna need it.
one is for you. Got the diffuser to
cag by Varo locking in any of the bomb sites that tend to be a bit
loosey goosey. I feel like CAG very much a first pick dependent
team, right? Like they they got picked down last round, their
room didn't work. And the round fell apart because of it. This
round, winning a couple of those early fights, Kinetrope
forced to try and scramble doesn't look nearly as good.
I mean, same in the KD, but it ain't never hurt anybody.
You're gonna talk strategy, plan the next move.
Zero kill.
Zero kill.
I don't know what that was mean.
So as I just wish that I spoke Japanese, I mean, the thing I wish I spoke all the
languages of these players right so we could get all their shit talk I need to
win I need to win come on I gave up we don't have all this time in the world
oh he's doing mad shade I like how they're doing this Mac talking English
as well like doing it for the broadcaster talking to each other this
That's funny.
Well, Keenan Trump is not going to attempt it, they're going to stay outside, they're
going to just kind of take the round, loss and talk it through in the meantime, CD by
Verily watching control, feeling very good.
And I really enjoyed just watching, also how much fun they're having, like whenever
you watch their player cam, just always good smiles, even when they're like in a losing
position, they're usually pretty happy.
And I think maybe, speaking of, O'Khommish makes a little bit of an appearance there,
also locked in the boys. Um, he's always gaming like CIG, they would go to like every international
tournament. Um, and back in the day, right? And they would like it first round. They were
drew. They would have early exits. And I think there's a point where you have to recognize
your expectations, right? If you keep going home early, you can get more and more and
more upset about it. When you can be like, okay, you're really happy to qualify. You're
grateful to go there. You'll do your best and if your best is getting first-rounded then that's
your best. Because there are some teams that will play a tournament and they will just be all the
way down the dunks for the longest time after having an early exit and that can actually bleed
into like you know the next stage and that performance, your prep work and motivation. I feel like
CIG have found this way over a long stretch of time. They've stalked mostly the same roster
for a reason, right? They've indeed been made from coach to play in position and they have found a
system where they can keep qualifying and keep playing and good or bad result they still stay
motivated they still stay happy they stay disciplined or i think a lot of other teams
that you had failed to to make it further for so long i mean you would have completely changed the
roster you had maybe left the team you had some bad vibes bad mojo they do not have that at all
I think that's one of the magical things about CHE and it's funny that DD actually
really does fit that perfectly, really does know how to play that relaxed way which is
funny because I feel like most players that come from more of an analytical coaching background
I feel like they tend to be more of the overthinkers, less of the vibes guys but it's nice to see
that daily consuming makes you buzz.
Impact Trigger Room.
Seen that a few times today.
It's one of the reasons why Ace is not that best hot feature in the game because Impact
Triggering is what he is weak to.
A Thermite, a Vyna, wouldn't share that same problem in the same way at least.
Speaking of those flexible operators, what can I call you?
He's got the Aurora.
He's going to do something funny.
I'm using that a little bit. Neesh a little bit specific
What it's gonna be a friendly have no idea you could close off the bathroom door to the hallway here jump in the window and fight the staircase
And he's actually in that sort of location
Not a close door in front of him to the bomb site and jump in the wind will take the fight here as well
This gives you that way of disabling a crossfire from a 2v1 into a 1v1
Yeah, I like that especially if you time with a push from the bathroom hallway that can be really potent. Yeah
when they want to go and I suppose we'll later.
I should get a little bit of damage.
Come on, careful of the paintings.
Here he comes.
Now he does close up that doorway.
A little bit of damage onto Anatoom.
Shotgun gets aggressive.
Man, Annie is so committed here.
He also has a nitrous cell.
Surely wins the fight against Akai.
That's the lady that's in the right.
You're already doubling up for Annie.
And now the classic day for Anatoom SMG-11.
He doesn't stop being aggressive.
Now, Kinitro, it seems like the wind has,
wind has evaporated from their sails I get worries DD man should read one piece
each they get left outside the building we've seen this one before just like the
last round no kills no way in and no hope in this round either it's the matter
of figuring out where he is he's high on the main bridge I think they know they're
looking for you're gonna take it together there's one there's three oh there's one
come on, you can't find the second one, Anatom Peaks, and the SMG is too good for him.
Gag looking solid on that top floor, sadly we're not really getting to see a lot of these
actual attacks from Kinnitro, because CAG are putting so much pressure on before they
get the chance.
Yeah.
When they're trying to go for their plate and Anatom just gives two headshot kills and
that's pretty much the round.
They lose their strat operator, they lose their pressure on bathroom and display window.
around just kind of falls apart with that and it's a shame because like you're
trying so hard to not die they're trying so hard to make the right play just for
that to happen it's a classic any play always looking to do something in the
server you mean get the last one love that for Manny it's been a very slow
based game though it's from KineTrope I think they're so worried that CAG are
gonna be executing and they're trying to to be fair trying to actually do some
pretty complicated strats right like let's bring out the rayora let's go for
this let's do some kind of uncharacteristic push these guys aren't
just lining up outside of operations or our six room like we see most teams go
forth they try and do something a little bit cheeky and CAG are absolutely
playing spoils disrupting them constantly
I feel like Finnerer is actually the number that we see a lot often these days.
Finnerer had his time in place, but he isn't the current meta, not Veen, who won't operate anymore.
I feel like we see more fun than Finnerer even actually.
There's like a, I don't know, stats to back it up from the Vibe check.
Of course, Don can do damage and get a kill. Finnerer just like, gradually takes away your vision.
Very different operators, but they still have the same chemical trap operator.
It's technically gives you intel.
Must be making a bit of a research as well today.
It's like the fifth round I think, or the quarter of two games.
He must be so proud.
I love the fuzzy.
There's a lot of gridlock too by the way.
People would be here in the grid left, right and center.
We see good luck being picked and getting destroyed by impact grenade and a flank.
Yeah, that was a great moment.
Here we go.
It's another 5v3, by the way.
What's going on in the basement from CAG?
They are feeding Vick somehow.
It's hard to catch exactly how Kino Trope are getting these early advantages, but surely
a 5v3.
I mean, they managed to convert it last time.
I don't expect they'll have any issues this time.
Unless things like this start happening, especially things like that start happening.
I don't know what I get it was looking at
Impact goes out you got players up above the bomb site watching vert and zaka playing squirrels on the bomb site
Can I try to perform with their 5v3 now into the 3v3?
What do they do about it?
Well, they aren't characteristic, right?
That is like going on the map solo and helping each other and gonna continue to go this way as well flanked by Shuree
She means to look with the same kind of play as well
Well, the intro be gotta help each other and play close together, but they're so far apart.
Carwell and Gatorada trying their best.
Oh, direct trade between Gatorada and Shibisu.
One V2 now for Carwell.
He's got the inkling on where Zachar is, pre-fight with the Vector.
That gives a little bit of time for Shub to go for a flank, but then he realizes,
realizes you know what I actually need to give this guy to you once oh
Almost tap zacka, but the vector sprays true and
Cag steal a 3v5 that they really did not deserve to win
They're so strong the individual fights that's the thing about CAG if you want to make a chaotic
They'll take you there and our D man being a player on the roster if you want to try and put up like a lot of problems
to solve, you know, the Wamai, the Yega, the Asami, the deployable shield, they can deal with that too
on the attack inside. And I feel like that's really been their biggest strength, because in defense
they can utilize the individual skill level, and on the attack they're utilizing the strategical
aspect of DB man, while still having a high individual level as well. Because CAG by Verla has
become more of a fully rounded team, playing not just one star of siege, or only high risk, or
only playing for the clutch they've gotten to a point where they keep the numbers up much more
like staying alive not taking like overly aggressive unnecessary peaks and being disciplined in
trash fires play the win conditions exactly and i'll also say that become much more flexible
in operator pick like even look at this game they're playing mossy now echo the jager then they
play the smoke one round to shankier next one like solace they're really not shy about playing
I mean, as many operators as possible, which I love about their playstyle.
Yeah.
Now, I think that the key to having like an S tier team in the current meta is you nail
all those fundamentals, flexibility, have some good frags, etc, etc.
But then you need to have a little bit of spice, a little bit of something, something
that not every other team has that makes you unpredictable.
You need to lean into that uniqueness, at least a little bit.
Don't do it every round.
You don't brute force it.
For example, in CAG's case, they've got Hamilton.
And he's just like the gun of Shields and Ying
and all these kind of like cheese meta ops.
He's so good at it.
Doesn't mean he plays it every single round.
He also knows just when to chill the hell out
and play default.
I think that's the magic here for CAG.
What did he say to that?
I was about to say a little bit of extra magic
that we're seeing from CAG is the quaternary bombsite
that we never, ever get to see.
And Hamilton stacked up with Yutzil in that extension.
Unfortunately for him, he overpicks a little bit too much and dies.
I love the fact that tag are not only doing an unpopular bombsite here, but they've got
the obs blockers as well to help out with it.
To make sure that there's not much info that KineTruck can get on this unorthodox setup.
Did you see any die from peeking the window with the shoot still alive, the Yeager and
the SS, the obs blockers, because there's so much of you to now at least it.
You see oh and as a glass by the way in the small teak stone shriek
Deep inside of the bomb site itself. It's shut down. How do you know planting and we can they stop it?
We cannot
In comes a yokai but far too late
It was a nice idea there from CAG to do something a little bit differently
But kina trope ready to weather the storm to this who finds one surely. It's not possible here
Not with car well up on the monty
Not unless DD can get safely onto a yokai drone and trying to enable the kill
But they do have to worry about the third from up above the Claire is what he's just let Chiba suit through
Sorry, let DD through didn't let Chiba suit through though and does mention take him down now
It's a 1v3 and he's cut down by a clan who does find him from up above the hatch
Finally a second round taken by KineTrap. They find two on their attack as we close up the half
Just a phasing crowd waiting to be seen
They dream some motion
Want to go where you want to
I'm a world-class highest mountain
I'm a type that's easy
Just so I could make you feel
What I feel
In the sky
I
4-2 at the end of the first half, a defense to be remembered for CHE, but Kiritrope did
find their second round.
Interestingly, CHE designed to flex their muscles and try a fourth different foamside
in Armory weapon maintenance in that last round, didn't work at all.
Now I see that they're always trying to strats and want to get mixed in on the official,
but it gave Kiritrope a way back into the game.
I respect it.
I think there's something about, you know, playing in scrims and practices and trying
something versus doing it on game day.
And it's not going to get the same kind of experience out of it because in practice,
you know, no one has the pressure to perform and you can just kind of do whatever and lose.
Like no one's going to care too much about it.
And we've seen a lot of maps and a lot of bombs that's being played every now and again.
But this one, the fourth bombsite on layer, I think that's got to be in the very bottom
of that list, maybe together with Bangtilla's archives in the current situation, because
recently the International Tournament is like the Munich Major for example, end of last
year, we saw costumes on board that for Bomsite being played multiple times by multiple teams.
Back when Skyscrapers in pro play, we still like to play the Bedroom bathroom Bomsite,
which no other region was playing. When it comes to Lair, there's a reason why no one
goes here, okay? But CAT by Viral, they tried it, and the result is all the same. It's
gonna be a loss. Yeah. But we'll see how well CAG by Varel can look on the attacking side.
I always get excited for CAG's attacks because we get to see any on the shields, we get to see
people bring out the ying, we get to see ChibaSood troop really come into their own on the fragging
rolls. But on the flip side of that, KineTrope on the defense, they always do something quite
Different to every other team they love one particular operator that I know you're a fan of that's very much out of meta right now
Kinectrope really loves to bring it. Yeah
And it's the maestro and Akai's jump straight on it highest rated player for Kinectrope by the way
But zaka must have seen it or at least read the kai is on it because he's gone for the brava
Yeah, that is just gonna be there the sign that you you know that something's up. You only take that problem of very rare
Okay, he's that shoo-yay.
Okay.
Alright.
It's not every day that you have a player with a shotgun on a window upheld,
cutting off the crosses,
but right there, it's the best gun for the job.
Not every day that you tie a magazine round into someone's dead body.
He didn't realize, he didn't know it was a guy who died,
he was making sure.
Oh yeah.
I just feel like the first shotgun,
the first four shotgun blasts didn't really finish him off.
Let me put a couple more in there.
Oh man, that's a lot of explosive starts in the round and with losing the Ella you cannot lose too much of your sympathy for her.
Bandit got busy peeking the hallways and did not penetrate the wall either.
Now that gets open up for free. The wing cons dwindling here for Kino Trope losing open in pick and the wall for free.
Bandit is now rendered useless. A brawling encounter that Maestro evil eyes.
So it feels very much like CG Barbarale like usual. They have all the right answers for the various problems
Yeah, this is good
Boom, see you later, Anderson. A bit of a taste of his own medicine without aggressive Anderson got on those windows on his own
Defensive side and there's one of Zach's braver drones shot out by Eclair
I believe most of the Kai's evil eyes will be pretty well safe
What now
Track from the demos, but there's not like real push here from CAG
It's a bit of a outside the windows demos downstairs hoping that cute little extent over exposed themselves rather
But they're not doing so they think they're just been passive got the shotguns in closed corridors
Here comes the main pooch, they gotta start working at a time of 35 seconds, if you're running out of time.
There they are, bot, they're starting to put some pressure now on Bartram with that exothermic from DD.
See this is good at time, it jumps straight inside.
But Eclairs found Sacher on an off angle, is that the way he achieved that? Maybe just inside the bomb site.
DD doesn't have a breach onto the default plant, and there's a player hiding behind the table.
After he's in there trying to take down one of those evil eyes.
It actually kills the clan who was prone behind the desk. Oh well steps up and finds two kills
Sure, he put the shoddy started things off by cutting down got a runner is here need three kills now
And he just don't got the time. It's a defense win for KineTrope to start off their half
Despite the opening peak despite getting that wall it was not gonna be enough the main push not really calling to
Frasian there for CAG by Verrill
I don't think they're too worried about it to be honest, but not the style that they're
gunning for.
They've got a ton of different power-ups available, of course, a double shield band from Kino
Trope, so they have utility galore, whether it's going to be your capitol, your grim,
Monty is still there.
EC4 in particular, it just kind of stops the entire push, you know, and as I was playing
the grim, that is going to be all your intel gone for the execute, and you're fighting
and ours, sure having a shotgun and screw taking staircase control and doing a bit of
verticality maybe as demos, but it's not great for the late game fighting. Every player
loves the game's pistol, I know that I had a hard time with it. The AK often becomes
like the main weapon in those late game games.
Yeah, for sure. Some people are really good at it. Nani? Nani? Again. I did not see the
context for that in the chat that you're an anime guy thank you like you you're
like a semi-anime guy I am I'm not for or against it's like I've seen like three
episodes of death note you know I grew up watching I'm more of an anime guy than
you that I grew up like dragon ball it's like a kid show growing up because it
I don't know what it is. I think I have a hard time with docked things like when their mouth movements don't align with what they're saying, something like that, like I haven't seen of the regular to Japanese, right?
Well, it's in Japanese.
What do you mean?
So, um, it's weird because I can't when I, I don't know. I'm just playing it.
learning more about you today and I'm not liking what I'm hearing like what so
if you watch like an old like if you're watching a Spanish movie or a French
movie you're watching the English dub no I just don't watch them at all wow like
I haven't seen a lot of shows and movies I really haven't I'm a huge movie and TV
show guy but there's just something about top things that I love watching
foreign movies love it we need to have another event in Rio de Janeiro because
There's a movie
Yeah, all those famous Danish movies. I really would love to watch Denmark. There's a great movies
What do you mean? We're known for movies and TV shows in particular and our crime players
Okay, I swear
Okay, let's just hope we set the
I'm not going to take. Look, if a Japanese team wins the APAC North
League, how about this? You will watch an anime from tobacco.
Watch all of one piece in Japanese. All right, it's settled.
That's a handshake deal for us right now. I'll do it too.
I'll join so annoying
Man can it show very lost that peak by the way. Yeah, Akai's fallen on the tuber out
Gatorade is getting followed around by this pesky little Deimos tracker
Eventually that subsides can't have been pretty slow. Yeah, where's the push man?
They're sitting up
Increase the backdoor penetration
So there's the main push in this side. There's one smoke in here, two C4s to stop it
What's going on in? They could try to smoke and go for a key plant low key
So they are on tiny four
How are you planting with nine players alive in the center?
How's the diffuser going down while DD man is inside the Banshee?
Nice cover from Anatom. Try swinging into that. I dare you. It's now a standoff
Karawa is waiting for Anatom to peek. Anatom's waiting for Karawa to peek and I don't think that
KineTrope are gonna have any luck sitting back and waiting for Kat to make the next move.
Diffuses down. Who wins this? It's the battle of the shotguns. Anatom does. Of course he does. Out comes
the Reaper. We're gonna wreak some havoc as Chibisu makes it a 4 versus 1 for poor Eclair
on the other side. Good luck my friend. You've got no time. Akayu has got a little bit of smack
on the DMR player, I think, for a jibberzoo. I don't speak Japanese, but I can guess what he's saying, and CAG find an attack ground, we're in a dominant one at that, onto the basement.
Oh man, yeah, nothing was explosive pushes here from CAG, but they're not really being challenged that much by KineTrope either. It's a good old filtration down the staircase, almost no vert, by the way, breaches single a wall and go for a plant.
What they did have going very well for them was to start planting and have thatcher.
So if any of those e4s get tossed on out, boom, they're gonna get dmped.
So there's no response there from Pymintrope, unfortunately.
Pair that with Anitin in a close quarter fight with the Ying Shadi, and you got a recipe for
success.
Leading by 2 now, and attacking a tertiary bomb site.
This is the big question for me always when watching Lair.
Is it gonna be a round of trying to brute force the bomb site with the Monty, the Smoke,
the sins and try and cleansing against was always going to be a solace and or warden
or is it going to be a top full full clear from chg by vero because they don't just have
the solace and or warden they have solace and they have the maestro and this is the
problem now going on to brava would be very valuable but those evil eyes are all going
to be deep inside the bomb site with people watching for like so it's hard to get the
hack going secondly but then the brava you're only really going to deal with the maestro
there's so many more moving parts of this round, so you can't even get forward to it necessarily.
So instead, it's going to be Maverick to circumvent the kite and the bender on the board.
That's going to be a 1 for 2 deal, that's a very good value here by CAG.
And then you're going to have a lot of information, just like gun fighting operators,
if those could be, the famous assaultist snake. So it seems like CAG by Veil also just fight the individual players of Pinochrome.
I think you've got to. I don't think you can let Kag go for an execute. We saw that last round, nine players still alive in the server when the plant goes down.
CAG are happy to play on that win position.
I still haven't picked a shield by the way. Monty's been in this whole time.
They've shown that they really don't need to. Plus, Hanifin's got the ying anyway. He doesn't need to play Monty.
You'll only do that if things get really dire.
Kag are about to find match point here. They just need one more attacking round.
Zaka's getting so much information with that solid snake.
Figuring out exactly how many players are on this top floor.
Do you reckon DD is going to plant while CAG execute onto the top floor
and disrupt the cover from above?
Or do you think it's going to be a hard clear on the top floor
and then execute into sight?
So I can't tell you that.
I don't actually think they're gonna go for a plant at all until they get a couple of kills, but they're gonna do chaos upstairs chaos
Downstairs sure so appealing as the Claire weird all what I was hoping for
I was gonna say I don't mean planning to be positive because of like the maestro evil eyes or souls etc
You gotta get kills. I don't think there's enough chaos
I can be created to receive your whole effort seven seconds and actually get it down
You need to get this couple of space
Here comes the prone pink from Zaka. He finishes off Akaiyu. I want to keep executing onto the top four information that there are three players there. Great timing from Chibus here. Gatorada looks the wrong way.
And now he jumps in with a Jago payload. That's onto Ayogator. A great player to target in a moment like this. And he's low on HP. He gets down and finished off by the fire.
Because he took a tiny bit of damage as he tried to retreat, he wasn't able to get on his phone in time.
And Cheereep has a laugh about it.
He's also hacked by the way, the evil one, wait, why?
Oh, because of the DokaBee call, I thought I was like, there's no problem.
So he's got info that he can't of course stand on it.
Oh, nice shot from Karlo.
1v2, 30 seconds, but there's info here on the attacking side, onto where Karlo is, because Cheereep has hacked the cameras.
The Dokubi call comes out. He has no choice but to answer, which means that C.A.G. know he's on his phone.
He trades directly, but the phone explodes and finishes him off.
That is Dokubi, ladies and gentlemen.
And C.A.G.
A run match point.
Oh my god, two Dokubi phone call kills in a single round.
It's all down. These are the two kills. Two kills.
All down to timing.
If you try being in a 1v2 as a defender and getting demos tracked, that's one problem.
But try and be getting Dokkaebi called back to back to back with less than 40 health because it does 40 damage, you don't answer it.
It's so unplayable. If you answer it, you're going to get swung. If you don't answer it, you're going to explode.
And to make it even worse, the Dokkaebi player can actually see under UI what the gadget is if the defender is answering the phone or not.
So it's not like your mind gaming gets in like all I'm answering I'm not answering whatever they can literally tell
The moment you start answering the phone and the moment you stop answering if you want to try and bait it
And to make it even worse teams when you start answering the phone
It doesn't pause the timer off the explosion. Exactly
So it means if if coward is like answering it and then stops it just instantly pop like we saw that
Yeah, and plus people forget this but like literally doccabee's old ability was just that the phone call makes noise
So you get an audio cue and you can pick people like that's why I made doccabee in solo queue
for the longest time with old doccabee because
If I'm gonna drone myself in by the time I get off my drone people have already rotated into the areas that I've
Drone right doccabee is the best way to just you pop that and you with old doccabee
you would know okay there's no one nearby if I don't hear the phone ringing. You still have that
ability with the new Dockabee right like they would have had full audio info on where that sound
was coming from plus they could see on the UI of Dockabee himself that he's answering the phone.
Two people swinging he has to answer he is absolutely cooked there is no universe where he
wins that. So final bands come out, Kag by Varel, Kere with Maestro, fair enough, you're sick of a
You don't want to bring the counters. I mean, it wasn't the end of the world. They were happy to counter it
But you still have to bother
Kirito get rid of the ying Lizadok could be a nice shot. Sure it goes down quickly traded
If you back it is feeling fiery again pre-firing deep into the bomb side
Maybe a C4 here from IE Gator who finds some blood against his old team
But he doesn't have info just pure
He's going to be blind.
Doesn't find anything.
There's a yellow pin to help him, but it was not about, you know, where the player was standing,
but just so like, that's going to be the double door location.
So we'll have 2c4s in pocket, though, on Kao and Akai, so they could find the kill elsewhere later in the round.
The 4v4 is, uh,
not like any team with a huge favor.
C.A.T. by Vale will still very much have, like, execution operators, the sense, the grim,
I'm breaching a set up a back you're right there
That cheats these a little bit because now there's a man advantage for him a trope
They can lock down the top rocket stairs put to the public shield use the warden here
And you should play safety by the bottom side with a seafoam for plant denial
Now they got things working their favorite. I still got a kite claw. I've been actually on the wall denying it
It still has any dealt with
Fight from behind
now if they know where the kaikou is they can easily just use the EMPs
ooh that's a lot of damage on the zhaka
for the one HP I mean DMR oh okay that's a bloody long angle geez all the
way from your house here come the EMPs that's not DMR that's a shotgun my
friend that's a sniper rifle shotgun log shawty basic effectively a DMR come on
what's the difference you tell me
I don't know
they can all break hatches, they can all break windows and barricades, they can do like rotations
I really want to see D-Man win
come on take the fight my dude pre-fight
oh right there's a shot at the shield, I didn't see the shield
just swing him dude, what are you doing, just swing him
I don't think he wins this against the shield
he wins this one
I'll make him look through the slits of the shield.
Wow, he nearly died there.
There's a shock at a close range.
Oh, he does a bit of damage, but unfortunately for dating man,
there you go, this is just bigger.
There's a massive care package sent from downtown KineTrope.
Find a fourth round.
Claw things back.
Two steps closer to CAG.
really all is a matter of if CG can get set up for execute or if Kinshaw can like disrupt
them before they get there. So the sole player just gets a kill amount again, you stop CG
from getting to their goal, that could be the way forward, comes at a high risk though
like if you go for that disruptive play and you die and now you're playing 4v5 instead.
Fair has been phenomenal though, on the TCSG, always going for blows here, going for 1-4-1 trade very often.
Not a fair shotgun fight by the way, it's like a Baylor vs the primary, like come on.
Look, if Stopping can win a 1v3 with the Baylor, then anything's possible.
I still cannot get over that clip from AWC last year, like that's...
The clutch was great.
Was that a 1v5?
I don't know if it was a 1v4 or something?
It was a 1v5.
It was 1v4 but it's an ace I think so it's like effectively a 1v4 ace.
And that was one of the only rounds they won on Nighthaven and they got slapped like 3-0 in the bell plunder.
But that clutch was great.
It was the same because it's one of those moments where, imagine that was like the final round of OT to decide the winner.
It's like the most ridiculous clutch of all time.
It was like one of the only rounds one early on a map after being down zero two in maps already
It was one of those like it doesn't matter, but it's cool. So it goes much less hyped up and much less remember it sadly
But we were there James were there
Stumpin
Everybody knew his name to be fair.
No, I'm an Uncan and you know why?
Because I did not know Stumpen until he got picked up by G-toes.
Apparently he's a rookie, cool.
Cool.
Apparently he's a big...
Council on PC have very different fan bases, communities,
where they talk, how they talk, everything else.
So I don't blame you for that at all.
I was on a similar boat where I only knew him
from the Jinx Cvers, as we call it.
And that that quads from him at EWC was also the beginning of secrets
drawings right in Europe with the old roster
No way Adrian, etc. Now it's
Not the same story for secretly gone from the roster changes. They had a bit of a top stage here, you know
Yeah, it's been a sad sad time for secret, but look a lot of the players are still fighting success
Focusing up here though Varyl just waiting on this defensive side continuing to pull back
his CAG starts to mount their attack. They've got a lot of map control here but
they haven't dealt with Gatorade. He's actually still on that top floor by the
way. I don't know how they've managed to sneak past him.
Or whether he'll go for a flank eventually. Are they aware of it or do they know that
there's still a Roma at large? Surely not. The way that we see this player just
around the corner, is that Chibusu? Oh no, it's Shuri. Yeah, yes, no idea.
That's a free kill for Gatorada. Now Kaguya Varel have a choice to make. Do they go hunting for this Roma or do they focus up on the side?
That is a disruptive playstyle again. You go and see if you get set up and go for HQs. Now a bit of a
Not chaotic in the server, but they don't have all the right tools and more manpower, but since they were the glass
Watered by DD on the Monty.
Oh, it's a montage.
Never count them out.
Zac defines a quick two, but Gatorada back from the roam
eventually trades him back.
And Akayu makes good work with that DMR.
It's DD-Man.
And then it's in the back line of CAG to lock him around.
And then he has that sniper rifle in hand.
And class DMR shoots the first one.
It's all up to Akayu.
And DD-Man finds it with the pistol.
It was never a doubt the best team in this region is the best team from Japan.
If CAG by Varo taking their first win under their new branding here in APAC North,
they remain at the top of this region.
The very top undefeated great consistency and it's all about that motivation, right?
They go to a rough time, don't get the right result, maybe,
and kick off, considering actually what
in most recent history.
And then, OK, that's your joint board.
What can we do now as CGVale to get stronger?
They get sparking up as well.
It's a port staff's coach, and DD going from coach to player,
got some more consistency, all across the board.
I feel like this is a team that is putting in a lot of effort
and a lot of work to truly become the best in the back north.
And they've done so, like you said, again.
Yeah, yeah.
And look, they did it while still flexing their muscles,
trying some unorthodox bomb sites,
going to Armory and weapon maintenance.
And they just looked great, as they always seem to do.
They're in peak form at the moment, undefeated,
seemingly untouchable.
Nobody seems to be able to hold a candle to Varel.
They go 7-0-0-0.
Flawless throughout the group stage,
nobody even taking a point off of them.
And no other team in this region
can say the same. Cag rests on their laurels at the very top and I'm sure that they will be very
much prepared for the best of threes to come. There is only one spot at EWC for APAC North and
Cag by Varo very much have their sights set up. Yeah I mean no. If I had to make a prediction now
I'm gonna lock in my CAG boys and say they're gonna be taking it but anything of course can
happen they're gonna stay locked in. We have an interview with Sparky from CAG. It's gonna be our
third time talking to those people in. So hello there, Spargee. How's it going?
Yeah. Yeah, we've been talking many times. Look at that. We've got the same church.
Hey, Spargee. Can I? Can I talk to you guys about the same church?
Now, I'm feeling a bit left out. Spargee, put me back in. I just say, you have a real
Andrew Garfield look about you right now. And I'm absolutely digging it. It's something about the
hair. I'm absolutely loving it. You're looking fabulous, as always. Congratulations on the
Congratulations on flawless. Um I've got a bit of a funny question for you, but you're always so
uh eloquent in the way you explain yourself in interviews. So I think I'm going to throw this
your way and see how you go with it. How do you deal with being so good relative to your region
and then you go to international events or you play other teams that you're not used to having
to play in a week to week basis and suddenly the skill level of your opponents rockets up.
How do you make sure that you scale to them instead of just thinking oh we're going up against
another Kino Trove or a D-plus that we know like the back of our hand?
Yeah, well the way I approach it is role play.
So we try to do like, of course many screams you like,
you have like a lighter atmosphere where you try a lot of stuff.
But like one third of the scream we try to role play
against the stronger opponents that we think are going to the major.
We try to role play and so we try to focus as much as we can and
enter in the environment because there's not as much else we can do.
I mean, realistically speaking, official games are not competitive, most of them, not all of them.
I think the VO3 might give us some surprises, but like, realistically speaking, it's not been very
competitive so far. So we try to like, work our way around it with roleplays and scrims and just
having a lot of mentality talk and thinking ahead for the major.
Can you give an example of what you mean by roleplay like it? Let's say you're in a script.
Can you give me an example of what that looks like, like a particular situation?
Yeah, so, no, actually it starts from the beginning of the day.
So I set the mentality of the team, I send the message to the guys how we should behave today, what needs to happen.
And then it proceeds to like the way we prepare the screen.
So like I'm going to tell the opponent and then I'm going to say, okay, so we're entering the environment where we role play.
Let's actually practice for the screen.
so maybe talk a bit about the bands, talk about the opponent maybe, which is not common, but like
we do it just to enter the atmosphere like practically, and then we just scream and try to
be as serious as we can, I try to take only one time out, it's like just trying to set the scene
for like what kind of official game would we like, and yeah it's like the best thing you can do,
there's nothing much else. Interesting, it's obviously when you are playing in APAC,
very limited by how many good scrim partners you can have and whatnot and how good the competition is.
When you're at the very top and you look now and you're going, well, we can skim all these guys,
but we can't learn much from them, but they can learn so much from us. So I feel your struggle
there, I do. My question is, we spoke to you very early on, and you're saying that you're
approaching the stage one with not so much external analysis. Why are you not going to look at your
opponent going, they like to play this way and whatnot. You're going to have the players adapt
on the fly in the server and practice that kind of in-the-moment theory that's obviously work very
well for you guys you can have an undefeated stage now we're going into the best of three
territory the spot the fight for EWC for that major international tournament what's going to
change from the current best of one environment and playing very loosely on the server to the
very serious POV communication matches what's going to be there yeah yeah so again the environment
is like you can't really like there's no way you can roleplay as much as you want but even in
these official games best of ones when you play against a weaker enemy and like the stakes are
not very high because you know you make playoffs anyways it's like there is no real way to actually
make it 100% the way it should be you know in terms of like atmosphere so for the BL3 it's just
about setting the environment where like we do the match prep we have strats for every single team
We have like five strats for every single team for every single map like we have a huge amount of
Strategic background. We have a huge amount of prep work that we're doing
For today's game, for example was a one-off where I had the players prep for the game
So you saw some like weird bands like Dr. Billa and stuff like that
And we also do this like sometimes in scrims because again, I want to I want the players to be able to
one day say we don't need you anymore like
We just need the guy to tell us what's going wrong, like an external POV, but we really need the food.
We know more than you. Like that's your objective, you know, but of course I keep up with things that happen.
But like, you see what I mean? Like that's the goal for me, actually.
So yeah, the way we approach POV 3 is just to stay in amongst the correct team.
It's funny you say this. I'm just, I'm actually going to go on my phone because I saw a tweet this morning from Joker
who obviously used to coach for PCTelin and now also works in a different team,
I'm not sure I can talk about it actually, but he said often the first thing a team asked me for
when there's a trial phase is to make them some strats. If that's all you need a coach for,
your fundamentals are screwed anyways and having someone do strats without more insight also doesn't help.
If you are a player, learn to make strats. So it feels very similar where you know your job as a coach here
to make sure the players can do the coaching job without the coach necessarily.
And then if you do have a coach, it's about making the players better, not teaching them the fundamentals.
Exactly. I agree 100%.
I mean, when you're a trial coach, teams are gonna ask for stress, because I mean, the one that says your knowledge...
Of course, you gotta show something.
But I feel that it, like, I understand totally, and like, yeah, I agree 100%.
And like, this game, this is not like football, guys.
You can just, it doesn't work this way.
You know, the coach is on the same level of the players.
Players are here with the coach.
It's not the same as sports.
It's like, you've got to approach it in a different way.
Well, that's really insightful, as always.
We talked a lot of ball, but I'd love to zoom out a little bit.
You guys are champions of the group stage.
It's not over yet, but something else that's new today
is CAG by Varel.
My favorite fragrance at the moment,
and it smells beautiful.
Maybe a chance for you now to speak to your fans.
Maybe, hopefully, you guys might have some new viewers watching today,
perhaps fans of VARAL and other esports that are now watching for the first time.
They've seen, OK, this team is pretty good.
Maybe I'll follow them.
Is there anything you want to say to the VARAL fans that are coming on board?
Yeah, yeah.
No, so first of all, the management, we haven't really been in touch a lot right now.
Everything's been very big, but yeah, the management seems to be great.
The project is very long-term, everything is set in place, there's budget, there's everything that needs to happen, you know, to make things happen.
So I'm super happy, I'm glad that there's new fans following us, if there is, I think there is.
But yeah, I mean, the brand is amazing, you saw this, great sponsors, great branding, I mean, great company, so.
I couldn't be happier to represent them, and yeah, thank you for viewing the last game.
and we look forward to playing the playoffs.
Well, thank you very much for joining us today, Sparky.
Congrats on first place with the group stage.
We'll see you for stage finals.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for having me, guys. Bye.
Always a pleasure. Cheers.
Love to see Sparky in these interviews.
Always so nice to get a real deep insight.
There are some players that like to keep things close to their chest.
And I'm not saying that Sparky, you know,
leaves all of CIG's stratbook out to there.
But it's just such a great bit of insight, really, out of this stuff.
It's all always giving us something to dig up the way a lot and take into the future,
interviews and matches, whatnot. And I think it's always in the cycle to speak with him because
we see what he's talking about being implemented shortly after. I did note very early on that
the Auburn events today were a bit out of the usual for CIG, but I'm not going to overthink it,
right? And he said that he actually did his players do their job today because they need to start
analyzing thinking things out so I love how he's talking about his vision and then enforcing that
style and we're seeing the result on our very screen maybe a week later slowly step by step
very curious to see how they go and if they're into playoffs. Of course CIG and KINATROS have
actually both already qualified for those stage finals we have three more teams fighting over just
two spots two of those teams are about to go head to head it's the koreans fearx against the brazilians
playing in Korea day plus coming up after this
The first time I saw the trailer, I thought it was real and it was a bit realistic.
And I was really happy when I found out that it was real.
I was talking to people around me because I was one of the characters that I used to like.
But since I was enjoying it when I was 5,
I heard that I don't know much about young players these days.
So I'm a little sad, but I'm having fun alone.
I think the current team has a more free atmosphere.
My role is to play as an OP character, and to play as a good character.
The atmosphere of the team is much closer to each other now, and the language is more comfortable to communicate in Korean.
The environment itself is good.
The role of my brother is the head coach, Dongwook.
I think I'm about 24 years old compared to myself.
If I compare myself to Cloud9, I've changed a lot of things.
If I say that I'm a bit of a physical and hard-working person,
I've changed my playstyle and my pick to be more free.
I think I played a lot when I was in the previous team, but in this team, I have a lot of experience and I'm good at everything, so I think it's okay.
The team I want to win the most in this stage is DPLUS.
And I think it's the best team in the world.
Because if you win, you can go to the region 1 or Brazil as you like.
I really want to win.
We're out of time.
Let's put them in the ground.
Fall back!
Team one.
I'll kill you.
Team one.
I'll kill you.
Alive in worst state.
We love conflict with the other teams.
They have their orders.
We need to go for Nix.
No commie.
Team my eyes. You, cover her.
What?
Off-dial.
Sending a payload.
Your corner, bitch!
Surrender!
I see one old man.
One old man about to die!
I see a hundred seven. Three of us down.
Back my bone!
Huh?
What if he went down?
Welcome back everybody, we are here in APEG North and you are watching, about to watch
at least one of the final game of the stage and it's actually a very important one at
that.
We have a fight for the final spot, there is one spot left but there are three teams
taking the fights in forward, D plus, Scars and Fierce and based on the exact bounce score,
regulation, or overtime, two of those teams are going to lock in the spots.
Now, before we get to that, what are they playing for?
You might be asking, well, it's a spot to go to a major at the EWC.
And there are tickets live right now.
You see the link here on your screen, esportsworldcup.com.
And there's actually a code to get 15% off your ticket.
It is R6S15.
So if you like Siege, you like majors, you don't go to an international tournament.
It is actually going to be in Paris, we were just there for SI in February.
it's a lovely nice place and if you're an OG OG Siege fan it's actually gonna be in the same
expo area as the Paris Major, the very first Siege Major back in 2018. So you'll see some
similar views if you're around back in the day which I thought was quite lovely. I was very
surprised myself when I saw the Paris expo and I'm not gonna try to pronounce the last part
Portugese or Chateau de Chateau. It's a lovely area so go get your tickets maybe I'll see you
there is a good chance that I'll be going myself but that is what these three teams are playing for
tonight it is going to be about going into playoffs which of course gives you into a best of three
environment and this is going to describe a little bit more about what is required to qualify so in
simple terms scars will qualify if d plus kia or bink at ferix they win in regulation then scars
will go d plus kia will qualify if they win the game or goes to ot and the same thing goes here
for Fierix. If they win or go to overtime, they will also qualify. So, to see if it's simple,
if you want scars to qualify, you basically do not want the game to go to OT, okay? Because then
scars are going to be locked out and they're not going to be making it to top four. So, it's super
exciting and based on, you know, how close it's going to get, we're going to sit there and watch
every single round to play out. So, I'm hoping it's going to be a close one, not like a 7-0
or anything like that. And let's talk about the first team. It's going to be Fierix. It's another
version of the korean super team they have gone through a couple of different iterations
and it's become pretty much the former you know phd talent show
Jung Sang, Misa, Ryder, Souljure all coming from that organization at one point in time
and then wookie man the final last member standing from that old phdx core this was once upon a time
supposed to be the phd talent roster but wookie man encoded actually ended up going to phdx instead
of PSG but now a lot of stages later they have merged into one. Yeah for a long time this roster,
this five has been so hyped up and to be honest it was pretty dire when Ferex were completely
gutting their roster in kickoff you know we looked at the team that was once all you know
phenomenal looking and slowly just never really reached that expectations they dropped everyone
except Boogie Man and they came second last in the entire league. But it's a completely different
story. Like, come stage one, obviously, Mies has come into his own. Now we've got, as you said,
all those star players from that old PSG roster. And now we've got a real stupid team. Probably
the best team you could make out of five players from Korea right now in 2026, which is hard because
the Korean scene is starving a little bit for talent at the moment. We've had a lot of players
We haven't had as much new talent to come and fill those shoes. However, it doesn't mean it's all sunshine and rainbows.
These guys have still struggled. They've had some pretty notable losses, especially, of course, to scars in their last play day.
On the opposition side, it's D plus. And funnily enough, in a way, a similar story in terms of not living up to expectations, we know exactly what these guys are capable of.
They've been to 6 of the nationals and in top contenders, you know, top 9 to 12 at 6 of the
nationals.
Beating Shopify Rebellion who ended up becoming runners up at the Salt Lake City Major.
They took a map off of the world champions at FaZe, but how on earth can we now be talking
about a deep boss gear that's had some pretty notable losses, you know, losing the KineTrope
and CIG.
If they also lose to Ferex, that is a huge fall from grace for a team that was meant
to be top 12 in the world, now they can't even be top 4 in APAC North.
They really need a weekend.
And the funny thing is, if D-plus were to fail to qualify today,
you can go back and look at, I think, one very important matchup.
They would decide that.
The very first playday was CIG versus D-plus,
and we were casting that one.
We're hyping it up because it's going to be the top one versus top two,
at least based off our expectations,
because they're both going to guarantee qualifier, right?
Well, maybe not.
And if they wouldn't fall right here, they can go back and say,
hey, we were not good enough to beat C.A.T.,
who were rightfully fighting for that very first spot.
And because of that, that's why they're down here,
maybe not making playoffs.
There's only one thing missing now,
and it's gonna be about the map.
We've seen fundamentals on Clubhouse,
we've seen the chaos of Lair,
we've seen Trippie try and go back to Fortress,
try and get some success, but they got 7-0.
D plus Kia and BNKVH will take us to either Clubhouse
or Fortress, and map we've seen today
It's gonna be about the fundamentals about the counters that strategy, but this is where I get a little scared, okay?
You go skier. Yes career organization, but like we always say James Brazilian players. They're such a good region on clubhouse
Yeah, they they are really are I mean clubhouse has been such a staple map in every region for the longest time
But there's just something about the Brazilians and the way that they like to innovate deep plus of course starting on the attacking side
We've had this conversation so much recently. Thank you. I think this is gonna be attack study game
I think these teams are gonna really come into this with the maximum prep everything
They can be throwing into this game, you know D plus that haven't played about so far fear X
They played a hell of a lot of it. They played against CHE and scars lost both those games and they did beat BME on this map
So for D plus I'm looking at them right now and saying, okay
What have you got to show for me on this map and starting on the attack?
Yeah, there might be a question about who's actually going to happen when
the phoenix are going to go on the attacking side because I think if you let
the wukimans just set up all the players who are in positions with the right utility and stuff
they can get some gnarly attacks on their side.
So when the sides will happen just look out for D plus if they're going to try and play that destructive playstyle
forcing some early kills and early fighting and maybe doing a bit too much in the server
but doing it for a good reason to not allow phoenix to get wukimans enabled.
Yeah, for sure. It's time to get into our final game of the night and it's the most important one of all PENGO today
We find out which teams will be continuing on in the APL into stage finals
And who will be left behind here in the group stage?
BNK, FIREX and D-plus Kia the winner will go through
Into stage finals and the loser may not make it unless if they push over time
time, Scar will be watching with
Bated breath as their fate
lies in the hands of fear X and
D plus.
Thurman and Kai bent to go out
first.
As I said, it's going to be a
going to come down to a lot of
strategy.
So I would not be surprised to
see, you know, the band did
Mira, Kai being banned away
because you want to enable that
very first step.
You don't want to have to pick
the Maverick, the Thatcher and
deal with the wall first and limit yourself a bit more on the attacking side and I did mention the mirror second there because it is going to give you a different kind of problem.
We see so many teams pick up the mirror more frequently now to almost act as a temporary bandit. You can like two brother freeze the wall mirror trick the first layer of heart destruction and impact the C4 trick after the mirror window has been opened up.
Bandit will of course be open, but it's always a tough conversation.
If you're going to be playing the bandit actively, you can easily die early to a grenade or
Sophia Ash below, a cap of fire, etc.
And you don't want to start in a 4v5 here and clubhouse on defense because there's so
many different points of contact you can get attacked from.
Like here in the basement right, you got three separate hatches, kitchen, Moto and blue.
You got dirt tunnel, main staircase, you got blue, which has two separate staircases leading
into it.
You need 5 defenders to watch all those angles or a ton of different trap operators to like, you know, give you intel of what is clear and what isn't.
But the bombsite itself, despite having so many angles, isn't actually super super strong.
So you're always going to be seeing the defenders rolling around, extending in the building, trying to kill at drones, before falling on back.
And even today, you often see them opening up some of these hedges themselves, like a bar, to then create an escape route if you're to like really hard commit to the room.
can be the case here so just enforcing it riders is very second so it does show us
maybe a bit more of a passive setup here from being a fear it's just leaving
Yongsang in office with the mid jammers and a rider on Goyo in cash on the
other side of top floor
it looks like woogie man is in position to delay as much time as possible it's
It's the classic we see these days, a blackbeard looking to take control of the
tunnel.
Woogieman says, oh hi there Nias.
I might use this as a chance to fall back.
Oh great, deep raid.
That's also going to burn this first Goyo Charge which locks Woogieman unable to detonate
the other Vulcan Charge which essentially nullifies its value completely.
That's great, that essentially buys D plus 20 seconds here.
As they fall back, Wookieman keeps him at bay with his gun.
And it's really smart because you know there's an active roam gone on top floor.
By going third to the first, they're gonna force them almost back towards the bomb
because there's so much pressure here into Wookieman.
So they're getting so much map control with this.
And we're gonna have toxic babes that go out of fire extremely early on.
And the second, Wookieman's gonna run out of gas, which is only one-one pocket,
and he's gonna be forced to fall back because that blanket's gonna make quick work of him otherwise when they're gone behind him.
Oh wow, big impact!
What?
Somehow the Inja comes through.
I don't know, was there anything?
I thought I heard an impact grenade go out and get a little bit of damage on him to smoke
finish him off.
I'm not sure if that's what he has on his thighs.
Maybe he got shot by a steamer behind him.
He changed him team damage.
Maybe he got team damage.
Oh that's a hard build as well here for D plus.
They looked so good at the start of the round.
Now they completely fall into pieces.
Boogieman.
Oh, eventually goes down to the F2 for Midi.
Mesa's on the floor but mid is low HP and Falls is worried about a flank
Is mid gonna try and finish Mesa with a Twitch Trone?
I think he might be able to genuinely
He's coming!
He's looking for it!
He doesn't do a lot of damage but it does just enough and Mesa goes down
That's a worthwhile Twitch Trone
Low HP
How did mid and Falls make this work 40 seconds?
And one HP and makes him a problem, he goes down, falls now, just on the hatch, proning,
hoping they're gonna over swing, but this is that new Fierix, they're very disciplined.
Experience of Misa and Lukimand, both being dead or screaming guys, do not over swing.
Hold the hatch, trap at the crossfire, when it drops three to one, we're together.
Two people swinging, one person during a C4, guaranteeing that first run victory, a great
start here for BNK Fierix.
Really locking down that basement.
D plus had a pretty good strat, a pretty good plan,
but something went wrong in that mid-round.
I still don't really know exactly what happened
in dirt tunnel with nears on the black beard,
whatever it was cost them the rounds.
D plus looked like such a strong team in previous seasons.
I wanna know what is it that's gone wrong this stage?
I think to some degree, the level of the competition
has elevated.
I think scars are looking better.
Obviously, fear X are doing better.
Kiritripe, definitely do that, huh?
But do you recall the interview with Falls?
Or with Hell maybe, it was actually.
We had an interview with him in one of the last playbases and he said,
they believe that the teams now in the region have gotten to know their playstyle a lot more.
Like when D-Pals first entered, we always asked them,
how does it feel to go from Brazil and now playing in APAC?
And they were saying how, the same thing for Elevate,
when they had the Brazilian roster with all the boys over there, right?
We don't know the playstyle, the maps, the strategy, the meta.
We don't know exactly who the scrimmage is yet.
Now it's like the reverse where D plus have been playing here for so long
that they've been getting some irrepsin
and their enemy has started to learn how D plus are playing the game.
And this is like the not so great scenario, right?
Because if you D plus as an import roster,
you have very highly skilled players in Brazil
coming into A-packing or a bit of a drama in the beginning
because you're taking spots away from domestic players and teams
and you just go into an easier region to qualify for some tournaments.
Well, it's gotten to a point where D plus have maybe helped grow this region
to a point where it's not free anymore.
And that means that the import has worked for the region.
But if I were any there, yeah, oh, it's so free, guys.
It's not like a free.
Yeah, I still can't help but think about the fact that six months ago,
five months ago, this team was capable of paving some world teams.
And now they are getting outplayed every step of the way.
I don't know how Fear X had info.
I think that must have just been audio cues of hearing Niers move his way up.
And that's two rounds now that Niers has really struggled.
Balls now putting some pressure onto this top four line of sight.
I like the way he mads.
I like the way he's really careful.
Wow, that's a scary C4.
Oh, OK, you did get it.
Good.
Now it's time to bring Choe to the wall.
For Maverick, I mean.
Every man knows what it's like.
I mean, at some point you start praying before you start Mavericking, right?
You hear a little prayer, you start Mavericking the role, and you see what fate has in store for you.
Because you cannot control all the variety that can happen there.
Sometimes it seems that you're making a play, and you're like, look, I know there's a chance I'll die.
And you're just like, I accept that fate.
That version of the future is there, and I accept that it may happen.
I know that I'm taking a risk, but I'm gonna believe that that's not what today
All right now at least
The lyrics again the driver's seat of the only people to mirrors and then now locking the things out with the toxic
Babes about games to show here from bottom garage the impact on its a Velcro paying off massively and for us
Let's find one kill the destruction looking for the flanking to get the fight a shotgun young sang to even numbers
All of a sudden D plus might have a lake in this round. There's no more smoke. There's no more C4
It's literally just a 3v3, but guns two flashes and a grenade
Yeah, but a D plus a team that's good
Oh, no
Rabbit out of the hat when the strap doesn't go to plan could trade from woogie man now
They know where he is can he get out safely?
He didn't don't think so
Moosey is deep inside of Jim woogie needs soldier to help him cover
But the concussion comes through Moosey goes deep on the woogie man now soldier in a 1v2
spots our music for a brief seconds
How do you play this D plus?
don't have the defuse. It's all the way out on that jacuzzi balcony soldier actually has it in his
crutches and he needs to try and take these fights one at a time falls back fades away.
Muzie punishes him takes him down D plus finally around on the board and a start to clubhouse.
A good problem solving. I do think that if you're not getting to the nitty gritty I think there's
one area there where being Kytherex actually fell short. Jung sang when bottom garage of
Valkyrie impacted the wall and got a kill onto the external bulk of like Jim master bedroom
Then he went up the catwalk stairs to go for a CCTV flank
But the problem is when you get that first pink you're saying hey, I'm over here. You're literally getting a kill
Most of the time you're gonna pin it safely
You got to go back towards lounge and then go into bar off the main staircase and get back towards the bomb site
But he wanted to go over that flank with over 60 seconds left on the clock
So D plus they realized that hey, let's go kill the guy who flanked in us get back to a 3v3 even numbers and then hit the side
After and like we said there were no high utility operators left there for fear of his defense
No smoke no C4
They don't have the luxury of a mirror window because that was target banned by D plus so that even 3d3
Is it actually even because attackers tend to have better weaponry like on average?
They also had like I said two flashbangs and a spare grenade and all of that were used to get that round victory
So it's really important here that theorists they hold command positions when they have the advantage and don't bite off more than they can chew
Because it's a great job at getting into a good position, but then they were like, I will just keep going and then they lost it again
Yeah, I think deep passive ready to that aggression pretty well
I think it's all about knowing when to be aggressive and I think for the most part
In the current meta so often the attackers have these power-ups and they have an intention on how to abuse them
particularly at the end of the round to try and win some kind of an execute against an unfavorable setup and
If you lash out early like Yunsang did for example impacting and peeking from bottom garage onto the balcony outside gym
That is a way of disrupting the push and it has consequences for the late round get aggressive early
Get aggressive when the attacking team isn't so expecting it and then when there's 30 seconds
That's an area 3v3 sit back wait for them to take the first minute
The chaos right now, windows opening, the breach of doors, the walls, you can see
Fyrix are flicking all the angles, trying to keep off someone and the double man holder
on the con single wall, one repelling one standing takes down a rider, thankfully it's
just the castle and no active utile but it means again D plus in the driver's seat so
everyone's being injured, this is Fyrix trying to disrupt the push but failing to do so and
going to shut down in all their attempts. Yeah, D plus have really read into this. They've
realized fear exit taking every opportunity to play in our position to get aggressive.
Even wookie man is doing it right now in construction. He's in a reasonably exposed
spot, but he's playing an off angle, hoping that he's going to get a freebie. That's what
most of fear exit seems to be doing right now. Even he's, I mean, look at this. That's
an unfavorable fight that he's taking. They're not taking 50 50s. They're trying to catch
their opponents off guard. They're not falling back and playing side. They feel the need
do something a little bit crazy and to be honest in the 355 they kind of do but
D plus has slowed it right on down Misa shut out all D plus need to do is sit
back and hold right click they have so much time yeah and this is what they're
doing they're on the rooftops and the window rappels the breach rappels they
do not care about inching the map right now because they know that they're gonna
get swung by thieves and get some more free kills they don't know it but so
just literally one HP they got famous tractor they got a fire they got the
scans and now she's not the soldier all alone 1v5 at 40 seconds to go good luck
and have fun yeah this is flawless no question no exactly where he is he is
swinging perfect round for D plus two attacks in a row and they're looking
very nice now here on club fear X you've been read like a book you get an
operate a band now guys he's gonna say in the chat stop peeking oh he is he
tapping up a storm just don't lose oh is that he's saying that that's the
the world where they don't make it I it's going to start going to the playoffs
yes it's a right well well the the simple math is actually whoever
wins this game goes to the playoff and whoever loses this game, but yeah whoever loses this
game as long as they go over time they will also go. So yes if fear ex loses 7-5 they won't go.
If they win six rounds and lose it over time then that's fine they still make it.
I love that Neers is already taunting in the chat though like how are these guys gonna go
when the pressure starts bouncing. The last thing you want to be thinking about during that is the
mistakes of your map. Do you remember being in any particular games and you're like playing
in the middle of the match and then suddenly you think, oh, if we lose this score line
or whatever, if we lose this game, we're out.
Yeah. No, I haven't had that happen. I think an even more awkward thing occur. Back when
we had promotion and relegation, like the last two teams of Pro League would get thrown
into Challenge League and get out of professional play, right? You're ending people's career.
We're in a spot with Penta, I believe, where if we won, Team A would get relegated, and
if we lost, Team B would get relegated.
So in a position where we can control who gets fired, and we know that no matter what
we do, if we win, people will say that we try harder to get rid of that team because
we hate them, and if we lose, those are the groups because we hate the other team.
So there's no winning.
We set their thinking, do we try hardest, do we not care, because we were locked in
for a space like that. Winning or losing didn't matter to us. So do we play off our own relevance
or our colleagues' relevance? And a lot of drama happened because there's no good outcome
for everybody. Thankfully, in a way, nowadays, we don't have that same promotion negation
system. But it's a very scary time to be fearing for your job when you're literally playing
to stay in. This is playing to be successful and go into playoffs rather than playing to
literally keep your job. Yeah. And what's good is both these teams have their own fate in their hands.
Yeah. They do. All they need to do are. So, okay, if you're curious what happened then, right?
If you shoot the wood ceiling, the C4 will then fall down. You can pick it back up because you
regret putting it where it was. But if you hit the C4, basically you destroy it. You got to shoot
around the C4 almost in a circle like pattern it'll fall back down. Small
mis-input the shotgun shells of course they spread in a hip-fire fashion so
unlucky for the insane he has lost his only C4, the team's only C4.
They're really leaning into this Rome game aren't they? Hasn't been very aggressive
take from D-plus. Half the rounds done, they got newsy upstairs. Nears is doing the
same thing he did last time, pushing to a tower but this time you know with a
the Monty instead of that black beard. A little bit safer. I still don't know how he died in
the black beard last time. We're still wondering. I'm sure he got Team Shot and a Toxic Bape
Tick hit him and that was it, but because there's no Zimper, there's no Z4 in the area.
I'm going to be a slow round, but now it's going to speed up. Nier says he's pushed the
Toxic Bape on the fire and injured Wookie Man, taking damage to return, but Wookie should
VHU is dead here, right?
Actually, they're not in kitchen at the minute, mate.
Or at least they're in buckets.
Maybe they just came in there and got a job done.
Jung Sin falls as well.
So again, very quickly, the round goes from even to D.P.L.S. taking full control.
Yeah, three rounds in a row here would not be good for fear X.
And again, D.P.L.S. just wait patiently.
They have the perfect read.
Wow, Niers is even gonna ADS.
Bit of B.M.
It's a shot!
N.S. in the chat, bro.
some toxic stuff from his love this energy from D plus three rounds in a row thank you if I'm
fear X I'm getting a little bit scared oh but I was watching the player cam so nearest is a
species spam typing in chat the coach hell comes over taps his shoulder is like bro
fist bump me like like stop talking smack and chat fist bump me he's not going he just typed
it again nice shot oh my gosh but here apparently so about the mental warfare and
it's been very simple direct push is here from the side of the plus but they're
able to do so I mean the kitchen dirt tunnel in your attack is like a super
normal attack to do in in European bank for example don't got a room clear don't
go about the roamers you're very very safe you said I have one guy watch the
flag on main stairs from them the chain repair outside the door and then other
people just walking in dirt in kitchen. It's very very straightforward. Being a
fierce unfortunately they're taking the fights maybe in the wrong area and they're
playing a third tunnel. Woogieman dying is completely known with no crossfire, no
help. Then somebody else died, if you're using that elsewhere off-screen. Ideally if
D-plus are not doing a whole lot in the server you kind of need to match it or
win your fights. But the thing is they've been trying to win their fights and
disrupting that playstyle for fierce that is and they keep failing to achieve
success. I think it's time to do less right now. If D-plots aren't doing a lot, you shouldn't
be doing a lot. Let it get to a late round, you know, 5v5 at 30 seconds left because that's
where you will thrive on defense club hours versus trying to make a play in play 2v5 at
60 seconds because now you're going to choose this advantage.
100% agree. I feel like that's been the biggest problem for T-Rex. They have become so predictable.
But you look at the guy that died in Moto last round, just sprinting in. It's like immediately
if it comes to 3v5 fear it's like oh we're gonna make a play D plus is
sitting there just gonna wait because it's exacting that happened that has
happened to every single round so far D plus starting to take map control they
have already cleared cash not even a minute into the round this is very fast
very effective look I think that for fear x it's good that they're not over
committing but man they are just giving up so much ground I don't want them to
make risky plays but I feel like they need a stack of utile to slow D plus
down so that it does become a late round 5v5. I mean they got clash and asami
they could easy thing, cash CZTV and then fall back with the clash of squad
with the shield, asami off the window with the breeches and just like as you
said play for time kill a few more drones. Now it feels like it's all of the
soldier on the clash to stop the entire push, maybe a good C4 so America get them
a kill but it's gonna be some tough gunfights later on when D plus they
I'm not in there. You said there's so much time to set things up perfectly that there shouldn't be much of a chance of error
So it's gonna be in the details who wins that first initial pick can they clear shoulder in the clash or can it
Beat the breach and they die not like this. They might be able to save him
They actually managed to keep a barrier off the breach and soldier is now gonna try and contest the fight
There is a universe here if the revive can go off, but no not the case
You can say actually dies to the fire and the beat from Muzie. Let me deep into the bomb side now
It's soldier up against everybody D plus all collapse everything all at once four rounds in a row
Ferex are getting desperate. They've only found a single round as
We go into the final of their defensive half. They need this more than ever. Oh
man
So we had this discussion about this exact scenario. We were working in either EML or Asia at day or two ago
When you're playing Jim Diefel in Clubhouse, the reason why you always extend and always play for more map control
Is that the site itself like Master bedroom Jim bathroom and office you can maybe play
Three defenders there comfortably maybe squeeze in a fourth
But then you're running out of like safe spaces
They are not exposed to from a window or a breach or the hatching office. You can't stack five people very comfortably
So the fact that you can't hear is they're not playing in bar. They're not fishing with a C4
They're not holding things vertically. They're not really playing acro and connector
They actually just don't give themself enough space to work with so they're standing shoulder to shoulder and getting super uncomfortable because hey
Where do I play now? I'm just holding the same angle as my teammate. That's not efficient
And I'm not sure this is fear trying to fight the first couple rounds and then getting punished
And now they feel not scared as to the wrong word because they are fighting
But I think they feel oppressed in a way like they don't feel that they can't fight from that control
They can't fight around the building they haven't just play as close together as really possible
But that's also working against them. So they're in a very tough mental position currently as I said
I think when BVP is going the attack and side that can change everything, but if they have a 1-5 half
I'm not sure that's gonna be enough. They need the second round
One five means they need to win five attacks. Keep that in mind. Oh, yeah, exactly. I
Talk so much about momentum
It's one thing the school line is for one, but this wasn't like you know two rounds one by D plus then fear x
We're gonna do more but it's not this was one round one by fear x and D plus got presumably a team killer at least team damage
To lead to that result and then it's just been four rounds from D plus in those four rounds penguin
they've only had four deaths.
There were three deaths in the first, sorry, five deaths.
They had two people alive in the first round.
They had a flawless, and then only one player died,
and then only one player died.
That is insane.
Last three rounds, they've only lost two kills.
Again.
And now they get the opening.
The solo-playing dirt.
As well.
It's the third time, James.
Three times basement, three times a player
is died in dirt tunnel,
with nobody even trying to help them.
There's Wookie Man twice playing a smoke.
Now, Junxing playing the Denarii with the lasers.
while we keep selling ourselves with getting a sole player in there now they
have lasers for the external war but it's gonna die they have lasers on the
store to stop the push yeah they do the may come through very well it creates
the perfect storm for D plus to find that kill now Nears is into the bomb side
but everyone on DK is winning their fights tonight thankfully for fear ex
Nears is on the floor and the timing is good for woogie man on his flag now
back into the bomb site blue control means an additional crossfire onto dirt
tunnel that he can't afford to expose himself too much no frags left which means
his position at dirt at the boxes here the green box will be safe and also I
think he might have yet to finish off nears almost as his life in the cost of
doing so worried about the air jabs and his phone exploding in his pocket 2v3
but very winnable here for fear acts I got the capillators on the door so that
They can't clear, so third tunnel should be somewhat safe.
The issue is main stairs, because the read is good.
They injured the flake, soldier 1 HP.
It becomes winnable.
They have a C4, a toxic bed, and no one player
to stop the hatch.
Critical gun fight one by Woogie Man.
Falls in the 1B2.
The laser does concuss him out.
Soldier's going for a flank upstairs.
That means the 1V1 on site for Falls against Woogie Man.
Woogie has to play this perfectly.
Falls now knows that Soldier's upstairs.
He needs to win this fight.
gets up close, bit of a pre-fire.
Wookie Nan just has to buy time for soldiers to be able to win in the 1v1 even if Wookie
falls.
Wookie Nan runs away, so beautifully played by Therex and for the first time they do not
overextend themselves.
They sit back and they wait for D+.
That grants them a second round and a chance as we move into the second half.
I'm waiting to be seen
With chains of motion
I wanna go where you don't want to go
I would climb the highest mountain
I would sight the sea, the sea
Just so I could make you feel
What I feel
Ever since
Yeah, really, so big like you
I'm a little clout You're like you see the world from up here
From up here from up here The world from up here
From up here from up here I'm sitting in the world from up here
I don't want to tell you that I have to see it just so I can make you feel what I'm feeling
When I look into the sky, I still can't really feel anything
The light and the clouds, you're not to see the world
of hope on the horizon. Four rounds in this game is all they need to guarantee that they
make it to stage finals. It's the funny situation and there's three horse race for the two spots
available. Fear X and D plus going head to head now the winner guarantees their spot
in stage finals. The loser can still make it if they get six rounds and push it to overtime.
Otherwise, Scars will take their place. Scars. Nobody is more stressed out right now than
the Scalas boys watching this back home. They have no more control. They've done their job.
They found a 7-0 to put themselves in the best position possible. And because of that,
they will qualify with the highest possibility, if you will. But it will come down to, of
course, Phyrix and T-plus. And the last previous round, you know, Phyrix are finally fighting
back. If you want to be pointing fingers at who was actually causing a bit of deliver
there for T-plus, it was actually Nierz, who was talking so much smack on the server
to his enemies before, he was tanking the Denier laser with Blackbeard, walked in, instead
of turning around and shooting the laser for his teammates, he just kept taking the fights
on the other side of the bomb site, and then the Denier laser ended up affecting three
or four separate attackers, because it all regenerates every eight seconds.
So there's a problem there, small details can cost you a round, but he was still looking
very comfortable.
Now, what does D-plus need to do to succeed?
It's actually a very similar thing as to what Theorics are trying to do themselves.
They need to disrupt Theorics' attacks by not letting them get 5 attackers to go for
a bombsite execute, because that is where their best Korean archie, a lucky man, really
shines.
It's about working all the pieces and saying, you go here, watch the angle, flash this,
3-1, I'm gonna plant now.
You need to get a kill here and disrupt them from getting there comfortably, and then weaken
Theorics as early as possible.
I got a question for you, Pender, that maybe you're one of the better persons to ask.
Misa and Ryder, two of the starfraggers from that old PS2 roster.
At the moment, three kills and 11 deaths between them.
This feels very uncharacteristic to me, particularly for Misa.
He was going to be like the best player in Korea.
What's going on? Is he known to choke in big games? What's happening?
There's definitely some consistency issues, which to be fair,
almost every player in the world will face at some point.
But Misa has had a a rough restate
I think it's a second or third given that I can remember where he's not had the best performance
Misa in like a best case scenario is like you're you're go big or go home player
You know he'll find the gap who get the kills who get the clutch etc
When he's not this really frightened it out. He is actually still a very vocal player
He was the agile of PC talent for half of the time on that roster
So I'm sure he's bringing at least leadership role into effect right now
So I think the bigger worry is actually gonna be Ryder because he is like a you know the good old meme all aim
No brain Ashmane Ryder is you go kill and you're quiet
So the fact that Ryder is two and five and not able to contribute as much as Misa who's equally struggling
That's the worrisome sound for me. He's now Daemons. He's being a very important role
He's gonna have a track to life players trying to some fun fights confidently
But Ryder is also kind of guy who all you need is one big moment get him one good round with a 3k
He's gonna be right back to where he left off. Yeah
And who knows now that fear extra on the attack made we'll see that
Insane getting to work on the vert everyone from D plus forward back into the basement
Giving free reign for fear X to figure out how they are to execute
Looks like it's gonna be a church executed soldier drops down men
Now Moosey having to keep the barriers in pocket really creates a fortress inside of just wait
It's a double push after being says where's the player on the vert here from fear X
should be free kills but no instead it's the reverse and fear ex have lost soldier on the black
beard disruption d plus timed aggression well placed together and now they have the numbers
advantage fear ex have to go for an ex good flashbang movie forced out but he repositions
another flashbang in a flash him again fear ex though dwindling in the numbers wookie man has
to drop down but he doesn't know where is safe he doesn't know where is dirty a player has snuck
up the main stairs yet again good flag from Woogie and a big 2k from Ryder he
needs to push deep as Woogie man into the 1v1 on the bomb side but he cannot
find it before the timer elapses. D plus our fifth round on the board just one
more round and they guarantee that they will be making it to stage finals. It's
so close again a couple more seconds one more gunfight going their way but
D plus it did the exact the game plan that they had to aim for right. They
They shrugged phoenix before they get ready for execute.
They were just about ready.
Soldier in Moto-Thor had to check the closed-door angle
and the hallway.
After that, maybe 10 seconds in the future,
they can go for execute.
And what's the most important,
already as I've cleared right before,
is the information gatherer, the Blackbeard Shield,
because he's gonna say,
hey, a player over there, oh, a player over there,
and then we can make a corner,
how they're gonna deal with that.
So when they lose soldier,
They lose all their eyes inside the bomb site.
They also never really regained the main stairs control,
the hallway control.
So, deep loads are free to run around back and forward,
just control so much of the main avenue
of the basement site itself.
They said they're one round away.
They go to CCTV, they bring up the clash,
a classic stable pick from Niers.
He loves playing the shields.
Here it comes, guys.
Don't lose this round.
Seven, five.
Oh, God.
Yes, you do realize that this is going to be images that proceed on the board to the events if you fumble up from here.
Because you could say the same thing straight back at you, Niers. You lose around any more rounds here.
I mean, if they do not win any more rounds, then they are done.
D plus just need one more. But to fumble it here would be so spectacular.
VRX attacking Cache and CCTV with a Monty.
I would back them into Windows.
This is D pluses round to lose.
I'm with you but I'm also against you.
The Grim and the Capita both bend away and there's only two Fragments on the attack and lineup.
If you attack interrupters, this could low-keep you a bait.
They have launch control with Castle Barricades, Toxic Babes, and Clash and the Asami.
It sounds easy on paper, but how are you gonna-
What?
Monty just died on Garrett's door.
Did he put down the shield with Clash and stun him and then go for the-
You walked up the breach.
Oh no, you walked up the breach, you just killed him.
That's disgusting.
That is such a critical mistake.
Yeah, I think it might be.
Surely the round is done.
That might be playoffs.
After that, that might be exactly what D plus need
to get themselves into the top four here in APAC North.
Mears, he's talking a lot of mad smack,
but he's also being such a villain in this game.
On that clash, he's been deadly already in this round.
Mesa one and seven as midi has found the inside peeking outside the building
What an aggressive play and fear ex are just waiting
Hoping that they can find the kill midi will go down imagine challenging with an SMG 11 on an angle like that
Yeah, that's the confidence that DK have right now fear ex
Have been given a kill, but it's barely an advantage
Yeah, I mean look at the attack
They've been running around the building back and forth from the roots
I was looking for a gap to be found but there are no real gaps right now
They're back to where the round started on Garrett's for but without the money and the vision of the player
Moosey stands up cleans the head of wookie man clean
Rider Mesa outside both on the roof James. I know the platform of CCTV. They have to go absolutely huge
Nothing you do against the shuttle I've got for Moosey
Straight into the bump side. That's one. Let's reply
Flash into the clash Mesa 1v3
three. It's done down by the clash. We're going to try and take the fight with Falls at the top of
red stairs, but Falls gets the better of him. And with that, D plus have guaranteed that they will
be making it to the top four in APAC North and the stage finals. But the job's not done yet.
One more round to knock Fyrex out of the game. There's still a fight in chances of a fear.
It's looking kind of grim. No, ridiculously, can they bring it to all time? Maybe not.
But if they do end up in OT, both of these two teams of Thierryx and Diplos will qualify and then Scars will not.
So there is still something to fight for right now.
The question is, Diplos, are they going to go a little bit easier now that they themselves are guaranteed?
Because they can also play Spawls now, right?
I'm not saying let Thierryx win 4 rounds and make them go to OT, but if you really don't want Scars and playoffs, you could lose 4 rounds in a row.
You could gatekeep them.
It's crazy like coming into this game. We had D plus scars and fear X all on 12 points
All with a plus 12 round difference and round difference is the first tiebreaker if teams are on the same points
Same points same round difference
D plus has now taken a step forward
They've gotten a guaranteed one extra point out of this game still could get the full three
But scars at the moment are winning on round difference here against fear X
because fear X will have a negative round difference as a result of this game and scars will edge them out keep in mind that scars beat fear X just last week it was an upset it was a surprise we certainly thought that fear X were the favorite team in that but no
could we see three teams from Japan and one import from Brazil playing from Korea in our stage finals could we see no Korean players into the stage finals with the exception of
got C over in Asia for Weibo.
It just goes to show that Korean members
exceed getting tougher and tougher.
One issue is that there's not a huge influx of new players
and new talent when I just turned 18 and such.
Another one is that the Korean generation
of Korean pro players and no one are qualifying
for the top four in the world,
including international ground,
except for the Asian Weibo.
And it just, you know,
the point back that is difficult.
Watch your airjab smoke jump on me using this has to get the pan down immediately
But the phone trap. Oh, no, that's all trap fighting his device
And he is just snuck in he's totally gonna win both sales
He has
Namasus and he's gonna send them home
D-plus dominate fear acts crush their dreams and knock them out of the APL
No!
D-Plus ahead into stage finals and joining them will be SCARS!
Fear X will be staying home!
Oh man, was there ever any doubt?
Honestly, yes, D-Plus, they were not guaranteed top 4 in these stages, it was a huge surprise
to us.
But when they have something to play for and these stakes get a bit higher and they feel
that pressure, that is when they stand up and they play to 100%.
That was a decisive victory here on Clubhouse.
So while they did have a slow, very opening run, with Fyrex taking it, after that, in
the four rounds in a row, it was just a different story for Divos.
What was promised to be the game of the day ended up being a very one-sided affair, and
really this just makes me think even more so.
How important the Scars vs. Fyrex game was last week.
If Fyrex had taken any more points out of that game, they would be going to stay in
finals.
and even gotten one more round against Skars, push it to overtime and still lost, they would be going to stage finals.
But they fumbled the bag against CAG, they fumbled against Skars, and today they fumbled against D-plus as well.
Skars will be making it to the stage finals despite having a birven up and down topsy-turvy stage themselves.
D-plus of course will be joining them in third seed in this league.
actually you know what I think they've actually jumped up in the second seed
behind CAG it'll be CAG in the top of settings then KineTrip and then D plus
and then rounding it out it'll be scars fear ex the ones to miss out today man
yeah D plus it's great to see them back in form because it was a bit of a scary
stage they started with their hardest game up against CAG they lost it they
didn't get any points from it today though they were more motivated than I've
ever seen. Yeah, the top four is a very mixed bag, which I think is positive, right? It's
going to be defaults who had a rough stage, but with no other capable off. C.A.T. Barbarale,
who are now back in prime form, Keto showed the new kids on the block who should don't
make it to playoffs at all. And the Scars, who are they good enough? Are they not? Well,
they proved today that they are indeed. But now we're entering BESA 3 territory with just
the best team in APEC North. And I still can have a feel a bit here that C.A.T. Barbarale
should have a significant advantage because they've been the ones who've been undefeated,
they've been consistent and nobody's been close to their level. But it would be such a shame if
C18 now falls short when they get to the final stage at his playoffs. Yeah, yeah. Well, it's been
an up and down topsy-turvy stage for D plus, but at the end of it, they get exactly where they
want to be. And that's the top four. In fact, the top two. Let's go have a chat with Falls.
Congratulations, my friend, you've made it. It was a long run all the way through the stage.
You only confirmed your spot in stage finals in your final game tonight. Let's be honest,
like we expected you guys to confirm your spot a lot earlier. We thought that you would be really
close to CHE, but this was a lot harder of a stage than maybe you might have expected.
Hello guys, good night. Yeah, I agree with you.
It's hard to just speak about expectations, you know, like, but as everyone, I think we also expect a little bit different.
But as I said in a previous interview, I truly believe that it's good to make mistakes right now.
Of course, we made it on the top four, so that's our goal for this first part.
But it's good to make mistakes on this part of the tournament because I don't think you can allow yourself to make those mistakes in the playoffs.
So if there's any part of the tournament that we can make mistakes is right now, and we have the opportunity to fix it and be more prepared for the playoffs and debuts.
that is solid I mean we all know that from the previous interview I can
mention you said you guys are working a bit more about you know working on
adaptation on the fly similar to what CT were also doing actually going up against
a team like being in fear you know I know some of the players personally when
I work with them they can be a little bit emotional as players we saw nears your
teammate get a little bit active in the in-game chat here trying to talk on them
you are such a respectable player yourself for us always being super kind
very nice. Meanwhile, Nierce is getting very active. Is that something about trying to taunt
Fierce? Is it about making them choke or just Nierce being Nierce? Yeah, I think it's the idea
to make them choke, you know. To be honest with you, like in general, especially after
Invitational, in general, teams are trash talking a lot of us. And for me, I don't have a problem.
Which means I put like the chat on the minimum size and I actually I don't read the size. I see there's something popping off
It's a especially before or after this update on the game
There are sometimes a guy being something and he appears on the chat
Well, I'm kind of leaving or everything in the chat. I don't I don't read it. So actually I didn't saw what he
writes
But yeah, I think the idea is to make like the enemy nervous, you know
Or sometimes even mad because even when you are mad you're maybe
You know, like you're so angry about like, oh this bastard is fucking trash talking and you make mistakes
But I think his idea like if you're honest, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what he right. Well, yeah, I think probably works
Yeah, they definitely worked
Nears were certainly feeding off the energy. I could see that. He was
So of course next step top four stage finals
I actually took the top four stage finals
I actually don't want to ask you about stage finals because I think I know what you're gonna say you're gonna say
Yeah, we really think we can take it. We're like we've done this a million times
I want to ask you I want to take a step forward
I want to I don't want to take anything for granted
But if you guys do make it to the e-sports world cup, it's gonna be in Paris now
It seems like only yesterday you went to Paris. Did you have a good time?
You made top 12 out of six invitational would you be excited to go back to Paris not just of course to go to
But to actually experience that city that you've now been to at least once before.
To be honest, I'm kind of hyped.
The both various experiences I had was like both good experiences in Invitational 2021
and right now in this last Invitational.
And I kind of liked French food, you know, croissant and everything.
Even this cargo a little bit.
So yeah, we hope and I hope to make it one more time to play
One more good tournament in Paris.
Yeah, one more good tournament. That sounds very ominous. You're not leaving us, are you, Falls?
Nah, nah, nah. I hope not.
Good. You're not allowed to leave yet, mate. We still have a lot of siege to come from you.
I'm gonna give you the mic. To cap off the group stage, it's our final game of the night.
I want you to say goodbye to the group stage and of course your fans that have been following you
supporting B plus along the way. Yeah, it was an up and down group stage. I think I'm happy,
you know, we were able to fix a lot of things to find a lot of like small spots that can
get us problem for it. So I think it was a good in general. And yeah, like one more time to say
thank you for D plus as always, and for friends and family that are watching us. For being like
We stay a lot of a big amount of the year, I don't know if the English is correct, but
a big amount of time far away from Brazil. It's kind of rough being away from friends and family,
but they are always supporting us, sending a lot of messages and watching all the games,
so it's very helpful. Thank you all. And also the Plans fans, they send a lot of messages too,
Like in social media. Oh, yeah, good station. I hope to see you guys on more games in playoffs. Let's hope
Yeah, I'd be very surprised if we don't get to talk to you in the playoffs
We'll see you then falls enjoy a few days off and we'll see you next week
Bye bye guys
No, I just cannot get enough of that guy on the interviews like you say it's quite funny
like the contrast between how nice and humble Falls is on his interviews and then Nia's being a little gremlin in the old chat
And he doesn't even realize because he's a chat is this small
Yeah, great time. Of course. We only had one MVP of the day. I actually haven't got a preview of who is yet
I think I have a sneaky suspicion
MVP on the day come on show it to you. He's made it to the stage finals
It's Neenah!
And we can't even see his kills here, but what, he got 17 kills, I think, in his match earlier today?
Many kills.
Many, many kills.
235 EPS, utterly unbelievable, six multi-kills, and 100% KLSD.
Every single round he's having a big impact.
Neenah was the star of the show against Trippie, and this was such an important game.
Thank you. If Skars hadn't won this in regulation, then Fear X would be going to the stage finals,
and Scars would be missing it.
Well exactly, I mean the thing is, I think each and every look at this match they only
won because Nina was popping off, but to be completely honest here, even if Nina hadn't
gotten all these mid round kills in early openings, the rest of Scars was right there
to back him off and working together with him.
And I think that Scars, their team, because they had Reknir for such a long time, they
understand that when someone's having a pop off date, you give them space.
You want this gun?
You play that operator.
You want me to hold an angle for you?
I'll hold that angle.
They will let their star player shine and just work around them.
Yeah, yeah, very much so our final day of A back north actually kind of ended up being
a lot more cut and dried than we expected as we review our games of the day with a 7-1
for double rx making sure that they do not end up at the bottom of the standings and then a 7-0
for scars with Nina going absolutely insane and really it was the scars result and the D plus
result that ended up determining our final standings. Let's talk together as well,
the world. Yeah. Well, okay,
by Varel, debuting with their
new sponsorship of the org by
barrel and kid of sadly not
being able to fight them.
Really the disappointment
today was probably mostly in
fear X's case, but also just
the Koreans in general, man
like Trippy and B and K fear
access between two Korean
teams only get two rounds in a
whole day, neither of which
making it to the playoffs. And
progress. Yeah, and like you
actually not just making some
for the login that second
spot because it just over took
intro at the very end. Not
you know, the big difference
is that I had a bracket.
There's gonna, um, upper
bracket and lowers. You can
afford to lose a series.
Overall, as I said, super
excited. I think these four
teams, they mix up quite well
and also play a very different
style between each other. Um,
I'm a little bit more excited
now for the plus and falls in
particular, like both hearing
mistakes now they can solve the problems be strong for playoffs just seeing how
easily it beat being a few x actually they're going to be at a higher level
than I initially thought the playoffs yeah for sure well I mean with that said
and done thank you with actually finished not just a pack north group stage
but all of the APL group stage we have our top four teams from Oceania from Asia
and now from north as well we know who will be seeing next week fight for those
very few and highly coveted spots at the e-sports World Cup, two spots going to OCE, just one for Asia and of course only one as well for APAC North.
That's it for the night, but of course make sure you guys tune in to APL Stage Finals starting next week. We'll see you there.