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Every loss meant something more.
Look at this!
That's the sign!
They've strung this crowd!
It reminded us that victory is never wasted.
The world tested us.
Now they know who we are.
The champions are made enough to make it.
Everything here is up.
Not given.
It is the final day of NAL Grooves where we have three teams fighting, literally two
remaining spots for the playoffs.
My name is Edelby, your host for today.
Once again, take it over for Jonah,
and joining me in the studio, we have Mint and Alexing.
Do we feel attention-rising,
or do we think it's pretty set in stone
who's gonna get those last two spots?
I mean, I don't wanna jinx anything.
After yesterday and all the prep that we did
for some of those matches,
and hope that they were gonna deliver,
they absolutely didn't.
So, I don't wanna say anything,
I'm just hoping for a good day.
I don't think we're gonna talk much.
We're just gonna, let's just go right to the games.
We're not jinxing anything.
Yeah, we're not trying to cast or curse anything here
for our teams, of course.
The earlier games today will really impact the results
what's going to happen later and who still is eligible to make it into playoffs. But before we
dive into the final day, let's review what happened yesterday, except we will not be reviewing any
games or review something else. And they all related what happened yesterday. We saw Jesse get
married to his partner, obviously big congratulations to him and his partner. Beautiful stuff and
paired that together with Parker's birthday. I feel like that's a very valid excuse not to show up
to work yesterday. Parker somehow had to find his way in there to still make it about him,
but obviously big congratulations over to Jesse and his partner. Super happy for you guys.
Yeah, Parker probably brought it up. Guys, it's my birthday, but I'm still here, of course,
but yeah, absolutely. Congratulations, Jesse. It's very cute. Obviously, wonderful to see that
happening within the NAL, but let's focus on what we're here for today as well with our standings.
To really tell you how things are shaping up so far in our league after eight playdays,
we still see MAT undefeated. They're pretty much locked in first in the group as well.
Yeah, they absolutely are.
I mean, it's pretty top heavy,
but something that we saw yesterday
was now that gap is being lengthened
based off some of those wins.
Yesterday with cloud nine losing to four fun,
it's still an arms race to get the fifth and sixth spot.
But again, some of those games or one game,
rather, could really determine the outcome.
That's a big one you pointed out there right there.
I made it on top that S tier team that
lacks kind of pulled out.
A plus for you.
I said A plus.
Now I'm going to say it's S tier.
And you know, they have a chance to go undefeated.
You know, the last team that went undefeated in the NAL was back in stage two last year, and that actually was M80, the old hot and cold roster.
So, Savage's got a chance to match it today.
And we know what happened after that as well, right? The international event that came after that, they won that.
So, if there's a chance for them to replicate it, it starts here today.
We're playing up in that first match against Walker, which isn't the easiest match to defend that top position and that undefeated one as well.
But looking at it further from match two, it's where it's really going to start to happen.
That's the one that I was kind of hinting at the cloud nine versus dark zero cloud nine is their last chance
They need those three points and we do have kind of give you a little bit of an understanding of what's going to take place here
Once that match does deliver for cloud nine. They need the three points
There is no exceptions from there if they get three points
Then it's kind of relying on how the other games and their outcomes go
But if they do get eliminated they can't get those three points
It will auto qualify both Shopify rebellion and for fun e-sports going forward for the rest of the day
So big implications for that second game. That's game two. I believe right? Yes
Yeah, that's that's that is the big one today, right?
Everything is falling into place all on the hopes of cloud nine and they have them. They have a monster of an opponent
They they have to face. I'm sure we'll talk about that later. Yeah
Yesterday, they want to come back and have the same treatment. I was going to say that mean me if it was like, uh, you know
Outlast game or something you would count them a little bit more fortunate in that batch up to get three points
actually, but this one really is going to be tough for them. But that is as you guys already alluded to our second matchup
of the day before we get that. We have some display of absolute class within the NAL with the number one going up against the number
three. We're talking MAT versus Vile Carden. As we said, MAT, a serious chance for them to go undefeated in this stage, and the
big thing is, I think a lot of people, maybe you two included, wouldn't have said that at the beginning of the stage, given the roster
change that they made with Han-Kul leaving the roster and Savage being picked up. We saw his potential in the email, but it's actually
work it out for the team. Well you at least called the nest here. I was I was
hate watching and I think rightfully so I have obviously hot and cold is my
favorite player of all time having teamed with him for a extremely long time
and I was I was skeptical but I was skeptical for the right reasons in the
sense of M80 they just historically they make more roster moves than any other
team in the NAL which I mean if you're a fan of M80 great that means your team
is always going to be in contention at least because Marco is not going to be
afraid to kind of go out and get some players and shake it up a little bit and
That's exactly what happened.
They removed hot and cold from the roster.
And truly, me being a secret fan as well,
I don't think there's anyone more perfect
to replace hot and cold,
now that I've had some time to really ingest it.
Then Savage, right?
Savage, what was M80's problems with hot, cold, and roster?
They didn't have a shield player
because they got rid of Kino.
They forced hot and cold onto the shields.
Savage has that experience IGN-ing as a shield player
and completely fills their roles.
They're also able to move some of the right pieces
on defense, Ashen, now a full-roamer,
the fuser being moved to site, which I like a lot more.
So they have a little bit more flexibility in their roster.
He's also a strategic guy from what I've heard about Savage.
He's the one kind of doing all of the strat work
from his time, even way back at Secret.
And I do feel like Emmity was kind of missing that as well,
just because Fabian, the great coach,
one of the probably best coach of all time,
but he isn't known to be the most strategic guy.
And I know a lot of their strategy stuff
is usually the whole team kind of pitches in.
So Savage coming in here again,
having that strong leadership personality that he does
is able to kind of put everything into the place.
Yeah, big one for me is just what you were saying.
Everyone looks a little more fluid in their roles
and it's definitely a pleasure seeing Ash
and more in a roaming style, more aggressive play
instead of forcing him onto a shield
or forcing him to play more passive.
Cause that's just not his nature.
It's not to say that he can't do it,
but he absolutely thrives in the environment
when he can get aggressive,
when he can pick and prod around the map
and open up rounds and find those gaps.
So very happy to see the fluidity that this team has, and definitely need it.
Yeah, I guess we can say there's silence in the haters so far.
I mean, especially for you here, been talking about them as well, and talking about the great length
of everything that they've been able to achieve so far in this season.
It would be a great accomplishment for them to go, well, not just flawless
because they haven't got those overtime games, but to go undefeated.
And speaking of their opponents, we think, you know, stylistically or gameplan-wise,
if there is any team to finally take this team down, it should be Wildcard.
Yeah, it definitely should be wild card and I only say that it might be a little bit of a stretch given you know the
Given the history of what just happened yesterday wild card, but look at their match against easy
That was a very anticipated game
We knew it was going to be close everyone put their chips on DZ to win that series
But once we heard what spiker said in the interview is when they were on that defensive half
They didn't care about having a flawless half that wasn't their goal
It was to get a couple rounds and then once they switched to their attack inside
That's how they knew how they were going to approach easy
They knew how they could push and pull and move the defense around that was gonna funnel them into gunfights
That was gonna put them in unwinnable situations and really just able to expose DZ in the second that side swap happened
That's where we really start started to see wild card showcase all their prep that they had and I have no doubt after their series yesterday
I'm losing and coming into this match against M80
They would be the one team
Realistically for me that could de-throne and stop the streak for M80 and give them their first loss
Yeah, and I'm glad you actually just touched on right there the prep work
I mean, that's why shout out to the goat this or the goner's their coach right that is why they're able to be inside
Every single matchup they're going to be competitive and I think that's a big reason why they've been able to figure out
Their domestic stuff right because internationally they are that prep heavy team that people used to think you know myself even on dark zero
We were all about where we're only good once it comes into like international events
We're best of trees because we are able to like prep that's kind of how wild card has been because the goddess is such heavy on the prep
but spikers been included.
Bay is very included in the prep as well,
so it's great to see right now
they have those domestic problems kind of figured out
and a win here could be really good
for their confidence going into playoffs.
Yeah, not just their confidence as well.
If you think about the greater scheme of things here
for Amethy they're locked in first.
They can't really change anything for that,
but given that we do see Wild Cardon 17 points right now,
should they come away from this matchup without any points?
There is a chance for 100 thieves to overtake them later
and that means they would face Amethy
in that first round of playoffs.
Yeah, and realistically, I mean, wherever you find yourself,
in fact, the matter is you're just happy to be in playoffs.
You get one win, you're in a good situation
where then you can end up qualifying for EWC.
So even for wildcard situation here,
the best they can do is second,
and they're going to go against that third place.
And then possibly if they get knocked down,
then they're in the fourth, like you said,
they go against M80.
But again, realistically, and being a former player,
you just want to make playoffs.
And if you're an upper bracket,
you have that little bit of extra cushion
where if you do lose, now your back is against the wall,
and you still have that fighting chance to still qualify.
So I know for them, they're just happy that they made playoffs and hoping that they can
possibly overcome this M80 roster.
They are just happy.
It's also like, who do you really want to play against?
Either way, you're playing against M80 realistically or DZ.
I mean, they did beat DZ, so they probably do want to hang on to that third seed.
You could argue that maybe this is kind of important for them because, again, they have
that kind of historically, they were able to beat them.
And just happy to be there.
I guess we could say that for the guy on your screen right now as well, speaking to us
in the interview yesterday, talking a little less smack than I guess we would have hoped
from him here, but of course, after that 7-0, confidence really must be for them, but they
seem to be so locked into this one too.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I think that's also a very scary thing, because I mean, as much as they are going flawless,
to beat the teams the way that they're beating them, especially beating the way that they
beat DarkZero yesterday, and I want to contribute.
I don't want to discredit DarkZero.
I thought they were trying their absolute best, but M80 was just so responsive yesterday.
They understood exactly what DZ was going to go for, and how they were going to counter.
They were using the information very well, being able to play their trade game significantly
well.
And it was really constantly forcing DZ's hand time and time again, where they were
just able to eat that up.
When you lose a 7-0, that's not just on one single player.
That's on the entire team's dynamic, falling apart, and M80 was crushing them.
Did you see that there?
I think Ashton was trying to mesh with 7th's computer there, trying to maybe make sure
this is another 7-0 year, or what's going on.
I have a possibility.
I mean, probably they're a little bit more looser on this game.
I don't know where they're playing out of.
It looks like some like college university or something,
but a little boot camp situation.
I don't think they have convenient,
maybe for playoffs, they'll have them.
Logs, I wanted to actually ask you,
do you think this is kind of like a honeymoon period
that we're seeing with Savage joining?
Or you actually think like right now,
this is the most locked in M80 version
where we've seen them.
They're actually contenders right now.
It's always hard to say, right?
Because I mean, you know what it's like.
Sometimes you just hit those strides right away
with newer players.
It revitalizes everyone.
Everyone wants to show up, everyone wants to perform.
So they bet, so they put their best foot forward.
And we spoke with Savage talking about,
you guys haven't lost yet, is that kind of worrisome?
Because you don't want to lose in the playoffs.
You don't want to lose when all the pressure's there.
You want to lose earlier on so you can fix those issues.
And they haven't really hit that road yet.
And we've seen some teams,
once they finally do get that first loss,
it really hits them hard.
Do I think that they're going to be able to bounce back
if they do lose today?
Absolutely, but still,
do I think it's a honeymoon phase?
I don't know a lot.
I mean, when you look at the majority of the players
where they came from. It's hard to say that this is a honeymoon phase and then in some aspects it
could easily be. I had to ask as a former hate watcher but you do look like you said you look
at the town on the team like they should be performing like this and I have such high respect
for Savage and the rest of the guys too that they're going to be able to kind of make this work.
I could argue Wildcard maybe it's a little bit of a honeymoon phase for whatever reason well not
for whatever reason they're actually able to play with Adrian it's the first time that they actually
qualified for a playoff early so maybe you could contribute a little bit of a honeymoon phase there
But again, for the MAD point.
Yeah, I mean, for them, I do worry though, because they're having that domestic success
again, like what is it going to be like on playoffs, like are they going to be just as
locked and if they are to actually go in internationally, like, yeah, has anything changed?
Have they now just figured out how to play domestically, right?
These are all the questions that maybe chatters might be kind of asking and we have to sit
on our streams and answer.
Now, as a former player, do I really think that's actually a thing?
No, I don't.
people are wondering right like hey they kind of got it domestically how are
they gonna how are they gonna handle now best of three is surely going to
test that as well once we go into playoffs but as you can see no other
players have made it to the playroom yes we can really saw the on the side of
M80 gives us some time to talk about the map veto and the map they were going to
be seeing for both these teams is final best of one in here like that was a
happy or a sad I feel a little more confident for I understand for it well
Well, for both these teams, realistically, I mean, if you look at it, maybe they did have a very close series with cloud nine, seven, five beating them.
And then for the side for wild card, they lost to SR five, seven.
So in both scenarios, either one round fixes a solution where you go into overtime, then it could really be up for grabs at that point.
But if you're going to go to a map, you don't want to show anything off.
I believe these are one of their most banned maps for both of these teams.
However, so again, not really trying to show anything.
I don't think we're going to see a lot of clubhouse maybe in playoffs, maybe for the side of it, maybe possibly more for the side of wild card.
But I do think this is a good proving ground
to just end the stage, not have to showcase anything.
There's nothing that you're going to bring to the table
that any team is going to go back, look in the bottom,
be like, hey, let's attack this if we see them in the future.
Yeah, I mean, I feel like I've referenced this before,
but this is basically our dust in seed,
the most default map that there is.
And I do actually think we're kind of getting maybe possibly
a blueprint here.
I think this is actually a good map pick for Wildcard,
because we're taking a maybe to a map that is default.
And maybe it kind of takes away from some
of their different styles of play.
fast shield plays and things like that.
So we might see them have to play more utility-based.
Maybe this could be a map that could be exposed on them
into the future if we're looking at it at the playoffs.
I think that's a little bit of a stretch.
I'm going to stretch it out.
I mean, Wildcard, I do think it has been a better utility-based
team, the Capitown and the Grimm.
So this could be their advantage.
I like how we're still talking about these teams so much.
I mean, they are some of our top teams in the NAL.
But it's time we get them at start.
It's time we bring in our casters for today.
Gulls and Xenox are joining us.
I'm glad you two are here because I no longer feel like the only outsider as we're turned
to sport has a little bit more worldwide, but it is really early for you guys know
It is yeah, I was gonna say good morning to my fellow Americans and and it is four in the morning at
the moment and unfortunately for us all sees as well because the soccer isn't just started so
conflicting interests but clearly excited for today and nail to wrap things up for the regular
part of the stage and also you know hearing about the discussion when it comes to m80 like what a
the tournament from kickoff. I think just being able to revitalize, get themselves back
into a good position. It's been a wonderful regular season, but clearly the goal and the
price is going to be to get to EWC.
Yeah. I mean, I'm very much getting a sort of 20-25 stage two vibe from MAD at the moment.
We know how good that group stage was for them. Of course, the playoffs was a whole different
story, but they went on to do great things at Munich, of course, and that's not to be
discounted. They're looking really good at the moment. A good rep for them, but for Wildcard
as well, a good opportunity to flex their muscles a bit this afternoon as well.
It is. Yeah. And despite it being 4am for you guys, I'm glad that we start the day off with a match between the number one and the number three in NAL.
It is ready to go.
That's one way to kind of kick the morning off, guys. Wake you up.
Talk about a bounce back for MAED this day so far. Completely undefeated.
I think for me, this is the kind of team that we expected back in kickoff.
We were kind of left wondering where they went. Well, we've refound them.
opportunity for them to potentially be jumped if they do fail to get points on the board in this matchup. Again, as likes counted, it probably isn't going to be hugely influential, but if anything, it's a big confidence building opportunity for Wildcard.
Yeah, of course, what you're referring to is if Wildcard do lose this game and 100 thieves go on and win their respective match today against SSG, which I would frame it as the more likely of the two outcomes.
There's a probably higher chance that M80 will likely go on to win this get there the favorites for a reason
We saw that with the social prediction vote as well
And I think it's safe the same as well for 100 these which does leave this out funnily enough being a game in which you would then have
the one seed versus the four seed again for playoffs so
We usually go into these kind of matches with playoff
Sider things in the next week or so to come
and you pick it up, you hold things back, do you want to play maybe maps that you won't
necessarily want to play in a Vestor 3.
And so you can't factor a lot of those decision making moments into a game like this.
I wouldn't call this result whatever happens.
I wouldn't give it too much in the grander scheme of things.
You know, you're going to get a lot more out of the result if they play a turn later in
play-offs than you would from this Vestor 1.
fun way to close off the stage if you M80 the seed you can leave the ego flaws
Yeah, again for both teams
I think the quality of the stage in this matchup as well
It's gonna be a really nice way to start getting ready for that playoffs bracket
So these two squads the bangs for this first half bandit mirror firm Havana
There was a bit of discussion on the desk regarding that you tool usage on clubs such classic map for that layering to be really
important for the attack and so M80 are going to have all of those tools available at the
cost of losing hard breach potential but they can make up for that by util layering, shields,
art, etc. They can take space in some slightly alternate manners and of course they discount
the impact that the secondary breaches are already having as we can see over the last
two days in a row.
I saw there was a little bit of a highlight as well to Hash and from the desk in terms
of the stage he's had so far is the number one road to play in North America. Not too
much of a surprise considering the caliber of player that he's been over the last couple of years,
but certainly to take that number one natural so far. This stage I think is a really good step
in his career, paying dividends for the team as a whole. And maybe on the attack to begin in his
first half, I definitely agree with the sentiment when it comes to clubhouse being kind of like the
dust all the way by six. In some ways I think Oregon was a little bit like the dust originally,
That's Tread's first tower in the fourth house.
Climax is in his third hitters.
Oregon's in the right option.
Yeah, yeah, probably.
60% defensive win rate.
Kenson does get the opening kill,
so expecting Wildcard to start wallowing this first half.
Yeah, looking pretty comfortable here.
M80 will need to leverage the Monty pretty drastically
for the remainder of this particular round.
Space taking, Cash, Wildcard with Peering.
And they'll be looking to lean into the double Nitro line
if they have late Zerdo, it can be used to disperse
and three gas babes as well so the denial potential in terms of space and time and stall out here from wild card
Is very very strong with 60 on the clock. They also have the offside potential baby shark awesome currently
And maybe we're probably just look to console it in here
We've to get a bit of value from the jacuzzi pinch potentially. That's gonna sets the cam 90
unfortunately, though for
I'll leave the kill for you.
Pistol, that was quite connect gunner.
That pistol shot does connect though by a Savage onto Adrien, a sign of life.
30 seconds left in the round, but Savage not accounting for Bay, still sitting inside the bedroom.
Yellow ping should be an easy kill and it's 3 in the round for Bay while I can't take the opening round.
I was going to touch on it as well, that side.
Jim Bedroom in the North American region is the most attack a sight at sight.
So that's a big tick already for Wildcard, sitting at 58% attack or win rate.
That was an early chance being afforded to M80.
And Wildcard passed that.
Now when you think about church, you think about CCTV and cash later on.
Well, those particular sites sit at 74% and 68% respectively for defense favor.
That's a good way to start now for Wildcard to see if they can get three on the board to begin.
I'm going to shoot to see if that attack defense split, if that Delta maybe reduces a little bit in at least this first half.
I think it's expected to given those hard breach bans in some circumstances.
It is going to be reliant on M80 to pivot accordingly, try and find other openings and opportunities and playmaking chances that they can try to capitalise upon.
in that first ground wildcard. Sharp first pick, they lose some of that large reach potential,
but mainly really a gun, they then get to consolidate. The wildcard has already successfully
peeled, they could use it, they could play into lane, they was clearly sharp on his ankle work
side. That's really just a strong start and a bit of a statement round from Wildcard.
N80 obviously showing phenomenal skill over the course of the last couple of weeks and
And again, this is a good grab and a good opportunity for them to maybe be tested.
And to show us what they've got in terms of resilience.
It is best of one. They're already confirmed for first.
It doesn't mean a whole lot outside of really just the mental factor
and the confidence factor for these guys who are going to want to walk away from today
the same they had, again, another flawless stage.
Yeah, I think the last time M80 were truly tested as well at this stage.
You're gonna go back to June 26th against Shopify Rebellion, that was 75, 33, first half.
Yeah, since then they've had relatively comfortable results.
You just kind of hope, I guess, for M80s sake, it doesn't lull them into that sense of security,
top spot locked up, you know, playoff's good position, being a great stage.
It is easy to kind of come into a match like this and not maybe then play 110% and have that hunger.
It is everyone around, but you could definitely give Lee Wei either side the game like this.
They get extension over with the Tachanka, Caution CCTV, Gavin finds the earl of Picthor
and Defuser with a quick follow up.
Well a much better start to the round for M80.
Kansan needed to get that next kill and wins the second battle from Bantrum as well.
Good double from Kansan but they do lose.
That's a Tachanka of Adrian and it does leave Bay and Kansan somewhat split.
2v3's Barth low health for both Defuser and Ashen but Defuser hits the headshot onto Kansan
They can't win his battle and 80 strike back quickly in the second round to tie it up.
What a piece.
Yeah, clearly wild card playing very reactive to the first pick of these initial rounds,
whether it be for or against.
Last time we saw the peel, we saw the consolidation site, the anchor work all spot on.
They flick the switch entirely there in round two to try and adapt to Spiker falling.
They just go full aggro on the on the bedroom side of the map.
They want to contest as much of that control as they possibly can, try, and at least equalize
numbers.
It almost worked.
The swing from Baby Shark Jikuzi, again, may look a little bit sloppy at first glance,
but he's trying to get proactive, trying to catch the diffuser off guard outside.
And unfortunately, that fight doesn't go his way.
You flip that, the narrative of the round can play out very, very differently.
They would have had more of a foothold on the opposing side of the map, and probably
would have stalled out a bit of the progression there from M80.
But should have credited their matey, they were ready.
When Wildcard tried to pounce, they trapped them.
So they're doing some really good work there in that response to attack.
And so top floor will now be vacated.
We go down to basement for the third round and Wildcard will commit to an extensive run.
He's getting up for an extensive run.
We'll see how much they actually want to commit to it.
Typically with a lineup such as this it's pretty easy to eventually have that fallback option fallback play site
Looking at their positions. I mean, yeah, you can only want to keep control of red stairs secret
Have that ability to rotate back down to basement garage. You can also go oil pit
But we have baby shark everywards con so I do wonder what the escape routes gonna be for him drop hatch back down red
By the way, they are committing to at least start this round and you can see
Splak is over the wall secret as well so he's just kind of watching that window
make sure that M80 don't get that sort of control enables that push back down
red stairs for wildcard if they still want to choose to fall back to M80 though
they're choosing to go pretty direct straight down bot main, open up the barricade
trying to maybe force these defensive roamers back to site early.
Yeah it is a 3-2 split though at least for now and it won't be for much longer with
Wildcard now rotating back, Baby Shark left the garage, he's the only one now on the first floor, now basement himself, and maybe he haven't necessarily been able to push down long or through short to motor just yet, they've been stood out a little bit here, but main or at least taken their time to settle, and maybe try and catch one of these rooms off guard, but evidently is, of course, we have the privilege of seeing the outlines in the player position, Wildcard not elected to go for that instead will anchor on the objective, and it's banging against him.
to find another keypick. Interesting round as well they had Gunner on the
sledge pushing dirt rather than playing that sort of kitchen ball away open up
with the sledge hammer get that vert and then Sam is just a little bit too
forward at bop main gives wild card a look in Bay with his second of the round
and Lashen does find a nice kill he's gonna need all five but he's gonna win
this round for M80 the flames won't deter him he pushes towards the fire
finds that kill on to spiker and suddenly it's a one versus three two of
those low on health. Ashen, this is certainly doable, has the time as well to not panic.
Double stack towards blue, leaves Adrien by himself inside of Arsenal. He can watch the
cross. They want Ashen to push forward. In a long angle, how old here can Ashen unlock
it 40 seconds on the clock to try and probably solve?
Oh, I tell you what, if he had got that one tap, but he does kind of get the cross. Still
a little bit of time remaining. Has also isolated one, knows there should be two towards blue.
tag on to Kansan. All three of them. One body shot will do the job. This could be an early
moment play, but it's the night. Baby Shark gets the angle from Blue. Wildcard will hold on to the
round. There's a really respectable effort there from Ashton. How many times do we see players in
1vx situations either take too long and then essentially throw the towel in without little
effort or regard and try to problem solve it? He did the complete opposite in that situation,
had a great read, whether it was just an 8 or info based, tried to utilize a bit of utility,
had a read on the cross and did isolate the first pick. Unfortunately, it wasn't rewarded with the
down. Even if it was, the same cross would have been basically in effect with the double stack
blue, but nonetheless a good attempt. Good response though from Wildcard, who are very much keeping
M80 honest in the first third of these rounds, right? We saw Kansan back in round one with good
good work on to Ashen, taking down one of the best players in the league at the moment.
We see it here again in round three with Bay dropping the Blackbeard, which is certainly
one of the trickier operators to typically take out an entry, and even back in the second
round they lost the tempo and the aggression and the proactive play from the wild-part
defence has been very evident. So, been fun to watch. Probably one of the more dynamic
clubhouses I've had the privilege of watching for a little while, so that's always nice.
As we enter round 4, it's the Kaid and the Snape of the board.
And we find ourselves all the way back to where we began.
Jim Bedford, 2-1.
Ava or Wildcard.
As he taps on the band, he's just down a little bit extra clarity.
So let's take the plant 2 of the 3 rounds.
As for the Kaid, we're featured in all 3 rounds of Wildcard, so that's going to be a loss for them.
Last time out on this side, back in the open ground, I don't think there was really too
much strategic attack to the round they made.
They kind of just threw a lot of lives away towards the site.
Curiosity is going to be a flight of the gun and how he wants to play on the nook.
Open towards garage at the moment, but the nook can very much push up main, try and create
pressure.
In that department, but for now it seems like he kind of wants to
Be a solo lurk towards cash and CCTV knowing that there's going to be this extension towards cash from consign
Instead of bringing all the attack over to push them back
They want to see if gunner can actually just slip in and find a pick while they're not expecting it
He does get caught out by bay all too comfortably bay was kind of itchy on the defense
He wanted to push over the cc window and in the end he finds gunner
Babe is just continuously putting himself in the right place at the right time and executing and he's been
Phenomenal for wildcard so far will aggress over towards garage could then be in a position to contest rafters as well
Like capital lightly keeping that honest
It does so jump out from cans it also nets it down whether he knows it or not. So it's temporarily advantage. I'm 80
Easy. Kill for Ashen towards bathroom baby shark.
Unsuspecting.
We're cans and down on 2v2.
Adrian and Spliker. They're bringing it back and Spliker gets all three at the end to close it.
Wildcard. Able to overcome that pressure from M80. This time they secure Jim Bedroom.
That was nice. Again the anchor play from Wildcard is so good so far.
Yeah, you could argue there for a moment I looked at the little dicey baby shark got caught by the lurk in from I believe Ashen who went unchecked jacuzzi side
But then they sprung into action which to me screams that the comms and the composure from the rest of the team were good they didn't get too flustered
Baby shark presumably if he knew where he got killed from called it immediately then the rest of the team could spring into action
And they're again able to withhold and withstand that pressure from M80 which has been pretty relentless so far
But to the credit of our car they may maintain with side control and look back at the round gonna fell first unchecked
They try to contest from garage was coming from Gavin in the meantime. I'm actually able to charge deep it
spike up
Just a training and all three there at the end great little clip
And Wildcard are up 3 to 1.
Yeah, I mean so far they're doing a pretty good job.
Defense on Clubhouse is going to be where you want to get majority of your rounds
and certainly play your best siege.
And then on the attack inside if you can nail at least 4 rounds of your Wildcard
then you've got a bit of room to breathe going into that second half on your own attack.
I see the T'Chanker again here from Adrian.
Last time out this side actually wants to use those wards, that gym bedroom side of the map just to delay and
not enable M80 to facilitate that push in from Jacuzzi's side.
It looks like he's gonna play that again towards logistics.
Wildcard have shown pretty high tendency so far on clubhouse on the top floor to really extend out the whole floor and be active.
rather than what we typically see like for example Jim bedroom with the cash
CCTV hold is it's more defensive right now they're showing a little bit of
aggression in a lot of these positions they're happy to push up they're happy
to take space happy to take fights yeah gonna again trying to go for a lurk
entry secret side and plashing heads with Bay once more who was able to inflict
quite a bit of damage and we'll keep going on this for the remainder of the
could never find himself trapped though. See if it's stacked from MAD.
And it's into the back bit here for Bay, so this is a tricky position for him to try and contest.
I don't know if he'll get assistance.
Well, Bay's gonna push forward into the flash to avoid the frag grenade,
and somehow, nothing really adventuates from it until he swings back out again.
Savage collects the first kill, and he's opening for MAD in this fifth round.
halfway through the round. Just still having cleared out Spiker though, he's
being able to fall back downplay this rafter's position. Don't forget you still got
H-Jane as well on this DeChanka. Can very much help out this rafter's hold.
Yeah they also invested a lot of utility there on to base so presuming this set
isn't perfect there might be a chance that the white gun hold rafters and that will get
confidence to spike a 60 seconds on the clock. Re-position savage now chunks low
taken down. Sixth day on the clock and Spike is in a good position. His blitz is good. At least the
first of that Utah belt from Defuser outputs. Yeah, this compromised position for M80 doesn't look
pretty here with the lack of utility they have. They've got one made.
Flamebolt. Yeah, I mean they don't have a lot here to clear this.
But still before you can turn your attention elsewhere. Yeah, but Spike is thinking
get aggressive. He knows that they've run out of utility to clear his position.
And with so little time remaining, he can get active.
And Spike knows they're gonna go back and grab this kit as well.
He's played this sensationally.
I mean, he just don't have the time now surely to overcome a 3 vs 4.
How are you desperately thrown out by Ashen?
Has one more available Microsoft Rift thrown by Baby Shark?
And boy, does he get it through the gap.
This diffuser falls while Cod get round number 4.
They've got a 3 round lead over M80.
Yeah, that's a smart stage for Walcott in that round.
Bay absorbs a lot of utility.
I don't think it's unreasonable to think that he was able to communicate that, or at
least very close to the amount that was invested into his position, and then so Spiker Raft
is those.
There's very little to come his way if he can hold out against the capital, which he
did beautifully repositioned.
The Keeb is off of the protection that was required.
both flames were deployed it left M80 with very few wing conditions remaining in the round
they were probably relying on a red stairs creep or a main breach pull ashore something to unlock
site because rafters was after that going to be incredibly difficult to contest savage dying
again on the blackbeard certainly didn't help more than that nitro just some really good siege
across the board from wildcard in that round and i think they are fully deserved to be in this
in this 4-1 lead position.
And now that we've played the five rounds,
good sample of data as well.
Coming into this game, Wildcard are the best team
in the region when it comes to entry.
Gives us points on the entry.
In contrast, M80, by the way, minus three.
They're like six to eight.
One of the weakest points of their game
is actually getting those early fights to go their way.
But when they do, they're the best team at converting at 80%.
And so, that round then, M80 get a rare opening kill,
so far it's a 3-2 leading favorite wildcard
for that category, and they don't convert.
That's statistically unlikely for M80
across this stage so far.
So that's a huge roundup for wildcard,
plus the benefit, if you get to now go basement
to close this half-hour,
5-1 would be a significantly the wildcard.
So an investment again off-site here from Wildcard.
Hey, look at the activity though again from Wildcard, like they're just not playing this
to set in structured positions, they'll play them but then they're moving around.
Yeah, it's very fluid.
Certainly more fluid than you'd probably expect in a traditional club, Kansan though
does get caught and that's the risk.
If you can't get back to site, you fall, you're not going to be traded.
And now it gives M80 quite a buffer going forward.
And it may force the hands of the likes of Baby Shark now, second floor con,
to aggress and try and make a play back.
Or he could elect to wait for the patient go for flank.
If M80 don't fully commit to the map clear, that opens a route for him to have influence.
But clearly his flank is at least being hard-watched.
But now, and so Baby Shark's playmaking capacity is going to be pretty limited
until later in the round he's going to have to be very very patient all the rest of them
need to get the groundwork done for the site here.
You say patience I wonder if he's just spotted this drone it doesn't look like it.
It's going to know now that instead of falling back, it's going to push forward.
I think the problem with Baby Shark now is he doesn't actually know where a lot of this
pressure is going to come from.
You know there's one of the breach but just because there's one of the breach that doesn't
mean you won't swing it you think oh well they can easily push up main stairs, cut me
off from Khan, can I even safely get down red? Baby Shark knows he's on an island here.
How does he get back to site? How does he help out?
Pushing down blue, here comes Savage. Connects onto Bay, but Bay at least got the kill onto
Ashton before he also fell. Baby Shark's made his way through oil pit, so he'll make his
way in blue. Adrian stuck dirt. This is an incredibly winnable round for MA and if Baby
Shark needed that kill desperately, able to win out Adrian, can he swing to safety? He
lose his baby shark and Adrian cannot get out of dirt at all safe. It's a two to four half,
not too bad for M80 to get the two attacking rounds. Yeah, they'll be pretty pleased. Again,
good problem solving there. They made it difficult for Wildcard to peel back towards the objective,
which was a strength for them in that half while rewarded. And we've got a game in our hands heading
into the second half. I like that. Yeah, we do have a game on our hands here with how back and
for some of these rounds are but with wall card in the lead it really is their discipline and the
end of the rounds it was helping them get them around. Yeah absolutely in round three is no
exception to that the discipline that they show here was really well and honestly their game plan
unreinforcing all the church allows them to be able to wall bang the blitz I mean the black
beard and then just in this round right here one I also want to commend M80 the information here was
perfect for Ashton they knew where all the players were they were calling the player close right
near Ashton gets this kill they know two players are in blue one player's over by the bomb and
And again, information really good from MMI,
but the discipline was that much better
on the side of Wildcard,
just being able to hold their positions.
All players on one HP,
Aston is not a player you want to be able to give rounds
like this too, so to be able to have that composure,
be disciplined, win that round,
really well executed from them.
Yeah, I mean, I just want to touch on the game plan
a little bit, because you were just talking about
how good the Wildcard game plan was.
I mean, we look at the bands, what did they get rid of?
They got rid of the Thermite,
and they got rid of the Habana.
And with that Habana band,
I think they were expecting Mira to be up,
typically you're going to get rid of both of the wall denial and Habana's really good at countering the Mira.
That's okay. Mira gets banned on them. What do they pivot to? They had a very fast pivot. They started
abusing the Cade that was left up. The Cade 2 for the very first round and the Cade in the other
first three rounds as well. And that made M80 very telegraphed. They kept doing five-man overtakes.
When they were attacking Jim, it was just five guys from CapSide. They got an early pick on them.
They were able to slow and they kept layering. It was the same game plan that they used against DZ.
And then after the third band comes out, they got rid of the solid snake.
Sure, they lost their Kade, but it was just heroics at that point.
Spiker had two huge rounds, right?
That maybe they shouldn't have, but they're going to be lucky.
Definitely not their graph around.
Definitely not Garage.
Oh, definitely that.
But I think that's a big reason why they didn't ban the utility that we were talking about.
This is that utility-based map.
They left the Capitao up.
They left the Grimm up, but Defuser made a huge blunder with the Capitao.
He didn't shoot both of his Firebolts.
He didn't trap that player on the rafters,
and Spike was able to make a play.
Yeah, I'm curious to see what these bands are looking like here,
because I said I think they're going to get rid of at least one of the wall denials,
and then I think it's either going to be the Azami or Mir here,
or you said they're going to go for double wall.
It's going to be banded or Mir, because that's just what it always is on Club Owl.
I do like the Cat Band.
I do like that as well.
I think you could go Monty here.
Okay, all right.
Oh, okay.
Double wall now.
Yeah, utility operators, right?
That's going to be really good for executing the top floor bomb site and lower,
And then obviously the wall denial off the board. So we should see Mira getting used from m84
It basically acts as wall wall denial for those top floor sites, and we see it even getting pulled out for me
Yeah, which is also something you said on the attacking half for a major that they have this information
It's able to play off of that very wrong. So let's see if that continues in the second half because they're on the finish
three gets on the line
Well, it certainly is
Wildcard a very good half guys, but I think 5-1 is what they were really searching for on the overall
general play and finally enough M80 able to get those two attacking rounds and do so in a different way
Statistically, they're a very good team when it comes to plants best team in the region
They don't really get a lot of open kills well no plants in that part
But slightly open kills three to three converting on two of those in the end evidently by their score
So I chose the quality of M80 where it's probably the half that they weren't too happy with it
a lot of waves, but they still eked out the two rounds that were needed.
Yeah, we should see a pretty different side of Clubhouse though in the second half here with hard breach up,
but some of that U2 layering extracted as well as it will take an officer to the overall captain of the group band.
We'll see how Wildcard will adapt into that and not bring double firing,
and hard breach into at least this initial round with the Habana and the Ace.
That would be less of a problem, but late round being able to flush out players, crowd control, etc.
It's going to be tough, it's going to put a pretty large responsibility on the likes of Kanzan in this particular round on the Ying.
That utility is going to be super precious, and he'll need to ensure that he values that.
On the opposing side, M80, as I say that if he gets first picked up, peek from him.
So a good kill there onto Spy could use M80 advantage and an opportunity for him to have a drink.
At least I think that's what he was going to do.
M80 though will be able to be a little more relaxed now for the remainder of this round.
All five below. They can maybe look to impact trick a little,
but it's really not going to be a huge deal breaker in this particular round.
It's going to be about just making sure they're not isolated.
late round, and then being trained to position the team is the key factor for the defense.
This is the kind of moment where I'd love to have the more hardcore statistics of
basement club defense 5v4. What's that wind percentage? I'd have to imagine it'd be incredibly high.
It's this kind of site where if it's a 4v5 of every attack, it's still somewhere even. It's a very
difficult site to take when you're outnumbered now as the attack. I don't think the loss of the
striker is really all that groundbreaking. You still got a lot of the pieces on the board that
you would like to have in this round, but if you wildcard, certainly the cantalas from canton
are going to be effective, but you do have Ashton on the warden. Double hard breach is going to
create opportunities to open up all of the hatches, triple. Can't help but feel like with
Bay now over towards oil pit on the ash and he's gonna have to find at least
probably two kills pushing towards blue. It can't just be one and done.
And he also has the timeness. Yeah five out of the six rounds in this match
the open kill has been converted. I totally agree. Basement should be even
more challenging for the loser of that first pick to get their way back into
the ground. Bay's position now known baby shark. His position also known because
a killer good trade from Ashen.
Oh, wonderful second swing as well from Ashen,
but the glass is activated.
He had the confidence to swing blue, got them both.
Adrian's been able to even things up there
to a two versus two.
Kadele out as well from Kansan,
going for the point.
Adrian will walk to the cover.
Nitro's style does not get denied by Adrian,
but he does hit the headshot onto Gutter
and now it's a red time.
Needs to beat out Ashen into church.
Ashen is not giving up this fight.
Wonderful round from Ashen.
Yeah, somebody from the M80 had to make a huge play blue deny that the Bay and the baby shark lurk that could have been devastating
He did his job there late round M80 were calling for someone to deny plan over towards trip wall
again, he steps up with the perfect nitro cell and
Well, they're gonna M80 ask. Can you do one down and win the one versus one as well in red time?
And he's so sure I could do it all
And that's why he is one of if not arguably the best player in the NAL at the moment
That's a huge individual effort from Ashton certainly close more closer than close closer than comfortable
I can't get my words out as 5 a.m. Remember 4 m80 than they would have liked in that position again considering they got first pick
I think the position
And one card had to battle really really hard 30 seconds still a play down four versus two temporarily mind you
So m80 probably feeling as if they could refine things maybe a touch there at the end
but regardless of that, that's a big play from Ashton.
Yeah, I think any time it comes down to a 1v1,
you know, NICE try indeed is the right way to kind of frame that round
because considering they lost Spike pretty early on with the dirt run out,
it's a 4v5, and then in the end, it actually was 2 vs. 4
until Adrien was able to find the double.
It was also interesting, it took seven rounds,
but we finally got a close round.
You look at all the rounds that have played out and it's either three alive or four alive
It doesn't matter which team that's just how the rounds kind of played out
So there's been a lot of comfortability from the winning team in this match to tilt that round then and Asher was ready for the 4k and the 1v1
So guys the 9 and 5 down
Wildcard are gonna sense that scoreboard pressure the longer it takes for them to get an attacking round
CCTV will give them their second opportunity.
We'll see how M80 looks to set up on this particular side as expected.
The Murow for additional wall denial. They'll have to arch-a-roach play with the Fuse up.
up on the wall by and I'll of course be looking to play into that dance set with the cap and
the grim off the board it really does narrow the opportunities here for the attack if you
want to go garage side it requires extreme precision it's very difficult at the moment
though a lot of you tool is being laid on this portion of the map and elsewhere a potential
Jewel below baby shark on the solid snake
Ashen men
There's every world in which these two cross paths
Oh, Ashen's in a good position
Oh, baby shark unable to infiltrate through basement. It's another opening cure for air matey. Make that four straight rounds
Coming into this match with the negative
Differential when it comes to their opening engagements. It's been a straight the best in this match of podcast
Gammons just happy to just sit tucked in, eat the airjam after the shots at the doorway.
Good timing from him.
And then hits the headshot onto Kanzan.
Started to get a little worrisome right now for Wildcard.
It's only two rounds in with a half.
But now made it now on the verge of tying up the scoreboard 4 to 4 with a 5 vs 3 opportunity.
Got a does go down.
That next skill was so critical for Wildcard.
This next one too, needed.
Spiker able to achieve that with the headshot onto Stamage, but low on health.
So was Bay, he got finished off.
Adrien with a big kill, and Adrien's gonna need more as well as they push up Red.
The Razorbloom activates, funnily enough, he hit Ashton, but Ashton hits the headshot onto Spiker,
leaving Adrien in the 1 vs 2 to push up Red's stairs.
Gavin also there, 15 seconds.
And the smart move now for Gavin and Ashton is to fall back and allow Adrien to push up with so little time,
surely can't win this round.
to get the ball. It's not
flashy. But it's the right way
to play. If you are made. There
was no need to double sit top
red stairs, give him a chance
to hit. A transfer of shots.
Instead they played that
perfectly goes fell back,
looked at the time they would
have got yelled at fall back
fall back. They do that easy
round win four to four all
tied up. Good discipline
catch early from Ash and over the board's basement.
I can't say with certainty if he would have been in range
of the radar, if Baby Shark had have elected to use it.
Would have been borderline I think.
Either way though,
good early pick there from Ash and Uncontested.
The U2 dumped them from wild cargo,
a little bit exposed,
surely AirJab did here,
but Gav was able to withstand that.
There wasn't really a whole lot
in the way of follow-up utility from that position.
So, unlocking rafters was tough.
force to then send it through lounge and bread and again a lot of cards made a
good fight of it but ultimately M80 were too good there at the death of the
round
now equalize full force to all right and we head over to bedroom and gym to try
and break this draw at least for now it's been a yeah strong start to M80
defense that's off. A 4-1 lead by Wildcard, completely evaporated now, 3 straight for M80,
so they both take turns winning 3 in a row.
I was gonna say it's been a solid contribution from everyone inside the server,
but I saw Gunner as that 1-7, made up though by the fact that Ashton's 11 and 5.
In the 8 rounds play, I'm 62 right now in favour of defence.
Very much tells the tale of the tape to probably close the second half, M80's to lose, you know, based on what we've seen to begin.
And now as we head to gym bedroom, this becomes, I think arguably must win for Wildcard.
The most attack-as-side-aside on this map in this region.
After you've given up 3 straight to M80, this is where you need to be clinical. No mistakes.
Also, Cain's been able to successfully deploy two XOs in the round.
One eventually landing jacuzzi and then able to trickle a geeks here, a con wall as well.
That's his job done in terms of primary utility for this particular round, elsewhere spiked
with ranged and decache and so there's a couple of rats now open to wild card.
groundwork for Hardreach, it's being good. Although that is, to be fair, the expectation
with the kite and the bandit double band. The units will now be on M80 and reading this attack,
being able to formulate a response, knowing exactly where to position and where to expect
this push to eventually be headed from, or in the event that it gets split, being on their toes and
able to react. The user is in the hands of Spike, as they're suggesting it is garage side
initially, however, it looks like there could be a rotation out here, so there's been a decent
delivery of information, bait, life draining at the moment currently as well.
You can see a pretty significant kill from Wildfire here.
Need to do it quickly though when you consider the time.
Yeah. This is going to aid for M80.
Ashen just eats the call, so no more pressure can be applied to him by the Jagger payload of Amishark.
It's a fuse that goes down. Well, there's an opening pick. A rare one finally for Wildcard.
Pistol at the window. From Ashton connects again. This man cannot be stopped. It's been his stage.
Canson cleared easily by Gunner. Good switch trade from Adrian. He's been lively.
He's been one that has really stood up and the only one now still standing in Ashton 2 puts him on the floor.
has been the main man for M80 this stage, and it continues to the final playday of the regular stage.
They look hungry. They look very hungry to not drop a map this group stage.
It would be quite the feat. Again, as referenced earlier, they did it in 2025, Stage 2.
Oddly enough they did go on to lose the first game of the playoffs, but then of course made it through to the major and went on to have great success in Munich
Of course still a lot to be a
Lot to play out as to whether or not they can replicate that feat in respects to EWC
Tactical time out taken by wild card. They're now facing a four round loss streak three of which
on the side of attack for them and maybe have looked very tricky to break down
Ashen's been sharp strategically they're looking sound and maybe have had a
largely a very good read as the kind of hits that wildcard are looking to
execute and then are being well positioned to counter it. We'll see if this
quick chit chat can do anything to shift the momentum back in their favor.
Yeah, and I also think it comes not only at a really good time, but also after a round
where I don't think Plan A was really working.
You think about a late round pivot, the way that we saw it there, there was what, 40,
45 seconds left in the round and they started to shuffle the deck chairs a little bit.
Clearly something probably wasn't working the way they wanted.
And in the end, it didn't even really work out.
And nor did they look like potentially winning Jim Bedroom there again, three left alive.
Ashen was instrumental, played gym perfectly, denied any of the balcony window pressure.
The fact that you go on gym bedroom now as well, you probably very much want to be talking about
how to play this site. Otherwise it's looking like Six-Balls is going to be likely if they can't
turn it around out of the tactical time out. It looks like a big shift in mentality. They're
going to be bringing the Glaz this round. It will be the first time that we will see Glaz
here on clubhouse you know you can play glass I don't think it's an often pick at
least not to what we usually see when you're talking about pushing basement
but you can get you know potentially bottom aim push you can go blue side
push you can even layer that the smoke's pushing out of dirt so you do have the
options when it does come to the glass
I'll have four smokes this round to help aid it.
Let me throw in the yin as well.
The only thing coming back to me though is the fact that you've got the warden available.
So Gavin stays alive. He can have a huge impact in denying the
clear idea of what Wildcard want to do in this round.
There's an award in played in every round of this half so far.
Cast our minds back to round seven, the clutch from Ashen in 1v1
and then from that point on Winsor's been gavs main well shouldn't they band it
then instead of the is army knowing you're gonna be playing this sort of
lineup glass yank you just get rid of the warden
oh that chance well there you go that's one way to deal with the warden and
another one to follow up because gunner was running towards secret man that was
a strange moment there for gunner he gets caught running while I can't get the
opening two kills. Well, forget the set up. The operators don't matter at this point.
A little bit of a fight back into the side, but it's all just fallen apart from the beginning
for M80 as the plant is successful. Savage was stuck over the wolf lounge, hits the
gear jab, and then a 1v3 post plant for the low health savage. This seems like a monster
effort is required, because it is.
It would be a massive clutch and it ends abruptly.
That was a sharp round from Wildcard.
How much of that was pre-planned?
Chucky to say, but they hit the go button when they got the kill secret.
Nice sharp boost position.
Nets the kill.
In terms of the operators, I think I largely agree.
The impact in which they had in that round is pretty minimal, which is an outlier on
the site where it's often reliant on a lot of layering from the attack and the defense,
the 2-1 throw, the 5-0-5, the late-run execute, that round was anything but really, it's like
something you see in an Emerald Lobby, favourite that sharp shot, and they just hit the go-bottom.
I don't know if Gunner had already committed to the push at that point, if he had he got
caught out, if he didn't, to be fair he's trying to find the trade, but Wildcard was
so quick on it in that round hitting the gas pedal.
5-5, now the score line, it's the break point round, winner of this one, Lux in OT.
Yeah, with JMAD of course, they've only gone overtime once this stage.
The only blemish I guess if you want to call it that on their record, that was back in Planet 2
against Titan V, wanted out 8-6 on land.
I think regardless from here, considering with Playoffs on the horizon,
It's been a good game of your wildcard because M80 have just looked unstoppable through the group stage really.
And so at least in a match, at least for these two teams where there's clearly not a lot of ramifications, maybe a slightly little bit of wildcard,
you know you get a point here and it's actually going to be quite beneficial in securing that kind of either two or three position.
Just for you avoid M80 to begin with, 1v1 trade to begin does though remove the stands.
A big loss here for Wildcard on this site and what you'd like to do with the R&Us.
It's not ideal, it's not a good trade if you're Wildcard.
For the Womites, pretty good game.
And the Womites probably not that bad though.
Yeah, it's there, it's not too bad.
It should free up Rafters significantly here in terms of the layering for Wildcard.
Again, without the cap and the grim, this position is expected to be tough to clear, but with Noah's army and now no flying 4M80, that narrative could flip a little bit here.
There's every world in which, while kind of they've well positioned, and well timed the flashes, and the grenades in which they have available,
Gav could be put under the pump.
Enter.
Yeah.
There we go.
Well, they create a lot of that pressure from the breach as well.
Don't forget.
So he had to kind of wiggle his way a little bit further deeper over rafters
Back to go to hell Merritt the nitrous I'll didn't connect and I'll talk down with the extra man
And that's kind of step M80 back towards the side
They do still have one nitrous by the way and the three gaspates to from gunner and razor blooms from action
And the fact that action who's 15 and six is still alive
Have a feeling this rounds not done just yet walk hard in a good position
Yeah, we'll see if I can't select the posture for default here.
I think it's probably the most sensible option, bad action.
Finds agent. 3 vs 3, time will stop.
Well, the default's harder.
Without the ROUs of the stands, you lose a lot of that cutoff in terms of the line of sight.
Now, it doesn't matter too much because there's the nitro and the gaspades, but still it's something.
Even the rafter's entry point, I think, is compromised as well.
as well, keep in mind that there's double reinforcement. So with Spiker, Defuser outside,
he even needs to tuck close, or dash deep. This is a pretty volatile position for Wild
Park. Yeah, Spiker's pretty much got the memo, he needs to push up, be a little bit more
active rather than just holding the rappel. Savage, what a head shot from there on that
angle, but it's a trade. Kansan was able to then quickly deal with him anyway. Ashen,
he just can't miss. It's Ashen's world and we're all just living in it. What a huge
performance on the final day of groups again from the number one rated player in the region.
Ashton is putting on a show and has put MAD into match point. Wow.
Another big individual effort. And I think one of the most impressive things about Ashton,
at least in this match today, is his ability to often be alive and influential late round. And
I'm looking across at his survival rate currently and it's at 40% highest on the team. So he is
consistently being in position late round to still have influence, to have impact, to display
his mechanical skill. It's been really, really impressive to watch and that's a good fight back
in that round from M80. It looked a little dicey there, losing the Wamai early. Gav's position
was compromised rafters, got cleared by the air jab, but then with the hard bridge being
so technical and challenging in that round and the route towards the default being compromised,
M80 knew that and they played into it really, really well. They looked and now stabilized,
Fabian calls their tack timeout, one away from the regulation win.
Yeah, and just to sort of highlight just how impactful Ashen has been outside of the fact
18 and 6. Cool. Great KD numbers are relevant, right? In the grand scheme of things, they've had
four multi-kill rounds, MAD, he's got three of them. So he's been able to have impact massively
in at least three rounds, including one of those being the 1v1 clutch. So the only clutch we're
seeing in this game was Asher. He's dominated three of the four dominated rounds by MAD.
Then on top of that, he's got two opening kills and add that into the mix. He's got five, he's got
It's an 82% cost. No one else on M80 has above 55%. And no one else on M80 is even going positive on the KD ratio.
This has been a master class performance from Ashen. When you consider this as a 6-5 scoreline.
Now if it was 6-2 or 6-3, whatever, he's clearly the difference maker.
In a game that's 6-5, he's been the difference maker. Wildcard largely is a team. You look at their numbers.
Look at their numbers, you look at numbers across the board, they've been fine.
They're winning the entry battles, they've got relatively high cost percentages.
Two players are going positive, two are going neutral, and only the one negative, which
is Baby Shark at 6 and 8, like they've had a good game.
They've gotten the last three opening kills, but only converted on one of them.
Ashton has been the difference, certainly in these last two or three rounds.
There's the reason why they're leading match point.
And there also means that's the weakness here to close this out in regulation is that if
Ashen can't have impact, Wildcard then look the better team.
It's been hotly contested and there is a potential in which this is in some roundabout way a
curly razor for a rematch.
If 100thies are able to jump back above Wildcard later today.
It would be that C1V4 matchup, and I think it would be a real tantalizing best of three between these two teams.
It would be very tricky to call.
I think M80, of course, would be slight favourites, but it's not by a massive boundary.
I've got five investor threes.
But when I sat down here on round 12, looking to 100, open this basement site.
100Vs probably have to beat SSG7-0.
by this point. If Wildcard loses this round they go to plus 13 so yeah I mean it's still
probably likely that Wildcard have maybe just done enough. Even if they do lose this but
certainly you get to, oh sorry that's if they do get this start over time. If they don't
get this start over time then yes then obviously a win that I hope these will get the job.
Yeah so this actually becomes a pretty important round for Wildcard. Although based on what
they probably put on performance wise. I don't think they'd go into a BESA3 against
they made me all that scared as Baby Shark gets to get another opening kill for Wildcard.
It is onto Gunner. Not quite Ashen. If it was onto Ashen, I think Wildcard may be on
here but there's 60 seconds left and they're pushing over through Wailpit. Bit of information
from Bay to facilitate that. Defuser 2 goes down so the lack of gas babes here and once
Once again, it feels like all the pressure goes onto the shoulders of Ashen, and he delivers
immediately with that kill onto Adria, more required, and more might be coming his way.
He goes and drops 20, can he now also drop Wildcard after this map?
The encroaching Blackbeard is not what Ashen wants to see, he wants to find Kansen.
The Spiker will now go for the plant, Kansen's position found, and Kansen delivers the notice
that we are going to overtime and Ashen himself will not deny them.
Point secured for Wildcard and with that point, who knows,
now maybe that top three spot could too be secured.
Yeah, it's a big round for Wildcard and it may mean that that rematch
may not be at least the media between these two big teams.
It almost felt like it was on there for Ashen.
Then into the Blackbeard I got a little fearful, but then having to actually commit to the plant on the BB as opposed to having the BB for coverage
I thought oh, maybe there's a chance but
Cans and shut that one down slammed the door shut
This has been a real good game to watch two teams on a classic map
Both close to the peak of their powers and again, it's not a huge matchup and I'm sure they're both
having a bit of fun with it
But you can see what they found there.
Maybe not.
I mean they do look fairly elected.
Yeah, they definitely do.
I think also sometimes you can throw a lot of the overall storylines a little out the window with these sort of games.
Why can't I want to beat MAD?
Don't get it.
They know, yeah, they've got playoffs locked up.
And now with this overtime result they might be thinking it's top three locked up.
If we do meet M8, it might be at a better point in the playoff bracket such as the upper bracket final, which at that point then you've already qualified.
But at this point you're this far into it now, 6-6, and only the second team this stage to be able to get M8 into this overtime position, why not?
Would you want to go and get them in?
Unfortunately, Ali for Wildcard though, they've got double attack, so they're going to have to pinch one on the attack.
Sell them out!
It's been a bit of a grind for the attacking side in this matchup so far.
There's two for MAD in the first half, and Wildcard will respond with two of their own
in the second. We go to top floor, so as expected with the cap and the grim band,
this side will be tricky to break down for Wildcard. Last time they were afforded a bit more
flexibility because they got diffuser early on, they dealt with them or my.
In a straight 5v5 shootout though, expect this to be a little more challenging if they
elect to commit to it.
The sense as well as an interesting discussion the last time out was first to fall, and so
that could open to a more plate-meeting opportunity to wrap, you know, the agri-dolls they double
down catch.
Got the warden all together, just, it's not going to have an impact really against the
this game, and of course the mirror too, not being brought in this round. Clearly the goal
in this round for M80 is to fortify this rafter's position for as long as possible. ADS devices
will make this. In terms of the attacking setup for Wildcard, it does look eerily similar.
The only difference is they actually got the shield screens available. Their last time
now they were able to really get the kill was just they were able to dump
utility get the air jab out there is pretty much again the same setup but a
lot more of this utility was eaten up by the 80 asses huge angle low from baby
shark to get rid of Gavin wildcard have got the extra player advantage that
also most importantly cleared out rafters they've got enough time to make
that push along with the breach they've still got the ROUs as well for baby
Maybe Shark, they can go for the set execute based on this lineup that they've brought.
It's up to M80 to disrupt them.
Yeah, they put Ashen in the power position.
He can hold off this, hold bridge.
Can raise the bloom as well.
30 seconds.
He's been a big player in this match.
He's often alive late and I feel as if M80 made once again be reliant on Ashen.
25 on the clock.
If you're wildcard, you don't want to leave this for the last five seconds.
I'm gonna start trying to go for this plant as soon as possible.
Baby Shark to push up and Ashton holding the angle, expecting a push up from Red Stas.
The game says it's impeccable that he loses his battle to Spike up.
We got a 1v1.
He's going to go for the plant with Gunner over towards Con.
Gunner's going to start to make the sprint to try and force him off,
and Spike, indeed, did get forced off.
The thundering footsteps of Gunner wins the round for MAD,
and once again delivers them match point.
Oh, got spooked. It was well played by Gunnar. And Spiker just a little late if he wasn't going to come in. Just had to be a fraction earlier.
Of course, he's head down relying on the audio cue. It's much easier said than done.
He'd be disappointed, probably feeling as if there was an opportunity there to win out, but not to beat
an M80 again. Just a little better in some of these clutch moments over the course of the map so far.
And an opportunity for Gunner to have influence in a map that hasn't seen a lot go his way.
But a big factor there in that round is just showing enough to speak to the plant.
10 seconds on the clock, 3 vs 3, Ashen run and Rive, up to 22 kills.
Gunner was just able to time that dash.
That's point M80 wild card looking to recompose
I mean you look at this game seven six school line there's been two clutch rounds both the one the way they made you
I mean that's been the difference when it's come down to the nitty gritty the close moments the big moments
M80's just being that bit better
But if I'm a wildcard fan, I'm not walking away from this game disappointed at all.
I mean you got three players in double digits, Spike is one off, Baby Shark's two off, you've
taken the flawless M80 to overtime, and it's taken a 22 bomb from Ashen and a couple of
clutch rounds.
I think Wildcard can get a lot from this match.
But they'd still love to get the win a little bit harder though without Bay.
Ashen able to survive the boss G, that's just how good he's been, he's the real boss.
kill from Ashton. He's up to 23. They lose gunner who won them the round in the previous
to Spiker Abel to get rid of the striker. Stabbit goes down as well on the Blackbeard
and maybe all 15 rounds could still be required as Ashton will fall, it almost now seems inevitable.
Match of the day but the game won.
We're setting the bar high early for the final day of stage one, groups.
Plenty of time to get out of the diffuser.
I wouldn't count them out from having a fair shot here.
Both isolated, excuse the hash side.
And this cross is going to be triggered a break from the hash across the con.
As mentioned, time is not a factor at this point. A bit of grim newtile still remains as well.
Our card needs to remain disciplined in this position and be reliant on these crosses holding firm.
Don't panic. Play into the band advantage here.
Defuser and gap looking to encroach.
Well, I mean they're trying to help out Kansy, he's still inside of cash.
So that's why they're trying to put the pressure off the call inside. Kansy did get cleared.
Now you can fall back, there's no longer a need to actually defend towards constructions.
2v2 with a minute left, yes you technically get them, space being falling back to site, holding key positions, they then need the drone clear.
The defuser and gav are in the low on health, so it's a little bit more difficult for them to make up all this ground, have to check every corner.
The drone helps, certainly, wall's being a bit of a pain for defuser, but he gets through it.
Still time and I have the fact that Gathons just got the balls to push into the bedroom.
Up close though, Spiker actually gets them both as they were so low on health.
All 15 rounds required.
And this is now officially the closest that M80 have been to dropping a map this stage.
fight back from Wildcard and another big spraydown from Spiker on that bedroom side of the map.
Mat time through Gym. Good composure late. And the peel back to the objective, absolutely the right
play there. Some good discipline once again on display. And I think that's the key takeaway
from this matchup for me is both sides. They're playing some really high quality siege in a
matchup that I'm also very mad you could have been treated very non-seriously.
And I don't think that's really been the case today. It's been a testament to both Rostas and how they've approached the day. Basement, we now go.
It was 2-1 if over a wild card on their attack on this side in the second half.
This is actually the one side that M80 had troubles with. The only side that they gave up on their defense.
They did win it in the seventh round, but if you think back to that round, Ashen 4K, Ashen 1v1.
So even in that winning round on this site, they were susceptible, that they had been broken through.
And then in the two rounds after that later in the half rounds, 10 and 12, this site pretty comfortable for one.
So it looked good attacking into basement.
That should give them some open belief coming into this 15th round, that even though that they are on the attack,
that had success on their site for M80, well, quite literally one last chance to close this map out and do so on a site where they've struggled.
one lost test. Yeah in terms of the seeding as well quickly wild card they win this round they jump
temporarily above these, they come back down to third a loss here could see 100 thieves jump
above them but only if 100 thieves literally win 7-0 because they also have the tiebreaker I believe
from earlier in the stage so after that first play day they won 8-7 so it's very likely wild
a pub finish second or third at the end of the day but I lost here and maybe you
caused some on the disabled. Asher, 24 kills he is behind on fire today.
It finds an understatement to be honest without really he's been playing and it's
also the impact you get rid of Kenzie getting rid of the Ying you find in the
opening kill and even though you're playing the Warden you're not sitting
back defensive minded. Asher knows this is his game he goes and takes it.
Another open kill for Ashen.
Well, Carl probably won't be too effective by this, but it has to a little bit. You lose the game.
Kansan's been a solid player. 4v5 attacking into this site, not easy.
Even the success that they've had so far on this map, on this site,
well, Carl will know they're going to have to be at their very best if they're to take it here in overtime.
here in overtime. 7-7 it's been a good test against the region's best this
stage. We'll see if they can pass it. They've got a minute to drop or if they're watching, it's Gunner, it's a 3-B.
And Ashen as he gets involved needed this win from Spiker. Oh what a headshot
on to Gunner. And with Ashen dealt with it's down to Savage. The newest member of
this team to try and make it his moment to win this map now for M80 to keep them
floorless a 1v2 post plan with Adrian and Spiker playing together they will not lose it. Wildcard
are gonna win it they're the first team this stage to beat M80. What an effort from Wildcard hugs
all around and handshakes it understandably so that is a massive result and I tell you what a
rematch between these two in the bracket will be an absolute pleasure to watch.
What a result for Wildcars to see what the rest of the stage has in store for them later.
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
What a big victory for Wildcard! They are the first team to take down MAT and they do
it on the final playday of groups. That means we get to speak to the winners, we have Spikers
standing by for a few questions. Kudas and Spiker, congrats on a big win here. I want
to talk to you about the final round. I'm Mike from TopKitchen. That call from you ended
up being a game winning call.
Yeah, I learned that shift from Matt at the Major. When we were planning against 5 years
at the major he's like a round was looking bad he said you know boys I'm
just gonna drop kitchen and like the round felt the exact same to me is that
round was feeling at the major and so I just got the idea from him I'm just
gonna drop kitchen until the agent had dropped a little bit delayed for me so
if I died they wouldn't be looking anymore and then you know SMG 12 I'm just
shooting that I'm just shooting at nothing killing people I mean you're like
Kino with the with the pump shotgun you make miracles happen but like I want
you to just run me through all of those rounds where you had very big impactful
I mean it started on I believe the bastard side looking into
Looking into Jim. I mean talk about these rounds
Yeah, I mean I started the game a little bit slow
But you know, I don't really change what I'm doing. I don't know. I was looking in some crazy shots today
I'm not gonna like you. I was like hitting the career shots today
I don't know what was going on those guys normally like farmed me
But I was getting active I was in some career shots. So you know how it be just seem to get active today
Well, I mean, just like I said, just run me through like what's going through your mind in these rounds in particular
Yeah, let me do the scenarios
Yeah, last round I just knew I needed to get active and do something
And so I was just running I was just running around. Yeah, I lost the game
That was a some of our vert to with a shotgun. My plan low key was not working out because they're shot
But the game was a big part of my plan
So I had to get adaptive to get active, but you know, I'm just I'm just chilling. It's all in NAL
I'm playing through the rounds around in time
I mean, I'm just I'm just doing my thing. We're doing our thing, you know, obviously trying to win
But yeah, I mean really any like nerves or nothing. Just just playing through the rounds having some fun
Absolutely. I also want to just talk about you guys is prep going into this match versus MAD
I felt that you guys would be the only team in that that could actually bring it to MAD
It does fall on clubhouse, but it looks like you guys is game plan. Was it almost similar to what your guys game plan was with dark zero?
Honestly, we didn't I mean
It's hard because it's such a different map, Catholic is such a different map, like it's, you can't really have the same game plan
I mean like obviously we didn't ban shields today against Secret, so it's like a little bit, or if you can Secret against a midi
I was just thinking of Savage as they instantly thought of Secret
So it's a little bit different game plan, but you know there are such different maps
They play so differently that you know obviously they're gonna be a little bit different. Absolutely. I'm, Spiker
I'm kind of curious, you took my game plan question, but I'm kind of curious on the attacking side
This was a little bit of a defensive club
What was some of your attacking struggles because we can hear the comms in the back and I think I have an answer
But I'm kind of curious from you. Yeah, I mean we were kind of like especially on our kind of more spread attacks
We weren't like targeting one spot individual
We were kind of like going through the motions and it's kind of like all doing our own solo stuff
So we're taking like a lot of one-on-one gunfights and it's a team like a maybe it's so it's like it's not easy
To rely on just does it want one of you on gunfights against those guys? They're also good
Me was farmed us today. So especially that else at the now
But you know, it was just kind of getting more coordinated getting more together getting closer to each other
So we started kind of doing some more a little bit more direct stuff
Especially after the time out and just kind of being closer together. I thought that was a great call. Yeah, it absolutely was
Yeah, that's my my boy Legonus
It's like I see a very empty bookshelf behind you guys
So do you think a book like how to take down a big NAL team like MAT Dark Zero could fit in there?
I think we just need some trophies. I got some work to do. I gotta get some trophies in there
That's the goal.
I see, I see.
I could vision it.
Yeah, I see the vision as well, but speaking of it as well, you know, you are the first
team to take down M8.
You already took down Nurture earlier in the stage as well.
At least two victory, which one is your favorite?
Which one's better?
I think M8E.
We played DZ so much, like, and we always going back and forth, maybe sometimes we've
done some time, so beating M8E is not as common for us, I guess.
So I said beating M8E, and they were undefeated going into this game too.
So.
Speaking of that, you just said you played DZ, I'm actually kind of curious.
Yeah, I'm playing again, I know, I know.
Yeah, what's your thought on that?
Just time to run it back again, every stage, always playing them at group stage, playoffs,
playoff, surprise them again in playoffs, lighter down the road, apartment twice in playoffs,
somehow it's always happened, so, you know, we're always ready for it.
And you will meet again, Spiker, thank you so much for your time,
and good luck next week, running it back against DarkZero.
Alright, thank you.
Good to speak to him, I get so many insights on the game plan that eventually helped him win,
But on the other side, I mean, you know, given how close the game was, we need to discuss one specific player as well.
Sure, Spyker was having some career shots, but on the other side, Ashton really was making some good efforts to winning that round.
Yeah, he absolutely was. I mean, what, he ended at 24 and 10 maybe?
And again, this round in particular was really good information from the team to be able to play off of.
But again, this is why Ashton is the number one rated player in NA L currently, and I don't think anyone's dethroned him from that position after this game.
And I don't think it will throughout the rest of the day. I mean Ashen was phenomenal in this series
The positions that he's able to take the aggression that he delivers
It really is hard to put clamps on players when they're playing like that
I've been on the receiving end of players doing the exact same
I'm sure you've been on that receiving end and when someone is in that flow state
It is so hard to stop it
So certainly not envious for the wildcard players to be on that receiving end of how Ashen was kind of handed it to him
Yeah, I mean, exactly. I think we've been there. We've all been in moments where we're highlighting a family. They're whooping our ass. We can't do anything. We just have to try to get these rounds of swing in our favor.
I love that they, they're so aware and they're able to talk and joke about something like that. I mean, 25 and 10, you just talked about it at one point and you were even, we were in the back room and you were counting and look, he almost had as many kills as the rest of his team, which is insane.
I think 26 would have gone in there. I was trying to keep track of it. My maths is not that good
So might be some errors in there
But he's getting really close to equalling out all the kills for his team just by himself
So great effort, but let's be honest looking at the settings for M.A.T.
Not much was gonna change with this game anyways
They are and were locked in first at the start of this game already
But for Wildcard this now indeed means they are going to play Dark Zero and
Speaking of that game that Dark Zero have coming up
This puts some pressure on them because if you look at 100 Thieves, the difference in points, there is a chance she got her Thieves put a really good performance against us as she, but they pushed Dark Zero to fourth.
Yeah, I mean there's definitely a world where that can happen. Do I think it's going to happen? I'm not sure, but for Wild Card, maybe they would rather have that happen. Maybe they'd rather be able to take on 100 Thieves and not have to go against Dark Zero and have to trade off that game.
Who's going to win it? Who's ball is in whose court? So I guess we'll figure out and see what happens as the day progresses.
That would be a crazy world doctor strange timeline kind of thing, but I'm not gonna lie
I'm kind of liking what I'm seeing right here. I would love to for that top four to lock in
I really want to see a hundred thieves verse m80 the savage verse hot and gold and then yeah horse wild card verse
That's in the bows or read those would be some back
Moving on to our second game off that I want to focus on the team as currently in seventh cloud nine
They were fifth yesterday coming into the playday and now they have to fight for their spots in playoffs going up against dark
as we said the pressure really is on cloud nine to to perform here but
something in this team will light the fire underneath cloud nine's bums
because there's a specific player who came in and has really helped him to step
up there is a specific player one that I might have worked with with my time over
at dark zero and we've highlighted them here on the desk planning the desk
highlighted them and that's Pambazoo the new leader joining cloud nine I mean this
is actually the first time that Pambazoo is going to be going against his former
organization. So we could call this a little bit of a revenge match. I mean we
already know that Cloud9 is kind of the big underdog going against DarkZero. So
look if there's anything that's going to help him it's the fact that it is this
grudge match. He is kind of that legend for his time over at DarkZero. He won the
very first major for that organization in Charlotte. What a great event that was.
Where yeah where he there he is right there in the middle. I know that guy. In the middle. I mean don't look at that guy on the far right.
But look right in the middle. That's Pam Zew. He was the Charlotte MVP as well.
And so again, he won the first trophy, but things didn't end smoothly at his time at DZ, obviously.
He didn't really get a chance to be that real leader in IGL that he's kind of hinted towards that maybe towards the end
he should have been and now though he does have the younger team that he's always kind of wanted.
He does now have the full reigns of the roster.
He's able to play the style of Siege that he wants to play and a good test to go up against DZ and save his team for
playoffs. Yeah, I mean, I do got to kind of bring it back to reality and look at the
matchup and what we even saw yesterday in their four fun game. I mean, I think
realistically, they did a very bad job at adapting where we saw this hide for four
fun. They did very well at adapting, especially on their defensive halves and
how they were spring in the mirror for the CEO. And then when they would go back
to the open area, they spread apart to then force cloud nine of understand that
they're going to fail on their execution. That's exactly where ended. And
especially going against a team like dark zero that just lost over the seven. You
have to be even better than what we were seeing yesterday. I mean, the pressure is going to be
on them. They're going to be fired up. Yeah, but you can spend it on a positive way as well and see
that if there is any moment to play Dark Zero, they're quite vulnerable now with that result.
Yes, they mean going up against the number one. They don't even want to single round. Listen,
I know we want to say, you know, they're vulnerable, but again, you have to look at Dark Zero. And if
there's going to be any team on the world that has the right mentality and that can push that aside,
it is going to be this Dark Zero roster. I tried finding anything across social media,
is yes we have any of the players talking about what happened why the loss
happens nobody tweeted a single thing it's a little bit of namaste for them
they're just gonna be focused on how they can get over it today and and right
where they're wrong respectfully so and that's exactly what you're gonna do when
you come off of an 0-7 you can't point fingers you can't say we lost because of
this reason we lost because of this player it's a team thing and again I'm
talking about the mentality you got them all dancing used to be good yeah 0-7
does not say is any of these players, which is why it's even that more. That's why it's
that much more tantalizing for Cloud9 coming into this because you're going against a team
that has such a strong mental for it. Yeah, it's their mental. Exactly that. I mean, that
all looks like fold spot, the way doing the Namaste. So that's the captain. That's their
in game leader. If he's feeling like that, I mean, the guys are actually grooving today.
They're confident like that is the one team in the NEL. Maybe maybe right now, I don't
see any right. Then I actually just who's going to be able to bounce back from a seven
It's gonna be them. I mean, I've never seen a team having so much fun after they just got blasted like that
I think I've been seven out. I think twice. Yeah, three times in my career and it's hit hard every single time
They can be taking me a little bit to recoup
But I mean these guys from one day to the next you wouldn't even have thought that they lost
Yesterday the way that they did I am loving this call wait till we get back to the groom and hear what these guys are talking
We're thinking about but before we do that we need to get this match starting and we need to know where we're going
We're going for not even laps. I'm going to use my favorite word here. Interesting Matt choice out of cloud nine. I know you're not a fan of it, but it is kind of a default map in the sense of like clubhouse and labs and layer right. It's very step by step. Yes cloud nine. They did play this map earlier in the stage. It was against outlasts, which I know you're going to say is not a good thing to kind of look at here, but it does keep Pambazoo and allows him to at least he knows what DZ is going to do. He knows it's going to be a battle for the IT wall.
then they could use that utility.
Oh my God, I'm working a little boost off from Pam.
I try to implement meditating into the DZ when I look at that.
There's no way they're all the way.
I mean, hey, how the tables have turned.
They are here to win.
It's not only DZ they get to do all that.
They're Namaste, exactly.
Not Eddie though.
Eddie's checking his Twitter right now.
He's doing the shake-up method.
I think every time we look on D2,
they're always on their phones.
But I do want to talk about why I'm not a fan of this map.
Again, because of the sample size, I mean, the only time that Cloud9 played this was against Outlast and they smoked them 7-1,
which kind of gives you a little bit of false sense of reality of, wow, we played a perfect game of seed, which maybe you did.
But again, when you look at a team like DarkZero, you're going to be exposed to a lot of flaws because Outlast isn't going to expose you for those flaws.
And then you're going to come into these game day with very little game day reps where DarkZero has those game day reps.
And again, that sample size is just completely different.
So I need to see something a lot more convincing on their attack specifically again in their map first bank on
4-4 fun
It was a very lack of adaptation and if you can't do that on a simpler map
I mean it's it's chop cheese
I am seeing a very star called trust between these player camps all two different teams
But each of their own these teams are locked in for night haven't left
Yeah, I mean on one side you've got relaxation therapy on the other it looked like a music concert a big game coming up
to the last round of the
game. But ramifications here
quite important because cloud
might must win. It's as easy
as said than that. They need
all three points if they are
to progress into playoffs for
dark zero now with that wild
card result. How temporarily
dropped down to third. They
can get that seconds pop back
if they do lose this and
certainly lose some round
differential as well. There is
the threat. They could drop to
in terms of storylines and evidently in the play games in the lead up to this matchup quite funny
just how much of a contrast it was between the two rosters cloud vine locked in looking to relax
and clear the mind heading into the matchup and for dark Zora it's about having a bit of fun today.
As you said there is that potential scenario in which this eating is a little compromised that
are that's clearly not the main focal point of this matchup. It's all about cloud nine. It
have to be able to reach.
So it's also then going to be
dependent on a couple of other
results to go their way today.
But of course, they're fully
focused on putting themselves
into the best position possible,
focusing on controlling what they
can now at the tail end of this
group stage. The bands play out
kind of mirror ace.
So that's a good point.
this group stage of the band's play out,
Cade of Mirror, Ace, and Thatcher.
Yeah, interestingly, I was looking at some of the statistics
for not having labs for North America League Stage 1,
and you wouldn't believe it in terms of what's the most
attack aside aside on this map guys,
but it's not for command server sitting at 60%
attack of win rate through the 15 rounds that it has seen,
which is in contrast to what we would typically see
over an APL, where you just completely flip that,
maybe on an extra 10% it's always the the fun part of getting to cover different
regions and seeing these little nuances that don't maybe translate across all of
the regions of course sample size depends on what were the matchups who
played you etc that adds to obviously those stats they're still interesting
to note as we head into this game I mean the story line would be pretty easily
set I expect ArcZero should get the job done but they're they're going up
against a team that's going to be throwing everything they've got at them and so that adds a little bit of nervousness then you add in the element of
Potentially DarkZero dropping to fourth having to play an 80 who will floor us up until today
Yeah, there's a little bit in there
So I think Cloud9 will need to start while they're in this first half if they're a real shot within this
If DarkZero can look quite commanding on the defense build up a good scoreboard
It's gonna be a long way back then for Cloud9
So we'll see what they can do to begin and to begin. We are also going to the tertiary its storage control to begin in the
Slide and the IT the IT battle already beginning here is the boys were talking out on the desk
Pamper on the man they've able to deal comprehensively with the
Walton isle of faults on the bandit
about for Eddie on the thermite to
A little bit laborious but it is the safest option and the Cloud9 can consider other points
of pressure.
I think this is lobby where it could be pretty influential from Cloud9.
In some ways no info is good info in facilitating that split push and they could bear the fruits
of that later in the round.
Eddie gets caught, does fall.
Neck, hold over towards electrical base,
dividends for faults, they also get her among the salt stains.
Once that line scan went out, it's all Dark Sierra on the defense,
ready for the push from Cloud9.
Down to just two players remaining, leaves them in a pickle.
On storage controls, Dark Sierra looked pretty locked in to start.
Ninja, yeah, it's a good headshot onto Uzi.
Sent to the only one that's left, flawless to start from Dark Sierra.
That's clinical to begin.
sure is and for cloud nine not the most confidence inspiring start to a do or die match in this
kind of situation you always want to try and get up to the best start possible to help
boost confidence. Unfortunately not the case there in that opening round. In terms of the
groundwork early wasn't wasn't too bad really not much to note there again I
think the bodywork that presence and pressure started to look pretty promising
we've touched the back end of the round in the highlight package but these are
just kill feed kills at that point so much damage done earlier open kill from
faults was influential right on that minute 30 of the round and then from that point
onwards Kino and NJR also able to aid defining a couple picks themselves ended
up being a four-boss round in the end up to command and it's so go for the follow-up
yeah which one we as a set 50% attack to the right on this side this stage in this
region. I'm not expecting Cloud9. I mean I still go into this, I expect the defense
usually to fail. I mean, there's part of me that's quite curious to see if Cloud9 can
emulate what we've seen from other teams attacking into this site. Double hard breach.
It's easy to open up. I think it's better off for now.
And they've got really good informational gathering with the Grim and the Lion. You've
you got to execute from Eddy with the Ying and the Candelas.
Obviously as we know, top floor though, it takes its time.
You want to get to work IT, you want to get consigned,
you want to really get pressure from different avenues
that Nitrocell is not going to work out from faults.
But I do like the early posturing towards IT from Dark Zero
just to sort of make things a bit more difficult
for them in opening up the breach.
And while difficult, it may have been
for maybe an extra 10 to 15 seconds job done for cloud nine.
Yeah, as I said last time, it's pretty laborious, but it's essentially
a necessary evil for cloud nine.
Sometimes it can trip up even some of the best players and that
players can have complications at times.
But so far it's been just another list to tick off.
Another box rather to tick off on, said checklist.
Bit of posh wing on the con side, again we see a lurk from Monk, this time on the lion
global ability, gives him the freedom to be a little more versatile around the map, play
a position that can maybe cut off and counter any vert play below here from DarkZero or
that although that seems rather unlikely at least at this point of the round, 60 seconds
now remains. Tempo is slow. Cloud9 will probably feel pretty comfortable with this comp into
a late round execute. On and close. Well they have lost their Kandellas and if Eddy had
won that battle they would have dealt the ward and got electrical control. Dump Kandellas
then into site. Instead by Eddy losing that fight you lose your execute. You don't really
gain a lot of ground and NJR stays alive, a couple of flashes from Uzi and suddenly now
4-5 low on time. Now you're going to kind of rush through that checklist that's left,
especially opening up this con wall. It's a bit of a mess. Keen are up close with the
shotgun double. It's as easy as that. But a quick flurry of kills, gold cloud flying back into
this round temporarily, maybe for about five seconds or so. It looked a little bit more likely,
But at the end of the day, all that really became after they lost that battle towards Electrical was a flood into sight and you're always going to back in the defense to nothing dark zero decent start on labs.
Yeah, that little glimmer at the end was false hope at best. It was worse case there for cloud nine as you framed it losing a key player.
key player, key utility, it was also the best counter-op for that close-ranging counter
and the warden would have been off the board.
It's fine margin, siege at times, it can be so punishing.
And it was a one-dimensional stack there from Clive9 who would have backed themselves in
with the U2 bearing, with the ying up available to be able to execute that and I don't think
it wouldn't necessarily be in that obscene of a play to try and flunk in that regard
that they would get captainizedly by DarkZero. NJR gets the pops for the opening kill in
that round. Now searching for three in a row and as these rounds tick down, five seconds
to go. If they continue to go in favour of DarkZero, it's also going to be ticking down
on 5-9's time here in stage one.
The concern for me really is you kind of look at this stage for Cloud9, what's been their weak point?
Well it's been actually on their attack side. They're the second lowest rated team as an attacking team in the region.
16-45 split. That's not great. 16 attacks from round wins from 45 attainments is 36 percent. It's the second lowest.
where they've been actually quite decent is their defense sitting actually second rated at 62%
so they're kind of a half sort of team and that's probably why coming into the final play date
this they obviously still kind of close to getting into the top six but it's looking likely now
based on what we've seen so far that it's maybe going to go against them
basement here for the third round final round before we get past bands
And so this was ultimately the task for Cloud9 this first half.
Tax being your weak point this stage, come in final playday can directify it so far no
good in the opening two attempts.
But still plenty of opportunities remain in this half.
charge before
and media pressure already in basement here and good info has been gathered
pamper also with this pre-placed assembly I do wonder if maybe he shot
calls something to rack to get onto the side keeping a minor risky into the echo
you too though to be late it's a big call to make
also in the keynote on the water like the pacing like the aggression see if it
works out so far not looking good now the opening to keynote does go down this
plan will be denied by the Yoko either or false this got that covered center also
now long on the monty timing this round is great and timing from Uzi pushing into
cargo is perfect needed that double and lose the monty but the round is still
winnable because there's time on the clock you push early in the round well
I guess what you got the chance to maybe fight back doesn't matter the two that were left instantly dealt with it's three straight for dark zero
Now I don't know really what I expected from this match because you got one team that's fighting
For their life to make playoffs to qualify to even have the chance even if let's be real
You're adding on an asterix which is likely even a win for cloud down
I don't think it's gonna be enough today considering other matches would need to go their way
You still got to fight for it and three rounds in though
It's it's dark zero that are just showing their qualities just so much better that even if you
Factor in the external pressure of what's required to play off. They're just better at the game and three rounds in it's pretty evident three opening kills
It's it's been really convincing of the rounds have been really ultra close
We
Had anything into of course the bands. I think it's also a tactical timeout to for cloud nine to
to double down on this. It's a big half. They need some attacking rounds.
Let's see if they can get that after this time out and after the bands.
Yeah, it's now at a point where it's becoming increasingly difficult to see a path forward
in this matchup. And I think the thing that drives that home for me most is what you highlighted
earlier as the second lowest rated team on attack league wide up to this point.
I mean, it doesn't feel like we're in a situation where a 60-second tactical timeout is going
to be overly influential, that that's going to require a lot more deep, systematic change
in the off-season for Cloud9 to rectify that, not a case of them being right up there as
a strong attacking team, and they've had maybe an off-starter over the case, but I think
it's probably more reflective of the more systematic problems that this team is looking
to work through at the moment.
It is promising there for music to late lurk, but there was so much information up late.
It was ridiculous.
The BPC tank, yokai's up, plant enough potential for immense.
It looked again a little promising there for cloud nine, but it was false hope.
And there's been a couple of instances of that over the course of this nap so far where
they've been short in a couple of one percenters and then a league like this and against an
opposition of high quality like DZ and get exposed. Yeah, represent. And it's kind of
a damned if you do damned if you don't. I mean, I like the question from Cloudbite and
the pacing was good, but it does mean you skip out on getting a lot of that clear and
that's utility and those problems become a factor.
The great start, by the way, for Andrea. Well, they just want to highlight him as an individual.
Two rounds factor back down. He's got the opening kills so impact to begin, not just
kind of spuffing the sheet he's having impact to begin the rounds and getting
the first multi-kill of the game in that third round with someone 6-1 so a
fantastic start for him. Interesting too because we're going to catch a
capaturi and that isn't a sight that we don't see all that often. Usually for good
reason it's not usually very good to defense. It's been played twice this
stage in NAL, 100% attack of win rate. So I mean this is DarkZero throwing a
real curveball into the game because it hasn't been needed you're 3-0 up. Maybe
they just sense this is an opportunity to test the waters.
Here's he, well he finds that the opening kill on Takiyano, testing it they will need this kill from G90.
He doesn't connect!
Well the question marks immediately have to be raised about select choice.
Whenever you go to kitchen counter material, you need to have a game plan.
I don't think they've even had an opportunity to play out this strategy fashion.
It's just been straight gun fight, Steezy. We're going to respond to the aggression for the trade and Cloud9, Clued in, ready.
There was an MG out, but standing and it could be a flawless response here from Cloud9, not quite.
Newers, we got it.
One in the round, and could follow it up with a couple more, but it's unlikely to win it at this point.
And credit to Cloud9 for continuing to fight, not dropping their heads,
recomposing on an offsite, which can be difficult for the attack.
Not confirmed just yet though.
We'll see if there's a clutch on the cards here, 60 seconds.
for Cloud9 to think about the plant to formulate this plant and newers are still isolated.
We'll enter CAF, the plant should be secured and that should be the round for Cloud9.
Yeah a lot of shoots and indeed will, Cloud9 closes it out.
Now that's done and it's a 100% attack of win rate from three attempts this stage.
I hate that site.
I hate that site, it should burn it.
such an awful sight to play.
Oh, you know what? You choose it.
You get the punishment.
You can't understand why Dark Zero would go there,
because quite frankly, they were on a roll.
The first three rounds.
We're talking about pretty close to perfection
in terms of overall play.
And they decide, out of a Cloud9 tactical timeout,
let's go to the one site that's absolutely off of the defender.
And you're right.
And I don't think we've really got to unravel
the strategic depth of the round for Dark Zero and maybe what they wanted to do and you lose
too very early on in the round, you don't really get given that opportunity.
But the reality is you gave the opportunity to Cloudthide by selecting that site which was just
not needed. They get their first open kill, they get their first round win out of the time. Now,
the real concern will be if there's a follow-on effect. So this flows into round five and six.
I think the boys in the desk are going to break down that decision more than anything as to why you would go there and what that effect may actually have ended up causing.
We'll see what happens because if that's how I do win rounds 5 and 6, well, that doesn't really probably matter anyway.
Yeah, that's the thing. And if it be impacted, that round is really going to be felt until we see the rest of the half play out.
It does potentially just release the pressure valve a little bit that is beginning to bubble over.
Personally though, expecting DarkZero to lock back in here, they look extremely proficient
on all of the primary slash secondary sites and we'll return to Storytory Choll for the
5th.
Probably introduction to the pulse in this round as well for Folds, but it's newest to
draw first blood.
Uzi, who's had some good luck potential in the match so far, the first to fall and that's
now four out of the five rounds, the opening kill going the way of the leaders in DZ.
Yeah, and I've noticed a couple of times in this half just how that sort of highlighted
me. It was really likes to hold these angles. And when I say hold, I mean, he really likes
to hold them for some time. And that takes good patience. It's very easy to be jittery
when you're playing R6, so many different angles and few points, but he just looks so
calm with his movement. He's not rushing around. He holds a good position, gives it time.
And in this round, the perfect highlight is he gets the opening kill because of it.
90 seconds left, easy in a good position.
Oh, I just got fortunate for Eddie, he's just getting a grasp.
And no cover, no hull.
I just follow Grim trying to get some info over towards IT.
No one helping him out.
And they call on numbers.
It's a desperate push in towards top blue.
Doesn't work out for center.
Now Monk has been able to get himself in towards server,
But the round looks now null and void.
One versus four, low on health.
Needs to get here, go to side.
I mean, there's just so much left in the round
that he needs to do it.
Has now a solo against the four defenders of DZ.
And it's back to regular programming, isn't it?
Once you get away from kitchen cafeteria,
it's more of the same for Dark Zero.
And as Jane I know puts an end to it.
And there's that fourth round on the board for them.
They go for one up.
the only blemish probably their own doing.
Yeah, to return to normality,
the only saving grace really now at this point
is Cloud9's ability to defend,
which they have been able to showcase
over the course of the stage.
As you mentioned prior second rated in NAO for the stage,
it is a strength for them,
but they're putting a lot of faith on defense
if they can only get the one sculp in this first half.
We know historically looking at the data for any team,
the best in the world to defend a 1-5 deficit is incredibly tricky. Certainly not impossible,
we've seen comebacks of that fashion in the past and this was obviously a classic example of that
back at SI. They are rare for a reason, that's why that 24g final is so historic. Those style of
comebacks are very tricky and so in a way that does put a lot of immediate pressure here on the
the final round of the half, can Cloud9 give themselves that buff off? Can they get that
second round? Otherwise, the second half turns into a Hail Mary for their squad of playoffs,
which is already probably a Hail Mary at this point anyway, if they can go on to get it
all three times.
And statistically, DarkZero is the third best attacking team in the region, so you would
imagine they should be able to get a round or two or three, and it puts pressure then
on cloud nine I think to get this second round for all the reasons that you were
alluding to command server will be the slight choice reminder cloud nine must win
if you get all three points if they are to still make players which means they
are now two rounds away from being knocked down and that doesn't help a
A nitrocell explodes in the face of Eddy, they lose the ying again?
Dark Zero get another opening kill and so far in this half every opening kill has converted
to a round win.
Of course the only time they didn't get the opening kill was on kitchen counter for Tyria,
which I mean clearly the story of this game so far is Dark Zero's just had their way with
Cloud 9 and so much so that they even gave them a round.
Yeah, and with the exception of the last round they keep using to losing key pieces of utility whether it be the Cat Tower or the King or the Thermite
They're not getting trade value back either. So Cloudmine are playing the game on extreme difficulty mode at the moment
Next stage on the line this round
The next minute and a half are hyper critical then someone needs to step up somebody needs to make the heads up play
the game. They show some
confidence and get their team
back into it. Easiest haven't
done that because the groundwork
here from dark one. They just
continue to anchor so strongly.
You need that from Pampers who
onto new as the channel knows
got that him covered. They've
just got the numbers. They can
fall back. Take these fights.
Play the trade game. Sensitive
clinical half five one statement giving the one and only round to cloud nine
if they really do the objective was so clear for claudon at the beginning of this game win in
regulation you keep your playoff hopes alive so far though with these attacks they are struggling
heart yeah do they know that they need to win this game to keep the players on the clock
I don't know I mean right now we're seeing the exact same story from there
It's their attacking have that is why they're struggling and again, I've been praising them
I really do like the operating a lot of sir trying to bring everything to try and print shield
They're trying to bring the utility play with a lot of ying a lot of capital or the utility based operators
You see ying up even in the first round and really that this is right here
This actually came down to it if he gets that kill with a shotgun
Maybe they have a better chance here because there wouldn't be that playing close to the shotgun
But it's just it classic young players or young teams kind of have this attack and problem.
And we also hear in the comms, I mean, they do seem to be kind of bashing heads a little bit center and Pam is you
maybe there's a little bit misunderstanding between some of the younger players and what actually Rob wants to do because
the same story for them is the fact that every time they're about to go for an execute, they seem to lose a body.
And then they're about to call the three to one and they lose another body.
So they're never actually able to get coordinated and sync.
And that is just unfortunately, it's something that's just going to have to come in time.
Yeah, absolutely. And I think DZ is clearly reading into it.
I mean, they're understanding that their late round execute is never going to be successful.
So why not go for the early aggression, get the first pick, fall into favor, and then turtle up?
And that's exactly what we're seeing. They get the first pick, and then they just turtle in as Cloud9.
Not really problem solving, more just trying to force a situation, forcing a body after a body.
I mean, we saw even in that round in the electrical with the Ying. If the Ying wins that round,
we've probably talked in a different sense, but then it's just one player, one right after the other,
falling short and this has really was cloud nine's issue yesterday and they're attacking half they weren't problem solving
It was just looking at what's in front of them. How can we force a situation into our hand instead of actually looking at okay?
How can we swing this into our favor without forcing a couple bodies to be the result for it?
Yeah, we saw even on that basement round
They got into a great position to go for a plant behind the pillar
But unfortunately they already said there was a trip to the Chonka and the smoke so you can't plant
Pam is he's calling flood the whole rest of teams not flooding. So it's just again
There's a little bit of communication issues because they are that young team
But they are on their strong side
It's really that what we can kind of take out of this like they are the third best defensive team in the league
But
Is it gonna be enough I generally don't think it's gonna be enough regardless of the bands
I don't know I'm not gonna even focus too much on the dance here what I am worried for is when you start on defense
If you don't have a strong talking half you can at least kind of fix it correct the things that were wrong going into the next half
Starting off on your attacks and having a horrible start now
You're switching to your defense which arguably is cloud 9's favorite place to be but having such a brutal attack strategy and not
Clearly being in comms with each other does worry me. Yes on defense. You are forced to come a little better
You are closer together, but you're still being picked apart the same way
I'm just I'm just not honestly finding a lot to hold on to with the crowd nine roster
All right, well, it's time to get back into the game.
And guys, I know you might be watching your team play
in the World Cup right now, but we have a game on our hands.
You have to get this player for Part 9.
Can they stay in the challenge to get into playoffs?
Oh, 100%.
And yes, that's going to be a challenge.
I mean, look, the same grace to Cloud9,
because it's very much being on defense,
and then statistically being very good in that regard
in the states.
So it's going to come down to this second half down.
Once again, bail out another poor attack at half,
with a solid defensive path, but they've left themselves basically now no room for error
because this is not a normal game of siege where, you know, maybe you can give up the
one round, it's easy to get overtime secure, it's easy to get a single round, Cloud9 are
knocked out of play-offs.
Yep.
It's too straight.
They have to be even more perfect than perfect, as opposed to a match where, you know, you
you can maybe push a note here and skate through it.
Absolutely spot on.
It's a three point deficit between Cloud9
and Fafani Sports and Shopify Rebellion
tied above them currently.
So to reiterate even a six round streak here,
all three points, it may also ultimately be for nothing,
but a continue to fight.
It's been a rough day in the office for them so far.
The only round Clio9 able to obtain was that attack in towards one of the worst sides of
the game.
Over towards Kitchen.
Like Zero, I've just been phenomenal across the board so far and have been locked in from
round one.
See what I can cook up here on the attack.
Bit of potential here with J.I.K.K. on the buck.
You took their instance as well, can be festivitated by the floor as it looks like there's a bomb
bit of info on the side to be fair the pressure from below has a factor in
a bit of a tarot the darks here to get the opening kill to start the second half
and put cloud nine to the sword and not drop a single round and lost paper
it's another open pick for DC. Dominated this area of the match thus far. Now a heavy reliance
I'm just going to stall out trying to buy some time. Big from Uzi and he's been solid
so far for Clown 9 in a match where they need to win. He's definitely given his team his
best 60 seconds left now it's a 4v4 and you still got shield up with the clash towards
Electrical to block off at least one avenue for the attack of dark zero hence the rotation towards blue
To try and navigate that and newest from blue finds the kill on to monk Eddie pushes forward
To the hallway and gives the kill to dark zero on a silver platter. You don't have to deal with the clash
When they're just walking at you new as with another one center falls in IT and with that
Cloud nine will not make playoffs
Oh devastating for cloud nine. It's been a rough group stage for them
And I'm sure they'll probably know we basically at this point that their time is done
And I think they'd be probably the first to admit that with a performance like this today it was
Probably not deserved. It's been tricky. Darker0 read them inside out
And I think they'll probably go on here to defeat them in a 7-1 fashion
which would also then in a way leave Cloud9 susceptible to finishing even lower in the
standings if SSG are able to have a good day later.
And so it's a bit of a gloomy mood for Cloud9.
The replay package of that last round though, DarkZero, newer in particular, Terminator.
They've got a charge forward and just wreak havoc.
Six-one the score line, plant nine a done, a line through their name.
Dikes are searching still for all three points.
Yeah, I mean you've got to give it to Tarsier, I mean they've just been absolutely outstanding
in this match, haven't put a foot wrong except for a sight choice.
Otherwise this might have actually been 70 territory.
If they don't like to go to kitchen cafeteria, genuinely think this is 7-0.
Dominated the opening kills, they've gotten the majority of the multi-kills.
They only allowed one plant in that first half, which of course was on the site which shall not be named.
Unfortunately, the Cloud Diner, I think the most disappointing thing from this match is this was a game to try and get into playoffs.
And even if they had a one it may still not have been enough, but maybe they could have at least
bowed their heads out of the stage with a bit of grace. They've been completely slaps silly.
Good information from Sensor on the poles. Obviously they're going to play this one out
and try and mitigate the scoreboard damage. They're no longer playing for anything more than that.
I'll tell you what, Cloud9 on defense could probably do with Patrick Beach because I just
looked across for the Aussies and he just hit the most.
It's staying safe, I think I've ever seen.
That was beautiful.
The Aussies are staying alive at the moment in the World Cup.
Fortunately, this thing can't be saved to Cloud9.
My location is clear.
I'm at 45 on the clock here, full of DZ.
You two are layering potential at the countdown,
and they'll charge forward.
Kino in the front line.
Now, what's Santa meant to do about that?
Needed a little bit of help from the others in the back line.
and he falls to the NJR.
Kino can go for the plant, and they got the cover, smokes down as well.
Pampersuit, that's his job on the water.
Glasses activate, he got the kill.
He gets the second onto NJR and bailed from Monk
from that first four hold, and suddenly 2v2, Pampersuit just activating.
Although a little too late.
It's only downside to it.
Bolt's down on a one versus two, and he's got 60 seconds to
to think his way through this, definitely doable.
Doable, often Narnia at the moment though,
so he's gonna have to take the time
to pose himself, create a bit of space,
he'll give away the audio cue as well on the drop.
It's a position we've been known.
Cloud9 cover the cross to at least initiate the trade.
No flashes for faults to break it.
Oh, the swing from Pampasers,
He does get the kill, did potentially give an opportunity, but Cloud9 will get a second.
While they will not make playoffs, they're not out of this game just yet.
It does somewhat feel inevitable, and even with the round win, you can see the faces
probably tell the full story.
Yeah, as I said before, the vibe is not really vibing for Cloud9, and it's hard to fault
them.
It would be a pretty bad feeling at the moment.
I'll continue to play out though and see what they can salvage from this one
DZ with a little bit still to fight for I suppose
Getting another win on the board
Funny around there with pambon
the smoke criminal
Utilizing that ward in util and the glasses really efficiently
Unfortunate for faults didn't really have the ability there to try and break that cross
4 round deficit, and we're going to go back to this painful side.
I think we're getting trolled at this point.
Reiterate coming into today, they've only been seen twice in the region.
This match alone, it's now doubled it from 2 to 4.
We'll see if we can keep the 100% attack a win rate.
maybe this is a cloud nine's way of just saying you know what we've done for the day and
Usually we'll get the down maybe not
Well hang on he can get back up and to be fair even
The florist could still have a pretty big impact in this round low health sit outside get Ratero's in
It seems as if he will get brought back into the round
So it's yeah, not the end of the world for Dark Seraph for false to be a low health
He's gonna keep a pretty chill for the next minute or so anyway
Let the others get to work and he can just play a drone game for the next minute
Shocked around to play for J9-0 in response to the Goyo
We'll be able to pop some of those canisters default or since dealt with 90
You see what ultimately DC with the posture for here considering they don't
No!
Primary hard breach to be reliant upon that potential though, with newers.
His graphic basement, it's also soft wall lobby so that hard breach is not as relevant as it otherwise might be.
40 on the clock, plenty of lurking from dark zero at the moment, eager to try and find an open up.
It's been a big strength for them.
Only one round so far in this entire match, Cloud9 have gotten the opening kill.
It was round four. Funnily enough, the only round, or one of the only rounds I were able to win,
the only in the first half.
It's very slow pacing from Dark Zero, so this site is usually one way, a bit of an attacking flood
either top floor or direct towards site. It doesn't actually feature usually a lot of plants.
It's usually just a flurry of kills.
But with 60 seconds left on the clock, still a 5v5, so DC have kind of played this in a slow manner, they've really tried to work out the way in which Cloud9 are defending this.
Yeah, the defence peels back, mobby re-o'd off.
Good compromise, 9-0 here, and it could be a little bit of a funnel effect here, I don't know if the split's been particularly effective.
I hope they can kill for Cloud9. Just their second of the entire game.
Oh, easy one of the Kino just slips on by.
NJR, I'll talk about him having an impact game. There's two impactful kills.
Three versus three. Spots out the clash.
Got even a little bit of damage in the center.
Ampazood low inside the cafeteria. They do still have Uzi with a Zodo and a Nitrocell.
Airjet out from NJR, has one more.
Falts the tack into the corner and go for the plant.
The cover is NJR.
Easy on the Pampasoo, but they lose Falts, so that's no longer the plant going down.
Shotgun from Nuis into the face, only sent to left.
Four seconds, gonna go in, stick this plant, watch for the cover.
Nuis is, jeez, leaving it to the very last second.
He even flashed his teammates.
Nuis will not be able to get out in time to deny NJR against the kill.
What a strange old round.
The Kitchen and Cafeteria remains at a 100% attack of win rate, with Cloud9 being eliminated
from playoffs into 7-1, win 4 of Dark Zero, so a 7-2 win for Dark Zero, and a strange
old game of Nighthaven Labs.
A wonderful performance, they've locked themselves in for Top 3 and they are set for playoffs.
on the three points.
Did you expect the game to go like it went today?
I mean, we just came up and executed.
Very clear, sounds good.
I wanna talk about what happened before this game
because we got to see the play against it a little bit.
You guys seem to be, I think,
a very stark contrast to Cloud9.
They were like meditating.
You guys were dancing, vibing.
What song, what was going on?
They were singing some Justin Bieber, I think.
Ooh, what song?
I don't know. I'm not a believer.
Oh, you're not a believer.
Dang.
I'm just ecstatic.
That's the day we're vibing, though.
Nick, look, I already know the answer here.
You guys got 7-0 yesterday.
No surprise, right?
I'm sure you don't care about that at all.
Right.
But is there anything you actually learned from that game?
Do you think getting 7-0 to it there right before playoffs
is of any benefit for you guys?
Yeah, I definitely think so.
I think a lot of what happened yesterday
was what we've been trying to improve. It's just like a lot of very small like fundamental things
and like for example like hesitating a little bit on our fast stuff or not transitioning our mid
rounds very well and also just dying in like kind of like lazy ways like I think they had like a
nitro pick like literally every round so it kind of like all just compounded and bit us hard obviously.
Yeah absolutely well congratulations on the win here today kind of want to talk about looking a
a little further into playoffs now you guys are gonna end up playing wild card yet again
I'm sure they're your favorite team to play seem like spiker always has a good time playing you guys from what he told us
How do you feel about that matchup that it is gonna be wild card yet again?
I mean, I don't care we play
Yeah, spiker spiker was happy. Yeah, he was saying that's gonna be a free way. And that's gonna be free. Yeah
And yeah, I wouldn't look immediately, but there is somebody dancing behind you
Oh, he just moved out. That's great timing. Did you see that was going on behind you or not?
No, I didn't see that.
Well, anything you want to say to the fans to thank them for their support all the way to second in the league?
Yeah, I mean, obviously I always appreciate any support we get. I think it's a very lucky position that people are cheering for us.
And we put in the work to try to make you all happy.
Awesome. Thank you so much for your time, Anjara, and good luck next week in playoffs.
Yep, thank you guys.
Turns out, the secret recipe to winning games is listening to Justin Bieber before it and vibing with your teammates, but jokes aside, a clean victory is probably what they needed after yesterday.
Yeah, I mean, it's definitely gonna feel really good after getting 7-0ed, and I love what Nick was able to say right there, how much they were able to learn.
I just got that much out of it.
Well, I did coach him. I wasn't with him a little bit. I phrased it in a way he had.
He had to give me something there, but it was honestly a really good answer in the sense
of like they know what their issues are now. That's exactly what you want the regular season
to be for. And now going into playoffs, they know some of these issues. They're already
working on them. There was none of that was happening today. They were not getting delayed
by C4's day. There was no layering happening against them today. It was just easy domination.
Yeah, we were listening to the calls too. I mean, it was very clean and concise from
side of folds even in that last round is very good understanding of how they can
go for that execute and be able to go ultimately toe-to-toe with them and then
close out that series but I do want to highlight cloud nine I mean it was this
was relatively a fantastic stage from this team and really want to give them
their flowers it was a right step in the direction it was good changes that
they made arguably I could maybe see this team going into the next stage as a
very formidable opponent with more time underneath their belt maybe a roster
change might need to have and maybe get a little more veteran experience on
there not going to point out anyone in particular they'll save that for stage
two, however, but all in all, I am really proud to see this cloud nine roster really hit the
strides that they were heading. Just unfortunate that this is what ultimately ended their campaign
today. Yeah, they turn a lot of heads. There's no way they should be bowing their heads or anything
like that right now. Like they should be extremely proud of the season that they had. They have so
many rookies on this roster. It's the first season that they added Pambazoo and Pambazoo even said
in one of the earlier interviews they had like two weeks before practice, even before this stage.
They're obviously behind the curve on a lot of the other teams going on right now.
They just need time. That's the sad reality.
And that's where there's much of things are really shaping in and locking in for the top four.
And moving on to our third match of the day, we have 100 thieves going up against SSG.
400 thieves as they are currently in fourth.
You know, locking in upper bracket with an extra life would be great.
Is there a world they can still get overtaken by anybody else today?
So we were crunching the numbers.
There is a world, and this game actually is important for them.
if they want to secure a top four spot, they can't go in here and just get seven out. I know Matt said
he's going against Dream, one of his favorite players, and but he's not going to gift him any
free wins today. They do need to win a couple rounds to secure themselves in the top four position
and that top four spot is very important. You obviously it's a double elimination bracket.
You want two chances just in case something goes wrong and at first game they're able to go down
into the losers and still have a chance to make playoffs. Yeah, I mean so if you're looking at the
numbers they need to end this series at a 7-3 at the minimum they can't go
underneath that if they do lose anything past that they do lose in a 7-2, 7-1, and
lower there is a chance for SR to be able to overthrow when it does go to that
round count speaking if SR wins against Outlast which the likelihood of that
he's probably pretty good probably yeah yeah banking on the fact that you know
Outlast doesn't want to get me as I think you can pretty much hit it but still a 7-3
has to be somewhat dominant in a way you can say especially given that SSG
actually put up a fight yesterday they didn't go down without just anything from them. Now the main
question 403 is they put on a win streak three game win streak since playday six what has been that
main thing that helped them improve? Well for me it's been their defenses we've talked about them
way back in week six when they were going against five fears and we've named it the battle of the
worst defenses basically and look how much they improved since then I mean 35% they were bottom
of the barrel we talked about it with hot and cold in the interview yesterday he's like I hope
improving well I definitely think they are 53% now they are actually more in line
up the middle of the pack and their defensive conversion rate is also up
there as well at 65% and they obviously put themselves into a great
position here being in the top four defense is a big reason why because
attack they're also up there they're also like in the top four or five teams to
me that's a signal of like this is one of the teams that should be at EWC
yeah and that's obviously something you want to see from the start of the stage
to the very end that you are making all the progress needed to look as good as you possibly can
to then get into playoffs and only further that goal post and making EWC and then seeing what
this team looks like at an international level because we know some teams are good domestically
but once they get to the international side of things that's what it tends to taper off. Now I
don't see that with this team given the experience on it but we won't know until we see what happens.
Yeah unfortunately for the opponents for today that EWC conversation is off the table due to
yesterday's result SSG will not be making it through the playoffs anymore like we said they
They almost pushed it over time against Shopify Rebellion, but was it enough to get themselves in the race?
Now, the main question is, since this is their final play,
then Kiwi won't be seeing them until September, what is there for to play for?
I think there's SI points to play for.
That is arguably the most important thing going into next stage for them,
is to not only have a good stage, but to finish this one,
that I believe they're currently in 8th place right now, if they can get 7th,
that is a total of 25 extra SI points put in them at 100 SI points.
I believe they're in like the top 40 right now for SI points and teams in terms of ball okay qualification
Obviously, they need to make good progress in stage two to be able to do it
But there is still these SI points on a line and we've seen scenarios in SI sometimes qualifying based off
What a couple points over the other five points ten points over the other I believe there was that one scenario with BRK
And who was the other team was it BDS? BDS, yeah, exactly five points made that difference
So if there is anything to be playing for here that we should be seeing from them
it is for those SI points and hopefully with the time off, similar to Cloud9's situation,
we can see a new revitalized SSG going into the stage 2.
Yeah, you hope you don't need those extra 25 SI points.
Yeah, you don't want to rely on it.
You don't want to rely on it.
But also, like, do they really want to end their season on another LA?
We took to Twitter after all those games yesterday.
They were probably the team that was the most sad after losing their game.
They obviously lost out on playoffs.
We saw a lot of them disappointed in their own performances.
A lot of them disappointed in the whole team's performance.
Well, they have one more game right now to at least do something here dreams going against three-fifths of his former team on on wanted
We got four out of five of them in the lobby
They're gonna probably be a lot of chatter between probably more fits actually it sounds like you're against them
Never right never no bias right there is still things to play for in this game
So I want to see where this final game goes through that at least the final game for SSG
We know there is still a lot of play for 400 things as well. It seems like we're headed to Fortress
Yeah, I like this map for both teams, both teams are very comfortable on it.
I mean, what we saw from a hundred thieves in their series, one thing I really like was their control of the map.
They did a very good job of understanding how they can force players out of position and then be able to take position
and then also go for those late round executes. For the side of SSG, I mean, yesterday we saw this and again, it was just missing key points of contention for them.
So I think if they can just fix those small mistakes yesterday, which that's honestly what I was seeing was a lot more small mistakes than big mistakes from SSG.
I think they can really right their wrongs coming back into the sport.
It's a decision-making.
They actually look really good on attack on this map, so I'm excited for them.
But it's that decision-making.
When they're in the site and they don't know what to do, where's that leadership calm, guys?
What's the next step, right?
That's what we need to see for them in this game.
Hunter Thieves, though, I think this is a good map that I don't think they should be
able to get that step or three-seven on this map.
Yeah, I don't think the certain area.
I don't think the certain area.
Pretty strong.
Their defenses have been better, so I think this is a nice safe map for them to at least
get enough points, but of course, they're going to be looking for the win.
They will be in you mentioned the attack for space station there
It's where the defensive side that you mentioned has improved for on a thieves really will get tested in this scenario as well now
Since the pressure is on a hundred he's a little bit more any player in particular that we are looking at you already mentioned Adam
Yesterday is big hero for this team who has that most pressure on their shoulders. Ooh most pressure. I mean I was gonna call out case
And for I was gonna say I want I want to see case
Yeah, really like have a pop-up performance that not against that just above the right
Yeah, not against Alex, above the rest,
but something that we talked about with Kacin.
And again, I'm glad to see him starting to find his rhythm.
But I want to see it very early.
That's the most important thing for me.
That's really going to make a difference for Andre Thieves
to be able to push passing barriers if Kacin really
can start out strong and finish strong as well,
especially in the best of one series.
And that's only because we're hard on him.
We know how good he is.
Absolutely.
He's a generational fragger.
This is your last chance until stage two
to really put your stamp on the game.
Well, can Kacin replicate a result from yesterday?
Can you help us team look in the top four position?
Let's go find out on Fortress.
Well, what a battleground for us to get underway.
Hundred thieves looking for top four here in stage one
for SSG, Gabe tried to put it as best as he possibly could.
25 outside points, something, can they get up to seven?
They're not gonna really do any better than that though.
And certainly the underdog is coming into this matchup,
but if there was one saving grace for SSG
coming into this map,
the record that they can
potentially possess on a map
like fortress. Even really
yesterday, 57 loss against
Shopify rebellion who have been
clearly very good this stage. I
mean, that's not a horrible
result for a team that's in the
bottom three teams and 100
thieves. It's not really being a
successful map for them either.
So 100 thieves get to kind of
test fortress ahead of playoffs
SSG get a map there a little
bit more comfortable on. We'll
It should be an interesting matchup. SI points on the line, certainly as you've already described it.
There's also not just the opportunity here for SSG to jump ahead in the standings, gain an additional 25.
They're also at risk of losing potentially 40 SI points dropping down tonight.
If five years go on to win, SSG Blues, of course, five years go on to win in a dominant fashion.
There's a world in which they could actually drop further down the standings as well.
Um, I don't think SSG really gonna have that too much at the forefront of the mind at the moment
It's gonna be very much a case of just not wanting to end the stage on an owl
It's been of course disappointing for them up until this point
They haven't quite played to the potential that I think this roster has and certainly the expectation that they would have had on themselves
heading into this stage where a top six for their pedigree was
Probably not that outlandish of an estimate. So yeah, should be a pretty chill game
I don't think it's gonna be the most intense of the night for sure, but
And if you just see how it plays out, and then again on the flip side, if 100 D's don't
very much be looking to consolidate their position in the top four, because I wouldn't
put a push up a firebell in to go hand later today.
And if 100 D's put themselves at risk, they could jump out of the top four and not having
that parachute in the playoff bracket can sometimes C teams get unstuck.
You don't really want to start in the lower bracket.
Yeah, even if the reward is playing M80, which I think for any team in the region, it's probably not a punch.
Yeah, it's a free punch. I mean, that's really the way to kind of put it, is you'd rather have that chance, have that shot, and also you win that, you go to EWC.
So you just get the automatic qualification. So for 100 thieves, that's what you're potentially locking up in this game against Spadestation.
Get that free punch against M80 and who knows what could happen.
And I think also with these sort of games, what you don't want to do side of is form, you know, you want to be playing well ahead of next week, you want to close your group stage off as best possible.
And typically the best teams will just always be locked in regardless of the opponent. I mean, SSG has still got real quality on this roster. You can't take them lightly.
and there's still one three games three maps this stage so like that they're
certainly more than capable especially on fortress starting with defense
slow start to begin and Fortress will play that way
the bands as well for this first half kind bandit snake claws see the snake supplemented
by the day more selection here from hot and cold in the opening round and an attempt to
info gather and dedicate hard breach from case and on the ace in response to the denial
bands. Keep an upcase on, we need to take a bit of a battle down below.
Uncold also attempting fate on the vert, three targets available for him. 60 seconds though
remains, so the time has bled quickly in this opening round, find your thieves with little
in the way of reward. Trying to cold active down below, trying to lay a pressure. The
three stacks still on the first wall here from the attack, now stored out over the woods
Tell us there's it's first we leave the charge on the baby
Yeah, they're gonna pick up the pace down spirits knows that wants to lead the way gun up through the court corridor a little
Damage has been done this round yet still 5v5 as the time starts to dwindle
SSG should feel a little bit more comfortable here on command bathroom that they can just sit back place that force
100 days to have to rush in better fit of course being you do still have that black be a case of fine
the open field on the dream still providing pressure as well from that first floor is hot
and cold spirit able to connect on to Aiden and even though time is starting to run on
it's all just the kills flowing one direction as rival two will fall to Gomez only rate is
left this is on the verge being flawless it will be flawless 100 thieves able to crack top floor
to begin here on fortress wonderful attacking ground I was looking at the statistics as well
command bathroom is. The most
attack aside a site on fortress
in the region 54% from 28 rounds
played. Those games sits quite
literally bang on 50 50 and then
it's a whopping 73% defensive
win rate on waiting and cafe,
so that's going to be the map in
a nutshell.
Yeah, it was quite a build up
Only major action in the last 30 seconds
able to overwhelm and flood
Spirit's playing a good frontline there with black beard Gomez as well
Getting three picks in the round
Please with that and a solid start for a team that will be looking to
Get yet another win on the board
As you're alluding to before
Gain that momentum and that confidence heading into that bracket
solidify themselves in
in fourth seed, and it's crazy to think that you're only one game away from any WC if you
start up in that position. And if this stage is to be anything like 20-25 stage 2, important
to remember that MAD didn't have a hot start to that bracket either, so I really don't think
it's the worst position to be in to play them first, although you could also probably make
fair argument that the gap between the M8 and the 100 thieves is notable at the moment.
At least it has been through the best of ones, but the best of threes can be a whole different
program.
Round number two for this particular match dorms and games the follow up side of choice.
We'll see what the tempo and the pacing continues to be here if 100 thieves again.
around 28 seconds was the opening kill there was a big effort on the vert down
below in the last round this time though Adam punished early within the first
minute falls and so a hundred days on the back foot
yeah this is the swing side to your SSG this is the one that you really want to
be able to win defensively knowing that the next site to come should be pretty
good for you as well as Giddy does get the trade on some hot coals
Gomez then gets him we're just going back and forth and leads us to where we kind of began with the one
extra player in favor for the defense
From 4v5 to 2v3
The bad news for Hunter thieves those that lost quite a bit of their utility in this round and then we'll cream flora's twitch
Spirit still alive of the Monty can
Well certainly help lead case and forward it's gonna be a
pretty much off to him in this round to find the kills certainly spirits can get
kills at the pistol as well. At the very least they do still have time remaining
gaspaves for dream to impacts plus the key to baron's the agent have to go minus
levels to deal with Vulcan canisters but I think largely it should be still
available on site. There's quite a bit of work to do here for a hundred days.
They have a delicate balance now of experience in terms of gaining information versus playing
a little proactive and aggressive and on the front foot of the Monty.
And they do the next to find themselves in a central position to play in.
It's the one player to cover.
This is a tricky position for 100 thieves.
As you noted as well, a lot of U-Tool standing in their way, probably the ballers' plan
to tend to stall out, keeping out.
He's probably still laying in their way as well.
It's a low percent.
This is a 1 in 10 chance at best here if I'm good at it.
I thought you were going to say 1 in a million.
No, I'm not quiet.
I was going to say 100.
Oh, hey, well, it's a 1v1.
That's what it is.
A 1 in 1 chance.
Spirit, can he win this against Dream?
Trying to play the guard break battle.
Time running out.
He knows at some point needed to go for the kill.
Dream does get the 9 kill.
SSG to hold on well that got very spicy very quickly I
Don't know about that guard break battle at the end there
I think I've seen one that log in my life just right on it on it on
goodness me
Yeah, I wasn't gonna say one in a million I was gonna say one in one in a hundred and I thought that was a bit far fetched even
Wait ten was probably underestimating just how
influential, the one to could be in that position and positionally as well as a
duo they weren't in too bad of a spot. I thought that the utilaring there at the
end might have had a little more influence but given the approach maybe
not really the case. I'm gonna break it down to the one versus one.
I've lost count at five breaks four breaks and then the ballet that was intense
Broom just kind of beat him into submission in the engine
Stop
I've never seen it prolonged like that football anyway one five
And it'll be waiting and
as I said, I mean this is the one that's significantly high defensive win rate in the North American League this stage.
Doesn't make it a guarantee, just because it's a high rate doesn't mean it's locked in here for SSG.
I mean, they're gonna go into to play off certainly as a team but considering where they are going into playoffs, just sort of in this full spot and looking to solidify it on the final day, well, they're not a guarantee feed obviously.
I think where they would be sitting provided they win this and they're gonna have a very good opportunity.
contact no real damage he's just in this early stalemate still but it's taken
low and it's the took a payload from Gomez so he's down just under half health
not in a good way to begin this from Gomez actually then goes on and finds
We open a kill on to raid big pick onto the solace quite a bit of info for space station now taken
Yeah, it's a lot of horizontal posturing at the moment from hundred thieves that committing to it
You're gonna flush this defense back into a corner both figuratively and pretty much literally as well
A lot of this though, just allotated by the Blackbeard spirits that continue to play the front line.
Oh, it's also a Gomez, more action, but immediately a trade back.
Blast gas fave to be deployed, still a little bit of info in the bulk available here for space station as they take measure.
The pressure is absolutely mounting.
Oh, Aiden! Played that perfectly.
Guard break over the Blackfeet, expecting one behind.
That hits the headshot onto Spirits as well.
Job done from Aiden.
Two versus two.
Jason was able to now push forward.
And the shot come barely.
Darzi got the intel onto rival.
Connects the shot.
Now 1v1.
A second 1v1.
In a row.
But this time it's case and stroke to finish it off.
Dream.
10 seconds has the long angle has the DMR and has the win 2 to 1 in favor of
space station yeah good composure there from dream classic DMR medium to long
range holds the line holds his nerf and it's a pretty clean conversion from him
in the end there and it's back to back rounds from SSG with standing the
horizontal pressure there in the third round we didn't treat to actually see
what the additional bans will end up being here from both respective rosters. What's been posing
problems for them so far and what they want to eliminate going forward. So, the Glio,
we've seen that in a couple of rounds so far in terms of stall that wasn't actually present there
in the last round from SSG but has been favoured by Giddy so far and especially when you start
returning to the top floor in particular you think about the choke points on Fortress and Goyo
thrives in that kind of situation it's typically two channel on the top floor especially for the
map clears so I think we pretty much an influential army talk about infiltrating
this is a nasty two-gate and around the fighting moment fighting with adam and spirits
two versus two, filters down, dream looking in and someone mentioned me back to back clutches
and absolutely spot on.
Dokka B as well tonight will be unavailable again.
And in both clutches as well, they're in very different ways, by the guard break spam and
then into a long angle DMR.
I think that's probably in terms of the OP3 rounds, the sort of scoreline I think we'd
come to expect on fortress 2-1 and then I'm probably expecting this to maybe be 4-2-1
territory.
I'm a little surprised that I actually didn't go unbanned the twitch just to kind of throw
that outplayed in the opening three rounds has impacted a lot of the line-ups that SSG are
kind of bringing a lot of trap utility, not to be actually only played once, but
there's been a very influential operator after the recent changes,
and I don't think the shield ban is ever going to be there on the third when you've left open,
the rest you can't really ban one or the other away. They're showing proficiency on both Blackbeard
Monty you're gonna get the one extra fan it's probably not the right way so yeah look I mean
the docker bee is fine but see how these next three rounds play out certainly the loss of the
the Goya is not ideal in Fortress. Heading through games well he wasn't expecting rival
oh indeed at the door I want to swing I've been killed for space station and look they're lively
here in this match it's a map that clearly they've got good results on 100 thieves not
has proficient here on Fortress. I think ahead of playoffs, just wanted to strengthen their
map pool, get some experience, raid, good patience, falls back. Doesn't need to take that fight.
They're up 5v4. Happy to give the ground over.
Okay now I'm going to pursue pressure on Atom's position. Just need to be able to
minefield now with that flank threat. I don't think to know as well as the sheer volume of
barbed wire in this round for SSG6 total.
You take away the Goyo, but then in some respects the barbed wire can fill it.
That's somewhat simple.
I've also only got it as a proficient, but laid out in these trade points, as you can
see, and absorbed utility and time from 100 thieves.
We now have 50 staff guns on the clock, two candles cut in cold, you're probably gonna
make the call for the clear here onto Aiden, facilitated by a bit of info now found.
It's curious what the view is of.
It'd be intriguing to see how they look to try and utilize his pressure and try and make up for the band deficit they now face.
Once again, leaving little time on the clock, 100 thieves.
This is exactly how it played out back in the opening round and back then they were able to just storm the site, get the kills and win.
Good start from Adam onto Aiden.
to 80. Gomez expecting maybe a flank but no one's coming his way. And certainly with that time
continuing to expire you don't have the time to watch for the flanks. You have to push forward.
Push forward they do a get spirit's active on the Monty. Found the pistol kill. Dream surely
can't do it for a third straight round. It's hot and cold. It's going for the flank. Dream knows
that we want to cover. Goes to the shotgun. They're both on top of each other. Got the down onto Gomez
but hot and cold finally shuts the dream down looking for a third clutch in a row but not to be
for dream. A plus for ref at their dream dashing deep down the first but unable to withstand the
trade attempt. And so the match will tide and once again tack timeout called 100 thieves.
probably looking at his tidy things up a little over roll
pacing and tempo has been a little slow but again that that's good that can be
fortress also it's stylistically it's not a huge problem
looking to try and activate spirits in a lot of his occasions as well in the
shield play he's been rather effective as you would expect this is good timing
really take the tack time out close to the halftime roll swap and then pens
Yeah, I mean look, you gotta be somewhat content with what you've seen from SSG so far, I mean
you could have easily in these kind of games when there's not really a lot to gain, you
throw the towel in essentially, not throw the towel in maybe that's a bad way to frame
it but you maybe can expect them to not come out with ferocity, intensity and desire and
It's definitely been there.
They've been standing up to 100 deans.
100 deans know that they're getting tested here on Fortress.
The round's been closed, it's spotted, started off with the flawless round from 100 deans
and then one alive, one alive and two alive.
Two, two split in terms of the opening kills.
It's been a close match. It's been solid. Two rounds to go as well to close this half out.
But for 100thies, getting the second attacking round, I think puts them now in the best position.
They get two free swings to close this half out.
Third round really puts them in a good spot.
The SSJ are going to arguably need to get probably both of these two rounds to close out the half.
We think there's a ample opportunity going on to their attacking half.
37% attack team, so similarities to Cloud9 in terms of attack of win rate, struggle on
the attack, but then do quite decent on the defense.
That's been plaguing on this stage.
Although 100thies are not a strong defensive team as well, because they kind of had this
interview question.
Bottom 3 to defense, hitting at 53%.
So that's going to be a good test for them too in the second half.
Watch it. Enemy got that point.
Enemy devices are down!
Shove, go on, go on, go on.
So then, there's the factory in the Candela's early here from Spirits.
Is this a fake-out old tower?
Evidently, there's no drop to follow.
Suddenly captures dreams, attention, and giddy as well, all eyes.
I'm just being so...
Okay, also currently on the rooftop that may take this as an opportunity to take space on the opposing side of the map
I think it'll be pretty short-lived in terms of distraction as SSG will clue in that
There was a fake out sooner rather than laid off
Bit of a no contest though in terms of the map control ready to peel
Yeah, but Kandela's wasted it. I mean that he's three now the one is available in this round. So it's not as
as much of a crotch in terms of utility.
For 100 thieves, I think Spirit has the license
to just kind of throw those out a little bit more.
That's still something to consider.
If anything, probably had them
on the grid at some point in this round,
if you can get some information
with the Quan Hive Launcher,
once they get a little bit closer towards the site,
put pressure then into dorms games,
then be able to play off that info,
certainly gonna be crucial for 100 thieves
when it's probably not too much more utility
to help them. Shock drones are done. Get rid of the traps. Thatcher and A's combo, you're
done with any one left. So I think, yeah, getting info here at the B's is going to be
crucial.
Sam was deployed, and Spirits lurking close, Aiden planes the U-Kilbo, so it's a strong
start for SSG and their anchor positions are going to be tricky to un-lodge.
Now they're swinging, they're getting aggressive on the front foot, this is really nice from
Space Station, easily their best round that we've seen in the half.
They understand, okay, 100thies are now starting to push in, let's go at them.
We're not just going to fall back and allow them to take this space as they push into
the site, they get aggressive, it's a flawless round, that's how you want to play Siege.
Get in the face of your opponent at the right time, timed perfectly.
SSG take the lead again, they go through two, one more to go in this half, but there are
real chance at winning this game if they win this next round. Crew for round coming up.
They've come to play tonight. And yeah, it starts to raise questions as to where's this
SSG being because we know how good this squad can play at their best and difficult to say if that
is the case right now but they're certainly doing some good stuff inside of the server,
the proactive siege that they're delivering has been rewarded for the most part. Number two,
four score line would be pretty comfy fortress three three starts to turn the
needle may be able to get back to 100 things
in terms of the most optimal outcome as a completely neutral observer it is an
SSG win here it would be big in terms of bangings and their side points but it
would leave that door just slightly ajar for that fourth place for Shopify or
or even by extension for fighting sports, to maybe steal it at the death.
Five seconds left before insertion.
Certainly not a nothing game for 100 things.
Up four is where you want to be for that run to EWC,
a top four finish group stage.
Again, to clarify,
you mean that you're just one best of three away from qualifying?
It's a tantalizing prospect.
Under these words, they've worked so hard up to this point
to let it slip and find a plate agapert. So they look to lock back in here, final round off the
half on the tank. Mix success. And it's a very different approach to this site compared to last
time out. We think about the homarmeside horizontal take, trying to squeeze the defense.
It was a little rough. This time it's a full vert approach with the ram looking to open up lines
of sight flank watch as well available on the grid block but one mainstay or almost mainstay
over the course of the half will be spirits on that shield floated with the ying last round
but back to the familiar mentee.
Bid a presence as well on second floor.
Is this known?
100 these.
Eightor museum.
Raid as well was lurking prior.
it seems as if both will be flushed out temporarily.
It has that sort of tense feeling about it in this round.
Space Station probably get the feeling they're a good shot in this game.
A hundred thieves, no potentially what could be at stake.
We get halfway through.
Made and the only one that's taken damage thus far.
The SSG still wanted to keep good presence around this first floor.
They're moving around nicely, under thieves.
They look just like they're struggling to get a lot of information in the round again,
somewhat similar to the previous round.
They're slowly pushing their way through it.
There's a razor bloom.
Deal with that.
Push back.
So it's just going through this checklist.
It is hot and cold to find the pick onto Giddy.
Boy, that feels like it was desperately needed.
Just the third opening kill of the half for 100 thieves that were starting to lose that
battle at least tie it up three to three fifty seconds on the clock now they can make that move
Adam to double down get rid of the dangerous Aiden surely not down to dream again to be that clutch
minister the one saving grace for SSG though now is the time even in a three versus five this still
feels doable gas babe thrown out from rival nitrous cell from dream still up and with
right on the vigil. Maybe a position not known. And as we get down to the final 20 seconds of this
half, next kill critical, but they lose rival. Raiden Dream will have to pull off a two versus
five clutch, but it's going to be without dream in a 1v5 chance not to happen flawless from 100
thieves as we go to 3-3 to close out this first half. We are very even now at this first half
here but as you already alluded to there's one player on the side of SSG playing against his former
teammates here and he's showing them around a little bit unfortunately seems like. Yeah that's
going to be Dream that we're talking about right now I mean he's right first off their game plan
is very good like they're pressing in 200 D's they're getting aggressive and not afraid to sit back
and then who do we have here it's Dream versus three of his former members on on one of them we
got a little bit of a shield break animation this was actually crazy that I don't know why I thought
Spirit's going to be able to pull that off and there he is again with the Aruni DMR
holding it down for the team and that's what they need. They need to win those clutch rounds.
They need to win those clutch plays and that is exactly what he's there for.
I mean, he almost had that third round as well.
I mean, it fell in that 1v2 when he punched the one guy down.
It was unfortunate that Hot Cold was the one to put him down ultimately.
I mean, no one's better to be able to put him down and shut it down.
But yeah, I mean, as you were saying, I really liked the SSG strategy here.
Even in round five, what I really liked is they were trying to go for that backtake.
They used the utility force them away, 100 thieves, then called for, let's go for a rotate.
Let's start to take the space SSG immediately recognized what they were going for on that pivot
Then went back to a turtle sent some people to go for the flank on top light and then just pinched them once they had them
Where they wanted I mean very very good defense from SSG, but now it's the attack inside
This is where we've seen them have very high highs and then very low lows
So what I want to see from them is one you got to see those comms
Really come to fruition to be clean and concise and understand the direction and then on top of it not
bleeding those bodies get the opening pick on into their favor and then decide be decisive on where you want to execute
Where you want to put your players how you can force scenarios to go inevitably into your favor?
That's what I'm really gonna be focusing here on their space station attack
Decisive is the big one right and and I think all the viewers are now if you want to root for a great game
You're rooting for space station to win these next couple of tax because if hundred things doesn't win
I think it's one more round. Yeah, there is a chance that
that versus SR, if they 7-0, they could pass them
and take that fourth seed and get the upper bracket.
So if we want to root for a game,
we root for space station at the moment.
We love drama.
We love drama, and we love Dream as well.
He's probably one of the most beloved members
of in pro league right now, one of the nicest players.
I think there was a chant about him being sexy as well.
So there's a lot going on for this guy.
No, absolutely.
Got the yin, kade.
It's going to be a typical defense here.
They're just going to get rid of the wall
to now open up the walls.
But I'm not a fan of it.
I'm not a fan of it.
I don't think the walls are a problem here.
I think it's the trap operators.
I think it's the zombies.
I think it's the eras.
I don't think it's the wall.
OK, I do like the clash.
I like the clash.
But yeah, I mean, I hate when it does go to the default resort
and just the wall deny.
I just don't see the issue on fortress.
Yeah, and there's going to be a lot of traps.
But they did get rid of the montane,
so we shouldn't see Dream on montane.
He should be playing something a little bit more aggressive.
Come on, hop on the blackbeard.
We know you want it.
Or the blitz.
How many traps do we see in that first round?
Too many.
One too many.
Oh my god.
They know what's coming.
The fortress is such a good map for the traps.
Yeah.
By far one of the best, in my opinion,
Denari especially can hold down so many of those corridors,
block them off, feed the information,
really like the lineup from 100.
Thor and Aller are the best two traps for me,
because you can place them up high.
So many spots are not going to be
able to find if they don't bring a twitch.
Maybe these traps will just help them in what they need.
One more round for 100 thieves to keep
matters in their own hands.
When it comes to the top four fights,
Can they get that done? Let's find out.
Now let's see if they can get the job done in this second half.
Tired three to three, so it kind of leaves pathways for both of these two teams in the second half.
I think 100 Ds being on defense gives them the better chance, but I'm not counting SSG out of this game.
Yeah, it's enough for them that they're very much lively today.
They're playing some good Siege.
I guess you could make the counter-argument and say well two of the rounds that they won
will one be one closest from Dream.
I mean those are still rounds one and the only reason why I bring that up is maybe the overall
general play 100 D's have been better.
But it doesn't matter and all that matters is round wins since the Space Station have
gotten three of those.
Can they get a couple more to start this second half on their attack?
bathroom to begin so far this is actually the one site does not be won by
defense anyway seen twice before this 100 these are able to win it both times
in the first half
as I pointed out by the place in the death seven by minutes well in terms of
the trap utility bought this round by 100 thieves no twitch for buying SSG they
do of course have the reteras of dream so emphasis on him to clear a lot of this
utility if possible
I have intel on the enemy.
Rival spots one on the radar.
Just outside of the moment.
And it's Adam that did get the opening, it's a 1v1 trade that has continued to pop back
up in recent time.
Hayden does connect on the glass and an opportunity now on the attack for SSG.
Long colds, swing from tower, spots the shadow, hits the head of Dream,
who opted to swing into the incoming gunfire.
But Raid was able to beat out Gomez and leaves now SSG again in the same position they were 30 seconds ago.
Player up to their advantage.
And so far, this attack looks pretty good. Good swing again from Aiden.
The Spirit's got the kill on to Rival, and Spirit will need the final two.
We get shot in the back.
And knows that Aiden is close.
We have seen a couple of dicey clutches so far tonight.
Spirits that would take a big effort from here.
low on HP, but the nitrous cell too late, nets the kill though, into post, dead. Good cover from
Raid. A good attempt from Spirits. Goes down as a pretty good round overall then for the attack
breaking down that defensive layer of traps. So strong on a map like Fortress did a pretty decent
job and circumnavigating that. And we'll see if that is a trend that is to continue over
the course of this half both in I guess the selection of trap comps and then the ability
of SSG to try and negate that. They take lead currently 4-3 narrow as it's very much been
a pack and forth between the two so far. Hundred thieves coming out to play so to SSG.
Look back at the replay package, sharp shot from what we called...
Experienced player then got left in the clutch situation, Nitro was on point but a little delayed.
Easy cover in the end then from raid.
As we jump ship over to dorms and games.
I think also just getting that early attacking round immediately to start the second half
for SSG, just must fill them with the confidence needed that they can actually get a result
in this match.
And the thieves have looked probably not their best here on fortress, they're gettable.
And I don't think it's a case of, you know, 100 thieves having eyes on playoffs if you
will.
They would still like to lock in Top 4.
And this is where you get to that sort of...
What was the magic number? 7-3?
Well, they're on 3, SSG would need 3 straight.
I don't think it would end in 7-3. I'd be very surprised.
But even if it gets to 7-5 in favour of SSG,
that would still be enough if Shopify rebellion would have gone and get a 7-0.
Another open kill for SSG. Need a half of that.
Just starting to feel a little bit of a swing of momentum in favor of space station.
In the end it's just one for one and they do lose the dockabee or the bandit.
It's a small win for a hundred thieves, especially with the way the rate has been playing.
Looks like they're coming out to play.
So I have to sneak out a heavy reliance on Aiden being able to find some info for the
map clear.
It's initially clear but of course we'll be about with heavy resistance soon.
Adamlight's below, doesn't have nitro so keep that in mind for the vert element late.
room control confirmed for SSG in the range hard bridge now I can ensure they
get a bit of perceived pressure or even direct line of sight in towards at the
objective play that from range and could even open a more active route into the
site itself they can try to leverage as well here is that nitro rip so Adam
commits below in a position where if and when the bush does come through the
He could throw that.
Doesn't look like he could hit the mark though.
60 seconds remaining.
Dream's being able to dash across.
Can he start thinking about post-drinks for the plant?
No, 100 thieves!
They pounce into action.
Yeah, that's much better.
Activity from 100 thieves on the defense.
At time, their swings perfectly as SSG were trying to make their way in.
Leaves poor old rival in Giddy with a lot to do.
Giddy does connect onto spirits as the warden goes down.
down. 2-3 is not impossible from here. It's not one of the flush. Giddy throws it out.
Rival able to then swing, get the kill onto Adam. One close left. Doesn't quite win it.
Giddy temporarily went throwing. Oh, a swing from Hot and Cold. Well,
geez, that was quite risky. That would have actually given him a one versus one opportunity
if Giddy had connected. Not to be in a well needed that round win for 100 thieves because
is if they had a loss that it would have been three of the last four rounds the
space station they would have 100% confirmed the momentum in the end all
it does is leave us tired once again
yeah it sure does it's an intriguing game state at the moment with hundreds
these are getting themselves up to the four rounds in terms of that
conversation for the top four finish that they at this point probably done
enough I think it was um lacks on the desk we off stream were mentioning they
probably need about three that they'd like to immediately say at least three
should put them in good stead for the standings they were in alignment for
that even in a worst-case situation where they
bomb out from here SSG find a bit of momentum and close it out in break it's
probably enough but still I wouldn't want to be putting my faith especially
that Shopify match later in the day against Outlast that there is potential if they come out
swinging with a chip on their shoulder they could they could better get the job done especially
with the additional motivation for that top four finish then being on the way from the EWC etc.
I really wouldn't want to put my faith and top four finish into that kind of external
100 things at this point still in good position, but also that and in fact confirm a top 4 just by
getting the result here so. An enticing back and forth so far and they of course will be looking to
continue forward here after a dicey previous round over the Lord Storm's games. Now down below so
So there's only the first four for the first time here in the second half.
And what kind of approach does this team want to take?
They've got the ramp, and with Gideon in position and getting third,
that's at least the initial part of the push.
Let's see how they would to connect the rest of the pieces of the puzzle.
It's charging position!
I'm just calling them really, I think.
I'm gorgeous.
That first minute, I've been in the arm.
It's very checklist heavy.
There's a lot that you gotta do.
Gotta be cautious.
usually is taken behind the attack and this is true haven't been any difference
the Hong Kong searching with the coffee sensor they try and get some kind of
information here for 100 thieves
that the floorboards opened up with the boogie auto breacher from giddy clearly
the goal at some point is gonna be can they get right in this round on the glass
layer the smokes as they push in to fight Gomez bastard what a hit on to Aiden
Well, it almost felt like for a second the Gomez and 100 thieves were the ones on the attack that pressure from bathroom
It's not what SSG needed as they're getting ready for their setup into the site and lose one on that second floor
And now forces with the weather kitty has to go get this killer and luckily he gets it pretty quickly dream to
able to find one from outside on spirits
40 seconds, they're the ones with the man advantage but I do lose the glass, Raid went
down a little too easy, but Rival and Dream able to win there once and Adam in the 1v3.
Once again, Space Station looking to find yet another attacking round.
Yeah, it's put quickly, Adam's under a ton of pressure.
Oh, dead.
Wow.
That's a big round from Dream, I mean, we didn't catch it as we were focused on Giddy
up above it also hit a phenomenal shot but as you said in the meantime got his
pick from that dorm side and that flipped the narrative of the round so quickly
100 ths looked well poised in position they did a pretty good job in avoiding
pressure from the bird and then could have delivered a counter punch on the
top floor with the flank but that missed it was a good parry from SSG in the
around and they now find themselves in a leading position and it only continues to develop
that storyline of the potential jump in the standings for SSG, a couple of SI points and
for a hundred thieves their spot in the top four could potentially be under a little bit
of a threat. It's still a long way to go in this particular matchup but it's probably
playing out in the most entertaining way possible.
Yeah, and it's been back and forth. We've already had the one instance with
Space station winning two in a row back in rounds two three
It's kind of strange that in the game this close 100 decent not one back to back rounds at all
Again even a seven to four result in favor of space station would be quite damning for 100 thieves
And certainly would leave them in a position where that full spot could
for the way of Shopify rebellion who play next after this
and cancel the outlast who have been, well unfortunately the punching bags of the region.
The Hunts' Deeds need to lock him pretty quickly as we head into the 10th round
because they've got a little bit on the line. And credit to Space Station too because with not
as much on the line they're throwing everything at this final game.
And if they can win it, they will jump off cloud nine at least to get up into seven.
Which is relaxing pointed out on the couch. An extra 25 atroids points and a little bit
more money. So certainly still something there for SSG.
And also trying to shelter themselves from the very outside chance that they actually
drop a position today as well.
If 5G is having a good outing themselves.
Now the additional banned spots are Twitch Devolster, the trap play, Bandit Turstow,
the compliment Kairi.
What it called finds the opener in this round however, and it's the blast of the war.
Key piece of the puzzle and opening up some space with smokes.
Aggressive, she can't play from dream.
Flushes into the border.
I don't have a house for this.
Try to have a good look at this.
Okay, trade.
But he set up raid.
He set up raid.
He drew them out and raid was able to connect.
Get them both.
It's nice that you're walking.
That hand somewhat slowed things down.
The downside is you lose the blitz and you've lost the glass.
quite a big part of their attack here in the 10th round is no longer available.
But with half the round still to play 3v3 defense stretched in a little bit
and no Tachanka, no Warden. Now this is a pretty even finish to the 10th round. Still
two Rateros to play with if you ramble. That's a little bit of information.
Flashes that you can dump into sight no longer need to worry about the Warden.
Well, this is a crucial crucial round and don't forget if 100 days lose this they can't get all three points either
dropping that
Not that that's really that big of a deal for them
That's right looks to push up slips into commander loses the battle to Gomez and with beauty fall into casein now
I'll set up the rival to have to clutch the one versus three up close headshot on to Adam is Smith
But not swift enough as he's lost a big chunk of health
And no longer could just rush through the storeway one bullet to the tow
Will see him fall he needs headshots. He needs to isolate these won't be ones
Flash throwing in the only one he had available in case it indeed glass land the single bullet we go five to five
Yeah, the seesaw continues between these two it was a
a little bit of an ugly round there from SSG losing the glass early meant that
they had to try and brute force something to make space and we saw dream
go super deep he was the the sacrificial lamb in a sense to allow raid then to
follow up or anyone really to follow up it was right in that instance nice
double they're able to then use the daemons to protect against museum late
trying to open up play down the hallway it didn't quite work out as they
otherwise would have liked. I think credit to SSG, the way in which they
approached that round from a pretty poor position earlier, it was really positive, not
rewarded. The fucking stage could be very very tough, especially at the deficit.
Nice high, nice high.
Under thieves sounding pretty comfortable, 5, 5, that's a lie.
Dolm's game is up next.
Yeah, it gives us back and forth.
Yeah, it's interesting too, I noticed
in that round, you know, prior to that round,
three straight rounds where the opening kill wasn't converted,
so with hot and cold, getting that first pick and
100 Ds able to go on and win the round, that kind of snapped that strange
little streak that had developed.
Actually just straight up sits at a 50% conversion, which is really, really low by the way.
I don't know if that's just this one match and just the way things have shaped out and
out the map potentially playing a factor.
I would say on average, the conversion for the kills is closer to that 70 to 80% mark
in that range thereabouts.
Yeah, 100th E is currently standing at a 65% conversion, so it actually is a little low,
comparatively to the rest of the league.
SSG73% heading into this day.
At the reference point, the highest is M80, at 80%, on bread, and at wildcard, 79%.
Shopify 78 so the good teams high 70s low 80s
Big round win this and you guarantee overtime you guarantee a point deny all three from the opponent
Honestly for 100 thieves this is the if you will qualification round for top four
getting a single point. Put them to 16, Shopify Rebellion for funny sports cannot
catch that and that will lock them into top four. 100 thieves. Technically do get
two chances at it. They would have to lose 7-5, not lock in top four.
Hydrocell right over the back but DreamAble would have just dash forward a little bit.
avoids it from spirits activates the glasses calls out the dream is made his
way top of old town spirits expecting maybe a follow-up oh big chunk of damage
over the feet of dream Gomez found an angle and this is a slaughter as 100
thieves now on the verge of locking in top four to set up that date with the M80
and while they've been tested here on fortress it seems as if they will pass
that test it might only be a C but sometimes those C's will get you degrees
as you would know probably yeah tough one down for getting 20 seconds and the
chances of winning this one even lower than the one in 10 I caught earlier
this one is the one in a million given his position or hang on spirits needs
But it's an immediate trade.
100 Thieves now locked in fourth seed.
I'm locking in also the upper bracket semifinals now all set.
It will be 100 Thieves versus M80.0 versus Wildcard.
And those two games will be qualification games too for EWC.
The winners that make the upper bracket final play it off to come next week.
And boy is it not exciting for NAL, unfortunately it means for space station gaming now potentially
losing this game and getting nothing from it would feel almost undeserving. I think they deserve
to get this to overtime based on what we've seen from them in this match, only just now did it take
rounds 10 and 11 to give up two straight to 100thies. That was the first time.
Located by attackers
I mean this would be a classic case of falling over at the finish line if your space station
You know up 5-4 to losing 7-5
It would go down as they're third to 7-5 loss over the course of the stage and the other two were against
Shopper 5 rebellion yesterday and then last week against dark zero
So, quality opposition where they've just fallen short, you flip those two results, plus even this one if you want it to be extra generous, that's right up there in probably a top four finish, like best of ones can be so brutal, seven fires are just the worst feeling when you're on the receding end.
I guess it's the solos who can take them into the break, that you're not that far off it.
Clearly we know that with this space station team lot of quality on the roster.
I don't think it's doom and gloom.
Let's see if they can get a point now.
This station have only got to overtime once this stage and it's against Outlast probably enough.
I can play there three and maybe was a sign of the well certainly that at that
point a rough start to the stage after losing two for fonden and 80
say I was on the loss won't get them into seventh but an OT wins still could
Yes.
Well that was unaccounted for.
Gomez over towards museum.
Catches Ray completely unaware.
So advantage 100 these looking to get this result across the line and for SSG would be another 7-5 loss to add to the Taliyah for this group stage.
Well, in the last seven rounds, 100 thieves have gotten the last six opening kills, well
not the last six, but if the last seven rounds they've gotten six of those opening kills.
So they've really transformed their game in this second half, very active on the defense,
able to find these early advantages, then fall back, playside, not give as much space
over to space station.
Big reason in terms of the pickup in form, three plus four round wins, now on the verge
of making it three straight to close this down.
Space station are gonna need to hit some good shots and starts with rival can't end there need more to follow on
And do so quickly because there's only 30 seconds left in this round
Space station start to make the march towards cafe and waiting
They did win this site last time out should make a lunch is making is really awkward
They can cap lay us some smoke you till here ssg
But there's not a lot of time remaining this needs to be a flawless execute 15 on the board and a double night
2, but as they get closer might not be able to use that go this rich bruise not accounting for hot and cold
playing the tucked in prone position
The dinner plate was able to do quite a bit of damage and they all just fell apart 100 thieves able to close this one out
No overtime is required
their destiny awaits in playoffs against
M80 and who's to say what this team can do in playoffs as they lock in top four for spots for
The EWC will play-offs looks like it could be a good time for this roster and for space
station of course losing in regulation means a bottom three finish for the stage is not
ideal for such a storied organization.
I
What the hell is this?
What the hell is this?
Just in the final round of regulation, 100 thieves lock in 3 points and therefore also
the top 4 qualification.
We lock in an interview, though we have a case on the line to ask a few questions.
to ask them case and congrats on the victory. The guys are very happy to see you. Um, you
had a game yesterday against outlast today was a little bit more resistance. How is that
from your perspective? Um, I think from yesterday, I mean, we've put a lot of confidence. We
came out and played the game. We were supposed to. Uh, today he became a lot of confidence
again as well. And I think it kind of showed. We had a little, had a little scares, but
we came back and we got the win. Absolutely case. And well, congratulations. I mean,
Top four finish for group stage for your first appearance here on the stage now. I'm gonna ask you questions
I need I need a little something from you
I don't want I don't want a boring answer this time I ask all the rookies
But what's been the hardest thing coming into the league and then also what's been the easiest thing for you to have a grasp on it
Kind of just build off of
The hardest thing
There's gonna be a lot of things I think just like the skill difference honestly
Coming from T3, like I haven't even played T2, the soil difference is definitely a crazy gap
So I'm obviously like you still like playing competitive, but definitely a big difference but coming into it
I play confident and strong. So that's and the easiest thing
I'll probably say comms. I feel like my team like during the team comms are amazing
And I've like worked on my comms really easily from them
So I learned a lot from them with the comms and I think that's probably like the easiest thing
Yeah, I like it case and nice to finally chat with you as your as your manager and thank goodness
You're on a hundred thieves your team and with one of my favorite players of all time hot and cold
How how has that been? How has he been been helping you like transition into playing in pro league? I
Mean Matt's amazing. Obviously. I have no complaints. He
Visually helped me through everything any problems. I have whatever it is
I learned something new from him every day and I love Matt
I want to ask and maybe this is a question you probably can't answer here, but I'm gonna ask anyways
Was Hunter Thieves like it was this year main
offer come
during the offseason or when you were you know when you were
Approaching 18 and able to play with anybody was there a certain team?
Maybe you were kind of hoping for or was Hunter Thieves kind of like the main option here
I would have to say Hunter Thieves was probably my main option
I had a couple others, but I think this is definitely my main option especially since I saw I
Didn't have a couple others, but I saw Mad joint to and I was like I have to yeah
I think this is like this is absolutely kids. I have another question for you
This is maybe a little different from just a playing aspect. How do your parents feel about you being a professional gamer?
I'm always curious to see because my parents were never on board. Yeah, that's okay
My parents love it. My dad's like a big fan
I gave him this like playing this like small tournaments like a t3 tournaments my dad literally watches all of them
He always was like that's like good game from you, you know, and he always has talks my dad loves it
My mom watches as well, but my dad's like a really big man. He supports it
Yeah, does he give you pointers like good game, but you should have maybe not
What what actually got you into pro league I'm not curious is there
Um
I wouldn't say so I think just like the certain plan like cost ornaments
It made me like have a lot of passion this for like just like a game. That's even more and I saw like everybody
Kind of switching back like the PC like try to go comp or go pro and I was like might as well try and I was having a
Lot of fun. So might as well do something that I enjoy one question. What do you think of the PlayStation community?
Former Xbox enthusiasts in part of that community. What do you think of the PlayStation community? I don't like I don't like PlayStation community
I don't know ball
Xbox on top
This is a pure narrative question here, but you guys again, you're top four looking good to go to EWC.
What are the players that used to play with Stompin on G2, most likely going to qualify?
Can we expect it? Are you looking forward to possibly getting a chance to play against him?
I think it would be really fun to play against him, so I definitely would say so, yeah.
Cool. As an aspiring talent really in this league here, is there any feedback or advice
ready to give to people that are watching at home and saying like, yeah, I might have
a shot at pro league? Like, what should they do in your opinion? What's the best piece
of advice you can give them?
Just go do it. I mean, go chase it. There's a reason not to.
Alright, that's awesome. Anything you want to say to the fans that have been supporting
you before we let you go?
I appreciate all the fans for the support and everybody supporting. I appreciate you
guys and hopefully we'll see you guys in EWC.
Awesome. Thank you so much for your time. There's a lot of questions here from the guys about your experience so far in Stage 1, but thank you for taking the time for answering them and good luck in playoffs.
Thank you.
Really good to hear from you as well with so much, you know, so much to talk about, such a little experience so far, but hey, for Stage, luck in in the top four, that has to be a great accomplishment already.
already. Yeah absolutely and honestly just him being vocal and actually being able to give good
answers. That's always something I like to see from rookies and new players coming into the scene.
It's just their personality really shines through and I think you can have a couple more interviews
we'll get even more in depth but I mean his attitude, his approach, I mean this is exactly
a player that you would want to grab coming into the scene because you can tell he's a he's a sponge.
He's going to be able to absorb everything being around these experienced players being able to
learn from that and I think again we already talked about this the other day. He hasn't even hit
hit his ceiling yet. Once he hits that ceiling, he's going to be a tough one to go against.
Or thank goodness we didn't have to talk to Hot and Cold again.
Thankfully he's willing to kind of share the microphone a little bit.
Good stuff there. And as we're looking at the highlights here from this game,
this was really an important matchup for them.
We talked about they need to win a certain amount of rounds.
Top four is now locked in. That means they get an extra life going into the playoffs.
but it does kind of mean that for the rest of the league things are pretty much locked in.
Yeah, everything's pretty locked in, but just because you get a little bit of cushion and you
have that extra lifeline doesn't guarantee that you get to go to EWC. I would argue in some situations
and what we've seen even in a lot of our majors, teams that come from that lower bracket and have
to battle every single game through and through typically are the ones who make it. So for me
personally, sometimes I like to be in that loser's bracket where if I lose then I'm out. So I have to
to be as perfect as I possibly can.
And we're looking to our fourth match of the day, though,
as we do see outlets going up against Shopify rebellion.
Early yesterday, maybe Shopify rebellion
would have had so much shivers going into this match.
But now everything is decided.
So there is no real pressure for them going into this one.
Far outlets, though, on the other side.
Yes, they're not going to make it to playoffs.
We haven't seen a victory from them yet.
But in regards of what they are still playing for and what
we want to see from them, it is also
about relegation come the end of the season.
It is about getting points here to make sure that you don't fall in that gap so early.
Yeah, I mean there's obviously some things for them still to be able to play for.
Obviously relegation being by far the biggest one because that would ultimately knock them out of the league.
But just to be able to end on a positive note, this is your last game of the stage.
Again, you haven't found that success to be able to win.
You could end here on a win that at least will give you something to walk away from of.
We achieved something.
We beat a team.
We ended the losing streak, the historic goal losing streak, mind you.
but it's just something for these players to walk away from be able to hold their heads up high.
So going into this match, I don't think that they've ever given up in any single game,
given their circumstance, but this definitely wouldn't want.
I wouldn't want to see that result come out from them.
I want to see them give it their absolute best going into this matchup.
Classic Treadmack yawning.
As always, I think every single time.
This guy is always yawning.
It's like we're cutting to him at the perfect time.
Yeah, they need to show something here.
I mean, we're just going to speak completely Frank.
I mean, if there's ever a chance for them to make a roster move after this stage,
because they are playing for relegations, right?
These are the questions that's going to be in their mind
come in the offseason.
So this is really their last full chance for me to, like,
show that we have something, show a little bit of improvement.
Are we going to get a stage two with this exact same roster,
or are we just going to run over again
and get the entire league-free win?
Honestly, we've been hyping these guys up.
I want to see them win, but I had this.
I hope he was running out.
I had to be honest for a second, yeah.
I mean, to get it in the final day of the league,
shop of fire billion it would be it'll be quite something right we've seen we've
seen crazy things so far in these last two days here and then they all that I
gladly got to be a part of but speaking for their opponents for today shop of
fire billion it's completely different vibes in the camp there right big relief
for them now making it to playoffs here and we talked in great lengths yesterday
about the streaks that this roster and the organization have of making it to
international events so that's that is a little bit less there they've done step
one in the qualification process yeah and step two is win according to
Yeah, right. That's all he really cares about at this point. We're gonna just try not to lose
So I think that's the game plan going into a game plan. It is an important game plan
He is a leader on this team. I have to remind everybody he is the defensive IGL
So he has a lot of responsibility and how does he expect to win? Well, he just go out there and win
So yeah, I mean the pressure is kind of off their backs at this point
I believe they're locked into fifth place at this point. So it there is I guess that chance they could fall to the sixth seed
And then it changes who they will end up playing next week for playoffs, which could be important to them
But I think you and I know lacks. I mean one things playoff the most important thing is playoffs
They just care about getting there
They also probably just care about getting as many rounds as they can against outlast
Put them away and just think about next week. Yeah, there is a chance indeed should they lose here then for fun kind of
But a team because the first round try breaker story is rounds
It's gonna say round breaker there
But what we look towards is the map veto for this match up here as maybe everything will get unleashed
I want to see if there's a certain map for that as well fortress if you have nothing to play for
What was it was honestly your build up and then it goes the board. I mean, this is SR's best map. It just it doesn't matter
You want to go to playing I don't think it matters
Honestly, we should just throw in some of the older maps here at this point and just you know
That's a shot in the dark for sure for our last I mean what why are we going to the best map?
I mean I guess we want the best match we could possibly get for ourselves
We want the best learning experience we could get to be fair when we did see them play this they did pull some stuff out of their
Hat their defenses did look relatively well
So I mean there is a little bit of you know something gone
But against the best team on the map
Are we grasping
We could go to the tissue she was young and now he's ripping up the tissue
He's already ready to cry after this. He might be dropped.
I mean, if you get any kind of rounds you're against,
apparently the best map for Shock Firebellion,
that is something to take away going into stage two, right?
I'll hold it on. I mean, are we on the next stage?
Yeah, I'll just say that. We can hold on to the 7-4s,
there's 7-2s, there's 7-3s.
Even they're over time with SSG,
but if you aren't getting the win, it's really, it's irrelevant.
Okay, then to kind of switch the narrative here, right,
we can joke in laughs, I would lessen how I get the victory.
What do we need to see from Shopify rebellion to not falter too many rounds to not bleed too many rounds?
Literally, what they just saw the dark zero and cloud nine game is just play to your strength play to your default
You know that outlast is going to fail on their executes when they are on their attacking half
Get the early pick going into your favorite and then you can turtle a map like fortress
You can just turtle and play your crossfires play your angle. That's all you have to do
You don't have to get super, you know pretty with everything. You don't have to do anything extra. Just play your game
Yeah, nothing extra they are starting I believe on that defensive side
So yeah, nothing nothing extra at all get the pick fall back and layer then on the attack side
The only important thing really to pay attention to is that entry game that's kind of been there their kryptonite
At the moment is if ambi is kind of getting first pick which he mentioned in the interview as well
He's been kind of he's he's getting pieced up for sure. The rest of teams also getting pieced up and when
He and spoit both go down early the rest of team can't really find any space and it really stalls out their attack
So I don't see that being a problem here, but I would like for them to go into this match with a focus and that focus should be
Yes, layer up on defense with city and then attack. Yeah, keep us simple
Get ambi back on solid snake let him walk around with his favorite operator and just kill everybody
With the operator he said was very strong as well now
Let's go and find out then stop a five million strong this map. They'll be starting out all the defense
How close or how dominant is his game going to get?
I think it certainly can get quite dominant and if you're going to be completely blunt
and 84% as well in social prediction is actually a little bit lower than I even would have
anticipated.
Obviously the desk has pointed out because six are a record for Shopify rebellion.
It's their map outlasts of really testing themselves here on the final playday for them
this stage unless unless no, no, I'm not going to bother trying to grasp.
I mean, this should really be
one of the more one sided
matches that we've seen here in
stage one of NAL. I'd be pretty
shocked if there's any
permutation to that. I think
is I'd go as far as to say
72 would probably be the limit
anything beyond that. And I'd
be pretty surprised as the boys
on the desk kind of alluded to
it's a case where shopper fire
And playbook is going to be more than enough to get a strong result here today. They don't have to put any extra mayo on it
They don't have to really do anything too crazy or outside
The guidelines really of normality it should just be get in get out get the job done and then start putting their focus towards the
finals bracket
cluster chanker glass and ying fed out for the first half and then on the flip side throughout last I mean
it's just the freest of free punches. Just try and get some result, a result on the board,
of course, looking to try and get their first win of the stage and further consequences in terms
of relegations, etc. down the line if they continue to have these struggles. And unfortunately,
it doesn't really look like there's a line at the end of the tunnel for them at the moment, but
maybe there could be a bit of a spark here today.
Yeah, I think also what this kind of match achieves in some ways too, is that I don't think
you're probably going to see Shopify rebellion be afforded the opportunity to play for this kind of playoffs and
and so they also
Get to play this thing and just double down make it seven zero record and
Further cement that they're probably not going to be afforded the ability to play this map
But that in itself strengthens there of all map pool because it takes away a band from your opposition every time
So this would just kind of nail that home really lock this in
And then you have the form line going into playoffs 2 for short flying rebellion
You can only play with some front of you
They would have been quite disappointed with the middle stretch of their stage
Where they lost quite actually a few games ago
So they lost to 100 DZ75, they lost to Profound 7-3
They lost to M87-5, they lost to DZ7-2
So they've been able to save their stage of course with that win against SSG yesterday
otherwise they would have been in a different position, what to say, coming into this game
against Outlast.
I think they still probably would have been more than fine, clearly, but it would have
been a little different.
This is just going to now be a good opportunity.
We need to stack the game in a row, build good form, heading into playoffs, where it's
just going to be a whole different ballpark, best trees, get an extra week between now
and then.
Now starting on defense fortress in terms of the actual match itself, I'm expecting
this first half to be really drawn out because you're probably not going to see Shopify
Rebellion push out too much, Fortress doesn't really lean itself into that sort of frag
heavy window camping, the kind of meta that we see say on a map like Border.
High seconds gone as Outlast are just slowly making their way through.
half might see the pace pick up a little bit though potentially outlasts do have
middle of the park or just below middle of the park in terms of average entry on
attack it's a minute 32 fastest is dark zero finally enough for a minute 47 and
and Violetson's opening kill, but not to the ends of Outlast, it was Wrexon into the back of the head of Canadian.
Another follows, 4 vs 3, as Ambi finds at least a cushion for Esar.
Long range nitro from Wrexon doesn't land, and so it's advantage Outlast for the final third of the round.
Ambi, Bedjim could play a bit of a threat, trying to support Wrexon, who is clearly very low on HP and
eventually slain to verse or it could be a positive start here for our loss
but this is incredibly positive okay well that last get the opening round do
so quite convincingly I mean it doesn't help when you start things off with a
team kill rexon was low certainly I think that's the sort of round Shopify
rebellion really just let the front door open that were quite sloppy and that
probably last minute and a half really the first minute and a half didn't
really needed to do to March able to sit back, play side, didn't get aggressive, but also
didn't do anything bad by any means. And then, yeah, just had a real, you know, poor 30 second
patch and that really just allowed outlasts to pounce. And as much as outlast has been
a bit of a punching bag in NAL, if you're going to give any team that's playing pro
league, easy looks and easy opportunities, they should be more capable to take it. And
Heavenly as we saw, Outlast able to win the opening round, which I don't think we're going to probably predict it.
No, that is their 7th attacking round 1 this stage.
There you go.
7th out of 45, but still something.
If there's a saving grace for Shopify Rebellion, I mean Command Bathroom is the exciting site
on this map in this region.
So get that one out of the way, go Dawn's Games.
I feel like I'm repeating myself because of course we quite literally just played this
map.
All of the same hallmarks are clearly going to be applicable here.
Interesting by the way, in terms of the average entry time, I went how to look at the maps
in NAL.
cafe
says that at
152 average entry at the lowest is actually
Three different apps basically at a minute 30
And then layer sits around that one 32
As so at two minutes and 22 gets the opening kill onto trap map
The night just don't get to the maverick
And a more active starts the round for the rebellion
I'm going to start slowly chipping that average back up here maybe, positive start for us all.
At last we'll still have the Montage trying to leverage Nesta, so half HP so he'll remain
vigilant for the rest of the round.
Chronix falls, loading trades, and so Shopify will retain their advantage, they'll run back
to site.
And as Lux said on the desk, Fortress is the perfect map in the state that it's in that you can find a pick.
Dish up some space, get back to the side and turtle, which essentially means find a corner, hold a cross,
get the comms flowing, and you'll be in a very commanding position defensively.
You can see it's point marsh on the troops a little bit there, everyone will posture in their appropriate positions.
Force the clear, force the monkey to get active, who is the one HP.
Provided Shopify don't make any brutal mistakes here. Any critical errors this round is going to be very difficult to outlast the flip in their favor.
Yeah, Fortress is the worst map in the pool when it comes to plants. So even in the tree versus pool, other sites are the maps you could maybe get into a plant position, hold the cross.
the cross, it just doesn't seem like that's going to be a possibility.
And one for one, but Shopify rebellion have the extra number anyway, so they're more than
happy to play that sort of trade game, as this looks like dorms, so it's really pulling behind.
Spoint though, well had it covered. Spokes aren't going to do anything.
Spoint able to just get the easy double kill swing. So one, one quick response
by Shopify rebellion. Don't think they would have been too happy with that opening round,
I'll put much better in the second on Dorm's games.
The real question is do they want to go back
Command bathroom as just a test
or do you just go wait in cafe,
which is statistically very strong for defense.
It depends probably maybe on the bands
going into this third round.
You obviously get to pick the side.
the location of a bomb before the next bands do come through so sometimes
teams like to sort of pick and choose if they do lose one of the first two rounds
in terms of do they go back to a side or do they progress forward and the
round the world of science and indeed they do progress forward here in the
third round bands after this this is the most defender side of sight on the map
Yeah, positive start to the map as well for Spoit who it felt like it wasn't that long
ago and kicked off so much noise surrounding not just him, but I guess the team by extension.
Oddly enough, I actually looked across at his numbers for stage one and currently is
the top rated player on the team and they are equal actually with ambi as it stands
right now don't know if that's been live updated there's a couple of rounds so far but I want
to wait EPSP's both in the top 10 such strong and frightening power that you'd love to have
on your team if you're at this level so much versatility on this team and boss they've
certainly had their ups and downs as we painted the picture earlier they've been a very very
different style matchup had they not found some fortune in a couple of those earlier matches.
They'll certainly still go into the bracket with the chance of making a run
to the lower portion but they haven't afforded themselves the safety net or that opportunity
to slip up so very intriguing to track Shopify over the course of that.
That final's wrong and I'd say it could be a bit of a jogging in the broccoli if anyone
out of the play is out.
That's the winning take-away.
Who's third round?
You got from Andy with the one who was exceptional.
Yeah.
That's for the third round.
Bit of pressure here from out last.
I'm in play.
The Maverick also deployed making quick work of the hatched account of the Cade.
Wait
Yeah, back to small steady now in this third round I was clearly wanting
Trying to get some information for the soul of Snake, and I messed it up Bush
We can throw it down early to spoil good start for a spoi 4 and 1 to begin
Yeah, and a reminder, not really a lot riding on this game, but hi to the team.
Rexon able to get the kill on Samilly.
The biggest thing is really Shuntfire Rebellion, building some form ahead of our play-offs.
Rex with the kill on the Ambi.
Dreadmack goes down as a second and around again for Spoy.
He's found it wonderfully well.
Three in the last round, two in this.
Is Rexon able to deal with the Monties?
Spoy gets another.
Well, how about that for Spoy?
Back-to-back 3Ks.
three K's season goes to six kills inside the opening three rounds to an aright for shopper fire rebellion
and into the bands
Yes, but looking pretty cozy there on the dmr
How to look across it is most played defenders
over his last
23 matches
The rune has been played
23 rounds, third most played behind both Alar and Desami.
Just an interesting little tidbit.
Monty and Miro to be banned out at the end of the half.
23 rounds.
Well, yes, I don't know why it's capturing from 4th of April through 4th of July.
Why, I don't know, but...
Let me go last month and see if that has maybe changed a little bit.
Actually, yeah, so Allah Azami Goyal in that order, so the ruining actually doesn't seem like Spoyed has actually touched it or been given the license for the majority of this stage.
In the meantime, Outlast calling a tactical timeout.
We said earlier that there isn't a whole lot on this match and that is certainly true, but I think the one key storyline from an Outlast perspective is they are still searching for a win.
They've had an OT lost so far this stage, hence why they are on a singular point.
A win here won't change that outcome. They are locked into last position, but it could certainly come in handy if there are to be further ramifications regarding relegation towards the end of the year.
There's a positive start for them here on fortress, but as we kind of expected, Shopify are wrangling control of this match pretty quickly.
Yeah, I mean, I'd probably look at that first round and just think, you know, we've got a botched a little bit.
That is also already the styling, which at last are probably most likely to get round wins.
And when we play the way that they did, you're probably going to get that one over.
I get a second go at it here in the fourth round.
ground probably would like to see them be a tiny bit more active here on command
bathroom just kind of felt like an opening round I mean nothing happened
for the first two minutes and if you're shopper fiber about it classy team for
the star players against outlasts who have struggled immensely this stage it's
got to get sometimes just get in their face like they're gonna pull it up a bit
sometimes yeah the golf in in quality not just isn't individuals should be
enough for you to be able to play that way now unless they come in and
conventionally just what they want to do regardless of their opponents that's
another way to look at it but quite honestly in this sort of matchup
something I would emphasize is very much that outlasted probably the kind of
team and the team is dead last, that's more likely to fall under pressure if you really
put it on them.
Yeah, I'd be looking to just stack as much pressure early on the entry battle if you're
SR, put a lot of emphasis and invest heavily in that area, and then you don't have to multiply.
You can then kill back Turtle, we've seen that before.
And here is some of that aggression with Spoight Belly.
Oh, beautiful, but he does look like he's down.
Oh!
The company's still got the double, wow!
Joel Trapma gets a double two. Well, I mean, that's like they're listening
But also really solid from outlast two to be kind of squished on and maybe expecting a little bit more aggression from
Shopper fire rebellion. Spoight is gonna
Leave it the round with the two kills
So eight kills in three rounds from spoight. He's on at the moment and be
Isn't so much at one three and he got shot down by a catman
The Deimos of Millie can now get active,
like a payload outcall on to surf.
Honestly with the Deimos deathmark,
I think he has to just eat it.
Well, he's going to eat a bullet to the back of the head.
Travis played this round perfectly on the docker beat.
The Canadian of all people stands up
and hits a wonderful headshot with the SMG.
2 vs. 2, 60 seconds here in round 4.
No the death mark
And Rexing trying to find sanctuary with the mute jam also perfect counter on offer
Limit some of the info gathering potential 50 seconds times on a big concern here for outlast
I think it's more so about identifying where these defenders are and then opening up the opportunity to isolate
If they pepper around both targets available, but again into the mute it makes it a challenge
Raxxon in Canadian, looking to hold down sight, playing off one another 30 seconds on the clock.
Now the correct target, chosen, big dacha star vote from Raxxon on to Billy.
That also turns off the death mark that was on Canadian's head.
Oh spotted, Ranax good shot onto Raxxon.
One versus one against Canadian.
We'll go for the plant inside a bathroom, try and force Canadian out, it seems to almost work.
That was a gas babe, that was thrown.
Push up close, six seconds. Now you must go for this kill. Pistol out, Canadian to hold his nerve, and does perfectly wonderful shotgun kill from Canadian to take the round out for Shopify Rebellion.
A little nervy though.
Nah, that's just Canadian. Just keep you guys on our toes.
Making it a little bit more dramatic than it needed to be.
To be fair, he kind of got sold a little bit there and put it on an island and it was a very awkward position to get trapped.
And so, Canadian do his credits on a good job there just to not panic.
Would have been also maybe a little bit disorientating with sound queues and stuff as well.
I don't know if he actually was fully aware of where he was being pushed from initially, but again, just help her.
Talked. Did a good job.
Replay is on that round. It was spearheaded by Smooy.
Did a good job, nothing to get doubled.
But TrapMack found two, kept it in at three versus three.
A massive nitro there from Rax.
Unfortunately, he did leave Canadian on an island, and he turns around and hits the
snappy shot.
Canadian 47 ranked out of 50 so far at this stage, but he comes up clutch when it matters.
That's the main thing.
It's not just about the numbers.
That's a nice playoff.
Oh no, the world is looking for the world with these numbers.
Yeah, oh, okay, no, no, no, I have found a glass half full moment.
Oh, Jesus. You'll never guess.
How many clutch attempts do you think 80s had this stage?
Just throw it on the ground.
Six, right?
He's had 12 attempts.
Now, how many clutches do you... well, 13, I guess, is the end of that one.
Up until that point, though, how many do you think he won out of 12?
Six?
I'm a little bit lower.
What?
A little bit lower.
Oh, I can't.
So that was the only clutch that he's won this stage at his 30 to 10.
That was a bastard moment.
Okay, well, jeez.
I'm not even trying to say I did like a rupture to the truck away.
You said gloss half full, I thought you were trying to find a stat that he's...
Well, he just, he's improving in the clutch.
You can teach it all bug new tricks.
Well, Sklokko's down early after three straight rounds where he was on fire.
He's the opening down to start this fifth round.
I hope Canadian gets a bloody ace here.
I should note, he's also not the only player with zero avatar.
Oh, God, that attempts.
There's plenty. There's plenty of them.
Zero eleven, zero seven, zero nine.
Reloading cover me notice by the way the first opening kill for outlast this entire first half after four straight to
Drop down the trap mac those right into the line it's time for ambi. He'll take the free kills swinging over the wall to the hallway
Of all tower and that's gonna bring it back to four versus four
After a minute of having the actual player advantage once they even someone get close to the side it's
gone immediately. Canadian by the way eats the jug of payload and so did surf, so
it doesn't matter, trademark's dead anyway, but it does mean that he can a
little bit of extra damage ahead of the fight to come. Great information as well
from Nesta on the solid stake as the kit will be retrieved towards bathroom and
ampi will lose his life to Millie. Hellas will regain that extra number of
Maybe Canadian might be called upon again to clutch off.
Might have to find a second.
Genuinely, that doesn't have any gas babes remaining though.
So the store potentially from the defences weakened construction from the attack.
Smokes being deployed.
Can they start thinking about the plant?
No, defuse it down.
And that's Canadian that was searching for the kill over the water stairs
and lost his 1v1 as outlasts will get their second round here on Fortress.
I mean, two rounds, certainly not the worst. Attacked by Fortress. You take that, honestly.
If you're any team against any quality of opposition, you'd be pretty pleased with just
getting two and having a baseline that you can then play off for your defensive half.
So four outlasts, all jokes and memes aside, it's a pretty decent position that they find
themselves in now. This is a position in which they can go on and have a result.
If they can get a third attack around here against Shopify Rebellion, I kind of feel like the conversation on the desk is going to be a one of surprise, and maybe even with what we've seen thus far, it may even be.
Yeah, the general consensus, especially once we saw the map was Shopify Rebellion, we're going to be able to do this quite comfortably even before the map choice, and you kind of throw in its fortress.
And yet it's two to three.
I mean, again, there's not really a lot on the line here.
Now it would be a completely different conversation being had if this were Gated to top four,
you know, last final play they get into the playoffs.
But with Shopify Rebellion just firmly locked in to this fifth or sixth place position,
there's nothing you can really do in this game to change that anyway.
Spawn pick a tank from surf. Just one kill for him, plus fire today.
This could be a good opportunity though to maybe catch our last day up with a bit of overaggression.
It's a truly top floor though, so we'll be relying on our last par thing there.
I don't believe that's going to be the case, so that will be unrewarded.
have a pressure on the horizontal on this Hamam side across no dedicated
verte operator here from our last like typically you would see that the ram on
this side if the attack wants to split it so educating that might be a little
bit more of a horizontal focus here they can be a little more of a line on the
like some blitz create space they want to again bring the day most have not
catch this boy I really just saw the very end of it I don't know if that was a
jump out of the tent from spoit. By the way they're sharp shooting from trevmac.
Yeah and this is gonna be an intriguing conversation too because you think
about rounds two, three and four. Spoit, spoit, spoit. You got eight kills in those
three rounds, shop five rebellion, one those three rounds. Then now it's back
to back opening deaths, spoit goes down. And so far through this half opening
conversion is very, very high.
And the Varodix gets a little bit caught.
And nicely done by Rexon, he's also having a very strong game.
He's got six kills down.
But even with that single kill, doesn't mean there is salvation for Shopify Rebellion.
Nesta good, clear towards dining.
Treadmack, another one. He's got seven.
This looks like it could be three for Outlast in the half.
As Canadian forces to look and they're getting
Decimated here in waiting cafe as trap mark who started it all will put an end to it
What a strong half of outlasts and certainly alarm bells ringing for Shopify rebellion
It is yeah, this seems a little bit worrying
I mean we said there's not really anything to play for anymore for both these sides here
But you can't be living wrong slip away like that here in the situation
You guys said it was a strong half or out less. I think you might disagree on that with the timeout and stuff that was called
I don't want to necessarily say we disagree but just hearing the comms and hearing the timeout
There's clearly a big discrepancy in the skill and experience and it's not to question them
And they're a line of views and what they think is going to be the right narrative and how they need to approach the game
It's just they're missing some details. However, I would say they did transition really well after that
But again, it's an experience they were talking about going from one round to the next they can play really aggressive
But you can't really skip that step because you don't know what the defense is going to do.
So if you're going into the next round thinking that you're going to play aggressive,
but the defense is playing aggressive, you're ultimately going to be met by a brick wall at that point.
So you have to kind of say it as like a what if, or if this is what they're doing, this is what we should pivot to.
And I think once they kind of like switch out those options and how they approach it, they'll become a little better.
But honestly, I did like what we see after the time.
I mean, it did really look like they did step up the game.
They realized SR wasn't taking space, so they could get aggressive and take that space.
I think it's just a little difference in communication
that over time they'll tend to understand a little better.
Yeah, I mean, it's what the more experienced teams will do.
We were kind of talking about, like, if you listen to a G2's
comms, the coach is not just going to tell you
to, hey, you need to speed up.
It's going to say, this is what they're doing,
and I'm going to give you how to beat what they're doing.
But obviously, you need to drone in the prep phase
and get the intimation to make your own calls
and have your adaptions in the game.
It comes down to the I.G.L.ing.
But they were able to do that.
Look, I want to get, first off, we got three rounds.
We actually have a game on our hands as the cast
prepared this was going to be a seven out.
And we said that's what's on our foot.
Yeah, I mean, we literally have a game on our hands.
And the biggest is they read into the SR's game plan
was to get aggressive in the beginning of the round.
They were trying to get aggressive, then they would layer back.
Well, Outlast was just sitting there.
We've seen Shrek Mach even before he even dropped in.
They just dropped the shield down old power.
He's up there with the BMR.
These three able to trade, get two.
So they read into the aggression.
They were able to get it down to the final 3B3s.
And then they were winning those scrappy routes,
They weren't doing in the past. This is early rounds. Are we disappointed with the performance from Shepa firebellion so far?
I would definitely say yes
I mean this is a situation where they really should be dominating this series especially the map heavily favors their playstyle
Yeah, one of the best so to be going three three and a half definitely isn't something pretty to be happy about for them
But again for the side for our last man
I think it was good understanding of what SR was going for and how they can counter and the game likes each you need to be able to
So a very good calls from Trev
Mac very good calls from their coach and super oxy.
But again, the defense is going to be the big question here.
They need to still be able to replicate that same sort of
synergy and be able to play off one another.
Yeah, and I also thought their bands are really good too.
Right with Alaskan.
The flash which I've been asking for and that obviously
hurt the rebellion's win rate because they had that 90%
defensive win right now.
Alaskan gets to play on their strong side.
So yeah, I was a little bit disappointed for the rebellion,
but this is the attacking half like this is the side
that I need to see from them to make sure that they're gonna be okay to come play off. If they're
getting teased up by Outlast on the entries, I'm a little bit worried as an SR fan. We can see the
steering wheel is in their hands when it comes to decision making on the attack here. We have a game
on our hands as it continues to be closed now in the second half. Yeah certainly with Outlast going
on to their defensive side now on Fortress, I think this very much is now set up for them to even
and pull off a potential win. I'm gonna say it goes and that's not to curse it,
jinx it. I think with what they showed to close out the half, now going on defense,
having a really good understanding is to maybe watch Shopify Rebellion want to do
on this map. There's every world in which they could find their first win the stage
in the final playday and while that wouldn't be great for Shopify Rebellion
heading into playoffs, it doesn't really affect them other than just form. A bit of a
shock loss which for some teams you're getting that last second wake-up call
before the real stuff begins heading into best of threes real games on the line
it's not the end of the world
and even if they do go and win this for shock fire valley and I think this is
already a bit of a wake-up call. Yeah probably. We'll see how they go now on the
attack. They seem to look at upon themselves lightly down defense to
I'm trying to dictate terms, which is a theme that is constant on attack where you're the
ones more often than not writing the terms around in terms of the tempo and the pacing
and certainly where the attacks are spearheaded from directionally.
So we'll see if it's a pretty direct approach here from the rebellion or if they like to
go for full map clearance.
The addition to the Ryora here is very intriguing, so we'll see, perhaps then have the gates
available and deploy those in such a way that in combination with the gridlocking.
I think based on where that first is placed, okay.
Yeah, so, educated flank watch, twofold.
Early fight, Flogen and Surf hit the...
...quick, four versus four, so midpoint all of the brown, Canadian front line, Blackbeard,
they've lost the damas, a bit of that infected gathering will be lost, but it was into the
it anyway. Trevmek replacing that U-Tills are not too much of a massive loss for our
last outside of the Nitro which is now no longer available, Nesta also expending his.
Suddenly an interesting... I'm losing Ambi. I'm losing Ambi, it's not great especially since you can
kind of double off the pressure with Mark and Jugger Payload. We're able to finally get back into
the server after kind of sitting out for the last two rounds of the opening half as Raxon
and get rid of the warden, needed that kill for Millie, pressure really mounting from
the Rebellion.
Boris is going to have to just eat this gold, white beard, all Canadian pushing into bathroom,
will force him back, gives up the space, good space taken, Millie watching for this push,
but just as he goes for the reposition, Seraph is going to catch him on the timing, pushing
out a Renault, and this is the start that Shopify Rebellion desperately needed out of
halftime break and early attacking around just settle the nerves but it's not done yet and
canadian solo planting surf had to come back and free position to watch and canadian even gets off
or chance if that had to connect it on to surf as well
15 seconds that's not a lot of time i think that they pivoted to kill here for the wing
client instead of playing 10 seconds well they can still play it they can still play it surf can
to get into a good position back.
He goes surfed and love that.
Good reposition. I think the
runics was ready for surf to
still hold back. I'll tell you
that this definitely did get a
little bit interesting towards
the end of the round. But when
you factor in the start of the
round, shopper fire bone looks
far more switched on to start the
second half. Good early attacking
round win command bathroom
continues to be a real problem
defensively for teams in North America. That'll seem to be the attack of paradise.
Yeah, that was certainly a spicy end to the round and I'll hesitate in saying it was
messy in terms of how they wanted to end the round there. I think it's very easy to say that it was
that there was confusion or angst in the comms, whatever the case may have been, where they're
Committed to the plan then going off and thought about the killing on back
I think indecision is probably the best way to potentially label that round but without hearing the comms or knowing how it played out
It certainly wasn't that messy
They were to commit into going from the plan and then throw it at a full ones
They then had the backup plan where they still had the buffer where they can return to the original plan of getting the plant down
And actually I've prepared a reposition on the cross. So yeah, ultimately goes down as a well worked out round there in the end
particularly from Canadian
I saw it start at half the fall of the valley. Now leading by the one.
Should have done it. If you haven't already noted, the band is half of the half Monty Snake.
As long as you smoke. To make it particular, a pretty interesting one.
That's all I need to all the trick points.
Makes the lap a little bit more freedom of time for the attack.
Clushed in play though and is available, very potent operator given these narrow passageways
on fortress.
It's an old tower commit early here from Shopify Rebellion.
Oh, lovely nitro cell to catch that kind of distance and make that four straight opening
kills now for Outlast. I'd also like to quick change up to bringing the Clash here in a
second round towards Storm's games, seeing how Shopify Rebellion played in that previous
round, bringing good pays. And just bringing that Clash in the round can certainly help
stabilize Outlast defensively by a little bit more time. Oh, this is an intriguing position
He's quite fortunate to still be alive, to be honest.
Yeah, we staggered a little bit, but Shopify aren't able to shoot the toes of the clash,
and so he repositions, no flames remain, and there's limited flush out now for the attack.
It looks tricky from this position, Logan falls.
There may be largely unimpactful in terms of the context of the round.
Maybe needs to step up.
Always gets caught, but Trev-Mack falls.
And Logan's still down, so this is advantage for Shopify Rebellion. They have not been able to get the Goya back into the round.
Ambi, Raxin are low on health. No more smokes remaining either for the glass or spoi.
Oh, and Ambi can't even make his way up the stairs. Raxin 2 will fall. The low health comes back to bite them.
Down to spoi.
back to bite them down to SPOIT.
Doable. No smokes to help him here.
Even if he had just the one,
certainly could have been far more of a help.
Now you can actually get this double-race maybe even.
I genuinely think you can get both.
Just out of constant time,
Millie wants to make sure that this doesn't happen.
Immediately sits Envy back down.
This time permanently.
SPOIT THOSE!
Get through the nest at 1v1!
SPOIT WILL DO IT!
UP CLOSE WITH THE CLASS!
There's no smoke to require for spoi.
Wow, that was...
That looked incredibly difficult to win.
He's made that look a lot easier than I think it was.
Breaking that cross
looked near impossible at the end there.
Great effort from spoi.
There's a big effort to go for that.
And I think he knows he got away with a bit of a lucky one there.
in what ended up being an odd round I mean at 1.3 players on the ground down
very rare you see that many players DBNO big stack and a lot of action all
tower at that round our last aggressive massively through the the mid to late
portions around and ultimately improved costly Nesta showed his head didn't
cover the cross effectively. You could certainly make a very strong argument there that Outlast
could have better positioned for a quick trade back onto Spoit, but Spoit played what was
handed to him and did a beautiful job in executing. It's a two round lead now, fish
up from rebellion who are walking in on attack.
They're just navigating a tricky situation, which is a sign of a good team. They're not
winning this the way they would like.
Four straight open kills, they're outclassed,
they're having to win a couple of clutches.
So, it's a quick win to that clutch.
You think all the way back,
fourth round, Canadian 1v1.
So they're just kind of edging this out
through probably experience
and the difference in the actual quality of the individuals,
and they really are winning this as a core team.
This point, they've been their best in this game.
It's interesting, as he gets this open and killed, he was the last one for Shopper Fire
Rebellion to get an open and kill, back in rounds 3 and 4.
There have been a long time between drinks now for Rebellion, and Split provides again
to start off the round in a positive fashion.
There have been a really attack-as-side Fortress in this match.
Probably not too much of a surprise considering the gulfing quality and Shopper Fire Rebellion
being more experts on fortress they've looked really comfortable on their attack.
Looking to assist me it'll really break down a lot of the useful here in the
horizontal, denari traps. Playing a part in that they'll also be slowed down and
still outlining the band, she's on the Lucy. Rexon creeps forward, captures the timing.
That's a two player advantage for the Valley and Rexon time though on the second swing as Logan
confirms that kill and able to escape the trade. There's got to be clinical here as Canadian
goes for the plant. And clinical it is. Round confirmed three straight, it's a full rotation
and now every site goes the way of the rebellion.
And just when it started to feel like this was going
to be a close competitive matchup,
it quickly swung the other way.
Yeah, I mean, it always happens like that, doesn't it?
We get 3-3 in the first half.
I also hope every time.
Even the desk is saying, you know,
we got a game on our hands
and then Shopify Rebellion just, yeah, three straight.
To be fair, it hasn't been an easy three straight.
Like it's still been a somewhat close half.
Yeah.
No one's going to be walking away from this match, I don't think Shopify included saying
that this has been the prettiest win or certainly not the easiest win they'll ever get or ever
have gotten, but as we alluded to earlier, sometimes the best you win is a win, that's
all it really matters if you're grinding away from a matchup of this fashion, it's a bit
of a character builder.
And I think finding success, especially on the attacking side of a new one map in the
Paul is going to be a nice little confidence builder, irrespective of my position. Whether
or not they'll be able to flex their muscle in this map at all going forward is a whole
another talking point and discussion when it gets to Vesta Fevedos, but it's been some
good signs in the last couple of rounds.
Yeah, I mean, I think that's probably...
If they win this round, especially,
then there's your saving grace for shop of fire rebellion.
Not a great first half, though, learn from that.
But if you close down four straight attacking rounds,
you literally can't do anything better.
That's at least a saving grace.
grace and can put them in better stead ahead of playoffs.
One how often that happens, that would be a very intriguing start, how many times a player has got two or more team kills in a single map, it's gotta be rare.
And both times the opening kill too finally. Yeah within like the first 10 seconds
Shoot that one was he's trying to shoot a D4 that someone just walked in and said just walk in front of him
Are you playing the surf are you? No
Now when the buddy thing is most team kills in Siege usually are in relation to a shield player
My name's dark. I'm on a sledge
Andy just losing the battle shotgun on the stairs is very strong
outplay for trapmack he goes double digit kills had a very good game he's
searching for more and more he will find as Canadian was not ready for the
push down into lobby we're gonna need a little bit more time here on fortress
courtesy of rexon
Just takes the shine off this half a bit for Shopify with three straight attacking rounds that look really good.
Into a fourth that has been a little rough around the edges to say the least.
Just split another round or two maybe to push through the 20 bomb though and then opportunity maybe even in this round to collect a couple.
Low on HP though so tricky position.
I played out though, I turned forward for rexen, turn some info on the side, who's that potential?
I think rexen tried to execute but I'm able to find the pick, 45 seconds down on the clock.
I think he knows he's still behind the table, but it's a matter of where's everyone else.
If you try and push it and go clear this, there you go, that's what you need.
Logan just gets a little anti, pushes out, gives Rex in the angle without any trade potential.
Of course, there are still other defenders tucked into positions that Chomp Pro Rebellion
are not aware of.
In this low time, I'm nearly able to connect the nitro cell with a spuit, and Rex who started
the round off with a team kill does get the download to melee, and TravMax says, thank
you very much for getting rid of Surf.
do the rest. It's six to four. Two more rounds required for Outlast to set this to overtime.
You never know, you never know. Maybe, just maybe, they can push OT.
Rexon still having a cheeky laugh after the opening kill.
I've also seen the brightest side of it as well, so that's nice to see.
Ah, there's a barricade.
There's a lot of may be in the default, but trying to spray down the barricade early
around there was rexing.
Was Rexon?
I tried to grind out the rest of the round, but it's another veil.
My favorite spawns games?
Tim, kills happen, firstly.
And secondly, most of the times when they happen, it happens because clearly it's a very innocent mistake.
You'd never get it.
Rexon's not just lining up to being like, yeah, you're not gonna get it on purpose.
purpose. It's a save as well as kind of referencing the fall with the shield
play. Usually the shield player goes to like push forward and then someone was
pre-firing or pre-shooting an angle and then just happens to pop in the
shield player in the head.
I mean this is honestly quite doable for Outlast to be honest. Two defensive
rounds in a row is not impossible and they actually were able to successfully
win in their bathroom. So Dawn's games is the 50-50. Now waiting room cafe they did lose but that
was during that little three round stretch the Shopify rebellion just was perfect really.
Well I'm not saying it's likely to happen there is a path forward here for Outlast to get some
Oh, is Trev going to commit to the tuck here?
Try to stay undetected.
That's a big risk to take.
I think he hasn't been drained.
I'm pretty certain that wasn't a fake out from Seif and for Woz, it looked very convincing.
And so the position of Trev back currently should be unknown.
If Rebellion commits to the drop, they are at a high risk of losing at least one or two
players.
monitor that for the remainder of the round. There's also a world in which Rebellion don't
actually commit to that drop, and they've not cautioned for that at the moment.
Bit of focus over towards the main bridge currently,
spoilt-looking zoom side as well with Deimos, noting that again there is the mute in play.
It's nested though to find the first, Amby Falls, who's been a little quiet today by his standard 5'9".
Lot of drone goes out, and Trevmak is finally being righted out.
I was going to say in a round where you've got Twitch, Flores and Brava, you're hoping
there's no real mistrates.
Oh, what you all looking for?
A little drop down headshot on the spoils.
I thought that was a good opportunity for spoils to maybe catch a timing, with the defense
a little unsettled.
But it goes the other way and so now, jump by Repelion down two and five-six looks a
little bit more of a possibility. No team kill this round for Raxen, but does get the
devil onto Millie. Canadian had the big 1v1 clutch back in the first half and unfortunately
hasn't been able to be too involved on the front line since. Just the two kills this
game. There's Canadian though who will push forward and get the 40th kill you will ever
to get. With Millie down and Nesta falling it's all down to Tretmak and he's been solid
this game but now needs to go to another level if they have to survive a little longer. For
the final game of their stage Tretmak it's not working out for him, gets tag-blown and
nowhere he is has to go for a big plate. It does not work. Shopify Rebellion a little
They're scared to close out their final game of group stage, but they are heading to the playoffs.
They definitely kind of need to refine some of their best form if they are still to qualify for the eSports World Cup,
but they're there. There'll be a chance and a team that you definitely do not want to take lightly heading to playoffs.
Yeah, a very small scare there. Not really too much to note.
they walk away with all three points and unfortunately outlasts not a single win this stage.
I'm breaking next to the body now
Dracula's energy I'm never shining out
I'ma keep it going till there ain't no night
I'm breaking next to the body now
Oh, I'll blow it up in my money now
Cause I can't get down for this money now
I'ma keep it going till there ain't no night
This is going till there ain't no night
Chop a fire, Billy, and get the job done.
Three points go their way, and an interview with them is coming our way, as we have Spoid
on the line to ask a few questions.
Spoid, good afternoon, congratulations on the win here.
I think there's so many emotions from you guys on the player cams after, so does this
feel like another day in the job for you guys?
I mean, this is just the type of game where you just kind of focus on yourself and, you
You know, just play your own game, not discredit the opponents, but they are a quote-unquote weaker team in the league.
And coming into this, we know they're not the strongest, but like I told them as well, the boys, just be confident, just play our game.
Pre-plan every small possible thing they can do, if someone just randomly walks in, have a teammate ready, swing with you or whatever.
But yeah, the main thing is just play our own game.
Spoi, congrats on the game and the pop-off performance.
I actually want to ask about your who you just played against because we've talked to a lot of pro players after these interviews and
Weirdly enough we're actually getting a lot of glades towards outlasts
But they're they're doing a lot of good things here or there, but we have yet to see them have a win
I want to know like what was particularly the maybe some of the problems you were kind of facing going against them today
Because this was a game where they were able to get probably that I think the
Second most rounds besides SSG right they had a good attack out. Let's say that
Yeah, I mean, I think the big issue was, I mean, I kind of did some mistakes.
I think we were in a good position in when we were up 3-1 on defense, and then, you know,
they got back-to-back, Trevmike actually, I said it at the end of the game, I was like,
Trevmike had my number, those two runs, but I was, you know, I was a little antsy and
then he got two OPKs on me, so that just created a, you made it harder for ourselves, you know,
so just, you know, small things like that just gives, like, can give you, give you a free
rounds so yeah that was the big thing. No respect to the mage. I don't know.
Well played again congratulations you guys qualify for playoffs it's obviously got to feel good.
I kind of want to just talk about you know obviously you guys had a very good run at
SLC got second place with the runner up. Are you guys feeling pretty confident now that you're in
the best of three territory like do you guys feel that you're in a position where you guys know
where the problems are you guys know how you can fix them and then again once you get into those
best of threes you're ready to tackle them the second they you know rear their ugly head.
Yeah, I mean, best of three is more comfortable, like, you know, you get to, you know, warm
into the games, feel, get a feel of the game, use adapt throughout the series.
I think, as you guys have seen the stage, we have been struggling a little bit, but,
you know, we're trying to address it every day in practice, and now, you know, finally
we're in playoffs, locking it in, so we just got to go hard every day in practice and make
sure Raul is down, and just focus on these mistakes so it doesn't happen again, and yeah,
I'll feel comfortable.
If you don't mind elaborating on it, if you can, what's been the biggest issue for you guys throughout the entire stage thus far?
Like I said as well, keeping the spirit high is another thing, making sure we all have good vibes, trusting each other, being on the same page, that's all of this in these types of games.
That's the biggest thing.
Very off topic question, we saw you went to a World Cup game yesterday, that must have been a lot of fun, who do you think is winning it?
I mean, I want to say Portugal. I have to say Portugal after that game. That was my first ever
Football game is watching it and getting to watch Ronaldo in the flesh. It's just an insane experience
You know, it's like I grew up watching him play and yeah, it's just insane. So yeah root for I'm rooting for Portugal here
One last quick question. I mean, what do you think about that shopfire belly and exploits skin that just dropped? Oh, I was just gonna get there
Make sure no a lot of things actually we have you know
We got the F2 twitch skin and then we have a little you know shop if I sport merch out there too
So make sure to get it everything you get find it on
It's beautiful so make sure to check it out at the shop on Shopify's website as well as getting the twitch after skin
Best skin in the game best gun. So make sure to get it get tripped out. Yes
Quite awesome. That was a very very good promotional talk. Thank you for that and thank you for your time spoil and good luck in the playoffs
Thank you guys. Have a good one. Well, yeah, that was a promotional talk if I've ever seen what I mean
Hey, it's a good skin. Yeah, it is a good looking skin, of course for spoiling himself as well
So some cool stuff coming out there for him and his supporters really inside of this
NAL here, but three points here
Like I said, I think just getting a job done against what spoiling can seem to be a weaker opponent
Yeah, it was a weaker opponent, but it was quite like he did mention he was kind of able to
Or he was making a couple mistakes that might have given them some rounds
But credit to him too. He was also winning them round that they probably shouldn't have when we were sitting back there
The 2v1 with the glass that outlast kind of
Yeah, let's be honest
They kind of box that round packet law horribly
But they were bling packet loss
So you know the guy decided to look away from the door that you clearly knew where the guy was anyway
They threw that 2v1 away and then even that last round they get the two-man opening in it
and it's a 5v3, but look at them.
Ami's gonna make the plays happen.
Here, it's fully a 2v1, it just should not have happened.
So, yes, he might've made some mistakes,
but that's what Pro Siege is at the end of the day.
You gotta make less mistakes than the other team,
and they clearly did that today.
You guys had a moment like that before
and in your pro career where you had to pull like,
ah, a peck at law,
so there was something going on to meet them?
They're probably lucky.
I've definitely made some shit up for it,
fairly like, I can't believe something just,
my internet went out for a second.
Packard loss is going to be my new excuse, regardless.
Well, you used to think that we would get tech positive.
Everyone would absolutely agree.
Any North American team, these was notorious for the sound bug
that's been around since 2018.
You guys somehow managed to have that sound bug for every year,
consecutively back to back to back to back to back to back.
I think we always wanted the sound bug fixed.
Luckily, we don't see that anymore.
Now we've got four funny sports taking up
that little tech policy.
Yeah, that's true.
I think in this case, for this matchup at least,
point definitely, I'll have any packet issues,
sound issues, mic issues, whatever it was,
because you have a stellar performance inside that matchup.
Great to hear from him as well,
but we'll move on to our final game of the day.
We do have four fun esports going up against five fierce.
The main challenge for us is going to be
to not trip over these two names,
given they are so similar to each other,
but apart from that, there really isn't too much
to challenge for inside all this matchup.
When we look at five fierce though,
maybe on the side of the mental aspects,
Is there is something to challenge for there seems to be a little bit of beef between these players. Yeah, I mean there is beef and man this could have been set up so quickly.
A man Cloud9 won earlier. This game could have been for all the marbles. You would have JJ being able to be the gatekeeper against his former teammates Packer and Mike W.
And for those who don't know Packer and Mike W, they used to be on this on this team envy a few stages ago and right before kickoff
They decided to make some changes that he really jay. They wanted to bring snake onto the team
Packer and Mike W disagreed with that decision and they were dropped
They then had to go through the Challenger League and qualify again where Packer is inevitable and they'd qualified for kickoff under 1 of 30 now
There is a little bit of beef between these because of not only that
But every single time JJ seems to play against these guys. Well, I believe right now it currently in T1 play
He's three and oh against the Packer in Mike W going even far back when Packer used to be on cloud nine as well
Yeah, man
There's obviously a little sense of pride here for JJ to keep that streak going here to be able to end it granted
It's not much online, but to still be able to hold it over the head
He holds stuff over spikers had all the time regardless to to be like I've taught him everything
he knows I'm better than him so you know obviously they're all friends at the end
of the day but to just be able to be have the one-up on your friend for sure
yeah there there's daddy right there there's there's a day blast and imagine
again imagine this could have been for all the morals but again regardless of
all that this is still two two teams two players specifically that want to beat
each other no matter what the cost it doesn't matter if playoffs are the
line or on the line or not yeah what could be on the line for these two teams
is relegation. Yeah, right? And that was something we asked about JJ and the boys
yesterday. I think we asked Fens actually it wasn't the interview. If they were
worried about relegation and he gave us a really honest answer, we're not worried
about them at all. We're actually thinking about SI right here and I mean
this is a quote from JJ, of course I had to get a game day tweet from the the
general himself or a game day quote. Many teams would have given up after being
eliminated from playoffs but when your final two games versus Spiker and
and Packer slash like W, there's endless motivation.
So these guys, again, they almost had nothing to play for
besides SI points online.
But JJ always wants to play against these two.
And last game that they just played versus Biker,
they looked really good.
They did, and I love that you mentioned SI
because sure they might be having a horrible stage,
but they are up there in SI points.
They are the fourth highest rated team for SI
sitting at 190 points.
So they are still in a very good position
to be able to qualify for Astonide.
If they take this break, go into it
and fix their mistakes going into stage two.
Every time we swap to JJ's player, Kim,
all I've seen this guy do so far is type.
Type, type, type, type, type.
Probably in the lobby as well.
I mean, that beef must be going on in the background.
But you mentioned that specific player
he's going up against.
Sure, there's motivation for the side of JJ.
That should be the same for Packer, right?
He, in his eyes, probably feels like he got done dirty
by JJ in this situation.
But in this new team that he plays for,
His voice seems to be so important.
Oh, he is the voice of reason.
He's the voice of truth.
He's the voice that everyone is looking to,
especially in those timeouts.
I mean, we saw one in their game versus Outlast.
They were losing that series.
And you heard in that interval, then that timeout.
Spiker, Packer.
Packer made it very clear that where their issues were,
Outlast was playing very telegraphed,
what they can do to fix it, what happened after that.
They won seven rounds back to back to back,
finishing that series.
And then even yesterday, in the dire situation
against Cloud9, we would hear again in their timeout.
Packer would make it very clear where things were going wrong,
what they needed to do to fix their mistakes,
and boom, once again, they would then
go on to win their series.
So clearly Packer's voice, really everyone gets behind that,
follows his lead, and it's clearly
paying dividends for them because now they're
in a position where they are actually
qualified for playoffs due to that.
Yeah, that is true.
I forgot that they actually are 100% now
qualified in for playoffs.
So I mean, if anything, this is just kind of like one,
getting a win finally against JJ Blass and also the confidence that that's going to bring
winning their last game in regulation to go into playoffs.
I'll talk about that a little bit more as you mentioned with Pack Infect.
We can also even listen in to what was going on yesterday.
I know.
I know what I'm saying.
Because we need to be more fluent in the beginning of the round.
Be calm and carried over to the end of the round, okay?
I do not like the way we're speaking right now and the way that we're not like, we're
not sitting back and problem solving.
We need to take a deep breath and we need to figure out the early round so that we can actually execute at the same time here.
Okay?
And honestly, coming out of that, I mean, it was clear distinction from that time out.
It made the world's difference. They slowed down in their comms.
They were very concise and where they wanted to end up and how they could go for those executes.
And again, that's really what you want from the experienced player.
And that's really what allows newer players to grow and develop is when you have that veteran leadership who leads by example and also plays extremely well.
So, super happy that Spikers, I mean, I got something in Spikers.
We talked about Wildcard and all these beasts.
Packer has really paid a lot for this team
and owes a lot of their success for his timeouts.
And I'm glad Steve's smiling again,
because we went from really low lows in the playercams yesterday
to really high highs.
But, as this is the final game for five years at least,
we know we will see for fun back in the playoffs.
A little bit of practice maybe on a map like Bank.
Yeah, I mean, a little bit of practice. What's your thought?
a little bit of practice would be a good thing to say here because five years I believe they were
banning Bank a good amount and we just got to see it recently out of them. I mean it's going to be
that attacker side in map. I expect to see it. I think we talked about it earlier today. It comes
down to a lot of utility play, the Grim, the Capitao. Do they want to take the shields away
from JJ? I would imagine they at least want to get rid of the Montagne. Montagne's the most
powerful shield operator on this map. So I'm expecting to see like a Montagne ban and then
and then like a Grimm or a Capitao,
could even be a ying, some kind of utility.
And then when you look onto the other side,
I think JJ and the rest of the boys
should be able to get rid of something
like just full on utility.
Since we haven't seen a lot of shield play
come out of four fun.
Yeah, I even think they could target Bandamir.
I mean, the mirror is very successful for them,
especially for that top floor.
So maybe they target that
to make CEO a little easier to take.
But however, it really just comes down to this matchup
and who really is gonna wanna put their foot down
and come here out on top and be able to have the bragging rights.
Because again, there really isn't anything on the line outside of pride for both of these teams one to have leg up on each other.
I want an on-leash match then, honestly. Get these players, you know, get them, get them going in a sign for our final batch of the NAL group stage.
Well, it's going to be bank for our final battleground. It's FF versus FF. For fun versus five fears, it's for fun that lead to the social prediction 61%.
the game. The game is
a little bit of a grudge
match. The final play in
playoffs five years after the
champions of kickoff in the
bottom two currently and would
need a pretty big result. Need
all three points make up the
round after jumps based
station gaming for eight
probably unlikely to happen to
be honest with one start on
to be honest with one start on defense to begin as we head into the bands.
Yeah, this should be an entertaining match to say the least with the
garage on the line.
And I'm sure the old chat will be pretty active throughout as well.
So hopefully they give it a license to have a bit of chip chat over the course
of this match as the bands are all out.
tied bandit so double denial into the double shield Monty and blackbeard so
keeping it pretty standard here on bank notably though hard breach still fully
available of course and ranged hard breach so influential on that top floor
but it's basement first up for fun on defense I think that this is gonna be
quite a grindy style match I'm expecting so it's a back-and-forth between
these two and whilst yeah officially nothing really on the line very much so
the garage I think is gonna be a big motivator for both teams to put in a
good performance. What do you make of the stage I guess for five fears because
after kickoff you're the champion you go over to the major and honestly I think they were more than fine in the major.
Is it just a case of the reaching itself being so competitive that you just don't get a couple of
results to go your way you end up in this position you can back on the stage you know 5-7 lost to
dunk 0-4-7 lost to SSG 4-7 lost to Cloudvine 4-7 lost to 100 thieves like a lot of these
losses are not wall outs there's a couple in there but i think for the most part it's just
kind of that stage where they just maybe didn't have as much of the fortune as kicked off completely
different stage altogether, so it's refounding like a matey. Is it a little bit less to do
with them and just more the tribulations of a stage where sometimes matches just don't
go your way?
Yeah, probably an element of both. They probably haven't played quite as well as they did in
keep up in combination with some narrow results so it's a bit of a re-re-calibration period
I think for them. As the guys were saying on the test, their sly is very much still on
their sites and whilst that may sound a little strange in their sleep nights heading into
this match in stage one, the points that they've acquired so far actually pretty good. If they
can really put in the work heading into stage 2, recalibrate to the best of one format and
push for a position at the Asaka Major, they'll build right back in that discussion pretty quickly,
so they find themselves in one of the more peculiar positions globally.
All their faith is very much sealed here for stage 1, the rest of the year is very much
an opportunity for them to to capitalize on that kickoff success.
Not a whole lot really playing out here in the first round.
Midpoint has concluded.
Blue says hold for for fun.
Rest of the team is in basement.
And neat little stat here as well but with bank now being the final map of group stage
left in consulate did not get picked once for the entire group stage of the
North America League but that'll be one to keep an eye on heading into play
obviously if it does eventually make its way into the region and being a little bit
pressure here on the water type blue core from behind I mean it's a solid pinch
from five years get the hatch control over on the defender playing blue
stairs. While the time is certainly going to be of the essence, getting a 5v4 start is the
shimiko launch is going to play a part at the end of this round though, which may have to force them to
push a little bit deeper for a plant position. Resource is still a nitrous cell available with
silo 2 on the 2nd round, and his package is just going to completely unwind the shimiko launcher,
No reason not to. Little time remaining in the round.
W goes down to Forest.
So I get to kill on to Forest, but Snake then gets to trade three and they're out for a snake.
My goodness! Well, it collapsed from five feet into the site.
They'll take basement to begin on the attack of Bang.
Now, some of it's slow-ish start to the round, but it ended with a flurry.
They are pretty explosive there at the end and smiles all around for what was a pretty
funny end to the round.
I had a quick look as well.
There's no other region that has an unplayed map so NAL will be the standout for that particular
stat line.
Should last 27.
Yeah, we'll go for it.
Last 27 once we push through.
Yeah, we'll go for a chance.
Last one is that one's been pushed through.
Rahul got stranded a little bit.
Wow, it's a mini exhaust going to get away.
So it didn't really matter.
And wow, for a team that, again, quite literally has,
I mean, they have at least a little bit of play for it.
They can absolutely smash their opponents five years,
could jump a lot of their history outside of that.
They don't have much to play for,
but the comms after that first round,
you think it was maybe an S-I-Cone file?
They're pretty up and about.
Yeah, I mean I think even if they can, we probably...
...Stay Station can get up into 8. I mean that's an extra 40s by point.
Yeah, essentially doubling.
That's true. Like, that and again,
given that this stage is being lacklustre from them,
they could actually be in a dreamy position post-stage 2 where that amount of points
could be a difference, maybe they could be right for just...
...that engine, so...
...you're right.
There is that motivation, whether they know it or not,
that I think some of the result here could be very very interesting from the end of the year
yeah and obviously there's a lot to go yeah a million other permutations so that but it's something
something that's in there controlled
yeah exactly I mean they're on 800 and 90 points at the moment as they stand if they were to stay
they'll get the 35 points but if they can jump up to 8 then you get the 75 points and so you think about
what we've seen plenty of times over the years that the difference that even one point can make
when it comes to the six-invitational calculations but if they were to get the 75 points we'd
actually put them equal with the Virtus Pro intent so you close that little gap
Yeah, it would be pretty remarkable if we looked back at the end of the year with points
and this single match, basically the meme grudge match ends up being a determining factor.
That would be an insane story.
Now again, notice, very much a long shot, but we've got to find something excited about
it in this one outside of the grudge.
Run 2, and it's time to find the APK, so 5 tiers once again find themselves in a solid position.
Might W to fall on the Arunite.
A commitment to the Solis-Penal Dembolo for Packer.
Rest of the team, top 4 with a very peculiar run out.
Volsper was outside for a long time there, that was incredibly high risk.
Bino did take quite a bit of damage as well, getting out of the tree.
Yeah, a little split too, it's essentially a 2-1 split, first floor, leaving Silo, Janitor
for now, by himself.
Ooh, a hack, a big kill on to Snake.
And also has given a bit of time for Bino to get back up on this top floor.
Really pack is the only one that we won't keep on that first floor, and Stola doesn't
get the information.
They just made his way in, so he does go down.
That gives up that Canada position.
Front desk with a nitro front desk, though, with the angle.
And as Bina connects, can't get the second onto rival.
And so Packer has to now make his way up onto this top floor.
Can't really just play the soulless game any longer.
Plant information, good kill onto rival.
Position at long desk now known for forest.
But he's just way too late.
He's literally just pushing up banana now, Forest is just nowhere to be seen!
Okay.
Well that's a very anti-climactic 1v1 as soon as I realize Forest is over towards Lobby.
He was in... he was about three zip codes at the end of that round, I don't know where...
What he was doing so far away...
Uh, yeah, Plank Converge was lacking...
I mean, truthfully, I wasn't actually checking his position leading up to that...
will be pushed late so I don't exactly know what prompted it. I don't have to see a replay
maybe as to where it was initially when the plan was being committed to.
It was an awkward answer round.
5 vs 3, 4th one doing a decent job and fighting their way back into the round. JJ punished
me with a peek.
Where the hell is it at the moment?
At that point in time, first floor.
The only thing I can think of is before really the soulless position above was known, maybe
the expectation was soulless was looking to play Teller's Archives the night from below
and so you go for the one once Boris goes to take that fight and just disrupts when
that plant goes down.
And then a big commit to make, that is a big commit play though because there are planable
positions that are as susceptible to the soulless.
but it very much makes it more clear as to the later rival of Boris.
One-one either way.
Played from backup.
Staff in open area now on the further end.
walls, rough start to the HM03. It's one of the primary hard breaches now in the grave,
but at least they have forest and the ace backed up and he still has three summers in
pocket. Comparing five years, I should pretty good into the lineup presented by the defense.
Love the inclusion of the IQ as a world counter packer. Looking to gather info. Look at the
recent pieces here five years connecting it now especially for five midpoint of the
bound it's already heavily tools of the needle in favor of the defense
sweeping perimeter well I mean the state has got a lot of work to do here on the
IQ and he's still only in ATMs and only just now I was seeing rival with boogie
auto breaches on the top floor.
Evidently for fun, giving up top floor presence, which is pretty normal with only 60 seconds
really left into the round.
There's no need to have to contest any longer on the top floor.
You've got the extra player advantage, job done in the early round.
And now just start to spread around staff in open area.
I also don't mind the fact that, yeah, Mike, you're still playing basement, Packer will
hold elevator.
You've still got some of these more aggressive positions available in the defense that you
can play because you have the time on your side, the extra defender on your side.
Five fears are up against it in this third round.
And the way they're going to win this round now is really just having to get a flurry
of kills into the site, and hit it down from Snake on the packer, and without clearing
elevator and pushing beep, this is going to be very difficult.
And it's rather jumps over square.
Guess what, Blue Stairs is gonna be swinging any second now, or Mike W
Does eventually get that kill
Maybe not the timing that I initially thought but still either way gets it and silo to finish off the final one nicely done before fun
They'll make that two rounds straight now on the defense
Really clinical round
Yeah, very much so
not really too much to comment on there from a defensive standpoint unfortunately
though for five fierce drugs play there the attack was a little all over the
place a lot of moving pieces none of them really proving fruitful certainly
doesn't help when you lose I play early on in the piece in the first minute on
the attack it really boxes you in in terms of what you can then do for the
remainder and then they kind of just really run out of ideas as to how they
wanted to approach sight there in the end. Unfortunate for JJ in that last round, was
the first open kill for fun thus far, courtesy of Mike W. First rotation done, presumably
we will return to basement. Up next! Defuser as well, cold top blue, made any salvage attempts.
impossible there for five years but it's that planning at the end.
I'm trying to say what the additional bands will be so Warden and Glazz take it out.
Warden selected back in the European Grand by Bino.
Glazz yet to have any playtime so far so just a preamp on there from so far.
Yeah and another map as well goes for us coming over from Asia specifically where there's
bit of a bird nest, it's a basement that's heavily attack-assided and staff open area too actually
and top floor is the one that's defender sided. Usually it's kind of the other way around when it
comes to APL, top floor bit shaky, basement's almost block-solid, defensive minded in that discussion.
5 years to go into heavy here into the fourth round of Deimos and the Dockaby and given
some of the positions of this defense that may well serve them pretty well with the
Vospa Top 4 vigil, they've got the 2-2 split, or actually 3-1 split with the remaining defense
though.
Mike WB no silo, all first floor, packet a hold down before basement service, he's mindful
of any dirt work here from the attack or bases to be covered here for fun as they look to
force by a few years into the max clear.
I do wonder how quickly the defense elects the peel here, sometimes players will elect
to just linger a little longer than maybe the attack would expect.
And Mike W actually in a pretty big commit position here tells us if he's revealed he
could be under a lot of pressure soon difficult to rotate away from Talos can
get help from Volsper though I mean you can if this is a fight that somewhat
eventuates close to Talos Volsper can push out of elevators and go for a
swing if you're going to die that quickly though unfortunately for Mike W
that needs to be an extended kind of fire but even then you can see Fens
actually watching towards elevators for a potential push out from Volsper
JJ's going down nice double again from Snake.
Also has to now get involved with Cross G.
How's it get easy killed?
But this is just too easy for 5v1s.
I mean, from the point of just playing too much into the first floor game defensively.
We kind of look at lockers and CCTVs,
the kind of site that you are allowed to just play 5 stack denial kind of opportunities.
And they've completely foregone that to take the first floor fights.
I also love the swiftness and the decision-making from by fears.
They get that kill tellers, they immediately drop vault, get a second kill,
and at that point they know with the way that it's being set up by the defense,
side is theirs, and they just execute immediately.
Taking advantage of the situation that's presented.
Yeah, a great flood call, but immediately they knew it was a heavy offside presence.
They can try to hit side flood.
It's more often than not that the smoke player is going to be CC or red.
If you can't get that read, it finds the kill and it's around over at that point.
I mean, you're not retaking this. Very low percentage.
And so, credit to you, five beers. Great reading execution.
And I think for fun, we'll, upon the return to that site, if they are in the next round,
we'll probably just temper things a little bit, maybe you respect the attack a little bit more,
positions where they can better fall off, whether it be elevated or open or even top
blue for instance, try to absorb a bit of U-Till bit of time and then probably favorably
lift the bonker hole because unfortunately fall them both times now on that base before
which maybe is a little more actually reflective of the league and not just their inability
to defend. It has been five years to claim it's the only site that actually won so far
being basement and maybe that actually brings it to doubt my call that we even see it again
in this half it may be a case of we just go to back to opening. Fun can replicate the success
that they've been able to find both there and here on the top floor which is the side of choice for
the fifth. Line up here from five years pretty predictable range, hard breach of the Habana
available thatcher for denial and assistance kanto although evidently that way it's really
being required could actually be an interesting interaction here with the mag with the magnets
from silo for instance on that for my could be used to maybe counter and facilitate some kind of
util dump of which will be pretty effective into the jam hold here for funneling to not
posture the warden for instance in this position just a little bit more proactive with the catch gun.
Heavy stack on that Apollo as expected here the expectation will be that they're trying
a compute tool to counteract this mirror window. The goal is yet to see if they can get this mirror
window done with but proving to be difficult so I'm just turning from right away imagine onto that
Nero, by the way, Keith, what I'm saying, he's three straight opening kills for five
fears in this match, and he's playing the Thatcher, maybe a different role in this
round, but it just seems to be coming his way with these, eight, two, oh, hey, what, almost, almost on cue, almost on cue,
all, that doesn't quite pan out for him man, for his team with friends going down
of the incuracy of Mike W.
For us, once again on a bit of a wraparound mission, he'll push up Banana.
A minute left, and knows that you're down a player, you're still going to deal with the barbed wire.
You haven't cleared anything out.
The walk's long desk, the walk's front desk.
Elevators is dangerous as well.
There goes rival, another one from Mike W.
You guys found nothing here on the repel it feels like this round is just petering out for five years
Yeah, they've been running out of plan B C
Okay, I mean
It's plan A or nothing for them at the moment
Unfortunately, it's unraveling. Oh forest. Oh, no
My rough one for porous on the cliff
It's like this I did find it at least to kill this round on to pack up
And needs to find three and ten seconds not gonna happen
I'll bet around for fun
Or for fun is that I guess yeah
It's quite the name I would say
Can't even say ff because you have five fears on the other side
No
Yeah, they never really connected the dots there on the attack, the ultimate goal,
being that U2 layer trying to facilitate console entry, think about the plant.
They never really got anywhere near that eventual goal.
Some of that was counter pretty nicely, probably behind the warm-eye with some of the initial U2 not having effects.
And then I think they tried to pivot and get forested in on the action through Lobby.
There was a little bit too late on the base with too many other players falling, he was
never given the support really required there for that particular push.
Either way they'll look to rush that one aside.
We don't return to basement, we do see staff open those chains.
Tap off the hull.
Again, NAL taking the spell, NAL.
No.
We would have been if this way it'd yell we'd keep the Wilders right now.
Start up an open area, basically because of trolling, but no.
Basically one load time is by five years, it's the only sight they've been able to win in the first half, so yeah, definitely not going back there and
laugh an open area. To be fair, actually, it's slightly more attack-favoured in the region as a whole, but with this particular match the way it's been playing,
It's probably the wise of the two options.
Could go tell his archives.
That's only been played twice so far at this stage.
One-one split.
A lot of YouTube clearance available for five years in this round.
We saw Forest getting away from the clutch.
Shockwave also.
In fact, from Fens.
See what he's looking to target.
it looks like primarily in foregaping actually at the moment. Packer with a well intended
nitro, but long as it's a good job in avoiding that. Minute down in the round. Use of the
util and the effect over here for five years has been pretty positive. It's going to be
about now translating that actually into action. It's all well and good to have the
right read. That's one step. Unfortunately, the siege is far more complicated than that,
special attack and spores fortunate I was just about to say so he was the only
one that was actually still top floor usually at that place thought you'll
typically see maybe some kind of presence top main or even towards janitor
but was the only one who is holding any symbol into top floor control against
that stock kill on defense and the jugger payload on to pack up he's having a
Yeah, absolutely. He gets double-digit kills with that too.
And in a nice timed fashion too after losing fans.
I feel like the longer this half has also gone on, five years in terms of their pacing, they just do feel a little bit slower.
60 seconds left, still a lot of work to be done, and this leaves you then having to flood into aptly named a very open site,
open sight and I think it pages the defense
Need a back kill on to be no required and starting to get a little bit of square control to open up quad open up
These lines of sight. This is starting to be a little bit better. It's false before now
It's a big advantage for five beers to crucial kill just before the execute phase super of watch it if you're for fun
Might W to try and salvage this, JJ Wall's going for the plate, gets off it, repositions,
good kill, onto Forest, and suddenly 1v1 against Snake here, over towards Archives.
If Might W can push quickly, get the kill? No.
Well, he did push quickly, just didn't quite get the kill.
Five Fears able to tie things up. It's three to three at the half.
It is, and I think maybe you can say that this was okay from the side of Five Fears,
five years, but you don't really feel like the usual story you feel like they could have gotten more out of this
Yeah, I mean three three is actually not bad. Yeah, thankfully they won that yeah
But I think they definitely lost that left at least two rounds on the table
Specifically the CEO rounds which were kind of highlighting five years problems a little bit and both of them because we can hear calm
Kind of came down to forest a little bit
I mean this is that fifth round we listen to for us kind of make a shock
Oh, hey, I want you guys to fake site pull all the utilities throw all the candelas everything make it seem like we're going for a top
And I'm gonna run the blitz from server room. We can see him and he's gonna run blue stairs to go into archives
I'm gonna get these solos underneath where's the problem? There's no soul. There's no soul is underneath
They drone it and go hey guys wait
There's no one actually underneath and at that point they stall out of the round and they go on to lose it and then even the prior
CEO round before that they actually get into a great 5v3 and then they lose a ton of bodies
They're bleeding and then before they get to execute
They finally get it down to a 2v1 and then the planners upstairs
They think the solace is downstairs forest just stays downstairs
They end up losing the round because the solace was actually upstairs
So they're just lacking information that the late-round calls specifically from forest. I'm not super impressed by
Yeah, if I'm just 100% and you can't be making those calls not having that information because again
You're leaving rounds up on a table where if this was a situation where this was both teams or five fear situation of being able
To make playoffs you want to be making these calls like that
And this is also something where we've highlighted with both JJ and Forrest being their shot callers,
not stepping up to the plate performing. Forrest did have a better game yesterday,
but I don't know where the issue is for both of these players to just not contribute as much.
And they aren't a Troy Canadian where they can be having these rounds not going their favors kill-wise,
and the rest of the team be able to pick it up. It's just not the same environment for the team.
However, going 3-3 on the half is good. They are going to be on the stronger side here in my opinion.
And then for for fun, I mean, there's something that we saw yesterday and even in the interview jumping into this, it was their pacing.
It was understanding what is the game plan. What are the defenders doing that we aren't taking advantage of?
So I am looking to see if they're playing slow. Are they taking that early space?
Are they taking that early aggression to them?
And then if for the side of five years, are they getting aggressive?
Are they dialing it back a little bit seeing if they can get that first pick and then letting them go back into the layers with
they have the man advantage when they ultimately go for the execute?
That's a great point because it hopefully five years did their due diligence and watched back the game versus one can only pray one can only pray
This is their career and this is their job and they're hopefully taken
They're paying attention, but yeah, those layers were working extremely well
Against for fun and it was when C9 gave up those layers outside it to actually take the fights
That's when they lost that game in my opinion. What do you seem to know fans really anything?
I mean, I was gonna say I do like the Habana and the glass clearly getting rid of the glass
They're gonna target for that late round execute get rid of that denial to be able to see through that smoke if they're trying to go
For a quick plan especially down below so I do like that
I'm curious to see what that third band inevitably ends up being do they get rid of a shield
Do they get rid of maybe a gram or a ying?
You know, I think ying is in it would probably be a good one and that makes sense
If they don't have to get rid of a shield against four I would love to see them pull out the montane like I was begging for last game
I just don't think we're going there
You two say that five years might have the advantage being of the defensive side here
the final few rounds that we'll see from them inside the stage. Can they go out with a bang?
And we'll see certainly in the second half if defense is going to be the safe haven. Snake has been
on a heater 11 and 3. Also the only three-oaked but he kills five beers a pad have all been from
him. I think we're considering it's a three-three game. A little bit of reliance on Snake to keep
performing for five beers. In terms of the active defense discussion when it comes to banking this
region and it's a pretty close to the 150 which is too much of a surprise after a 50-50 first half.
Yeah, I've been dreaming to see how five fears go about approaching this half if we maybe see a
little bit more conviction with their shot falling so they're bringing sort of the sentiment out of
the desk but it's going to be lacking a little bit of conviction back in that first half and
and in committing to backup points especially for me that is probably the most disappointing
part about that half but right now it's only still in the position where they can go on
to claim all three points but it's a tricky one to call to have close match between two
teams that really just don't want to see the other one win.
Now let's put a first round here on the second half.
Harley, interestingly, in play, a ranged hybrid course, also available for Kanto.
So the game plan then is for a packer here, great.
Counter onto the castle, of course, can use the lance to clear the bulk of that utility.
Even Keevers as well will be susceptible.
Actually, also at the top square side.
So the move is to split approach currently for the attack.
Frost has his position exposed can no longer really compete stock hall
That's a nice little checkpoint in the round for fun
Yeah, I'm just one element to that wall doesn't get
It's barry for forest to play that stop all a position with the go-kart inside stock then as well
You could have potentially gone for a burst-wing combo
So, good to kill Lugin so far to begin in this 7th round for Fall Farm, but there's
only a minute remaining.
That's easy information.
JJ is able to spot out Volsper, but I think he was already starting to just over stay
his welcome inside a stock.
I certainly killed for the defense, but you know, wants to continue to open up this wall
top square.
Forrest will sit lurking blue stairs, but you know, brings his attention back over towards
stock and to me is tracking me looking like an attacking team that just looks
stalled out. Yeah they're waiting for a mistake they're
waiting for someone to overpeak so that they can capitalize and unfortunately
that opportunity well I was gonna say hasn't been presented before us does
eventually fall on that flank 3-3. 30 seconds. Well another one is one for
Packard too well they're making it worse. Packard's just gonna go too beat or to get
the last. Well in the end as much as they were sitting around waiting for
mistakes. The mistakes weren't really
eventuated, so they had to go and do it
themselves. Indeed they do.
Good way to start the second half,
considering it wasn't, you know, the kind
of flawless sort of round where
everything worked out perfectly. They
had to really just have a decent sense
of patience in that round. Patience paid
dividends, eventually timed their run
perfectly at the end.
It's an attacking round from four fun to set them back into the lead four to three
Yeah, it really kind of just came out of nowhere that final burst from for fun
Catching forest certainly caught the leviate first but it was
and they wouldn't be packed on the front line that had to get his hands dirty in that round and
did a solid job in
finding a wincon there in around that yeah up until that very last portion looked pretty dire
and some big stall out.
Down to basement four around number eight
Will we finally see a successful defensive round on this side? We'll have to wait and see.
They're certainly struggling in the first half. Kings for fun, specifically finding themselves
pretty susceptible to the offsite presence, trying to get to control that and electing
not to peel back. See if it's a little more reserved this time from five fears that line
up to me is suggesting that it's very likely to be the case, especially if Goya is to make
combo indicative of the PC default small out. Of course, there is a little bit of presence
still on the first floor. Goya is also likely to play blue. Rival open. He's actually pretty
active at the moment instead of falling down at the first side of pressure. He's searching for a
bit of additional information, they also look at the drones.
Certainly not 100% passive, but at the same time, they're not over progressing at the moment.
Yeah, clearly it's been this sort of match now where there's been opportunities for
teams every round. Doesn't matter. We've had no rounds where it's been four or five alive,
and no rounds as well where it's been one alive. But to me, when there's predominantly been,
there's three rounds, they've been two alive, four rounds, and three alive. Clearly every
single round that we've played there's been opportunities that have presented.
You would imagine there should be no different. You know, opening kills,
4-3 split in terms of conversion. It's, I wouldn't use the word sloppy, but it's been an
opportunistic sort of match. You take the opportunities when they're presented. I think
whichever team can be a little bit cleaner down the stretch, it's just going to go and win this game.
Don't think the attack with defense really matters, the site's too much either.
And the pacing is really still though in this second half.
Warfarnam really taking their time to get the right information,
get into the right positions, go through that checklist.
They're not rushing, but also then from the defense's perspective,
you know, five beers aren't really punishing their side,
but they're still just happy to sit back.
Now, on this site, that's more than fine.
You've still got a nitro cell from Forrest, he's actually just got it in hand now, over towards red.
And then the three gaspaves most importantly from JJ here on the smoke, they're looking to deny the ability to push in go for an easy plan, either at the doorway or the breach.
Number two gaspave slash plus that nitro, there should be no word which for fun, you can just sneak at the doorway, it means you have to push deeper.
This is where the stands are used will help out massively be knows able to beat the other side of the curtain
Try and get some information really wants to tuck in the corner go for the plant JJ wasn't ready for the push through by fears though
Are able to overwhelm knowing that it had to be a
One dimensional push in through server. It's so much easier to then just keep all guns trained on the one position
and it's been back and forth from rounds three to eight now, one for one. Neither team able
to gain separation. And it finally, it was also the first round with four alive at the
end of it.
And the first round of which basement was successfully defended making it actually looked pretty
comfortable and easy and start contrast to the first half where it was proving to be very
Difficult for fun struggling on that site, but finding success elsewhere to make up for that tech pause called in the meantime
Ended up. Yeah, they were kind of leading to a little one-dimensional there in the previous round
Default was just as it was simply wasn't an option three gas phase with 30 seconds plus nitro. You're never playing default there
And so be know had the right
instinct to go deep there on the shield of bit a
a lack of support or playmaking anywhere else meant that he was simply left with the diffuser
tucked under his arm and no team to cover for the plans. It was kind of all for nothing.
Well, in fairness to Five Fears as well, I mean they played that far more conventional
to what we typically see of Basement on Bank. When you think about the lineup and the idea
in terms of the stall out, whereas in contrast, Four Fine in the first half, you know, they
playing vigil, soulless, castle, his army, the locker CCTV and with a large emphasis
on that first floor.
We've never seen that before, certainly that's one particular strategy, it's not the strategy
though.
And then the first round heavy reliance on the Cachanka didn't bring the smoke, warden,
Fenrir.
So again, kind of put all of your denial eggs into the basket of the Cachanka.
on the flip side fire fears say let's make sure they can't get elevators while we sit back and play
the long angles we've got the gas babes we've got the ability to also put out the boxes from the
Goyo we've got the warden that can play around that sort of by the blue stairs or red position
we're in with a long range DMR mirror windows they've got a better system that particular round
Now staff at open area, can we see back to back round when it's required to be here?
They haven't done it at all so far in this batch of bank.
I'm going to see the scents again here from the fun.
We saw it last time out to try and cover up the red default and ultimately it didn't
really influence the round given all the
denial circumstances and conditions available to the defense so I'm
intrigued to see how they look to utilize it
in this round the RAU is pretty helpful in covering
if they go for a route for electrical or...
That's where the most common I think that's where my screw-electing
leaves you know cover the long angles from open
can also play a role above maybe on a couple of different players
and I think it is largely dependent on
the posture and provide fears like what actual positions need to be covered and how can they
facilitate safer map entry. Well top floor is completely vacated so they're not defending it
at all. No one stock, no one janitor, it's full horizontal across on the first floor.
So if I'm full farm and I'm able to identify that, take the space on the top floor, get the
full yordle breaches, open up the vert and then from there you can actually throw a couple of
I use you know from top down to below let them roll out and block off even more
just like this.
I've forced that vert pretty simple and easy way to watch this defense back towards the objective.
Again the pacing it's pretty slow going and not framing that as a negative.
Sometimes it's only the nature of bank and going through that checklist.
as Quad now gets exposed courtesy of the ace.
And Mike W to push up the blue stairs.
Clearly the focus here is on the square side of the map.
Forrest goes down to Volspot.
So they actually do get something from that vert.
Forrest gets caught in Sol's payload, sends out Bino and Silo.
Yeah, we'll both find one at the exact same moment and suddenly for fun have completely
opened up this site.
I don't even think really required a double from siloed fence by install over the wall. It's open. Plants going down. It's not even required. Still no back to back round winds for five years. They get shredded on staff in open area for fun. We'll get to five first.
Yeah, the build up was pretty slow, but I really don't think a lot of that was, again, to be framed in a negative fashion.
And it actually played into the hands quite nicely there, the attack, the fact that there was no action meant that they weren't being contested above.
They weren't being contested square.
It allowed for free vert, it allowed for free horizontal.
There was no playable area over towards staff.
We saw that super exposed, open with pressure by the vert.
And even imagining a world in which that was maybe a 5v4 or even a 5v3 with the sense up
that they didn't have a hope in hell in hovering the cross to the default anyway,
the defense was horribly positioned there, courtesy of some really good setup from the
attack. So yeah, full credit for fun, very much deserved of that round win. It prompts a response
from Five Fears with a tactical timeout as they look to try and break this
seesaw but it really just continues to be back forth between those two splitting
them has proven to be very very challenging. I just feel like so far to
begin this second half defensively for Five Fears they've looked a little
flat-footed so the one site where I think that's more than fine is actually
funnily enough the one that they won which is Basement with the lineup that
They brought the composition that they brought.
Yeah, you're not really roaming around, right?
So that's fine.
But Top Floor, they just didn't really
offer anything around it anywhere else.
It was very hard set position.
Same again for Starfleur Binaria.
Never even went Top Floor at all.
They ever tried to buy some time.
Never tried to make any kind of contact.
It was just horizontal, tell us archive, Starfleur Binaria.
That's it.
And we're not going to push out.
We're not going to do any basement works.
we're not going to try and contest at a certain point.
And so they just give up so much ground
to the attack because of it.
Out of the time now,
and now they actually lose access to the Goyo.
To be fair, it was only used once for basement.
Bomb located by attackers.
But I mean, for fun, being on five versus four,
now on the scoreboard,
then there's a,
so at some point you're going to get back to basement.
That's going to help them out a lot.
And all they lose is, yes,
I should say all they lose.
So with the ace band that locks out Kanto now, with no ace, no Habana, so it's a decent
band.
And it does solidify that hallway four or five years.
This should be a tricky attack, but they're probably going to be pigeonholed into the
console default, playing into the Jan mirror.
It is on paper, pretty low percentage on face value, unless they can find a different
angle to play off.
The composition may suggest that they'll look to commit to it.
And so, it'll give me reliance on, you know,
packet a third of that util,
or to find a way with util layering
to destock that middle window,
try to find a way to get bodies into the site
for the contest.
It's getting really rough.
This is posturing nicely for five years
in terms of the comms and the bands on the side,
all of that in combination, again, on paper.
It makes it harder to also go stock, too,
because you can't just throw in either of the X-cars
the Salmas though and create fresh all they get a kill on to the mirror though
okay you apparently you don't need any util to clear the biggest pal position on
this side for the charge able to also already break that mirror window this
would be literally just banned away the ace for a particular reason you're able
of play the mirror the glares not needed on this side this is a wonderful start before fun and
i like the fact that they're not just rushing off that kill it's a long-range kill it's still got a
lot of work to do they've looked very composed on their attack yeah i don't feel there's no
unnecessary sense of urgency they know when they've got the ascendancy in the round and they can
look to set themselves up for a high percentage of conversion they time that on for it a layer of
to Utah and Dino will look at the plant.
Boris has got the only Nitro Solo towards Janada.
This will need to be in backboard.
He doesn't even get the chance.
He's playing down.
I mean, good pressure for Forfun.
Plant goes down successfully.
It's a disaster for five years.
And on the verge of giving up two rounds that
have road to Forfun for the second time here on bank.
And even though they did get that kill onto Volspar,
3D4 needing to deal with repel defenders outside
old the map in the post-blank means that really their best hope is to just pick it. Snake had
to get off and indeed they are offered now permanently for the round because they just
get easily dealt with. It's six to four. Two match point opportunities go the way of full
fun. Yeah just another really nicely composed attack and whilst I don't entirely know how
they were able to find that opener it was courtesy of Mike W onto JJ again the
kind of pick that really exposes you as the defense that wasn't U2L
invested it was a key power position that was dealt with JJ will know that
that was a disappointing way to open the Brown once that U2L got layered
John was flamed and the plan was secured you could say goodbye to the Brown you're
never winning that retake. Very very very very very low percentage. We're fine now with
two match points and what would be a solid result for them. It won't necessarily jump
them above Shopify rebellion though, they'll still be trailing by the one round on differential.
Let's say the position is still very much set in sixth place, and that's on the whole
side of the packer.
Well interestingly we go to Locker's CCTV and Five Fears have not lost this sight at
all at both attack and defence.
And Helves when Boris goes and gets a nice early kill through Garage on Topaka.
That's very aggressive but I don't mind it.
I mean the solid snake wants to push in slowly, gain space, use that radar, but if Forest is just going to play in a more aggressive position,
runic DMR, yeah that's one way to catch off the solid snake.
And also, it goes back to my point more earlier in terms of the flat footedness.
Well that's a bit more activity for not only Forest, but Fire Beers as a whole.
rival very fortunate to still be a liar gets taken down to one HP on top floor
and Snake hits the nitro on Tobino this might just be a GG go next if you fall
fun they have not done well at all on Locker's CCTV
No, they haven't.
I've w'd with a desperate push forward to maybe catch a rotation, they're clearly not
the case.
All five in our basement for five fears, and what style it has, white targets if it's only
available actually converting info into kills and eventually round win here for the attack
is going to be extremely difficult.
Next up's a 15.
Five feet is going to go undefeated here in the basement.
Less.
The rival is very, very low and there's still a minute left.
Valsper and Silo, they're just going to need to be literally perfect.
And I don't think that they've got the ability to actually push through surfer whether they know that know that or not
You're talking about a nitrosol still gas babes available
I do like to set our use they've lost the drone good info. I know what's being watched and where from
Starting to gain a little bit of hope that maybe they could cook something up here gas babe immediately thrown out from JJ as soon as those
screens went up they got brought back down and then back up again it's a
light show going on down in basement but so far it's it's working out it's
keeping five fears oh my goodness I thought for a split second they were
about to do something incredible five years and very very fortunate with the
way that that round ended up they'll get one last opportunity to send this one
to overtime but again five years that's that's their site that's their bread and
They've only won a single round outside of Lockers and CCTV, which was back in round
six, attacking into Stafford Open Area.
Yes, that was an intriguing end to the round. I mean, fair attempt.
The REU's bouncing up and down and opening a small window of opportunity, but with both
with both silo and vols before slow they...
Let me buy attackers.
Just fall at the same time.
In open area, will this be the final round of the group stage?
Or is there a couple to follow in overtime?
My fears have had their issues today.
And for fun, to their credit have played pretty well.
Well, I think Composure has been just the biggest difference maker in this matchup, where
lots of fun, not overplaying their hands, not looking uneasy, and there's been some
tough moments throughout the match for them to contend with, but they've just backed their
plan and their system in, and for the most part it's been paying off.
The pressure just mounts a little bit here into round number 12, and this Grudge match
There's been a surprisingly blackbuster line of chatter in this matchup, I thought it'd be a little bit...
Oh ho ho!
Pretty tame.
They need to go to the Enterprise School of Shit Talking.
Maybe get Mag over for a bootcamp.
Triple Info gather here is a hot flirt, the attack with the Snake-Dokovie and Deimos combo.
This is going to make life very frustrating for 5 fears.
And the element of surprise should be stripped away, provided for fun, use this U2 effectively.
And to round out the comp, ram for vert.
And I love the inclusion of the knocker as well so it could be in a position to look horizontal through ATM
I mean it's almost like five operators in terms of
Info gathering really cuz that you know the boy girl don't breach is they go open up
Four ports and that gives you information and silos ability to push and work will also get you information
What's at the same degrees the other operators, but similar concept
Did get the opening kill?
They also have to beat that payload for Mike W, Bino falls and so does Volspot, with five
beers and looking as if they're going to send us to overtime to close out the final game
of group stage here for NAL.
They require Silo and Mike to combine into two versus four.
One thing we haven't really seen a lot of in this match though has been these sort of
comeback grounds.
It's been a pretty cut and dry sort of match.
The team that starts well seems to end well.
Very little in this particular scenario just suggests that for fun can make it a competitive level.
Pall around, those rivals low, maybe could be isolated, but Mike W gets trapped over towards tellers.
So 1v4 attempt to ensue, incredibly low percentage, OT on the other side.
Yeah, and probably about right, I think with where these two teams have been out here on bank. It's been pretty close
Neither team able to get a lot of separation finally and it's taken into the last two rounds two in a row for five years
To get us to OT so a little bit more siege required here today ladies and gentlemen
And it does mean the points will be split
in tactical time out from for fun grudge match with nothing really on the line
my fears of course cannot get any better than their ninth place position but the
where the game was shaping up, that was known quite a time ago.
SSGSA 58.
That does mean that, again, as we highlighted earlier,
that Five Fears, who are still very much in contention
for SLA qualification on points, if they have a good stage two,
they'll miss out on a big chunk in stage one
and the ongoing storyline and ramifications
from that won't be fully known until the end of the year,
whether or not this stage will ultimately prove costly
in their conquest to attend the event.
The highlight package from that previous round
and it was pretty short lived ground
with a couple of ice skates
that were all going away five years.
It was almost just like a drush into janitor trying to overwhelm.
It just doesn't work out. Shotgun is...
Deadly up close. Defends did a really good job defending.
Defending full fun will get double defense, but again with the weight of the house play now, pretty split both times.
I don't think it really matters all that much.
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Interesting, we actually got a basement to begin with and this is an intriguing choice, because again, 4FUN have not won this side at all.
No, but they're being a pretty different lineup. It's something you were talking about before in terms of a very more modern approach that they were taking with the VOSI play, the operators compliment that.
This time it's a little more on the side of old school, particularly when you look at the Tachanka and the smoke combo, then you're as well going to use some on-site disruptor even off-site, I suppose as well.
I suppose the point of difference is that two-bramute combo would be great into an info gathering heavy comp here from five years, but that's not really the case, they go for the old school themselves.
like Newtolay and Cap, not rich as needed for default and then they can send JJ for a start
for the player.
Ah, hello.
I mean, but also like, this is questionable from Fort Fun as well, I mean, what are they
doing?
They've got a five stack below composition but they're playing heavy presence first
I mean, fortunately, it's only the view and the tube for our to be honest that you need to keep the smoke alive
But even then be knows I'm gonna go one gas bay left
The whole point of playing the smoke on this line is to delay and look there's a tiny bit of delay
Towards blue stairs, but you've now got full reliance on packer on the shimiko launcher
Yeah, you know stays are gonna be numbered over towards blue that that minimum it's gonna be in a little fight
Hacker, I'm very sissy.
Bino falls.
Hacker did find a pick in the meantime on the off-meta position,
so that's something, and Forrest is low.
He just has to dip a toe in the flame and he'll die.
So there's actually a world in which Fofun can wrangle this round back,
despite some fundamental issues earlier in the round.
They're not out of it at this point.
Well, I mean, they've got drones.
The side fears the pivot there.
And yeah, particularly they can drone.
It's a three versus two.
You've got drones, got info.
You know pack is gonna want to use this Jamaica launcher to stop this push into CCTV
The last thing you want to do is just triple stack the door way and try and push through
So this is where you got to create other avenues whether it be vault whether it be main stairs whether it be garage
Whatever it is. It just can't be a triple stack in server. They do at least have this joint
I just be something forest as a fake pushback. He's so low on HP
It looks like Bellaccio can make him the plant attempt here, which is a little risky, but it's not very risky.
Find Bellaccio and make the launch out first. It does immediately just burn.
I mean, yeah.
Wow.
That was a 3 vs 2 drone info. They almost had, what, 45 seconds or something to really work and formulate a plan?
And the best plan of attack was a double push through the doorway with a one HP forest and
Yeah, I mean you could have played that so much better
Yeah, totally agree it was a rough one
Probably could have had a couple more options this bleeding that attack in such a way that you actually capitalized the forest being low
I think having him as a bit of a dummy push elsewhere at least it building some pressure else
it may have been a bit of call but regardless they did have that job player and the timing
was ultimately off anyway. Ultra aggressive offside. It's been a fall in the side for
this defensive lineup on this side where the offside play, the roam play has not been
fruitful at all. That's a site that I'm sure they'll be going back to the Strapbook and
I'm looking to refine going forward, paying point for them tonight.
Well, back we go.
We return.
Although four or five years specifically,
they successfully defended the site twice.
Five seconds left.
They haven't really had the same issues as.
Yeah, I guess.
Yeah, I don't know.
So, 7-6, full fun, and we get two opportunities to close this out, get the two points, but
most importantly get the win over Fire Peers.
Already on their way to playoffs and for the kickoff champions, a dismal Stage 1, bottom
two finished, locked in, they'll look to rebound in the off-season and come back strong for
stage too, no doubt. IQ available here for this round. Could play a key role in disrupting
the solace of rival who is actually in a relatively passive position over towards main. Snake
a little more proactive open with a nitro opportunity through stock.
So Mike W in a safe position, not susceptible to that.
Currently his payload gets sent out to the position of Fens and to dodge a couple of
shots on his cross back to the objective does a good job to do so it eats the call,
not really too much of a concern.
certainly the structure of this defense more convincing than we saw last round
out where the fun got caught and isolated much more successful appeal
towards the objective now for five years you have to make the plan before
denial and double nitro yeah I mean it really well set up now defensively five
years at this set they've got the utility the cockpit position the one thing
more fun to do still have them and being on the monty you can get some good space to push forward
against the bomb chassis maybe even tuck into the corner near the the doorway there's an option
which in fact it's still a climb climb they've got all options one more rru available but you
know it's going to go into cctv test out this defense and well the test is going to be passed by
jj jasper will connect and that's the right way to kind of play this attacking when you're going
for this server-side centric push. You want to draw this utility out. You can't just sit here until
there's 10 seconds on the clock. Pino's going to do it again. More utility to potentially get thrown
out. And it also then exposes JJ's position. 20 seconds. Garage, Lurgis, Wapnpaka not watching
it as far as that opens up the ramp play and there's main. This is the best way to attack this slide.
So much pressure. Main, garage, eating out the utility as well towards the slide. Into red time.
It's another one shot from snake needs to deny this plant though be no will be successful
It doesn't even matter most for fun will get the win the final win here for group stage
They will be heading to playoffs unfortunately for five years. It's another loss to the added tally
Yeah, it's gonna leave a sour taste in the mouths of five years losing out of the Grudge match
And it's been a disappointing stage for them but credit to the fun
I'm very intrigued to see if they can have an influence in that lower bracket
And we'll see what they can do come playoff time and playoffs as a ball set here today
Ball fun in six spots shopper by rebellion in fifth and the top four stat on the thieves wildcup ducks here at 80
It's all the set up playoffs next week. I've got to be a blast
Will be yes
Thank you guys so much for getting us through these games especially at the times for you and they got a
at the end there's a big crush match as we talked about it this time around I
guess mentally wise as well Packer comes our way for you Packer is daddy it's no
longer JJ blast but I mean even in that last round JJ I mean it wasn't I'm sorry
not JJ Packer was a good call from him I really like their understanding of how
they were going to win this round we were kind of questioning the ROU sensor to
be able to block off the line at site I really like that they pulled the attention
towards the focus towards server and then what they do Packer immediately comes
comes in through garage, finds that opening on the player,
and then they just collapse down main stairs,
get the pick on the player, rotating,
and then from there they have the side control.
They could plant the diffuser and really turn five fears
back on their heels, where they now had to be the attackers
and try to retake, and it just ultimately fell flat.
You couldn't wait to say that Packer is dead, you know?
Yeah, I hope we close that now,
and that's like a sub-sign,
it's got a laxist voice there.
Yeah, it was a really good game plan before,
but I expected them to close that out a lot sooner,
to be honest, five years started turning up,
I think that comes down to Fens.
I think you highlighted it yesterday,
and we can kind of see right here.
Snake was kind of carrying the game a little bit,
still did 16-9, but Fens was able to kind of get
some of those rounds on the defense going his way,
and he was popping off as well.
But it still comes down to me.
I mean, yeah, JJ, Forrest, down at the bottom for five years.
A lot of problems were going wrong,
and I was looking forward to talking to JJ.
I think the world wants to know what is going wrong
with his team, and we needed to hear it
from the general himself, but we'll have to wait
and hopefully ask him another time.
Yeah, instead, this time we get to talk about the positives.
So maybe he heard you say that, you know, along the lines,
as Packer is standing by for an interview.
Packer, congratulations on the victory.
Dutch review caught what was being said on the next year.
But this is a big grudge match for you specifically.
For me, I mean, they've talked shit for months,
but they've only got blessings of the 4v5.
Well, I wanted to get right into the grudge match, Packer,
because, yeah, we did highlight it
I guess T1 wise not counting any of your if you guys want to get each other in T2
But he does own the series JJ of course 3-0 that was your first ever victory against him now
I'm unfortunately it wasn't for like a playoff spot or anything meaningful
But you do win the interviews or anything else you kind of want to say to JJ or any of those guys now that you got the spotlight
Well, I mean now I have my team that I actually enjoyed teaming with and so I'm very excited that like every time I play
I'm not gonna beat him because previously I owned him. He thought beat me like one time beforehand. So
You know, it's honestly, it's okay. I mean, they're not gonna win any more games against us. There you go
Well, I kind of ask you how are you feeling right now? I mean, pretty good
Besides for the stage where we tried playing fortress twice and lost 72 both games
We've only lost twice outside of that. So I mean we tried working on our map pool one map stuck
The other map didn't so we're just
If you don't want me asked it, I mean what what has been the issues with your guys's map pools
I mean our map pool and the offseason we worked on it
Like we added all new strats we tried everything we tried playing all nine maps because we wanted to get really ready for this stage
As you can see we added bank this stage and we've played it three times one of all three times
So that's really great success and then we wanted to try fortress twice this stage just to give it a good shot
We tried against two top teams got smoke both times didn't really didn't really show anything good there
So you went something you lose some absolutely at least room at least you've seen improvement somewhere
Speaking of those that improvement is that what you're looking forward to after making playoffs and now playing in best of three
is what can we expect from you guys because in kickoff
You guys were one of the first teams to kind of get you lost to obviously five years
And then you went down the lower bracket and you kind of fell short again
What's going to prevent you guys from falling short this time and actually making EWC?
We just bettered our map pool. I think we lost club like six times last stage
And we've just made our map pool like to a higher tier for every single map
I think we can beat literally everyone without the other eight maps in the pool
So I'm very excited for playoffs and I mean we've always played everyone close for the most part
So I'm very like last playoffs we lost like two barn burner games
So I'm expecting like this playoffs. We're gonna go to finish it out, you know
Well, not really a question pack, but I do want to give you your flowers
I think your timeouts and you specifically whether it was the outlast game or the cloud nine game
I think you really were the the glue that held the team together to really get them on track to be able to close out
Those series more so in that game versus cloud nine because again, you guys need those points
And they need those points the fact you were to walk away from three really set you up for going to today
So I just really want to give you your flowers and I think you've really been crucial for this team in those moments to really get
Everyone back focused on the game and get the job done
Thank you. I really appreciate it
I'm just really happy that I'm on a team that like fully trust me and like always believes what I'm saying to them
I'm not the main caller anymore like I used to like I did before but
Obviously my experience in the game does bring a lot. So I'm just really happy that they believe in me
You just want a big grudge match and you got some glazing from this gear, you might as well be the happiest man alive at the moment.
Thank you so much for your time and good luck in playoffs next week.
Thank you everyone have a good one.
Awesome, good to hear from you as well. I'm glad you gave Miss Flowers as well for that.
We had that at the beginning and it turned out again to be working out for them.
I mean Packers definitely a player that you have to give a lot of respect to.
He has absolutely gone through it and the fact that he is still constantly trying to improve, constantly trying to prove that he is working out.
proved that he is worth it and that he deserves to be in this scene, he deserves every ounce
of respect.
And we've seen some of his timeouts where he's very animated and fiery, but that was
a very calm one.
I almost think he might have a calling as a therapist telling everyone to like calm down
a little bit.
I don't like the way we're speaking to each other.
It's almost like he's talking to his like, maybe he looked back at that outlast and was
like, okay, maybe I, maybe I didn't like the way that I was speaking to you.
Yeah, absolutely.
Our final playday here for groups this over several of our results because despite
They're not being much to play for like after a match two and everything was said and stolen were got to play us
We still got some close matches. Maybe some surprising results today or not really. Um, yeah, wild card one
Yeah, I mean the wild card one. I mean, I I know I did predict wild card was
Honestly, I mean I want to say was surprising in the sense of how close that really was I thought there maybe might have been more
Leaning favor to one team
I thought it was still gonna be a good series
But the fact that it had to go the full distance and wild card to be coming out on top that did catch me by surprise now
It definitely didn't you know the next game. I was hoping was gonna be a little more competitive
That's the one we were one and that one fell short
That's unfortunate that that was the one that was kind of the blowout because that created all the story lines that we could have
Possibly had today and imagine that for fun five years. It went eight six. It went the distance
Yeah, imagine that was for something on the line that would have been incredible
But yeah, I've been asking for overtime, so we got some.
We got them, yeah.
We got some.
Big difference though, in regards to the points
for the top versus the bottom.
We almost thought we were going to have a flawless M8 today.
Felt short just on the final playday outlast.
Ending the season without a victory.
It hurts to see that there, but especially
towards that middle pack here, with the fight
for those last few spots, whether you're
going to end an upper bracket, whether you're
going to go in lower bracket, who your first opponent is
going to be inside that bracket.
It still came down to be pretty close here.
Yeah, I mean, it was definitely really close.
Do you think you would have predicted those six?
I don't think I would have predicted the six by any means.
But I am happy with what we got so far.
I mean, M80 really was a big surprise for me again.
Yeah, I looked at that roster.
I looked at Savage coming on to it again.
We felt very similar.
The time that those players only found success
was with Han Kultz, so the fact that they almost
went undefeated.
Unfortunately, come to their first loss today.
But I think Savage is happy with that.
He said he'd rather experience a loss in group stage before playoffs.
He could actually help them secure themselves going into playoffs.
Yeah, so where does that put us for playoffs is the big question.
What are we going to have next week in regards of our matchups?
As you said, M80 still lock in first, meaning they go up against the number four in a hundred thieves.
And Dark Steal versus Wildcat, I mean, that could be another...
Steve smiling, could be another upsetter. Is that not what you're thinking?
I don't know if it's going to be an upsetter, but I mean, I just feel for Spiker with talking about
Oh, we always play against easy. Oh, it's always back. That's how it was for me with TSM back in the day
You just you hate you like a little bit of flavor and going against a different team
So I would definitely be more excited for that and maybe 100. Yeah, I know that stuff that you really are looking forward to
It's what I mean. Come on. It's it's savage. It's versus hot and cold
I mean it's the former office and how did I made he lose today?
It was seven seven and spiker gave credit to who it was hot and cold from the great from the top ropes
He remembered the call that was they used during that last event during sLC
And that is the call that ended up getting them over the finish line
So now hot and cold one up over them now, you know one up
So now he gets a chance again in playoffs where it matters
And I guess one of the big things also is in that other matchup that DZ wild cards if wild card is actually able to
Upset them that's gonna send DZ to the lowers where I believe they're gonna end up playing SR
And we know how that matchup is gone. So for anyone that's kind of a hate watching on SR a little bit
I mean, you're gonna be walking that DZ wildcard match up closely as I'm sure are they
Since the state is now over big day for you guys over the pond tomorrow 4th of July
Any plans to celebrate it despite you know being on the other side of the pond nothing like screeching patriotism in Denmark
Copenhagen specifically so I think tomorrow I'm gonna go get a couple beers get a couple hot dogs FaceTime a family
Celebrate from Copenhagen and you know try to be as American as they possibly can yeah
You're telling me that I'll celebrate or you're like we can't go to a bar or something
Fireworks go out. I don't think so. Maybe we can try to find some out. I think we are. I think we're gonna have to make it work
We have to have our own. Yeah, actually just heard the fireworks are illegal here. So we don't do any of that here apparently. So
That's tomorrow America make something happen. Yeah, we'll move along
I love it. Well to anybody who is celebrating 4th of July tomorrow, we have a wonderful time
We have a good time together celebrating with your loved ones. That's it for me on the NL
I had a lot of fun jumping in here with you guys taking over for Jonen
I mean I did say before I went on on Thursday right, you know as much as I love the email
I do think the branding of the studio with the colors
Oh branding
Probably not
I mean the league is great the host is great
We're gonna have to go back to Jonah. It's gonna be a little rough. It's gonna be a little awkward
Nah you can't be saying that when he's sitting here next to you
How do you think he's left off?
He'll come in.
He'll left off.
He doesn't watch this back.
He doesn't do his job.
It's okay.
I think he might be watching it back.
Anyways, it was a great pleasure being here.
Of course, very entertaining.
League, we've had a lot of close games, so I definitely enjoyed my stay here for all
the side of production.
Thank you very much for the smooth show for you at home.
Thank you so much for watching.
As we said, enjoy July 4th, and I will see you next week, Thursday, when the playoff
starts.