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Whilst Oce is off to the races, Asia is yet to start here for the Stage Finals, and fortunately
today is the day we move to
best of three for stage one to
determine who will be heading
to EWC and I am joined by the
immaculate duo I actually really
love I wasn't even expecting
that and I was watching him put
him on. I don't even know if
my sentence. How you doing
Pengy? That's incredible.
This game. Thank you. I'm not
sure if I'm happy to be here.
You know in studio kind of low
key, you know, on the monitor,
final of the budget a week of room fine me in for a few weeks I don't say why don't you look at me when you did that
You got this fancy studio. Yeah, sure you can sleep on my couch. Yeah, you're paying for all this. Oh, yeah. Yeah me personally down in my pocket
That's what we do here
Hang off on buzz
Stop let's stop there and start talking about email shall we because that obviously a nice little recap on yesterday's actions
and I think James obviously want to ask you how you're doing, but I might worry about it.
I might worry about it.
Because I know that we were talking about rehearsals and we were like, well, we were
asleep when this was happening, but Nick, you were very much awake for this.
Do you want to give the audience a little bit of a recap?
Yeah, don't have a ton of, like, particular details, but I was actually on Noah's stream
from Team Secret, kind of watching the D2 Falcons game together, and it started off,
you know, D2 just kind of destroying the competition.
We're thinking D2 is the best team in the freaking world, we're going to take out Facetime
this year, etc. But then they get destroyed the second map by Falcons. You know, Falcons
1, G2, 1, we're going third map. Adam Owens had a great stage all season long, goes like
1 and 10, completely fumbles the ball. And G2, they get destroyed in the final of third
battle tonight, even laps. And then of course they had GK versus VP, which we don't know
what happened there, right, James? Yeah, VP happened. Well done. Yeah. Yes. I looked
at the bracket before. Also, let's be real, like if GK was to perform well, like even
gk making it to a top four seat is kind of surprising and impressive but eml has
actually been full of surprises and crazy underdog stories like fanatic
really group stage looks really hot as well for a hot minute yeah we jumped in
for two play days the two of us did and it was funny because like you know we
follow the results but you're not like actively watching every single eml
played it when we're doing mostly a bl especially because the time zone is a
little taller than night for me so we'll jump back in and be like okay we did
play day two now we're doing play day seven oh my god and it's everything has
changed but one thing that has stayed consistent is Virtus Pro more or less
but yeah I was also a little bit surprised to see Falcons doing better
but I don't know I feel like Falcons and G2 both sit in this space we just have no
idea how consistent they're gonna be long term that's a problem isn't it the
other problem is I'm smoking so much because I actually feel like Nick is
here in person it's really jarring it's so jarring to be looking at him and
him looking at me but it doesn't anyway let's go ahead and have a look at the
I think that it was obviously very expected, but I think that the nature in which both of these teams won had small intricacies to them that might actually define a little bit of a conversation with women who fall.
move forward. Yeah. Well, I
mean, top line, the big t
one for OC was that we k
two spots. Yeah. Because a
back in Salt Lake City. And
be EP in chiefs. But would
beat them both cheese pea
there was still a few ques
in the three. But I mean t
map result. And yeah, we
without a few highlight moments, it looks like this one from Wettables 1v5 against EP.
Highlight clip for sure, but 1v5 doesn't win a series.
No, we can take a moment to look at that.
Sorry, I had to make the noise.
Nick, I guess from your point of view now that we move forward with the O's bracket,
you know, we do have our two upper bracket finalists, the winner of that game goes direct
to Paris.
How do you feel that O's has panned out so far this stage now?
I mean, I mean the hands off or hands down rather like very competitive very refreshing though for Asia and North and
Oceania that there are so many competitive teams which are the four or five teams fighting for a top to a top one finish
It's super exciting. I do think that she should be a bit of a chink in their armor actually yesterday
Rivals almost took a map off the moon bank that a four to half starting defense and it was in a comeback store for chief
You know getting into a eight six victory position
So if I'm looking at the chiefs, looking at EP, I think EP got a win straight through.
And my big question mark is, can chiefs actually get there comfortably in that second spot?
Or will there be a struggle on the road there?
I think that's probably the big question, isn't it? Comfortably. Will they be able to do it comfortably?
Yeah, comfortably.
We'll see. The chiefs obviously, you've got the experience of players like player in RealAs,
but you do still have a lot of young talent on there that haven't actually played in the international event before.
And if you're in the server being like, we should win this on paper, everyone's expecting us to win this.
win this and then you're like thinking if we lose this game we don't go yeah we
just and that's when the younger players who have been carrying the team
frankly like yes it was all Neptune and lunchbox that game was surprisingly close
so I said EP got pushed by run before I misspoke was chiefs and they work was
pretty deep if it wasn't for Neptune getting 35 kills and lunchbox having a
couple of insane clutches that yeah they would have lost those are two young
players, I wonder if they can replicate that when they're in an elimination slash qualification
game. I'm so glad you were digging deeper on that conversation a little bit because
we have something that we like to do here in the APL and that is create segments that
don't need to be here. And for us today, it is of course the repeat of Xenops goes pro.
What a good looking, like, it doesn't actually reflect that in person. I mean, I just have
to disagree with you on one thing Rob, like this isn't a segment that we've just done
to fill time. I feel like this is really necessary because the journey to the stop to forge a path
in Rainbow Six E-sports, it has to start somewhere even if you're an old washcaster.
That's very true. And you know, that's, I think, the story that we're telling gears. And Ox is
trying his darndest to go pro. I know he was really excited to give it a go. Unfortunately,
yesterday didn't pan out so well from against Fools, but who knows, maybe second time's the
charm. Who's he playing today? Well, how about we introduce our competitor, our player to the
ring it's player himself. Hey man. You almost stopped it. I would never do anything to robo
thank you. Oh player how you doing mate on the back of yesterday's performance you now
go up against what would arguably be your greatest competition yet. I mean you know
he might have caught me in a bad week but I mean we'll see. Isn't it a bad week though
you still won 2-0 against the team that was looking decent throughout groups. Well individually.
I would say it was a not up to standard but I mean Zenon slash make a awesome standard.
I don't even think you on your worst day is gonna be, well sorry, no wrong way around,
wrong way around him on his best day won't beat you on your worst day.
However, speaking of him, it is the cat's father in this case, it's Jake, Zenonx and
Bitty.
Where are we at Nate?
Are you feeling comfortable?
you feel unprepared? I can hear you loud and clear, mate. How lucky am I?
Oh, we have hubby. We fixed it. Yeah, it's all good.
Look at that keyboard. Unfortunately, the downside is I have no excuses today.
And I also just found out I'm playing against the best player in Oceania.
So I'm looking forward to it. Wow! You know, player, I must say,
the last time he claimed that there was the best player in Oceania,
they went on to have one of the worst stages of their life that you can see.
and then retire after a horrific downfall.
Are you worried now?
Jake, don't call me that again.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I'm just gonna be humble here.
Wait a minute, if you can't have confidence against Jake,
how do you expect him to have confidence
against all your other opposition through the bracket, man?
Come on, you gotta back yourself in.
I'm backing myself, I'm backing myself,
but this is really hard.
I'm really stressed out, so.
I would be stressed out as well.
Well, that's the thing, that's the thing is,
he's got nothing to gain, everything to lose.
What he could he could play left-handed and he's still going to be you Jake
Probably
Straight up I already noticed we're playing much faster rules. It's a minute and what 40 on the clock no prep phase
So it's correct. So we now to give a bit of context
We sat around last night to try and figure out what we could do to make it a less boring segment where
fall just falling asleep and well Jake nearly ruined the game yesterday so we decided we
won't let Jake sit four minutes in just the top bunker waiting for something to happen.
I'm liking this though, players already got a read on the sitch, now I asked to know if
you could read it, but it's going to be the same.
What was your period?
Because we saw a player just flick first, I was about to shoot, I had the read, I spotted
the drone coming out the doorway and thinking I'll go left, I'll swing, he's good for a
reason.
How many milliseconds did you reckon you needed there?
I needed at least another second to shoot.
You've played out that, Ran.
The nerves are settled now.
Now we know how easy it's going to be.
But what if?
What if?
Plad, do you ever do those reaction time games?
Like where it tells you your reaction?
I have an embarrassing admission to make we want I can't remember one night in a broadcast
We did them after the show a long time ago. This was a while ago
And you know, I'm younger than you're younger than Jake
And I think I've played more range than most of you guys at least I did at the time
I had the worst out of all of us and I thought it was my network or something
But I think I was just terrible Jake was really good at the reaction time
Game that we played. Do you have any idea what your reaction times like player? I
I don't think it's the best, but I remember we did it at EP and Munich and I got the best
Come on, come on, walk up the stairs, man
It's gross.
Yeah, good jack.
You're in the middle of the staircase.
You're helping him, Pengu.
He's holding him.
No, we didn't listen.
I have to say, he's already like 10 times better than Falls.
Falls was also standing in a corner, looking at the wall.
I think that Falls literally had his hand up the keyboard for half a game, J.
This is the reason that I should have said something like...
Handicaps? I thought it was some handicaps for these set guys.
The handicap is the fact that you gotta beat the game.
Do you want more rounds?
Good player, it's up to you.
Play however feels right.
I know you guys are involved as well.
Do you guys want to see some handicaps?
Maybe pistol-only?
You know what?
If you win this next round, you go pistol-only for the match point.
You know what I would like to see, player, is maybe not this round.
Once you get another chance to look at ops,
if you can do a pacifist round,
round I'd be very impressed oh I see I see I see what you're talking about
still thinking about that by the way he went knife but I tried knife only
let's see what you know I'm doing buddy come on Jack ready you reckon he's
coming from
Jake, how's the keyboard going for you?
Hold up. Hold up. He's got the plate. He's got the reed.
Kemi! You've got the reed!
He's got the plate!
That's shocking.
Jake, you have the positioning, man.
You are so bad.
Oh, no, bro.
I'm not gonna lie. You almost cocked that one, man.
I was...
I thought I killed it.
Can I get the portion, Kemi? We're back.
I
Aiming with your keyboard in your mouse. Yeah, what's not my mouse, so I don't know what this is. It's not mine, but
I mean, look, why would know you playing on different equipment? You know, you're a game. What's what's the sensitivity we're running today, Jake?
Actually don't know what the sense
Is it a is it a like office mouse and keyboard? Yes, show us. I need proof
What's that called the anti-ghosting technology like I'm pretty sure I know that one. That's actually $2,000 keyboard there Jake.
Oh my god.
That's point by the way.
I make sure you use your flashbangs here Jake, yeah?
Like, let's use the U-Chillin' Pocket, okay?
I think that's gonna save anyone.
Don't let him get to your head by the way, Jake.
No, it can help.
He would feel sprite, but do it all.
Just don't lose, whatever you do.
Damn, that's what I'm saying.
I want to learn saxophone just to play that oh
Oh
He knows
Come on Jake closest you've gotten so far
So far mate, there we go.
Get him mate, get him mate.
That's the fun round.
That's my SI24 Grand Finalist caster.
That's what we're talking about.
I just need one more round and then I feel happy.
This is the big one. I've got to lock in here.
I've been goofing around, having fun, trying to go in.
Now I've got to actually lock in.
I'm going to do something called, I don't know where I'm coming from.
Oh I like that.
Oh, I think I like it.
I've seen this in Team Cheese 1v1 tournament.
Oh, really?
Oh, OK.
We've got some actual strategy.
You've been watching the 1v1's play.
I'll talk you through it if we get there.
Well, player, have you?
I mean, obviously, you know, playing scrims,
playing officials, maybe a bit of rank.
Do you ever play 1v1s?
You know, I never play 1v1s.
So this is like really fun.
You're locking in now.
That's because the opposition you're up against.
I don't know, bro.
I'm just training Jake, you know, I'm giving him some strap books for the next time, you know, I mean
So look what he's doing here, right? He's gonna prep all of these different areas
And then
I don't hear anything
Okay, well you're gonna find out I
Like this boy
Would you ever use this in a competitive?
Oh man.
I didn't get to do it.
So Jake you've now played two different APL players.
And we'll toss this question to Chris.
Can you name any players you reckon the APL Jake might be able to take on?
Gaging his skill level now?
Maybe throw some names at me.
The thing is, there aren't players who want to say it, but he wants to be nice.
Come on, let's hear it.
Maybe just like, I'm not going to name names, but you could go to the stats and reverse it.
I reckon I can beat Arcade, come on.
I reckon you could, I reckon you could have a shot.
Bit of practice, maybe a bit of coaching.
Yeah, we're never giving you any coaching.
Actually, that's all you need is pure coaching.
Maybe you need play to come in and help you, mate.
Yeah, yeah, a round's good enough.
Player, just on a scale of 1 to 10,
I want to get your vibe check here.
How difficult is it to play against
Jax and Oxton D?
I mean, he's got some interesting strategies.
Daymost won, I've never seen before, to be honest.
Going below and trying to wallbang, that's incredible.
To be honest, there's a lot of potential there for sure.
I think he just needs the right coach.
A lot of aim training a lot of you know playing the game for a lot of hours. Yeah, it'd be a whole new setup
Yep, you could be incredible. Yeah, maybe some better incident
Yeah, I don't know
Maybe like now maybe like three thousand hours as well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think it'd be incredible the potentials
You know it's an it's astronomical the ceiling just there's not enough room
You know above him at the moment. He could just go through the ceiling
But we actually have one of the greatest analysts of all time on standby to help break this down guys
What have you got for us?
Rob, thanks for that though. It seems like player and I they're on a pretty similar wavelength
I want to have a look at round number two here with the Deimos in play as you can see red ping for Jake and that
Allows him to target the warden. So let this click play through
Keep in mind though, when you're playing the Deimos, you need to have actual vert potential to shoot the player from below.
So we'll just let this clip roll through and if you've ever played Oregon before you'll kind of start to understand where this has gone wrong.
Ping will become available, we'll pause it right about here.
Now does anyone want to take a guess as to where he's currently playing right now?
It's three letters, P-I-T, PIT.
You can't shoot anyone from below there Jake, so you might want to do your homework,
Re-learn Oregon and you'll be in a better position for the next one be one. I
Feel like Jake's doing really well. I think he just needs to work on maybe a little bit of game sense
Little bit of math knowledge. Yes, maybe some aim. Yep reaction time. Yep. Perhaps patience. Yes. Did I say game sense?
I think
Virtual potential meant mental I think also comes into it. Yeah. Yeah, look once he fixes up all that
I think you know there's some potential there. Oh, he's
Hang on, hang on, sorry mate, you're gonna have to run that one back, but that's okay.
Player, are we interrupting something, are we, mate?
Oh, Mum's Dins is ready.
Oh, really? Well, you know what, I'm not mad.
I'll give you a quick last comment.
We won't see you until your match next week with AP.
Any final words?
Well, hopefully we sound victorious.
But, um, you know, obviously there's a lot of practice work.
Um, get ready for the game and hopefully we win.
Well, hopefully you do what you just did today.
I think we can find the budget out of his budget to fly you over here to help him and coach him. What do you think?
I mean, he's not really earning his paycheck right now, right? He's not currently casting this man. He's not on the couch.
He's playing in a playing position, but losing his game.
He's playing in a playing position, but losing his game.
I mean, he's not really earning his paycheck right now, right? He's not currently casting this man.
casting this minute. It's not on the couch. He's playing in a playing position but losing
every single match. I feel like you could upsell this, Nick. I obviously, you know, you want to come
over here to cast. You want to be out of sick on the studio in person. Maybe you go for the upsell,
say, hey, you know, I'll get on the casting sticks. I'll also throw in a bit of coaching for free,
you know, not too dissimilar to what you did, you know, back in the PSG days.
I could go over and see how to enterprise because I got making this all Jersey fanatic,
like, you know, slap on the magnet,
you're gonna see that.
All right, guys, listen up here.
This is going to be the game plan.
Listen to me.
Oh, I'm so important.
And then maybe I can do better than that, too.
I see your cosplay would be absolutely outrageous.
But I think the best segue we could ever have for this
is to start talking about tier two,
an opportunity to build your own path for pro
because Jake is going to need a little bit more than that.
Now, if you have a look at the signups,
of course, we are still about 20-ish days away
from when the first playday is there, but we know that this is just such a fundamental
part of ensuring that the scene continues to grow.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, we have a really strong grassroot scene here in APAC.
There's a lot of tournaments happening, a lot of activity, you know, in Australia we've
got some university leagues over in South East Asia and APAC, we've only got all kinds
of stuff happening as well, so it doesn't matter where you are in APAC, there's something
to play.
Once you've got your toes in, that's when you go, you pay the challenger's circuit
and you might actually qualify in to play APL next year.
Look, if you watch the Jake gameplay and you think you're better than that, I'd say you're plenty good enough to sign up and sign up for a tier 2.
And if you're worse than that, then maybe re-think what you're doing in the game, you know what I mean?
Hey, give me a go and play the qualifiers!
No, you know what, as long as you're playing on console and you're having fun, that's all I care about, but that was abysmal.
Pengu, I know that, like, kind of in a grand scheme, you have played tier 2 yourself, in fact.
Actually quite recently you jumped in if I'm not mistaken. How do you find the tier 2 circuit? How important is it?
I mean so important, right? We went from back in early days of pro scene
We had you know tier 1 that was pro league and tier 2 that was challenger league and we had promotion and relegation
Every single stage so that bottom two of pro league the very bottom
We get auto relegated back to challenger league and the second bottom position would play this the second position of challenger league
the second winner so to speak, and they would fight for who's gonna go into
pro league, who's gonna get demoted down to championship league, and it just makes
it that you fear for your job in a good way, right? When pro players are super
comfortable and you're not working super hard and you don't feel like you can get
replaced because there's no people to take your job away from you, you can get
a bit more easy in the practice, but when you're fighting because people are
looking at your spot right behind you, you give 110% to the entire region
benefits, the entire ecosystem benefits, and of course having these like ways to
multi-provisional play gives you a realistic shot at achieving a dream as a player because
if there's no way into tier one then what are you grinding for so it's super important.
And so many of the best players and teams in the world started in tier two I mean even world
champions you know that TSM roster that won SI in 2022 they were a challenge elite team and got
promoted into tier one empire another great example BDS also now became falcons that they
started by dominating tier two rose up into tier one so many players as well individuals
to spend a lot of time in that tier two scene before jumping up into tier one and in APAC it's
no different. You've seen a lot in those you know a lot of players that came through the range back
in the day correct some of the best players that we had in the game today started in the
Challenger circuit so that's a good opportunity to get underway by getting underway means that we
need to move forward with the conversation and start looking about what we can kind of expect
what I will say is I felt really bad for Asia they they started this year with an absolute bang
Wabo went mental right and then slowly and surely they've lost players they've lost kind of I guess
the gravitas that went with them. Wabo all things considered still one of the best teams in APAC
don't get me wrong I'm not trying to say that but Dev losing that spot that goes to EWC it's now
with OZ that's a pretty big loss in the entire region. For sure and for reference we had three
teams from Asia at the Six Invitational this year in Paris it was Daystar Elevate and Wabo since
then, of course, has been quite a fall from Grace. Elevate completely changed their roster.
Daystar have been through a few turbulent moments. Yeah, they went to Salt Lake City as did Wave,
but not quite as well as what happened for most of you. So now they're all Batman, just that one
spot. They certainly are. And it's going to be very competitive. And I guess maybe to even
summarize how competitive it can be, let's have a look at i9's performance in the last playday.
And if I'm not mistaken, Pengu, this was actually to qualify through to the finals.
Yeah, this was so I know of course is a player that souls hard very much depend on who's not showing up in this particular matchup
Psyching six five lead here looking to close up the game
I know has the one we won't touch potential to bring his team into overtime or lose in regulation and guess what?
He's gonna step up big for his team
He's gonna have a big cause of celebration the intro tune is six six goal and making that comeback a reality
And then he keeps carrying from that moment forward
That was the number one moment between souls heart and psyching company because we sat there Jim saying they need I know to perform
He's been great all-stage long, but what happens when he disappears in the server when we saw it?
They're vulnerable. They're weak, but then he showed up in the end
Yeah, yeah, I hate to say it when teams kind of fall into this category
But they need that player one player if I know it doesn't show up
They do souls heart can't compete even with you know mid-pack teams like psyching company
It would have been their first ever time making it to state finals
They came through the Challenger circuit actually finally enough and they almost made it into the top four if it wasn't for i9 digging deep
I mean talked about a player with so much experience
He's been an invitation was been a major's before he's back home. Yeah, he's back with his old bestie and
Sapp or scat man. He's a father. No, he's a father
He's cold as ever and yeah, they've got a real tough game today
So he's really gonna need to show up my favorite thing is generally we say, you know, couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke
But like you actually mean it when you talk about I-9.
He actually might be one of the nicest blokes you have in APAC.
He's so lovely.
But of course, we have a lot of action to get through today.
We're kick-starting the Asia Finals.
And when we look at this, that first matchup, I mean,
for me, that might be one of the best games we have to start.
All of the finals here in the sub regions of APAC.
Maybe I'm on the Copian.
Maybe I really do feel Fossil's heart.
But I think it's the second matchup
that I want to look into just for a second, Dev.
I mean, Daystar, Orchid, what are your thoughts going into that one?
Do you think there is a clear outliner?
Look, coming into this year, I would have said that that would be a very tight game.
But, you know, sadly for Orchid, it was not a tight match in the best one that they played
each other in group stage.
You know, Orchid, I've been such a fan of for a long time.
It's the old Fury roster, you know, like Hollis and the boys always love that team.
And Daystar, I would have thought they'd be struggling after a disappointing Salt Lake,
but no, I mean, Daystar actually looked better than ever.
who's coming for Binbin is like,
Plox throughout a ranked, by the way.
He looks like he's made Daystar better than ever.
The rest of the team is looking phenomenal.
Or could I think of struggling?
That'll be a really telling game.
And also, hopefully quite a tight one.
I think probably more tight than our first match.
Speaking of that first match of the day, Dev,
how about we start to dive into it?
Sol's Heart is a team, a roster that I have
a lot of personal attachment to
from the very old days of A-Pak Siege as a whole.
This is a roster that I've always loved to follow.
But Nick, when you look at this lineup, I mean, there are a number of players that can pop off, but we were just saying it before.
It's that down in the middle that seems to be their star player, the player that brings them all together.
I think there are two players that Soulsheart need to get activated as early as possible, and it's way built to have like a realistic shot at winning or taking a map from them, right?
And it's going to be online because he's going to be the lead entry, the playmaker, the one that everyone's kind of, you know, evolving around.
The other one is Scatman. He's been so successful as like the lurker all thing your solid snake your dog could be and if there are four
Taggers going from one side of the building you're gonna find Scatman the complete opposite end
Just trying to go for an early pick soul start their team where they thrive when they get the advantage early
The five versus four and then use that aggression together at winning the rounds
But way better super guys a team themselves
So it really comes down to a battle of who can hit their shots in the server and who can stay the most consistent across the board
Can we go back to that player camp for a second now?
The first player camp, was that Jack Nicholson's Joker?
I did not.
I don't know if we can go back to the first...
It was like...
That's Jack Nicholson's Joker!
Surely!
That's unreal!
I love that!
But Dan, sorry, I don't mean to do that.
No, no, no, not at all.
I mean, you've coined into something pretty important here,
which is that all these players play from the same facility.
I heard a rumor that it's like actually DCH's uncles
or something like that is facility that these guys were playing in this spot ever since, you know,
the good ol' elevate days way back in 2022 when this roster went to the Six Invitational
in Sweden and managed, I believe it was a top 10. They looked phenomenal. These guys are a friendship
team, always have been, you know, I9 was removed from the roster for a time. Now he's back reunited
with Zappa and, I mean, Mark is looking so company man. That's unbelievable. Actually, can we get
I guess someone in here doing that for me is like, please shut that.
Sorry, we need to keep moving on with this show.
Let's talk about Waybo.
I want to sit there and watch that.
He's so comfortable.
Oh, what a legend.
It might pop up today.
We know why.
100%.
But the team that they are going toe to toe with here, Nick, Waybo have just been unbelievable
over the last two years.
Yeah.
They've been probably the most consistent team we've had out of APAC, just constantly
competitive, showing up at international events, looking good. What did you
thought about Gotti jumping into this roster? Because I know you have quite a
lot of thoughts about Gotti and you back him, right?
Yeah, I do back him. You know, he was my colleague in PC talent with the Fabian
coaching roster situation and Gotti's a player who first of all speaks
English at a very high level, which is hard to find across the entirety of APL,
you know, in North and Asia. So I think Waible needing that as a
requirement was a pretty difficult sign to figure out.
Gatti for uping on paper was like and this could be a downgrade
It could also be like an equal trade and then we saw them play off Gatti's super consistent
He's getting kills. He's just kind of playing a very support heavy role where he's objective is to just hold angles at a DMR
And that's it. It's a very simple job and James now recast them. We spoke to speak easy and he said
You know the thing about got you know why we wanted him when needed someone who just wouldn't die
someone we can say, hey, do this job, go over here, do this thing, and to simply stay alive.
And it's such an important contrast to the intensity of Waco's roster, because we think of players like
you're Terzda, right? Who's going to get a bit crazy with it. He might die sometimes early and throw a bit of a
curveball towards his teammates. Gachi's the opposite. He is a rock. He's like, you know, the
Brando of Oceania, where he's always last alive, he's always there and he's doing his job perfectly
every single time, and will rarely die unless it's the last live in like a 1v3.
Now, Waybo are known as one of the greatest that we have,
but they are not without their flaws.
They are not without inconsistencies, I guess.
They are not without their problems.
We've seen it, I would say, here and there.
It's a little hard to kind of go too deep into them
because it's probably unfair to say so.
But one thing that seems to, I guess, reoccur
is this round one win rate, right?
We have to dig really deep into the stats
to find a flaw for them.
Yeah, it's crazy because you know just to put it in perspective like these guys had an average scoreline of better than a
7-2
Crazy matches, but yeah for some reason the first round of the game
Tends to be their worst. Yeah, really strange
They're the only one tool them out of the seven matches they played so far
So the question is Sol's heart it can they find that chink in the armor that gap and go in on it
Which is gonna be really hard because Wabo are a near flawless team
This is the third time since WABO slash bleed has been an APL that they have gone flawless in a group stage
However, they have lost in BO3s before not recently
But if you look back even when they went
49 round wins and 10 round losses in a whole stage
They ended up losing some BO3s and failed to qualify for example for Copenhagen. So they do need to be careful
Yeah, don't let up
You don't have a safety net of a top two in Asia now you have to be the kids
You certainly do when well to be the king
I guess you're gonna remain the king I would say you'd usually beat them but you are the king at the moment
Let's be completely honest. Let's have a look at the vetoes and start to figure out where we're going for this one
I think Pengu one thing. I would probably lean into the car
I don't know Pengu. Can you see these on the back TV? Yeah, you know you're struggling. Yeah, I'm seeing a border
Yes, and a cafe and a Shelly
All right, this is actually pretty big I think you know
So, a team that plays highest in the region can play any map in the best one.
Just kind of say, screw it, we don't care about playing the same map like four times
in a row.
When they go into a deep map pool, which way will they have?
They haven't shown consulate, cafe, lair, club, or labs.
And not only cafes in their conversation for this one, but my point is that the further
we go into the VO3s, and the further we go against better and better competition, they
can bring a map they haven't shown so far this stage at all, and it gets with that slight
edge in the base of three.
Yeah, it's funny though because our first map is actually a rematch these two teams play border against each other in the group stage
It was a 7-4 which is actually one of the best results in fact the best result that any team got against waiver
Good during the group stage and no team took them closer
Then souls heart did on border and it's way better who picked it as well
So it looks souls heart have been the team that have come closest to them in most leagues am I going crazy there?
It's true, there have been a few times where Soulsheart digs really deep against Webber, but if you look holistically, they've played each other six times in history, and Soulsheart have never beat them.
They've taken maps off them in BO3s twice, but they've actually never beaten them before. I think if I just double check my notes, the two maps that they have beaten them on in all time are Shallay and Labbs, funnily enough.
Shall I? I think that didn't make it through the map better. Was it cafe and then shall I? Yeah, still behind you. Still behind you.
There you go. Yeah, sorry. It's a border cafe.
So look, anything is possible here. I think border is going to be so exciting because it's a rematch and because Waybo have picked it again.
Mick, do you back in Waybo? Do you back in Soulsheart? Who have you got?
So I am going to back, or Waybo will be boring, but I will see this. Soulsheart, they have not shown Shelly or Cafe to State so far.
far. They're great to be getting maps where they don't have too many counter strats against them and
they could of course get a spanner in the works. If souls can get opening kill advantage and keep
up the aggression and maybe catch weibo in the first round two or three like you know weibo's
early round opening percentages very low they can maybe take the momentum and from there you know
push themselves into a map win. Well the stage is set just to remind everyone at home there is only
one slot in the Asia finals.
So you really need to dig deep here.
If Sol's heart want any chance,
they need to start off by taking a shot at the Kings.
No better time to do it than now.
It's time for us to leave you in the capable hands,
Jake and Gus.
Yeah, and as we get into finals
and get underway for Asia,
Waybo R&D, the Kings still undefeated
throughout the group stage.
Seven, zero, 49 round wins,
plus 37 round differential.
No one really was able to get close to them.
Dexter, of course, in second place, only the one lost to Waybo.
That's going to be a lot of the story
lying across the next few weeks is Dexter, Waybo.
But with Sol's heart calls an upset early on.
They get a free punch and then the beauty of the bracket
that we've got, double elimination,
nothing to lose for Sol's heart in this series,
they get to see Waybo best of three straight away.
So the bands for the opening half, Snake,
Dockaby pretty typical for Sol's heart. Weibo on the opposing side will take out the smoke and the warden
They typically, or most frequently at least, do take the mirror and the Izami out of play
There have been a couple of occasions though, twice on the smoke once on the warden for this stage
So not completely uncharted territory for them as we go to the default site, second floor, first up
And this round one as the desk of frames that is actually pretty significant way
But with a negative win rate in their opening rounds across this first stage
The indicator being though that in the 25% or some occasions they do win the opening round
They typically don't have to completely
Jominate the matchup
It's a fun way to kick off this particular matchup and an opportunity for
Solve hard to
look competitive from the offset positions rather default from them
currently and it's a pressure ver below here from Waybo likely setting up for
the east stairs clear they have plenty of utility to achieve that
Borda we didn't really get to see a whole lot of throughout the regular group stages.
Scamming gets the opportunity to kill on to speak easy.
That gets rid of the glass nice and early.
It could start for Sol's heart.
Fannis, there weren't a whole lot of smokes really put into the round from Wapos.
I think they were going to be overly putting everything into that glass basket.
But now that you lose Godding, that's two down.
An active start on the defense here at the border for Sol's arts.
He's gonna take an early advantage.
To rush up the east stairs from Holford.
Need to take some space, need to find some kills.
Turd was able to get one onto DCH.
I'm gonna play the hallway behind to keep a barrier.
He's somewhat trapped at the moment.
Heaps though taken low.
Hey, he's in a tough position, but the death mark will
give a live ping onto his particular position.
now threading from below and gets caught.
A good clear from Waybo to remain competitive
in this opening round.
Reaps though, critically low on HP
and still some strong positions being held by
the remaining parts of this defense.
Stapman's next to be in line though.
He too isolated triple wall.
It's susceptible to the death marks
and the vert play again from Waybo.
It's really good.
But he survives on one HP for now
and that could be a pretty big difference maker
installing out this round.
Yeah, there's only 30 seconds left into the round.
As he said, important that he's has stayed alive,
can still pop that Vulcan canister,
but it looks like he wants to get to a deeper position
and maybe catch Wave Boat of God.
A lot of time remaining in this round,
still a lot, a low-members off Wave Boat.
Mark goes down, though.
Mr. Punch, suddenly, he's gonna have to do quite a lot,
but by Scatman staying alive,
he gets his third kill into the round,
catches out Reeps,
all the one versus one loses out.
Scatman's got four, might need the ace.
If Turd makes his way over, full health Deimos, pressure Scatman, and Scatman gets the ace, and Solzat will get the opening round.
Look at the reaction from the boys, they are hyped up and ready to go.
Understandably so.
Big 5 pick, the office hold was good, there was a lot of pressure onto that defense, a large portion of it leveraged with the Deimos.
Turd saying lucky in chat.
In a roundabout way it was a little bit of a couple of moments there where he was very susceptible to the vert but
Was able to sustain the damage that was directed his way
We've looked back at the round the impact that turd was able to have
Scatman initially was trapped prior to this clip was taken down so low and
It was basically forced to play proactively and that's exactly what he was able to deliver in that opening round
and so once again
Waybo will lose the opening round. It is a constant. It is a trend. It was expected and highlighted on the desk
fortunate thing for them, of course though that it typically has little relevance in their ability to close out maps
And so I don't think they'll be
overly deterred by the opening round outside of the fact that they allowed scatman to go on a rampage
despite having the tools and the utility available to deal with that. So they'll be a little bit
disappointed, maybe just a bit cold in the open round. But it's order, these things can happen,
it's a very volatile map at the best of times, so they'll look to shrug that aside.
As we go down to bathroom for the second round, turn again on the Daymos and three targets up
already. I mean it's the perfect start really, I mean you get the ace as an individual that's fine,
but for Solzard it's just getting the round win. You want to be starting really nicely.
Wabo's map pick. The map picks are irrelevant. You're going into this series all three maps as the
underdog. I always say that border can be a bit of a funhouse when it comes to the attacking
side of things. Certainly for Armory and Archives you're gonna get more defensive rounds every
down then. Real tech begins with the Sol's Heart in these next few rounds.
Really stretching a lot of this map but largely started to fall away from the
lack of security and I will play it towards Fountain. DCH almost losing his
life. He gets back into customs stays alive. It's gonna be the game of the game
I think in this half the Sol's Heart when you're trying to play a lot of this
map on boarder. So many different avenues for the attack to find these
ankles, get these kills, get a lot of damage due to the defenders. So I just need to make
sure, can they stay alive? Can they keep 5 up for as long as possible?
Okay, seconds to go in this second round. So far, so good. 5 feet 5, been damaged on
the reefs as well. This is what you want if you're so far.
So death life then on to the mute.
Scatman will likely look for a place of shelter and safety.
It expires though and has little impact in the round.
Meanwhile, East Stairs control for Wayboat.
There's a click over 60 on the clock remains here.
So time will inevitably become a little bit of an issue
for them in this round.
Keep in mind the tank is still up 14.
Shemekka launch is available.
Nitro as well in the pocket of Mark
Even a late Razor Plume could be repositioned by I9.
So the util game for the defense once again looks pretty strong in this position.
And Weibo is still very much looking to find a way to unlock this round at the moment.
Because once again having some problems is effectively isolating somebody.
Oh god he got caught. He was going for a plant.
That does get the trade onto Scatman.
Now picking up the kit into Talos goes off and they lose the glass.
that can hold and get this plant down successfully. It seems he will.
Didn't help the fact that they've lost I-9 on the floor
inside of bathroom. He'll get picked up by Mark now outside
of the window. Nitrocel well truly thrown over by Mark.
Could have played that through the window knowing it's going to be held as Reap's able to hit the shot.
A low health DTH and a low health I-9 in the post plant here in this second round seems as if it's inevitable
for Waybo to get their opening round on boarder, but I got one traded immediately by a turn and he suddenly is now up to five kills
in the opening two rounds. Waybo, I've got to strike back here on boarder and tie it up one to one.
Yeah, good recovery, good salvage in that round.
Started to look a little bit dicey, especially with that initial denial. Got it, got caught out there by the Shamika launcher.
The smokes were laid in that position and so he didn't have a good visual on the counter you two.
jump straight in, got caught out, but the salvage effort then from Weber who had at least at that point taken a decent amount of map control was able to salvage the round for them.
I still think that the early to mid-round pacing from them is not the dominant style that we would come to expect from Weber, but again this is best of three territory.
It should be more competitive than you would anticipate in best of one, so I think that very much goes to the credit of Sol's heart and being able to withstand that pressure.
they're not giving away freebies so far and they're making it challenging for Waybo.
22 rounds in, ultimately you know I could have decided a series within the two rounds but
I think within the two rounds that we've had Sol's heart have shown that they're happy to be
active, that they're happy to not be scared against Waybo, take the fight. It's probably a strength
and a hallmark of a career like I9. I9 is not the kind of player who's just going to sit back and
can allow Waybo to take space, be aggressive, and do what they like, but he is also probably
the guy I think on the whole side across the series.
If they're to win, this whole start out to win, I9 is going to have to play a career
game again, which I feel like has always been asked of him in these big matches.
Get a reminder of the Asia region, only the one slot for EWC, so their first time since
the new changes they have two slots for Salt Lake City and they're just following up from
that I9 difference maker statistic. Salt's heart have a 91% win rate when he gets two
or more kills in the round that plummets all the way down to 20% if he has no impact at
the round. If he doesn't find a kill there's only a 20% win rate for Salt's heart and just
to contrast but for Hoven for example he's listed as a difference maker for
Weibo his win rates also quite high 95% but when he doesn't get a kill 63% so
there's a 43% delta between these two teams showing just how much depth there
is for Weibo whereas Sol's heart are incredibly reliant on I9.
I don't get it twisted of course the other players can step up but it's just a
matter of him these big games will they? We won't know until we get a little bit
deeper into the series as a whole, not just the map.
Just take a look at the terms of the lineup
for Weibo, third round.
They've played the exact same lineup across all three
different sites in the first three rounds,
except for bathroom tellers where they brought the Grim
instead of the Ace.
Other than that, we are talking about a very shallow
operator pool for Weibo on Water Troop again,
which somewhat can make it a little bit easier
for Sol's heart to read into, not only that,
but they're gonna have a decision to make after this round.
Do you get rid of the glass?
Do you get rid of the Deimos?
Again, playing into this glass,
but it hasn't had an effect.
Two rounds straight for Sol's heart
that they've got the opening kill.
We'll see if they can make it three
as we get down to the final minute.
Nitro Sol from Scatman did not connect,
and Dina will be three straight rounds
for Sol's heart to have the early advantage,
but DCH gets caught towards Armory.
It'll go down.
Will there be more to follow?
I-nines kept himself a little bit quiet here. He may be able to swing. I-nines is on for one.
Did he get a second? No. Reeps holding the angle. Pop up a second for Reeps.
Two crucial kills for what could have been a three versus two. Reeps changes the game.
Thirty seconds now and only Scatman's left. He's got the ace in the opening round and nothing since then.
Reeps does what he does best in the big games.
Wayboe get their second!
I don't know by the way if the the desk brought up that statistic regarding the Wayboe dropping first uh, yeah
They did first round and glad that they did because it did happen again
And like usual they dropped that first but then bang bang they get the next two they go to one up
We head into the bands
Again, that's that's why even despite it being an ace
It was so difficult after that first round to be at all concerned because we just have so much precedent of Waybo
Shugging aside bad rounds or poor starts and then recovering so
Look again, I think so it's hard. I've looked fairly competitive
Even their tempo during the last round was pretty clean and they kept pace for the most part
But then as has he solved it does
We saw that dominance
The fragging stars and the fragging potential of Wabo Rips in particular is massive.
DCH got a really nice opening kill that I want to note. That was straight through the smoke onto the glies.
And then there was absolutely chaos on the top floor.
Solzheid sent bodies.
Good discipline here from Gotti to not overpeak and bring it to a 1 vs 1.
If he swung early there it would have put Rips on an island who was then vulnerable on the drop.
Interesting they get rid of the Monty. Hasn't been played.
Yeah. I'll have a look back and see if that is a main state. Of course it is a very very limited
dataset for Solzhard in that last matchup recorded. The attraction was, I believe,
against Weibo. It was the Monte Demos snake. So almost similar with the dog could be in
exchange this time around. Yeah, I mean it's always that, I think we spoke about this a little bit
throughout the group stage, which you're going to have certain teams that will follow the playbook.
They come into this map, these are our bands. It doesn't really matter too much what the opposing team is going to do.
They've got other teams that are going to be a little more on the fly.
Now are we getting beaten up by the Daimos? Are we getting beaten up by the Clads?
Well then let's just take that away, forget the playbook and scrap it.
Ultimately they do leave the Daimos available. This will be also the first round that Waiver really kind of change up their line-ups to some degree.
You can see the Zofia for the first time, it's going to tap the tap the first time, the Lion for the first time as well.
still around the Nomad and for Deimos, back to Armory and Archives. The only
site that Sol's heart have been able to win thus far. Desperately will need it.
Once again, this time they lose Scatman. Well since five kills to begin in the
opening round, it's three straight deaths for Scatman. First open kill of the
match as well for Waybo. It doesn't fare well now for Sol's heart even on the
primary defense inside, even X killed desperately. They get it! On time! Mr. Pumpt gets rid of
Turd. Looks like East Stairs will be up next here, and I'm a little curious as to how
Waybo are going to look to invest in the clear. They obviously have the tools available,
a stack of utility, but I guess it's about ensuring that they manage that economy provided they may need it for
Later clears in the round as well
So they can't just fully invest and dump on this position and then hope that others are easy to clear because that's going to be far from the case
I know I continues to like below DCH break
It's the punch of mark elsewhere as well mark obviously will be holding that long angle from security
Well, I mean, this stops a bit of passport entry, but then he also has the ability to push up the stairs
So if I know it doesn't really get cleared from this position, he could be in a good power play
Tension later in the round, maybe not right now
It does also then leave the other three a little bit more vulnerable a little bit more isolated
I don't slip into the towers and Hauvin catches him. What a headshot from Hauvin
He must have had the information that I9 was around that vicinity buying that kill, but it was really far away from the site.
It's the punch falls.
See Angel pop the Vulcan canister, and Vulcan canister will get the kill on to reach. That will do.
20 seconds. Now 2v3 possible when you're playing towards site.
Mark by Fountain can't have a bit of help towards DC.
Hey, stuck it off first. That's hit down as well, and the cover did come through from Mark on to Gotti.
10 seconds now for Speak Easy. The clutch of 1 vs 2 gets the first player. Can he get the second? No.
DMR from Mark will connect and we get a second round on the board from the defense. 2-2 tied up on border.
Yeah, it was the battle, the DMR span there in the end in the 1 vs 1, but that was always going to be a very challenging cross for Speak Easy to break.
clearly had a good read and it was well-combed prior to that but there was
really a high percentage way of him to kind of go about breaking that I think
he did the best that he could there's also another universe in which he
hits the wall bang and it would have been a big clutch that kill there was
absolutely monumental in the round but I really thought that that was going to
kickstart momentum here for Weber who then had a bit more freedom east side
but then encountering the roadblock of office again that's now kind of the
second time over the course of this matchup, similarly to the opening round, where
Weibo's clear on that position wasn't great, and Sol's hard, their ability to anchor it looked really good.
Oh well, interesting we've played four rounds of C, we've only had one round with the
open kills being converted. And on a map like quarter, I guess that's maybe not too much of a
surprise, it's a bit more free-flowing, you've got trade potential, but it is something to
But no, what we have had as well is actually quite a lot of multi-kills, three of the four rounds, multi-kills from Scatman, Turd, Reeps, Mark with of course the 1v1 clutch there in the fourth round.
So I'm going to, and I'm kind of, it's job done now from Solace Hart, but they're not going to get that again in the second half.
They're going to have to find at least, in my mind, one more round in this half, whether in Bathroom Talas, which is the fifth round site now, or Vent Workshop, potentially after this.
If they can get the three defensive rounds on boarder,
it will give them certainly a chance here to cause an upset then going into the second half.
But the feeling right now is they're in this game.
And this is Waybo's map pick, and this feels like what would be Waybo's stopping ground.
Free-flowing boarder where they can get turd and reaps to just run around the map and frag out.
And they've done that so far. Five for turd and six for reaps.
4 players at the moment, make it now 3 on drones for Weibo, so they're looking to gain a lot
of information.
A lot of that info is actually on site itself, one of those dealt with there was another
one callous I believe.
That could start to indicate that Weibo here are eager to go pretty direct horizontal, they
may not want to mess around too much with the map clear in this particular round and
I think with the blitz available that might not be the worst of decisions.
DCH under the pump security, speak easy, does push forward on the blitz, reaps as well, finds one.
And this round is a nothing burger for Solzheid.
Yeah, and we're Solzheid are kind of losing this right now.
So Aynine wants to be that power play player.
2-5 at the moment, 4 assist, sure.
But he's trying to be the offset, play in these more different positions, not play to site, so you can catch members of Wave World of God.
way both got it is losing a lot of those battles he's started a little bit quiet
for his standards and souls aren't leaving that may have only been his first
opening death but a lot of his deaths have been in these kind of off-site
positions and when he's not winning any of those battles at weekends the
defensive side strengthens webos ability to get more match control and it's
just this trickle-down effect that's costing the defense of souls heart
outside of Armory and archives around salt on yet to be five still a
possibility. Mark's got a nitrocell, they'll play the site, it's non-possible, but it's
very unlikely. And now it feels almost impossible after losing this to Pudge. Mark thinks that
we are 1 vs 5, and he ain't no wetables. Yeah, dominant. Very dominant. From Wayboat,
on that occasion, I really like the way that they were able to successfully leverage the Blitz
in that round, throwing something a little bit different there into the mix. And I think it
Definitely aided them for that more direct approach prior to that
We saw a lot of good drone work a lot of them were allowed to get very deep into the site
And that was in fact the first time we have seen the blitz selected by weibo
So I think they're very much caught souls heart a little bit on the back heel there in that particular round
We saw how spread they were on defense and even those off-site were completely unmarked
At the time we were trailing DCH security in double pinch and despite that
He was in trouble that the three stack push site was really really effective, so
It's been pretty good from Sol's heart so far, but you need to keep way bow within reaching distance
You cannot let that lead extent too far
That's typically where we see the confidence really flow and find that a whole nother level. I don't think way by playing
close to 100% at the moment
as we look into round six down below workshop well I mean as we know on
border two defensive rounds not bad yeah it's not amazing considering all
you've done is win army and archives but that's really job done especially
against Weber on their map pick still think if they can get to three there
a good chance of winning the map if this ends to four I think Weber will be
well-positioned and the scariest prospect he's reached is performing to the
level that we expect him to reach that maybe over the last six months he hasn't
quite been reaching those clients as much as possible.
GEM for I-9 it hasn't been largely successful in this first half just
two-five but he has been involved in terms of his assist count and it's again
looking to be a Difference Maker.
The Reeps seems ready for it and has played Nomad all six rounds.
Big Easy makes his entry in.
I fear a little bit here for high nine.
He could get pinched and stuck towards the corner.
Reeps almost shooting Big Easy in the back of the head.
High nine is feeling the pressure,
but no one really helping out.
They've gotten him quite low.
Air Jabber's well really good teamwork.
But Mr. Pudge saves the day with a huge nitrous cell.
And from the other side of the mirror window was watching DCH, Mark, they come and save the day.
I9 did enough to stay alive. That was the most pivotal point from him.
He didn't need a kill. He just needed to stay alive, trust his teammates, and they came to his rescue.
Yeah, that was really well played. Weiwei attempted the shortcut.
I don't know if the mirror was an oversight or if they just didn't want to contend it or contest it,
but either way, they really felt short of the mark on that particular execute.
they had i9 dead to rights but Mark perfectly covered played that position so well and that
is a good demonstration as to just how powerful Mira could be on this map and on that hold
up above. Round not over yet though. Turd is still up and we know just how much of a
cox-gene he can have. Couple of targets also available for death Mark. Don't discount Gotti
with the DMR in hand, shock drones also available, could pop the mirror that will maybe facilitate
a little more play off the side.
Mr Punch lurking below though, doesn't have Nitro but it's your threat.
Time.
These are the other elements that play into this now for Weibo closing out this half.
Turd is probably going to need to go and get three kills alone.
God is going to have to go for the plan.
Turd does get one, well maybe at least two more to go.
Double Nitro is available for the defense.
Again, the time is a factor as well.
seconds doesn't leave a lot of wiggle room now for Waybo because Cody's
got to get his plan down so Turd's gonna be the only one that's really active
ready to take gunfight. Sol's heart still playing three above rather than the
site down below. They're gonna back in the vert they're gonna back in the fact
that they can stop this plant and they will. Buck, insta headshot, Turd, nothing
he can do, no time at all, has to stick to plant and he gets off it. Sol's heart
will get a third. We are tied at the end of the opening half.
Super impressive. I've got to admit from Sol's heart to go 3-3 on border with Waybo,
go toe-to-toe with them. Sol's heart are looking very impressive right now. The dev, one comment
that we made in the pre-show, literally one of the only faults that we have for Waybo
is their very first round on nearly any map.
It's not all been good for them,
and they lost it again against Sol's Heart.
The pattern continues, and yes,
it's a red flag that they are losing it,
but I don't want to be too worried
because they are pretty clearly good at bouncing back.
We saw that near flawless round,
collapsing onto Teller's and Bathroom,
but at the end of the day,
we know that Sol's Heart are a team
that has individual moments from specific players.
Scatman, Ace, 1v1 clutch from Mark.
This is what we come to expect from Sol's Heart,
that. That's the game. It's
really interesting. I mean,
the way they should be
expecting it as well. It
shouldn't be too much of a
concern that they lost the
first round. If anything, for
me, I'm more worried about
way by losing that last round
there because that wasn't like
a cheese play that wasn't a
hero play that was souls.
Heart just playing good
fundamental vert denial. It's
nice to see isn't it, Nick?
It's nice to see that souls
heart of kind of taking
control back of the narrative
of how close this should be.
Last, they're holding long angles, playing DMRs, and it's a testament to how challenging it is for them to break apart Soulsheart,
because Waveboar against most enemies is get openly picked every single round, they're stormed the building,
Terence takes full map control, and the round is over, and Waveboar's been doing the slow and steady,
and then they had the occasional fast bits push with speedy easy on the entry, so they're being limited right now,
trying out different play styles. On the other side, Soulsheart, they're getting almost every single round when they're in defense to the last like 10 seconds of the round.
They're holding on to the very last final seconds and they're pushing way with the distance now on paper if this if we didn't have additional
Context I'd look at a 3-3 half on defense board and I'd say look souls. That's that's a huge win
But I've actually just brought up the results from the group stage game that these two teams played against each other
It was on board as I said
Waybo started on the attack just like they did here
They got three rounds just like they did here and then they won four out of five defense rounds
So typically if you're backward on defense, I think it tends to be not just that you're really good on defense
But the opponent is struggling on attack. So this is where I really expect that souls hot need to lock their limb
They're attacking now. They're gonna ban traps by the map, which is funny enough what they did last time around
They banned as army Ella and thorn as their three
Defensive bands while they're attacking on the flip side of that way bow banned against souls heart the solid snake yin and
and Monty. So the Monty stayed, but the Ying and the Solar Snake have been left in the
glass targeted instead. So Waybo had decided to change things up, whereas Soulsheart kept
things the same.
Nick, does it change much of the dynamic? Do you think going into the second half?
Not right off the rip. I really want to see the first attacker number two for Soulsheart.
They're thinking, again, get that early bit momentum and catapult them further. I think
we could look at an overtime border right now. Look at the operative bands right now
Well, I actually think souls are coming up ahead banning monty and glass isn't screaming any like, you know big red flags for me
I think that's completely fine
Where souls are pretty much going to the sing hey as Simon's gonna be playing a single bomb side and thorns socks for the entries
So I'm gonna give a slight advantage here to soul. Yeah last little thing though is that when these two teams did play each other on
Border that second half when souls are was attacking as they are now there were three watches one from speakeasy one from I9 one from
So I'm gonna be looking out in this game in this next couple of rounds here the next six rounds
Will we see individual players step up or will it be more about playing the put a quote correct typical
Normal round of siege well one thing I'll say souls heart. They've started well in the first half
But now it's all about getting yourselves into the driver's seat
You're up against what would be considered one of the super teams of
Asia and you could now potentially be pushing this with a 1-0 advantage going into your own map pick
It couldn't be more important for Solzhaar.
Back to you, Jake and Guzz.
Are you robbing the boys on the couch?
Yeah, it's set up nicely now for the second half at 3-3.
I think about how it'd been to four,
the overall consensus would have been Wayboe taking the edge
and probably them looking to close out in the second half.
This just leaves a little bit of spice to it.
Now this round in particular, round Sanford,
this is the free swing of your Solzhaar.
Armory archives in this region defensively
is where Wayboe should be winning.
So if you can still one early hit, 0-4-3 win the last two rounds,
one to close the half, one to start the half.
This could be crucial for Sol's heart's overall series, to be honest,
because this could be make or break.
Way by keeping a similar tempo, Nick pointed it out in the first half.
For a team that's usually quite fast paced.
Even now on defense border, I mean, this is the one map that you can play quite aggressive.
that I entry positions play the windows but they're just sitting back they're
going to play the clash they're hoping that Sol's heart
are going to be inefficient with their own attack on this site
and the time will then expire
they're showed into shield play this round as well speak easy looking very
versatile here offering support on to reaps and can keep the
I fear that Bay is also rich config is use the tension break side and as you can see the store potential here is great
So it gets in on the action as well to drop I9 that's a lot of YouTube first potentials while now
Compromised I9 to seven I highlighted before how important he is to this team and it's dying to turn who's playing fountain
So if a lot of what we're seeing is around a security position, how is I9 dying there?
They just it's a second one market
They're probably pushing up main stairs solo trying to look up while a lot more of the focus is towards security
But yeah, I mean you're still gonna have at least players around site. They have to be ready for that
The souls heart knew that they weren't winning the shield battle
So they tried to slip into the side turds said absolutely not hover to finish it off flawless on armory archives
That was the free swing that was the free hit if your souls heart and they completely fumbled it
Yeah, I'm just having a quick look at the replay off-screen in terms of where their positions were and
I9 was trying to push east stairs completely solo, had no support and no trade potential, so it was a big misplay and turns out going to miss those opportunities.
It got delivered to him on a silver platter from that security side of the map.
They actually do it in sync, it might have actually been better.
At that point in time when that first pick happened in favour of Weber, they still had two players outside, DCH was below in supply.
It means it was an all over the place attack that the synchronization and the
shared goal in that round was
Pretty poor from Sol's heart. So that first round is a little bit concerning and unfortunately for them
They don't have the same truck record of way, but maybe having a bit of a slow start and then recovering
No, every round is must win the Sol's heart or at least super critical and maintaining pressure
Well to 759 I wonder what the overall win rate for Sol's up would be when he's having it an
overwhelmingly poor performance because it's not something that you see all that
officer. I mean I said it before right so he's got 91% win rate, 2 plus kills. If he
doesn't get a kill on the round it's only 20%. So to be honest the fact that
they're only a 3-4 in this matchup is quite impressive given the precedent
of if I had nine struggles the team typically struggles as well so the fact
that they're still even in this position is pretty remarkable. And again if you're looking
That last round, doesn't matter who's fault, the Sudamari Archive, whatever.
Yep. Now we go bathroom tallows.
So far the script has been largely being followed.
That second floor of onsite proving to be difficult for both teams on their respective attacks.
Bathroom tallows though, here we go.
This was not defended at all successfully by SoulSight in the first half.
We'll see what Waipo can offer.
Solid Snake for I9. Can he get involved?
The radar certainly can help him individually.
Oh no, another freebie!
Alvin Longline of sight will find Scatman, it's a thinker in the grave, and Borda typically
has one of the highest conversion rates when it comes to that opening kill, and Weibo going
to pounce at that opportunity to confer get a two-round lead in this series or
this map at least if Sol's heart can't return serve E1D goes out so they're
looking to try and take some semblance of space around the map but with defaults
still up and drones being spotted here by the defense and personnel we have a
pretty keen read that there's pressure east and I think they're also
anticipating that security side. Well the pace just continues to remain at all
time low for this region on this map. Mr. Punch towards Armory on the black bit
needed to help actually. Maybe not. The Franklin A did the job on to Holven. He does
go down but should get brought back up. Like I-9 there's a bit of a scrap going
off and away from this position. So Mr. Punch back up but they do lose more
troops for the overall army. 60 seconds, 3v2, way boat more than happy with the
way that this round is playing out remember it's bathroom tellers you do
of course want to try and get this top floor control if you solve heart deny
the first night actually later on I 9 finally wins a key battle this time
against turn there's still time 40 seconds is plenty of time here in the
two versus two you've got the black beard don't have a lot of utility we saw I
nine just pick up an extra frag grenade you do of course have the radar but I
love the fact that Reap still is a nice yourself shotgun can play these angles
War's Talos bathroom, he's got speakeasy, 30 seconds, way by a still well and truly set up in this round.
Yeah, they go for the double peel, two stacked Talos with the Nitro and the shotgun as you mentioned puts them in good stead.
20 seconds on the clock, I'm not a massive concern, every second is going to matter.
I think they were hoping to maybe get one pick, get a little bit fortunate, there's the drop down, but immediately, Speakey's got the angle covered, didn't even need the Nitro's soul.
I9 collects the kit, goes for a little bit of a wander outside bathroom, immediately into the line of sight of speakeasy.
Wild defended by Weibo, now they've got the momentum.
Make that three of the last four rounds, they're starting to do what they usually do in this region,
and make a mockery of their opponent.
5-3 up, well, can strong on the defense.
That's too straight.
I wonder if we might start be heading to timeout territory, and indeed I could even get the words out before they pulled it.
Yeah, they're getting outmatched at the moment. Wayboe have looked really good defensively so far back-to-back opening kills courtesy of Turd and Hovind
And I really liked what we saw there from Wayboe in the last round where their contest on the top floor in the trade gang
It was good. I wouldn't say it was great
It was good enough, but I then the reposition late with the two stacked Talos
Cognizant of the fact they had Nitro and shotgun. They played really good tradeable position
then in the 1 vs 2 there was an opportunity there still for i9 to maybe clutch up or at least isolate
speakeasy in fact you probably could have the jump on him but the positioning and the
tradability was there that it was very very low percentage he was ever going to be able to find
both picks so i credit the way though that they're doing the job here in the second half so far
it's an intriguing game because it feels like this is literally a worst-case scenario if you
solve it's heart reaps turned double digits already i9's your board of triangle yeah the scoreboard
3-5. Yeah, if you had a set coming into this game that
Everything that's played out in terms of numbers, etc. And who's performing well? I would say this is 7-0 territory
So it is a testament to Sol's heart on way post map pick that they're still in this game without their top play performing and well with way
post 2 mega stars
Already on double digits of an also chipping in with seven
There's a lot going wrong in this match for Sol's heart yet
They find themselves on the two rounds down out of the time out their workshop next up a
Solid possibility for them to break this little run all form from way, but has to be done right here right now
Well, here's a fun fact
It's not a huge amount of data, but I'll still throw it out there
After losing two rounds in a row souls hard actually have a 70% win rate part of it the rest of the league
That's only at about 30 say the real percent say the rest it's 69
We're all adults here the league average is 32% so they do have at least some precedent in being able to bounce back when a
Little bit of momentum is taken away from them, but
Way, though, is of course on a whole nother level, so not going to be too much into it
Exactly, but it would be it would be pretty cool if they had let's to back that up here in this match up and keep the head above water
They are the exception
Yeah
Did bring up the opening kill stat as well
It's four of the last five now in favor of way, but so they're also getting a top of the early game
Something that actually saw us out started the game really well with they won the first three opening kills
But these are the little battles and the little metrics that you know kind of now into round nine that have been back and forth
And souls are find a way to get back some semblance of control. Let's do that on the attack. Yes
I like this though for Mr. Punch.
It's a little bit sneaky, but he is also by himself here on the Plitz.
Yeah, he's very isolated, so he could have an element of surprise, although that's always
difficult with just how loud the Plitz is.
I guess DCH has cleared a little bit forward, other side of the map horizontally, and they
will know Wayboe are going to be defending largely from above.
in fact four of the five players are top floor.
Goddy and the Solace will be the one lurking towards the site around BENT workshop.
I'm eager to see how they deal with the clash.
I think most problems for four against Blackbeard and into the Blitz is going to be a similar scenario
where Mr. Punch is going to find it difficult to take that space and to aggress.
Three on the first floor, Mr. Punch wasn't ready for Goddy holding towards serve.
I think they wanted to maybe try and go towards site after starting a little bit of a battle
on that second floor slip into sight,
couch them off guard.
But God is not going to be getting caught off guard
on the solos.
That's also a kit down.
You've lost your blitz.
This is a big loss now for Sol's height.
And time's running to expire.
50 seconds left.
That's another open and kill for Waybo.
Again, they're looking in control.
Who's going to be the one to turn it around
in this particular ninth round?
It's DCH.
At least got rid of Gotti.
Yeah, they cleared Gotti's sight.
So it's now just the four players above.
Speak easy, though.
We'll rotate in the meantime.
And they're still going to strong cross.
I think so. I don't even know. It might be direct sight here, but that's super hard.
It's a lot harder as well without the person. They immediately lose scat man.
That rotation from speak easy that you mentioned pays off.
Hoven then gets rid of Mark. Only two left because it's a big split between I9 and TCH.
I9's still on that top floor. TCH solo.
The ward's bathroom. They can't play off each other. Neither win their ones.
I9 does get the first 12 seconds left on the clock.
TCH has been able to go and get that diffuser.
But again, you've got that clash towards workshop.
How are you even remotely going to get this plant down? It seems impossible if you get the kill on to said clash
We'll get a chance to go for the plant coming from bathroom now late is reefs, but he's got the quicker position
Match point or map point for Waybo. They've just been able to rip this game apart
four of the last five rounds
dominating in the opening kills
Which is what now five of the last six
Basically after the first three rounds, it's been a Weber onslaught that completely dismantled
Sol's heart. Three opportunities to close out their map pick. Now present.
I think Speakeasy deserves a shout out in that round. Someone had to rotate back towards that
to defend and I think having the clash do that was probably the best and most optimal call.
He was able to plunk down that shield, get the kill, onto a kit.
Not only did it then give Waybo the man advantage, but it threw the push in to disarray.
To be fair, Sol's hard turn in real action was to try and go direct.
It's all about initially, but Gotti shot that down.
Here's a replay of a beautiful kill from Speakeasy.
And it just made it very tough then from that point for Sol's hard to be able to win that round
with so much control and pressure, still above as well, that they couldn't break.
crosses into office and to be fair this is a problem that both teams have
encountered in clearing that position. It's so hard to push through. Either way
though it's a three round lead and three map points for Waybo who have looked
essentially unbeatable in the second half. Yeah I mean they've really switched
it all haven't they but they're playing a kind of brand of siege that screams to
me at least more finals orientated rather than regular group stage. I think
this were like playday 2 border. They'd be just far more running around and playing these
window positions and going for runouts and being cheeky but to me at least it seems like they're
playing a more calculated brand of siege the kind of siege that would probably hold up more so
internationally they know when to defend they know when to attack they're not over investing in
runouts and silly plays but they're also still aggressive everything seems controlled
Looks like we'll see a similar mirror conflict here from Waybo.
We saw previously from Sol's heart it worked really beautifully in defending that security
corner and Waybo likely are going to try and achieve something similar.
Not putting all their eggs in that basket though, very much investing off the site as
well to try and make that cross tough.
So we'll see how Sol's heart looks to approach it currently.
Oh, look below, they must, but again they lose the opening pick, it's a completely turd as well.
And reminder too, this site has not been attacked successfully.
And now it's another opening kill for Weibo.
Go and make that six from the last seven rounds they've been playing.
They've been completely in control.
11-4 for turd, 11-3 for Reefshead.
I really hope I don't have to play either of those two in the Zedong's Coast Pro.
I could get real lucky.
I'll just give that one the fourth.
That eventuates.
Might be almost all the time for Soul Sartre here on board.
Our cafe, of course, will be the next map up, which is their map picker.
I guess that's one defining moment is that this isn't their map pick.
I'll speak easy, he got a little bit overzealous. He got a little bit greedy on that push through break
That's the kind of play there that we haven't seen from Waybo. Yeah, probably one of the first at least that we've captured on
Can't work the head scratcher from Waybo where they're in a good position. It was unnecessary that push from speak easy
But Hovind makes up for it. Mr. Punch falls
Mark did sneak through that potentially undetected, but he's gonna be playing straight into the mirror window
This is not a viable push. Goddy can sit here wait unless he's deterred from elsewhere
He'll be very much just posturing here for a rain of all the ground
much of wasted preemptively for the push on falc
45 seconds on the clock. That's the thing that's 40 seconds left
You don't really want to be a halo in that nitro with 10 15 seconds when you're getting rushed in so he goes
So I think Michael so doesn't ever sell much we've encountered this
He needs to just straight up win the low percent come on
You're gonna have to probably just throw this flash that he's got available and then just go for a push
They lose DCH. This one feels inevitable.
There was a nice start to the game.
Their Solzat started a little lively.
But Wavevoe once they get going, they are so difficult to stop.
I9 feels like he's been missing a little bit here in this match.
They need him desperately on cafe.
Or maybe desperately even still right here.
10 seconds to win the 1v2.
But I9 can't clear out leaps.
The shotgun will do the job.
And Wavevoe will lock in border.
4 rounds on the top there to close it from Weibo.
They've done a really good job in containing I9 in that matchup.
And if that continues, Sol's part would find themselves in trouble real quick.
The best part of being a best of 3 series is you do get a second, then maybe even a third goal.
If you can turn things around on Kafei, but Weibo far too good.
4 straight to close out after the 3-3 first half, which we felt as if maybe set this game on Guzz.
we get let down a little bit by Sol's heart. Expected at least a round or two on their attack.
It was not to be. Wave-O once they lock in, they are hard to start. We'll see if they
can be stopped on cafe.
Hello, my name is Nai, I'm a member of the team, and my name is Leblanc.
I'm playing as a fully.
Since I was born, my parents and I have been playing the game.
I've been playing games since I was a kid.
I played games all night, because my parents used to play games.
I've been playing games since I was a kid.
When I was a kid, I joined the team.
That's why I started playing as a player.
When I first started playing the game, I had a lot of fun playing it.
I bought a PB game, a 5-band game.
It was the first game I had ever played.
I played every game.
I thought it was a game, but I liked to play it on the floor.
If my parents hadn't played this game, I wouldn't have been a player or played games like this all day.
At that time, I watched the competition and I saw that there was a competition and I felt that he was cool.
He was good at playing, he was cool, he was a team member.
There was a chance, there was a chance.
That's why I felt that because I was a competition player, I would be able to win.
I would like to win something like this.
It was a good moment.
Well, when I was in the competition, I felt fun and serious about it.
Personally, I like to play football, so when I play, I feel fun.
When I lost, I was sad that I lost 2-3 games.
But I had a lot of fun playing as a player.
If I had played a game before, I would have had a lot of games.
But now, Thailand has a lot of games that I haven't played before.
When I played as a set go player,
I had a friend who invited me to play the Bo6 game.
When I played, I felt more fun.
When I broke up with SITGO, I was playing the game at Rainbow Six and I was a team member.
That's why I started playing at Rainbow Six.
Also, I'm still enjoying the game.
Even though I'm getting better at it, I think I'm going to keep playing until I feel like I can't anymore.
My parents have always supported me, no matter what.
Finally, at Paris, I bought my parents a ticket to Paris.
I think it's good that my parents support me.
I think that once in my life, I want my parents to see my strength in different countries.
Even though I'm not a winner, my parents support me.
It's a good thing for me to be a part of this competition.
When I won the competition, I was so happy to have a child who was a part of this competition.
Thank you to my parents for supporting me.
I will do my best until I can stop the competition.
I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about you.
You're a bad shit. You're a bad shit.
It was almost promising.
It was almost promising until
Wayvo decided to do Wayvo and just absolutely
watched that second half out of
border. But that's the kind of performance
you need from a team of that caliber dev. That's what we need to see when you go, uh, not,
I don't want to say poorly, but when you're just not hitting expectations of that first
half, change it. Yeah. Well, the way I see it holistically is Waybo took the game in
the group stage and just one up themselves a little bit. One round better. Uh, they didn't
get clutched on like they did by I nine previously. I nine did not turn up in the way that he
Perhaps was expected to do so, and...
Sure.
Yeah.
Oh my god, Scatman's really ace.
Love the ace.
Priceless.
Look, sadly, Sol's heart was really absent in that second half.
Great showing at the start of the game,
but yeah, completely nothing on the attack.
Nick, it's a little disappointing for them,
but I think you've got a stat for me.
Yeah, so James, it was Phelous Scatman.
He got an ace in the river's round, but that's five kills.
Yeah.
How many kills did he get since then?
Probably entire game.
You tell me do you know? I do I see it on my screen
He got every single kill in the very opening round that was it he was impactful for a single around
So it's giving the same vibe as you know the qualifications inside company where I nine as an individual
Didn't show up until the hero played taking him to OT in this game
Scatman starts off saying I can challenge way before 1v1
But only for one round I got a question back for you Nick
Do you know how many kills Scatman got when these two teams played border in the group stage?
In the all 11 rounds he got one kill
Difference between the group stage game and this game that happened right here aside from you seven three to seven four
So today I nine got six kills ten deaths in group stage. I nine got 15 kills and eight
and they still lost seven four so they need them both at the same time they
really do. Nick the humor of that scout man stat was the fact that we were
obviously off air discussing what we were gonna do coming into this and I
started talking about scout man now you can't see that I can see you at all
times but the cheesy grin that you had on your face I was like I'm gonna stop
talking because I wasn't looking at how many kills you got I was actually
looking at his cost. It was down at 20% and that is a really, really dramatically low number
considering how well they played in the first half. But it does take a full team to conquer
something like Wabo. You know, they are the mountain of Asia at the moment. And it's really,
I think this goes to highlight just where the discrepancies are when it comes to this
region in particular. It feels as though Dev that Sol's heart, they are always in the game,
It's when things start when push comes to shove and way both start to get their feet cemented in that sand that things really start to show
Yeah, I think that the whole storyline of them losing the first round
I think tells you a lot about way bow
It tells you that this is a team that even when they do get knocked back
They know how to just reset if you look at the facecams half the time
The fights in this team are phenomenal the consistency to game knowledge
which I actually got a little sneak peek access to an interview that is not yet released with
Toadstar as I was watching it to check for some time today and he had some great insight
about how much Gohan has helped him and the whole world.
But in particular, work on his mental and his attitude to the game.
And I think you see that show up.
Like Wayboat can take a punch, they can go 3-3 in the first half, they don't worry,
they're like, guys, we're not going to lose a single round in the second half.
Now we move into the second map, and Sol's heart are the ones that we're sweating for.
Yeah, we certainly are, and that's the problem as we move to cafe now, Nick.
I mean, where is the hope coming from?
Where is that kind of gusto going to come from, from this roster?
I mean, the hope for Sol's heart, honestly, is that they are obviously very great individually
in the gunfighting, and I think it's why a waiver was changed in the past so much.
When we saw a waiver go on to the defensive side, they're not playing at spawn peak border,
challenged and fight them etc. They didn't clash two Brocai for half of the defensive rounds.
They're clearly respecting Salsard that comes with a gun skill, but not so much when it comes
to strategy. So look in here at Café, we may see Salsard when they're on the attacking side,
be able to get like through that barrier that is going to be the strategy. Pick a part,
wait for step by step, find their weaknesses and slowly peel back the layers because you
can't just walk into the buildings and attack her and expect it to be easy, especially a map
the team. We've got to get
the team to the top of the
top of the top like Cafe. So
defense. We got to get at least
at three three half. We got to
go with source out onto the
tag and then ensure strategic
depth. Well, it's a fresh start
for both teams. We haven't seen
cafe from the middle of the
stage and Weber haven't played
it since they lost it to the
Bears, Vertus pro over in Salt
Lake City. I'm sure they would
have picked up a few tips from
the Europeans. Let's see if
they can put them into action
can hope. Well, you know what
you may as well just thrown
there and I may as well. It's
time again which is a way bow fired up hopefully they've got something for us as we head to
cafe well they're not the only ones that have not played cafe this takes this is the first
time that we're seeing the map itself in Asia and it's taken until finals until we get to
now see it starting on the defensive side it does mean in terms of any statistics numbers
etc there's nothing to look back on in terms of data this stage when it comes to cafe as
Historically where it's been in recent times it's been a little bit better for the attacking teams
I'm curious for this because again, we haven't seen Asia at all play this map
Next the Grim don't be taken out
by Solis heart and
Wabo will go with the mute and the solos now solos is a
Pretty constant ban from them, but the mute is such the first appearance for that
over the last few months
for reference the Izami and the Castle most frequent and they've even won off the
mirror and the Aruni in the past so they'll move a change up there by taking
the mute out of the board the presumption will be that they're looking to
play a lot of info ops later with the Daimoss being available I expect to see
some playtime going forward on that given the vert nature of Cafe
And similar to Border, I'm probably expecting a decent first half showing here from Sol's
heart starting on the defense.
Again, expectation, we'll see what the reality does bring.
We start kitchen here for the opening round.
So electing to start on this first floor rather than going above.
Interesting choice.
We'll see if it works out for Sol's heart.
The laborer is more than happy to play the drone game, gets him information, reaps on
the sledge, he's opening up the floorboards, he finds i9 lurking down below, it just hasn't
been that sort of night for I-9. So opening death, immediately you lose, you start a man.
Yeah, it's been a rough day for him so far. Minute 30 remains on the clock now,
and Waybo decimating on Vert. Statman will fall as well.
Unfortunately for Sol's part, this has not been a great showing. Opening round
cafe
Where they were keeping it very simple in this first round and they just haven't quite been able to match it
Well, they kept it simple
But they've also they've got red stairs control white stairs control and they were playing that second floor through the
With slanted the book you want to preachers again. It's very controlled siege from labor
This is the kind of stuff as it's flawless that unexpected to see from them
into at an international level
control measure didn't rush in didn't you know trying go direct they had a clear
game plan get stairs control get second floor play the vert we're gonna bring
the sledge we're gonna bring the ram we're gonna try and kind of enclose
them towards the site cut off positions they were watching towards bar I mean
they had everything under lock and key there was nothing souls heart could do
they were just getting toyed with and it's a very clinical way to start this
second map of your Weibo. And quite demoralizing too if your soul's hard.
Again this is their map pig. Cafe is a map that does not feature in this region.
When you're choosing cafe you better be well prepared. And in that opening round
again it's only the one round but we both are better prepared. They look like
they were running a full blown strat where soul's heart would just play
default positions and got completely overworked.
Now we'll see if Solzhark can begin to correct Corsair at the moment because Weber built
up a large long streak of rounds and Jonas is on Solzhark to break that momentum. Strong
top floor hold from them this round, investing a ton of utility. They've also got the mirror
in play. I love that in compliments of the Valk as well. They should have information
up plenty in this round that shouldn't be their their shortfall introduction to
the capture as well they're pretty intriguing on the Jager presumably that's
going to be to protect against any util dump from the repel to protect both
shop and lounge
oh it's the first kill that's where you better careful on this rap now these
window repel positions webo will just feast on you if you're not prepared for
the fight we're ready for the fight
yeah just got caught out
that's likely not yourself gone as well leaves only one for mr. pudge the
overall vibe now starts to feel a little bit gloomy it started promising on
border but right now and and this is the nature of best of threes it goes a
couple of ways not only you do you get a chance to redeem yourself but also the
team that started one that first map has the chance to follow one take that
momentum into the second map we're seeing that now from wayboat they look
warmed up this is warmed up and ready to go way but let's just walk if it was
this is the power of best of threes in a best of one you can catch a team like
waybo off guard because they may be a little sleepy they may be through the
first half. But as we enter this second map, Waybo just now look absolutely switched on.
Scatman, nothing he can do. Wow. It's too nothing to begin on the attack of Kafei.
Waybo haven't put a foot wrong. Floor's in the first round,
four alive in the second round, back to back opening kills, and for his statistic,
says this is an absolute beatdown. You guys at home missed it towards the back end of that.
third got a little active in the old chat just reminding them of how poor the
last 30 minutes or so inside of the server has been for them. Tactical time
out called early at the conclusion of round two. Not necessarily early in the
context of the streak that they're facing but atypical compared to when we
would expect attack time out to be called but I think it's the right
decision it's basically now or never for Solzhaar. They are trailing by a huge
margin they need to find something to tap into to try and respond because
Wayboat have not put a foot wrong so far here on cafe and on the style of map
where traditionally the defense can set up power positions can stall out can
waste time we're not saying any of that we just haven't seen any of that at all
when you're losing a free kill on repel earlier just putting yourself in such a
difficult position then for the rest of the defense to respond and reposition
your original plan, you have to completely change. It's been really, really disappointing so far for
Solzheid on this second map, but equally for Waymo, it's been very impressive.
On that trash talk as well, I wonder how long it'll take until someone... the ultimate trash talk
really would be, you guys would need to beat Xenox, because Xenox goes through. Maybe one next week
we can get that. I might send a message and be like, yeah, you gotta poke a computer a little bit.
that one out there. So out of the time out. I like the early time out by the way. After
two rounds it's very evident that souls are clearly having played one of the first two
rounds. Waybo doing whatever they want and need to just be able to take a minute, have
a breather, talk about what's going wrong, why things aren't working, let's go to bar
cocktail, let's do something a little differently. Interesting we see Scatman on the Thunderbird.
Again an operator that we don't see all that often but slowly but surely I would say over
the last probably since stage two last year when I saw chef chef bring it out
notes yeah but we're normally seeing it's a counter doc could be they banned
ocobi so why are they picking thunderbird arguably the worst defender in the
game it was better but what I was getting get with that is even before the
doctor be changed it was slowly starting to creep back in but thunderbird
levels of slow they could have an insane strut ready to go here I'm excited
and ready and waiting but my expectations of really rock bottom this
This feels like a desperate play. And again, Hoffman on repel gets a free kill. Guys, come on.
Well, the Kona Station's not going to be able to heal I9 back, and Vista Punch is already dead.
You didn't even see it because he was too busy throwing your head back, and Vista Punch is dead as well.
Oh no. Shadows. Two dead in the span of 10 seconds.
You lose I9 on the Izami. Your smoke is now gone. They're both 0-3. This is out of the time now.
Waybo are hot right now. Nothing is stopping them. Nothing is cooling them down.
They're never getting a chance to fight back at the moment, which is gonna be so crushing.
It's like you said they're just losing players to these repels.
And with that space taken out, if you speak easy, full launch control,
another one on the repel, reached with a wonderful headshot onto DCH.
It's a master class right now from Wayboat, but a disaster of your soul's heart.
It's another flawless.
Wow.
Well, they're the kings of this region for a reason.
It's three straight from Weibo on the attack two of those three flawless the other with four alive
Or this is just
Decimation from Weibo not doing a single thing wrong doing everything perfect and for souls heart
Nothing can go right. Yeah, it's now getting incredibly challenging to find a road back for souls heart in this series as I mentioned before as well
They're actually one of the better teams in the league when facing a two-round lost streak and then being able to recover on the third and once again
As we saw border capped off here on cafe. They'll lose three straight
It's looking really rough for them at the moment
You then compound that with the fact they took their tactical time out didn't work Thunderbird zero impact losing three kills at least
Why spotted on against repel just no fight back at all that has to not be a great feeling inside the server
But if you lose a couple of 50-50 fights and a round doesn't go your way, that's a whole different story.
You're just getting smashed on the repel and just not being able to play the game.
Yeah, man, you got one kill in three rounds.
That's rough.
And you're on defense.
Again, I don't have the statistics right in front of you right now.
Kafe has slowly over time.
You think back to when you used that absolutely despise this guy.
Oh, I still do.
No, I know you do.
But there was a reason for your despise of the map back in the day. It was slow,
quite boring, and very defensive. That's changed a little bit in recent times. New
operators coming to the pool, there's new ways to sort of navigate certain sites.
Slowly but surely attackers have found a bit better rhythm on this map and
we're seeing that firsthand.
Swapping backs!
Over time, even Riora starts to have an impact.
You've got Deimos, that's obviously come into the fold, has impact, so Snake has impact.
All of these new operators for attack have certainly made the cafe more lively.
Swapping backs!
Back to kitchen for Sol's heart. Didn't vote well for them in the opening round, lost it flawlessly.
Hasn't been much of a series but so far through it 17 kills for reach 16 kills for hobbit 13 for turd
The highest for souls heart tied 7 is market DCH
Which body it's big easier on six kills, so it's almost all five players and weibo are outranking
The top player as well for souls heart. Well, there's another opening kill. Big easy does go down
I want to really close by 4 souls heart and these gaspades also not connecting, Mr. Punch
eventually just goes on a bit of a walk and finishes off the blitz and thankfully I9
gets involved with a headshot kill onto Holman, shots down the Reora and we've got a round.
It's not quite on our hands yet but it's slowly graphing towards us.
We don't have a game on our hands, we have a round.
Maybe on our hands.
The hands are quite empty at the moment I mean four versus three you've got the
yokai's you've got a nitro cell you still got a Vulcan canister in pocket
you're not gonna find yourself in a much more idealistic position against
Waybo this is about as good as that's gonna get lose this it's over there's
not there's no comeback there's a true piece there's still a chance because
Waybo our Waybo and yeah turn on the class could certainly make an impact
play there's no extra remain though so that will limit a bit of his playmaking
potential. It's still a powerful primary no doubt. There's still default cam in
bakery plus the yokai there's the yokai in bakery too and they've just used the
yokai to spot Red Hall as well. There's a lot of information available for
Solzhan. Even if there is no one necessarily in bakery right now for
Waybo it gives all of the info hey they're not bakery and I9 gets to play it for free.
Almost got that kill on to Gotti playing small but he hops outside the window
turned towards red stairs probably gonna have to go on a mission here cuz
There's time that's starting to expire 35 left on the clock. Reeves will go VIP side
So they're just changing means up last second God
He finds a pick from outside. He got forced out by I9 only to come back and get the killer to I9
And mr. Punch falls to turn pushing down red stairs on the glass. It's only
Scatman left. I couldn't even finish my words. Way bow win the round
It was a four versus three. There was 40 seconds left
and you had so much utility still available.
Aynine really should have won that battle bakery versus small bank against Gotti.
Gotti hops outside the window, rotates around, kills him, I think, probably from main entrance,
and they just found isolated pick after isolated pick, and eventually the 4v3 became 3 still alive for Weibo.
None left for Sol's heart.
Feels inevitable at this point now that Waybo are going to be able to close this and it may
well be another 7071 to add to their repertoire.
They've just looked phenomenal here on cafe and even in that last round where some blemishes
did show through the mid-round they still found a way to win against basically all odds
like I said in the lead up to the final third of the round it's very infrequent you will
find yourself in such a strong position against Weber with so much info player
advantage positional advantage like quite literally every potential
advantage possible Weber still find a way to win the round it's got to be
really disheartening for souls hard he would give him this match a great shot
and this matchup is not really reflective I don't think of where they're at
it's way better they're just on a whole nother level and they have been for so
long and unfortunately now it's just the one slot for Asia it's kind of a
position we've been in with like osu! for instance in the past with one dominant team
it's gotta be demotivating for everyone else it also means webo really aren't gonna be playing
with their food there's no second slot to fall back on if things go awry there'll be no trolling
this time and there hasn't been tonight i think i can only recall one moment in this match with
the speakeasy push break that's been questionable every other round they've been flawless and even
I mean, it's enough that's
That's about as low in the barrel as we've got to get
It's hard to fluff this this one as a potential chance for souls heart to get back into the series if we're being completely candid
Maybe I just on a different level right now
It's even to moralizing I think even for us just watching this
I can't imagine what Souls Art would be feeling like in the server.
The patience from Waybuy I think has been very, very evident.
For a team that can play sheer aggression, almost disregard the timer at moments in rounds
and maps, and they just go full steam ahead.
entire series, both Border Cafe, so composed, finding that pick, again they just have the patience
and it keeps paying off all of them. Once again the duo of Mr. Punch, I9, first two dead.
It easily does go down that Mark II will fall to inside bathroom at the hands of Turd, four versus two.
This feels inevitable. This feels like waving the white flag territory if you're Sol's heart
Yeah, it's never a great feeling as a neutral observer to count a team out
And it's often not fair to do in a game like Siege with two halves
But this has got to be one of the more dominant best of the three that we have seen in this region for some time
The way that they are playing cafe at the moment
Well, why haven't you got the plan down because they've not had the chance to get the plan down because they just kill everyone
Open to kill, 2 minutes, 227, 228, 209, 140, that was actually the slowest opening kill
matching their overall pace that we've seen here.
Again, they slow it down, they're controlling their own tempo so well and it leaves these
souls heart defenders just guessing, sitting in these positions and then giving up so much
unknown territory.
Reeps then catches out DC Hatch and gets the second on Scatman because they've got no
idea where he's coming from.
Wow, this is brutal.
I feel like we shouldn't be airing this. I apologize to the viewers at home
Hey, it's good for Waybe on their fans. I'm sure that they're quite pleased at the moment, but
Very very very rough game for souls heart
Final round of the half to follow and
Waybe will have their sights firmly set on a perfect map to close out this best of three
It'll seed them in the upper bracket final and they'll have a date lined up with
the day star or team orchid day star of course the more likely of the two to win
out on that matchup but the way they're trained is doesn't it doesn't feel like
there's an endpoint in this in this in the Asian region for them it's
internationally where they typically get tested and that storyline that narrative
has not shifted at all in this first stage. I think the bigger picture for me
from this series which at this point now feels like it's going to go the way of
way but I think we can all see that picture pretty clearly it's if your
soul's hard there's only the one slot in the region and we just got absolutely
decimated by way though you know day star are probably just ahead of us that's
not an easy task either you're gonna have to go double elimination so you're
gonna go lower bracket you're gonna have to run that lower bracket get back to
the grand final where arguably you're likely to then play way but if you can
even manage that run and based on what we've seen here you're still a long way
off that. I think the brutal truth is unless Wabo is a roster fracture or
Wabo dominate over Oce at an international event and reclaim two
spots it feels like it's a 99.99% chance that they are gonna continue to
qual in a solo slot some region it's very difficult to envision another team
taking them down right now. I would discredit or discount they start completely.
Oh, absolutely not. Maybe 9.99 is a little harsh.
Well, Russia, to speak easy, that repel didn't work out.
Open a kill goes away, Sol's up, and the immediate trade from Reap's is there.
He's 9 and 0 in this first half of the cafe.
Hasn't put a single foot wrong.
This location is 3 of our time.
22 and 3 across the two maps, and it's not like there've been, I get 23 and 3.
Again, it's all like there's been a lot of rounds.
Should die here. Will die here, but he did get another kill just before it.
Ritz is 11 and 1 inside the first half alone.
What can I9 and Scatman 2, 2v3, so much time though.
And again, this is where Weber will just pull it back, get themselves into good positions, keep the defenders guessing.
Yeah, good utility usage there from Scatman and being able to disperse Hoven, keep him
at bay.
It's advantage they steal for Waybo and they have so much time, so so so much time to break
down the rest of this round.
Scatman looking to try and cover Binding's side and Ironman will commit to dining.
60 seconds on the clock as way they look to fight ground the opposing side of the map
the pink is nice information scatman probably wants to swing off this but
still doesn't have a lot more information if they want window creeps forward does get the kill
wasn't ready at the window turn was not expecting it and finally solzhardt will get one on the
spawn here on cafe really well played from the duo but there's so much work to be done in the
second half still finding themselves five one down against Waybo here on cafe the second map of the
series souls are gonna have to get that shovel and get digging because they are not out of the woods yet
So a 5-1 lead for Waybo adding on to their defensive side now of Kafei needing just the
two rounds to win the series and progress forward to the upper bracket final.
I got a little statistic game for you guys, it's been the Reaps show tonight, we've attended
many of his shows. We have. We're regular visitors. He's 24 and four across the series,
one zero on the entry, which in some ways that's actually surprising that he's only one zero on
the entry. I would have figured how dominant he's been. He would have got a couple more of those.
So with his performance tonight, we know how good he is. Where's he rated on the stage so far?
Heading into the night. Heading into the night. It's going to be something troll like
7th or something lower really is in the top 10 lower top 15 just is he 14 no lower 15
15 wow okay so reaps coming into tonight is the 15th rated by your nation he's a
best of three player he's a best of three bandit 41 kills 29 deaths across the
group stage he's got 24 kills all ready to start
He was just saving himself.
Classic Reeps.
Yeah, I mean, I think that's also, like,
Wave-O are the kind of team that, in the past,
just got the job done at the right time in the,
you know, group stages, even,
especially when they've had two slots,
even in the early portion of finals, but,
they just look really switched on.
Of course, it's not just Reeps that's performing
to a very high level in the series.
Holden1710, he's been a real standout
at Turd15 and
And and seven but going back to hoven. He's actually
the number one rated player coming into
so
Why do we think of this way by roster? I think historically has been reaps
Third and not the rest but reaps and third lead the way the rest are really good
Well, hoven has now stepped up as a top-line player 72 kills 29 deaths a 2.48 KD in the group stage
He was the best player. He was essentially like player in O's but here in Asia
So when you add in now REAPS, finals version REAPS, this is why we're getting an absolute dominating performance from Wayboat.
The Vance of the second half, mirror mute into double shield from Wayboat.
So taking both the Monty and the Blackbeard out of play just not wanting to deal with that potential cheese.
Zero to the crotch.
This half, yep.
Good target, Van.
As for the lineup, it's a four to one split from Wayboat.
from Wave Road, fall down in first four,
the good info gathering on Echo and Hoven,
while he was third four, then he dropped,
and then he got a free kill.
That was really well played.
Again, Wave Road had that ability
to do something a little different,
and that's kind of a good example
of what I and I wanted to try and do back on board,
on me, that off-site position,
course a little bit of chaos,
can I find an early kill, get back to site?
So Hoven does that perfectly there,
plate off, floor drop the hatch, get the kill,
knowing that they're gonna want that second floor control
the kitchen site, open up the floorboards, you get rid of the ram, no more bookie
auto breaches go out so that limits the ability to actually open up the floorboards,
play that verb, force assaults hard to go more, you know, direct towards the site
of which that's what Wave-O won, we've got more than enough stall out utility, and don't
have to look up as much.
Good work from Turd there dealing with the shock drone that will help bolster some of
that late round U2, namely the Goyo. Although I'd be pretty surprised if souls hard find
themselves in a plant position here or going for any kind of default push. It's going to
be a case of trying to isolate picks, trying to prevent trades where possible. 60 seconds
the neutrals still standing bakeside deployable shield will cause problems that do have a
grenade to deal with that but i9s are a long distance away currently
I mean if this just ends up being a bakeside hit though it's just too easy of a reed to
put the wave on the defense this is at least good from i9 towards the main corridor
and he's trying to get active very risky though considering the sight lines opened up into site
Got a lot of time remaining in the round
Waybo looking for the sick home for nose and completely aggressive angle. He connects on to scatman
Body shot into headshot. He falls another one outside main entrance. They know that there's small bait pressure
Coming their way spots out wonderful play from Holman positioning sublime shooting even better
Floreless again from Waybo. Six to one lead, five match and series points.
Yeah, Hover really is that guy. That was a big round from him over towards Smallback.
I thought he was going to play a little bit more of a supportive role.
And when they pushed through, just try and trade Goddy, but he kind of just took it upon himself
to prevent them from walking in entirely. Is that credit to him?
That's what happens though. You've got the backside covered.
covered so there's you've got VIP you know that freezer hasn't been opened up
we've dealt with their vert above it's going to be fake side here they double
stack it they knew there was I9 red stairs so cat coming down the corridor
it's just an easy read for Wabo but it's the little micro positioning from
Holbert that gets him the ability to get those kills in that round and he's at
the peak of his powers apparently based on group stage now into finals I think
He's peeking and that's probably what Waybo needed there to take the next step
Well, the first step this day is to make it get to EWC but the next step
That's their eventual goal which is beyond top. They may be even going as far as winning
International road views it can't just be reaps and turn often this stage really stacked up the addition of Gotti
Allows them to assign him a more supportive role play that more support play alongside speak easy
It gives them a really nice core five. You got your three Frank is God in speed these will play the more supportive roles
Makes them all well rounded
Right now I couldn't tell you what the roles are so I don't think there's what's going on for them in this series
Unfortunately, no, they run out of gas
So whether they're looking to gain big info in what may be the final round with the pulse and the Valka combination
speak easy immediately spotting Mr Punch outside in the initial posture and that will help protect them
against some of the repel play. Casting out my back to the first half it was one of the biggest
strengths and Waybo was plucking kills from outside on repel not even having presence on the map.
Well speaking of the role by the way five I mentioned ribs before 15 so Waybo got all
five plays in the top 15 so I'll start have one which is i9 sitting fourth rated coming into tonight
but the discrepancy is just clear for all to see based on the series but also from numbers
oh no how you got it back you can have a second shot not full panic
it looks like i9's lacking confidence there with a player exposed in a red ping he doesn't back
himself in to win that swing.
After the way tonight's gone.
No.
And that's the difference.
Wave over. Right now we'll swing anything with confidence
and end the positioning that we're seeing from them.
Scatman does get the opening kill.
Mark, able to get a follow up.
Okay.
Turn on checks.
Baby, expand this match a little longer,
but no, turn with that double
and then the follow up from Reeps.
If there was a glimmer of hope,
glimmer of hope it got quickly squashed out by Weibo. Turn for his standards and
from what we saw on board a slightly more quiet bit of more of a back step
this map of cafe Paris in the Hulvernut Reeps but a big moment there
information as well obtainable from Speakeasy and they split up for the
final two attackers a DC H will stay lounge they know Scatmans towards
pillar information obtained for weibo still a nitrous cell turd can just play lounge play
this top floor he's got the ability if you want he can push down white stairs he's got options
like this hog is ground established across the three
nitro below lands and it's scatman in a one versus three so seven three on border
on the verge of seven one on cafe weibo make an early statement to begin the asia finals
They will progress to an upper bracket final, their opponent unknown.
Another match still to be played tonight, but it's evident for all to see that
Waybo are still the kings of the Asia region until that crown is stolen from them.
And it will not be sold up on this occasion, 2-0 to begin finals.
Didn't put a foot wrong.
They really did, and that was probably one of the cleaner performances that we
Haven't seen from way very domestically. They knew when and how to turn it on at the right time
Sure, Sol's heart showed promise on border, but it wasn't long live and map two was just a straight domination
Display from them seven one in the end very impressive if you would have removed the first half of border
I know it's not fair to do that Sol's heart played well in that first half, but you removed that first half
You're talking about 11 for one from that point onwards
That's how dominant it was, which to be honest was a little surprising because the first half did seem full of promise
For soul start. Unfortunately, that was all I had in the tank
Let's go back to the boys on the couch and see their thoughts on this series
Yeah, look if
If you go for the king you better not miss because the first six rounds as in ox's put so eloquently
It was close. We saw some real gusto
We had some real hope, but by God did that quickly just absolutely get annihilated
It was done. It was dusted. It was quick the following 12 rounds 11 and 1
I mean you don't need to say much more than that six rounds isn't a lot in a best of three and
Funnily enough, I can't know if you remember the stat that I threw your way at the start of the show today
Wabo on average have played every game and it's only taken just less than nine rounds, which averages a 7-2
7-3 and 7-1 average is out to 7-2. So really it's just another day in the office
it's business as usual for Wabo which sucks to say because
Yeah, I mean, it's just so dominant and we had some hope that souls heart would be able to take the fight to them
I think those first six rounds on border were a little bit of a misnomer a little bit misleading to what actually happened because if you look back
It was four flawless rounds in this game. It was two double digit players and turd almost on double digits on cafe as well in eight round game
That is dominant. It's pretty scary, especially when you look at the other side, you know, like unfortunately souls hard just can't get out of the game
Yeah, I know and that but that has also been one of the major talking points of our region for such a long time
But also another major talking point for before I was even here. He's speak easy
And we've got him for an interview. Let's welcome in the big dog from what was a scary performance once again
Hey brother speak easy my friend
Speak easy it's always such a joy to see you
But I think after a match like this you guys are just gonna be in such high spirits
Yeah, we feel so good because like
We have like one way to grab what we did was we tried to act like it's like how to measure right now
It's like a switch stage where we have like a one day
Yeah
We play one day and then the next is like a different thing
So we tried something where we only prep for a day like yesterday and yeah
and I think all of us are into the team work where we...
I entered the plan basically and yeah, it was a good team for us.
Yeah, I find that really interesting to hear that you're prepping for these games
as a... the way that you practice is a form of practice, right?
Because you're practicing for what it's like to be playing at an event
where you don't know your opponents a week out, for example.
Tell me a little bit more about the process for you guys
and what you're doing not just to perform well here because obviously your second best ever groups result as a squad
I mean you weren't there went lead when
70 and I had only lost 10 rounds and
Out of the 50 now that they played but it's a kind of a history of the team
It didn't so dominate you quite a few group savers do quite a few playoffs within a pack going internationally
Yes, there's been some great results, but you guys I'm sure it
Aiming so much higher than that
I think a lot of people are hoping that if ever an APAC team was to say raisin a major trophy
But you guys would be one of the first names that would come to mind
What are you doing outside of that example you just gave in order to make that happen on the international stage?
I think what we can do is like
people run on soft for like
fundamentally and
a lot of things
just mental wise like
Maybe see yesterday G2 lost to Falcons where
and they should outright just win them, but I mean I'm not on their team so I don't know
but for us it's just mental wise when we go into like these big tournaments like, when
we say we're able in the big tournaments it's always against Secret and we always talk to
Secret so, we just hope to overcome that and yeah, and just hope that one of the days
that we can click and go over the hallow and we can coach you from there.
Thank you.
Well, you guys have been incredible across different areas of the game, right?
But there's one step in particular that you guys, you're awful at.
Speak easy, right?
I'm going to break it down for you because maybe you don't know about this.
Going into today's VESA 3, you guys have only won 28% of the first rounds of a match.
That means that you start almost every single matchup, despite being undefeated,
losing the first round and then winning 7-0, 7-1 or 7-2.
So what is it about this star to these games?
Is you guys being slow?
Is you guys seem to be disciplined in the server?
What's up with that?
I think it's just a slow start.
Where I'm actually quite surprised by this,
but I think it's just a slow start where we plan stuff right?
Like we think that the enemy team gonna do the same thing,
but most of the time it's different, you know?
So like, wait a minute, this is not what we plan for.
And I think it's another fact that maybe I did not adapt to that role as well.
Yeah, I mean, keep on showing that actually.
Oh, no. No.
Why would you do this?
You're already dominated.
You're going to be better.
We can't have them be better.
OK, a slow start, but you always seem to pick up the pace toward the end.
Speak easy. I'd love to talk to you for longer, because you are truly a gentleman.
But we are going to have to let you go.
Is there anything you'd like to say before we do?
See you guys next week and thanks to all the fans cheering for us and nice to do what you guys have there.
Thank you very much. We love you and we'll see you soon mate. Take care.
We got a nice studio. I gotta say they got a nice set up.
Honestly, I love their set up. It's been tried and true for the last few years.
Where is it? Is it in Pandora?
Well outside of doxing it's in somewhere in Southeast Asia
It is very true
I know it's somewhere in the realm of Southeast Asia
north of Australia
South of
Somewhere
Yeah, correct. Correct. Well right now somewhere between Australia and Russia. There are two teams preparing for battle at his day start and team awkward. This one awkward. That's not good. That's not good. That's not a good
But I think, thank you for going into this one. Do you have any just top line thoughts?
I mean, top line thoughts, you spoke about this a little bit earlier in the pre-show.
It's going to be about Orc and having a bit of a doubt themselves inside the server.
When they had a victory where they had a 7-2 victory over Fury on Chalet.
And like, Coloss said in an interview that they've been feeling so much stress to their form,
and he's an individual, or something like that. You could just make the play and take the risk
inside the server. But then they went up against Fury saying, let's play for fun.
It's people in an open mind and it's kind of just make things happen and don't worry about the outcome
We'll get a good result if we believe in ourselves
I am curious if today we're going to see orchid with belief and with confidence or a bit of that doubt
That's been chasing the mentality of groups. I hope I hope we see a bit of
Fire underneath that roster because they could do some serious damage
But with what we've seen from Waybo today is so clear so crystal clear that they are miles above their competition at the moment
The skill gap between second and first place has never been bigger, but the beautiful news is that still means that the rest of these teams, they can fight for that second place.
They can fight for an opportunity to take Paris away from underneath Wabos, but they're going to have to do it.
They need to start their campaign up next.
Daystar and Team Orphan go toe to toe.
I think that there are quite a lot of characters in the music, and there are quite a lot of characters in the music.
But if they put it together, there will be a gap between the characters,
but in the music there are quite a lot of characters.
There are different characters, different characters,
so it makes me feel more comfortable playing music.
Personally, I like to play with people who are good at playing with their voice.
I like to play with my teammates.
That's why I like to play with my teammates.
I think that there are a lot of people who play with their voice.
There are a lot of players who have a lot of updates.
It makes me feel fun.
I think that the good thing about this game is that the updates are often more than the quarter.
I have only map, but I also have update about map.
I have only one team, but I also have a friend.
I feel like I'm playing well.
I feel like I'm playing well.
I don't remember the name, but I think I'm playing well.
That's why I invited my team.
If I'm a strong player, I don't feel like I'm good at it.
Everyone plays their own style.
But if I'm a strong player, everyone is serious and serious.
Everyone plays their own style.
Everyone plays their own style.
If I'm a strong player, I'm good at it.
Because if the team doesn't eat well, the team will not be able to catch up.
If there is a good opportunity for the team, I think that we have to give time to it, give time to the team, give time to the team,
stay with it and stay with the team.
What do you have to say to make it stronger?
I'ma take the gold, I'ma take the gold, I ain't got nothing
Well, Waybo, I got to admit, they just continue to impress us here in the Asia League, but
it is time for everyone's favourite segment of all time.
Michael, you look very beautiful, and there's that kind of way.
Thank you.
You know, there's little surprises to how good you look.
Look at us all.
But it is our...
Surprise.
Yeah, don't worry about it.
Don't worry about it.
This is where we get to rank all the ramen flavors that we have from Australia all the way
I don't think Australia really has any ramen, but all the way up the coast of Asia
We get to try all different kinds now. What was the first one we try it was
The me gorenger
There we go that that one went S tier that was S tier
I think that was all a pretty good consensus. I think one person might have gone and a
I wouldn't age just because I know that I'm not sure if we've got it in our set of Ramans
But one of my favorites it hasn't come through yet. Okay fair enough fair enough
Well, what we're gonna do is we're gonna separate these
Everyone grab grab a little bowl and grab your chopsticks. Yeah, we learned from yesterday
So for those of you international viewers at home that may not have had ramen before
It is rude to stick your
beautiful chopsticks directly in so always keep them on top we're gonna learn
that as we go through we don't want to get into trouble wow you've got that so
close you can almost as assume you can almost smell it alright Jens let's dig
in penguin do you have our reading of the day we should probably say what they
are right oh yeah actually sorry sorry Jake come on guys if you have your would
you like to tell us what they are don't stick him in don't stick you in would
Would you like to tell us what we're having today?
No, no, I'm holding it.
I'm holding it.
Oh, sorry.
I didn't stick it in.
But now I have to stick it down.
Yeah, yeah, very true.
Very true.
Would you like to tell us what we're having today?
Um, branding's okay.
Yeah, branding name's okay.
So it's, um, Mama, Mama Cup?
Yep.
Yep.
Shrimp Creamy Tom Yum flavor.
Oh, okay.
I don't know.
It does have real looking shrimp in it.
Is that tomato?
Well, I guess we'll find out, won't we?
I don't think anyone read the ingredients.
I think it's tomato.
But we know it doesn't have peanuts, don't we, Michael?
two seasonings, let me look at the back actually.
Yeah, you know what?
How about you start digging in
because Mr. Tengu actually has some words of wisdom, maybe?
Daily words of wisdom, okay?
Waste the whole buffalo to save a little seasoning.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
Play a violin to a buffalo, walk behind an elder
and the dog will not bite you.
water rises hurry to scoop it up escape a tiger only to meet a crocodile thank you very much
yeah he's definitely spicy on the next day jake i will agree with that that's gonna be the punch
to it you can tell just by looking at it pengu do you know where that uh inspirational uh
motivational unbelievable quote came from i just knew it up he's good with the adlibs isn't he
I love that, that went really hot, that was very hot.
Okay, all right, I think I've got my rating here.
I think I know where I'm gonna go with this one.
What did you think, Michael?
I would probably place this in like a C or a D.
Yeah!
Okay, that's, that's, I mean, it wasn't,
I wouldn't say it was bad, but I would say.
Temperature hot, which is making it harder to...
I feel like it was heated up.
Oh, would you prefer it to be cold?
Yes.
I don't think it's hot. I did also just smashed in a massive ball of pasta, which made me skewing my
Okay, okay, what are your thoughts here Jake? Definitely not s definitely not a yeah, but I'm kind of leaning C to B
Oh, you're gonna go higher than Michael. Yeah, definitely. Well, he said I'm C to C. DC
AC
I'm curious though what cuz James is still going
The cameraman ever wants to see that ever again
What do you think in terms of I actually quite like this one. Yep, but
Similar to me going still not as good as one that I used to have
Okay, I first moved out so I'm gonna leave S for that
This is I think on the border of A and B for me. I think wow. It's got a more interesting flavor than the first one
Okay
Less salty. Yeah, okay. It's a bit less. Okay, so Nick Nick. I'm gonna get can we get a close-up of this one here
Nick I know you can't I
Know you can't tell you but I need you to give me from s to f tier what you think of the packaging
On the packaging that is a
Honestly, I'm all the sea guy here. Okay. I like blue. I like earth full toes. I'm not a shrimp guy either really
Orange she brown vibe. So I feel like it's spicy. The packaging is not my colors. Okay. I don't like spice
So I'm gonna go with it. See to you. Okay. Look, I think I'd be happy all in favor of calling it mid
safety
Well, I mean today this goes down to F. I'm happy to go see two. Yeah, you are happy to sit on safety
Okay, we've got a hand up. We got we got two hands up in the corner there James. Do you have?
I think C is a little harsh, but I I see what you're saying Jake we do go down to F to me though anything below C is like I wouldn't
Inedible. Yeah, so that's why he said C is mid. Yeah, I think I think like if you are under C I would be very happy if I were in.
And I didn't have anything except this I'd be very happy. Okay, okay, so you're gonna go B. I think B to C but I mean the last unanimous.
This is the this is the last one J. C. C. Mike. C. James. No one cares. It's C. Thank you very much for playing gents
But where's the camera where's the camera
Hey, my eyes are here. My eyes are up here. I didn't need this this label is going here in the sea room
I'm sorry Michael just
Michael just got the best view you could ever ask for guys
It's time for you to finish the rest. You can yeah, go go go have some while you're sitting down
We're in a cast here. I don't want you any more. I'm so sorry. I've burnt those eyes the goggles
They do nothing as we move forward now
We've got another big matchup in front of us and it's one that I'm quite excited to play for but before we do
They couldn't have found a better path off the studio if you tried
Bwc is coming up and of course that's what we're here to play for
We are currently playing best of three finals for something. That's right to head to Paris now
I was one up by
Jake Zenoncson did his plug yesterday
And I know you love plugs and you've had you played around with a couple of plugs in your time
I have would you like to try and plug this for me? Absolutely. So thank you
Are you familiar with the city of love? I
Am not what is that at the city of love? It's where all the best things happen and it's got one name
It's Paris Paris France. That is the place where the magic happens and the magic is about to erupt at EWC this year
Tickets are on sale right now and you guys at home can join in the fun use your code R6S
15 to get 15% off your tickets
And if you're very lucky you might see Daystar or Orchid performing to the best of their ability for the Asia region at Paris
I think we're gonna say wave I've been anyway. That's okay wave. I'm already
We're already punching their ticket into what would be our upper bracket final with a very clean two up
You're just joining us. It was an absolute slaughterfest on cafe bought up little bit close from the first half
But it fizzled out. However, souls can't now have to make the lower bracket gauntlet
They're gonna have to play three best of threes before they could potentially I'm gonna say potentially book their ticket to EWC in Paris
But now we turn our attention to two teams that honestly continue to come up every time we talk about the top four in the Asia region
Daystar for me is a team that continue to lock in they continue to look good time and time again
But cracking through that top echelon of season a packed it seems to just have a bit of a mismatch
Yeah, look Daystar were for the longest time last year not even rides maids to Weber because back then the
the Brazilian roster that Elevate Field intended to be the second best team in this region.
However, J-Star did cause a massive upset at the end of last year and steal what many
people thought would be Elevate's spot back to the major.
J-Star, since then, have actually had consecutive appearances at many different events.
They made it to the sixth of the take one through the last chance qualifier, performed
surprisingly well there and notably getting another win over Elevate, potentially disbanding
that team.
And of course, gonna stop Lake City as well, but now things get a little bit more difficult because historically Daystar have played very well against every team in Asia
except for
Labor and so that really does put them in an awkward spot now
There's only one place to EWC for this region Daystar not only have to be as good or better than the rest of the league
But they have to step up even one more echelon and take a fight away for the first time
Yeah.
Mm.
Thank you.
Looking at this team.
What can you wrap up for us just quickly about this team?
Do you think they are a team that could compete and actually go to EWC?
Or do you think we're still trying to find those expectations for this year?
So, that's the thing.
I really wanted Asia to have two more qualifying spots, because Wabble, they have to go to
represent the top level of Asia Rampus Exige.
But I think if they still could keep qualifying as a second roster and get a little more experience in international grounds, that could be incredible.
But, you know, beating Wabble then to go international probably get first round.
That that would be a bad look for the entire region.
So it feels really good to say that it should be anyone else but Wabble qualifying because we need to just get a solid April presentation across the board.
It's all sunshine and rainbows here for Daystar against Team Orchard.
They've gone 3-0 since group stages back in stage 2 of last year.
year. So Team Orchid have their work cut out for them. They are still looking for that head-to-head win,
but yeah, this is the best opportunity they could have. This is where they need to set the tone.
It's the best of three. They have the chance. They've got a bit of momentum behind it,
but can Team Orchid do it? That's a thing. I really thought coming into this stage, it would be Waybo
number one. Daystar battling with teams like Orchid for that number two spot, but unfortunately for
Orchid, played at number two. Penger, we casted it. It was a very hyped up game. Orchid versus Daystar.
Daystar destroyed Orc at 73 on there. It was not a close game by any stretch of the imagination.
Orc and we would hope would be gradually getting better and better. Of course, this is the former
Fury roster with Leicola's PG Man, Critchey, and of course, XOLotic and Pete's being the newer
additions to the roster, but they just haven't seemed to be as much of an upgrade as perhaps this
team needed. On the flip side of that, you know, Daystar, they picked up Yao, fresh 19-year-old,
Young Gunner. He's been doing great with the team. I think Orc had struggled and overall both of the Thai teams at the top level of Asia
Orc and Ancel's had struggled to keep up with Daystar and Wayboo.
Now, like Kholis is one of the most experienced players in this region and
Critchey is one of the best fraggers that Asia has ever seen.
So there's a lot of talent on this roster, a lot of experience, but there's just something that's missing in this stage.
And I would be very surprised if they can beat Daystar. I'd be very impressed.
We need them to prove themselves and they haven't been so yet. Absolutely. As we look at the Matt Vito's nick
I'll let you maybe just
Encapsulate your thoughts on team awkward because they are still a good roster
We've seen him do it before but are they gonna hit it?
Are they going to match their stride as we're getting into finals? It's the most important time of the year
And she got a piggyback offer Jim said right and missing that small thing to see more kid
I'm gonna go back to the colors interview
He said that a little bit of doubt in their confidence levels for this stage and that's gonna be my question mark
Can they go into maps like chalet the very first map that orchid themselves picked with that kind of confidence because you're starting on a
Shelling which very like
Pace oriented sitting the confidence taking the gunfights and forcing the problem solving and you're going to go into much more
Fundamentally some maps like your lair like your clubhouse that are very execute oriented
So I would almost say here orchid may be favorite met level one
But then they start much more favorite met level two and three as they're much better at the good old three two one
And there's a lot of material here on Orkid, you know, of the seven best of ones they played
in the group stage, six of them were on either Chalet or Lair.
In fact, these two teams went head to head on Lair, which is likely why Daystar picked
it because they performed so well on that.
But like I said, four times, yeah, there is so much material on these two maps for these
teams.
For Daystar, they've played Poghouse before, that's out of sight, it should we get to it,
to be honest, I really think Orkid have their work cut out for them.
Daystar should be the favorite team in this best of them.
They certainly should be, but we know what happens when you hit finals best of threes.
It can be a complete shift.
It can be a change in momentum.
Hopefully, team walking can get out of the gates nice and sharp here.
But I think the desk definitely looking at a day style win.
Boys, what do you think?
I think it's probably difficult to disagree with the boys, Robbie.
I think that, yeah, they start going his favorite.
I don't think to the same degree as maybe Wayboe were that heavy favorites in the first series
But the favorites nevertheless, I'd all good certainly an outside chance
I wouldn't completely say they've got no chance. They had a pretty decent stage five wins two losses
It was plus 11 rounds differential. So all could if they on their game, you know, it's one of those situations for me guys
Where I think if all could a 10% maybe better than usual and taste are a 10% worse than usual
That's probably enough to see all could maybe get an upset win tonight as we
Evidently are heading to chalet first up the pants will be grim glass as army and the thorn
Yeah, if the last matchup was a 95 to 5 in favor of wave or maybe even more lopsided to wave
I'd probably look at this one as being
75-25 I wouldn't again wouldn't be shocked if teamwork could come could come out in a best of three and
Pull off this result. There's a lot of experience and skill on that team
But they start have proven themselves
I think with a bit of a longer track record now and go into this match with really good form
So yeah expecting them to do well tonight, but wouldn't be shocked if there's an upset or even a third map
I think is a pretty fair outcome for this match with a highlight for me in terms of awkward
How are they going to win this year? So you're trying to paint the picture as to what the orchid need to happen
So firstly their map pick of shall I I mean that's usually it goes without saying you want to win your map pick
Go from there, but it's down to crit Jane peeps
So they've been the best two for all good all-stage long crit J sets at sixth rated
peeps actually has now broken into the top 10 he said tonight and we know the peeps storyline as he's gonna come in as this
Newfound star out of Thailand and he's finally joined a roster. That's more than capable
It always points back to is that a full core five?
That is going to be able to see all could qualify for an international event
Or are they still missing a piece or two and I still think they're missing a piece or two
But I do think they've got the two biggest pieces they could possibly have in quick J&P's
They just need a little bit more around them, but yeah peeps has been sensational the stage on the flip side for Daystar
They also have three players inside the top 10 souffle seal and pica so a little bit more while round
It's not to get some of that some of the residual mama cup shrimp coming back
It's researching, I thought it would stay down, but I'm a C2 for a reason mate.
Now the banster is off for the first half, grip, glass, azami and the thorn.
Azami is very very typical on this map and the third bit of track just to try and negate
some of the lurk potential on Chalet which is very very popular.
It will actually be the first time we see the Thorn Band out from Orcid, typically if
they go for that trap, on one occasion, so far as being the Alarm, typically opting instead
for the Mirror Clash, or I guess the Narrow Dive extension as well.
My Supe just got a little spooked down, I don't think he was expecting Peebs to just
pop up.
He just wanted to hold the mod window, Peebs was already well positioned, so he gets the
opening kill, so it's time for Orcid.
Those are the early signs of what you're probably going to need across the series if you're
going to beat Daystar. Get the opening pigs, have the advantages, peeps, Critchey having
a good series. Like Hollis makes his way through Fastock. Testing out the nice of the veins
of Seal and he doesn't panic under the pressure. Should know this one pushing behind. He thought
about it but he didn't quite prepare for it and Critchey gets the kill. Lovely start
so far from Orcund. Yeah they're just being decisive to start out this map which is exactly
the kind of play style that I think could be effective against a star if they could try and
shock their system early. Two players currently below first four now make it just one with Pika
nitrocell in pocket. Mizuki now to reposition according to the top four trying to hold down
against the impending push. As Pete wins another big fight, Pika will be disappointed that he
started cold in this one. 35 seconds on the board, time not a major concern yet.
Time is going to play as much of a factory in this round as Daystar would have probably hoped.
Zuki on the move over towards game. Now, plant's going down inside the office,
this is quite open. Yau's going to have to find a way to disrupt this. It's not going to be able
to, so even though Azuki went for that roam below, push back up library, he only gets one,
Play goes down and then he asked by himself in a post-plant. I understand he had to go for something kind of special but
Unfortunately the job in being done earlier or could able to take the opening round of this series
similarities
So I think the way that Waybo played that first series. It just looked cool calm composed very controlled
They didn't rush it took their time
They followed their checklist it got towards the site. I knew what 30 35 seconds left
They want to go for plant. It just took me a time to just get people in the right positions
That was a really solid round from Auckland. They played that nicely. That's some good siege, but I'm not gonna get
Sucked into it after what we saw from the first half of the last series on border
Yeah, there's a long way to go
It was also largely done quite heavy, right and sometimes we don't see that net consistent results over the course of
Maybe not one map, but if it's the three you can find yourself getting unstuck with the other team that adjusts accordingly
strategically and then if you do see a bit of a lull in your mechanical performance it's
hard to then make up that differential so a lot of isolated fights there, a handful of those as
well, very much awkward catching good timings too but certainly not to take anything away from them
in that opening round but it will probably go down as one of the easier ones. I'm expecting
over the course of this map where Daystar I would have expected to maybe thrive a little bit more
in that kind of environment clearly not too warmed up there in the opening round or at least
not catching those timings required. We go over to Bar for the second round and there'll be shells
in play for Seal on the Scopus. Well now it's about the responsibility based on. You can drop
that first round not ideal, you think about that opening death against peeps where you go for that
sort of mud peak. Those things happen, you weren't ready for it. Eventually then gives up the space
through barstog for the monty to push etc a lot of things went right for orchids slowly as the
round was developing so bar games for the second round oh oh peeps oh how about that back to back
opening kills from peeps but this time in a different manner playing the solid snake lurking
in the entry through basement gets the kill on Topeka something in the air of a chalet
Don't curse at Jay, I don't want to go early, but it's the first two rounds that make me
a little bit excited.
Yeah, it's definitely positive, I think is the best way to frame it so far.
Four orchid.
Probably looking at the likes of Seal now, especially with the shell on Skopros to have
potential influence in this round, he can maybe afford to be a little bit more aggressive
bit more aggressive and then find himself in a cutoff position able to then transfer back.
He'll probably just be biding his time for now to find that window of opportunity to
regress down below maybe flank west main as the push is spearheaded from that western side of the
map. You had to play a close angle here P1A double. Won't have much of an option but to push back
and fortunately he made that decision decisively otherwise we'd have got caught on the window.
He's got a good raid, so he knows where the Monty is, he knows there's one playing behind the Monty,
and he knows there's one outside that loyally hallway windows. That's three players that he's got info from.
Pretty clear picture right now painted in his day-star in terms of this is going to be
that office across, they want to get library control, but even with that information speaking
of office across, BG Man still gets to kill anyway onto Azuki, the ward goes down,
and forces Yow to have to reposition again. He catches our piece. Good reposition from Yow
moving around. Originally he wanted to play over towards Pagana, their top library, their
bottom library. Now he's in mud. Jay's going down. Tay starts fighting back in this second round.
But eventually Yow lost his life in mud. Seal dies over towards Mens. He's just by himself.
And Suflate, by himself down, of course, to what he thought. We never even saw sight. That's the
distracting things that they started this round. It's bar games. Force them to have to play bar games.
Force them to have to go big window, go for plans or clear the library, fall back, keep bar stop control.
They didn't do any of that. Oh, this is so winnable. First player's alone. Flash doesn't land. 15 seconds.
No kit. 12 seconds as he said. Kit will be left behind. They have to go hunting. At this point,
you have to start running. One will have to die to force out the info. Never mind, no one has to die.
They get me the kill boy. Did they almost drop that bundle or could get their second round?
Yeah, BG man with a good read there to net the final kill prior to that
He got gifted to freebies playing the office belt position
We saw initially the warden mispositioned and he caught the scope post on the run across
The clear above there was probably a little bit too easy
easy. They start making a couple of key errors in that round and open the opportunity there
for Orcid. Who despite things then getting a little bit dicey at the end with defuser
dropped and both players already committed down below they had a good enough read to
net the final kill, secure the round and I think very much at this point in time securing
a good start here to this first map of Shallow.
Yeah, you could answer a better start.
Peeps the new starman in this Asia, reaching back to back, opening kills.
The Dodger's stat, but full zero as well to start from PG, man, is uh, where you're gonna get a little bit extra firepower.
They can't just be Peeps and Crypt J, they're gonna feature quite heavily.
BG man 12th rated player coming into finals, always rated player in the series unfortunately
are Solotic and Yao considering the roles that they evidently play that makes sense
That's the reason why they're there to facilitate, they're there to support, they're there to
help out and see not to be the star man.
So what can they start to do to respond?
So far not good enough here on Chalet.
Defense has looked a little bit at hazard, giving up a lot of good position.
We see Kishen dining for the first time now here in the third round, so they're going to
go all three sides.
Again Monty for the third straight round.
Now the only thing is they didn't ban Blackbeard, they didn't ban Blitz.
So at this point, do you even ban the Monty when there's still so many other shield ops available anyway?
Or do you just have to find a way to deal with it?
Yeah, I mean, probably most likely ends up being the Ying, I would imagine after this round.
Its impact hasn't probably been truly felt just yet, but when you combine it with
Glazing Grim, that's probably the most typical ban set.
Things will infrequently just take the one shield out, it's very unusual.
Imagine if they banned Monty, but then I'll get banned the ward and then keep playing the yin that could have big ramifications. Yeah
Speaking of the yin so I'll take it's a few candellas ready
Lovely shot from Sufley like all this probably didn't need to go pistol
And a 5v5 still with a lot of time in the round could have tried to get someone else to play off his shield entry towards trophy
But he went for the pistol he went for the solo play and it backfires now the Monty's been dealt with
They start get their first opening kill all of the match and
Still hold good ground inside of the site
and also
The entire map because there's no one from walking in the building and as soon as Chris J wants to make entry
Because gonna shut that down immediately
peeps though at least he's actually through month successful get through the pika keeps
the round of life for orchid peeps now up to four and two still got two candles from
sir waltzik to help out bg man and peeps but time starts to look a little bit more dicey
for the attack yeah just one clamp low currently for defense but that's not really too much
Trouble on this kind of site
Pretty simple to establish ver. One to the default and so Daystar will sit back be patient wait for that eventual push
And then inevitably when it probably doesn't come can reposition in a more forward position for the denial
It's just really important here that souffle doesn't die completely for free if you could store that even a little bit of time
Find at least one pick it should be round over
There are no shuits in Asia
BG man will have to go for the plant.
I assume if like Tusk go down, does this open up space for BG man to try and stick this
inside a dining?
And no, he's going to get instantly denied.
The only peeing easy clear from the top floor.
Daystar will get their first round.
Orc just ran out of bodies really and ran out of time.
Did okay to bring that back to 3v3.
Got the plant down, had a chance.
But more activity from Daystar early in the round nets them their first round.
Yeah, I mean it was certainly one of the more uninspired attacks we've seen though from Orchid, right?
They gave away two free kills with two jump-ins, just with no assistance, no utility, no follow-up for a trade.
They were pretty low percent plays, and maybe they've been lulled into a false sense of security,
because the first couple of rounds Daystar haven't been able to contain it rather.
Uh, yeah, band's a bit of a shock.
Reaction from you, the Monty actually does get taken out as opposed to the Yings.
It is the single shield band, which is very interesting.
And then Milusia on the flip side, which has only been played on the one occasion, background
three.
Interesting.
It does compliment the thorn in trying to take away some of that anti-blur.
I mean, the Milusian isolation is not an awful band, but yeah.
The multi-bend is quite surprising, to be fair, multi obviously as a shield off does play differently to the way that Blitz and Blackbeard play, that goes without saying, they're not like for like just because they hold shield in front of their face, but as I said, it's the only shield ban, and so you still have alternatives if like Hollis wants to go onto the Blitz or the Blackbeard, he can do that if you want to run both, you can run Blitz and Blackbeard, seems as if though they're not going to run either of them coming into this fourth round unless there's a very last second swap.
I call this now hovering over the doccabee instead.
Selotic will once again go back onto the ying as he did the opening three rounds prior.
And the trap utility brought into the misround from Daystar belongs to Pico on the yellow.
Seal with the EDDs, the cap can trap.
Traps have been placed who flayed with the Nari tripwire connectors.
I guess you could even somewhat count the F dot mines as trap utility.
I wonder though, based on the lineup that we're seeing for Daystar, how aggressive they'll play off-site.
A lot of these sort of open holes that there's tripwire connectors everywhere.
The EDDs will be placed a little bit more off-site.
This would have been a really good round for a twitch.
Yeah, it would have helped.
It'd be interesting to see how Orc could look about trying to enter the map last time again.
Previous round, two jump in's, no tradability, etc.
This time I do have the double info gatherer so we'll see if that changes the plan significantly
they might be able to go a bit more heads up, a bit more front on in this approach and
sort of systematically flush out this defense, now contesting meds with impact, counter utility
onto the Hibana, of course can deploy catch to try and benefit fortify his position.
Oh that's unlucky timing, he probably needed a little bit of help but he just wandered
over again and BG man had played this exact position back in round two and the
warden gave away his life for free so they start just but I just forgotten
there's the window but that has to be a comms issue because he's playing by
himself man as he can get some help someone can swing from why we've always
just watched the big window so that he can cross otherwise it's just dead there
anyway
opening kill for awkward once again but seal shuts down crit jay crit jay a
a little bit quiet so far in the opening four rounds just the two kills like
Holtlers too will go down to the hands of people they start starting to fight back
they're starting to get a little bit more involved here on Chalet on the
defense getting a little bit more comfortable no Monty to have to deal
with now and Orc it's pacing to now it's on the back foot because they're not
finding these kills as they did in the opening two rounds this 40 seconds left
to 4v3, Solotik now has to aggress forward. He does. Finds the kill on to smooth flight.
Next one is so important. Azuki just barely stays alive. Pizz goes down to Soda's BG man.
Cued from Azuki. It's all down to Solotik. Needs to find the next kill. Very, very quickly. 20
seconds doesn't leave him a lot of room. He won't even be able to get the fuse left.
Smoke misses. All shot at survives. 10 seconds. So he goes to the plate now.
I think really what SILK can do from below.
Pika's going to push out from Solar Plant.
Will not be successful.
Pika hits the headshot.
Two in a row to Daystar.
They've responded after their time out.
Actually, they didn't take a time out.
I don't know why I said that.
They very sure to be honest.
In a burnt one.
Just never happened.
It feels like it.
Two in a row to Daystar.
They take Kitchen Dining and Bedroom Office,
which will likely see us go back to Barg games.
And that's around that Orc could basically go to free kill on to Gow as well.
And if so, what he does aim to stick that kid there, he's dead every time.
He gave himself the 1% chance of maybe a popup headshot, restick, but.
didn't connect, all tied, going into the fifth round, two to two.
Yeah, Daystar have done a good job to equalize and I would still make the assessment that they haven't played anywhere near their best so far over the course of this map.
The last round, a good example where two of their initial picks against, they got shot on the back or they got shot on the side.
They weren't front on facing contact.
They weren't 50-50 gunfights.
They were just mis-coms or a lack of information
leading to free kills for Orcid.
So that does just wave a small red flag for me
at the moment that Daystar aren't 100% comfortable
on Shalei at the moment.
And I understand Luso.
It's not their map pick.
So I don't know if they're too hard,
but they are the favorite team by a pretty significant margin
in this matchup.
So we'll see if they can continue to tidy things up
2-2, they've been able to bring it back, we'll see again the scope post to be deployed here.
Seal having played it previously on two occasions.
Well interestingly, Chalet sits dead middle in terms of attack and defense win rate percentage,
51-49.
In the Asia region that's as close to 50-50 as any map is in the pool.
as we said it two to two it means that I don't think I the team is really good at
full grasp of this. Peebs took a small amount of damage.
It's the big one here can you drone out seal? It's like you will. The scope is
spotted towards Blue Hallway in basement with information obtained for
Orchid. These are the games for this fifth round. So for Daystar, to have the Scopals in
Basement, that means there's one less on this very structured bombsite. Halfway through
the round. It's basically almost like a 2-2-1 split where you've got, well now Seal's actually
made his way back up top. There's four on the top floor. Right now for Daystar because
of the transfer from SEAL. While we're drilling the slottest round that we have seen so far,
Minute 36 previously in the last two rounds was the checkpoint,
and it may well be two minutes into the round plus that we see the first pick in this one.
There's all good luck to chip away at map control. Structure from day start on defense,
still sound. This could be a big moment. Yeah, I went searching. Peeps probably should have
to capitalize on that opportunity was no margin so yeah start time to start
sending out these payload calls as well if you peeps had for such a long time
still one line scan available that's gonna go out now from like call us who
flies gonna be the first death good trade from seal inside a library he
switched back up from basement earlier in the round yeah I'll ate the cold
Peter's gonna eat a bullet for the head from Salotic he started well trade
though from Suzuki they start keeping this top floor control that means for
awkward you've got to make a decision off for the clear or go straight to the
You kind of have to do both because the kit still needs to be
Reobtained at the feet of paves he now grabs it and got the free kill as well talk about two for one
If you're awkward there you got the kill got the kit still one though on this first floor and now seal has also transferred back to basement
He's gonna come up by a place there's he can come into bar seal could win this round if y'all doesn't move
Seals are gonna be watched though by PG man. So yeah does need to move he needs to converge
He gets the knife kill wonderfully played from pay star
good comms because I think the real plan probably was for seal to push up from
fireplace he got caught he got trapped so he's comms to you out you need to push
out you need to stop bar
yeah doing a good job to convert there and yeah I'll make sure with the knife
they star have found some form towards the back end of this half after what was
a little bit of a slow start and I think that we're still seeing them just warm up into the match.
They're looking significantly better as we start preparing for the sixth and final round of the half
and a pretty decently spread performance from Daystar so far. They'll be pretty pleased with
team effort that they have been able to put in. Ever to dining for the final of the half,
we've seen success for Daystar on this site previously. Pretty dominant with throw up at the end.
Yet to see a 1vx across this map so far. There have been several rounds there with just two
alive so it has been quite close so far. I think the most disappointing takeaway there for
Orkut is across the last two rounds, BG, Kurt J opening kill, one was at a minute 36, the other in that last one, 43 seconds and they weren't able to convert either.
That lack of conversion could put them in a tricky spot from the halftime break.
Interesting, we saw that wonderful graphic that just popped up, top left, shout out to Prod, but right now in terms of opening kills, which is what that statistic was about, that's been heavily in favour of Orkut.
They've got four of the five rounds.
That's two rounds straight now.
They've not actually been able to convert.
That's low percentage.
So they've had opportunities here on Chalet.
It's also going to be the first time that BGMM will not play
Striker in the half.
He played it five times straight.
Now goes on to the ace.
The big change up actually in terms of composition.
Four orchid, they bring so fear.
Nomad for just the second time, Ace for the first time, Deimos just for the second time.
So it's a big change in philosophy in terms of the operator lineup.
On the flip side, the odd pool for Daystar has actually been quite significant as we
get a quick entry.
That's a wonderful clear from Crit J. That's one thing that's probably been missing just
ever so slightly for Orca.
power of Cripp J. He gets his second opening kill straight. It's also again a hugely dominant
statistic for Orcid in this half. Five of six rounds have got that first kill. Can they capitalize
to tie it up three to three?
Yeah, we'll see. It feels like a pivotal moment in the match, or at least this map in isolation
for Orkut they need to be capitalizing on these advantages and none more so than this round.
Yelp aggressively repositioned trophy in the corner this will not be a suspected position
but a good drone. Little flushing out mid air. Mid air kill. Skit shooting. Oh shot the back from
a ball of BG man gets an angle. Yelp has struggled a little bit I think with positioning so far in
this first round that's been a downfall. The biggest problem for Daystar so far in defense has been
positioning. They are giving free ins back into the round for Orca. It's happened several times now.
There was so low time remaining in the round.
Rememberably now means that for Orca to lose this, they too themselves will have to make
some positional errors, make some poor decisions.
Well, there's a freebie from Peeves on to Peek-Up. I don't know what Peek-Up was really
doing there, but at that point, of course, when you're so low on defenders, you just can't have
every entry position covered. Plant will be successful. We are tied. What a round from
Orca three straight after winning the first two rounds of this half. They make it a three to three half.
Yeah, look, I think this is the kind of performance that we were hoping for, right? Like nothing that's
completely out of the ordinary. They're not blowing. Correct. Sorry. That's more what I'm
I'm leaning into. I just don't want to blow out. No matter what happens, I want to keep
things close for this one at least.
I think Penguin and I were pretty disappointed when this matchup between these two teams
Daston and Orc. It was so cut and dried in the group stage because it was personally
one of my most anticipated games. I think everyone expects way better to do well on
the BO1s. But yeah, I thought these two would be the best challenges. I know I've always
had a soft spot for Thailand because of back in the day, how well these players like Colus
and I know I know I know I know and did it back in the day
But they have fallen off. They've really been overtaken by the likes of day star and and waybo and I think in this game
Yeah, few good moments from Walker. I think they look better than souls hearted earlier
But can't and I day star just have a way of stealing rounds back in and that's the thing
I think that sets day star apart from a lot of other teams is even if technically in terms of strats or other like hard facts
Like they don't necessarily have the five best frackers in Asia
Don't necessarily have the five biggest brain plays, but they're just so persistent. You can't let your guard down
Couple of rounds of defense they won because of that. You know that late 2v2 on bar
There was a similar 2v2
Where was a player down below defending plant was going up near the bed in master bedroom
I mean, yeah, and also sorry you're talking about the the hipfire wall bang from a pump
Yeah, like so many moments where like day-star you're just like you probably shouldn't be winning this like all could have done most of
things right but they are just so insistent. I guess that's the problem isn't it, Nick? When you look at
especially Asia as a region, the inconsistencies that we've seen with the two different teams,
well not just the two different teams but most of the teams that we do have competing,
I reckon we can say Waybo is an exception to that but there is always that element that when we get
into a best of three, when we get into important matches where it's due or die, we actually don't
know what to expect and that's it's a beautiful thing but also it's a little concerning sometimes.
It is concerning, and it's not just consistency in the individual performances, also in map
video and map pool depth, we have teams in ASA and APL that can play maybe 3-4 maps very
comfortably at a high level, but then you go into best of 3s or 1-2-3-5s, when you get
very deep into the map video pool, all of a sudden they have maps that they never played.
They don't have strats on, they couldn't take most teams on either.
We all see something like a clash in a montage as being two very pivotal operators that can
completely shape a team into like, extremely good when the gattlesaw is available, but when they get
banned against them, they have like no secondary layer of operators that can kind of carry them
into a round. So consistency is by far the biggest thing for both of these two teams.
I do feel like the end of the half here is a bit of a hard reset for both teams. The way that Daystar
were playing very reactively and loosely on those defenses, it's just not the same game as when you
you've slipped onto the attack. What's more, Daystar haven't played Shelly at all so far,
so Orca they're not going to have any voids on understanding how they want to attack.
And we've just seen a double trap ban as well, and a double info ban on the attack.
It's a Weibo special. Yeah, very much the Weibo special on this map, Daystar. I'm excited
to see if they're cooking something a little bit cheeky, because I think that's the way
that they come out of the gate swinging here against Orca. Real aggression, real set plants.
the fact that it's 3-3 here, Pengu, which team would you take if you were going into
the second half?
If you were a betting man, who were you backing in this one?
That was a betting man.
I do think it's a hard call.
I will favor Daystar a little bit here.
I'm looking at the current Op-er lineup and seeing the Grimm capitals sense.
They want to play for Execute.
When we've been watching Daystar for this entire tier stage one, they have been so incredibly
strong when they get to like a 5v5 attack.
They got all their strong operators alive, and they can use the fire, the smoke spend, the flashmaps, etc.
They'll do school for a bomb site plant.
Orchid, what they need to do here is play Sporals.
They need to disrupt Daystar from getting to a 5v5 late round positioning, and try and get some early picks.
I honestly, I just want to say TeamWalker do it.
I want to say them back themselves into this map, and headed to Lair with a little bit of my Mansum,
Spakie of my Mansum. How about we shift back to the commentary desk?
I kind of get the vibe from Ignir on the death very split in terms of the decision making
as to who's going to go and win this and naturally 3-3 score line.
There's a part of me in the back of my head that's kind of like, well, this is somewhat
reminiscent of our first series today back on board, a 3-3 half, we're a little bit hyped
up.
I don't know if Daystar had the same capabilities as Wayvo to just go and win 11 of the next
12 rounds overall in the series, but Daystar certainly have the credits in the bank to
Let's back them in from here. So it's up to Orc, it's still now going on to defense their mapping to
Yeah, it certainly play well in the next few rounds
Dg man's been leading the way seven kills. He is the
Lobby leader peeps not too far behind the six crit jay with five
So if Orc could say they're kind of getting what they want in the series with those three performing
Now noting the band's evolved an Ari Thorne first time day start will ban out the Thorne this stage on
On chalet orchid first time dull ban out the doggie snake as well has already seen a couple of appearances
But very similar like for like operators PG man opportunity presented
It would have been another free kill for orchid presented by Daystar and it would have been onto the cap
They didn't capitalize though. You lose the cap there the whole strategy gets unraveled
Yeah, it's kind of what Nick was talking about in terms of execution
Imagine you just instantly lose the capital doesn't help not yourself to be fair could have a capital's name gets shot out
good reaction time
Bgman thinks about pushing forward here. It's probably not needed
able to get back but on one HP was that little wonder worth it
No, not really. What is the answer that was quite a rhetorical question?
Pressure on Salafi gave it a little piano grim bees in his position, too
He's playing this quite well and Salotic's actually played really, really well so far in this game.
Nobody really cares the way it's based off.
Salotic's still just holding this position.
Should know, of course, his position is known.
Just sitting inside off the Grim Vs.
But he hasn't panicked.
He actually pushes, he aggresses, takes the battle with Beaker.
But he doesn't quite win it.
Still holding this position and finally gets a bit of help from GritJ inside a bedroom.
There's only 20 seconds left, by the way, and they still haven't cleared out Salotic.
He has held this ground inside Piano, Pika starts to make his way in now
They've got a Zuki at the half wall, but does he feel comfortable to plant now?
He does he's going to kill onto seal so long they go for another swing this time Pika doesn't lose it as the Zuki falls to
Below y'all has to grab the kid. He needs to stick it no time remaining
Y'all can't put it on to the floor and all good are gonna take the round Wow
that's a robbery from awkward from that position when all of that utility was
laid by the grim piano was boxed out they had their opportunity to push into
the site maybe tempt fate with default and go for the backup with a deep push
if they then identified that the solos was in position for denial below by
stalling out and not pushing they didn't give themselves that window for the
plan B even if they had been in a position to plant against the
horizontal protection, which ultimately they were, but you know the backup plan for when the souls ultimately denied
So that was pretty disappointing for day start to kick off their half in that fashion when they had everything laid out in front of them
Advantages position utility layered. They didn't capitalize. They stall out
They don't consider the souls down below and if they did it was only half considered
They didn't really invest fully into having a trade potential below or avoiding it entirely
There are some big holes in that attack into the credit of all could they were able to capitalize?
That bedroom office in the first half was a 1-1 split, so Orc had won it on the attack
and Deistar wanted it on the T-fans.
The average time of opening kill was a minute 50 and a minute 36.
That round was 44 seconds, for a far slower pace, although it was Deistar that did at
least get the opening kill, it didn't really change too much.
Interesting as well, when we were earlier on in this match, we were talking about the
entry statistics and we saw that wonderful graphic.
Since then, three of the last four rounds, the opening kill has actually not been converted.
Here we're talking about low percentile rounds being played out where there's a lot of these
4v5s bringing rounds back. Two of those from Daystar now, one of those from Orcid.
And they take the lead, 4 to 3. And it's been a game of runs. Orcid won the first two, Daystar then
three, Orcid now two. Not a lot of back and forth round by round, but certainly the momentum has
has shifted at various times.
Oh, geez, that shot from Beaker.
I think BG man thought he was maybe gonna be able
to pre-fire that angle and while he did get his shot off,
he wasn't close to hitting the way that Pika did
against BG man, opening pick again, four day start.
Didn't convert into previous round,
we'll see what they can do here.
Bar games, it's a good start.
this is the site where, to our side, it's the numbers that you can have in these set structured
positions and so that's one less that means there's going to be a gap somewhere where that gap is
depends on what Orc could want to do in terms of their positioning and considering they still
have peeps in basement, or there's going to be a timing, and the timing indeed, Suflay stays alive?
No, no, no, no, no. That was the whole reason for peeps to be down there to maybe catch one and
and then be able to play a flank position later either up fireplace or up library.
Sufla is going to get out of here alive surely.
Oh, well finally a bit of luck goes the way of Daystar in this matchup where the timing doesn't
quite net a kill for Orcid. And so they'll continue to have that advantage, continue to have
that gap in the defense to exploit. There's two players basement at the moment. Daystar,
if they're going to fight to be the best team in the region need to be able to identify
Almost three with West Main Stairs being held by like Hollis. I mean this is bar games
Like they should be no one inside second floor bang. Where is it? Get that controller yet?
60 seconds
There's literally no one in sight right now for orchid on the defense and there's a minute left into the round
Clearly they start don't have that information
This should be the easiest default window plant you have ever seen there is nobody above for the defense
No one above no one inside either
Daystar just looked very apprehensive here, they must be lacking an immense amount of
information.
Shot drain bastard.
So you have to play up that info, drop hatch and get the plant down.
Free beyond to Solotik who decided to stay, still Critchey will now rotate up Fireplay
stairs like all is into games.
I think you should be able to get this game.
That's a wonderful shot.
On to Seal.
Trade was there from P.
They had the numbers and Critchey a little late to the party and he dies out to Yow off
the vendetta and that was some kind of round.
they're making a way more stressful than it should be.
I know they probably had a lack of info.
Eventually they did gain it from the shock drone,
but that build up when second floor was vacant
for like a 30 second pocket,
the new at least one was below.
I think it was a minute, it was a long period of time.
They really took a long time taking that library control.
They could have routed default window.
So taking it above to the hatch
probably caused some initial problems.
Then eventually they got information
and then it was gonna make it very tough
in the post in 1v2.
So ultimately well played from Daystar.
look as definitive if you plug a way bone to that situation for instance just the point of reference
and again it's one slot region it's a fair comparison you put way bone that situation they
would have had top flow in the first 10 seconds it would have been planting in the next 20 yeah
that wouldn't be messing around and that hesitancy from day start is why it's so difficult to make a
case that way boat aren't going to be the ones to take the slot in this area I also think it's fair
to be critical if it was due to a lack of information when you say we got drones for a reason how did
you use those early on did you use them well enough you know where you're efficient with your drone
usage, etc.
Now four to four, right?
We've got four. We have a game. We have a game. We'll see whether it's on our hands or not.
I think it's somewhat largely dependent. It's on Daystar.
It's on Daystar because if I'm gonna be honest, I think Leia should be Daystar's.
Yeah, I think that should be their map. I'll go and get some data on it very quickly, but especially if they're looking to play more
Execute Heavy and that's the baseline and that's the more comfortable style of siege that they've got to try and execute today.
player is naturally going to favor them and I think Chalet just due to the
nature and some of the low potential for the defense in the unexpected
positions much like that last round they didn't quite look as cozy and
comfortable in that kind of thing. So 7-4 record 4 day start only banned it a
single time themselves banned against them eight times on the flipside for
August 3-1 record actually they beat Elevate 7-3 three weeks ago but
they've banned it three times themselves only banned against them four times so in
In terms of preference, it's much higher, four day star.
Doesn't mean it's a given, but considering it's their map
picking all of the data, it does suggest
that it's a strong map for them.
It's difficult to predict how this one's going to play out
from here though, all time heading into the ninth round.
It's gonna be a solo entry for Yao on the glass,
seal opening to go on to like call this quick trade,
so imminently by Crit J.
Yow yet to find anything on the glass as a yellow ping to play off here. He doesn't see anything and then why?
You almost shot out the the club stone for a split second
Good play finds a double needed that one is so lots. He found a kill over towards closet
He gets tagged up. It's been a good game from
Solotic yow's going for the plate inside of dining and picked up the pace this round. They start to go
walk it off the gun. Not only did they win a lot of the gunfights, but they were able to get straight into the site,
get the plant down, and maybe that might have been off the back of the previous round where they were so slow.
They start to pick up the pace. They take the space of order to them.
Selotic yet another kill. He makes his way in towards dining.
He might just test them here. Get on the kit of which he will. Yow now has to swing. Make contact.
Lovely headshot! It's on the crit, Jay! Is there time? Oh, Yow makes a huge play!
Stone called in his face expression as well.
Daystart desperately needed that round.
They go 5-4 up, they take the lead.
That was a big moment and finally we see a really decisive round from Daystart
at least in their initial conviction on the push.
Maybe that tempered a little bit given how close it got in the post
but their ability to push forward, dominate the opposition
and they planted so fast it didn't allow for Orchid to react
act and establish vert and try to deny the plan it all happened in the blink of an eye and they quickly
had to then transition into post almost worked out they leveraged these army pretty nicely to give
themselves a little bit of a potential buffer there was only about a second second and a half in
it in the end but those fine margins going the way oh there you start you know have the lead 5 to 14
or good to call their attack time out.
At this point though, again, the storyline persisting that they start just
at the moment slightly better. There's that guy right in the middle,
it's the Harambe himself.
I think I like about Harambe though, it's just very candid. He
is probably the client of coach that will just straight up tell them if they're
playing like crap or they're playing well or the things that they can do
better, but he does it in a controlled manner. The me doesn't seem like the kind of person,
I mean I don't know what it's like in scrims, ultimately behind the scenes, but it doesn't
seem like the type of person that would be screaming and yelling. They start to retake
the lead, last time they had it they were up 3-2, I mean into the sixth round since then,
Orc had then tied it up, retook the lead. It's not like I've had to claw their way back, of which
which they have, 10th round coming up, 5-4 out of the time out, but also with the bands,
Clash Ying taking off the board, Clash is intriguing to me as it has not featured in
this game at all, first half, or second half.
Yeah, it is the third highest band for the day star twice across the stage, equal with
the Fenrir, so take that at face value, clearly something that they're just not happy with.
The Fenrir has been played.
Yeah, the Ying on the flip side, that is the first ban.
Or the Ying that we have seen so far from Team Orchid,
means that the Grim, which is their most banned attacker, will remain.
I'll tell you one thing though that this series has surprised me a little bit is the fact
that Yao, he made that big play in the last round, so lost six, six and five as well.
So they're the two lowest rated players for their respective teams.
They're actually playing quite well.
And I think that's probably been, certainly for both Orc and Daystar, you think of them
in comparison to the likes of Waybo.
Waybo are a core five that you're pretty content with how everyone's performing.
two teams, it's easy to look to well how has Yao fit in? Clearly Binbin didn't
work, clearly that you know the loss of Joko and when he was on his prime they
haven't quite been able to fill that hole. Solotic on Orca, there's been question
marks on his position in that team. The Ryze, the Pigeon, Grip, Jade, do they need
someone else? But they're standing up both of them. Yao and Solotic for their
respective teams in this match. Higa leads the way now with nine kills, he's
improved in the last couple of rounds, couple of open kills, a 3k as well back
Good round, A.
They started just starting to get their hands on this game.
Three straight rounds, they've got the opening pick.
They only had one in the first half.
Yeah, peep select and gamble over to what basement?
Sootic.
Onto Yow, funnily enough.
You couldn't rush back into existence.
Onto the Maverick.
How much is that going to play a factor?
There are tin cans for a souffle.
takes away the the stock threat now so Orcid have identified it's the Maverick
Locolas will be jumping up and down he means it can sit here risk-free if he
replays it that result. Volstice's position has nitro as well for double
window. It's a pretty big win for Orcid and it may well be a large part of
Daystar's plan down the top.
He gets just gonna sit in the margin for now. I hope someone comes his way.
Zuki got one on the crit, Jay, but BG Man was there for the trade. Top library.
I don't think that's really gonna be enough of that stuff. They need something else when they get it.
From Sufley. Peeps down Basement again. They catch him. They know that Peeps likes to roam,
and they tie it up 3-3. Still 60 seconds. Peeper then gets rid of Lycolus.
Despite the start to the round for Orc, again, it's falling apart for them in the mid-round.
That's where they're losing a lot of these rounds.
Yeah, like, Hollis will be disappointed that losing out on his valuable position.
He doesn't quite win this one. Don't blame him. That was a bit of a heat check.
He's had a good game. He goes for the swing.
That would have been a really defining moment to bring it back to a 2v2.
Unfortunately, though, with that loss, it's now a 3 vs 1 day start at Gottside.
They know that BGM is going to be playing library.
That will mean hesitation though in playing big window on the push-in.
Because of BGM's current location, then here comes Seal through piano.
And they can lay utility as well. So BGM is putting a compromise.
Is it shot down here, Woody?
Oh, you might have to.
No.
I'm able to avoid the frag grenade, but it does mean he can no longer watch the hatch.
Sooflake is into games with the kit. He'll start to stick this now.
They're leaving it very late. In fact, it's going over the bar because they've got seal for the cross library
VG may can't get to bar to deny because seals watching really well played from day start didn't panic because of the time
They were able to reposition knew they couldn't go big window into game
So they go the long way they go to bar seals well set up six ball
They start navigating a little hazard course
They cut it a little bit fine though at the the plant attempt. I was getting a bit nervous
plant having to run through a banshee there at the end meant it was
actually pretty fine margins and miss click could have led to that round not
being secured but positionally structurally it was pretty sound at the end
with good coverage from that piano side. Well it was either that or you forced
SEAL to push and fight 1v1 and as that fight starts to happen we go big window
and I think that's more risky. They're both risky but I think they took the
better option just cutting close on time so two opportunities now for they start
to close this out and I guess you sort of beg the question where does this come
from because again like our first series of the day 3 3 half all could start it
even with the first two round wins they looked lively they still look lively to
me they start have now won three straight rounds that they've also won three
the last four opening kills they've gotten plant down twice in the last three
rounds. They're just winning a lot of the more objective based part of siege. I think in terms of
raw gumbly, in terms of raw fighting, Orkut's been fine. If peeps dies, they lose a lot of firepower.
I guess the same can be said for Daystar with Pico. So 11 and 6 now, he's the only one to cross
double digits. Two opportunities for Daystar to take the map pick of Orkut, which would set them up
perfectly on the layer should be comfortable on that map
Yeah, I think a lot of those
Strategic woes will be definitely lessened on map number two, which means that all could have to find a different
Condition will strategically be sound themselves
possible
LibreSide stack here from Daystar with Fridge, Ion, Uselity, Contest, and Mez, but he looks to peel.
He'll reposition Piano and can protect himself with Catch.
BGM and DM, I could have liked to contest, but P2 will reinforce fall back that forfeit.
LibreSide to the attack and Daystar will take that pretty swiftly.
So peeps is playing the solos. He's met west main and the way that he's played so far this half defensively for orchid
He's clearly got that license to be able to roam around put him on the solos at that point
I like this play for orchids even get some information
Problem with this site though is informationally you should know day stars already got this sort of library meds control
They're gonna be pushing and opening up reach towards office
Peeps goes all the way basement now, back up West Main Stairs. Thought maybe for a second,
one of the places he's good to is eventually go Fireplace Stairs, if that's not being watched
properly. One of the weak points of this kind of attack, the suit plate just literally walks in,
and then sprints and catches Kretje off guard. They did lose seal behind him like
Hollis went down, so a lot of it, they all fall in. Peeps is in Snow. This is the one downside,
Now he's very late to the rotate comes up five play stairs like I said, but now too late everyone on site has been obliterated
Daystar are gonna make this a seven to four victory on
Chalet plant will go down. Yeah has been eliminated could peeps
Surely not. I haven't heard this story. I have not this story certainly not be a legend at best
This one's not in the playbook
And it's certainly not for a reason it's seven to four in favor of daystar
They were able to close this map out with four straight round wins. They now get the ability to close the series on that map pick of land
Yeah, doing a good job to stabilize there was some sketchy moments early in that match for day star
Teejee clear the couple of occasions were outmatched and orchid had a pretty good read
But as the game developed we saw day star just be a little bit better
And of course taking down their opposition back pick now put them in really good stead for this best friend
Unfortunately for orchid they now find themselves fighting a losing battle and they lost their map pick must now go to lair
It's a bit of a fortress if you will for day start. It's not gonna be easy for them
Let's go to a break when we come back the boys on the couch are gonna dissect everything
When I was in Thailand, I was in a tough situation.
Before Covid, I was in a tough situation.
I was in a tough situation at the first round.
When I was in the 4th round, I felt that it was a fun situation.
I went there and watched the game.
That's why I felt that this is a sport.
I feel that I can play well because I have a lot of experience from watching this game.
Because I've been to 3 or 4 or 5 games and I feel that I can play well.
My goal is to get the prize for the gold medal and I want to give it to my fans.
It's one of the things that I want to give to my fans.
The first tournament I played was the Rainbow 60, Operation League, and the first tournament I played was a tournament that I had to compete with.
The players that I was competing with were only me, Aesthetic, and the other players that I had to compete with.
From what I've seen, the team has always been a big part of the team, so I can see the sincerity of each and every team.
The team is very serious, and the players are very good, they are experienced, they have been fighting for a long time.
When I went there, I felt more fun and more serious.
If I had the opportunity to move to the team, I would like to tell the team that I am here.
Because of this food, I will be full and make my team better.
I think that there is a big impact on the game, especially on Kit J.
Because he is a very good shooter.
If he was shot that day, no one would stop him.
I think that there is a big impact on him.
He is the best shooter in the world.
I think that if I get to see him, I will do my best to not let him shoot.
I will do my best.
I think that Phoolie is interested in my team because I don't have any problems at all.
When Phoolie came to me, I was very happy to be with Phoolie.
This year, Phoolie has changed his role as a player.
He has hair, dark hair, handsome, melodrama, and beard.
My style is the same.
I'm still the supporting character.
And Dark is the second factor, and Balort is the third factor, and Pyramid is the third factor.
So this year, we will do our best and show what we can do.
I feel like when we are a team like K1,
I think if we do our best, we can feel that Ock will be disappointed because he is full of us.
If we don't do our best, he will be disappointed.
I will do my best and not make Pooley lose hope.
Let's put them in the ground.
Fall back!
Team 1, report.
Alive and wasted.
We'll not come with the other team.
We need to go for Nix.
They'll come in.
You cover her.
Fuck!
Off time.
Sending a payload.
Your corner, bitch!
Surrender!
I see one old man.
One old man about to die!
I think you'll find yourself three-whirling down.
Hack my phone!
Huh?
What is it?
Do it now!
We're thinking their things.
We trusted each other.
And we paid off.
I'm on a roofwork stretch.
Well, Pengu, once again, unfortunately, I hate to say it, but you were right, mate.
They start run away with the map 7-4, and they look really good in that second half.
We might have had a couple of doubts here or there, we were maybe questioning where
some of the rounds came from, but Pengu ultimately, they lock it in, and they look pretty good
doing it.
Yeah, I mean, what can I say, they're an attacker team.
I think it's so beautiful how much trust they're putting in the newest Rook and the
roster, Yao.
He's playing the glass, who's crucial for the execute, the setup, planting, and covering.
I feel like he's doing so many jobs individually, and he did not disappoint.
hours there, time and time again, making things happen most in the attack and side.
Yeah, I think it's really interesting looking at the way that Daystar have shaped their
team and their roster over the years.
It typically what happens in Siege is the more experienced you get, even if you started
out as a frontline Ash main, you end up in a more supportive role, right?
You end up being on the back line, you end up cooling the shots for your team and not
taking risks.
That's what typically happens.
But the two OGs on this team, Sufle and Pika, both had two opening kills each.
In fact, they were the only opening fraggers for Rosta outside of one kill from Seal.
And typically you pick up young aspiring talent who are good fraggers,
but don't understand the depths of the wind conditions and how to play off each other,
and you just kind of point and shoot them and then teach them the ropes.
Deistar have done the opposite.
They picked up 19-year-old Yau straight out of ranked, and he is immediately in positions
where he has to have a really deep understanding of the wind conditions.
He has to use U-Till that's quite complicated, like a Glyas,
and he has to play on that backline.
He's the one planting a lot of the time.
And it's given the freedom to the more experienced players to stop having to worry about that and do what they do best
Which is frag day star are such an anomaly in Asia, but it really works for it
It's it's really nice to say because we did we did have some concerns penguin
I guess probably when we were reshaping more toward like middle of last year
We're I mean they were coming out of being dire walls in a day star and they were looking I
Don't want to call it unstable by any means because I think that would be rude to say that
But I think that day star have certainly found their feet and and like they're saying you know
Like they don't they're not your typical team and especially in Asia. They're not your typical team
They're actually quite different. They're quite unique
But my question to you is moving over to a map like Lair now
now
How do you feel about this because I've always felt as though
So Daystar performed very, in my unfiltered opinion, they performed very well on smaller
structured maps.
Once we get to bigger open playing fields, I get a little bit worried for them.
Okay, I can see where you're coming from.
And I think Lair is one of the maps that is kind of misleading.
Because I also think of Mares, if it's a bit large map in terms of size, when you think
about the areas in which you're fighting and executing in the rooms of control that you
need to attack successfully is actually relatively direct. For top floor, you're gonna go for
frontal attack from upstream or back portion. That's a hallway or a hallway. You're very close
together. On the tertiary bottom side, it seems like I always cast this right. You pick up the
Monty, the Sins, you go with direct plant rush. On basement, you either go for a room clear top
down or a garage attack. So I feel like while Lair is big, I still think this is a place that can
play quite well into it and it's up to Orcid right now to figure out can they go for counter play
or can you just ban away those impoverished operators like your glass capital or a monty glass or a yin glass something like that?
Yeah, typically we think about small maps and attack a side of mouse. I think about border and border chalet and back in the day coastline.
But every now and then there are maps where they are technically big like bank and I would say lair falls in this category as well where while they are big ones can't understand them or that's a hot take because Consulate's the most defensive map in the pool right now and the most complicated map in the pool.
It is but it's a big map but think about top floor Tekken Consulate you either go
Yeah, doors your repel or you go admin you're fighting in the narrow area like this big map
It's a small area of contest and layer is very similar right like typically you go for our main stairs are an ops push
Or you go for a window and R6 room push and the main thing for me to
Want one about here is the fact that this is the map where me and think that we casted these guys go ahead to head
it wasn't close, Orcid just struggled to show up and Daystar looked like the far better team based on the result of the first map.
Sadly for Orcid, I think we'll see more of the same here.
Yeah, well the stats speak for themselves at this point, you know, both of these teams have won this map last time.
They played it, not against each other. Let me just make sure I'm clarifying that totally.
But it does definitely lean Daystar's way. 7-4 record going into Lair. Team Orcid, their backs are up against the wall.
the wall they could not lose chalet and now they must not lose layer otherwise it will go to five
and oh day star since stage two of last year let's go across to our incredible commentary
can i say hello oh no i'm gonna hold wait no okay well tango that was a very big reaction so i
actually don't care about the commentators that was a very big reaction from you shocked i don't
I don't know man. I see the demos for right. It was for the Cali T, the map control game, etc.
But I'm thinking Solid Snake, I'm thinking all the shield operators, I'm thinking there are so many pubs available.
I feel like Orcid have made their own job so much more challenging now.
Going for half execute and a half room clear in the Grimm in the demos.
Do you have any comments?
We're just opening this up now. Let me break into this. No, I can see that Jake really wants to talk.
Let's toss it to the castles, please guys.
I don't know, please Nick, keep going.
Sorry guys.
Is there anything else you'd like to add, Nick?
I'm done.
You're done.
I want to hear you guys talk now.
Okay.
Put a different contract to us.
Does it get paid by word?
I think it does.
I mean, you win a couple of hammers, maybe you can get that added to your contract.
Little bonus.
Let's head over to Le'er.
It's, look, second map of this series.
I think we framed it as we closed out Chalet.
That Daystar will go into this even more favourite than they did Chalet.
7-4 on the opening map and Daystar will start attack on Lair, looking for a chance at Weibo
9-2 early in that upper bracket final. The one good news for Daystar I guess when there
is only the one slot, you do get that first test at Weibo. The downside is you're going
to have to beat them once. If you do beat them in the upper bracket final, you'll probably
have to beat them again. It's probably just winning the Grand Final as the only one that
matters really. Top floor we go to begin. I do still think regardless of the scoreboard
for the first map, Orc had good play for the most part, but I'm often able to make something
out of nothing which I think is a condition that we can maybe see flourish here on left
Potentially they need a strong foundation though on defense
They start arguably will look more comfortable here on lair
We'll see how they look about breaking it down fucking place a third and mirror ops immediately contested or peeps again
That's a good sign. I mean he was lively on charlay. So for him to get the open killer here for orchid
He's the one that has been probably their best overall
Pg man get through the yow great start for the defense
You're gonna have a response
Definitely need to be winning top floor defense layer after losing the first map, but then so far so good
Get rid of the box. So you less pressure actually over the wall past the office
You think about the Azami can very much just freely play
where the BGVM wants probably to find the desk, wow. Okay, and then Zealot just gets a pistol headshot on some peeps.
Keeps the round alive, keeps it interesting. Double shield though for day start, I don't know if that's going to help or hinder.
We're going to get a kill from one shield.
I'm not a concern for the attack though, because the lack of guns may well be as long as Orca
maintain distance and lean into this utile appropriately.
I don't think there are too many problems in being able to confirm this round.
See, I'll go searching, Sioux Flay does have that DMR in hand, that's just a lot of off
guard.
And now the path towards R6 looks a little bit more promising.
You went early, didn't you?
Just a little.
No.
I didn't say they couldn't win the round. You didn't say it was not definitive to be fair
You didn't say that they couldn't win the round a crit J with him falling means for orchid
Maybe now they can't win the round. Oh, hold on. Well hold on indeed like all is getting a quick kill on Topeka
Oh flash in your face. How's that pistol play from the blitz?
Daystar go on and win the round guns. How does that even happen? So much went right for orchid the opening two kills
on defense top four there and they still go on and lose it baffling yeah that's a tricky one for
orchid to swallow they put themselves in a good position Sufley had gone up he got value from
the DMR that then weakened the arctic side of the hole and then to be fair they started to react
according to the starting closing on that portion of the map
His defenders then getting isolated one by one
And then a good idea to go for the kill con there again as well
I'm not take any second chances. So I pretty brutal start to the map for orchid and
They start
Get away with an early steal. Yeah, I'm on a very good side as well
If you get a steal one on this particular amount if you could take all four that's
that's a big one that's kind of again demoralizing if you all could
and it's not just because of that flaw but it's the way in which you lost it
you started so well you give it your opponent a chance back here and Laird by
the way sits at 54% defensive win rate although I will say interesting and I
I guess this is where it's region by region. The actual top floor.
Ever guess the stats for top floor layer?
Time to split.
Yeah, just to split.
60% defense.
That's 50-50.
Really?
From 30 rounds played.
It's actually basement at 70% defense of win rate in the Asia region.
And then Bunk's region sits at 60% attack.
So as we use the say on our again, it comes down to kids' thorns.
Well, apparently in this game it's going to come down to Master Six.
I mean this would be horrible if they all could lose a second defensive round to begin.
And then again, I guess now for this region, the most defended side of the site.
So intriguing line-up when you bring the orex, but you're playing in basement, you bring
the thorn goya where you can set a lot of this trap utility, then go up and roam, but
They're playing basement that it's a lot to choose actually got the nice to sell these playing armory at the moment
He's just gonna drop so five side
somewhat early in the round
Fortunately today started while they're bringing the ramp so they can actually get
Now play off these Boogie Auto breaches, place a pressure with the Dr. Payloads, and then you've got Execute Utility as well with the Capitale of Azuki, a couple of Prycranates from Soufflite on the Striker.
There's one Diffo last, one in the stock. The one that's third is off. It doesn't look like it the way that, like all this is cycling those Yo-Kai. So I imagine he's down to two.
still by the way form reasonable is for crit day yeah I mean he'll look to play that
reactively late he's went for a flank you've got court so well played day start to find
the opening round but that that crit day utility could be very interesting you could look to
dump that default and it may make the plan a little more precarious for day start currently
stack event side nitro misses reclaimed though by Salotic
Salotic's hold his own so far in this series trains it out all for the attack
of day start oh lovely headshot from Salotic okay the good times going as
Peter falls he gets a second it's the Salotic show apparently today for
Orcid. A 3v3 and Salotic again! This man cannot be stopped. A drop down kill from
Seal. It's traded quickly like all this gets the final two. That was Salotic's
round for Orcid. Yeah, it was. He played that foul position phenomenally well and
despite the U2 layering there from from Orcid unfortunately it wasn't really
enough to keep him at bay. Did a good job to reclaim the diffuser just a little bit
prior to that which was a little awkward but he was able to more than make up for that.
Awkward for awkward. Yes. So Bunk's briefing we go to next. This is the attacker-sided site,
the tertiary site funnel as well before the next bands will come through.
So what's it now, 10 and 8? Across the two maps, Pips the only one who's got more kills
than him with 11. Again, I referenced the numbers between him and Yao specifically, the start
of his series, the two lowest rate of plays inside of the server, what he's definitely
holding his own. Even for Yao, 7 and 8 across the two maps is performing. Greatest of starts
of the opening two rounds here on left. So three in the round four, Sir Lottick. Bunk's
briefing up next. Yeah, I was going to go onto the Montaigne, have his turn. It was
Peek you're in the open ground that plays the Monty
We're gonna see the scents again this round so it's indicative that they're going to look to go for the 5v5 execute
They get an advantage earlier than that sure that's that's great doesn't hurt
I'll be intrigued to see
What side they look to push because the scents can be used for the r6 jump in strat it can be used
to cover mezz as well at some of the longer angles if you do want to go
upside all that top floor clear or obviously most most likely to be invested
directly into the site, counter the warden. That's where the bulk of the
utility will likely be placed. Solo slow is a good backup option here for Orcid.
There should simply be a world in which they can identify where that plant goes
down if they don't catch the planter in that dash across.
That she is an interesting inclusion as well here from
Daystar catch nacho cells. Yeah, I just saw catch or seal can just look the target peeps directly
That could be a very intriguing strategy if they're able to pull that off a beam press
Here a trip from a salotic oh
No way
Now he gets now he gets ready out of brain fate not going for the trick
But he turned around yeah, I'm yeah for me and it's also the sense
And this is actually quite important because yes, it's a 4v4, but you've got rid of the sense
The sense is highly impactful when it comes to getting this plant down into more blocks
Big clear those from Pika over towards the bridge onto the solace
Well, the solace is highly impactful as well for identifying where the plant is going down
So they both lose two key pieces feels like we're playing chess and they just both lost the night
I'm gonna say probably guys five say that was for you James by the way
probably queens in this kind of to be on this kind of side side there's the
two most impactful operators lost so early just around playing going down from
azuki the covers there as well from the Monty all yeah nothing really to stop
this nitrous also won't really get a full shot anyway and plus you've got
hit by the Thatcher was there 40 seconds now into the post playing four
versus three so now yeah you've got top four control but you need to go down
below it's going to be the drop down through the hatch you also got yow in
post-plane on the Monty. Not a lot of utility for Daystar to be honest, it's just gonna be largely
gone up, hold the angles, the Zuki in to the shot, good trade from Lycola, still one Nitro
for BG, man. If they're gonna deal with the Monty, he's probably gonna have to beat from him,
but he stays on the top floor. I don't know what he's doing. I've been watching him on
the second monitor the entire time, and he's just been static. He's gonna drop the hatch now
and make his way down. It's a little too late, and he dies immediately. Lycola can't get this.
Daystar take the round. I get why he's doing it because of the re-aggress back above from Daystar
But you're at the point of the round where your solo player is never winning that fight
He needs help to be through if you win that fight and Daystar really take up above so be it
You've just got to take that risk. You can't be sitting a player above there. That's bad siege
Do one day start and they're looking pretty comfy bad siege indeed
One of the pants gonna be here
Because we've just gone through Bunk's briefing, I don't think you get rid of the Sends.
The Montee's probably the right ban and the Azami's not bad either.
If the Azami was only played on the opening round, top floor,
Miro could have actually been somewhat of a useful ban considering it was played on all three sites.
Yeah, and if you take the Miro out, it makes the Waldenov very, very, very difficult because it's kind of a trick.
And while ultimately they kind of half counted it in this round by shooting him in back
It did ultimately lead to the sense dying first. We think about this. I was gonna say that was a weird
strong on basement and strong on top floor
Yeah
I mean, so is this army? This is the thing is armies also very versatile and play it pretty much every side if you want
I think to better complement the kite in the band that they personally I probably deal with the mirror
And they haven't shied away from showing that they were in the trick
but to be fair on the on the top floor here we know as army has a lot of strength when it comes
to fortifying the A site a server site etc there's plenty of good barricades that you can place to
make a lot of the playable area a lot more expensive for the defense so at least on this specific site
daystar we'll be looking at capitalized.
I mean back to top floor of course daystar 1 and back of the opening round so all could
I'm gonna give their second guard this fun little stat so far three rounds in three opening kills that have not been converted
That doesn't happen often see or percent conversion rate for the opening kills here on the lair
That's obviously for both teams that have struggled in that department
But evidently based on the scoreboard it's two to one
orchid in the open
Once again, we see that mirror locked in by salotic
Funnily enough team Orcid are 18% higher than the league average when it comes to winning
the round after losing the opening kill.
They sit at 48% league average 31.
That's a decent little gap.
Change your lineup by the way for Orcid.
They don't bring the Goyo this time and of course with the Azami ban that's the fourth
changed and the unforeseen changes to the Goyo for interestingly the Thor.
Thor almost just lost their life in Lycola's towards Servo.
Replacing the Azami is going to be the Denari for Crit J.
And with the loss of the Monty, they now instill Seal on the Blitz.
But otherwise, largely the same lineup as well.
It's basically that they lost access to the Monty, they bring the finger to help facilitate
the rest of the team and certainly with the Blitz.
I actually kind of like to think of introduction for based on on this top floor the adrenal surge can help
Certainly for seal to push take mezz control if he takes a bit of damage you can heal that back up
The hours gonna obviously eventually get to work with the skeleton key
No one from what I can gather for all good will be contesting him horizontally
There's a nice room hands-on peeps there's that adrenal surge coming in handy back to full health
from the raised bloom and BG man just gets shot the butt because he thought he had cover main stairs
GritJ not only allowed the blitz of seal to push he gets the free kill because BG man thought he
was covered from main and then he turns around and kills the player main it's a double for daystar
5v3 now awkward are on the ropes and it's forcing out a play like that from like holas you're
Searching now because you're down players. This is a horrible round for all good seal found a gap
Took it and beat them down day stuff 3-1 up. Yeah, perfect that take
Sure it was made easier for seal than it probably should have been but he still capitalized on that window of opportunity
It's sure that he didn't falter
3-1 lead for day start starting to feel like it's on the verge for quite there yet
but it's the verge of spiraling it's on the verge it's getting close
i think you lose this one i think that's fully swirled it may well be
i just don't look to daystar on their map pick of lair where they've got
extensive knowledge tested in terms of overall
times they've played the map i don't think they're going to drop too many on the
defense
attackers need to locate worst case scenario here for awkward needs to be
that they start only get to four you get your second round and then who knows what can happen in the
the next half. Best case scenario is to get it to three three. If this goes five one it goes beyond
the worst case scenario the game's probably done at that point. And unfortunately for Orchard you
start man in crit jay's zero and four and again this is where sometimes the actual kill death
ratio doesn't really tell the full story but he kind of also rolls the calls for bgman's death
in that 3vs2 round. So that's not just a round where he didn't get it killed. He also kind of got
his teammate killed, but he died after that. It's been a poor one for him and for BGman being 1-4.
The three that were performing well for Orc and on Chalet are underperforming here,
now down 1-3. So you're getting as much as you're probably going to get out of him.
And same for like Hovles. It's on the big boys to now stand up.
Yeah, we returned to basement where Orchid were able to obtain their only win of half
thus far.
And that was the Salotic 3K round playing the mirror.
What has happened there?
I don't know.
Peeps has gone down super early.
Let's see if we can watch this one back ourselves.
Does he just get caught on a timing or is he...
Ah yeah.
At the window from Seal as Peeps wanted to make his way back down.
pretty simple cut off and most likely he's just got drone they need a vicinity of the area gets
a window cut him off dead and peeps gets punished and that's the other thing as well the beauty of
best of three you get a larger picture when you play best of three by now we played so much siege
in this game they know peeps likes to run around the map and know that he likes to be active it's
quite literally playing the oryx let's get into cutoff positions ban benefit immediately opening
kill obtained for Daystar and it leaves the remaining four firmly in the site
although BGman is wandering a little bit first floor
also like the finger again didn't play finger by the way out of all in the
opening three rounds day style and kept it hidden that now played it back to back and had had an impact in the previous round and
Certainly with those three adrenal surges for the eventual pushing to site should have an impact as well
Yeah, we'll see if they commit to the vent side this time around crit J aggro
He's looking to get himself in this map zero four star
we know the fragging potential that that man has been put in the right position with confidence.
50 seconds now remains, Util dumps inside, Crippche still searching desperately for something to
try and support BG man, pushes up. I don't blame him at that point, you feel like you've got a contest.
At least got that kill on to Gjav, by the way, speaking of Gjav, the way he was holding that
window position, he had the yellow pink in you, where that player was, left side window,
But he was holding top right that cost in his life and in the end like Hollis falls
Crit J has to get off this donut right here right now
They're gonna have any chance in this round to be falls not impossible
Oh, but it is now with the LMG of Pica the thinker
Change has been a huge boom for day star didn't show it in the opening three rounds
Or could ban the Monty we bring the fit the thinker we go from a slower shield play pace play style
We now bring the finger we've got far more aggression towards the site execute
This is forced a timeout in round number five. It's a four to one score line
This is an intriguing position
I feel like you don't see timeouts that often around this point close to half time when the coach can get in
Where the damage has already been done. You've given up three rounds straight. I would have called it probably the round earlier
I
Mean at this point
It's an all-in timeout that the reason you typically won't see it around five is because you get such a limited value
It's really only going to be relevant for one more round. Yeah, but
Basically need to be hitting that for two checkpoint if you want to stand a chance in the second half
Especially against your opposition Matt pick who are clearly playing better at the moment
So I I agree with this decision. I think all good at this point kind of have to descend it
I hope that this is enough to get there. No five ones. The five one is not gonna be winnable for two
They can potentially salvage
So this is a very very important round actually and also if they do win the round for two
We go straight into the halftime swap and so the coach gets to talk again
And so then it's like all right boys. Good job. You want it now. Let's talk a little bit more about the future
So actually don't mind it. We'll see if they're cooked up the post around five tack time now
We'll see if it works for awkward is three straight though for a star
They've started to convert on their opening kills. They've certainly had a really good read on this game
I mean when you look back at the last time these two played but the the most concerning thing at this point in time
is going to be that second half they played four rounds last time out when
awkward we're attacking awkward only one one round already trailing up to
starting on defense so they have in an extremely challenging position
still on that donut is not a good sight to see it hasn't been a big stage from
him though I want to think that he's like right
Isn't he like 30 something?
I think he might be. No, he's sitting 6. Is he? Oh my god.
For whatever reason in my mind I thought he chopped off a pistol at this stage. Okay, my apologies, I'm completely wrong.
Yeah, I was good. Okay. Yes, actually played pretty well though.
You like to think of Drogor. Drogor's 29. Yes. Yeah, he's chopped off a lot. Yeah, I think so.
But yeah, no, Krita is at a good stage, probably not his best stage that we've ever seen from him,
him but certainly a good stage. His weakest point is certainly the entry
percentage as Pika just walks through the barbed wire. Surely that got a bit...
This might be a kill on Solotic if he swings this hallway. He might not be
expecting the left side of this. The way he's holding this angle. By the way, BG
man falls anyway. Pika just can't overexpose left side. Solotic's
attention's been drawn away anyway but he does get the kill onto Azuki. Still,
space has been taken into storage goes Pika and it gets the kill onto Lycolus
And like Hollis is now probably wondering how is he being able to slip into this position, but traded back by Selotic
He's had a very very good half the young man is up to six kills
He leads for his team the lowest rated player on his team coming into this series is the only one
That's hitting shots three to three propels him into number one for the team in the series
Well, he has played phenomenally well this afternoon the rest of the team needs to start following that lead and take a bit of inspiration
They're young gunner who's had a rough stage is popping off the rest of the team need to lock in and follow and a good opportunity
Again for the likes of crit J and peeps as well underperforming now in a critical round in a three versus three
This is where you need to lock in
Deal with the spirit window peeps went for it
Well, he doesn't connect to the shots. He's still alive. Although maybe for the time being knows one of the doorway knows
There's one of the window
Well, you say he's trapped, he should be able to get out, he does.
Now, let's just calm things down a little bit, because they're still over a minute remaining in this round.
We're gonna have to bring this back and try again, and that's Daystar's motto.
They'll go up the kit, now they won't have the sends.
Sledge probably irrelevant at this point.
There is still two nitrosols available for the defense too, keep that in mind.
I love this position from Peeps.
He is in the best off-meta position to catch this attack off guard if it goes unchecked.
I like the position of the Alice Wall, there's something I call it.
Boy, while you're playing that pixel gap, you need to react quickly.
But they also now know that he's crossed back.
Doesn't- isn't a better position though for Nitro.
It does mean mask is a little vulnerable, Suflay, get through the beeps though.
From the courtyard breach, he finds the kill.
That's gonna have to force a lot of Concretejakes at action,
shouldn't crit Jayce, finally off that donut, can he find more?
Into mask goes Sufley looking for the plant, Selotic has that nitrocell in hand, as he
throws it out it doesn't connect and the plant will go down, watching from mezz E-Seal, a
big swing across from crit Jayce, but it's ineffective and Selotic cannot be that hero
again!
Daystar make it 5-1, the TAC timeout does not benefit for Orcid!
with the team. Yes. Jeez That
is devastating. If you are
team orchard. They are looking
like somewhat passengers in
this second map of where they
definitely have not got a
foothold like we had hoped,
but ultimately that's just the
way the cookie crumble.
Sometimes sometimes the team
is just better. But thank you.
Setting the tone here a little
bit. Should awkward have done
one five in this case. Sometimes you will find yourself being taken for a bit of a drive and
you just the passenger like you said you're sitting there going oh it's going too fast,
I don't like this, I don't like this, I'm panicking but you gotta do something to try and
alter that right. You grab the steering wheel, you try and hit the brakes, it feels like they're
just like letting them being taken somewhere right. They're being kidnapped and saying
I'm curious what this is going. I want to see if it's right and it shouldn't be. We're not seeing
the adaptations in the counter place. We saw a demo span that worked out great right because it
to spam capital against you.
It feels like they don't have a very clear game plan
going into it, and they're just kind of getting
a result based off.
Yeah, it feels like there's been a bit of a trend
between the two games we've seen so far today,
which is, what's the definition of a sanity that you do the
same thing over and over and expect a different result?
Well, you know, we've gone back to Lair here in this BO3,
and it's been exactly the same as when they played
in the group stage, except even worse for Team War.
And I mean, like, when we cast that game,
it was much of the same.
Like Daystar looked very well in control.
There was a 3K round from Critchey in the group stage
that ended up getting Alkada defensive round,
but Critchey only got one kill so far in that half.
Yeah, and I think both tie teams,
both Solzhard and Team Alkada have kind of relied
on individual stars having big moments
in order for them to get wins,
which just, it's sadly not good enough.
I think Daystar, to their credit, like they are leveling up.
This is a better Daystar than we've seen,
maybe ever before, to their credit.
I just think that both Weibo and Daystar are going up and up and up and I just don't think the Thai teams have been able to catch them.
It's a real shame because we remember times where Thai teams were, that was all there was.
Where teams from Thailand just dominated through and through and unfortunately there's some spark that's missing at the moment.
You do hope that there's going to be an ignition at some point, but Pengu, just a stat for you, I guess.
on there. Team Walker, they're not awful. They're not awful on it, right? It's not like they're a terrible team. However, 70% of their defensive rounds are one. They only managed to walk away in that first half with one round win. How do they possibly, how do they possibly bring this back and make this a competitive series?
That is a great question that I have someone even smarter than I to figure that out
You know it's funny I was actually about to give him the I was about to read him about the whole driving in
Great
I was actually picture picturing him with like a
a bus cap on. I was thinking about a club. He's talking about kidnapping. Well it's
heading to the second half as daystar fight themselves with an enormous lead and I don't
really think there's much of a way back in for Orchid in this second half. I don't think
there's shown enough quality on their attacking side or in general in this series which is
quite disappointing because of the two matches that we had today. I thought this would be
the one that would be a little closer. A very strong chance of being a 3 map. It's
certainly never a guarantee. But I think it was at least a 50-50 shower fitting into
this one that would see 3 maps play out. I don't think that's going to be the case anymore.
Don't forget to register your team for the challenge of circuit. Have you been picked
up yet? Even some of the expertise you've shown in the 1v1, Jake, you give me some pretty
No, I don't think so, Michael, I don't think so.
Maybe if I get a win tomorrow.
You know who you're playing tomorrow?
No, well I've actually said I think it's better if it's left as a mystery.
Isn't that a disadvantage to them?
Absolutely.
Well whoever I play against knows they're playing against me, but I don't know who I'm playing against.
I'm also...
You've actually got vods out there now.
And they're at home, they're comfortable, they're on their setup, I'm on land.
I
Do you get the window well this is gonna be the intriguing thing for me
How quickly do they start want to try and put this to bed or can they stay composed and?
Just play the right way
This is an intriguing little standoff because I genuinely don't think a zoo key knows that criches right there
I was waiting for our we frozen as a little hang on to history
No, no
Oh, oh, uh-oh, if Critteray swings this, I genuinely think he gets the kill.
Oh my god, it's Critteray frozen. He's just not reacting at all. I don't think he's
bleeding. I don't know, he's definitely not frozen. He's just not making a single move.
By the way, 90 seconds has gone by if Critteray just standing in the window. They've just been
making obstacles. Genuinely, like, I think Critter clearly wants to try and time this
push, but he's left it so long and so late, and then he's lost pizza like wholeness.
And his first 10 doubles only just spawned out after that initial kick, so there's a
mistime again from Orcid. He could have certainly helped facilitate for his team. They start
to play side. I mean, you've still got double Nitro, you've still got the Shamika launcher
of the Tachanka as well, Razor Bloom as well for reactivity. And the Mirror Window that
oh my god, they start can't be loosed in this round. I would be flabbergasted if they could.
It's going to take a mighty effort from Orcid, otherwise they're looking at a 6-1 deficit.
Khrtche just stuck in the bathroom trying to get a dollar. Basically flashing himself
at this point. Azuki with the shotgun, easy kill. Didn't know exactly where he was. Now
he can transition to main stairs. Yeah, this one's done. Put a fork in Orcid because they
are well done just like Alex's steak. Alex is a nice guy. I should have added a little
bit more context and he orders well done steak. And he likes a well done steak. And by well
done I mean it's charred. It's like a boot. It's leather. It's not good. Apologies to
those that like a well done steak out there but not my favorite. 6-1. What a beatdown from
They start I mean I finally start to the round with the freeze at the the bathroom window
But also it meant 90 seconds of doing nothing on the attack
All they had done was crept ops and open-range hard bridge
And I think ultimately the idea there of popping you till for the mez clear was not that bad
But three people had died and crit jay still had not deployed a single piece of utility
There's some big disconnects on the attacking side of awkward on this map, which is their fundamentals are off today
Which is why we didn't really anticipate them to win this second map, which is why map 1 had to be tidier.
They could have capitalised a little bit more. Daystar, I think, played about 80% on that first map.
Unfortunately, in the context of this series, Orcid weren't able to quite capitalise on that opportunity.
Yeah, you go back to that first map, Orcid with a 4-3 up on Shelly, and they won the defensive round to begin the second half.
And I think at that point in time, I thought, yeah, we're on here for these series.
I didn't anticipate that Orc would win Lair hence of course as you were saying they should have needed the win on Chalet
And they just gave four straight on Chalet to then put themselves in this position
It's kind of funny actually if you think all the way back it was three
Was three three in the first half right now we're sitting here say well a little bit similar to our first series of the night
Wasn't it? I said no well surely they start I'm gonna go win a level of the next 12 rounds
And while they haven't won a level of the next 12 rounds, if they do win this, it will win 10 of the next 12.
Not far off.
One round off what Waybo did earlier today.
Which is, I guess a good sign for Daystar.
Maybe Daystar and Waybo are too far off.
That's what I'm saying.
Well, maybe it's a good thing for Daystar that they're able to do this and match the ferocity of Waybo and what they can do.
I think that's definitely one way to look at it.
real questions going to be for next week though
I'm not talking about Daystar versus Wayfowl
I'm talking about Souls Heart vs Soulcube
That's going to be the nature of the night
The upper bracket, I'd be a reaction to Grave
Honestly, let's be honest
I wouldn't mind, you know what's interesting, stage 2 last year I thought
Daystar, Elevate, low bracket final was just a given
that alibate was just gonna and then day star set up the day star and they won
that 2-0 and then they lost the grand final they did well into basement then
for round 8 and what may be the final round between these two tonight to cap
off another two map best of three we're getting pretty familiar with those
Maybe APAC North tomorrow can throw a challenge somewhere.
Good catch.
Azuki just getting caught there on his attempt to peel back over towards vent.
BGM had quick entry above for a kill.
And so, if they need to orchid, that will be their fourth opening kill, funnily enough, over the course of the map.
Tell me how many they've converted.
Take a guess.
I guess, zero.
Let's see if they can make it one.
And therefore, to do that, make it two on the scoreboard.
So they've got the first floor control.
Open up the door, people put some pressure on
with the payload calls.
Like, callers will facilitate entry on the Blackbeard.
It's largely going to be the method of attack.
Do need to be mindful to not leave this too late with the Echo on the board.
Yeah, 45 on the board.
They'll start drawing out U2.
That's one gasp, two to follow, but yeah.
Again, we're going to see these reactive Razor Blooms.
So three in pocket.
He can dump those defaults plus the Yokai.
I don't really envision planting being the primary wincon here for the attack, which
does make me a little bit nervous for Orcid.
There is a call on Souffle, this might be the time to go and push in, but unfortunately
the gas babe still sits up.
Souffle's answered the call.
Haven't seen him go onto a yokai though, I'm keeping my eyes on that lower left position.
12 seconds, time starts to get antsy.
There is indeed a yokai available inside a lab, plant going down from like a colus.
If this gets disrupted it's probably job done, it does indeed get disrupted, if it gets disrupted
again and which it does from the Razor Bloom. It means it's a 7-1 beat down from Daystar
against Orchid. They set up that, tantalizing up a bracket final against Wayboat. The two
best teams in the Asia region will meet for the first of probably two times, potentially.
Look, figure that out in the office for Daystar. Certainly a bit of room for refinement on
map one, but not too concerning. And map two was a standout. They absolutely executed their
game plan. They were purely dominant over the course of that particular map. Great map selection
from them, so they've played the Vito well. And it'd be intriguing to see if Lair is an option
going forward in that next match up against Weber. I think that we probably won't see Lair against
Webo to be honest. The way that Daystar have played it, their record on it now. I think it wins from
12 matches as we bring the boys back in and get their thoughts as well for what was a very
dominating performance. Ultimately guys, Daystar Webo sets up as the upper bracket final, just
Like everyone predicted. Yeah, unfortunately, so it just is the way it is. It's a quick night though, Jake
I'm sure you're upset about that. Um, well honestly, it's been a very good night today. We had the mama cup noodles
So I'm quite full
Beautiful ragu pastries. We had some great pasta. Shout out to Bruce. Yep. Well, who's Bruce?
Don't say it
Bruce the chef
I think you can afford a private chef. Oh, I'm still a bit confused
I fell asleep at one point between the two games the noodles made me a little bit sleepy and I didn't realize didn't we just see that game
Earlier tonight. I thought we had a seven something a seven one. We just saw the same match played out twice
Unfortunately, we did because would you like to say anything before you leave mate? I know you're you're a man of many words
Have a good night
Watching we'll see you next week guys boys down enjoy yourselves
But you know look it is the way the cookie crumbles and how many rounds do they get in the last in the last map one
They got one unos. No more than unos a little sad
Unfortunately because we had built it up a little bit Nick to kind of a tout orchid as
No, I wouldn't say like it would be an upset actually at this point
I really would be because they start have beaten them three times in a row
And it's just I think it's a little unfortunate that it's fizzled out the way it has for them
I mean, it would be an opposite if all keywords come out victorious today.
The question was how close can they get?
How well can they do?
Can it show us adaptations?
Can it show depth?
Because that's a big question mark for me.
I know on a good day when everyone's taking their shots, they could be a great enemy.
But if you take them in 100 matches, with a course of a month, how many times have they
actually been against a greater opponent?
With today's performance, not that many.
Yeah, that's kind of, that's tough, man.
That's tough.
And you know what?
Unfortunately, it's tough.
But but as you well know that is the way that the cookie crumbles. It's just how sage plays out sometimes
Sometimes you're not on your day and other times you are and someone who is always on the absolute top of the day
Is our good friend Harambe Harambe? How you doing my friend give it to me come on
See you man, it's been so long Harambe since I last spoke to you. Hey, you must be feeling on cloud nine after a win like that
Yeah, it's you can't you can barely hear myself. I yell so much in this series. I mean, oh my god
Do you actually I want to get the context from you around they do you feel as though they are kind of like
like
Your your adversary in this league like where where do you put team awkward because coming into this we would have thought that it
Would have been an upset had they beaten you but where do you actually put them in the grand scheme of kind of where you see?
We kind of put Soul Sartre and Oracle in the same tier because when they perform good they will give you a hard day.
But we can prepare them and we did well today. We are shooting shots, oh my god.
Nice, so nice.
Speaking of shooting shots, I really want to pick apart two of your players, Harambe.
Two that you are very familiar with and that we are very familiar with.
We're talking about a phenomenon that often happens in Siege in general is when teams
make roster changes they bring in young players who are really good at fragging and then they
take their older more experienced players they put them on the back line they get them
away from the action and they make them more like tactical strategy kind of focus roles
you put them on the IGLs you don't get them dying early you get them somewhere where they
can be droning a lot and giving a lot of info to the team.
You're in Soufflé, a top fragging on your team and getting most of the entry kills.
What was the mentality with all of the roster changes that you made?
Was that part of the plan and you actively decided to put your two most active and historical
players on the front line?
I think Fika and Soufflé is so good at what they're good at, they're like specialists
at what they're good at.
There's really no players that can replace them in their field.
So we mostly bring new players to fit them, to fit their playstyle, to fit what they need
or supports, their drones, their executions.
Yeah.
Vic?
Cool.
Harambe, you guys have a new player in Yao on the roster, and he was playing a very important
role today, playing the glass and chile, playing the bargain layer.
What's it like giving a rookie, essentially, all these big responsibilities, and how's
going behind the scenes and practice and scrims trying to get him into like the roster and into the organization.
So I think it's really hard to be entry in Siege because you got so many utilities.
And we let Yelp do it because he is crazy good at mechanical skills.
And you know, we just trust him to be in the front and get an area for us, give him pressures to them.
And then, yeah, that's basically what he do.
And he did great.
I want to, I guess I just wanted the contacts
going into finals here because, you know,
we continue to look at Waybo and the performances
they put up and it is quite clear that they're
in a really good position heading into these finals.
I want to know on the back line of your conversation
around they, how do you feel going into finals?
Cause this is such a great opportunity.
You've kickstarted your campaign well.
And obviously you're going to go toe to toe with next.
So you're already thinking, I know you're already thinking about the matchup, but how do you feel about the current landscape of the two of you, I guess, competing for that final spot?
It would be way too cocky if I say we're going to win against Wave, because they are the best team in Asia right now.
now. So yeah we did improve from Paris, from Salt Lake City and we just hope you know we're just
going to give our best and hope we can win them. You know what? I believe, I believe Harambe, I
believe that you will win. I believe too, I believe too. I've always backed you in and I've always
loved your dance but I will say coming into these finals it's a great opportunity for you to do so.
On that note, even Ben does get into it. Would you like to say anything to the beautiful audience
watching at home, any friends, family, anything?
Let's go, baby! It's clear off time!
Lock in!
Oh, Harumbo, you're an absolute bloody joy to be around.
We look forward to seeing your performance next week
against Waybo. Speak to you soon.
Yeah, guys. Oh, I love that guy.
Charging it up, dude.
Oh, he just has...
He has energy like I haven't met before.
It's there's something so, um, so visceral about being around Harambe, the passion that he has.
It's so infectious. Every time you get to see him at an event, every time you get to see or hang
out with him, even online, there is just something that I guess it's a leader like mentality. It
feels beautiful, but there is someone who I guess supersedes him a little bit. Well, maybe not, but
Reeps is an absolute animal continues to be. There are individual players from each region
that really just know how to turn it up.
What's that?
How?
Like six, what's that, 6.25 KD?
What?
Can you?
Good master, man.
Thanks, man.
I'm going to click on the trigger there.
That's very good.
And that was out of a 737 once.
Only 18 rounds played.
That's how it can be.
That's too.
Just some basic addition for me.
You can keep that division to yourself.
Thanks, man.
Yeah, look, Wave-O, obviously an insane team.
And I think the souls are the only way that they would have won this game is if individual players were crazy
But you're only individuals that stepped up for this matchup
We're on the way both side and reach really was the king 25 kills and 18 rounds is insane
So I was gonna work out that cape
And look he's only warming up
I think that it was really telling what speak easy send the interview about how
Waybo were treating this like they would practicing for a swiss stage where you
don't know your opponent, you start prepping for your opponent until the day before.
And I think that is a real testament to the fact that Waybo aren't just trying
to qualify, they're trying to improve long-term as well. I think that they're
doing that but there's still a few steps to go before they qualify for EWC.
Speaking of those steps my friend you've just led perfectly into this one. For me
obviously Daystar do go through just to clarify. Daystar will be needing Waybo.
in the upper bracket final and then team awkward will be meeting our souls heart
But I do want to maybe back into that comment a little bit there Devon and maybe you've missed
The Florida to speak on this one, but it feels like the mentality shift that we've seen out of
Out of labor in the last
24 months has really turned from a team that wants to dominate the region the team that actually could
potentially do something at a land and push the distance and and like you know
Jake was saying before they will be going for those trophies they will be
looking to now compete not just to get to main stage but to go further than
it's an interesting conversation right because I want to go beyond just Asia
here like if we speak to to falls in the technology to like DD also in
Norfolk right CHD and D plus they said the same thing the 3D in group stage
to stage one stage finals as a way to get better for LAN because they're expecting to get there.
So some teams, you know, they're going into a dry with no external analysis.
So, you know, they're going to a game today, let's say Daystar Orchid.
If your day starts, you show up, you have done no prep work.
It's about adapting the server on the fly to prepare yourself for hard opponents later on
and not having too many crotch tools from your coaching staff to take into the server.
We've seen teams, you know, play like a three-stage, like we saw here for example,
right where they only studied opponent the night before because you don't want to have a whole week of prep work because you don't have that on land
So I think it's super interesting how all of the PL has become much more competitive
We have four or five super competitive teams in all the sub regions and the top two of those sub regions, right?
They're all looking at the land as the goal in optimistic dominance. It's super excited
It is and it now starts to turn a little more for what we might expect in the next 12 months
because I mean if you look back at the last couple of years we're starting to see more.
We're starting to see your CAGs, back in the day being K4X.
You're now starting to see your Wabos really take this enterprise now completely changing the game.
Those are the kind of things that I think are really starting to set the tone for us to have.
And it's exciting for me. Maybe I'm getting too far into it.
No, no, I think it's super exciting. I think yeah.
We've kind of recently, people who maybe don't follow the APL will say, oh, APL is a bit top heavy.
Because I think that's what you say about regions that you don't know very well.
Like when you don't have a deeper understanding, you've just heard the name Enterprise, you've heard the name Wave,
but you haven't actually seen how close Chiefs is, how close Daystar is.
You call a region top heavy, but we kind of are at that point right now with APL.
The whole region is getting stronger, but the top teams are getting stronger so much faster.
So the graph is looking like this, and your Wave-Os and your APs have shot right up.
It makes me wonder, can you imagine a universe where we had like, you know,
We just flew everyone to like Melbourne or Singapore or Japan or somewhere for like eight weeks
And we just like it's like EP cheese
Daystar wave OCAG D plus man
This would be like such a damn competitive league and these teams would be leveling up so much
I guess that's the thing that people forget like when you compare APAC to you know Europe NAL
And then the South American League as well like that's a real condensed
you've got like the best teams in just one league and of course EPL spread over three leagues and
you know if we get down to stay phones just the top four from each sub region it gets extremely
competitive especially if we got the sub ring you have to play each other. So if you were the
brain manager hear me out. If you gave me infinite money. They all be here right now.
Motherlord is an infinite money glitch I completely understand but look it is time to start closing up shoppy and Nick
Do you like to add any comments before we wrap this baby up?
Mmm, I do I say I quite like the format of over having top four teams going to stage finals because
It goes into James for his point. There's no freebies anymore
Yeah, we don't have like a top six where two teams are kind of freebies
We could lucky Bracken get a free victory don't further set her up
every team is a competitive because he's the top four teams the best of the best
yeah and I think that can benefit a pill where there's gonna be only
competitive matches I know to deal with one side of a salt spot in the server on
paper anyone could take anybody in a game look oh it's pretty clear we have
two teams which are neck and neck in VP and Chiefs not really sure who's ahead
now Asia we have a clear first and then an outside challenger and day-star who
are way above the rest. Are you talking about that we haven't seen stage finals
and out for that as of yet, but CAG are looking like they might be a bit of a waiver right now.
And it's hard to say whether deep-foss, kinetropin scars will be able to take the fight to them.
So we might get another chapter opening up.
You know what the best part is? We really don't have to wait that long.
But for all of you at home, you don't have to wait long either.
We do have EML up in a little less than four hours.
That's why it's just non-stop siege around the clock.
We keep rolling this show on. It does not stop. This is the best time to be a Siege Viewer of Siege fan because boy oh boy, the schedule is absolutely jam-packed.
And after what we saw from the bracket on a Nick watch, we unfortunately were asleep.
EML is shaking up as well, so APAC North coming tomorrow night. There's so much Siege yet to come.
But that will do us here tonight for the APL. Thank you very much for joining us.
And what I will say is please take care. Stay safe and dead.
I'm a good man