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Lost other regions may have determined a few teams to go through to the APL. We here are not the APL
Damn it. Let me try that again. How do you do people people people?
As the APL heats up we still have to send a team all the way to a WC and to do so
We have an incredible desk here joining us helping us break it all down. It's not rehearsals anymore dev
We're live. Thanks for letting me know. That's okay. I know we've had some confusion over the last week or so.
We have. Is that Fox? Yeah, I just want to say, yeah, I look, I, I know that you guys are used to me being like the sweet, uplifting,
uh, excitable Dev Marta that you all know and love, but, uh, I've seen some shit. Yeah, you've seen some shit.
I'm just feeling like I'm in the dark, definitely.
I've got the leather jacket and I got the deep voice.
I'm a little bit sick today, but I'm not as sick as these games
are going to be.
Yeah, great segue.
One of the best segues of all time.
Nick, how you doing, mate?
It's lovely to have you from Dainland at Bloody.
What is it, 8 AM?
It's 9.30 right now.
I was not doing too bad, to be honest.
We have a 5 AM call time.
I wanted to host play days later on.
I'm just looking at Peter going, maybe
I'm sick for that one you're five and we're good no no no no come on no guys. It's fair. It's fair well
I mean you've kind of asked that question come on guys. What are we doing and I can tell you that's the best part about being the host
We're actually gonna be watching someone go pro today, and that's not to EWC
That's our great friend Jake Zinons of a ditty finally getting one up on a pro player if you haven't watched this segment
I mean that might just summarize exactly there Michael Gus Gary does not laugh very often
He barely shows emotion and you can see how much it meant to him that Jake's in a some
Diddy sucks at the game.
Oh yeah.
No, I'm so glad that we're doing the Zelox goes pro little event that we've been running
over this week.
It's just such a great chance to laugh at Jake and we love doing that.
He's so easy to laugh at.
We've been pairing him up against all kinds of pro players from the APL and he's been
getting smacked silly first by falls then by turdster who knows who he's going to fall
I don't know if he's capable of beating anyone if you're here.
I highly doubt that he's going to have any hope in hell.
Nick, could you ever see him maybe even getting close?
I mean, I'm not going to spoil the thing, but just keep your excitement for the very final playday, okay?
We're going to have a grand final of course for the very soft regions.
We also have a final playday for Szynosko's pro, and maybe just maybe he could win at the very end.
I still doubt that. I still doubt even if we gave him.
Even if we were coming to him dev where they are, I still think he would struggle
The only round he's gotten so far has pretty much been when he's been fed like falls didn't knife only round and falls just sat their hands off keyboard
He did get one good kill under turds. That's like the one round which feels like a legit win
But even then turds still was like running out the building for five seconds
Look Jake has his word cut out for it
But yeah, look, I'm with you, Nick, like all of our champions from APL will go to Paris for EWC.
Maybe if Jake wins the grand final of Zanaskos, maybe we can all give him a little make a wish.
We can make him a make a wish. Can we send him over to Paris?
I think we can send him shortly. We can give him some love.
I think we should. Only if he wins.
We can give him some support. He's going to need all of our supporters. We get into this.
Nick, what words of advice, what words of wisdom would you give him, knowing that he
is going up against one of the greatest players, we don't even know who he's going up against.
I don't at least, I'm excited to find out, but the advice is to keep having fun, man,
you know, look at CIG, right, they've been knocked down for years, they keep getting
up and they get better and they get stronger, this is the same story here for Jake Venditti,
right, keep getting knocked down, keep losing rounds, but you keep getting stronger, you
getting back you know one thing that worked really well for CAG after years of
getting grouped was making some roster changes now I don't know whether Jake is
capable of making any roster changes but I can see that would certainly help him
how does it work for the Core 1? Is it possible to make a roster change for the Core 1?
Can you make a Core 1 roster change to your Core 1? For example if if Team Zenox
ended up having Pango on it for example you know maybe you'd have a chance
No Pango is pretty washed unfortunately but Pango you've been watching
Yeah, I'm so much better than you are absolutely stuck Jake is cool. Oh, I know how you're doing my friend
Yeah, I'm doing good. How about you guys?
Oh, mate, I'm so much better now that you're on the screen.
I had no idea it was you playing today.
Have you been watching these segments?
No.
Nothing. I've been watching before.
You don't need to. You don't need to.
But surely you understand how bad Jake Xenox and Diddy would be at the game.
Do you have any idea as to what to expect?
Yeah, yeah, I've seen it before.
I see it like some more minutes, you know what I mean?
Yeah, I know, you've been so good in your recent games, especially the games in the group stage.
We were watching all of your matches, you had those big clutches.
Do you feel confident right now going up against, he's just a caster?
I'm a fighting ball, I've never been 1v1 before.
Oh, I know, I know.
Everyone, sometimes when I got Sharon, I'm still scared because like, someone will be scared of me but I'm scaring myself.
Okay, copy that. Well, you are going up against one of the greatest demons of our generation.
It's Jake Zinox and Dinny. Have you got me, Jake? Are you down there? You're live.
Yeah, I don't know. I know I'm saying he's scared. Is that what I heard?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, he's getting context. But not he's scared of you.
He's just scared of what might happen in the past.
I just heard him say he's scared. That's all I heard. I took that as a compliment. Jake does he look like the kind of guy that would be scared of you?
No, no, I'm glad that we're on the same page here.
I'm absolutely terrified. I sat down and I saw I9 and I just thought I don't want to do this anymore.
I don't think this is a fun series. That's pretty valid. That's pretty valid.
I9, do you have any words of wisdom to a part upon your opponent? Your underfa-
The KappaBubBates are not some pitty!
Like...
I got no game stuff!
That's all I see!
Well, I have fun though!
I love it! I love it!
So this is why you saved the shit talking to you for a while, right?
This is something that you, I9, and Scatman said in your interviews.
You only talk to your opponent after you win, right?
Oh, ho, ho.
Oh, Jake is...
Jake?
Mate, you're in spawn.
Alright, I got sound.
You sent a Tyra.
You've got sound?
Yeah, I got sound.
So, Jake, what have you learned from previous weeks?
You played a bit of the day, Moss. You played the top of the...
Is that Fox?
Very funny, mate. Very funny.
Look, Damaday, I don't know if you haven't watched the APL. Probably not.
You're probably asleep right now or having a good time, but yeah, shout out.
I do sound about that.
Oh, I got an achievement.
He's on to you Jake.
Jake you are.
You're a royal enemy to Shryfe here mate.
That's a nice one mate.
Get him I know.
You got this.
Can Jake lock in? That's the question.
He can't even track him.
I'm starting to see.
I'm playing with him.
He hasn't even found him!
Oh, no!
Oh, Jake!
Oh, Jake!
Oh, get him!
Damn!
Maybe he should be scared.
Oh, I'm dying!
Break it down there, mate! What happened?
You had all the control!
No, like...
Like I say, I'm exciting, bro.
Never did it one before before!
You said, like, you're just having a good time.
You're wife is calling you
Should I answer it or not?
No I don't think we've got a time for you to answer your call
with your mrs mate
Can you apologise to her?
No worries you know what you can clip this part
Laura Venditti
I am so sorry
Hang on
What else is her name going to be?
J? Could be anything
Very true
Well, Mrs Brander
I'm so sorry Mrs. Brander to have held you and to have stalked you people now.
I've said Mrs. Brander, I don't know who Mrs. Brander is, it could be anyone.
It could be a high school teacher, you never know.
Thank you very much for putting up with this bloke and I'm so sorry that we've denied your
call, is that better?
That's much better.
Thank you.
Anyway, moving on.
All I know is just sitting there trying to listen to comms.
All right, I know and what's the idea this round? What's the strap, bro?
Like this I mean you did you guys? Yeah, I think he's muted it. I hope he has I
It's a lot of noise. I love this. It's aggro for all the way Jake. You know a weapon you're holding there. There's a wrong weapon
before Jake that's that's why he's through the day we off James if I had
to get the shotgun you're not winning out of the shotgun I'm sorry it's a
Lock shotty my guy
Did you see that I know in the pre-fire he was shooting where you would have been standing but you were prone
smart
Design lines my goat. That's right. That's right. There's no one better. Wow
Reaps
disrespect
mmm
Keanu Reeps
I pray that you have to go up because Reeps is high-pray
If there's one, you don't get me Reeps
Yeah man, I do know
Maybe we will
We're gonna pull some strings
I would rather play Pengu in his prime
Oh, I don't know about that
Oh, okay
That's toxic man
To be fair, I would also rather play myself than Reeps in the WV1
He is a bit of a daemon but
Yeah, do you know who's a-
Yeah, I'm sorry mate. You gotta put the scope on Jake.
Yeah, I did.
Two gears, like.
Oh yeah, sensitivity is a bit off-hime.
What do you think, I9?
Oh yeah!
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You scared, I9?
Let's see, let's see, let's see.
Uh-oh.
Come on, come on!
That's your personal-
You're a patient Jake, I gotta say.
Don't know what's left by the way, Jakey.
What's this?
Okay, he's cleared it out, so he knows. He knows he's free.
Yeah, 35 seconds left to go.
General, nice.
Oh, hang on.
I can actually, I can hear, I can hear the cogs turning.
Oh, yes, I know.
That's it, baby.
26 o'clock, confusion in hand.
What do you do here, Jake?
I don't know. You tell me.
I think you're on the right way there, come on.
Oh Jake!
Good job, good job.
Yes, you got the line.
He's on his Jakey, you got this.
Oh no, he's on the retake here.
Oh you're actually on for this one Jake.
I like this.
Yeah but look at him, he's composed.
Oh he's composed.
Oh my god.
Oh he's composed.
Here we go, here we go.
Oh Jake!
Oh Jake!
Oh no no no!
Oh yeah!
Oh yeah!
Oh yeah!
You might be going up because they just find us mate, I'm sorry to say.
No, not through that one.
You've given him all the choosies.
You know what I needed to push to the back and just force him in through the door. Yeah, that's my bad. That's all right
Learning learning
Was that what you say I mean
You know what, when you come in? Oh, the window.
You were in the window, right?
Oh, we're in the window.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, he got hurt a little bit.
Only a little.
Oh, oh yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Like, 25% maybe.
SMG-11's not very good, bro.
Oh, yeah, I know.
That's good.
Speaking of that, right?
Like, in SNR, you're a champion.
You just got the SMG-11's shot.
You sure got the mute.
You got to use the DMR for that, man.
Long-range fights.
You don't match with the baron nine?
That's some free coaching advice for you Jake
If I'm gonna get coaching advice, it's not for me James it probably be
Oh, sorry, I thought you said if you want coaching advice
No, I said I said you just ignored me. Nick was gonna talk to you gave you some free coaching advice and you really?
Yeah, the final round at the final end of the round there. Yeah, you can even shock and you're playing very nice against it, you know
Maybe maybe spend another 40 seconds making some road to
That's a false map right there!
I'm not checking the corner to come through the doorway!
It's two to two!
And just like that, Tim Zenox!
Tie Zeno up, baby!
He's casting himself in.
Oh, that's not good.
That's not good.
Is it the thing I know you've got to expect?
The bad players?
Are going to use the cheese, man?
Yeah.
I see that now, man.
What?
I killed that false bro.
What the hell?
Oh, that's great.
I'm glad that you got one one legitimate round there Jake. I'm very proud of you. You seem to be stepping up. No, the first one wasn't
I love to
Rag on Jake as much as the next person, but I gotta give you credit where credit is due Jake that first round
We pre-fied with the the vendetta mr. Venditti
That was a very good play very good round. Oh, I think that's did he with the vendetta
Venditti with the vendetta. I feel like this is the first time I've ever seen Jake get two legit rounds in a 1v1
I think it is, but I also think that I9 is not taking his time.
I know it's going to be easy.
I9, you don't have to go easy by the way, right?
You can just finish it now.
No one really likes Jake that much, so you know.
Not even me.
What am I like?
Is that a render or?
This is a video, I'm confused.
This is where you really need to lock and you actually have an opportunity here.
I was expecting a shield mount here.
I requested that one.
Yeah, but you know who's on it, don't you, Nick?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
As I said, you can need a horse to water.
You can cry as hard as you may.
Oh this is...
You gotta get in the buildings to win, Jackie Boy.
Nah, nah, nah.
28, 27, 26.
You're doing so well.
Let the pro play. Let the pro play.
8-2.
Yeah.
Oh, this is gonna be great.
8-8.
Very good, I know. Very good.
Very good.
It's just free.
I love that they're fire.
Alright, we're gonna lock in.
We're gonna lock in.
We're gonna lock in afterwards as well.
You're over thinking it because you feel like there's a chance to win now.
Yeah, that's the problem.
Take that pretty brain of yours and throw it in the bin.
That's how you play your best.
You think he's got a pretty brain?
Is this what happened to FaZe in the 24 grand final?
Oh, I don't think it's comparable.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
lose. I know, tell me a little bit about where you're playing from right now. You've been
playing there for ages, haven't you? What is this room I know and this building? Where
are you? This, like, practice house. Practice house. I mean, woodcams, something like that.
Yeah, yeah, gotcha. How long have you been playing there for now? It's been years, no?
Yeah, you first played there in like with elevator, right?
Yeah, yeah, we're now
Sorry, oh you don't say we're
Yeah
Jake you're learning from I know you've been drop-shutting yeah, too. Oh, you know
Oh no!
How locked in Jake is, by the way?
He's in for it.
Oh, here we go.
Here comes the light walls.
Oh boy!
Oh boy!
That's good!
Well done!
You know what?
You know what, Jake?
It's scary.
No, it has to be you, Jake.
But it moves a little bit quicker than I thought.
Yeah, that's alright.
Well played, I know.
Thank you for coming on.
Thank you.
Well Jake, you know what?
We're gonna let you go and let you go.
going to let you go and let you go while putting your pity, your self pity of just
a small amount of moments. You know what, mate? You're going to get there eventually.
You're going to get past two rounds.
No, I don't know what to do, Rob. I don't know what to do. Honestly, I thought there
were some good moments today, but still got some improving to do.
Lots of improvement. Unfortunately, Jake, we don't have any time for your self analysis.
We'll catch you later, mate.
Thank you, A9. Yeah, I got nothing nice to say to that.
i9 how you feeling my friend because your performance there you let jake have a couple of rounds was that out of pity
i like you know i'm just playing
like a little bit yeah idea to push something like that but i'm not expect expecting like
they're gonna put them right there jake is uh what we would like to call spontaneous he's a little
confusing at the best of times. I know obviously you know we've seen you perform over the many
years and this is your first one V1 right? Yeah yeah yeah yeah my first time. How did you feel?
Did you enjoy it? I enjoyed it. Would you do it again? Yeah sure. Yeah you know what next time we
might actually put you up against someone who has a little bit of competitive spirit about them.
Jake is a nothingness. He's nothingness. He's a void.
We'll give you a real play.
Yeah, correct. We'll give you someone who might actually be at your level.
I know I'm going to have to say to him before we let you go and see you tomorrow, I think.
Yeah. See you tomorrow, guys. But, oh, like, tomorrow I'm going to be...
Demon.
Oh, you don't know.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I love that.
Yeah, that's what I say.
I love that, mate.
That's what I say.
Thank you very much for joining us, I9.
and we look forward to watching you become a demon tomorrow on your pathway to the EWC. We'll catch
you soon, mate. All right, see you guys. Have a nice day. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye to everyone at home,
of course. EWC is what is on the line here. That is the prize pool that everyone is after.
Yeah, sure. Money's great. Fame is great. True. The glory of going to Paris is even better. That is why
I think that's why. When we
look at this, we have four
slots for an entire APL region.
Nick. It's quite brutal
considering when you spread it
across 24 teams. That is a
pretty tough ask. However,
what what region would you
actually if you could do it
over again? What region would
you right now give a second
slot? Oh, yeah. I need this
question because I was gonna
I would say at least in my time in the appeal the last couple of years
Yeah, I see this for like a good three or four teams from a pic more of Asia and
Probably just the two maybe two and a half teams from Osteo
So but given the fact that you know all the reasons have had their turret
I think it's fair that it's Oste's chance now to have two spots rather than Asia for example
You're back there. Yeah, so you like it if it is you're kind of you like to spread the love a little
Yeah, I mean I wouldn't mind if it was literally a different region every single time but it is performance based right
the sub region that performed the best they will get the second spot and I think that's the right way to do it
But I will say this there should be a fail-safe. Let's say APEC North in particular for example
They haven't had in the second spot at all in the full year or two years. You got to get them that pity spot
I'm telling you because only sending one team it doesn't give the full region potential
Because yeah, you can have my let's say CAG qualifiers make back north right?
They have a certain play style and they might do well
Well, I might not do well internationally and I think it's very good to get more teams international play make the whole
subredin better just look at they start for example right in asia when you start
syncing different teams internationally they bring different things back home
with them yeah spoken as the guy who got the pity invite to six invitation in
2020 didn't really work out well against against pity invites back then but now
you're apparently for them look I the way I see it is O's and we're about to
find out today exactly how close but the distance between number one and number
to an OCE I think is the closest of any of the APL regions. I feel like at the moment
from what we've seen, APAC North tends to have a clear number one and then quite a dog
fight for two to four. Asia I think has a clear number one, a clear number two and then
a battle between three and four. I think OCE has a battle for one and two and a clear
three and four.
Well speaking of which, how about we actually give the viewers at home a bit of a visual
to, I guess, solidify what we're talking about there. It's Chiefs and Enterprise that had really
been battling it out since back in kickoff. These two teams coming into this year, we did have high
hopes for, and I know there is a storyline that we kind of want to go with for probably a little
later, James, but you were saying as well that, you know, it's the split from the teams that were
at SI this year. Two players from either, well, I guess it's a split to straight down the middle.
two players on chiefs, two players from enterprise. So that one's a real, like there's an element of
grudge to that match that I love. But obviously what we're really trying to get across to you today
is that the winner of that upper bracket match, chiefs and enterprise, the second they win,
they secure their ticket to EWC, which is just monumentally large.
Yeah, that's absolutely right. Of course, most being the one APL sub region that does get the
the two spots means you don't have to win the grand final you just got to make the grand
final which means an upper bracket final win or a lower bracket final win guarantees
your spot in that grand final. Now it doesn't mean the grand final means nothing we'll play
that out later this week and it will still have massive repercussions for which part
of the tournament you see it into so we'll dig into that a bit later but what really
matters right now is added chiefs in EP one of them is going to be the first APAC team
to qualify for the EWC this year and that is a huge moment like you said they have an
intense rivalry, of course, six months ago, not even six months ago, we had two
players from each of those teams playing on enterprise in Paris. Now they get to
return and I mean, if they're lucky, both teams will return and they'll see each
other familiar faces, but on a renewed phone. I think the expectation is that
both teams do return, but of course there's so much they can play out between
right now and when we actually get through that final spot. Let's have a look
What do you expect for today's actions?
Obviously, the one we're talking about, the one we're touting,
Chiefs and Enterprise kickstart our day here
for what is considered OZ's final day two.
However, it is for me the second matchup
where my eyeballs go through
because both of those teams, Nick, on their given day,
rival eSports and men LFO.
Obviously, they're going to be pretty well evenly matched,
but for me, it's actually, they have the potential
to upset both Chiefs or Enterprise on any given day.
Yeah.
Now let's see.
So it's not, I mean, we just look at the matchup that happened earlier in the first
playday of those, right?
Rival came very close to Chiefs.
They probably should have won Bank, actually, but Chiefs demanded a comeback and we did
not go to the third map.
Had Rival gone to the third map against Chiefs, they wouldn't have been border.
And Rival, they were better with the gun skill on that given day.
So I think right now, honestly, if EP would have taken the upper bracket, send Chiefs
down rival beat manly feel quite comfortably that could make the lower
bracket game to go into the grand finals quite spicy because it could be a real
chance of an upset and I also think that's why cheese today have a bit more
pressure upon them because they need to beat EP right now to lock in that spot
because I think they too know they could fall in that lower bracket was EP I
think they have enough mechanical skill to just kind of take the fights and beat
any opponent your nose let's just start talking about the the latter mentioned
that has really performed quite well this year. I think many thought what would happen
once we kind of saw the roster split and some big name players come to this. I would say
Super Team Now Dev. I think the enterprise have proven like you just look at their stats
across the board. No one's under 100 EPS, which is actually really difficult at this
level of the game to manage a team that is entirely above the average. However, I will
I will say that they still haven't looked perfect in stage one.
Yeah, yeah, of course.
Like the two sides of this coin is these guys are absolutely our super team.
In fact, they are kind of the super team.
You have the best players from the old enterprise and the best players from the old chief.
Namely, I'm thinking of Jigsaw and Brenda joining Tuhan and of course, Bappin.
And then you get Cairo, of course, with FischerGuy leaving.
You need someone that is more of a support player, more of a brain.
and Kyra really fits that under the mag that coach has really talked volumes about the value of Kyra
who's been in the scene for such a long time now last year he played for Ludovica of course
a phenomenal well-rounded roster this really is the best iteration you could get out of the 2026
super team you could probably give anyone like the like what do they call it when you do the like
the football dream teams or the fantasy football yeah you do like a fantasy league you do a fantasy
League and you would probably just grab the five enterprise players if it was
here that's how it works but as you said they haven't been perfect which is a
bit of a surprise of course they did unfortunately have Brenda unavailable to
play one of the games due to some something that happened and then so he
missed out and then they ended up losing the shy Academy yeah and they see crazy
because I can't even make stage finals and then everyone said well it's okay
it was just because Brenda wasn't there and then they went and lost the chiefs
as well. And then Chiefs also lost the shot. I mean really strangely so we we did see some very
funny things happen in the the group stage however that was best of ones. We're now into
BO3s and these guys are looking incredibly deadly. They won their first match in the BO3s
very convincingly. Yeah look despite a wounded beast that they may have been throughout certain
parts of groups they have certainly come into playoffs looking very good but speaking of another
playoffs I guess looking back I know you got to cast your minds back to kickoff but both of these
two teams did play all the way back in the grand final and it was not like a blowout by any means.
It was a close affair. There were so many opportunities for Chiefs to get back into this
game but Nick ultimately and supplies they showed their quality in the best of three and I think
that's probably the big part of the conversation that Dev was leaning into there. Best of ones
are great but best of three is really start to show your true colors. Yeah when you are a super
team there's also going to be the question of how serious can you take every single matchup
especially an early group stage best of what he keeps saying you're not going to be playing at 110%
because it's not where it matters and you got to save your best performance for the most important
games that's right here of a bracket to get that game to spot to go to Paris at EWC and they kick
off with a 2-1 victory for EP here in stage one it was a 5-7 loss for EP against G so they are
pretty tight one-to-one for the year and they're gonna hear kind of takes that yeah we do love one
Of course, very much different stakes. You're talking about a grand final that qualified for you to go to Salt Lake City
Compete all the way to one in groups
And I think that's what a lot of enterprise would probably say like very different kettle of fish
Yeah, however, it's worth saying that yes that
Grand final kickoff was a one by enterprise, but it was also a free mapper. Yeah chiefs won their map
Enterprise won their map. We go to the third map and it's a 12 rounder. It's still 7 5
Yeah, all right. She's missed out on Salt Lake City by two rounds. Yes, only two rounds
Yes, it's the thing is the margin of difference between these two teams has been shown to be very low
Maybe wondering who we're talking about across chiefs
I think that the way that she's have started to perform throughout this year has given me a lot of hope that I mean
If I can just be honest here, I would have called this a rag tag team at the very start of kickoff
I looked at this roster and said what's on earth are we going to expect in them because you look at the names and you look at kind of like
I mean if you really look at the left side of this screen right now and you look at j. Kenner and lunchbox
They have always been known as notorious shit posters in the region
But yet what has happened with this team Nick?
They've seemed to lock into a point that I was never expecting and now
We're now talking about that being not not just contenders to EP but genuinely near that level
if not on the left.
Yeah, I think there's three kind of key players and I will say this every single player here is super valuable
I'm not saying there are three people who are useful and two that are useless
Yeah, but there are three huge win conditions for me in the minor details here
That Kenna is an excellent shield player and we can find that map control and find the gaps and get down the diffuser
That's when she's the player very best. He's not gonna be your blight be blitz going 10 and 2 of a single game
He's nothing gonna go 0 3 0 5 but getting a ton of value while doing so a very high value player
Then you have player the actual person the server and Neptune as well
They're the gap finders of the interplayers
They will usually watch together which to can on the shield or go for a back step with any of those three players are having a good game
That is in truth at the very highest level
But if the shields get counter banned out listening to ban both the black beat the blades and the Monty the can has now stuck in
to be able to get to the
top of the map. So it's
going to be about a
consistent. Island with much
less value to his name, or if
the shoes are unsuccessful,
they just take account of the
operators like the traps of
like deletion, the group is
going to shank out the echo.
Again, the camera will have a
bit of a struggle
individually, so it really
comes down to one of these
big players all of them
together can hit their
targets in the server. That's
how we're going to beat any
opponent. This is free. It's
going to be about consistency.
It's going to be about those
three people. Neptune's
player and the camera. Yeah,
if we look back at that
matchup that we continue to
to one. Yeah, that's the three versus the best of one. But still, it kind of comes down to the way
that Chiefs are able to still perform against a very, um, a very high standard team. They just are.
Enterprise from top to bottom, coach all the way through. It seems like a well put together roster.
The Chiefs manage time and time again to stay toe and toe with the Jets. Yeah, our Nintendo
center. The big thing is on paper, Enterprise seemed like the much better team. You look at the old
EP roster and they essentially cut the least experienced players in player and relays and then player relays
and Fisher retired of course and
Babum said that when the roster changes were announced they kept what mattered upgraded the rest
Appreciate the trust from Enterprise to make those roster changes
They were picked up to extremely experienced and arguably two of the best players that most have ever produced in Jigsaw and Brenda
Absolutely in that conversation and they picked up Cairo because they need an IGL someone to be the brains the operation to replace
This show and in doing so, you know
They let go of player and relays who with the least experienced members of that team
There had been some doubt cast over player and real his ability to dig deep and perform to their typical standard when they were in high-precious
situations at international events and I really think that someone like player has taken that upon himself to now prove everyone wrong
I think he joined enterprise at a really pivotal moment in his career where he was actually thinking of quitting stage
He was tossing up not committing to e-sports anymore. He decided to stick with it
He got a taste of what it's like to be on the best team in the country
One of the best teams in a pack and to actually fight
Against the best teams in the world and immediately said okay
This is what I want to do and now his family's on board and he's here to stay and he's forging his own legacy now with chiefs
It's a huge chip on his shoulder after the earlier years, circumstances, I think it's
the best way to put it.
I think that to contextualize that, player went from someone who had moved more teams
than he had played stages up until he joined Enterprise, to them being the best player
in this region to date in this year and also the second best player in APL as a wider region,
Nick.
it's incredible to see well we'll go to the videos but I'll just let you quickly touch on this as a former player to have that kind of journey to now find himself
solidified at this point it's an incredible story. I think it's very important that you know when you give an opportunity you go into a very experienced roster
you know player go into enterprise originally you're going to be put into a system and you're going to be following orders
Hey player, play this operator over here. Yes, sir. And you kind of just play their game for them
Now he's in tears making his own path making his own decisions probably and then doing was actually working for him in this roster
So I'm much better result
Maybe they're just gonna appear in front of us here
They can get a chance to take a look at it step by step, but Shelley into banking to fortress now
I personally am looking at that bank matchup
It has a map that it's very common for both these two rosters and it's where they played their stage one best of one
That's a bit of a victory favorite in cheese. So there's gonna be a rematch on that bank map
Yeah, yeah, of course bank and fortress were both also in the Vita when these teams play each other
In kickoff chiefs one bank in EP one fortress both were very close seven five result
Chalet is the odd one out here because we haven't seen these teams play against each other on it
Now funnily enough. It's the map that both of these teams lost to shy Academy
So there's one thing we know for sure. It's that shy Academy would be winning this game
so
Question post, I might have to shoot on Chalet then, but...
I don't know, I'm just being silly. Look, we have seen EP also beat Manila Fo on this map,
but I would say that this is not a favourite map for either of these teams,
but EP decided to pick it. Let's see if they can dig deep on that one.
Yeah, how about we lock in instead of going to our favourite map?
How about we go to our favourite-ish Clomentators?
Does that us? How we feel it?
I feel a little bit humbled after the earlier 1v1 experience.
I'm not going to lie because but excited for this as we head into the upper bracket final
It is an opportunity to qualify
Esports World Cup lock in that position in terms of where you'll finish
Well, that depends of course in the grand final
But with the oceanic region having the two slots you win this you're going
The rest of the permutations get figured out in the grand final
But you don't care about that as long as you win today
So there is a lot of the line, but it does come into this match
You get to qualify for your void having to drop down face one of the other two that are going to be seeking revenge vengeance
You want to get the top done today? Let's see what happens chiefs versus enterprise chiefs guys
I think for all intents and purposes, maybe took that mantle as the best team in the region EP
Definitely want to take it back and probably feel as if they've never lost it
Yeah, I can't jump into this one the bands have played out
Aladunari, Glaz and Dokkaebi. So she's going with a brand new band set here based on the data we have available on
Shalai. This is the first time we will see them ban both the Aladunari across the stage. So certainly something to note
it's gonna leave up key operators like the Azami for instance, which is particularly
potent on Shalai. EP on the flip side a little more standard.
They've teased the Glaz on a couple of occasions, but the Dokkaebi will be a first appearance for them as we jump in
I can't wait to see the two of them.
I don't quite know how I feel about Shalady just yet, but I think Bank for me is the guy
who's the best.
That is a very tantalizing prospect.
I was looking at the stats for Bank both here.
I'm just going to love that map.
Shalady, obviously the pick of Enterprise and one of which they've got a lot of experience
on.
They still get like damage.
Got the kill onto Jigsaw.
They did lose Jake Kenner though, so they no longer have to boogie over the breaches.
How about a player straight into the bedroom going for the plant off the ROU.
got that one from i9 and the Zenonx goes pro series. Plant will be successful. Tuhan does get rid of relays, losing him over the war to Ego.
That just leaves a bedroom and bathroom stack.
Lushbox is going to move over to Closet, but he loses the battle to Brando. Gives E.P. the numbers advantage, but still needs to win the post plant.
And considering Neptune's outside, player does need to stay alive, and he barely does.
Headshot onto Tuhan, still up to V2. Time running out.
Yeah, gonna be a tough one here with the double window, Rappel still in play.
Surely, Cheese will lock in this round. It's a good read from Brendo.
I read one thing, being able to find the kill.
He's playing out anyway, they can't get it, there's no time.
Yeah.
And that's gonna be the round, Cheese. They're gonna steal the opening round.
Even with that kill from Brendo, it just pads the stats as he
obviously has a little grimace in the player camera.
It's Cheese that opened up with a wonderful set play.
We've seen that a little bit here on top floor, Chalet over, I think over the last couple
of weeks, certainly this stage, teams are likely to bring pressure elsewhere, away from
bedroom and then sneak in for that quick rush plant.
It works this time.
The ROUs from player were successful, there just also wasn't really any kind of utility
to disrupt him.
There was no nitrosols thrown, there was no impact thrown at his position and he was
able to get that plant down pretty much uncontested in the end.
Cheese take the opening round, good way to start here on Chalet, attacking roundwind is good for them, this is still a pretty much most maps in this wonderful map, although we've got it, it is still slightly defending the side of that top floor actually in the oceanic regions, it's a 55% defensive win rate, so that's a great start for Cheese.
Yeah, I love that positive approach from Cheese, really direct.
An AP getting isolated and caught out in that opening round down to dining for the follow-up.
Expecting the tempo of this matchup to be pretty quick across the board, to be honest, especially on a map like Chalet.
The pacing may be drawn out a little bit more on Bank where it's going to be a small stall out heavy,
and that peel defense is more effective, but on Chalet, I really don't think that's going to be the case.
Well, I think I love about both maps, and to be honest, Chalet and Bank are the epitome of, I think, just some of the best maps in the pool.
You can pick and choose how you want to play on both maps, on pretty much all of the sites.
you want to go fast you can slow down play tempo basing you can I think that's the benefit of why
the teams that are so good at shell and take typically end up being very good teams in general
it's the same kind of mindset with a map like clubhouse and your structure play that's really
going to set you apart one thing i'm looking forward to in this half as well what learn
play we get from enterprise how do they want to position defensively they're not the kind of
it's gonna play five stacks side.
So the Mario in play again here, well not again, but first appearance and there's an opportunity here for
Relays to go for a sneaky play, up hatch potentially.
Also has the maneuver ability to rotate above as well. Grapplin put is in his hands right now as Jake Kenne gets caught,
but Relays has snuck into the side. Yeah, but they lost play here this time.
So no nomad double kill from Cairo this time realized I'm able to successfully get the plant good nitro cell to harm
Then they've double up onto Neptune and that's the round done
EP seemed far more ready for that sort of fast brush attempt into kitchen dining than they were for the top floor site
really solid response
Strap yourselves in because we invented the ring and both of these two are more the capable of landing blow-for-blow
first round goes the way all of chiefs because of the fast rush the second
round will go the way of EP because of the fast rush that they counted good
headshot from lunchbox he will deny the flawless and that's all the other thing
I really want to get out of this series trash talk in the chat especially if we
get to like if we get to fortress map 3 spotted EWC on the line
This could get really heated, one to one.
I just want to have a quick look back at round number one.
So it's pretty obvious so far that we're seeing really direct approaches from Chiefs on attack.
And there was actually a key piece of utility available here.
You can see it just a little bit out of frame at the moment that Goethe was up in that opening round.
And we see the flames eventually pop, but just a little bit too late.
It's a little bit too late, so EP weren't in necessarily the positions to actually actively play off that utility.
Obviously, the Fuse are at this point already down, we're in a post, we see those flames eventually pop.
But I think that's something that EP are going to have to be more mindful of going forward.
We saw Direct in round one, we saw the Amaru round two,
and so if EP are going to look to play out this story at utility, they need to look to be proactive and actually playing off that correctly.
I mean setting the tempo early here is chase which is really what you want to be doing
on the attack of charley they're going fast both opening rounds two minutes and thirty
seconds was the opening kill on the first round two minutes basically on the dog the
second round they got the plant down to 17 of the first round tried to get the plant
down around that 150 second mark in the second they go again Ying and Blitz now
didn't play the Ying and the Blitz together so far in the opening two rounds
and as we head to bar games this does leave them with your options
punchbox can go capital above look for a clear out they can go quick through big
window they can also potentially go in straight to bar on the flipside for
enterprise to hunt on the tachanka will set bar stock and very much talk about an operator that can delay that sort of push in big window flame up that sort of position rehost call but it's too late from lunchbox we are past the two and a half minute mark
Yeah, I think that's going to be tough luck.
The ruling is I know that I have I still recall there was a I can't remember how many years ago
Well, someone got bugged on clubhouse and the the aircon outside CCTV and it was just too late into the round
It's like
So no lunchbox and
And this is so to emphasize he's playing capital. I this is an important operator
You don't have that belt of utility. Harder to clear out top library.
Certainly doesn't help for execute. This is a big loss for Chiefs, but the way
they have to play this round now is as if you got spawnpeaked.
The 5v4, minute 20, as Relayz will make his way up by a play.
He needs to get active and be caught out by Brenda.
It's an unfortunate round for Chiefs, but these are the kind of rounds that they cannot afford to let them
them well get tilted from player makes his way in court play jigsaw for all
intense purposes it's gonna be an ace for enterprise we'll get a rehost after
this lunchboxes of course stuck outside now he I would imagine he can still
shoot yeah the question is if someone jumps out to finish him off so we don't
wait 50 seconds this you go for a shot
well
baiting again
the thing is I would imagine
BAFTA knows for a while he's stuck
and doesn't care and just wants to get in their head
and you know what it's another bracket final
he's every advantage you can get
yeah look sometimes these things happen
Rehost or not it's best of three so
Chase will need to
do their best to just
reset mentally from this regardless of
of what the decision may be.
She's ultimately having to try and fall back up to like a plan B, plan C, kind of doomsday
scenario in that round with the direct hit site trying to see if they could find something
but yeah, losing the capital.
Ultimately ruin their plans big time in that round.
Well, I mean, it's obviously the kind of round that's mentally taxing.
Taxing, I don't know, yeah, lunchbox here, it's past the two and a half minute, Mike, you know the rules.
Now, this is the perfect response though for Enterprise, so to kind of sum up the first three rounds, and this is probably the way the series is going to go.
You're going to have little chapters. Talk about a punch in the face from Chiefs in the opening round. Steal the opening round.
But then EP two rounds back to back just do the exact same thing and now I'll suddenly chiefs go from that elation of round one
Where you steal you get the plant down perfect start and then EP just sucker punch you back
And then on top of that add in insult to injury poor old launchbox stuck on the repel couldn't play capital useless now into the bands
No blackbeard band doesn't matter. They haven't really played it anyway thorn will be taken off the board
Brando's been using that in two of the three rounds.
Also three straight opening kills and three straight opening deaths for Jake
Kenner. He has not been able to play yet.
There he is.
Yeah, Lobby has just been paused in the background for a bit of context.
So we are
in discussions as to the outcome of that last round.
Well, I mean, it's the kind of thing where it's a bug clearly that doesn't need a rehost because it's just a
incident within the
Particular
Parameters as to that spot that realm that moment. I don't think rehosting Lobby is going to
Ain't anything it's not like it's not like lunchbox is still on the repell
He's not left hanging
But we'll get it all sorted out
I also imagine chiefs probably want to try and go rulebook
but the world book is pretty clear and has been for a long time. It was, I believe,
two minutes and 16 seconds. That's just too deep into the round. I know there was no damage,
I know there was no shots fired, 5v5, and if it had have been pre-2 minutes 30,
they would have been able to get their rehost, but too late into the round.
What was he, players? Got the little Neptune nose. What are they called?
I don't know what they're called, but yeah.
Host trucks.
Open up the airways.
I don't know what the actual...
I might need to get one actually for...
What?
The Sanox goes pro.
Maybe we can see if...
if Rites can hook us up.
Maybe James can use on open up.
His passageway is a little bit...
He's a little bit nasally on the desk.
He's on the desk with the no-street.
I look a little bit of an anticlimactic position here.
Ramps 2 and 3 after a very fast romantic start from Chiefs.
So they won the opening round.
Bedroom and office.
the fast plant attempt and what successful EP couldn't win it in the post plant.
Funnily enough the Vulcan canister ended up being their own demise. That's not the
first time we've seen that either. With the rush plant attempts in sort of the
modern era of siege that seems actually don't pop the Vulcan canister
preemptively they almost use it as well a post plant tool for themselves. Turning
it on the defenders. E.P. then winning very comfortably in rounds 2 and 3, 4 alive and
the ace. So we are going to get Chiefs out of the lobby. E.P. is still in the lobby all
five but everyone from Chiefs has left. And it looks as if I think we're going full blown
re-host now as they also start to leave the lobby I wouldn't be shocked if that
round is replayed but we can discuss that later if that is I rule would be
quite shocked I'm not gonna I can't be bothered getting too far into the weeds
but the re-host movement is I think reworded is it at the what's it called
the interpretation or discretion I mean it's not my job so I don't want to
I'm not looking at anything, I'm just saying it says,
actual phase, at any time during the action phase,
play is unable to control or move the operator.
And there is an all after the 32nd condition prior to that.
So if you dig deep enough,
I think Chiefs would have a strong case.
All I'm saying is it's all our job, we're not the admins.
We'll see what happens, I get it.
We're the neutral observers, so whatever it is it is,
I just hope we get back into the server asap.
Was it, it must have been recently changed then.
I think I posted about 500 messages in the discord about that
Well, we get this sorted out behind the scenes for now. Luckily here at the studio. We've got three wonderful gentlemen
Who are going to take you through this rehost? I was gonna say to give us a break
But I don't know is it fair for James who can barely speak wrong?
I don't think so
James, how are you feeling?
You know you you kind of sound like a mix between laxing and fox. I want to get into
Tibetan throat singing. Oh you know have you seen Dune? You know the you know the like
the Hakanan ceremony thing with the like. And that's going to be you? Yeah I want to
I reckon I can do that. Okay interesting Nick how much of that were you actually able
to win this before we came back from the commentator.
I watched the game.
Did you watch the game, Nick?
I watched the game.
I saw some of it.
I saw some of it, Laura.
I'm actually not surprised at how it started off.
You know, it's going to be one team playing, the strat team, the forcing objective down,
the other one running out and going for kills, and there's of course going to be cheese going
for executes, right?
Of course.
And you're just trying to fight back.
Superbamber of an unfortunate DC there on the Capitale, and it's one of those, like,
most important operative in the game, you know, you lost momentum, you're not getting
back and then now we're spending here. Yeah. Unfortunately that is the way it happens and look
as those boys are saying we're not the admins right so we aren't going to make no calls but
whatever I say. And hey mind arm. That is absolutely no problem. I got my armchair right here being my
armchair analyst. That's what we're here for so let's have a look at the head-to-head between
these two teams over the course of the last six months. I think that there is some context that
needs to be given here that the fact that Chiefs actually have the upper hand in quite a few of
of these categories, Deb. Obviously, when we actually just kind of hone in on the conversation,
it is quite interesting to see the fact that the Chiefs are headed out on top of Enterprise.
Yeah, I do have a question for whoever whipped up these stats. Does this include just this
iteration of Chiefs and EP?
I believe this is only from the last six months.
Okay, cool.
It's actually, no, it's not even the last six months.
It's just stage one.
Yeah, cool, cool.
It's just stage one, yeah.
Interesting. Wow, it is very tight. The kills are exactly the same.
exactly the same there's only four more deaths on EP KD two different ways to
KD so different despite the numbers being so similar so I say they have four
less deaths but their KD is anyway because they're gamers that KST rating is
nice yeah it's okay nice the most important start here of course is
headshot percentage. Yep, and that's where he'd be really shot at. That's surprising when you think
about the players like those guys are they're gonna they're going for those high rate of fire low
damage weapons right. Yeah look if I have a second I might even get a spin out some more fun stats
for you guys. Please do and while you do so I will just confirm for everyone at home that we are
replaying the round due to lunchbox unable to control his operator at the start of the round so
that has been completely confirmed.
We're running it back 2.0,
and making sure that we get it as fair as we can, Nick.
But it happens in these kind of games,
but this is where we need to reset that mental
and reset the conversation,
because it's a little tough to take from what we've seen,
have a big break like this,
and then go back in expectations
the same as what we had when we were in the rounds.
Yeah, it means, well, about mental game, right?
It's a base of three.
You gotta stay in this long term.
You can easily go, oh my God, launch box.
Why did you go for that risk you're a health player where you know there could be a game breaking bug?
Why did you do this thing or you start kind of blaming your teammate of being a nought at the situation?
Don't. It's a Baylor 3, the Reho sucks for everybody.
Don't get down into the basement about yourself, your own mental or your teammate just played out.
There are so many more rounds that play between these two rosters.
And if you can state it mentally, that's the biggest win that you're going to have.
Yeah, I fully agree. I think the big thing that we notice in those first two and a half,
if you count the third round, is of course like you said, Peggy, we've got one of the
teams, Cheese, who's really focusing on objective. They're coming in with their strats, they've
got their little sends execute, they're planting right next to a Goya, they don't care. It
worked well for them, by the way, notice the planting difference between these two teams.
Cheese has the most plants in the league, tied with Man, LFO and rival with nine team
plans enterprise actually down in 4th with only 12 plans I think that reflects at least
a little bit the fact that I think E.P. are a little bit more of a frag focused team they're
often playing for like a win condition that's not necessarily around like a hate we've got
this preset idea of how we're gonna get the plant down but the other side of what I wanted to see
from those first couple of rounds what we did see was the mental warfare starting and I think
I think jaykin has already talked about it like obviously she's making an argument of why it should be a rehearse
That was in the hands of the admins the admins took a bit of time and they decided it was a rehearse. That's how the game works
That's crazy happens pretty normal nothing out of the ordinary
But of course EP they see that and then it like it's not EP's job to decide whether it's not it's a rehearse
EP just have to play the game in front whether someone's bugged or not bugged or it gets rehosted or it gets reset
that that really doesn't matter, the EP, all they care about is playing the game and then
just being a little bit cheeky, right? Being funny in the old chat because they don't care.
They're going to call him baiting. They're going to say he's a bot. That's just part
of the EP brand.
It is. And do you know what the best part is? If there's one team that could go toe-to-toe
with them, not just in the server, but also in the ship-talking capacity is absolutely
the chief. So as we get back underway with round three, yes, it is being replayed. Yes,
we have the context. No, we don't know the outcome yet. Hopefully, hopefully, it doesn't
happen again. Hey, Michael.
Yeah, thanks boys. And just to clarify in terms of that ruling, there's a bit of a misnomer
around the first 30 seconds. It's not a blanket rule. It doesn't really stay in the rulebook
at any time during the action phase. Player is unable to control or move the operator clearly.
Lunchbox couldn't exit Repel. It's a known bug.
I said player.
Ah, sorry. Lunchbox couldn't. Lunchbox didn't play.
He said any player.
No, haha.
Much better than that Exit Rapalm there for a stuck and look I think that's the right ruling. It was early in the round five
This is five. Let's be real attention in every play and I think that's the credit
It's like I said to you before I mean we've seen one right before right?
You think oh what happens if it was you know 30 seconds to go in the round and one be fly is that not unfair, but I'm
It's happened before I think that's where the ruling changed those it used to be anything after two minutes 30 is the round was live
It and nothing mattered and then yeah, I mean, I think it's a it's a common sense
It's common sense. I mean, it was what 14 seconds after the two and a half and nothing had happened
so we go again round three in terms of
The lineup changes that there is no lineup change for enterprise. Of course, it's still bar games
Point is that you chiefs though are really good. I will say though for chiefs
They they kind of sat still from a good 40 seconds anyway due to the repel bar now
They go a little bit faster lunchbox ironically the first one to die tries to go towards life. We stare back
We'll shut him down. I'm sure Baput will let him know all about it post-routed VP going to win the round
Realize does get rid of jigsaw. That's the warden gone. Adrenal search from Jake. Can it gets everyone nice and healthy?
We've got a 4v4
Yeah, the pacing continues to be quick
Plenty of time now remaining in the road because of the rappel bug
So double stack library stairs then from the defense of EP and as you can see by this blue outlines left off-screen
chiefs looking to map sleep. As Relays will isolate Cairo who finds a good timing, drops
down. No, no, no. It's like watching me. He wasn't shooting through a hard serve.
No, not quite the same, but does he go hunting? I was going to say, there's no way he drops
this. Cairo is going to be aware that he's clearly being hunted, but boy, he catches
player over towards garage, now watches for West Main Stairs. Cairo's played this quite
The pressure that's been on him over the last 20 seconds was quite a lot in the end. He does succumb
It does mean with 60 seconds left to the round choose hands the chance
To take this third round after that repel bug. They invest pretty heavily on the hunt
And it means that that map sweep is no longer their primary objective
That reads into that. Oh, he's got this back and oh the little little pixel of the head
Bappin tries to shoot early. Reloading back.
Relays though switched on. Pops the death mark. Bappin wants to stay aggressive.
Isn't just scared yet. Now he falls back out of mud rooms gives this position
over to Chiefs. Fakena can't quite catch him on the timing though. He's got there
a little bit too late. Imagine if he was there two seconds earlier would have got
the free kill. And smart from Relays too. He ignores Mard. Down goes over to big
window. He's got a good line of sight. Two harm down. Bappin's got to activate inside
and he did. Brando too has been good so far. Get through to Neptune, it's on, they really
slept, that's the demon. Bappin is that guy. What a round and he's going to let them know
all about it in the chat.
Look, that play in isolation was really clean, but I think what clearly allowed him to even
execute that in the first place was the prequel to that over towards mudroom by just layering
pressure and then not overstepping his mic. I think a lot of players in that situation
probably get a bit greedy, probably go searching for the kill, but he survived to live another day,
he absorbed the death mark, got back towards the site, and then he was in a better playmaking
position as a result of that. So some smart play early, and then great mechanics to back it up,
tail end of the round. Interesting to understand in the chat, even though you knew the setup,
and we did the exact same thing you guys still lost, it was close though, Gus, and I think that's
where, you know, trash talking from EPs usually weren't their strong suits, but it was a 4v3,
It really was a 4v2. It took a big effort from Bappen and a bit of a helping hand from
Brando to win that round. Chiefs did a lot right. He just couldn't quite nail the execution
and it did take a wonderful play from Bappen. And this is the kind of game as well. You
can't forget about someone like Bappen. I think coming into this match it's easy to
talk about Jigsaw and player from their respective teams. You think about who's next in line
for their respective teams. Well, BAP is clearly the number two when it comes to EP. Who is
the number two when it comes to Chiefs? Who's that clear standout? Well, it's supposed to
be Neptune. And so far, Neptune 1 and 3 in the opening three rounds. Obviously, a long
way to go. The back to bedroom and office. Chiefs are going to actually slow the pacing
down. They got J. Kenner on the monster. They're going to drop the bullets. I imagine they're
not going to go for that fast plant. They do still have the R.R.U. from the Sands of Neptune.
But I'm starting to get an idea that this one's going to be a slow paced round.
Yeah. And it has to be because you've also played three rounds now.
fast pace, fast tempo. You've had three straight opening deaths. Clearly for
Chiefs, while there has been a level of success, it's not overwhelming. They get
to change up something. Yeah, that average dual typically around one minute
into the round. So we're starting to encroach on that now as J. Kenner with
the Fuser begins his look west main side. I wonder if the the bands had to be the
same as well, because if you think the round they got played out, we went into
and they banned out the form of Blackbeard, but then we went back, did they have to say the same? I guess they would
They banned them heading into this round, but that's okay
No, but that's what I'm saying is we went back to 1-1
So then technically there was they undid the bands
They never did the bands, I don't think
No, they did fall on Blackbeard and then we did the re-hose
I thought they paused the timer, okay
Oh, it's a much lower round
I was too busy scrolling the rulebook
Well 90 seconds left and it's Snaptune that gets the open kill. It seems like the pace change up has worked for cheese.
Finally they get their first opening pick here on Chalet. They get some pressure from down below and so far this looks pretty good.
Yeah, it looks promising. I love this additional dimension from the attack below here from Relays can look to pressure out.
Some of the anchor play here on the display. Kari displaced by the frag grenade.
He pushes forward and almost nets the kills of himself now gets caught
Facing the wrong way for a second round in a row. Yeah, Neptune is down though
And lunchbox also quite low on health because of that play from Cairo and player gets caught from two hun this round is live
It's 3v3 very little for both. You can it's gonna have to do something pretty special here on the Monty at some point
It's gonna have to be brave push forward take some space allow the likes of not the lunchbox and relays to push him behind
They do still have 40 seconds at time of which is enough to get the revive onto Neptune if they move quickly
Right now they're not moving for him. They're gonna leave him behind. They're gonna push into the site as three
Double-stacked solo with relays over it through three stairs to make it a three stack leaves this one dimension
It makes it pretty comfortable for EP to know where this pressure is coming from into bedroom now and plan from Jay Kenner
Will be successful lunchbox stays alive on one HP big battle one against Jigsaw leaves a low health bapin on the vigil
with a lot to do.
Juwan still for help, but he loses out to lunchbox on one HP.
That's huge from Chiefs.
They change up the pacing and they win the round.
It's two to two.
Yeah, they're able to choke them out from that solar side.
And I think, to an extent, AP respected them a little too much.
You could see clearly expecting the double window repel to be in play.
But no, it was a full stack solar.
They leveraged the Monty really nicely.
They're able to get in a tuck plant position.
Position and that post was yeah, very very difficult if not impossible for EP to pull off
So I love the pacing change there that first kill coming just after the midpoint of the round by far the slower
So far first open kill going the way of chiefs in the series so far
It's only one player in the region that has more playing through stage than jay canna it's sharky from man LFO
That's sharky with 11 jay canna now after 10 actually did he get the
No, it was player, they got the first plant. So yeah, J.K. Enron to 10 plants.
Cairo will be entrusted with those duties in the second half, and surprise, he's their best plant, so when it does come to Chalet, it is the map that actually features the most plants in the region, sitting in 19.
Where second with 16 is a reference point.
So far from 4 rounds it's sitting at a 50% rate which is very very high, 2 from 4, kitchen
dining 4th to 5th round.
And I think a much needed round we're 2 for chiefs because in theory they were down 1,
2 but they'd also lost that round, the rehost round so after that opening round the momentum
had swung.
Now it's starting to at least even up a little bit, 2 rounds to go in this half, very crucial
rounds because this is the map that really I think AP should be winning. Bank is
up for grabs as well but you look at the numbers for Enterprise on Chalet it's
very very good. I think Chase have evidently done a good job putting aside
that that re-host earlier if they felt aggrieved they haven't really shown that
in the server so credit to them being able to bounce back mentally. As the
first minute expires here in the fifth. It's the single primary hard breach for
chiefs as a mav can get to work at opening up line of sight and even entry up
above here through offers. It is dining of course so that will be in an attempt
for chiefs to gain vertical control or at least keep this defense and their
ability to deny from above at bay.
Chipponacho in play for EP and Brenda eagerly looking to contest here from
And they've been good with their nitro so far on Chalet.
They're in the strength of theirs, but there's two hunts.
And Bappa simultaneously from two different fights,
Relay's Neptune both essentially getting the opening pick.
That opens up Dining Nails, the option for the plant for launch box.
And he's able to also avoid the next nitro.
Jigsaw falls from above, Neptune catching him.
That's a successful plant again.
Three from five routes for Chiefs.
That's a high ratio.
And leaves Kyra and Brenda in the two versus five post plant.
post plant and talk about pressure with lunchbox sitting at the bottom of trophy
stairs well maybe chiefs might just enter the trash talk as well because
they're about to take the lead three attacking rounds have been converted and
this one is flawless yeah that was really clean there from chiefs and lunchbox
is off his chair I'll tell you what if they make EWC he's gonna have to get that in
check because I'm pretty sure the admin's not gonna be too pleased to be getting up
every three seconds I don't think you can but nice work they drew some
pressure on attention top and then in the meantime he was able to send a deep
site there was in pressure west main bit of a lineup occurring there through the
objective for the opening two and then it very quickly flipped where all three
defenders from EP were top floor with essentially no ability to know where
that plant was going down to even attempt a denial and presumably I think
there was still a bit of like pressure there as well that chiefs were dealing
them so overall a really snappy attack there from chiefs they reach the
benchmark but they'll be pushing for a four it's a versatility again of the
chiefs roster I think I said this last week too so lunchbox gets the plan it's
not uncommon you look at the plants in the league lunchbox I mentioned Jake
Hanna right second with ten plants in the league lunchbox now with that seventh
plant goes up to fourth in the league so you've got two players on the same team
that in the top four for plants. That is a very very uncommon statistic. Typically you will see
one designated planter and then so when you kind of look at the stats you know you'll usually go
through the first six to eight players and it's usually just one from every team. So for them to
have two inside the top four is huge and it creates that flexibility. It means that J.K. for example
now goes on Blitz last round it was lunchbox. They can switch up their roles based on the site all
of these things final round of the half three two for cheats they make this four
two E.P are in some trouble because this is still defend decided on charlie in this region
see if bapin can maybe make another highlight play in the half he begins his work basement
I don't know if that was a mist drone or a good drone from Relays.
Does he have a read onto the position? He does.
Yep.
Bappin will see that drone.
Yep.
So I think Chee's looking to posture for the back store line of sight here.
Bappin clearly now identifying that the Maverick is in play will be thinking the same thing.
And so the question will be does he look to stay in Bappin's path now?
And they can, there's so much time that they can push him.
If he's not going to get some help, he's kind of stuck.
Ooh, and it's against player. What a head to head this is.
There's the ping, there's the pressure.
If you're Baphen now, it's one and done, and you're happy with that.
Nitrocell doesn't connect.
But Kyro does sit blue. He's ready for a shooting, but he's on the wrong side.
Unless, although it has been opened up, Smoke has been used to block off this hole.
This has allowed Baphen to sneak out, and he can actually make his way up.
Baited him, definitely baited him. Really well played, from Kyro and Baphen.
J. Canner and Chiefs thought they had him on the ropes, but he was actually the other way around.
baited into the trap it was like a wounded rapid and the hunt to was coming to finish off the parade
Minute left and now EP with the numbers end Bappin's back to bar
If he goes on to have another big round that is going to be another monumental moment where he's
positioning and game sense he's helping put him in these strong positions so credit to Bappin
and the support leveraged from Cairo 45 seconds on the board or a change up so
So instead of taking it bar stock, they go to try and clear out top of Alphus.
This is scrappy.
Now man, there's not a lot of time.
A lot of the rounds, in fact I'd say all of the round cheats have won, have not been scrappy.
Can they now do it?
Well really it's not about 14, gets rid of Jigsaw, Bapnoe from par, is able to get him
through either the hatch or the floorboard, one or the other, it doesn't matter.
Now Lusk wants to go search, it connects.
At this point you're going to win this round through sheer gunfighting, but the power of
Barstock still in play for Enterprise and that's Shamika launch. You can block off good positioning red time
We go still 3v3 have to hit this shot
Brando does connect after he lost Cairo 2-1 wins his battle from Barstock
They'll double stack together. Run fox has no time. We are tied in this upper bracket final three a piece between these two heavyweights in the region
Blow for blow. Nothing really separating them
team. I think that's a good
idea. No, that one's very
close indeed, and I think
ultimately we kind of come
back to the conclusion that
we had at the very start,
Nick, which is based around
the fact that these two
teams are so evenly matched.
You've got players that have
competed together on both
separate teams. They've already
played each other four times
coming into this series, so
both teams should be feeling
very confident about their
who's going to be the better team on the given day, right?
They scrimmage each other a ton in practice matches.
They know each other's strats internally so well,
unless you've been preparing some first time
seeing strats of this particular matchup,
they're going to be expecting the things
they're going to be doing in the server, right?
The other thing is that we just spoke about briefly, James.
We love teachers of smoke grenades.
We love how they're playing utility.
They have to kind of playing the more passive shooter
braider who died earlier than their final round of the half.
And we have launchboxes,
with more like crazy aggressive kind of blitz player.
So I love how they constantly choose the pace from direct attacks, a little bit more methodical, go for kills, now we force the plant. They're keeping it interesting.
Yeah, I love a lot of what we're seeing from some Chiefs. I think that they have a really new way of playing the game, right?
Like they've come into this stage and they're like, alright, let's start everything and let's start anew.
And I really like the way they work around the shields. Like you said, the smoke grenades as well, just a few examples, right?
like attacking when they were trying to clear out the basement and there was a
rotate hole and so the Blitz couldn't start to flush that player towards the
Mavericks holes because of the crossfire, smokes it up, moves forward. In the end he
didn't realize there was a crossfire from Blue so he did lose his life. We saw
another little creative idea from Chiefs as a way to try and clear out the top of
Blue stairs from display. Instead of just spamming Util and swinging the door
they make a Maverick hole with the player all ready to peek the Maverick holes
and he unfortunately didn't get peaked on the player who was on the stairs so he didn't get the free kill
But it did allow him to control that space
But then a smoke to go out and now allow the Maverick to push in go deep and kill the warden up close
A lot of really creative ideas a lot of patience and a lot of ability to change the plan mid-round
Which I really like from Chiefs at the end of the day though. I think enterprise are really smart team
Their fundamentals really good. That's the way I see it. I think enterprise
I have clearly superior fundamentals and they have gunners
I think chiefs have a real inspired way of playing the game a new way of playing the game
Which is very cool to see how it happens across the whole series
It's very hard to pick because at this point I do feel like these two teams are neck and neck. Yeah, you know
Watching a team be able to adapt like the chiefs watching them kind of I guess find their own personality in the game
It feels like I haven't seen this from an Oce roster or at least I haven't seen this from an Oce roster
it's been forced into a position where they've had another competitor with them since like
2022. Like it's been such a long time since we've had two genuinely competitive teams. They're coming
into this year. There's so much on the line. There's so much to expect. One stat that I kind of
really enjoy from this is all three rounds that were won by the Chiefs were won on the back of
plants. So going further into what we were talking about, Nick, we're just continuing to see momentum
for the for the Chiefs shift. We're watching how they could slowly start to adapt on the fly
and they have a real game plan but in surprise now on attack this is where they can lead their mark
this is where they could go 1-0 up in the series. Yeah Rob I agree with that sentiment in terms of
the fact that there's a real battle at that top there's two teams but the one part for me does is
At this moment don't really know who's the challenger who's the champion. It's not a clear distinction
I think in the oceanic region over the last few years. There's always been that champion team
You think about even the old chief Sarah?
Even for a short amount of time, you know game of gladiators, but while we had challenges to those teams
There was a clear distinction as to who the king was right now. These two were just equal
Maybe we should bring it back to just one slot. No, let's not do that
Maybe three slots three. Yep
Who are we taking the slot away from? Whoever wins the next year is after this.
Who are we taking the slot away from?
I do not speak.
The band's for this particular off.
Alright here we go, Jigsaw bulk.
That's standard set from EP.
Chief's banning out the snake for the first time this stage.
Also the first time EP will have the snake banned out against them this stage as well.
But the real question is, you know that Jigsaw is going to be playing that position just outside of the window, piano window.
Do you even try to challenge him or do you just avoid that sort of position?
Cairo, by the way, is already at the door. Love this play. Again, good call out on the lunchbox.
He just was dancing on the fair nights and that ice gave way. J. Ketter falls as well to Brando.
There goes the Thorn.
AP now bringing the pressure here in the 7th round on their own attack. We'll see if they can get the plant down. To be honest, it's very likely they will.
It's bedroom office and there's only one top floor. That's player. He got tagged up. Seems as if Garen will get this plant successfully down.
He actually got off it momentarily. Maybe the finger slipped off the mouse. I'm not too sure.
And it almost did cost him, but it does not matter. It's a 5v1 post plant make it an ace
Well an ace flawless round from Enterprise
And kind of did the chiefs in what some of those rounds chiefs did to EEP with the plant being very successful into a flawless
And the defense that has been a bit shaky here on Shallay at times. Yeah, I don't think I really expected that
At least in the opening round
I think that the tempo and the style that chiefs looked to play in the first half was certainly
a little more broadcasted in the sense they went for trap heavy op-bans. We're not seeing that necessarily this time around.
Shortest snake and the Blitz both can have that kind of tempo effect, and so by extension
I kind of then expected it to actually go the opposite way, maybe be a little bit smaller.
Is it just top floor though? It could potentially be. It hasn't been defended yet.
Round 1, 4 and now 7, entered off with all one body attack and all by a plant.
So I mean at that point it's a decent sample size for you to suggest that, yeah maybe it's
just the way that the site itself has been played both offensively and defensively.
So I guess if you achieve, you can maybe toss that round to that and to pin a 50-50
the site of the league so far on this stage so it doesn't really stand out as being an
objectively expected to be super attack of the event.
So kitchen dining, which was successfully defended by EP but also won by achieves in
the fifth round so 50-50.
50 I feel like every round on this second half is gonna be well 50-50. I think Nick said it best
That it's the most clear cut analysis I've ever heard from him. Whoever plays better on the day is gonna win
It's a very will boxed in line, but it's very true because the the idea behind it
Is we know that both of these two teams are really good
Just another way you could frame it is whoever has a bad day is gonna lose
So what you're saying is in Zenox goes pro
We need to do is kill the other person and you can win four times. Yes
Looking like another solar side shape up here from the attack we've seen a few of those over the course of the map so far
We'll see how vigorously chiefs I like to try and defend here. It's a
Three and put me for one split at the moment. So player the only one on site. He has nitro for the vert
The rest of the chief shaping up to try and contest E.P. against this map control would potentially leave them vulnerable to that West main sneak that we did actually see chiefs on the attack try to execute.
So that's something to just keep in mind. There is some vert clearly in play though, Neptune in position to deal with that accordingly.
Yenis will be on how to E.P. look to shape up. Big focus trophy currently from them with Cairo having that kit in hand close by on the window.
And that's a stat we bring up a lot but 90% kill conversion right now in terms of the the route opening kill conversion
So it has had a pretty big influence in this match
Cairo searching to the credit achieves. They're not really giving up a lot of their positioning
It's causing a B to have to kind of guess here like I don't have no idea. He doesn't know about player
Quick reaction from Cairo
Oh player thought he had him on toast did not matter as Cairo is able to turn that shield in time get the killing
So force off the plant here comes lunchbox gets the kill on to jigsaw and Cairo does go down for relays
Well talk about a roll of coaster all around still to attack is outside
So if you haven't been able to capitalize on that control and psych pressure
Cheese to dismantling them that jk and I gets rid of too hard
But Bapen! Oh, and Brando again as they did back on Bargames.
They do so here on the attack of Kitchen Dining.
They combine three quick quills to close it out.
It's now three straight rounds to Enterprise.
They felt like Chase had that.
I felt like E.P. had that.
And then Chase had it for a moment.
And then E.P. apparently had it.
It's going to force a tactical timeout from Chiefs.
And Bappen now goes to double digits 10 and 3. By the way, Jigsaw has one kill.
Wow.
If we hadn't spoke to Nate Pregame and said, by the way,
eight rounds in, Jigsaw's got one kill. How do you think that you're going?
He said, we probably went in the game. They're down 3-5. Now Bappen has stepped up massively,
and that's probably again why EP did what they did in Salt Lake City. Such a well-rounded roster.
I think that would be an interesting metric to see over the course of the stage so far.
What has Jigsaw's lowest kill game been and then what was the result of that matchup?
It would just be an interesting data point to know.
This stage absolutely, yeah, because I was going to say career-wise he's had so many
20 bombs where he lost anyway, that didn't matter, but...
I don't think there'd be too many where he was getting one or two kills across a map
and they went on to win that one.
No.
I should apologize Jigsaw has two kills.
Okay.
I think because we're the rehost, we lost the first one or two rounds data, also Bappin's
on 11.
Is that a 10?
It looks so good for Chase, 3 vs 2.
Couple of plays still out, and then they just hit good vault timings.
Yeah.
Simple as that.
Yeah, rapid.
That's the second time that's really happened, I think in this match now, that E.P. had
won a round in that sort of fashion.
So you're kind of talking about the way the rounds are being won.
The boys in the desk of course brought up that the win play for
Chiefs in the first half came down, you know the plans and the quick rushes etc.
Well, he'd be kind of winning in every other facet. That doesn't blow well now for
Chiefs going on to their defense. In terms of raw gunfighting, Enterprise has been better.
Opening kills as well is now six to two. That is a big domination in a match
where the opening kill has been converted in every round except the opening round.
Five deathmarks available for bathroom in this round. He'll go for the horizontal clear kitchen
side and defuser will be left near double window perhaps giving an indication as to what the game
plan is for EP in terms of ending the round game side. I think so we'll look to deploy his utility.
Oh, they got shot out. Some of that being shot out and disrupted so he has to remain in,
eagerly looking for those banshees which will disrupt the pacing of EP especially if they
leave the push late in the round. Well, yeah, with the shock drones and the clutch drones anyway,
it's a very drunk heavy lineup for enterprise which on bar games is fine.
They don't bring the capitals, so I mean they're pretty much entrusting that they can clear out all of the defensive utility
to then help facilitate their entry, rather than needing to bring a whole raft of entry centric operators.
A little bit of reliance there, maybe on the candelas from Brenda.
Yeah, that's going to be the most interesting part. How do they look to layer utility for the final execute?
I think brendo will be key death mark. She should have double most of that utility double window is the best wincon for them
They've brendo currently posh string over to what half wall maybe looking to clear out mezz and library stairs
Yeah, I like the candela's here just for the top floor clear midway through this round
I mean, that's every single one though. So we'll see if that is you know costly late brown
That doesn't matter if you get the kills and baffin does get the open kill into Neptune
and gives them the space.
Baphen, another one.
Well, he's feeling it right now.
12 and 3.
Oh, wow.
Brando too has also had a very good game, by the way.
He goes up to 8 and 2.
And this round looks done.
And as I said, unfortunately, the start of this round,
in terms of raw gunfighting, Enterprise
has just been so much better.
Player needing to stand up.
Fines 2 over swings, though.
Jigsaw held the angle nicely.
three map points for enterprise on their map pick of charlotte it looked close at the half but
enterprises attacks have just been flawless well rounds consecutive yeah they've really
locked in here e p uh dare i say dominating in this second half and cheese unable to maintain pace
e p had a pretty clear game plan in a lot of these rounds they've been pretty well telegraphed
as well so I don't think it's necessarily an issue of chiefs having a struggle in reading
it it's kind of just finding a way to break down these attacks that's clearly proving
to be a problem. That last round it was a pretty classic kind of two-prong attack you
have Bapin sending it over towards horizontal from kitchen you then have the candela dump
top floor for the clear and they just every single engagement was against them.
I love the confidence about it, bang all my orbs.
For what it's worth, he's most played operators on attack, Capitow, Deimos, and the Solid Snake.
Got rid of two of them.
Yeah, the clash as well to join the bench for defense as we return to the top floor.
And that doesn't bode well for chiefs given just how attackers started this particular
objective has been so far and I don't really envision the bans influencing that too much.
You could make an argument that losing Deimos takes away some of the verticality here for
the attack so if E.P. were to have got it in down below then they could start pressuring
those on site with maybe a little more comfortability so we'll see if that makes a big influence
in the round but I'm not expecting it to move the needle that much.
One of this is also the kind of game does you know does player for him individually he's been a bit quiet four and eight
Is that assists?
Not at fault, but these are the kind of games were mentally it's a challenge going up against your old team
They dumped you they got rid of you that said things about you
Obviously you want that payback you want that revenge?
That's a long series, back to follow after this.
Chiefs won't give up just yet, but need to win three straight rounds.
P-kill from lunchbox onto two hard, onto the fingers so no attrinal surges available.
Man, really, it's caught.
Tyra has been very, very good on the shield play in this match, especially on the Blackbeard.
He finds two very important kills.
Advantage again for Enterprise, and again it's this mid-round where they've been far
better.
Don't forget the last time an opening kill was not converted back in round one, well
Chief's got the opening pick this round.
now defensively we'll need to look to get proactive here try and find a pick
before EP can set for the final push. Trekenna isn't a good position half
walled although identified there by the Ratero of Bappin.
EP will likely now look to try and isolate that position. Frag grenades are
available here for the attack. There's so much utility for frag grenades, lion scan.
Well how's this? I mean this is a really awful position for Chiefs. How's this
though for one of your support players. They knew he was there. In Cairo, 4-0 on the entry,
big two kills in this round, now handed over the diffuser, minute left, they've just long
branded it. Jay Canada, Jay Canada has woken up. Well, Cairo is going to have to once again
put that gun to use. I tell you what, with Bapan and Cairo still alive, this round's not done yet
for Enterprise. It looks like they've already converted an array of 2v3s. This time though,
Bapham can't get through, J.K.N.R. Stone walled out, Neptune gets through to Cairo.
Well, there's one on the board, two more needed four Chiefs.
Rumpfbox out of his chair again.
I'm certainly not spelling the demise of Chiefs just yet.
No, not really. I'm a little perplexed by that round from E.P.
I'm pretty confident that Bapham would have seen J.K.N.R. there towards half wall
off the back of the early Ratero, and that about 20 seconds later,
They played as if they had no idea he was there or perhaps expected him to a rotated
We saw the lion vault the follow-up was weak. Jake Hanna played it phenomenally, right?
Like he was in a high-pressure situation had to capitalize with the DMR
He did exactly that but it felt like there may have been a disconnect there from EP
And I'll probably be a little bit frustrated that he was allowed to have that presence on that position in the map
The fight back from the mid-round was great Kara the double, but then right here
20 seconds prior to that I should have been spotted and identified but AP with so much utility and a lot of time at that point just made a bit of a meal of it.
Yeah I mean you've played 10 rounds of siege I think you can afford the one kind of slip up. I think they've been pretty much perfect up until that point.
And that's probably the way that they're going to frame it as well.
So catch him dining. Chief leader with the next two to force overtime on
Shelly, a reminder by the way in the Supply Fraction Final, the winner of this
series will qualify for the Esports World Cup. Two slots for the Oceanic region.
So by qualifying for the Grand Final, of course you're gonna get one of those two
slots guaranteed.
Which is what makes this final
Just as good as if it were potentially a grand final of course if they were to rematch in the grand final it would still be
Quite significant in terms of seeding implications principle money si points, etc. So there's a lot on the line there
This is a big one
You do not want to be tempting fate no
You don't
there's plenty of teams globally have fallen to especially for chiefs I think
it's not a disrespect thing it's just more of an EP of being there done it if
they do drop this it's like okay well you probably imagine their quality will
get them out of that lower bracket but chiefs that he kind of entered a little
bit of that unknown territory having not qualified
Jekena, oh good pop flash, yeah that's gonna keep his position and he does test fate with
the doorway cross.
Oh that reposition though gets a little bit of damage onto Bapham.
Bapham's now out of smokes by the way, there are no more smokes available for the Glazz.
Halfway through this round, opening kill goes the way player and chiefs.
Brotherable fall, flashbang dump in towards Ligre but not followed up by Jigsaw who's
still struggling in this game.
Guys, three kills in ten rounds of siege for the region's best player.
Player speaking of, double on Tatooie and Jigsaw.
And with Cairo falling, let's go and see every single round of regulation on Chalet.
She's have got themselves off the canvas.
They looked knocked out. It was four straight to Enterprise.
Man, they're just getting a little bit stuck in the mud at the moment, AP.
Again, credit to Jay Kenner, he's had another really good round.
He absorbed a lot of utility early in that round, Mez.
Essentially forced to pivot out from AP, he didn't then have what was required to actually
flush him out, didn't have the advantage then to play off, had they found the kill.
Looking at locked in, Chief, so I'm here against Bathtun.
That's respect.
Yeah.
Well, five to six, respect to Chief, they brought this back.
Two rounds straight, need to make it a third.
lunchbox of that chair
they're gonna have to strap it down
he's gonna need a seatbelt
lock him in
honestly and it might
he's like wait I can look up the strats for bar
he's looking at the playbook
I really hope they actually make it easy.
If they qualify, they're gonna look at him like,
excuse me, fans are not allowed in until later in the event.
I hope it doesn't actually mess with him mentally
if he doesn't make a land event.
He's playing well in this game though.
It's actually the highest EPS player in the cheese,
which is under 100.
It's a rare sight, guys, that you don't,
especially the 5-6 score, right?
There is not a single player in cheese
that is above 100 EPS right now.
Yeah, they've been grinding big time in this matchup.
But there's only one player that's below 93 which is Jake Kenner and he's still 5'7 and he's he's he's shrunk through to the
Opening deaths that he had very early on in this match. I just argued he's a big reason why they're even in this position after last two rounds.
Yeah, so you don't always put the full emphasis on the stats.
Gotta pass that eye test and he certainly has.
Big round coming up.
And again look at that.
Look at the opening kills. Not since the opening round was that first pick not converted into a round win.
It's had a big say in this match.
I mean, it's too high quality technical teams and they're just not making a large volume of mistakes.
To the ethos of what Peggy was saying, whoever plays better, if you're getting those opening kills, you're playing better.
You're getting those advantages. Two teams on equal footing, that's a separator. That's a difference maker.
Only one nitrocell this round for chiefs in the hands of lunchbox. We go bar games.
There should be a stall outside. Wouldn't be surprised if this comes down to the last 30 or so seconds.
I think the microscope is on EP this round though to show some synchronization. The last couple of
rounds there has arguably been some shortfalls and chiefs have been able to capitalize and get
get themselves well and truly back into this opening map. If they push OT, it really will
be anyone's game in those three rounds.
Have not brought the docker bees since round 7. So interesting to harm now on this operator.
Jigsaw's switched off. I honestly think Jigsaw's playing the Flores because he just feels he
can't kill anyone right now. None of these operators really in this half since round
have been what you would consider aggressive operators, you know, Capitao, Lyon, Flora, Ace.
These are the more supportive operators to help enable others.
The region's best player. Maybe of all time. And he's sitting at three kills.
Well, Snake is his most played and got banned out. Typically he'll pivot onto the dangerous,
also banned out. He trod on the honor a little bit, but you wouldn't expect that in this match.
Another Candela tough, all four again, top four. But here he is.
Speak of the devil and he shall appear. Huge kill onto Jake Kenner.
Karak does fall, and so does Tuhan.
The opening kill for EP. It's dead. They got it.
That's been a huge metric, but it seems in this round it may not matter.
As Jigsaw falls, with that maybe the hopes of EP to close this in regulation,
but a huge pick from Prendo, through the hatch, on to player.
Makes it a 2 vs 3 with 40 seconds.
There are so many difficult positions to clear, though.
Barstock in play, library stairs also in play.
So Nitro as well for lunchbox 30 seconds doesn't leave a lot of time
It feels as if it's gonna have to just come down to a push-in swing and hit your headshot
Oh, and who's better at that than Prendo and Bappin? Bappin knows this one library stairs. They're split
That allows Prendo to take a 1v1 against lunchbox. Whoever wins this 1v1
I think wins this round and potentially the map in Brendo's experience pays dividends down to relays against his former team
Bappin goes for the plant inside of Barbrainer has got the cross and EP have got the map.
Oh my word!
A 7 of 5 Barbrainer on Chalet gets this up a blackhead final off to a hot star, but it
feels like there's a lot more still to come.
Bank, after this.
Hi, my name is Chris, also known as Plough. I play for Chiefs in the APL. When I was a
kid I was really goofy and I would run around trying to make everyone laugh you
know the normal game of life I would never do any homework, skip school as much as
possible and just goof around. I wouldn't say I was always a gamer as a kid but I
played a few games every now and then. The first game I would say I've never played
was at my friend's house we played battlefront, an old battlefront and that's
kind of so I guess it started with the FPS straight from there. Yeah so I have a
sister I wouldn't say it's always been very competitive between us but I feel
like now it could be and she's older than me so she's definitely helped me across
everything in terms of just growing as a person. I think my competitive spirit
definitely came from just me as a kid trying new things for sure and I think
a lot of people have told me that when I put my all my focus on something and
when I really do enjoy it I get really good at it and I think that really drives
my competitive spirit in terms of like gaming and just anything sports as well.
I started off playing like a soccer and I was very competitive in it.
I played for a lot of academies as a kid so I really enjoyed it and definitely was like
something that I tried to pursue.
I definitely stopped because of the gaming, yes it kind of took over and I drew all my
focus from like just like sports and fitness just to gaming.
Fitness is definitely something that I've drawn too because I kind of gaming took over
and now it finishes something that I look back on just for everyday life
because that's something I kind of grew apart when I started gaming.
My first game that I was obsessed about was TF2.
I think the, just how fast paced it was and like how funny it can be
also the competitive factor of it as well.
Obviously Siege came in and I started playing when I was like 13, 14 on my PlayStation
and my obsession just started from console days.
Yeah, I think I was really obsessed with TF2 at that time.
It was just like a funny game that was a minute and it was just like just beating everyone in the public lobbies was just really fun.
But I'd say when I was young, Siege definitely took over that obsession, committed into this game, playing it every day after school, and then I guess I eventually moved to PC.
On console Siege, I didn't play that long. I think it was just about maybe like a year.
And I was honestly like a complete new, like, first controller game.
I got good kind of fast and then when I kind of like peaked on console, that's when I wanted to move to PC.
I hit Diamond and Skull Rain, so it was like around 6k elo.
I don't think I was good still, but I hit the rank.
I think I wanted to move to PC because I watched a lot of like content creators in time like Serenity, 17, Kickstar,
and like the movement just seemed so like fun and like obviously like the pro league scene.
I kind of wanted to move to PC as well as like other games as well.
I think it was just like a lot more fast paced, mechanic based, it just looked a lot more fun, so that's why I kinda wanna get this.
What the hell?
What the hell?
What the hell?
What the hell?
How quick you can start out the driver's seat and end up in the passenger seat watching
your own game fly by. Unfortunately for the Chiefs, they looked so good in that final
round dev, but ultimately, EP. And by EP, I kind of mean Brendo, brings it back from
a 2v4. Like crazy. Give Bappen some credit as well. He did everything he could to drag
that game over the line for EP. He did. Look, this map has shown me a lot of things, a lot
of reasons to be impressed by both teams. Pardon me. I feel like Chiefs, as I was kind
I think the reason why I'm so impressed by them is because obviously my expectations are appealing.
They made it so deep at Sonic C, into top 8. We expect them to be world class, we expect them to be champions in this region.
So for Chiefs to even be able to come close to them, I think is impressive.
And I think that Chiefs are well organized, I think they've got a good system in place.
However, the thing that Chiefs are lacking right now, that EP having spades, is that aura man.
So much for their ability to frag the hell out to go crazy to win a 2v4 and match point to go four rounds in a row and then start to lose momentum and then close out anyway. Yeah, that's the EP diff. Yeah, it is. And I think when you look at the two players individually as you were talking about and alluding to their
Baffin and Brenda, you know, they are just
they are
Very solid players
The irony that jigsaw is not needed in the game like this to pop off and and you have players like that Nick that you can lean on
That you can look back to the get
Jigsaw 4 kills
Jigsaw number 12 rounds
Yes, that was gonna be my point because when we obviously had a rehost so we lost from the stats
But going into the other half jigsaw was down zero four on the scoreboard right now in the crimes
They go to the attack inside and she's do something very smart in my mind
They notice jigsaw is struggling and see how how does this guy usually get very comfortable?
He plays the operation gives him information to make the solar place right so they ban the solid snake immediately
And it's okay jigsaw struggling take away his crotch operator
He's gonna continue to struggle and he did jigsaw never woke up in this game in up four and nine not influential whatsoever
It was Brenda the back down support player and it was bad been keeping these guys alive
Had not been to that very clutch final from Brenda it goes into OT and I generally think that a cheese could get us all
Way to a 6-6 scoreline. Yep, they would also take it in overtime
So it's such a shame for cheese that they fall short at the very final step of that map a big shout out to player as well
Who was going one and five? Yeah, I think we're going into maybe the seventh or eighth round turned it around completely
obviously yes there is a comeback for the chiefs but it was stopped abruptly by enterprise.
But the big question is what happens next? We go to bank which is chiefs map pick and if you're
enterprise right now you can't you can't let this story change. You need to direct the narrative.
You need to get back on that horse. You have to force not just I guess the the viewers expectations
but the region's expectations depth back into your favor because we came into today saying well
Who is the better team? Because it is neck and neck at the moment, but this is when it matters. This is when it counts.
And genuinely, I feel like while on paper, she should be favoured on Bank because they won in the best of one on this map.
But when these two teams played each other, I really wouldn't put it past EP to bounce back from that.
Of course, we saw EP beat Manila foe quite convincingly on Bank in the upper bracket semifinal.
On the flip side, Chiefs really struggled against Rival. They only won that game in overtime, which is a huge surprise because
Bank is meant to be one of Chiefs' strongholds. They've shown us an EP. They've played a lot of Bank, there's a lot of material out there.
I think they had four plays in the group stage, including a 7-1 over Arcade. So they really have played a lot of this map they like, a lot of material out there.
I have a feeling that EP will come into this game with a very different looking Bank to what we saw from them in the group stage.
And I don't know despite every positive stuff I've said about Jeeves. I'm starting to lean towards an EP2-0 here
I feel like they're such momentum based team and I feel like winning that 2v4 has really set the time for them.
Nick, where do you sit on that argument? I saw you take a deep breath there.
Yeah, I would be with you James if Jigsaw had also showed up in the previous game.
I feel like Bangalore rely heavily on Jigsaw's individual performance and it sounds absurd to say that one player can define everything
But I do think that she strategically play style wise. They're gonna be more comfortable more sound here on bank
They were so close on she laid a map that is a whole different play style. They're actually holding on very effectively
If jigsaw goes 0-4 again on the half and it ends up like 4-9 or whatever
I don't think there's any realistic world where EP can take the map unless someone else stops Tony kills
And that could be any of the other four players don't give me wrong. Yeah, but it relies upon that performance
I could set the flip side of that like you know play win one and five
for a lot of that game for cheese
but they got the stats
well, okay, I'll go to capture again
I'll tell you, Capitao in your sense
Geeks are only got 4 kills, but did you see Brendo?
Well, obviously back in Top Frag with 14 kills
but Brendo went 12 and 4 by the way
so, they lost 5 rounds
he only died 4 times
like, Brendo is such a consistent place
but they said you can do a bank individually, right?
yeah
just zoom in on that, this is a great spot
I'm arguing with a TV screen
sitting on a cash next to you
Okay, there's no way to do this.
Final point, Mike. Final point that I have, okay?
Shelly and Bordor, et cetera.
Individuals can do so much work.
Tophouse and Bang, for example.
Not more about the team coordination, the excuse, the setups.
I think the Chief's playstyle being that more team-centric focus
versus EP's individualism.
EP needs star players to frag out to the Chancellor and Bang.
Final point.
I'm in data fighting. I want no more of this.
I just want to get into this game because I'll be honest.
Keep it, Jake Venditti!
Actually, you know what?
Let's give it a Jake Venditti.
Jake Venditti coming to you live thanks to the man in the screen.
By the way, for those that don't know, James has already punched Nick in the face.
Not in person, twice.
He's punched him twice. He's almost knocked him over.
It's about time that Nick starts to fight back from the screen.
Oh, 300 ping. I don't think he'd win.
No.
And he's also half the size.
Not only is he in the screen, so the punch is going to do nothing, but then it's also 300 ping delayed.
So by that point, it's like, James has already left the building.
Alright, let's get into bank. Chiefs start on defense and well, Shalei ended up, I think, by the conclusion.
It matched the heights of what we expected in this upper bracket final.
It got to a point though, at probably 6-3, where it just felt like EP, we're just going to be too strong, run away with it,
which I think would have been a little bit disappointing to the state that Chiefs have had thus far,
thus far but credit to Chiefs they brought it back they could have even sent it to OT if not for
the clutch from Brenda. We head into Bank now after that 7-5 on the opening map which was the pick
of EP. Now Bank this is supposed to be Chiefs domain but the problem is EP are also incredibly
proficient on Bank as well. So the bands for the first half Monty and Capitel accompanied by the
asami and the clash and as I look across at the bands typically for both of these
two teams the only one that does stand out as being a little bit left to fit is
that clash band from EP typically they'll go for like a mirror asami
combo that's most typical for them but let's switch it up a little bit here and
clash actually is fun enough an operator that has seen a bit of ban right
against chiefs and for reference typically though it is actually the
high-yeed most frequently banned in combination with the castles so certainly
some interesting prep heading in to this matchup what do you think of the
Monty and the Capitao is it just leave a spot open for what you're potentially
losing to you if you need to get rid of another shield it's effective right you
ban two shields that's fine but then also at the same time if you're losing to
you know ying or Deimos or so flexible for both the Capitao is also very
First to right you can flush out top floor. It's great for bot hits as well
Second most attack a sided map in the region for what it's worth when it comes to banks hitting at 63% attack a win rate
Maybe start on the attack first up
Still very heavy row here from cheese maybe looking to commit as opposed to peeling it's often a
Big decision to make when defending this map. Do you go down at the first side of contact or do you try and fight and
Try and split apart this attack even a fall four sometimes can be a little more favorable for the defense depending on which operator you find
Oh jigsaw and Neptune are basically right next to each other
Oh and jigsaw's the one that hits the head shot. The fan-ice is good and he puts it to good use. Shots down the visual lurk
But it was too hard that just went down slightly before the loss of Neptune giving the opening kill to chiefs for me before they can fall back to site
I hesitate to say that's a massive advantage for chiefs and not playing the Goyo
Kyra gets through the relays now. It's a massive advantage for enter tries certainly in terms of the numbers
You do start with Lung Park sling around star, but I imagine you'll play the drop pretty quickly if you get to it
He seems as if he is having some trouble, does get the kill off of Brenda, is he expecting
I think a flank behind may be coming from Cairo and is to get down now.
Oh my goodness, that's risky.
He was about two more seconds away from dying.
Cairo did indeed flank from square.
So 3v3 40 seconds, lunchbox is low, still a nitro with player and most importantly
Yokai still up. And 30 seconds, it's not a terrible position here for Chiefs. If
EP Electra try and go for the plant, which we know they love, but that's the
diffuser now. On an island. Funnily enough, Bap has got one call available
technically through Chargers, but one only onto J. Kena. As Kyra goes down to
Playa, Chiefs now on the verge of taking the opening round here on Bank. They've
got a 6-1 record on Bank. EP event, 8-2 record. These are both very good
teams when it comes to this map, but Chiefs look like they will land the first
flow as they did back on Chalet. Yo Kai goes up on the roof and Bapper knows for
while he's not winning this one he'll stay at zero zero and zero as cheats go
to one. Yes I'll start for Chiefs. More players taking off he's no strip. Maybe
that's a sign of things to come. Maybe he was hindering him. I believe that was
back on map one where that... he took it out, took it off early in the piece. Not really for him.
Don't know if I would be wanting to change up too much
So he started slow maybe he took it off and yeah, I'd love to see a stat post a pre-poster
What was his pre and post no strips
Maybe for Neptune he might need to think about it seven ten
Him starting this year as well
I mean this was at a fighting moment because the fact that lunchbox was actually out of position had to get back to the hatch
He ended up getting another kill because of that, and then the timing on the Karaflank was just sublime.
And so a couple of things did go the way it achieved, to help them wrangle that round back,
because for a conventional sense of locker CCTV, it was not played the way you would typically see it in this region,
far more into that Rome heavy first floor gunfighting.
Hence why it was a 3v3 by the time we kind of drew our attention towards the site.
In other regions, that's certainly probably on the common side of things, but when it comes to Osh, Osh, Osh,
you definitely see that stack down in basement.
Let's go top floor.
I'm intrigued to see how this particular objective has actually been shaping up an OS over the
course of this heavily attack design at 67%.
The only site on this map that's defended site is actually Starfleet Open Area sitting
at 63%.
Which is very strange to even see lockers in CCTV sitting at a whopping 71% attack of
win rate in 21 rounds.
That seems weird.
I'm going to refresh.
In terms of weird as well, I probably expected chiefs to lean into the mirror for this side.
It's up and available, they've banned out the Capitao, which is so commonly used to try and flush that out.
They like not to though.
I still eagerly want control of Jann though, if E.P. end up shaping for that direct hit.
And so evidently, the body's in that position at the moment.
So I don't know what's... The track has been a little bit funky this stage. I've given it a refresh.
Um, and yeah lockers is now 28 rounds 54 attacker win rates. It's actually still
I don't know what to fall and yes still staff open area the only defensive side at site
This site sitting at 60% in favor of the attack slow to get going halfway through the second round still 5v5
Not a lot has really developed a lot of dump utility available for enterprise. I'm going to bother counting how many flashes they've got available
It's actually seven
I counted it as half literally after I said I wasn't counting it.
Your brain and your mouth weren't connected there for a moment.
The brain was counting and was like, what do you mean you're not going to count it?
I'm already doing it.
You're kind of a rotate from J.Kana.
Well, 60 seconds.
Maybe you're going to have to make that move at some point.
At any point.
There's still five trucker payloads available from Brendo.
Realize takes a bit of damage from Janidot.
Kairos is bolstering over towards square.
There's still a lot of players that need to make their way in, and as soon as Tuhan tried to make his way in from the terrace, immediately dead.
Net you with a long-angle DMR from front desk.
I hope he didn't kill with the Chiefs.
EP looked very stalled out, and you don't see that off.
This is slow. Very slow. 30 seconds.
Two gas babes still up, but Kairos is able to find one.
As really as he drops below, it gets caught.
That was an intriguing move, flushed out.
Jigsaw under the pump, trade attempt here from Chiefs.
Cairo, though, but by himself planting inside a CEO with Brando down Janitor.
He's only got a bit of help maybe from Bap and he's actually backfilled in.
Cairo can't stick it either. He has to reposition.
Now, we do have Yo-Kai's available from J. Ken.
He's going to try and time this and he does connect, but immediately back on will be Cairo.
But the time, if he dies here, Chiefs will get the round.
Cairo, though, stays alive.
The air jab helping out, lunchbox was stalled, they lose Jay Kenner, he went in solo, lunchbox now indeed is solo in the post-plant.
Jigsaw still in that first floor position. As of right now, lunchbox can take the 1v1 against Bappen, but he needs to pick up the pace.
Jigsaw over towards Archive, opening up below with the skeleton key.
He's with no idea where Bappen is, now he does, over towards airlock.
20 seconds gets the kill but still with jigsaw below that feels like the final boss for lunch box
He's aware of it. He's trying to dance around all the time. He connected with a random hit fire tough
Jigsaw was that low on health. It just took a random spree and he will connect for the count of the views get off your chair, son
What a play there it is
And the crowd goes wild.
Yeah, what a moment for Barks.
Yeah, huge.
Look, credit to EP for even getting that plant down.
It looked really dire there with about 30 on the clock.
And if the yokai's still up as well, it was really dicey, but they were able to make it
work.
Yeah, even in that, so it's a post-plant 1v2, Bapin plays airlock, and you've got jigsaw
below on the bark.
I mean, that's not guaranteed by any means.
Actually, it was 1v3. Sorry, I forgot about his first kill on Takara, so 1v3 clutch for Lodgebox.
And even then, when he got that kill on his back in 15 seconds, so you got, what, 7 seconds or 8 seconds or whatever?
Yeah, that's huge for Lodgebox. That's massive, and I wonder if that gets the team going.
When the young gunner is able to make plays like that, and it just gives...
I don't know what your lip-syncing skills are like, but he said something along the lines of,
I'm so effing good
He was bumped up after that, why wouldn't you be?
Honestly the amount of clutches we see from that kind of position on a site like that
That is a once in a year kind of player at best
So that's a massive moment for Chiefs
And look at it, for the first time in this series now I feel as if there's some pressure being added
He's almost the highest raid player in the server through the two maps
Which is quite important considering they've lost the first map
And he's I'm pretty certain that the youngest player in the server
Likes a lot of the experience that these EP players have. Yeah, it's the new generation coming through lunchbox is now starting to really reach
He's he's peak
He's kind of studying domestically if they are to go on and qualify for EWC international exposure
We hold the cat sorry calling the oceanic stomping
Well one of them is going to play EWC, the other's not.
The other might not.
One might be playing, one definitely isn't.
I probably would have played the same chat.
It's a Tongian cheek, it's a joke.
Wow, you've got to be careful these days mate, there's probably a reddit photo already
live off that comment.
I'm going to down into this round though, range hard breach of course is available and
so Brando can get to work from the lobby repel if he so desires to cut that cross.
Oh, I got it!
I'm done with the game.
And the star player from the last round is dismissed quickly and playing smoke too so
no gaspapes available for chiefs.
Any time I pump up the tyres of a player it's just immediately deflated.
I'm gonna stop.
getting actually quite scary it's only taking you what seven years to realize
that I mean I basically forced you into reviving six years ago that you didn't
listen maybe you'll learn it that's on point tricky position now for chiefs as
they kind of get caught in between anchoring the side and trying to be
proactive and find a pick back it's a really not a desirable position they do
have three nitrates left that could be their ability back into the valley
They've literally got nothing else.
Mint said on the NAAL desk a few days ago the more nitros you've got the better of the chance you have of winning.
The numbers actually reflected. It's not a misnomer.
The only color was at C4 Maxing?
Yeah, C4 Maxing.
Thank you Mint.
Oh the timing for the play up!
Nitros all won't save you that.
No, I certainly won't.
And now they've only got one active.
Kara now goes up to 5 kills, top fragging for Enterprise, and 30 seconds that's probably the last hope we have for Chiefs.
Time hopefully will be on their side. Outside of that, it feels like it's not looking great, but it can't be.
Relays into tower position.
And now for the drop, he can test the drop, this is a big play.
Creep up from Tuham, didn't work.
The drop hasn't actually come to fruition just yet at all, probably because of Relay's position over the wall's printer.
Still got a drop, there he is, and that's kicked down as well.
There we go!
Relays activates.
He does go down and it's a 1v1 from back to the Neptune,
but Neptune takes the battle,
hits the headshot with one second left.
He didn't even need to take the fight.
Chiefs go three-nothing up here on bank.
And on defense as well,
for the most attack-assided map
that we've got in the region.
Wow.
I mean, what a play from Relays.
5v3 30 seconds left and again Enterprise very slow feels like they're stuck in the mud
Really knew he was on there and by isolating that first pick printer window he knew that
It was hatched drop and at main stairs that he had to cover and he's just timed it perfectly and EP just weren't able to trade it
Tactical time out for enterprise also finally there's a lack of trash talk coming from chiefs
Like you're 3-0 up on bank, you're forcing AP to attack.
This is when you gotta try and give a little bit of that smack back.
I think they're just letting the siege and the server do the talking at the moment.
I don't think the trash talk is going to have much more influence, AP.
What about if they win the series?
If they do the classic post-game trash talk?
Well, Nate would be very happy with this stuff.
And it's been very level-headed this stage and a lot of the interviews we've spoken about it
He's made it very clear they want to be better than enterprise
They want to be the number one team in the region and while it was close on charlay there were shortcomings
But so far this has been perfect
Three straight defensive rounds
And they get to go back to lockers and a CCTV
They do lose the echo so that's taken out of the hands of Jake and he's actually put that to pretty good use in the first
three rounds guys so that's a loss but they get rid of the thatcher that's
interesting it hasn't been played at all and it's not as is as if thatcher is like
a very prominent operator when it comes to bank
has it a guess has it a thought
I said they banned thatcher okay so I didn't hear what you said I was looking
I didn't know the time I wanted you to point it out to me without throwing me out of the bus and throwing me out of the bus.
I'm just going to listen to you, I'm standing right next to you talking to you.
It's not even like you're on a screen.
I mean, the voucher here, if it is to be used, it's probably most likely is the denial against either Nitro's or...
I mean, the OK, so I got against that anyway.
The interesting thing to see is how the, oh, okay, well, Lunchbox gets caught this time
around.
We know he's been ultra aggressive in this open area position.
This is the same as me versus I9 and 22, getting confident, getting cocky, starting to be a
little bit overzealous, and Lunchbox goes 5-0 to start, and rightfully playing well.
But two rounds now, he has given his life away pretty freely, opening death in rounds
three and now four.
It's also interesting when you consider that they banned out the Thatcher, brought the
Kaid and they're still playing open red, you would have expected maybe the turtle or at
the very least if you're going to play it you do the fallback strat.
Getting caught there is a big misplay from Lunchbox and I think it'd be quite disappointing.
And the fallback strat, you want to bring the numbers and fall back together, not really
this kind of solo play.
This has opened up the path now for Enterprise to go through the checklist.
They know it's going to be a fall stack for Chiefs outside of Neptune playing Blue Stairs,
He'll need to be very careful because they cannot afford to into that played life
The blue stairs player typically can play for their life and once that square hatch gets opened up
They're kind of stuck on this island, but you've already lost lunchbox. I'd rather see Neptune try and fall back
The pre-placed nitro cell could be interesting if Enterprise are not aware of this
They're just trying to clearly bait them towards the doorway, but I mean they're very much aware that that nitro is sitting there
I did allow Cairo to work the hatch in the meantime, I didn't quite catch him to get
up and dart, but either way it could mean Neptune's isolated elsewhere, player.
Yeah, push down to CC, gets an angle on Brando, Brando is 04 after a magnificent chalet.
I'll do the sense to you two potentially for the drop or at least to bait it out, there's
a lot of time left, EP don't need to commit to much at this point.
I like the fact that the player still got a razor bloom on that.
He's so far away though, finding that lineup will be a challenge.
I was going to say, if he could get a lineup, that certainly could help against the sense-play,
but he's actually already used it now.
I think E.P. will end up pivoting for the back-head here.
A lot of information from Jigsaw on the radar of the Snake.
That's going to determine the round. What do they do playing off that info?
And also if he pushes down Balmain.
Well, they've just lost Tuhan and J.K. is now active with the Shameekha launcher.
Jigsaw looks like he is going to push down bot lane, but I put over the wall to hope he gets tanked up quite heavily.
He's going to want to throw out these RRUs, get them out there, short screens to go up.
Jigsaw, oh, he doesn't quite win his first battle.
Then wants to take on Jake Kenner.
Well, his play is absolutely controlling the wall.
It's Garaff, wonderful, four from Plyo.
Give him the ace. Why not?
Deserved, such a sensational Plyo in this region.
All five goes his way.
One of those kind of aces where they all basically just walked into him for the most part.
He did search for one of them when he pushed out of garage and went into CCTV to get one
kill and then the other four he's just holding his position and they've all just essentially
walked into him.
Chiefs make it four straight.
That was after the tactical time out.
Full blown ace for the player that was disregarded from this former team.
Now 8 and 2, and adds more stats to the post, no strip.
I mean, if we compare the way that this map is shaping up compared to the first, the chalet,
I'd say that the...
This is more dominant than even...
This is, at this point in time, the lead and the confidence that Chiefs have been able
to gain faster passes, what we saw from E.P. on map 1, and you think about how, kind of
down and out we felt that Chiefs may have been before they mounted a bit of a half comeback,
feels otherworldly the way they're chasing being able to dominate this first half they're stepping
up in big moments when they've been called to clutch they're doing so that's now back to back
rounds where they've been able to win out despite not getting the opening kill don't forget the
first half as well on on chalet was three three it was a pretty close back and forth guess then
enterprise went and put to get actually yeah it was three two the into three three which was the
the 4 in a row to EP to go up to 3-6. So they did have a dominance akin to this, but I still
feel like this is even more dominant than what we saw. I mean, you're talking about 4 alive,
3 alive. Yes, a couple of 1-alives, but those are still clutches that have been won from Chiefs.
So they're won in different facets. When Relays get through to Jigsaw trying to push ATMs quickly,
this is a bit of an off-bender position. Almost catches Brenda as well inside of ATMs.
Haven't seen this kind of fighting position before.
Brenda on the rappel outside ATM is being aggressed by relays.
This is also kind of felt like the sort of map where Jigsaw's
being a little bit more lively in comparison to Shalay.
Don't forget, in that wing for Enterprise Jigsaw only found four kills for the entire map, yet they still won.
I'm gonna be honest fortress almost feels inevitable with the way chiefs are playing on this map
Doing nothing wrong
Yeah, it's very rare. We'll see a P look second grade against any opposition and at the moment
Very much the case where chiefs and on every facet really a
I've got control and command. There's a yellow pink available here for Cairo
It's not your moment. It's not your moment at the moment for EP and relay slips through
Everything's just going their way
Now all these little plays
Even Brenda like he could have been in the position
How is he getting this kill and like Brenda is trying so hard to get the pinch here on to relays, but he's positioning is just perfect
The round is done but they're putting all their eggs into trying to just get rid of
Relay's who's been an absolute pest from the start of this round all the way to the
end of it.
Tujan's had enough he just walks in at him to Relay's with another reposition.
The masterclass in positioning from Relay's here in the fifth round.
Oh he should have it.
Oh Tujan quick to react.
Jakeda then for the trade because why not at that point you can push forward and Brenda
by himself outside on the repel.
It's five to nothing.
Chiefs, I'm sorry Brenda, but you're not winning this one, not from this position.
Wow, poor, well doesn't this just set the tone now for Fortress? It feels as if that's almost a
given. Five nothing, two more rounds away from getting us to map three for this upper bracket final.
I expected Chiefs to do good on this map, really good. The six and one record speaks for itself
on bank but Enterprise have an 8 to 2 record on this map as well soon to be 8 and 3 with the
way things are going final round all of the half attackers need to locate and diffuse bombs
it just feels like chiefs really throw down the hammer and say we are ready to mix it with the
big dogs the chalet was close 7 5 well this is anything but close i've not seen enterprise lose
like this for a very, very long time. For this roster iteration, I don't know if they've
ever been beaten up this badly.
Not domestically. Probably not even internationally.
I don't think internationally.
Can they save face here and get at least one round in the half to keep it in the realm
of possibility for the second half comeback? It's a big stretch though at this point as
Chiefs look far better so far on bank.
Well, if you're rival or you're man, Esports, who play after this,
I don't want Chiefs and I don't want AP if I'm either of those two teams.
We're going to have to face one of them.
I think Jigsaw is in that sort of zone now where he's just kind of sending
it in and realising we're down 5-0, the only way we're probably going to win is if I walk
in and find two kills.
But it's that mindset that I feel like for this Enterprise roster they've not had to
go into that bag of tricks.
It's almost like the old Jigsaw Chiefs mindset.
What's been so good about this EP team really is their fundamentals, their strategic play,
don't get kind of sucked into these gritty gunfights unless it's on their terms.
I think they're just looking like a lost cause.
So full peel from the defense outside of player, we saw him previously hiding front desk
and so he'll probably look for late flank and hope that he doesn't get spotted out.
Particularly vulnerable to the solid snake of course, but Jigsaw is not within range at the moment.
player is being called but answers that it's not a nice edge here if player can
remain undetected on this top floor I think he's gonna get drone so it's just
gonna be a matter of how is he gonna play when he actually does leave front
desk always on the move now yeah and I think he's very much aware of the fact
he has not been drawn so it's again a question of all the positioning that's
a freebie he'll take it shoots or in the back now expects the reinforcements to
start running around and he's surely spotted did he spot that at the gender
door pass as he's but did he spot kind of cross I don't think so I mean we had
the benefit of the outline but with the shelving unit in the way I don't think
he actually saw it didn't matter by the way car went for the drop and much
books gets the kill anyway they know that clearly the player up above they're
going to try and send site. I mean, this is just enterprise being absolutely
destroyed, dismantled, decimated. Chief six, nothing up. Don't know what else to
say about it.
You don't need to know what to say about it, Jake. So that's the best part
about having a desk for the post. This is a post match. Honestly, this is not
this is not half time. This is a post match. Yeah, well, that matters only got
one more round to go. At least it feels that way. Doesn't it? It does. It does
Like that it does feel like you're making fun of my voice. No, I wouldn't do that April
I wouldn't do that April. I'd never do that
Guys I'm also here. Oh shit. Oh, sorry
You are the man in the screen, but you for us are like you are still in the studio and you can still interact with us
There is there is there's all right Nick. I mean third person there for it
You know what you can be the third wheel this whole time if you want cuz I know dev actually has a point
Why don't you make your point before I go to the match?
Well, I should be...
I think you're wrong, I was right.
Alright, chill out for a second.
Don't beat up a sick old man.
So I was looking back, because the guys on the cast were making a really good point.
When was the last time EP went down like this?
Have they ever?
And I found the last time they went down 05,
which was all the way back in Salt Lake City
when they went down 05 on the second map, Clubhouse, to Twisted Vines.
after fun enough, winning the first map.
So seeing the trend continue.
However, they ended up winning the last round of that half.
And yes, you are right, Nick.
This time they went down 0-6.
And I can't fire.
I haven't stretched all the way back into every single match
EPs I've ever played.
But I can't find the last time they went down 0-6.
Oh, Nick.
It's, I mean, look, I hate to admit that you were right.
Actually, no, I don't.
You were right.
James was wrong.
But this performance from Chiefs, it's almost inspirational.
like watching them round on round watching the individual like yes individuals have had that moment, but it's not been the whole game
It's been one round that they've had to go big for and every single player on the teams have had their round
Yeah, I mean we had the lunch first one with three clubs and CEO top-floor
Then a buck downstairs some high winds that player gives an ace and basement defense as well
And from the moment there are four zero up
They started ego challenging relay spinning our lobby as a defender and they just were taking names
in 8cms. I say to him, what is this guy doing? He goes, I quite like this play. I'm like,
it's a great play because it worked, but it's like on paper it's a silly play to make.
You were like, this is a 4-0 off-play. Like that's exactly what it was. Realize was like,
hey, I know this never works. This barely even works in ranked against a coordinated
stack, but I can tell that we're in their heads right now.
Yeah, and that's been the story. Enterprise have not found any sort of momentum since
lost that CEO attack well city's is the beginning round but since that clutch in
particular it's been mental chalk look all I'm saying is sure I can to be
would have won this back to you boys yeah don't go too far Rob you'll be
needed in six minutes I think I think one minute maybe seven minutes seven
seven minutes two minutes for the round five minute break and then back to them
in the dark I forgot about the break see I was just only factoring in the action
The action phase, the prep phase, so about three minutes or so.
Well, the real question is, obviously, James, so Kudo's to him for doing the work and figuring out when was the last time that Enterprise went...
And again, it was in the internet.
It wasn't international, it wasn't even domestic.
Well, it's 0-5, it's only sitting. 0-6 has not happened.
I would love to know the last time any of the players individually got 0-7.
for these guys who are clearly absolute class and then and this is actually a
bit of a wake-up call heading into four out needs also come a little bit down
because there is every world AP could win six straight themselves a bit of a
most defender side of bank ever and if there is any team in the region that can
do it it is enterprise I don't want to completely say that this is 100%
finished. Probably 99.999% finished. The fortress to follow up to this for a
spotted EWC down a one map on the newest map in the pool, where it will play very
different to Shall I In Bank. Yeah, be a good Darby. Be a good Darby. Yeah, let's ring with that one.
I think this one's done. My word. Player putting salt into the wound as Cairo on the
the vigil that look unsuccessful.
And look this is visual battle,
but it's the nook on the repellent.
Jigsaw, what can he do from tellers?
Is he gonna be ready for players push through ATMs?
It feels as if the Jigsaw dies here.
That might be the round and therefore the map.
Jigsaw has repositioned back through tellers,
now mindful of archives.
got spotted out by relays as well with the radar on the solid snake and chase
looking to enclose it's a knife kill though on to box they just lost both
though Brenda and jigsaw fall huge kill from back and on to net you needed that
quickly now only down the one player by the way it's to my self inside of sight
now with the drop from back in the play together of course to hunt on the echo
can play go guys really good information at least onto Jake Ken towards
square real question is where does play go looks like garage on the nook look no
surprise so he'll go garage side relays and j canna can play together as a duo
has opened up the options here for chiefs but I have a two-one split on the
attack against the last two remaining defenders there's just a lot of plays
got away from garage he's gonna also join them there's just so much time for
chiefs they're 70 seconds a handful of grenades they could stuck those maybe
maybe like red, and facilitating default, curious to see as well if Relayz has a charge
remaining on that radar which could really help him identify in this defense, I don't
know if this, it feels like this position right now for EP is putting all the trust
in the, in this Yokai.
Oh, this is interesting.
So, surface side, Yo-Kai has the intel on J.Kinnok, and they don't really have much to play off of.
Garage position for player has also then got the cross, so they don't really have that ability to actually cross over.
Tuhan back up main stairs, he goes searching.
If he pushes Beepers though, talk about position, Relays is ready, hits the headshot, down to Bappen, and the plant will be successful.
back and can't even beat out player. They just got 7-0 on bank. Absolute domination from cheese
as fortress is required. To close out this upper bracket final, a spot in the esports world
Car will come down to fortress and fortress alone seven nothing
In the early days of siege, I got on PC during my highest full time, when I was still under
2018 I was playing with pros like Dino, Rippy, and just like all those pros back in the day
And then it kind of started from 10 man, I would say
That's kind of like how most of the pros knew me as well as rank obviously
But yeah, I was just getting into myself into like I guess you could call it networking
But I would get myself to like good stacks like playing with stigs, magnet
And just like dominating like the 10 man lobbies
That's where all the pros knew me as like kind of like this young
Prodigy I was always like this young person like in the in the scene like always playing with older people
So I guess that's how I got my name out there
I was 16 and I was just able to play LPL pro and I was in my first proper
Team and it was under skyfire with like jigsaw in that stage
I think we came second to a pro league team at the time where Oda was in it Ferrox
But it was like my first time basically competing properly and like I came second in it and it was against the Paralyzee team.
People are very beatable, you know, like if you put the effort in like you can definitely beat these teams.
Obviously we didn't, we fell short, but that's when kind of the esports, you know, ignited in me.
Siege is honestly like such a different game from like any other game.
The thinking behind Siege is so complex that new people playing the game would just never
understand until they got to that level.
The amount of thinking, the amount of processes you have to do, and like so many little intricate
things that can like determine around drew me towards the game, it's like you have to
really think to really be the best.
So when I turned 18, I got my first offer to join my first Paralyze team and I was with
Juicy, Josh, Quiz and OJ.
I felt very inexperienced at the time, because I was with proper pro league players, obviously
with Knights, with those three and then OJ from Wildcard.
I learned a lot from it.
We obviously didn't do very well.
I think we came around fourth.
We lost to our rivals at the time, which was Wildcard.
That was honestly a really bad feeling, as well as losing to Circus Fizz at that stage
was honestly so shit.
Definitely felt like a lot of nerves at that stage, but I think I grew a lot as a player
from that stage, I don't know if so.
So after that first stage of Perleague, I think I was still playing under like just,
because I was already good at the game and I already had this offer that I just wanted
to keep playing for fun.
It wasn't really like, you know, I want to keep me in my whole life to this right now.
I think after Homeless, I joined Circulus Fizz, which turned into Aerial, and by my performance
at stage, I definitely showed that I was a good player, but not in the right team yet.
Because I think we came around 6th, and obviously it wasn't a good showing.
I think I was still in that top 10 rated at the time.
During the time when I was 18, just competing in my second stage, I think I was doing my
HSC.
I'd recently just like gotten to like a fight with my like friend group and kind of split
ways with them.
So I was honestly like very over just like school.
I kind of threw HSC out the window.
I don't want to really go uni after this, maybe take a gap year or whatever and just
kind of focus on Sage fully because that was my passion. That's what I was good at. I wanted to keep
So
I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what.
I tell you what, no one in the history of OCE would be able to have told me going into
that map that it was going to be flawless for the Chiefs.
Do you know what?
Please tell me.
It's never happened before.
Nobody has ever, 7-0 at EP, even at the world championships, even at majors, as I, the best
any team has ever done against EP is a 7-1, it's happened twice.
team secret. Did it at six
this year who will by the way
to run us up the whole event.
Fury did it back at the Munich
major only two times you've
ever seen EP pushed that hard
and Jesus have just taken them
for a ride. Yeah, they certainly
have and Nick going into that
match we had said that if
enterprise were to do it, it
was going to be on the back of
an individual performance. Yeah,
I don't think that even a 20
I don't think so either. This was very much the head of Bappen and Brando Poponoff and
Shalei doing pretty good. They're having double deities and saving them from over going to
overtime. Then we go into ban. Brando is tier 7. He took the gym spawned by completely invisible
in the server and if you look at the other score lines, nobody's making up for it. And
this is not me going into Brando and saying, ah, he's at fault. But the history here for
EP, since the superstar was the most creative, is that someone is always Poponoff and dropping
insane amounts of kills, finding the gaps making the players get in the clutches,
shutting down their opponent. No one stepped off for the first time for EP all states long.
Nobody's positive or even neutral in the server. Everyone's negative. This never happens. That was
an incredible individual performance from the side of teams. The lunchbox clutch, player dropping
in A's, growing a living in two. That is how you get yourself into this 7-0 scoreline.
Yeah, and moving across to Fortress is a very intriguing discussion because as we look at Fortress and as we start to dissect what to expect
It's an EP-favoured map, but I think at this point in this...
Can you guys...
Did you hear that?
What is it?
That...
I think someone just parked at the front!
Oh, it's a little spot!
Finally got a bro's seatbelt.
Y'all better strap in including lunchbox for what will be a third and deciding Matt here for the EWC spot
And that is probably the biggest statement. I think I've made for the chiefs like yes
They did well in kickoff. Yeah, but right now they are riding my make
Oh my god!
Dammit, he's never there!
Come on.
Bro, okay.
No, never mind.
I have two solutions to this.
I have two solutions.
One, we put a bell on.
Two, we put one of those backpacks on them that mums take to like, you know, Disney World.
And it's just like, and they're running around.
Or actually three, how about we just give them the seatbelt?
This is when, like, when I take my dog to the shop, so I try and tie her up.
Like, you gotta tie this guy down.
Otherwise he's gonna keep following you around.
I wonder what happens. What happens when he goes back?
What's he doing? Is he cooking? Or is he going for a jog?
Is he got like, I did some exercises off-camera?
What's he up to? I would really love to know.
I think he's got to answer his pants. I think we should get it out.
He has to answer his pants. But ultimately, we joke about it.
But he did just 7-0 in Mog and Surprise on Bank.
So, look, we move over to Fortress now, Nick, and this is a super critical map here.
not just for the context of BWC, but also for the context of the storyline for EP.
We came into this year going, EP is going to dominate the region.
They're going to look the best and quite frankly, they have been at every single point.
They have been met by the chiefs at their level.
Yeah, I'm very curious actually, like on paper, I would say Fortress is going to
favor EP significantly more, but given the bank matchup, the confidence,
the men's of game were much more even.
I think there's two very important things to look at here.
your chiefs right either you're gonna focus the individual play styles of
enterprise shut down over the best like your demos your solid snake maybe a
shield we can the wrong thing when they're attacking we can their individual
prowess or you're gonna go okay hmm they're not hitting their shots and they
were super slow in executing everything on shale attacks and as well as bank so
what if you've been all better it's like your capital a heartbeach or a grim
what if you make it even harder for them to execute because they've been
struggling on the timer often gives the bombs out with seven seconds left in the
round and it's way too little. So I mean to use that position where they maybe
have too many options that are gonna work well for them and I'm very curious
to see when we get there what style they're gonna opt for. Yeah I feel like
Fortress is a hard map for Chiefs and yes they have momentum going into it but
remember these two teams faced off for a spot at Salt Lake City Major on this
map it was a really close one and EP 1 at 7.5 right we're about to be in almost
exactly the same snow where whoever wins this next game on fortress goes to EWC the second
does have a second chance down through that lower bracket but for chiefs the big thing that I took
away from that game a couple months ago was that they really struggled on the attacking side what I
really want to see from them because we know how they are good they are with those shields how they
love to go for those crazy excuse they're good at using these smokes what I want to see is honestly
some creative defensive bands don't just go with the same normal standard stuff that everyone else
does. Go for a warden. Go for a smoke. Go for a Goyo. Do something that enables that aggressive
play cell. Enables those shields. Let in the mirror. I don't care about it. Like,
hard counter that stuff. Like, let in the hard breach denial that the Kaede and Bandit,
you can counter that. That plays into Chiefs' strengths. I want them to really leverage what
they're good at and focus on winning three attack rounds. I think if they can't win three attack
rounds, it's going to be pretty much impossible for Chiefs to win. And Chiefs are the ones who are
are on gunning for it up set right now.
They've won more rounds so far in this series.
They've 7 ODP for the first time ever,
and they've got three players that have never
been to an international event before.
It would be incredible to see Lunchbox, Jakenna, and Neptune.
Say that with your chest.
Neptune, yeah, but.
The chest is all I've got.
Yeah, that's very true.
That is all you've got.
Particularly for Nepp.
I mean, he's been such a mercenary for the last few years.
You know, he's played on Kelsen's nights for good reason.
He's bounced around, circular spheres.
I remember playing that game around all the time, years ago, back when his name was I Darknipchim.
Like, he's been around forever, and this is finally, he's looking like a world-class player.
I want to see this team step up, but they're going to have to get creative on that attacking side.
They certainly are, and one of the big storylines that we were talking about at the very start, coming into this,
where once brother in arms, now competitors, you know, there are two players on either side that used to play with each other.
Two of those being, well, obviously there's actually two on both sides.
Apologies, let me just make sure I make that abundantly clear, but the big one for me is is player and bappen because I think that both of them have left their mark
Not just in this game, but overall they're really starting to make themselves quite well known in the region
Both of them were if you had said to me at the start of last year dev
The bappen and player may be the best players we have in a
International deciding match. I would have said to you you're barking mad. They're great players
because there's no way they could impact a series like this.
Woof baby woof because they both of them collectively are at the top ends of their respective teams.
21 and 11 for player right now, 17 and 14 for Daphne.
And there you go, the solid snake. What do you think of the band really quickly, Nick, before we get into this?
Very big fan here. So I mentioned like the demos, the solid snake or shield and they got both here.
here, Solis-Dan, of course, six-star counsellor,
and it bleeds against Wolverham Clear.
They're forcing Interprize to play a slower style of play,
which they've been a lot weaker at so far in this best of three,
and I think it's just baseline
and great Auburn offensive action here for Chiefs.
Well, we were here a little less than, I think,
three months ago now,
and so we appear back onto Fortress.
Chiefs, Interprize, the winner of this matchup
goes through to EWC,
while the loser has to fight through the level bracket
for the second opportunity.
Let's get underway with this one.
Xenox does. Enjoy.
I think we're all going to enjoy this one fortress.
Maybe not exactly as high-flying as Chalet in bank when it comes to the map of the game itself.
And all of, well, I guess the story-lining is pretty easily developed.
We in and you go to the Esports World Cup, which would be remarkable for chiefs,
considering player relays dumped by EP to then beat them to qualify.
Talk about lunchbox on land.
What about Jake Hanna? What a story that would be as well for a player
that has had a storied career within the Oceanic region, but really up until
maybe what, six to 12 months ago was never really one you would consider
as playing at an international event.
But enterprise, well, you just know they're going to bite back here on Fortress.
Starting out on attack though, when we know how much of a grind this style of map can
be, typically with the map sweeps, often then funneled into two channels, a lot of YouTube
clearance typically expected of the attack here on fortress, and it can be a real grind
as being displayed now, the guy in play, the janker as well, so the stall out is strong,
double trap as well and Jake Cannon will offer some good counter play onto the
ying as well being brought by Karat. I think the coordination of AP is really
going to be tested here in the first six rounds and it was a big sore point for
them back on Bank where they were often put in positions where they just couldn't
quite problem solve their way out and when they did it was a little bit all
over the place. Chiefs made them look uncomfortable on map 2 and they'll be
lucky to replicate that here on the third.
I haven't seen a lot of fortress in the oceanic region although another region we cover which
is the NAL they play a lot of fortress so we've been able to see this map quite a bit
throughout this stage but in this region I don't think that it does play slow in this
round there's no difference in this play against the OP to kill onto Brando deathmine from
Jigsaw onto launch box over towards bathroom.
I wanted to play the ankle and war hot a headshot onto to Han
Kyra is gonna run deep through the flames though to catch out player at the hallway
I don't think he was expecting that dash from Kyra. Razor bloom would have killed him
Relays able to swing as Kyra was retreating
He gets the second onto him as he pushes forward and is down to Bapen the desk label that as such
That's either play or Bapen leading their teams Bapen cannot lead them to Victor in the opening round shut down by Neptune
Chiefs, we'll take the opening round on Commander Bathroom.
And that extends the streak now.
Eight straight for Chiefs, and I'll be looking to compound that as high and as mighty as they can.
And Defence Fortress came off with an opportunity to build a strong lead
and really try to crush the mantle of EP, which I think was certainly tested back on Bank.
Difficult to obviously say from our position whether it was ultimately a determining factor.
determining factor. I think Chase overall just played about a bank and the
mental was particularly relevant, but in this third map with their backs now
slowly encroaching on that wall or AP, we need to be mindful of taming that and
being conscious of it going forward and not letting that mental unruggle.
Fortunately for them they do have mag in their corner. We heard those timeouts
particularly at the Salt Lake City Major and how influential those were in
resetting the boys and setting them up tactically. Maybe there will be a similar
position in this map where he can have influence in helping his Talmud team
across the line. For Chiefs on the flip side though defensively they'll just be
looking to keep it compact here. Try and make EP work for this map control. Force
them to use that utility. Force them to take risk because when they've risked
taken over the last now eight rounds it hasn't really paid out for them in a
a lot of occasions and even when it has,
Jesus showed that clutch ability now.
Again a reminder as we're into the third final map,
this is the upper bracket final.
Two slots in the region means the winner of this
qualifies for the grand final,
which means guaranteed a position
of the Esports World Cup, what that position
will be determined by the grand final itself.
But if you're a team like Jesus,
more amped at just getting in there. If the EP, if they were to win tonight and had it done so
comfortably, I think they just would have been happy, being content, but I don't think they would
have been too celebratory. The blue side achieves win this match all for Fortress, I think they'll
be celebrating all night. Early utility there for the hard breach to enable the ace to be activated
from Tuhan, those soldiers, just getting to work and exposing him the objective and just
making Relay's position on the water here a little bit more tricky to hold, boxing him
into that position and he'll be largely relying on that deployable shield doing the heavy lifting
in terms of offering that protection from Old Tower, especially if and when Lunchbox is forced back.
But for now he's applying good pressure as we eclipse the midpoint of the round.
He's taking low, don't flash. A nitro in response from box but not having influence.
Does a good job though staying alive and can impact the round by exploiting those
canisters. Well it's a fact he still holds that space as well so low on health.
He knows he's probably gonna die at some point in this round but he's not scared
of that. Oh Tuhan had the chance and then went back for seconds but beaten out by
Jake cannot, Jake, he gets the opening pick for Chiefs and that's a metric that's been largely dominant in the entire series across all three maps
There's only been three rounds where the opening kill has not been converted
And we're into map three second round of that and it seems like that might just continue with Bap been going down
And it's the grave of the hands of Neptune and imagine if he really gets going Neptune's being quiet in the series
We know he's capable of really influencing matches, double digits, high scores.
And suddenly, time started to expire for Enterprise on this attack.
They're struggling a little early on here on Fortress.
Jigsaw looking pretty active on the defense, holding good positions,
stalling out a lot of the area around the sites.
Jigsaw's up, but not baiting here on the hallway swing.
Finally, forces out.
But there's only eight seconds left into the round,
and they don't even have the kit in hand.
player does go down jigsaw will go searching for the kills and the kills have been acquired
but where's that kid the time for brindle steals a valid surprise with one second left into the
round they did not have the kid they did not have the time but brindle comes up clutch again
some of that shallow brindle wow the kid was outside breach
unfortunate position therefore neptune he doesn't know
Clearly dropped and not identified there by the defense otherwise Neptune would have just tucked and played time
Whoa, that is a big round
I needed that that's right that gets EP back into the mix to clutch up around like that on a map like fortress
That's a big one. I think there was about one and a half seconds on the clock. That was a huge round from EP
And just to confirm as well, interesting little stat, that it's the first time in this entire series.
Chiefs got the first kill, and did it, then go on and win the round. First time it's happened.
Add in the fact that for all intents and purposes, that's a clutch, and that was 3-1 in favour of rent-a-prize, but you've got one...
maybe one and a half seconds left.
Yeah, I'm just having a quick look back on off-screen here very difficult to fault chase in that round about a minute on the clock
Two armors out reached and a long range shot took him out
So there was really no way of them knowing that the diffuser was dropped
Because they without the jacana fire. Yeah, yeah, he was all the way in games long range jewel
It wasn't a case of someone swinging the bridge close
It should be relayed someone could have also reacquired it exactly a minute on the clock
Yeah, well huge amount of enterprise they needed that one
It was eight straight up until that point to win it in that fashion and then the cookies France prices it at the end of
The day whatever happened on Bank has happened. It's only one one down fortress. You know, it's not like you're eight one down
That streak on bank is over
Doesn't affect this map of Fortress
In terms of serious numbers up until this point only a single player
Across the 10 in the lobby has got over 20 kills. That's player with 23 next best is Bapham with 19
Two and zero on the entry for one of the player on the entry. They've been the best two
Imagine back to the player on the same team. Can you imagine? Jigsaw gets the open kill on the lunchbox. Lunchbox starts 0 and 3
Yeah, just hesitating for a fraction of a second if you hesitate against Jigsaw
He will often punish so solid work relays also caught
AP with a two player advantage full
belt of utility available here that brought the sense for that eventual hit and
So now the owners on chiefs to make a hero play in this round and who else bet play a lot
Well, that's why he's top-fragging oh
Oh man, Tuhan on the black bit even the shield up isn't gonna save him there player finds the pixel angle on the headshot
Probably sensing though that he has to stick around here and continue to fight.
He's got Neptune for cover as well, why not?
Fragrenade's gonna force him into a bad spot Neptune then dies as well because Jigsaw's
Well, that's an intriguing play from Neptune because that isn't Fragrenade's design to essentially flush you out and
One goes for the stairs Neptune is then inadvertently the one who gets flushed out. So Jigsaw's ready for it. She's gonna lose this round
That was a strange 10 seconds.
I just wonder if the Chiefs are on the third and final map after what was the sensational
bank.
If they just get into this point in the series now where they know that finish line hits
the inside.
Boy, so much work still to be done because AnteBras is starting to fight back here on
Fortress.
Make it too straight.
They win out Weeding and Cafe.
It's a very strong sight for defense as well.
Alright, the kings are back.
Here they are, they're fighting back here.
An AP looking a lot more positive in their approach in the last couple of rounds.
And the additional bans now to be introduced.
The Blackbeard, so doubling down with the Blitz in terms of shield play.
And the Kayi will also take no further part.
Interestingly, it wasn't selected at all in that first half.
But EP continuing to go hard in terms of that utility, probably a little late on the piece
we think about trap operators and so many still up.
We return over to Commander Bathroom, round number four, and for the first time in quite
a while in the context of this series, we're now looking at Chiefs to see what they can
do inside of the server.
EP have had their number now in the last couple of rounds.
Yeah they have but technically round two came down to one second differential
but there was the flood in before that one second differential that was the
you know big factor and Enterprise definitely deserved to win that second round even if it was closed
but that round that we just saw there waiting it's probably the most dominant round we've
we've seen from Enterprise since Shalay.
And that's going to be a little concerning for Chiefs.
Chiefs aren't stupid.
They know who they're playing against.
They know the quality of Enterprise.
They know they're not going to just quit after getting flushed out on Bank.
This is a big moment for Lunchbox.
zero three now up against the shield trap in hand
not really given though too much of an opportunity to fight with the secondary hard bridge to his side
and so you'll fall for that space across to e p
that may be the safest and wisest choice you can look to consolidate back on towards the objective
when you think about what was so successful for them on bank playing defense that first half six
how many of those rounds they had the freedom to roam and work and take
fights off-site it's a lot harder to play that style on this map of Fortress
and I do hold a few question marks as to how chiefs are gonna go about it they
look very eager defensively that they want to fight but they know that they
really can't take a lot of their fights that they actually want to take
Contrast between management control and letting the the urges force you forward
Kind of like launch box getting out of your seat and just look like a team with ants in their pants
If you might be trying to shape up here for the turtle plant Cairo
That means that the util layering here from the chenka needs to be on point. No nitrous
available here to chase but they do have the razor blue and the grismoth there's
no time pressure at the moment just yet for EP they can look to weigh down at
least a bit of this utility there's 15 shots for a man
I go to the blank side of the bathroom and it's just found a gap there's just a
gap in the flames I've got no idea plan will be successful Jigsaw got the opening
pick as well. Two more quickly from Jig and Brando. Launchbox 0-4. J. Camber the only one left.
He's got two kills into the round, but it seems as if in this post plate now, it's dropped down again for Enterprise.
It's simply just down to the fact that poor old Relays didn't realize it, but a gap was left at the doorway.
A very, very small gap, but a gap nevertheless. E.P. make it three straight. Two Hans chatting up.
Chatting up an absolute storm after that one. They look pumped up. They look like they know they're back at their best.
their best. They had game of fine margins, but EP on top at the moment. They've locked
in over the last handful of rounds and are looking quite comfortable here on Fortress
and they're playing it on their terms. They didn't have to really change the win condition
they were aiming for in that round. Chiefs over-invested in terms of the Platinum all
in that round and that too didn't quite pay off.
Jeeves need to find a way to, I think, over arching, we're trying to inject a more comfort
and preferred playstyle on the map, but evidently it's proven really difficult at the moment.
Yeah, I mean, it just don't look comfortable, do they?
I think is that probably the right word, comfortability on the defensive side of Fortress, where, you
know, you're kind of hemmed in, you're almost forced to play the side, there's a lack of
verticality.
really difficult to stretch the map. You feel very confined and they're the kind of team that
want to spread their wings and run around and be aggressive and that's their hallmark but to me
that's almost a little bit reminiscent as to maybe where Enterprise were with the old roster
and maybe even pre-mag and where they are now is a more structured and disciplined team while
still having the ability to be aggressive when they see fit depending on the map, depending on
on the day, but they also have that ability to kind of lock in, play structure, play slow
tempo and use that to their advantage and right now you're seeing the difference here
on fortress compared to bank.
Credit to EP in maintaining their cool over the course of this series and being able to
to readjust accordingly here on map three.
It's the beauty of the best of three format.
It's giving them an opportunity to execute that reset.
And whilst it wasn't necessarily a perfect start
from here on fortress, they've been able to respond well.
And again, denying, choose the ability
to play the map on their terms.
We'll see the Monty this round available
after only the Blitz and the Blackbeard were banned out.
You look at some of the tools available here to the attack,
going to counter this defense really well.
Two-Hunt will be looking to get as much value from their shock
drains as possible, most notably into the goya and the mirror
combination.
If he can pop a handful of that utility, that's going to really
serve them while late round.
Yeah, I mean, the one saving grace is that nitrous
hole in the lunchbox.
He needs to stay alive.
He needs all day to connect that onto Cairo.
No gas page left minute 20 is not an ideal position for relays
to be in.
You got one Griswold mine, the mirror window's still up and you got a Nautrissile, that's it, with over a minute left here on Fortress, that leaves you very susceptible.
I wouldn't be surprised if it gets to a point where Kairi can just walk in on the Monty and really use the march that Cheez can do about it.
You see, the pressure that's applied.
Oh no.
I don't know, Relay's just I think got completely overwhelmed. As soon as that wall got opened up, and with the doorway pinched potential, I think it just panics a little bit.
Yeah, down but not out for now.
Chiefs are finding picks.
Yeah, 43.
Effectively, yeah.
Dracan has done a good job in holding down this line, but elsewhere, Bappin on the lure,
catches player on that rotation, Barthol.
And again, that's just, Chiefs wanted to be on the move at all times, 30 seconds left,
good, it just held position.
Oh, two-hunt, good clear onto lunchbox, who's zero and five.
Jaycanna and Neptune need a clutch. They really need this fifth round.
Still have a Griswold mine available. How lovely. Hedgehog from Neptune.
Jaycanna connects as well onto the Monk team. It's down to Baphen.
Now both of these two defenders are low. Sends it through the flames.
Cause he's only got 10 seconds. Baphen more than capable.
There is that Griswold mine, but there's that Hedgehog as well from Baphen. He can play the kit.
Volt's on over. Can he get back into sight in time?
No, he cannot. Time will expire.
There's a rock hole. You had to try and go for kill there
There wasn't enough time remaining to successfully get that on the ground credit to Jay canner and being disciplined
Didn't overpeak
That's doing so chiefs been on time. Let's scrape by that round
But sometimes in a series like this you just need the old round or two where you kind of just scrape by two three final round
of the half coming up
Back to waiting and cafeteria
out.
I'll tell you what, Jake, he's stepped up so far on Fortress to open in kills 3-3.
Well, someone had to, you cursed lunchbox.
That's your fault.
Jake's now 6 and 3.
He got 3 kills in that round.
Big round from Jake, and that does technically go down as a 1v1 win.
For all technicality.
7 and 2 from Jigsaw though.
He too has also.
It's the beauty of the best three you think about you go back all the way to charlotte jigsaw started four and nine
Banks are right off really for anyone on the side of enterprise and now he's seven to two on fortress
Launchbox is now 16 and 17 yet nine kills back on charlotte and
Seven and four but started five zero in the opening. I think two rounds
Yeah, opening two rounds, it was five and zip.
So since round three of bank, he's only picked up two kills.
So I pivot around then to conclude the half.
A lead on attack for Enterprise would set themselves up really nicely to claim that first spot at the eSports World Cup.
It's not quite must win for Cheese, but I can't help but shake the feeling that to give them a cushion in the second half,
or not that it would be much of an even scoreline, trailing however would put them in a rough spot with a little margin for error.
I think they're going to need to win this round.
I don't think they're going to have the same attacking capabilities as Enterprise on this map.
on this map. I could be wrong. I'd be to stand corrected but this defensive round feels vital.
So it's lunchbox old tower side again. He's been starting out on defense typically in this
position and then looking to peel back. Player gets the open up. Well he's got a third. We
haven't seen any on three. He's got a fourth. We're getting a little closer as we got to see
Brenda just have his head ripped off. Players just ended the half. Yeah right. He's off for
2nd ace by the way if he can find Bapin he won't get it because Neptune will deny it's flawless player is absolutely
Livided Neptune. I'm joking. He's excited. Well three to three future outfit player
He gets four. He keeps cheese well and truly alive. We are tied on the third and final map
Yeah player just went super saying for a second now
I think we need to check the health of the death
PC it does it does happen and I think the reason it happens is the context of this
game in the first half of this
match is so important to both
teams. But I think the chiefs
there's something in this right
now. Last time EP run a third
map in Fortress. It was not
back in kickoff. No, it was at
Salt Lake City and unfortunately
they could not drag it across
the line. They were so close.
Nick will history repeat itself.
I mean, it's very possible. And
if you are a player who's
your mind, you might start thinking, oh my god, it's happening again, it's happening again,
mental boom of doom, right? We don't want it to happen at all. And the thing that's also
going to be changing is that when you're on the attack inside and you can utilize the Monty,
which Kyra did very beautifully there for EPs first off, that gives you a bit of a safety net,
right? You can work the map, take some risk, get some information. When you go on the defense,
we saw how uncomfortable it seems they were themselves. So I'm very curious as to see,
can EPs hang without that constant shield information or will it also be able to change the
I'll come off this game.
I really don't know what I expected on this third and final map.
I didn't expect EP to dominate the first four rounds.
I'll be honest with you, I did not expect to see 3-1 on the scoreline.
Yeah, yeah.
I would agree with you.
I think I was expecting this to be pretty even on EP's attack off, because like I was
saying, the place where I really think that this game gets separated is when Chiefs go
onto their attack, and we get to see how they play attacks.
We'll talk about it in the pre-show.
The last time these two teams met on Fortress, like I said before, it was a Chief's attack
start.
They only won two rounds and a half.
Second half, both teams played well.
It was essentially a 3-3 split, and because Chiefs lost their attack half, that means
it's a 7-5 in favour of EP.
Now we played, you know, what was the second half.
First this time, now we look at Chiefs' attacks, and that's where I get a little bit scared
for them.
I think that EP have done just enough here.
I know I just that half it was great to see but I just feel like the answers really lie in chiefs attacks and EPs
Defenses Nick a stat that I want to throw at you and kind of leave with you for maybe a final point here before
We get underway with the second half
Every round the chiefs have won on their attacking side has been one off the back of a plant
Oh and they've been the glass in the months, which means that a lot more difficult so I don't know
I like cheese how they've been attacking. I like how they're feeling or probably all of that bank victory going seven series against DP
You might back EP more in favor here James. I'm gonna give cheese. This is a slight advantage here
We're talking 52 to 48 right super super close, but a little bit more to watch cheese here
Look, I actually kind of want to agree with you not because of the the Glyz and Monty ban
But actually on the flip side I did say for chiefs. I really want to see some unusual bands
I don't want to see them just go for mirror kai bandit. I want to crash man. They've got the clash
they've got the thorn. So the thorn maybe not my choice, maybe I would have gone for
warden or smoke, but just getting rid of the traps and getting rid of the clash
really enables the shield. Even with Monty Band, you've got your Blackbeard and
your Blitz. Chiefs are really good with both of those operators, and even now it
looks like they're repicking away from that shield, but they've got a triple
threat. In fact, I would say a quadruple threat with the Ying, the Dokka Bee, the
Grim, and the Deimos that is now being moved off on as well. I think it's a
really good lineup I think Chiefs are in for a strong off. Well the stage is set
the next time you hear from us one of these teams will book their ticket to
EWC. All righty let's get the second half on the road. I think James said it
best though I mean look back at the last time these two teams played on this map
Chiefs the two attacking rounds it wasn't enough it wouldn't be enough now
either. They need three at minimum, so T4 to win it outright. Desperately needed those
two rounds to close the first half. They were down 3-1, all tied. And expecting again to
have a similar pace in the second half as what we saw in the first. Chiefs will likely
take their time. I don't think EP is going to throw too much into this. I think they'll
keep it pretty stock standard well Jigsaw find zero pp from bathroom it's on the
lunchbox zero and six in an international qualifying match this is
where the mental is really tested for a young player like lunchbox he's
struggling here on fortress
oh losing the hard bridge as well on this side is going to make it really tough
depending on how AP look to respond. No secondaries either. Yeah, it's only going to increase the
filter effect here on a map which is already filter heavy for the attack.
AP, we just need to be cautious here though of the work potential here from Chiefs and the
clearance potential that they do still have with several of these operators.
is
the
book you manage it's all
but
jigsaw's death doesn't really mean a whole lot for the defense in terms of utility
but to be fair most of their utility is already out late anyway across the map
well I love this from back into a bathroom
catches a glimpse of the shoulder of relays
He's really thinking about this, he knows he's gone pro, expecting a swing there from the corridor.
Brenda does get the kill, but player had the insta-trade.
And he does know still, Bappard's position towards bathroom, they lose net-tune.
So again now, at a disadvantage, it feels like it's all going to come down to player.
J. Kenner to then be the helping hand.
He does still have one Ken Dalla, need to make the most of this.
But the glasses are active at the moment for Tuhan, 35 seconds.
Yeah, he has the crossover towards Kala, so this is rough.
J. Kenner though has been able to link up with player.
30 seconds on the clock and they've at least taken the warden out of play if they can hit bathroom
But that would mean that they need to take on Bapham and I have to try and get a 2 versus 1 against Bapham with no
Reprecussion with no loss and do so rather quickly Kyra has got a good crossy as well
And does get the free kill on to play a Bapham then catches out J.K. and a EP retake the lead
They go 4-3 up solid round started off with Jigsaw shutting down Lodgebox
And while player made it lively for Chiefs and gave them a glimmer of hope
Ultimately, EPs' defense far too good.
Yeah, certainly not the worst attempt there from Chiefs, considering they lost hard breach
early on, so playing at a deficit, having to sort of play into a plan B, which was on
the opposing side of the map, play a big role in being able to break down that first line
of the defense, but then with the advantage they still had those on site, able to establish
a really nice cross, making it very, very, very challenging for Chiefs to be able to
to fight their way into site. So credit to them, EP with now a one round lead over the
games for round number eight. You can see what kind of line up cheats end up opting for here.
A couple of repeats to be committed to. Interestingly, there's sense to be juggled from Neptune across
the player. This might be some kind of strat that they've cooked up in preparation for this matchup.
critical though that all players are up to actually exercise that utility
hundred percent win rate on this side of the attack team gets the open kill
dorms games I mean this could be a mental boom if you still get the open
kill it don't win the round and go 3-5 down
for what it's worth that yeah that round as well from cheese that's I'm looking
back at a lot of their so they're attacking rounds I think actually
Peggy touched on it on the desk in terms of all the rounds that they've won on
attacking the series they've had to plant down it's gonna be a lot harder to do
that probably on this map before us you're gonna have to find ways to win
through different avenues but you look at the lineup that they're bringing in
this round the sends the ying and they do have the ability to hit thorns games
and try and go for a plant should we go launch a nitro cell available in terms
of denial opportunities for the defense
nitro ripped from that but that off-screen yeah would want to be keeping
that one in the pocket unless he's got a well I think he's doing a preparation
for the drop here from Jake cannot tell you hit that that's gonna be huge yeah
wouldn't win the round single-handedly but it'll definitely go a long way for
enterprise okay there's the pressure from Neptune obviously designed to try and
help facilitate for Jake cannot happens aware of this he really wants to stay
and hold this position. He knows this Nitro's job. Has got J.Kanna's name written all over it.
I'm not even looking for the staircase.
He's done alright here. J.Kanna's drop successfully hasn't actually taken a lick of damage.
And they get rid of Cairo. That's the Chunker off the board.
Plant potential now goes up and there goes Jigsaw, two player. He's up to 11 kills.
That Nitro's still available for Bap. And they need the next kill here quickly.
Enterprise, or this round could go away again. J.Kanna's shield in the right place.
He's blocks the doorway, Nitrosol floating out, he goes down, Bamp and can't detonate it, as Bretnar falls, it's flawless from cheese.
Where did that come from?
It's their first attacking round win at the series without a plant.
That's the first time on map 3.
That was a really well worked attack though.
Jay Kenner has been really good today. I think he's valued his life really well.
We saw a great job, old tower, then they started to mount pressure.
That completely negated Bappin's ability to influence that round as well. He got forced back
He never got the nitro out again courtesy of J. Kenner layering more pressure
Rest of the team doing their job nicely to play around him and the information that he was clearly able to relay across
They set up some simple crossfires and made life challenging for EP and that round so credit to chiefs and lunchbox
Got a kill and maybe lunchboxes back in the server
And they keep that 100% win rate as well with getting the opening kill on that side of dorms
games in the region and let's run it back, shall we?
I think you're right though, spot on in terms of J. Ken are just valuing his life.
I think there's probably been times in the past where he can get a little bit sloppy
with some of his entry positions on shield, not clearing out certain angles.
is waiting in cafe for this ninth round now. Again big change up in the attacking line
up for Chiefs though flex on to the Blitz for the first time in this half. They do back
in the Sandspie again. This time Neptune will give it a go, play a reddit in the previous
round. Final round as well before we do get the next
bands for this second half yeah to be intriguing to see if AP deal with the blitz
or the black bit yeah but like you also you say that all it's not you can't feel
with both so you didn't bother but then potentially could create if you don't
get rid of one of them they can be around where they go for a double up
Blitz and Blackbeard.
Thatcher in this round as well from Relays.
Yeah, they're gonna look to play for the the sense plant Thatcher for cover against any potential Mitro.
Only the one available for EP.
And a heavy vertical presence here from EP.
Typically teams will not put up a final stand above. It is very challenging.
There's very little protection on this site up above for the defense to play off
So I'd be surprised that EP looked to commit here and we back him down
It's a good start for Chiefs. Yeah, Jake Hanna is playing an absolute life game right now
Seven and four his shield plays been perfect for a serious life, and then he just dies. I just can't help it
Who's next
Brando's been pretty good today. It's been amazing today. It really hasn't done much wrong
Jigsaw right now though leading the troops here on fortress back to three
versus three. Jigsaw still low, lunchbox connects, there's the headshot on
Tbrenno, the visual go down. I've been walked bathroom low and held as Jigsaw
completely split from Tuhan inside a cafeteria. They've got the numbers he
achieves. Looking for a successful attack again. It's lunchbox with a pistol.
It's all down to Tuhan and there's still 50 seconds that nitrous salt hits
nothing. They didn't even slow the round down. He gets caught through the floor
and cheese will take the lead most importantly that now won four of the
last five rounds they have all the momentum
they are two rounds away from qualifying to the eSports World Cup
launchbox at LAN
it didn't look great at the start EP with three straight in the first half
What is he doing? Sit down!
Now 5-4 and Chiefs in the lead. Guru Flores leaves both the black bid and the Blitz still up.
4J Kenner who's been influential in this half to say the least.
EP in that last round trying hard to commit to the top floor hold and
then eventually caught out. It was a great pinch late from Lunchbox.
But it's funny because they played into the top floor hold anyway.
So it's not as if they circumnavigated, beat them and that. We're sitting back here, you know,
maybe questioning the positioning they just beat them up right and so that's concerning if you're
enterprise it's huge though for cheese so that there's the two attacking rounds james mentioned
before on the desk the last time they played two attack rounds was all chiefs got they have some
opportunities now minimum three attempts to at least win one to force overtime they don't want
One overtime though, they want to win this whole thing outright.
We'll see if they can do it.
And the bands Flores and the Goyo.
So Shieldplay will be available as well for Chiefs
if they so choose.
At some point they could go double shield Blackbeard Blitz.
That is an option again, running the sends.
This will be the third straight round.
And first time that we see the Deimos.
Mirra as well in point from Enterprise, first time seeing this operator, they dropped the
vigil.
Tubera as well, first time suited up.
Command bathroom was successfully defended by Enterprise in the opening round of this
half.
at this point it feels almost like it's necessary to do so again
yeah it's looking like cheese will try to enable a play here from Neptune on the
verb
Jacken of posturing for
an eventual contest on the Cairo
tower stairs but there's a lot of utility that's going to be standing in his
way particularly against the Izami and
This attacking lineup does lack some explosives, sure there are four Frag grenades, but those are going to have to be on point deployable shields also available to and total from EP.
Florez probably would have been quite useful here, and EP of course banning it out and playing into that really well.
All the timing for Cairo is fortunate.
I thought he was about to cop a very bad timing on the reposition back, but the frag grenade doesn't connect from Jake Hennep.
He wants to creep up.
Karry, he seems to power play. He could get pinched. He has also allowed this push-up tower stairs now.
still two nitrocells in pocket for EP, three zodo canisters too, so utilities available.
Kyro has been happy feed here in the 10th round on the move, but valuing his life now,
falling back, not trying to overplay his position, deathmark forces him all the way back to bathroom.
Well, if he dies, it's sight-for-fitted.
So, well played there. Bye, Cairo.
Oh, two-horned catchers player.
What a timing at the doorway with a shotgun swing.
The star man for Jiggs will sit this round out.
There's the smoke plumes.
The push now from Jake Kenner.
He's been really good with the shield in hand,
but couldn't connect with the gun.
That's Cairo. Well, he does connect onto relays.
Neptune with the Vengetta.
Deathmark was active. That expires.
Jiggs saw a headshot onto Jake Kenner,
Unless this Vendetta can do a little bit more work.
His last box can clutch.
He will need to clutch a 1 versus 4.
He got 1 no more.
Bapham sits him down on that chair.
Strap in, it's 5-5 on that 3.
And as a wise man, once said, breakpoint round 11.
Doesn't get better than this, James, does it?
Not overly concerned for Chiefs.
I think the expectation in most games is going to be that site is very difficult for the attack to break down
Your best bet is going to be up next a random site
You guys left it too late for the tactical time out. They're not gonna get attack. I
Didn't quite catch what I'm gonna say
Working while they are now going to have assuming this round is played out
different than the worst
Than the worst side of the game. Okay. Oh
Man, I kind of hope they win this round so that I don't have to hear the drama
Oh, he pulled the plug. Oh, now they've called the tech. Well, that's quite suspicious
Oh
Jiggie Jiggie Jiggie
Straight up has disconnected from the server now what this will mean is we're gonna get a rehost
They're gonna now get their tactical time out. He's forced to hand
Or is it a coincidence as they say in the business guys?
I would also assume they can change site.
So, there's no way they want to play.
It's literally one of the worst if not the worst site in the entire pool.
Yeah, a bit of a funny one.
I'll have to look to get all the players back into
into the server. Hopefully it doesn't disrupt the proceedings all too much. It's been a
banging series so far. If you are perhaps just tuning in. The type one here on Fortress 3rd map
in the series. It's 5 to 5. It's breakpoint up next. Well again, I feel like I hop on it all
the time because it's a statistic that clearly has a large correlation. So again here on Fortress
would play 10 rounds of Siege. Only a single round has not been converted. You go back to
Charlotte, it was exactly the same metric. All 12 rounds were played and a single round
was not converted. You go to bank. Only two rounds were not converted. Those were both EP.
At 5-5, heading into the last two rounds of regulation, I mean it kind of points to the
obvious really, whoever starts well should be able to end well. Let's get the boys on the desk in
here for a little bit of a chin wag. Rob, what did you think of the jigsaw disconnect? Very
unfortunate timing after attempting tactical timeout that wasn't working. Yeah. Spontaneous
combustion. This is Jake stirring the pot. Yes. He knows how to do it. He knows how to do it.
Nick, obviously timeout. It's amazing how these technical things happen though. Like right when
You don't manage to get your tactical time out that tends to be when your network drops
See his face camera still connected we can still see steam on his monitor, so it must have just been the game
Look conspiracy theories will run around rampant
I'm sure after this one, but because I think that the statement stays true that chiefs are really showing an impressive
style of play we came into the day
Outlining that they are looking better as an overall team
But I think that it's really starting to solidify that their new style of play coming into stage one has has paid off dividends. Yeah
Yeah, I think Ford has shown that right now in particular because you know the money gets banned away
I was a bit worried about their tax when I saw it because now is it a thing for heavy execution plans?
That's a fun victory, but just simply getting kills. Yeah, take us and talk about doing his cast and they're doing so pretty
successfully. It's about these mini executions, the grim, the black beard pushing hallways,
taking control, three to one mini executes, and I feel like Chief's even going back to last playday,
right, before this matchup. They were a bit more one-dimensional, you know, they had one play
start, and if that wasn't working, they'll start struggling. Now they feel much more adaptable.
That's a pretty big shift from the first playday here in States Finals to the second. It's only
one week of prep work, but it's working. Yeah, I do feel like it's despite the, you know, the
storyline or whatever saying the EPs on the ropes. I really feel like this is
exactly what the score says. Both teams are two rounds away from making it to
Paris and EWC. Both the teams are looking just as good as each other right now
and it could absolutely fall out of sight of the fence. So I don't want to try...
It's on a life's edge?
It is on a life's edge. There's a whole myriad of different phrases and metaphors we could use in a
moment like this Rob, but I feel like both teams obviously playing their
absolutely hearts out right now and yeah I think both of them also still keeping
their cool obviously it's very tense moment right now but yeah I think that
EP hopefully I think hopefully they can get their tactical time out whatever
happens may I get to talk to the boys yeah we really want to see it in the day
there's the two best teams in OZ putting their best feet forward we don't want to
see you know 90% of enterprise 95% of shoes we don't want to see them
I'm sorry, let's be real, we don't want to see it.
I'm pretty confident that AP were not intending to pick it, and I sympathize with them, you know, for being in a situation where it was picked, I assume it was not deliberate.
And so, yeah, I hope they get their tactical time out, and I hope that we get to see 110% out of both of these teams.
It's been such a banking series so far.
the back and forth the chalet on map one to the utter onslaught of bang and now
on to fortress which is neck and neck yeah the irony here if you look at this
direct this is an updated head to head this is this is in the midst of the
game at the moment 34 kills for player to Bappens 23 and and look you could go
to the head-to-head and you can talk about the fact that player was a once
great player on enterprise and all the fun stuff and all the storylines there
But I think Nick the clear dividing line for me is the fact that player is stepping up in a series that could potentially be one of the more
Important story lines of his entire career at this point
Yeah, it's a classic, you know tail-off you make your own story
Yeah, you know you get benchmark roster you go up against with a new team and you're not good enough
You know we kept on working the upgrade the rest. That was the tweet, right?
It's a tough position to be in and I think if player had gone to chiefs now and had an individual bats
You know bad here
Let's say in the entire roster they weren't qualified when doing well that could maybe mean retirement for some of these players because
What's the point now? I was on the best team. I got based on the best team and I'm not the best anymore
Yeah, but the fact that he's now here doing this individually has changed his story entirely
And he could very well have a long career have him now because of it. Just what you play for right?
For sure. I mean for player. I think his personal situation in regards to competing has changed massively in the last year going from
Exactly. I might retire to hey, I'm playing for Enterprise the best team in Australia
I'm going to all these events to now I'm dropped
But I've realized that this is what I want to do and I'm gonna keep on working and also like, you know
I've shelled chiefs a lot today, but I want to give EP some credit, right?
We love the drama and EP love this Mac talk, but let's be real like after Six Invitational where EP did not win a single map
We all knew that there was roster changes coming
Sure, everybody knew that you would get Brando and Jigsaw. That's just a no-brainer. Yeah, who do you drop?
Well, I think most people wouldn't have wanted to see Fischo though because he was such a good part of of that team
But if you're gonna not replace Fischo
or replace Fischer with someone that fills his role like Kyrie can't replace someone like you know
Fischer with someone at Jigsaw, right? Who do you drop from that old EP roster if player in real is that's like
That's an obvious choice. No one is questioning that except for the people that are now the biggest Chiefs fan. It's totally fair
I think everyone would have agreed that Enterprise the most potent ingredients on the EP roster from last year
Were the players that have stayed on that roster too hard and bad
Yeah, and yeah, yeah, I think what baffin said, you know as drama field as it seems
He's just saying what we're all thinking if you have an opportunity to pick up jigsaw and Brenda
You don't walk you drop relays you drop player you create this oh super team
But what is really exciting to me is that didn't just mean that we had some discarded players disappear
No player and relays took that experience of being the new guys and in theory the weaker guys on
on EP, and they've taken that to a bunch of other lesser experienced players, and built
a completely new team from scratch, from the ashes of your old Ludovikas and Circulus
Fiers, and now we actually have two teams that are almost as good as each other in the
same region.
Like, this is a best-case scenario.
We can play the drama game all we like, but, like, we have one out of this.
We have one.
Oat says one out of this.
We absolutely have.
And look, I think you turn me around
on that final point there where it's like,
we all have collectively won.
Totally.
If you look at the last four years of O's specifically,
what's happened every time a team has made roster changes?
Every time a champion team has made roster changes,
they have ended up losing to the team
that the player went to.
And that's just the kind of-
Gaming gladiators to cheese.
But even cheese,
that's when they saw the EP.
It has been a constant predecessor slowly and surely starting to fade into the midst and I think that this is a discussion that we could have for days.
But I actually have something. Are you ready? Can you get a drum roll from you, please? We have on the line, Guzzler with a demonstration.
Hello, hello, hello. We're going back in time to the first half. Didn't quite get a chance to discuss this back in said first half.
first half, but a talking point heading into the second. We've seen that the
chank around the on one occasion, it wasn't on this side, but just starting to
note going forward. This is a pretty key round actually in the first half. You
can see relays here on the left from the chank are trying to deny the plan of
Cairo, but that line I've drawn in the middle of screen, basically the cutoff
as to where that utility actually landed. And if we let the clip roll through, we'll
see that Cairo was able to successfully stick in that very, very narrow window.
Jigsaw holds the line, it was secured, it was pretty simple and straightforward from
point onwards so again kind of the theme of this particular series outside of map 2 so basically
map 1 and 3 where small moments have really dictated the course of this matchup and we could
well see more of them going forward as this final one concludes. Tell you what small moments goes
the fact that you're bringing that up is very ironic because across the course of this entire
series the entire series you ready for this neat there have only been four opening kills that
have not been converted to round wins. Talk about small moments changing the course of the entire
game right now. It feels as though early momentum from both of these teams is swinging into heavy,
I guess, advantages by the time we get into that mid game.
Yeah, I'm not surprised when teams are very, very close in skill level, it's going to be the
small details that change the outcome of the round. But that's the beauty when we go to,
to let's say the highest, like inside grand finals.
It's not gonna be about like, oh my God,
this team has a weaker player that's necessary to notice.
Like, my new teeny tiny details that can alter everything.
And it's beautiful about Rainbow Six Siege.
And it's something that we speak about also
having two good teams, sincerely, you know,
every single year, every single stage, now we do.
And we're having two teams that are so evenly matched
that we're gonna talk about much more strategy,
the small counters, the operator bands,
all of this matters so much more.
It's not just another EP game where Jigsaw drops 25 kills and it doesn't matter what they did against him because he just fricked better.
There's much more to it now.
Yeah, yeah.
Also, I think in the past you were talking about the different eras of Oce's teams.
Ooh, that hits the cam.
I'm gonna shut the hell up. I don't even care what I have.
No, no, please, please.
I wanna hear this because this was a good discussion.
Alright, I was gonna say it tends to be that the number one team at Oce is better than every other Oce team because of one simple thing.
Fundamentals.
And I think Chiefs are very close to catching up with EP on their fundamentals.
And so I think that that is why we have two very, very strong teams.
But the one thing that EP has over Chiefs is experience.
And when you're two rounds away from making it to the Esports World Cup, that may be the difference.
Well, one thing is for damn sure, we are really entering into probably what is the most exciting
that we have had in many a year.
Chiefs, Enterprise, five, five.
Only one can secure an EWC ticket.
Let's get back underway.
I do have confirmation that Enterprise also were able
to have their tactical time out.
And we will go to waiting and cafe, no Hamam.
And so all is well in the world.
As Rob said, five, five.
Very difficult to hazard a guess as to the way this is going to play out.
I don't think you could really guess from here.
That's really easy, classic, okay?
So if you get your chance to shine, you've got to take it.
If you get a moment, you've got to claim it.
Due to the rehost, numbers have unfortunately vanished, but 13 and 7 for play at 10, 7 for jigsaw.
They've been the best two, the only two on double digits.
Launchbox starters 0-6, he's now 4-7, he's gotten a little bit more involved.
Jake Kenner started hot as well, but has cooled off a little bit.
Shields remain up and available here for the attack outside of the Monty, and so Jake Kenner will once again play the Blitz.
has been super disciplined on entries so far in this half whether it be on the blitz or the black
bid in taking space layering pressure and even adding to the kill count of chiefs when required
I'll also bring the Thatcher so counterplay available on to the Kaid it's just one player
off site this time around for EP and much less extensive room above would inverse that really
Yeah they'll spread their wings horizontally this time around of course they'll be exposed to the
vert if they continue to play on objective courtesy of the ram and so by doing so and
by dispersing out they're going to try and force isolated jewels. If the vert isn't really the
same as what you would typically see on other maps it's not as effective. Brenda over two her mom
Which was almost the bomb site. Almost.
Again, J.Cannon valuing his life. Heard the rip of the nitrocells, hence his little floor back low tower.
Again, pre-rep here from two harm puts it away.
J.Cannon's site.
Nitrocell is drawing, it doesn't connect. And the shield blocks a couple of those bullets, J.Cannon.
If you can stick this, he's getting lower and lower.
He still stays alive great cover as well for relays Jake and it does stick to plant. It's successful
But then tinkill onto jigsaw. He's hit the wrong target. He's taken out their star player
Papa now needs to redeem but here comes the shield play. It's Brenda who gets the double
Once the young gunner of this region he now is the star man
The older head to save the day is it's only relays Neptune left 20 seconds time is low for EP
Yeah, they sent three up off. They need to clear the first.
Metru gets one and in the second and now the 1v1, 15 seconds.
Metru can play the time. There's just surely no chance.
Brendos ran out of time.
Chiefs are one round away from the Esports World Cup.
Jake, he's gone and done it again.
He was really good in that round again.
We need at this point get a picture of Launchbox rather than his camera
because we never get to see him, but I'm sure there he is.
He's back, he's back.
He's ready to lock in.
Oh, big round from Chiefs.
EP invested, but you know, it's interesting about it.
We were speaking about it, and I think
Penga was touching on it.
I touched on it.
The different ways to find success when
early Ron in the series, it was the plan.
But we didn't think that was maybe
going to be a possibility, but they forced it, and it worked.
They get another successful attacking round
in this series via planting. Now they get one opportunity to claim the ultimate prize.
Again though it's just another really good example of in a match of this high quality
it's such small margins. I mean Cairo was a centimeter away from denying the plant.
We saw a team kill. Those are incredibly infrequent. And when it comes down to 1v1.
Yeah Neptune doesn't quite get traded on to like so many big moments in that round.
and it's chiefs now but can they get the job done as James touched on the
desk and I can't I tend to agree with him they just haven't really been in this
kind of position before it's a little bit foreign to them whereas for EP this
is kind of just another Tuesday and chiefs get it done right here right now
wonder if they might go fast again and go for that plant attempt you've got the
sends the yin and the blitz that's the holy trinity really for chiefs and their
plant potential for dorms games this is a site enterprise have not successfully
defended in fact it's only top-floor command bathroom that they've been able
to successfully defend in this half they will have to do now do something
they've not done in this match they dropped the chanker at this point it
probably hasn't been an operator with a larger amount of success is actually
evidence by your talistrator and they bring the water all they go and they
will look to pick up the pace j canada expecting there to be the pressure
he goes pistol at six five gets the kill on to Brenda but he goes down and so does
nap tune and so now at a disadvantage as they lose relays three rapidly in the
grave for cheese in a two versus four over times over times brewing unless
This lunchbox and player can combine into 2 vs 4, Jigsaw 1 hp, Kairu half health, still
a minute 40.
What can they do with a 2 vs 4?
They got two ROUs, they got no Kendo, and two frag grenades.
Now one.
I think it would be unfair to rule them out here.
There's a lot of time with two players low, it's possible, but it is such incredibly low
percentage from here.
EP will 100% be as locked in and as disciplined as they have been this stage in such a
Crucial moment and they've been given an opportunity now to reposition and establish these trades these crossfire positions
It's a double stack from chiefs with 60 seconds on the clock. Oh, he couldn't could he against his old team player
But how good he's been the MVP of this series. Can he find a plant potential? No nitro. It would be quite fascinating
Fascinating when he fakes it first time doesn't want to stick it play hits the headshot onto jigsaw
He was low. There's the trade and that's the round and we go over time. Yeah, that's right
A little fist bump from back and they escape death in regulation all
Rounds of regulation have expired overtime is needed to separate these two to see who goes to the new sports world cup
You people get double defense
I feel like I'm at a 7th lactic park or something right now.
The music kicked in.
It's pretty hard.
The tension is rising.
The tension is definitely risen at the top.
Sorry, the guitar riff just threw me off.
Oh, 6-6.
Overtime.
Map 3.
Upper bracket final.
map three, upper bracket final, both of these two teams, just two rounds away from heading to the
Esports World Cup. Enterprise C off one match point. Opportunity for Chiefs. That was also the
only the second round that the opening kill did not convert into a round win. The last time it
happened was back in round two. That was also Jake Kenner, poor old Jakey. He's had two opening picks
where the round was then not converted. Straight to command bathroom for Enterprise. This has not
been won by Chiefs on their attack. In fact the last one they wanted in general was all the way back
in the opening round of this map. Which was defense obviously.
It's hard to say if there's really a favorite starting side here and overtime, naturally
The AP will likely take a little bit of favour.
But I think it's 3-3-1, that's marginal.
I think it's slightly rather beyond defence though.
It's up to Chiefs to break that trend and around here it would be huge in setting themselves up during the demos.
It's Neptune to once again fulfill that role and try to play a lurk presence below.
In the meantime, E.P. established some presence second floor on the opposing side of the map, but evidently by their body language and the setup doesn't really look like they're going to be committing to that point.
point instead they'll look to play on to the denial that they have with the
nitro cell of Cairo. I will say that it's a little bit more trap-heavy this time
around as opposed to raw denial because they don't have the thorn that they're going to do.
They're largely losing to shield play.
The launchbox dead. He's 0-3 in entry battles although that wasn't much of a battle on his part as Cairo gets a freebie advantage for Enterprise.
Sliver of damage on to J.Kana from Bap and forced back in towards site.
A lot harder to win the battle of the flurry of kills that we've seen here in Fortress
when you downplay early, but they do connect on to J.Kana again.
Bap gets aggressive though, Grismog mind waster right now, but he just found nothing.
The timing on that swing just didn't eventuate into actually running into any member of
cheese for either good or bad. Funnily enough there as he slipped back over to
museum, J.Kana is going backfield in as to where Bapin was. 55 seconds, 4 versus 4.
It feels like that next kill is just so crucial for either team. There is still a
nitrous self for Kharu. Flash available from Relays could help them get into the
site. J.Kana up close. Bapin tried to win the guardbreak battle and Bapin
does and Relays fall. Bapin goes demon mode to start OT. The player needs to
respawn gets rid of one and the second it's almost destined to be player versus
Bappin but Neptune steps in divine intervention helped out his teammate
and down to two hun and immediately deathmarked they know exactly where he
is located Neptune with the kit can go for the planet inside of commander do
they have to cross no player has rotated his first floor there's only eight
They could not have made that any more stressful.
Holy moly.
Oh ho ho.
They got a little bit fortunate there, that 200 respected them.
And expected that cross to be held.
I thought it was them and then I look over and he's first floor.
He clearly just didn't, I guess, didn't hear the job otherwise obviously he would have pushed the road and would have been a free kill.
Tactical time out from Chiefs mate, wants to speak to the troops one final time.
As they're 7-6 up, they're one round away.
One round two chances for chiefs.
EP must now win two straight.
One on the attack and one on the defense, or they face lower bracket.
Don't forget, ladies and gentlemen, we have another series after this tonight.
Rival vs. Man Al-Atho, losers out of finals.
Winner will take on the loser of this match for a spot at the Esports World Cup next week.
Well, not next week this week, but it's a long week.
The end of this week.
If an AWC, which is in about two weeks.
Well, two and a half, I think, or three, something like that.
Oh, the tension.
Yeah, I mean, it doesn't feel like we've quite had a game like this for some time.
No, no. And honestly, I'd love to know what Nate actually has been kind of speaking to.
They are one of it's words of encouragement, if it's strategical, whatever it is.
Boy, I thought Baphin was about to put them to sleep in this round.
It was a four versus two advantage and then player does what he does best.
Oh that round could have gone so wrong.
Oh it's us!
I haven't seen us tonight until then.
Well I mean I was on the 7th scale's pro segment but yeah but didn't last long.
So, two chances for Chiefs.
I can't defend, it's kind of like what you were saying but it's not like that defense
was this like impossible obstacle that Enterprise couldn't deal with.
back up to the open around they went three straight three different sides like I
mean a EP have got the ability to win here on the attack what side are they
elected to go to it hasn't it isn't going to be that dorms games yeah that's
gonna be the expected choice dorms games so what one one split in the first half
blackbeard not available which was used in one of the attempts of this side
and surprise the one in which they want and they have to go Monty again which is what they did in the second half of the first half
Very similar looking lineup actually pretty much close to identical, but they drop the twitch
Drop the twitch for the ace to be specific and that's it. That was the only change they made
Which to be honest looking at the lineup of chiefs now that which could actually be quite handy
But you bring in the ace for a reason can deal with the mirror window
open up breach this is the most nerve-wracking kind of round though if
your chiefs not even if you EP well no one wants to put it for wrong you don't
want to be the player that dies first in this round it has been for the most part
a telling metric in this series a couple of exceptions up until the last two
rounds exactly yeah that's where it's kind of flipped a little bit pressure on
Cairo this round the Monty roll for the old tower drop he commits pressure in
general but this is as a professional player this is what you dream of playing in these
sort of matches. Impact from Jay Kenner, largely ineffective yellow ping, no this one stuff
has pushed up and these impacts not really amounting to much. Oh, Jigsaw has absolutely
destroyed Jay Kenner and relays them to follow, there's two from Jiggy and the two player
advantage for EP. Once again facing the prospect of that lower bracket they just always seem to then
have that energy. The Chiefs brought back a 2v4 in the previous round. 3v5 isn't beyond them,
but the plant going down inside of games. Nothing to deny. That plant goes down, it becomes very
difficult for Chiefs. Now into the post-plant, down to players. This seems very unlikely,
as Neptune falls, 7-7 is inevitable.
We need all 15 rounds on the third and final map of this lower bracket final.
Between the two best teams in this region, as Jigsaw, a statement made on that entry.
Let's do this one final time between Chiefs and Enterprise.
It's overtime match point round 15. You win this round. You're off to Paris.
What a moment though for Jigsaw. I'm looking across at his numbers for this afternoon,
and they have not been particularly great. That round brought him back up to 21-26.
He's going pretty significantly negative by his standard. So to step up in that moment,
hit the double, open up the round, and allow free passage for Karo in towards the objective.
ultra impressive and that's why such a formidable force you never quite know
when jigsaw is going to show up but it's typically going to be in those big
moments. So he's being the region's best player for how long now? How many years?
Seven seven. Wow.
It's also three of the last four rounds though that the attacking team has won.
Could that be a positive omen for Chiefs?
Can Enterprise, who have now seen off two match points of Chiefs, now get their first
opportunity with their own match point but one of which that is shared with Chiefs.
Command bathroom.
This is a site that was largely impenetrable up until round 13.
Chiefs cracking it to start OT, EP will double down and give it another go.
No Kaid instead swapped out for the Mute.
That's the only change in the lineup for Enterprise since we last saw this site two rounds ago.
Early Nitrosol from Cairo, maybe anticipating that early movement from Chiefs, but it doesn't
land.
Another one available from Tujan, but it's not as if they've brought a lot of Nitrosols
only one left yeah it was a good read but j canna was able to time it correctly and ensure that he
didn't take any damage they dropped the snake by the way for the gridlock otherwise the rest is the
exact same for chiefs the demo sent to the mute re-pick as well is going to be intriguing it's
going to offer greater protection to those anchors on the objective and to be fair overall ap have
done a pretty good job encountering the demo so of course in this map apologies also the blackbeard
swapped over to the Blitz for Jake Kenner, entrusting more so for the ability to close the gap, get a flash, kill,
Cairo playing at the doorway.
He'll fall back. Little bit of game of cat and mouse to begin.
I think James and we're pretty happy though. They've taken a lot of this space without a lot of risk taken outside of really the early night show.
It's been pretty smooth sailing, but at the same time if you're enterprise, I'm saying this is the kind of round where we fall back,
force them to clear us, force them to have to make the play, and therefore by trying to make that play,
likely that they might make a mistake or two. AP needs to be careful though they
have very limited plant and aisle it's really just the one nitro right no smoke
players still outside there's someone I went inside of the building it's him
we had the rehost by the way play at 16 and 10 jigsaw 14 and 10 it's relays and
he gets the opening kill onto bapen
65 seconds 5v4 chiefs with the opening kill and onto a star player in Baput of his caliber
that is a huge kill he's more than capable of finding 2-3 in the pinch.
Only 3 second floor at the moment I think Kharaz maybe gone searching for the Daimos
but Neptune's back up above.
This is not a great position for EP and again as I said before there's such a new insight
to that.
It's inside the Nile.
J.K.
Oh sorry not into site but getting close to site now 40 seconds.
Stairs love this little angle found but jigsaw losing out
So jigsaw finding the kill at the lunchbox player relays to a piece down a two-e and jigsaw falls
It's only two hot left in the one v3 a
Flurry of kills to close it all out once again as Jake Kenner is cautious in his approach through bathroom to harm
Expecting the cavalry to play behind him, but it's Neptune that slips over with the kid
It's a fake. Jake hasn't got the kit. The plan's going down.
Two-hunt tagged up, tries to create that rotate hold,
but can't escape. And here comes Jakey.
Class is activated from two-hunt, but that ain't saving you.
Lower brackets, your fate enterprises and chiefs
are heading to the Esports World Cup
with redemption for player.
Jakey's going to land.
Lunchbox, strap yourself in, baby.
It's a long flight to Paris.
Wow, what a historic moment for the oceanic region as the emotions they outpour for Chiefs.
And the solid basis for EP.
That lower bracket is no guarantee.
Not a guarantee that they will go in his favourites. There's no disregarding that.
But you lose a series like this, map 377, it's demoralised.
How deep are the scars?
I think I said this last week, if EP or Chiefs go on to lose this series,
How scarred will they be for the lower bracket run?
I think they'll be a little bit scarred,
but I think their quality will largely take care of business,
you would imagine, but who knows?
Anything can happen in that lower bracket.
Of course, we're not done for the day.
Not only are we gonna break down this match on the desk,
but then later, coming up, rival Manila,
though a lower bracket match,
an elimination game still to follow as well.
What's more, still to come.
We said it was gonna be competitive.
We had hoped it was gonna be everything
we wanted and boy did it deliver. Holy crap. What a matchup. What a series over time to the absolute
brink and we have teams that honestly are so evenly matched in the server it makes for absolute
cinema. My only concern dead is how are we going to keep lunchbox seat belted on an airplane. We
are going to have to really get some support for that boy because my god this whole series has really
really set the time. Yeah.
after every round. I mean,
just stood up and taken abou
Of course, there's a still
for EP to get revenge in the
preferential seating going
into what Chiefs have just
the Esports World Cup. I can
believe it for three of these
time going to an international
it's a return off getting drop
they had to earn their way back
their way back in. Yeah they did. They've had to fight tooth and nail to make it and ultimately this
is where they're going to end up. EWC in Paris. If you want to see the Chiefs compete live, well if
you if they get there if they get through the final but if you want to watch them compete live
because they're going to go to the finals are 6S 15 for 15% off your tickets but this is the best
I could ever have let us welcome in our very first player in to
EWC from the APL
First off first off, I just raw emotions right now. What are you feeling? How are you feeling?
I was like only one brah like lucky tears came on my eyes break as like honestly like we put so much fucking
Oh, sorry boys. It's so much work like that's okay. It's that and it's like we didn't even you know
There's obviously still finals, but I don't know why like that just that win just meant like so much for us like
And you only like all the all the hard work we put in just like finally paid off like seriously
Yeah, play a look. I'm sure it feels very different for each of you on that roster of course for you and relays having teamed up with a lot of the
Boys you just sent down
I'm sorry man, I'm a bit under the weather but honestly it's just after what you just put on I put this voice on just for you man
So he distracted me, lost my train of thought. What I was saying is I'm sure it feels very different to all the boys on your team
You and Relays going back to Paris of course and beating your old team to do so and for the three new kids on the block
Obviously, like Jake, Vox, Neptune, they've been playing the game for ages.
They've been grinding up through these kind of like mid-park teams for a while.
And you and Real has helped them get to the top.
What do you think?
Like, what was the vibe in the discord called the TeamSpeak server?
When you guys won each individual player having their own reason to be so hyped to be gone at EWC?
I think just like pure emotion.
Like, I think everyone's definitely shed a tear.
Like, I think it's just like it's honestly so crazy.
like even though there's two sports like this event like it's still so crazy like how much
we've shown to prove ourselves like obviously beating EP in the group stage and then um
beating them in the playoffs as well like it just like they're just crazy honestly like the
inexperience that they have like it doesn't really matter because like they act so experienced to be
honest um so I think they're just like right now after that win they're just so proud of themselves
it's like obviously they've never even come near an event and to make this event, EWC is just so
special to me and all of them as well. So talking about the emotions and the individual
performances right, you in particular had a dominant base of three, all three maps you're
fired up, you're making big plays etc. Slow start on Shelly but we got there on Bang, we got there
on Fortress. Talk me through that very final round because what we saw from like the observing
point of view right you guys are doing the over clear take your own clearing you get meeting control
and then you kind of flip the attack at the end and i'm not sure if you guys communicated this or
just like jacanna doing goat things in the middle of the round jacanna walks into the horse hallway
tanks the fender mine and just starts ads and the enemy saying look at me i'm baiting it you
storm in through the door you take the gunfight how does that play happen is that telegraphs
Did you communicate it? Did you just feel each other up on the server? What happened?
Yeah, so like I guess that kind of round was played, you know, in the round to be honest,
like it wasn't preplanned or whatever. Um, we obviously wanted to sweep across because we kind
of checked, uh, through our cams if there was water now because we didn't want to sweep into a
cave. After we didn't see the cave, we obviously went to sweep. Um, at first we were looking to go
bathroom plant because it was like a lack of, um, uh, plant denial, right? Um, but I think we just
I saw like all of them aggressing bathroom and briefing. So Olly or Relays made the call just to switch to a horse and we just all committed to it. I was ready to grim up the horse players as well. And Jake was just beaming through the red marks and then obviously doing that 3v1.
I like I think I think I share your emotion in this because I know I know what it means for you personally
I we've had conversations at events. We've had conversations offline. I know that this is such a an insane
This is an insane feat to beat them in the upper bracket final where there's no excuses whatsoever
It's the first spot to EWC. This is such an important moment for you and the team and I just firstly
I just want to congratulate you on an unbelievable match.
So this might be one of the top series
that I've seen in OCE, especially given the context.
But secondly, as much as I would love to keep talking to you,
we've got a patch update coming,
and we also have another game to get to,
and I hate to do this, but I want to hear your final thoughts.
Please give it to us.
Who would you like to shout out?
What would you like to say?
Or shout out, EP, or shout out nothing,
shout out to Wuhan for the nice messages on Twitter.
Yeah.
I'm happy, I'm happy I've proved like obviously, I haven't obviously talked shit or anything.
I'm just happy I got to like prove their words wrong and like make a name for myself.
So, I'm just happy like the team was able to help me throughout this whole stage.
So yeah, just thank you to the team, thank you to my family, thank you to everyone watching.
Honestly, I really feel the support and I think you guys, the casting as well.
No, don't thank the cast is the cast is terrible player. Thank you very much for joining us
Give our love to the rest of the team and please reiterate to Jake and box that I cannot believe they're actually going to an international event to represent
Go and enjoy playable speak to you soon, mate. Oh
Let's go. Thank you guys. Yeah, there we go pure raw emotion
And I think Nick what we're seeing on our cameras right now
this is the ultimate test of what a team can do when you go back to the drawing board when you pull
together a rag tag team that no one expects anything of but you hold yourself to higher
standards you hold yourself to a level of professionalism that will ultimately get you to this place.
Yeah and just to reiterate how they got there there's a couple of final rounds right at the
five five breaking point everyone's favorite round they attack kitchen the tertiary bombs that
that is very difficult to break usually on the attack they get into a post plant
but they're two versus three all three EP players are flanking them top floor and
they win the round by getting the kills and on the timer it's beautiful right
then you go to 6-6 eventually they go for a crazy play it doesn't look out
player nip clutch two versus four player falls down the hatch has a sprint
across the building with eight seconds left get the cover and they also win
that clutch then EP win we're in 7-7 and then we see a final round play out it
such a hard-fought victory for chiefs with a multitude of micro plays, hero plays and adaptations in the server and players said in an interview
All their hard work is finally paying off because I feel like in the beginning here stage finals
They did look a bit sloppy. They didn't have the same depth for adaptation
And today they really proved that they do have what it takes to be maybe even the absolute best team here knows
I'm just wondering when reality is gonna set in that we have four former circular spheres players
We never have to talk about that ever again because we are speedrunning. We are moving on to the next series
It is time for us to talk about rival eSports a roster that honestly
I think have come together quite nicely again looking at the chiefs and looking back to the conversations that I was having with them
Prior to kickoff I put rival eSports in pretty much the same category obviously the caliber of players are different dev
But I expected rival eSports to finish in the top four and I think they've impressed us
They've also left a little bit through our imagination for sure like you take the old team and EOS who'd be chiefs in a best of three in
kickoff by the way
And then you add wetables a very
storied player who's been to SI's and mage's plenty back in the old blisters and you end up with what is on paper a very deadly team
But a deadly team that struggled to find as many wins as perhaps we expected of course
They lost to both chiefs NEP very convincingly
Yep in the groups and then also to man LFO a couple of convincing wins over the other teams
But what's funny really is, you know, we haven't actually seen any close games from rivals so far in the BO ones
They've all been very quick ones. Man on the other hand, I mean man, they have been looking phenomenal
Of course still a step behind EP and chiefs
But I think these guys are the obvious
Ridesmaids behind those two big goals. Nick when we look at man now or foe, do you think that they could?
Do you think they could actually
Contest for an EWC spot in this bracket?
It's really hard to say for both rival and man Elifo, just for the simple reason that
we just saw the level in this BO3 with Cheezer Enterprise, they both look so absolutely
strong.
And over Cheezer take down EP, EP has to have a hero player who's not dropped 20 kills
and that's super super rare, while Cheezer putting out clutches.
So for either of these two teams to take it in the low bracket, it seems difficult, but
mind you, if you win right here, the winner goes up against a super tilted Enterprise
for the final spot.
I think both rival e-sports am and look over show up on the day like I always say right in 110% and maybe they have a bat showing
That's gonna be the offset. It's like watching a game of footy the team that scores the most goals is gonna win the game at the end of the day
Typically you will indeed make you will win. Let's go ahead have a look at the vetoes for this one
I think that we're pretty evenly matched. I think that this is a very similar context to what we had in the upper bracket
Obviously two completely different spectrums of where oh shits consulate bank and layer
Starting out on console guys if we deep dive into this one
I do get a little bit worried because consulate is not the easiest map to play in the world devs
And I feel like
Complicating it on a first pick in a best of three at this level of the game. What are we going to?
Yeah, yeah, and thing is you matter for pick the map means rival gets picked defense and
Consulate is a hard map to attack pick map a lot of room clearance do a lot of choke point
a lot of problems solving. A lot of things that can go wrong. You know, you're bringing
a cap of tower or some nades. As soon as you mess that up, you're done. Especially, you
know, after the patch comes serious, the patchmates have just come out with Jager or my getting
some buffs. I think it's only going to get harder. Yeah, but like, in theory, nice. But
like, let's be real, I think Jager or my just going to fortify our positions on maps like
Consulate even more. This could be a tough start for Manila foe. But of course, we don't
know much about consulate fire these teams have not played at this stage so I
really hope for their sake that man on the first start strong on your team. Well
do you know what the best part is we don't have to wait long to find out
whether they will or not. This is your record 2-0 rival, holy crap.
I think so. I didn't get a point just gonna bring that before you. I think
rival 2-0 in comfortable fashion they get stars out of consulate that's the
map over right here that we've got a bank rival should have beaten cheese but
They've boggled multiple map points at that moment, and therefore she's made a comeback happen.
So I generally think Rival have a comfortable tool here.
Nick, I don't even know why I was speedrunning a throw to them, because we don't actually have to throw to them.
We can deep dive into the bands.
I don't know if you want to touch on this or whether we just want to go through the sub-parts.
Yeah, Nick actually has a really good point to make here.
Oh, yeah, apparently I do guys.
I was gonna say, if you really want to look at mirror clash, Clash and Sami, and I'm gonna be happy going.
No, no, no, you were talking about the Tashankan, that's the thing, I knew that we were gonna make a Tashankan.
Oh, right, Tashankan, that's the band, yeah.
No, obviously, you knew, but I didn't know, but that was my point, that's a tough one actually.
No, I think this is good stuff, but I still think that defense and consulate is just like insanely difficult to play against,
and it could be very easy, like 5-1-4-2-1 half, and then it's wraps.
I think this goes three maps 8 7 8 7 8 7 and just for clarity I assume we are skipping the run.
ramen tasting for today no we can still do the ramen didn't they tell you that
we're doing it mid-cast well I hope it's not spicy today that would be I think
we'll have to do a double ramen tomorrow maybe I had word actually yep
okay so if the game does actually go to eight seven we will be doing ramen most
likely because we'll be in a meeting. We're gonna have to find signs of filamentance.
So focusing on this series, Manel of Tho and Arrival, loser will be out of finals. Winner
will now get to play Enterprise. What a prize that seems to be that you get to play EP.
But that match, if you can get there, will qualify you to EWC. Manel of Tho started the
the stage absolutely red hot rival on the opposite world ice cold to begin but
they're the team that's probably in better form coming into this matchup
what did you think of Nick's hot take with the rival 2-0 are you in
agreement I mean it's very very difficult to disagree his rate has been
pretty good to me Morrison he called chiefs he did
my double gets the opening kill on to Hunter my levels is also getting a little
bit better as the sages going on, he was locked in knowing Wettables he was
definitely seeing back watching that grand final ready to go for this one
this is the battle against beers I said grand final upper bracket final I think
Wettables would love to play in the grand final of course one of these two
would have to make the grand final to qualify for EWC
Proxy is going to be one to watch you think about someone like lunchbox going
to an international event, Proxy's another younger player that's clearly got some really
good potential in the region.
Pace just slows down here in the opening round after an exchange of kills on the top floor.
Plenty of time remains in this opening round as Man-LFO tried to formulate a game plan
plan unfortunately for them though it's fallen apart at the seams well this is
chef Jeff's element once he gets a final chef Jeff is well a different
beast altogether well her rays are not a little pop up from long desk chef Jeff
over to war defending and rival around the board good stuff the man in the
screen
rivals trajectory over the course of the stage has been
appears with his launchbox impression
he's also got the no strip
he's all cold playing at this point
how many rounds until he takes it off like playoff
did we end up getting the uh...
before and after. I don't know. Yeah, in terms of second back to the rival. So I've had probably
got a more unique trajectory as I think we've probably seen in OAST for some time where
understandably, newly formulated teams normally start slow and then build up. But in OAST,
it normally takes the course of like a year or a month, but this has been rapid. Your newly
formulated team doesn't even last before the stage begins because they had issues with Killiman.
Yeah, an ACOG hat. I think it was like three days ahead of the first match or something ridiculous
Very close standby now
Of course rival fourth seeded team
Two points over seven three points over shy catamy. So yeah, it got pretty close towards the tail end of the group stage
In hindsight they did pretty well against Chiefs because the rival 7-3 loss on Lair but
then 8-6 on Bank which we just saw Chiefs do to enterprise 7-0 on Bank for them to get
6-0.
They probably see the back thing that, jeez, we're not that bad.
We got 6 on Bank again.
Yeah, I don't think Rival law is to be underestimated and if this does eventually turn into a dominant win
Again, they'd be far from favorites. They'd be far from favorites against DP
But I think they could go toe-to-toe and at least make it exciting at least make it a little bit interesting
And they don't have no pressure
That doesn't be like that grim reaper that remember me. Yeah, play that he's revenge. I'm looking for mine
That would be a long-winded revenge
Yeah, a very long-winded one
To retire
Four nitrosiles in play
Make it three with the races down
But that one connects from Wettable
Speaking off him
Oh, Wettapus
Wettapus, he's back
Yeah, I think he's back
He's starting to perform
As we get deeper into finals
He does overextend a little bit though
Dides out to elements
But courtesy of the damage from Pluto
3v3
Very reminiscent of the opening round
Again, that sort of flurry
Around the mid at 40 mark
And then slow down
Well, the slow down won't come
down won't come it's actually going to be the plant towards cafeteria don't think
rival are even aware of this it's going to be successful play it was a
double stack elements of beers and now that's I'm up on the plate takes down
a cogs gonna play retake into the mirror here good luck no I think this
right's gonna work out they've left themselves a very very very small
window here rival I don't know if this has been the play push together play
together. Acox gonna have to eat that call. Jeff Jeffs to clear out. Oh lovely catch on
to beers but wasn't ready for blue dope. Matt Elephore they kept the second round.
Despite the flurry of kills from Wettables played the mirror window actually quite well
but Matt Elephore they just went direct and in the end that was the the reason for the round win.
Yeah, I do wonder mate, I mean this is like a super niche thing to have done in the moment
and I don't think it would have changed the round, but maybe if Wettables had popped that
mirror window before dying to the payload, it could have helped alleviate some of the
pressure.
It actually pops the mirror window though and then it doesn't die.
I know.
I don't know what you're saying.
I prefaced it with it being a bit of a ridiculous state, but it could have been interesting
either.
To have the um,
clairvoyance in knowing, yeah I'm probably dead here.
I would have taken an insane read and a crystal ball to kind of know how the rest of the round would play out.
Where there was a start of, absolutely, Red Hulk.
Four kills in the opening two rounds and while back in his heyday, in his prime, he was a pretty good fracker.
Don't get it twisted right now and certainly since he's come back from a time and he's a
hardcore support as you're gonna find although he has picked things up as
the stage has progressed at one point Wettables was in I believe well he was
definitely in the bottom 10 at one point and now he's sitting 24th rated he's
actually roughly tied oh hang on someone the wrong on the wrong stat
sorry let me recalibrate yeah yeah he's 24th rated I was on the right side he's
actually tied with Tuhan. So they're both in that middle section of the league.
A-Conk goes down early, another rush coming in from Manila foe. Bringing the
pace here. Again, split site does mean they can push straight into server.
That's what Sharky wants to do. But wetables didn't even get a chance to
fight them. Polito ripped his head off pretty quickly as Sharky goes very deep
inside of server. Can get this plant down. He's the best planter in the region.
Proxy can't quite find an avenue to deny the plant and so Matt Alepho
retained their advantage and able to double dip here with the three attempts.
Razor tries to progress for a helmet's foul in the meantime and mean Sharky's
gonna stock it he's got two bearing down on him needs help from beers.
Beers will provide the help. Oh boy they both combined lovely that was a 2v2.
Now with the backup against the wall for Sharky Sharky's played that round so well
just get so deep into the site so quickly the way he was sort of just
navigating around potential C4s potential utility didn't panic the
plant eventually gets it down and then in the post plant didn't panic trusted
beers they both took one a piece then if I grow to one up
and doc could be to be banned out then for the remainder of this first half
half mirror scene, a bit of play time has been pretty influential over the course of this map thus far.
The Dockabee 2 has also been pretty potent.
It's going to be very intriguing if this match ends up getting played over two patches because Dockabee is about to get nerfed up to the ground.
Yeah, I actually haven't had time to look at the... Have you actually had time to look at the...
Yeah, yeah, I mean, I can rattle through a couple...
Well, I think the big ones, I guess, would be interesting.
I guess on the premise that yeah they will have to play potentially across two patches
Yeah, so the dr. Be cool down is now per target and 14 seconds from seven
But I mean in terms of the doc could be cool down for target
I mean does that I guess they incentivize not having to eat the call as much
Like pending of course your situation so you think about a lot of the times at the moment calls are being evening because you're less likely to get spent
Yeah, I suppose so
Yeah, there's also a three-speed. So we're going back to okay. We're going back ten years. Okay. I'm expecting to see far more
Yeah, go
Well, I got a couple of baths
Interesting. So am I as well?
Not the three-speed. No, but he's magnets. He's getting seven total.
Okay. Well, welcome back. And so he is also getting three
Three impact grenades. Hmm
Everyone's getting a bath. You get a bath. You get a bath and you get a bath. Why get a bath?
I don't know if you get above.
There's a couple of other smaller ones, but...
Oh, hang on, hang on, what?
I don't know if Impact's grenades are having their range extended, that we just double-check.
He's...
He's trying that at the roof!
No, Impact grenades are not gonna change, sorry, I cook.
I think he might have been potentially on for kill there as well.
The consulate is the mountain pig of Mal, if I remember what it's worth, but we kind of
sped through the pre-show Florida series.
Wonderful headshot from Chef Jeff through the floorboard onto Hunter.
I'll talk about going the other way if you're the buck.
That's something the buck wants to do.
Chef Jeff is a big match kind of guy.
He knows what to turn it on.
It doesn't mind a little bit of the chatter as well, Sheffy Jeffy.
They're in a good position now, Rival.
It's about holding their nerve and not giving away that free pick back.
I think that the way that you do get back into this round is potentially Sharky with the Ryora, although just through a gate out.
That's kind of think maybe they might want to use one of them to actually help take Long Desk.
Otherwise they don't really have anything else. I don't think Kariza's gonna care too much about the Grimbees at the quite hard one, Shawty just sent it.
Now that's just desperate play and tries to get a timing maybe with Pluto at top spiral with a good swing headshot kill.
And that does get him a little bit of vision over towards Long Desk, which is Wettables walking in and that's elements down on the ground.
Pluto actually pops the fucking canister but chef Jeff acog proxy all very low on health makes it a little intriguing
I don't know what it does have to care. I agree not impossible here. This is very doable right now for Pluto
He could get caught he's got no intel. That's the only problem
There is there was a drone in the house
There was a drone in lounge
There was a drone in lounge and that gets the kill on to acog 20 seconds really good team play there from elements
was watching that drone there was there is also a drone inside a co if he gets
this plant down he gets offered expecting someone to be close by and they
are split he could take the two isolated fights he wins the first one down a
chef chef Pluto looking for the ace I think he might have to look for the
kill to be completely honest chef Jeff not exactly sprinting Pluto's gonna get
this off give himself the chance but chef Jeff and this desk slip from Pluto not
Not only was that to win the round, it was also for the ace, he is frustrated as Jeff
Jeff spins on him.
Yeah, good composure there from Jeff Jeff and being able to time his run called Pluto
in a position where it would have been highly, highly unlikely and unusual for him to get
off the plant at that point, allowed to close the gap and then was able to pounce on Pluto
at the swing.
Yeah.
He's visibly frustrated.
He really shouldn't be that frustrated with himself. He can be frustrated with the fact that I think he played it as best
Yeah, I think it's more of a frustration that he didn't win the round not so much. Oh, I you know, I messed up
But he didn't do really anything wrong
Fair effort though, I mean that's as nice fries you're ever gonna get
Because the round was looking pretty grim, I'm not gonna lie
Well fed that one there from where the bulls where the bulls is gonna
just calm things down a little bit that that's what start four kills in two
rounds has evaporated pretty quickly to zero in the next two rounds after that
chef just chooses gum he's locked in
he's a big moment player i think shut up i know exactly chef knows if he gets
that match against enterprise there a chance
not a high one they will have zero pressure
Exactly, I have that negative view right now.
Yeah.
I mean, either of these two teams are gonna have no pressure.
Exactly.
That's the thing, it's just a free hit.
The pressure is actually in this match.
So, 2v2.
Get some amazing...
Can we switch to the free-cam real quick?
Yeah, this is actually pretty good.
Do you remember the scene in Interstellar, the docking scene?
Oh, they moved off.
Oh my god, I want to continue. I think that's a bit more like Jaws but no, I didn't get to I
had one note. It's still not going to it.
That's very hypnotizing. Someone's calming. Oh, there we go. We're on. You gotta line
it up. Line it up. No pressure. Here we go. Gotta connect this. Oh, I don't, why are we
Moving up, I can't even tell.
Got to up your sense a bit now.
The basement site then for the fifth round of the half.
Oh, we're C4 maxing this round.
Indeed we are, full total.
Oh!
Still full total, but he lose the vigil in proxy.
Proxy's starting quiet.
One of the top players for rival of this stage.
Not every day that we can see Jackal,
Chef, Chef, can you get four fees?
Ah, yes!
B is in Pluto to a piece or one a piece so for two
We're just kind of going back and forth here in console it aren't we there's it doesn't really seem like there's a semblance of
Structure in terms of what we're watching it just feels like a great
Tribby for a cog and almost the second bit of shucky with the blackbeard
Shield up he'll drop back down the basement play alongside wetables. They both still have and not just all the piece
As he said, not often you see Jackal these days. The iron-knocked scanner not what it once was. I'm surprised he didn't get it far.
Bring back old Jackal, I say.
Oh, that Nitro connects! That's the Blackbeard down! And I know there's one stuck at the bottom of yellow stairs.
There's a good split here.
Did you get the revival?
But it's now a low health Blackbeard.
Sharky needs to be extra cautious.
Aleph is playing behind, goes for the pre-fire swing, Sharky's cautiousness pays off as he gets the kill onto Wettable's and now leaves it down to Acoge, one versus three.
Plants to go down from the jackal inside Garrard, Sharky will actually get into the face of Acoge.
What a nuisance, that allows the plant, he knows the cross is there.
Acoge has all the game sets and all the no loops, but no way of dealing with any of it.
Man Aleph O take the lead once again, three to two.
It's a chaotic match at the moment. It doesn't feel as structured in comparison to the earlier game of the series.
Wall straight plants, though.
That certainly has stood out as an asterisk.
The plant rate is high, but a competitive match nonetheless. That's not to take away from the competition.
I'm very curious about what the plant percentage is for Man Aliphoe as a team.
If Shark is the number one planter in the league, surely they're high up there, and of course I don't have the...
Yeah, you don't have to know.
There we go. I'll come back to this, you feel.
Yeah, that's fine.
So final round of the half, it's been a 100% entry conversion so far, and a 3-2 scoreline in favour of Man-Ellovote.
We're heading over to the split site, second attempt from rivals so far.
unsuccessful last time out in that third round. I got it. Actually, very interesting. This is why
stats are really good to look at sometimes there. Man, elephant, rival are basically tied with
chiefs. There's all three of them are at the top around that sort of 19 plants. Is that a percentage
though? Or is that an outright? That's just the total number. That could be a bit deceiving, but
I'm happy to run with it.
And then after that it's AP 12 etc. So it's a big gap.
Have they played a similar amount of attacking after that?
We're not quite that fast.
No, they played the same rounds, so I'm assuming I'm gonna attack around here.
I can't be assuming those things. What if they started out and attacked them 1-6-0?
Well you can see, well, plant per round is the same.
Ah, okay, it's a per round, right.
That's where the context is important.
But the impact is the highest with cheats, which means they more often win those rounds.
87% versus 80 and 76.
Find a round of the half, it's A-cocked against the opening kill, onto elements.
That's the gridlock down.
Opening kill so far have actually been pretty much on point.
In fact, yeah, it's 100% conversion, so good start for rifle.
Yeah, they took out the mirror, of course,
banned out for their reattempt here.
And so looking to inject some
crowd control with the banshees of proxy.
Let's put it off the bar with another fight in the same position
where we tried to clutch out previously.
Spotted chef, Jeff, go prone.
And it's a pretty simple kill and convert for him,
and he flicks onto the razor for a second.
Despite being so low on HP, Pluto able to project himself up to 10 kills, the rival
look to stick around to you or appeal back to the objective they have the
info from the pulse and a nitro for what it was I'd be looking at him to be the
biggest influence for the rival. He hasn't had a kill since the second round.
Just you wait for this round Jake, you just you wait. I'm waiting. Big way it's
going to come up clutch I can feel it in my burns it's not gonna be chef Jeff
his he's dead so someone else has to step up kill the shoots
proxy with a slow start as well one four thought down from Sharky okay he might
be cooked now he might be a little bit cooked
oh what's the pushdown that's a double-stack pushdown service there's and
the Vulcan canister helps out rival should be able to close this out to
tie us up three to three beers all that's left 1v2 Pluto calls the GR
oh this is painful this is painful this the glist all that has been so
devastating this round I don't know if that's him backing in beers or not
interesting his teammate to win this now of course we split you can plant
server and he will not be allowed to plant server and considering I don't see
our bold headed host James is eating and well I'm not going to throw to you Nick I know you're
ready you could do it yourself we're going to go to a break
I understand, oh my hand, I understand, oh my hand
I understand, oh my hand, I understand, baby
I think it's too early.
Too early?
No, but by the time we die it'll be like 34am.
So you'd be good.
Let's see the party going.
Let's try that.
There's a lot of people out there who don't know how to play.
It's not a good spot, but I think we'll get to the top.
Yeah.
I think we'll get to the top.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think we'll get to the top.
I think we'll get to the top.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's true. Finally, the party's here. We don't need to go to Reds.
We do have fun here.
We have been to Reds though.
Unironically.
And actually broadcasted, so...
Now, 33.5 for that man-al-a-fo rival. No separating them at the moment.
One thing though, Rival, haven't really been able to gain ascendancy really in that opening half.
There was the little run that man-al-a-fo went on between rounds 2 to 5. They won 3 out of 4.
Rifle kind of start and close the half out but not really as much control I think from
them in that first half as they would have liked.
Allowing four plans is usually not going to net you a whole lot of success.
I'm probably expecting them to close this one out and get us to bank, but we'll see what
Ryan will have in store.
It's been a tricky one to split these two thus far, and I'm looking across at the stat
line so far I'm a little surprised to see Hunter down there once six. For a player
of his talent it's unusual to see him under performing and so he'll be looking
to change his fortune here on defense given the injury of all for the opening
round.
That's a Glanky map clear across here currently from rival. Just going back very
quickly to hunt who's 12th rated in the league so again it's unusual to see him
performing with this kind of stat line and hopefully his fortunes can change
and defense majors naturally favor him in the playstyle and the game plan of the
team it's possibly targeted first so beers under pressure from chef Jeff who
was influential back in the first half with a couple of key moments a big one
versus one really is influential across the board and with the amount of
experience that he has best of threes elimination style this is where he
thrives as he enters down below over towards visa to now open up vert
potential on the Deimos it's admin control for rival pretty uncontested by
this defensive man LFO no vending hold elements forced back and with five
targets available here for chef chef those anchoring on the site will have
to be quite cautious that they aren't susceptible to that Vendetta. Hunter didn't get burned
down but it's vending, you're expecting someone to be playing this position. One-sixth star
for Hunter as well is not where I would have expected him to be. Coming into tonight, 12th
to play it in the region and well I'm gonna put the blessing on him he gets to
kill onto acorn play the black beard
oh he's struggling though onto the players that don't have shields he's just
continuing to just tag up tag up and then the end chef Jeff has shot
pitifuls in the back of the head what a strange round
You may have the Curse powers, but I have the Bless powers in that round, Hunts are coming
alive over towards vending.
I called earlier that it was clear, I think he must have repositioned later, or maybe
I just saw him out, didn't quite seem in frame, but did a good job in holding down the
wine, big kill, opened up the team kill.
They wear frag grenades, still available, late there for rivaling, they just didn't quite
effectively clear that position.
I think they'll be a little bit disappointed in how they broke down in that round
because it was a pretty default hole and there wasn't really anything special going on there from MNLFO
Either way, down to basement for the follow-up
Interesting start to a half, no doubt, a little bit disappointing by Rival's standards
They'll be double vert though into this round so we dig deeper to top down approach
10 seconds left before insertion.
5 seconds remaining.
When I talk, you listen.
Yes?
I'm going to...
Yeah, I saw a console that wants to stage in OSCAS, but despite that, whenever we...
I feel like, do you get to see a console in matches that maybe don't have a lot of importance?
It's typically C.O. meeting spam.
A bit of basement.
We've actually seen a lot of split in this match as well.
To me, this has a lot of the hallmarks of two teams that are...
Ah, what?
Going through the strap book is,
and Wettables, it's completely served up.
He still hasn't found a kill since the second round.
We're into round eight.
He's done a lot.
We hadn't all finished him before maintenance.
Oh, no, absolutely not.
You were very optimistic before.
No, I never thought we would, I was just trolling.
I mean, the only world at which it happens is if men
are for a win this 7-3 into then 7-2 to 0, range.
Unlikely, unlikely.
But, you know, I want this to be a good series.
This is not play day one of the regular stage,
or I'd be then therefore rooting for a team.
We want this to be played out properly.
Yeah, for sure.
But apparently it'll be played out properly on two
Yeah. Good test of adaptability I suppose. Both coaches are in the background quickly
redrawing some strats up with the double-mine. I'm telling you what, Sully probably already
has something ready to go. I haven't a breach but two planes down from rival on the attack,
not looking great. What is this actually even called? I know it's lower bracket. Is it lower
bracket semi-quarter? So let me bracket semi-fine. Yeah, semantics. Well there's only one lower
bracket match before the long final, so I didn't know what they wanted to call it. It could have been
probably intense purposes. This is lower bracket round one. Oh, there's a plate below. Oh, good
Clear from beers. Yeah, this is
Done that man on the phone
They're on a bit of a heater now
They went back to back rounds for the second time in this match
5-3 lead to go for man on the phone
And it passes a tactical time out
Before rival
yeah frame will give a discussion to the boys will have a discussion with the
lads with a bit of a monologue here will be a little bit disappointed I feel as
if the last two rounds from them just have lacked the coordination required of
a team that wants to find attacking success on this map it's unfortunately
being a little bit disconnected across the board we saw the lack of vending
clearing the last round and then in that most recent round players getting
isolated and not then in positions to trade. So a little bit isolated on attack and to the
credit of Van Halifo they're doing a good job in identifying that, reading into it and then being
able to shut it down. Therefore deserving of the two round lead that they have been able to acquire.
Five, three, the score line. Did you look at the map analysis by any chance? I did not. Did you not?
Okay, cool. So if you wanted to hazard a guess, let's play the guess game quickly console. What do you think?
Record wise just record wise both teams
Well, this map hasn't been played much has it? No, it hasn't. I don't know like
For which team both
One one man LFO with rival zero two one one man LFO
11 right now both lost your last play days were on this one seven chiefs and
for men I was fine and four seven enterprise what was the rivals attacking
winner 41.7 in fact they both had the same attack win rate okay yeah 41's on
anything now the real bank up next the map pick of rival having us for men
LFO 3-1 no 0-3 and it's their permabend oh I was trying to be kind but
rifle a 1-2 record but it never bend at once and of course that was the map they
went 6-8 against chiefs so put all that together and I think there's looking
quite likely which is the number one preference for men LFO second last
preference for rifle. So we'll be finishing at 1am. Yes. Well depending on if the maintenance
gets extended or not. Alright. Shooter just brought the sleeping bag and slept at the
shooting over an hour for tomorrow. I've been at Gawd in his ninth round with not much
have to say about it. Well, shotgun cap can is one thing to note. You don't see that often.
I don't know if that's some kind of specific position there for to be played by Hunter
in this ground. I'll be quite intrigued to see if that is leveraged accordingly. At the
moment it is a one to four split from the attack from the defense rather with the majority
of those operators on the second floor.
It's fair to be here for the IQ as well.
Oh, this is just a...
It is just... Oh my lord.
Oh my goodness!
What?
The boys have grouped up and gone down yellow. It's expo piano though boys, so don't go too far down. That's one hell of a rotation
I don't think I've ever said that before. Where are they going?
It's C4 maxing, baby
Well, they've only got two though
Two is better than none and they're both below
Yeah, that's true
And then they can play the souls to get in from where the plant is. They might be cooking here
They're cooking alright. It just depends if it's a five-star Michelin or if it's a dad's home cooking.
Good trade back from Alamance, Plank going down there from Eraser. Where are the Nitro cells?
They can't Nitro this position.
And they definitely have not cooked up anything.
Oh, good keeper Barrett.
Gets the chance. Chef, Chef, there's one.
We shouldn't expect it far more to be pushing up the other stairs, although in fairness,
you can quite see the train of players that pushed down there the way that we did.
Oh, Pluto. Lovely hatch it onto proxy. Well, this is now very winnable for man LFO in the
3-1 as a razor. That's a lovely first kill, but not the second.
Bear stays alive. He wins the battle. We go 6-3 up for man LFOs. They get the counter
of the fuse they cooked but they didn't follow the recipe but luckily it still came out as
a pretty good dish yeah they just threw something in the pan and it came out delicious so i don't
know what else to say it's like one of those meals where it just looks awful but it actually
is like oh this is actually really nice yeah that was a crazy stack yellow probably a bit fortunate
that it was unexpected and then that helped facilitate the retake up above because
I think the large portion of that plan was to invest in Source for Info and then play
Double Nitro below, but on that site you can just play it on the marble all the way.
You can still love Nitro, but it's tough, so that didn't work, successful retake however,
so fair play.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but with the maintenance, we can still get into the server, play out,
and play through, right?
Provided no one DCs, sure.
Is that a risk you really take?
Absolutely.
well i mean you may as well and then if someone dc's more than you okay cool done but
i think we've done enough cosplaying is that minston no no i'm done i'm clocking out
well if men have a photo lock in here what are we at 10 past 10
yeah quick break what are you gonna do sit in 50 minutes and you can play the whole map out
might be good
Unfortunately for Rival though, the second half has been anything but positive, really struggling to coordinate these attacks.
Yeah, it hasn't really worked out for them. Consider they won the opening round. You take that one away, it's just been an absolute demolition job here for men LFO.
Yeah, James has got something for us. Oh, they're monophotos. Okay.
Interesting swag about a man who hasn't got a voice, he's a strange character, I don't know what year he landed on Earth.
In the meantime, one to one trade, so 4-4.
I'm losing the Blitz, Sark's, but at least you get rid of the Poles.
Yeah, somewhat neutralizes.
I'm seeing a meeting, I mean the Blitz is very strong at being able to get that default
plan into meeting.
They turn it back, put the shield, and there's no other knife yourself I'd have to contend
with.
Shucked around some play here from Wet, and he'll be looking to clear some utilities.
Oh, they tried earlier than Magdans.
I think it was a kill, I didn't even realize.
Vending hold initially from Pru...
From Pru, though.
But he kills Magdans.
Gullsbrain.exe just stopped working for a second, but it was not responding to how it is.
Just a hiccup.
Like with the XL sheet just hangs for a split second.
Just quickly closed it in task, right?
Still three gaspaves and the nitrous oil available for me and I'll have actually missed that one on the
old century.
And Proxy's saying get out of my way because he's about to die out of the gaspade.
Their beer still has two more.
Lovely, clear from Pluto.
Rival just falling
here at the final checkpoint, which is to really get into the site, plant down, etc.
they just don't really have the capabilities.
On the game for Pluto by the way, 14 and 6, fine assists as well.
And I think we're gonna be calling an NTM concert.
Oh, Wettepuls has returned!
He's back!
It's Wett and Chef Jeff, talk about the dynamic duo-kaz!
Can they clutch up 40 seconds on the clock?
Wettepuls with the defuser, one smoke, pocket, two nades and a death mark.
And the swing from Elements will not work out.
Wettepuls is looking for the ace.
He'll go for the point first chef Jeff to cover and what beers does get the kill
It'll be a straight one versus one beers for when it was gets off
He gets up to swing
Oh beers
Beers clutches up the nice when it pulls the A's and gets the map for man e-sports that we're both
I think my family always knew that they knew I was like smart and what I would focus in
and then obviously knew that I did not like school.
I was like intelligent but I just hated school.
So I think they kind of understood that it wouldn't always end like what they would've
imagined in terms of like a destined career and like uni.
I would send them streams and they would kind of understand, like, this is cool, this is
fun, like people are watching, there's people that actually enjoy the game.
They didn't understand that it can definitely be a career at the time, it was just like,
he's playing games, so they're definitely worried about the future 100%.
After EWC, that was when it fully changed.
They obviously saw me fly to a different country and compete against all the other teams and
see the view count and the broadcast.
Kind of when it's start not really started, but their full support in terms of like they love one doing they support like the career path
In that time now they love it. I think my dad support. I couldn't wish for more
I don't cry on fucking camera. Don't make a cry merchant like I wrote bro, but I can't I'm like tearing up
I'm like thinking about it
He's a very hardworking person
I don't really see him much because he's like always working in terms of like his business, whatever
So to see him like just like wake up at like four o'clock to watch my games is like crazy
I guess obviously I'm in Saudi, so on and he's always texting me like doing crazy like he's like tapped him like he's like
Fury like the world champs. Just like insane to me like people like this like
Exist like help like support me because it's obviously not like the traditional
in an Asian family obviously, right?
So it's just incredible, like, how much he supported me.
But at times I've wanted to quit.
He like fucking stays up like every night.
Comes like all my events that he could come to.
It's like incredible. So I love him a lot.
Family support means like insane.
I'll be a tramp but there ain't no room, no good intentions
I'm on the call
They don't know a father
They don't know a father
I heard him say that it would be so hard
I can't lie, baby, they won't know
But if one plus one is two, it's two
You got me and I got you all
Nothing would ever get us past
No more
Well, we certainly stress the importance that Manalifo had to start off on the right foot,
Dev.
Oh yeah.
Mission accomplished.
He found that.
I don't know which foot it was, left or right, but what really matters is once you get one
foot planted, you don't stop.
And that's exactly what happened.
Attacking side, not easy on Consulate.
I know that metaphor kind of ran out of rail, right?
Yeah, and there have been so wrong before.
Manila foe, style attacking side,
they went up two to one, already a good sign
if you're on Consulate, right?
They managed up three to two.
And even though they ended up three, three, half,
the way that they got to that three, three, half
does you a lot, you know, massive start
from the whole squad, a lot of good plays from Pluto.
I think you have 10 kills in the first half.
Yeah.
10 out of 4 at one point, you know?
Yeah, really, really solid.
But they're very good showcasing.
You know, rival winning around off of a clutch.
That's not how you're meant to be winning rounds on Consulate.
You're meant to be winning rounds because the attack can't problem solve
and they can't coordinate, they can't execute.
And so I think Man on Apo really just looked incredible.
Even this final round, like there was a moment there,
in that 3v3, it looked very doable.
As soon as we switched into the second half,
it became very evident for why Man on Apo picked this map.
their attacks are good enough, and their defenses are untouchable.
I just feel bad for rival Nick, but I think ultimately when you start out like this from
Manila Foe, you do take a lot of momentum, especially moving into that second half.
There was just no questions.
They just performed, I want to say flawlessly, pretty much the entire time from there on
out.
And I think that it now sets up what could be a quick series, obviously, because we're
not seeing the players fire on rival eSports that we would need to in order for this to be
competitive. However, we do move from Consulate to Bank. So there is a complete change in scenery
and hopefully in momentum for rival. What's your he take away from Consulate?
That's obviously I was very wrong about Consulate. The defense was not as strong as it was to me. The
hostiles I think did not pan out. They did. I'm always wrong. That's the thing, right? That's the
the beauty about this is that I don't know a damn thing about O's from the
sixties okay they break my expectations every single stage but I will say this
bang is a different map like you said Robb right and surely that means a
different result here for the losing side but with how those last four rounds
are playing out for rival you know losing around with the defenses five
men retaking yellow stairs and you just lose insane gunfights left back in
center where it comes down to whether it was fighting for the ace and he does
and pass it all just looted the very like last step of the round. It just feels like even though
rival doing so many things well, they still just lose the clutch factor. That's been the big thing
for me and Conchlet and Bang will have a lot of clutch potential as well so we'll see. We will
see unfortunately it's just the way the cookie crumbles. Now as we start to I guess look back on
Bang's performance for both of these two teams, it doesn't look that great for either of them to be
But they have been going up against much greater teams like cheetah and enterprise. So it's kind of a mixed pool
It's kind of difficult to take that kind of game and put them into
Well at least the context of that game put it into this year
So sure like if the star way looking at our phone because they're the ones currently in the lead
They're the ones who are expected to take this if it's gonna be a two-zero be in their favor
They only played it one time in stage one and it was in the stage finals
That game against EP didn't walk too hard seven three you're going up against EP and EP that had all the momentum
Yeah, well, so I don't want to hold that against them too much
That doesn't tell me that they're bad on bank
It just tells me that it's not a favorite map of this
I agree if you have to look a little bit further back in history. Thanks, man. I really needed that right now
I'm trying my damn best. Can we get player back? You said my voice was sexy. You're not getting that from me or Nick
I'm telling you that yeah
Well, I was gonna say Manila foe also played back against EP in kickoff and it was a 7-2 loss
We're even worse now rival also 7-2 lost to EP on bank during group stage and stage one
She been chiefs exactly they had that overtime loss against chiefs
I really should have been also like I feel like should have is a bit of a stretch like you only got that close because
Whether was one and five in a very not repeatable. That's one round. Yeah, exactly
Exactly, and it wouldn't have gone to overtime if it wasn't for that one, that's how this game works.
I love you two. You two are like an old couple and it makes me so happy to watch you both come.
We're not old?
Well, I think yeah, I think James's lack of vigor in the last three years would also say otherwise.
Excuse me, I'm a very vigorous man.
Yes I would definitely not call you vigorous. Let's move away from that word entirely. That feels dangerous but we are actually getting word at the moment. Obviously this is probably going a little longer than most viewers would have expected.
It's done again. Proxy has had a power outage right as we came out of the break and it is a...
is a street news.
Well,
Synox path to pro.
He's been chasing this very moment.
Stop the man in.
He was casting himself,
winning a round early against I9.
He didn't do it all.
You know what he actually did
and that's the irony of Jason.
Does that mean that I have to sub into cast
the rest of this game with my husky voice?
Well, you know.
If Jack is subbing into the rival.
Well, you're getting cast while playing.
I would rate that so highly
if we could ever see that.
In fact, I don't want to Jake do you actually think you could compete here?
I appreciate what Nick is saying.
I think he's just a really old.
Stand up, Jake.
Come on.
Will the real Jake Venditti please stand up?
No, I'm comfortable right now.
We've got ourselves probably about two hours before this next
time.
Jake, Jake, I just I'm going to breathe straight past the fact that
you've just jinxed us.
And looking at that math if my calculations are correct, approximately got three kills to eight deaths
Yep, you reckon you can risk those shoes
Look I average what two full losses have been in every single match except one which was at one full loss
So how many games he plays three games, right?
Fall's player turd and then I9 today and you got two rounds of the first game except for play out and well
I mean he's the best player in the region. So, you know what you actually
Yeah, you actually you can't
Really disappointed you didn't stand up then we really wanted to see what I'm sure there's a clip of me doing the wave
I really wish the audience could have heard you say that can you please repeat did you not hear Nick say that before?
No
You know you don't have the context they are literally but five feet away from us in a room right there
What are you saying, Jason, could you imagine what we could do with more money?
Oh, hey, you know what?
Hey, Jake, Jake, what do you think of the APL?
Maybe on NAL, but it's too early in the morning. Yeah, from when we're on
on the APL? Probably only on the APL. I would say we can confidently say that. Probably doesn't
feel like it's committed enough. I'll be completely honest with you. That's I'm pretty disappointed
about that. But you know, Jake's 100% right. Imagine what we could do with more budget. If
you're a sponsor and you're looking to get involved with the APL, the perfect place to come is here
and now in this tea room in the APL set. I mean, at the moment, like Nick doesn't even have the
right to a buddy. We just had to have him in this television. I can imagine you actually got to be here.
I'd say guys, imagine I got two arms, two legs, or some wheels. I could move around on my own free will.
I'm stuck on the couch and I've been taking elbows to the face for a week straight right now.
I need some serious help because I'm sitting here going, I'm just taking it.
So I would like some assistance please. I want a wide frame. Oh my god, you can see my air purifier over here.
Man, I'm not set up for this. My office is still being built right now. I'm in the living room.
Oh, that is so beautiful. Take me back to the small screen. Thank you.
It's okay. It's okay. We've removed your exposure. It's okay. But we are getting somewhat confirmation.
Obviously, we'll have to wait until we actually get into the server to complete the activity.
What's the proximity of Struxie?
Well, Broxie's entire street's power went out.
It sounds as though if only he had more budget
This is why we need a pack land leak right it is could you imagine what we could do if we had a land?
Yeah, I mean I'd be a little bit scared to see and the best teams
Yeah, I mean the problem is if anyone beats CAG like Amazon's
Oh
After that after after the APL performance, can you imagine the cheese versus AP shit talk if they were faced?
They were literally face-to-face, yelling across the table.
I don't know, but I like seeing the devastation on people's.
We need to get the Australian Federal Police involved.
Actually, that's a crazy reference.
It's a juvenile corrections facility, not too far from here.
I can recommend.
Get a little bit too out of hand.
The fight between the guys is crazy.
We are descending into chaos.
It's starting to get a little late here in Australia.
But what I've been now cut off twice,
and maybe even a third time.
When you're ready, come on their coach that may be their emergency sub. So it looks like frame will be stepping in
Actually might actually be a hundred percent confirmed that frame is gonna step. It looks so happy about it. Yeah
He looks like he's ready to go so unfortunately for rival eSports a
Wonky map one is now gonna turn into a limping map two
And that's gonna be somewhat of a problem. I can tell you that much right now, but
Moving forward with what should be the final parts of our discussion is
rival rival eSports in my mind should be the third best team in the region.
OK, I think that I can say that quite confidently.
You say that based on the caliber of the players or the history of the team.
I said it on the sum of their individual parts, not the collective.
So you look at I get you look at what that old Anios team accomplished
in the past with a lot of big upsets, right?
Even through tier two when they were upsetting the old chiefs roster.
Yep.
The upset over chiefs in kickoff, I should say.
And then you look at, oh, ACOG was one of the best players
on that old Rock LFO roster.
He's now come over.
You look at Wettables and history of that player.
He's come over.
I guess you're kind of saying this should be, like,
taking a good framework, pun intended.
And then you've added in, like, some stronger players.
Like, this should, in theory, be the rest before success.
But for some reason, we just haven't seen them.
But I feel like this is a discussion that
goes pretty deep. All things considered now. Look, if we were actually going to take a quick
sidebar from that conversation, I'll come back to it in a second if we need to continue
to fill. But Proxy is the player that's being replaced by frame. Proxy did not have the
greatest series, not series, but the greatest first map. However, he has been pretty instrumental
for rival over the last, what are we now week four week five. So I think that when we're
looking at this and we're looking at his stage 1 performance. This is kind of what I expected.
Well he's actually the 8th best player in stage 1. Okay, I did not expect that. I did not expect
that. No, no. So you look at Jigsaw, player, Neptune, Bappin, Lunchbox, Walsh, Brendo, Proxy.
And you're like, hang on a second, what are Walsh and Proxy doing there? Yeah, Walsh.
Walsh? Well, shut up Walsh. Walsh is a guy. Yeah, good for him. But yeah, I mean Proxy,
aside from Walsh, is the other odd one out. But as you can see, like he's actually really
impressive stats very and you know in a lot of really hard important operators
to play which often in frantic positions in the dock be as I'm in
particularly that is army on defense you know usually in very aggressive
positions usually you're in instrumental positions where if you die the team is
really counting on you so yeah this is gonna be a big loss even though like you
said didn't have a great performance in map one yeah it's gonna be a pretty big
loss I also think aside from just the loss of an individual player but as soon
you lose one
ingredient in your team the whole team tends to fall apart we saw that with EP when they were in the academy
I don't know Nick if you've ever had an experience where like one player has not been able to
Oh, yeah, can you think of any anecdotal?
Let me let me introduce you to Kento Spaghetti who always sleeps and mis screams and whatnot
We had to play a tier two German tournament without him and we had to play with Shaz our coach and it was not easy and
And yeah, either either you sub the guy in one for one
You know the player who's missing and the coach you just make them play their roles
Or you have to make a couple of changes and try and make it all work together
Either with the computer saster and you're playing back
Which is very team-centric of everyone having a big responsibility and role in the server
So let's hope that the mr. Frame is like a cancer or Katie. He's a fracker
You had you had me at can't just to get you. Oh, yeah, I have a question quickly for Nick
oh yeah if you if they had to suck prime g2 penta era you had to suck me in
current date 2026 day how would I do in that era but I mean it's promise it was
just promise right wait get him in for goga you're fine no no support slander
here man go to was was necessary okay minus far beyond plus j
We're potentially setting up an APL 1B1 between Jake Sennocks and Vinny and Mark Dupont.
I'm just saying that could be absolute cinema on that note, boys.
Enjoy that too and let's hope we beat the timer.
Let's hope we do.
Let's hope we do.
Alright, well this has been a strange turn of events going into the second map of this series.
Bank is live, it is the map pick of arrival.
24 minutes?
24 minutes until the maintenance.
It doesn't really matter too much as long as no one crashes. Oh, I wouldn't put that past happening
Yeah, especially after proxy is a studies and if proxy
We can't come back in mid-map I don't know
You're the rule book. I don't know. I don't think you can
What do you think of Frank a frame coming in?
Frame can shoot absolutely zero right. Yeah, is it almost akin to
In fact, I'll have a quick look and see if I can get his R6 trucker, that's up and see his R6 trucker, that's how I'm gonna get his rank as well.
Yeah, that's right, why not?
Now for what it's worth, prior to the proxy issue, obviously Bank is a much better map for rival than it is man, Alaphaux, hence their selection.
Oh, that's not ideal. He's played four ranked games in the last four seasons.
That's four more than me.
He was emerald four and solivated with a positive KD, so
That's something that's something I mean right now all it has to do is place a mirror window and then throw your C4 when it gets
Asked to yeah, I mean bank up to be fair
It's kind of the one map where everyone sort of just knows what they're doing
And if you could put him on the safest role than the least frag dependent then you might actually be alright
Well, so you're playing defense. You're also playing largely structured siege not right
It's like you're playing with really good teammates, but yes, we are playing against really good potents
That's gonna be fun. This is actually my dream come true for frame
That is good. It's pretty serious. You could have been me. Could have been me. Oh, Chef Jeff goes down a Pluto
And I just lost the razor. Well, it's all down the frame
Congratulations says Chef Jeff
Well, now this is just going to be the next 30 to 40 seconds as Manila Fo get themselves
set up for a basement here against the three stack rifle.
Frayn will play a little bit more aggressive over towards main stairs.
Dust will have nitro.
I mean, admittedly, I would imagine Volcan canisters to all need to be dealt with and
you've got the Cheveka launcher from Wendables on the Tachanka.
a little bit of information here from Frane too, the barbed wire being broken above him.
First Vulcan canister will get popped, he comes, beers, so then get another one, get
rid of the board crew camera, and the next Vulcan canister, it's the easiest line we'll
ever have on a Shockdrone.
Yep.
So a bit of build up then, 4 man LFO, 35 seconds on the clock, and they posture to win out
this opening round.
The Chameco Lodge will keep them in the bay for a little bit but the flood from Manila
Foes.
What were you seeing?
Frame's on!
Pluto does shoot out wetterballs and then, well, they're on for the moment, for a moment.
Like split second.
Split second.
Split second was looking on, but Manila Foes, two man advantage in the end proving to be
the difference maker.
They take out lockers and CCTV, good start for them on bank.
But if you're rival, do you take something from that round frame got a kill? That was a positive show positive
Even Pluto in the chat was saying some kind kind words that he may be the carry for them
I feel bad for rival this is assuming they just gone to lose is to oh it's such a
a deflating moment for a team that really was building some meaningful momentum.
Unfortunately they didn't have a console.
Yeah, I mean coming into tonight absolutely agree, but a console that just didn't go their
way and you could almost see them start to just maybe feel a little bit helpless on that
map.
Yeah, sure, you then can actually draw your attention to bank and then of course proxy
power outage, there's been a discussion regarding the maintenance, like there's a lot of that
kind of external factors which certainly have not gone their way but sometimes
you just got to be the better team and push through those issues it's not as if
teams have ever lost it's not like teams have never not one with a you know a
coach in before or a substitute in
never won with the substitute in I'm sure they have not like they've never won
I'm saying that many teams have won with coaches and subs
You said it's not like they've never known
You did a double negative
It's okay
Two wrongs make it right
Oh boy, I just want a frame cam. I just want to see what he's getting up to
It's not a pretty important position here. This is not exactly just kind of sitting back behind a mirror window
This is the leader I get stuck playing ranked and it can be
pretty difficult at times well I mean you've essentially got three positions
you're watching you've got the push in top square you've got stock and then
you've got top mate obviously you can have some help from teammates for certain
positions but you are in the focus of the middle of this like three-way highway
wait man I'll probably gonna look to try and go pretty direct here and it's
probably the right approach. Flush out janitor.
There we go, I think two shots in a double drone,
you till with the twitch and the flora.
So I mean, I'm not expecting them to rush.
Big stack on the rappel, but yeah,
largely not really throwing a lot of bodies over towards
this kind of stock,
means there's alabay decided to map.
Oh, chef Jeff's just gonna sit in the flames and janitor.
And here, three gas bombs still as well, available.
Yeah, that will significantly weaken the remaining parts of this defense for rival.
And once again, similarly to the last round, MNL, FOMO used this pocket of time and space to build up.
So that it does fall.
Kedaseev Aikogi was primed at that long angle.
A follow-up repel from Hunter, now looking to aggress.
all frame also getting flamed out of janitor
he also takes a big chunk of damage
jockey almost found two kills with the two bolts
efficiency from the capitao utility now ladders the smokes
the razor will fall so it will oak acog and the plant will go down and the round is over
man i'll make pretty quick work of things on the top floor
i will say look for all intents and purposes you bring a substitute in regardless of
of four ranked games in four seasons and all of this.
There's still four other professional players inside
of the server for rival.
They need to be a little bit more competitive here.
They can't just kind of wave the white flag.
These rounds have got to be, you can lose.
And in this situation, I think rival
are almost expected to lose now,
but you've got to be far more competitive.
Attackers need to locate and defeat the spot.
Yeah, hopefully we can see a little bit of fight from them,
the opening two rounds, not instilling a lot of confidence.
Rough start, man, LFO, just, I mean, to their credit, they're just not playing stupid Siege,
they're playing smart Siege, they're getting an opening pick, taking that window of opportunity
to set themselves up and then just keep keeping it super default, super compact, not trying
to troll or do anything silly, they're just having the job done.
To now go to the other side of it and actually be a little bit critical of rival, you're
bringing in your coach. Your coach knows the roles of proxy and what proxy will do in certain rounds
and certain sites and how to fill in and so it's not as if frame is coming in, doesn't have any idea.
If it were me walking in, they'd have to basically babysit me. Go do this, go do that,
play this, pick this. Frame shouldn't, no, no, we don't have to calm us, but shouldn't be in that
position. Doesn't mean he's going to be the best fragger in the world. Sure, I agree with that,
but he should know the rest of it. So there's enough there for rival to still work with.
Yeah, complete capitulation here would be certainly disappointing.
We'll see how they shape up for the third round, the clash in play from Rival.
But it was to play that pretty proactively above initially, but then we'll drop down 30 seconds into the round.
They're also in play, so I think we're rather going to look to try and anchor play as much
as possible and probably the most sensible decision, oh hang on.
What is going on?
We are playing ranked at the moment, but it's going the way of meadow and both of just,
I mean how is Rivalman to expect this?
swings beepers lost his head a razor forced to drop they get very much is
clamped down in this round star nitrous cells got some good distance but shucky
stays alive now down one versus one as Hunter grabs the kid why even just
killing
brought around just kill him just kill him I don't know what the desk thinks
like cool that's an old timer from you Jakey I don't think it's that easy just
Well, it's like it's kind of like what Nick said earlier tonight. Whoever's gonna win this is gonna be the better team
Well, we'll get around to the board so
Keep your parade for them
Credit to a razor
Yeah, there's a clutch who clutched from a razor
Was it a 1v3?
Did you get one just before the last two
Uh, good question, the tracker is having an absolute fight right now, so...
The tracker's gone into early mates in its mode.
Yes.
I don't think I've ever said it's broken.
Well, let's walk back to the replay, very fast here through beers with Yamaro, he kind
of actually just sacrificed himself.
It wasn't 1v3, straight up, yeah.
Kills elements, I don't know what Sharky and Hunter are doing over here.
He's just playing, after the nitro guy deployed, just playing.
I mean, there was a line scaring up, boys.
I can't believe I just complimented them about three minutes ago about how he was trolled.
Did you see where the bulls is came?
They weren't trolling around.
He just walked around and he looked absolutely distraught with what was happening inside
of the server.
To be fair, he and Chef Jeff both 0-3, they're the dynamite spark of his team.
He's got two. Fair play. Fair play.
Back down to basement for the fourth round.
And shield play available here for maybe some early server pressure here for Manila foe.
Who do you think would be as a stand-in today, 2026, a better-stand-in mag, or Nate?
That is an incredibly random question, it's on the basis of what Frame is doing here as
a coach standing in, in the context of this match, or just in general, I mean in similar
environments such as this, hang on, well that's a freebie from Chef Jeff, he's back to his
best.
That's a tough question.
Well, Mag's been out of the game for far longer.
I think Mag would only get a very slight advantage out of the top.
And Pluto's out of the round, and there's only two left.
Men on the phone are just sending it down mid, and it's almost working.
Beez watching his truck, he just keeps on going.
And Razor hasn't really made a move.
To be honest, if Beez makes the push, he could have been dead.
Jeff now creating pressure.
I meant just runs into the hallway, sharky down 1v1, Eraser to try and clutch up again,
beers down a lock in, goes for the pre-fire swing, doesn't connect.
Another clutch potential here from Eraser.
Beers go to the kit, Eraser hits the shot, we are 2-2, Eraser's 2-2.
Eraser's locking in.
There's something in this game Jake, there's something in here in the air.
Eraser doesn't want to go to bed.
We just lost Frames' cam.
We might have another outage.
And I hope for the good
11 minutes of maintenance and we're absolutely not beating it at this point
No, but honestly this way we might be needing a third map as well
And if we do get to that third map could proxy get back in time this needs to just be
This just needs to be a hold on and and at the moment pray to a razor
He's carrying right now for rival this really for all intents and purposes should be for nothing
Man now if I just need to look back in I don't know what they're doing just
You're giving them hope and that's the last thing you need to be giving them
That's now two rounds back to back where rival have genuinely outplayed them and sustaining that kind of said send down bid sort of pressure
That we're seeing from them and fair play like
They're getting the job done on defense
We return to the top floor
We'll see if
This is a short burst of momentum or if there's actually something in this
I'm going to say the OSU is selected from the Attacker of Man LFO, so it could be a
top square side take, but they switched out late.
It is a shame.
Not that you can't still go top square, but just know also.
Did you know I'm 3% Danish?
I didn't know you were 3% Danish.
What are the other percentages?
Well, 97% of the things.
No shit, it's 3% Danish 97% other, sorry, me and Niko brothers.
Well he inherited Niko beans there Mark as well.
Yeah I know, I was there with you.
Have you been to Sweden though?
I haven't been to Sweden.
That Mark was very windy.
Almost got blown over.
They could leave in the wind.
Chef Jeff not gonna challenge Sharky on the Blackbeard repel. He's not really gonna waste any bullets.
Well they got caught out by the Capitao last time. Jan Rival have elected to of course ban that out.
And so they've actually aided them pretty significantly on the top floor.
We'll see how Man-LFA look to play around that as Chef Jeff finds the open kill.
Rival are seriously back in this match now.
Yeah, they're well and truly back now after the first two rounds and half of the more than half of the third round
I kind of thought this was just gonna be there maybe
talking in the corner and
You know bowing out, but they've actually dug deep
Man, what it was a smiling laugh. Yeah, he's high. He looked like he was very depressed a couple of minutes ago
I think they're slowly starting to realize as well that they're not the phone don't know what they're doing here on bank
Yeah
get to there you know what could happen well this catching anything in this
round all I know is there's two players left on each side most importantly
already says one of them for rival and may get three straight rounds for rival
look at chef chef I can't quite get the lip lip reading but I think it's a case
of what are you guys doing I think he's in pain I don't think he can believe
He's watching like we get chat up. He said something bro. I can't
Can we bring up the chat guys that was actually a bigger from frame
That's good
Chef chef thunderbird the funny thing is actually solid. I'm pretty sure so is pretty active in right so
Elements out solid in I don't know you take out the show the real insult would be getting set oxy man
And then it's just like that's that's when you get bad
My final round of the half coming up can't wait to see how the desk gonna break this one. This is
One of the more obscure games I think I've ever covered.
I've been to open area for the final round of the half, but Thunderbird in play from Chef Jeff, it's...
Yep, it's his.
Here's the Thunderbird player.
All the Thunderbird rounds globally in stage one.
He would have the most.
Well, it does get played in SAL a little bit from what I remember when I was looking at the play stats for Thunderbird.
He would still love the most, I think.
in terms of individual unique person I think he's absolutely the guy that
plays it the most globally. And do the counter stations do anything? Not really
no. I don't know why he plays it.
So if you contact Bandal, if I win the opening two rounds and the third round
was looking very likely with a 3v1 opportunity since then it's been on rival.
Back to back clock just from a razor this could have started as 4-0, but
the rival had pretty quickly realized that this is a real opportunity.
Ben Elifo squandering everything in this first half, they're getting swung on,
they're getting absolutely beaten to a pop, they've lost their buck and their Habana.
They've lost their down mines.
Sharky. Yeah, this one's done. It's four to two. It's four straight for rival
This one may even be flawless
And all of this when you've got wetables going one five as well, so one six misspoke
Minutely I just want frame to get the final kill of a half there
No, he hits here. I was gonna say he might but he's going back over to the hallway that frees it up for a razor
And that's the half fall straight to rival. I tell you what three maps is looking very likely wrong
We are in like we're stuck in a time loop right now I
Mean I
Genuinely at this point don't know what to say
I think I actually embody chef Jeff at this moment, and I never thought I would ever say those words
I think I feel a chef just angst to this game. I fear for you if you feel like you are in the mind of the chef
He right now, but he's pretty much the same person. He's been cooking. He's been cooking. I can't deny it
Yeah rival have been I know I did there just embodying the epitome of what happens to just let go be like well
We're playing now. We should absolutely just get walloped here
And they're playing without a care in the world and every time the round goes badly
They just laugh that every time the round goes well, they just laugh about it
They've even got man on the phone cheering for a razor in his clutch is saying what is this another good clutch?
And then he does it again
Nick it's a little problematic because the storyline here was man
I'm not falling into this cleanly and to you that story lines kind of been watered down by the fact that rival have bounced back in
this one and I actually look better in the series I know that the one
this one it's disgusting yeah they had two lion skins two frag grenades see
fall spent earlier easily could have planted but they were shaking dude like
one team is playing it's super serious and so like desperate to get a victory
and everyone's like you said they're just having a laugh is Nick are they
playing super seriously I think they are until they aren't I mean look at how
they played this execute right from the very beginning of this round to the very end it was
pretty good then it comes to the one which you like here a force apart but let's say you use
a lion's head four roly polys in pocket one drawing pocket that's so much you could have thrown out
a drone to distract could have thrown out the as you said the roly polys the sen's light walls
could have activated the lion's head could have just waited like they didn't have to rush that even
after you know sometimes you're in a 3v1 you fumble the first player and suddenly the guy clutching
is like well maybe this is possible fair enough you just need to restabilize in a moment like that
Funny enough, it's what we saw happen a lot in the EP Chiefs game. I think it really shows from the confidence
I'm really confident and experienced players are fine at just chilling and saying guys take a deep breath and
Just close this out by playing the percentages and it's what matter first I do now
They're two four down. Yeah, and now they move on to defense, which is not where you want to be on bank
So if they're gonna get this done in two they have to go massive
They certainly are Nick any comments on the bands matter. Do you want to move on?
No, they can't go massive. I'm gonna go with Jim's.
If I can, the only thing gunning for anyone that wants it to be finished before maintenance in a 2-0 is that rival really struggled on attack on map 1.
They didn't get a single round of attack out of 4 attempts on Consulate.
Obviously much more easy to attack on Bank than it is on Cons, and they're not gonna have to deal with the Kaeyi or the T'Chanka.
So yeah, look, for Manila Fo, that's the big thing, just digging as deep as possible here on the defense.
Whilst we are having a bit of a laugh and yes, this should never have happened,
rivals should never be in this position where they are 4-2 up.
The point you've made there is it's pretty on point and it's pretty simple to say that at the
moment if man alifo lock in for this second half like we know that they can after essentially a
two-minute long attack timeout, they'll be back on that horse and it should be done in two,
but will rival throw a spanner in the works. I have to wait and see.
Yeah, I think they need to go massive as well, whatever that means.
I'm not quite sure of the detail of going massive, but I'm sure they can do it.
How do you think Fram's going to go on the attack?
Defense is one thing.
I think attack is going to be more challenging.
Obviously it's going to be more challenging.
So why'd you ask?
So that I could get your opinion on it.
might have said well he's going to be playing the ying and actually he's got a long history
of playing ying he knows exactly what to do, how would I find history, oh the guy that's
playing four games of rating for season check, when it's like four games he must have a pretty
small operator pool, well he's played a lot of ying, maybe he has, maybe he has, he's
got shotgun for the first round too, are they just going to backdrop, I think they're just
going to backdrop, yeah well, Acox dead though, oh they've got the gold, they're just going
There we go. Top dead. What? A little bit. This is a little awkward.
Brave is too busy shooting his own candela.
Labels is dead, and the backdrop is over.
It would help if frame was looking at his monitor. For some reason he was looking up to the top left. I don't know why.
Oh, Sheppy. Well, that was very reminiscent of a lot of the
rounds that we saw in the first half.
What is going on that was a funny round for a funny match
This is an elimination game by the way, yeah winter takes on EP
What a what a prize that is
But you'd rather have that opportunity the end of the week
It is interesting right the contrast when we close out that that chiefs EP game
We're like you're talking about like things like scars the deep wounds
The team that loses have been a little bit vulnerable, clearly upset in the present day,
sure, but it's not like they're playing later tonight.
You know, you've got till Friday to rectify things, regain composure, mentality.
I think if E.P. were watching this right now, they'd just turn it off and be like,
yeah, we're fine, we're going to the Grand Final.
And what's fragged the frame is...
Where is he?
5th coach.
Where is he?
5th coach.
Where is he?
1 and 7 now.
Didn't he play a really good console?
Oh, for the first two rounds.
Nah, he still has 8-10.
He's struggling here on bank.
He's certainly had some clubbing call
in the last of this stage.
It's interesting too because he has those kind of moments
where he'll get a quad kill and he'll look unbeatable.
He's unbeatable, he's swinging everything, he's back and then suddenly he's just vanishing again.
Very consistent.
I raise him with nine kills, he's been the best, he's the reason why they're even leading.
Top 4 then for the 8th, triple plaza on the exterior, they're going to play off of ACOG,
they've got 3, 5, they've got 7 smokes, so do you have to count using your fingers there
or?
Well not my fingers, but A finger, yeah, well that's actually, with no context that's
going to be straight, isn't it, yes, P is there going to be a Frank, well no, no Eraser,
He's gone, no clutching up this time.
ACOCK's gonna need probably close to an ACF.
He loses wetables too.
Man, how overt, I tell you what,
they're pretty active on this defense in the second half.
They know they can just take the gunfights.
Not a lot of strategy being employed here
on this map of bank.
And the man that I thought was gonna be propelled
into action is by himself.
Dodging nitrous cells.
Here's another one available.
Abashaki's all the way over to Janitor and we are going to be tired at 4 to 4.
Maintenance has officially started. A reminder, if anyone does drop out of the server, we will not be able to re-host.
And if rival win the map, then we'll be more than likely waiting for the servers to come back.
Well, I mean, here goes a minute, so...
I don't know how long it's scheduled if it's...
I think it's 60 minutes, but you know with these things it can be shorter. It can be longer
We're definitely gonna be sitting here for the next 50 seconds though
Hey, you see they're actually updating the 1v1 playlist
I saw this you should be are we gonna be using that I
Don't think so
Yeah, true jumping in for that playlist is Oregon in
I believe it's still in yeah, I could be wrong, but
They're also tightening up the the round time. I'm making it a little bit quicker the ranked map rotation also
That's what we cooked with here actually at APL
The first play day against balls was too long. I think I've removed AP from ranked
That might be the best surprise around no no no emerald planes and that might be some of the greatest new the panel though
Yeah, you know the you know the Nambrel planespan. No, you know, it's interesting. I think it was like maybe the last year
People kind of thinking about trying to get it into pro league out back and post line also out in will be villa. So the gorg back
I love canal. Oh, that's
That's not no, not can I burn down right and theme park theme parks not too bad. Yeah, that's fine
I really want villa back in pro league. You know, it's interesting. It is gonna rework, right?
You know how much like there's like villa coastline
what else theme park obviously is another one it feels weird I honestly
wouldn't even mind skyscraper back these days yeah I liked I liked
skyscraper it had its moments sure
for for the school line we're tired I'm still not sold on fortress still not so
I mean, I don't know if I'm in the minority or
It's
Whether it's more time. I don't think it's gonna age that well
No, I definitely especially with arm being unplayable and the top floor defending against a vert is also very difficult
Yeah, but yeah
It's longevity is gonna be tested
So all tied up man, I'll throw win the opening two rounds
Start the second half
There's everybody which made a whole fight just smash out the next three rounds and it's done
There's everyone which rival just smash out the next three rounds and it's done. I don't think that's in every one since some of them
But at least let's likely of the two
Unfortunately attacking with a sub is just proving to be very difficult
Yeah, I mean, they can be relying on hero players.
Chuck him on the finger, telling him to press adrenal search.
Even you could do that.
Maybe not.
Yeah, I could do that.
I mean, I could also accidentally press it early, and then it's on cooldown for a little
bit, and then we have to wait.
You know, you can mess it up.
You could.
It's not easy.
LMG.
Oh, remember the LMG map?
Oh, that was another time.
That was a time.
Jigsaw loved the LMG.
Oh, now they're all on the D-Mama.
I'm too lucky.
What's after that? Did we go back LMG?
Or did we just go...
something else?
Get the space for Chef Jeff. Don't mind this.
Trinoboost.
Trinoboost activated pretty early.
Echo does go down.
So does Hunter.
Eraser gets the double digits. They lose chef chef the lurk on the salt snake unsuccessful. There goes frag and frame the coach is down to the grave
Where the bulls has only got the one killed us fast
So you're expecting a razor to probably need all four here if they're gonna win this nice round
And this time I think they're learning their lesson don't peek into a razor
Not a bad
Spray and pray there from a razor. I'll tell you what razor
Looks like someone who's really locked in
Now it's on him to unlock the round for what it was to be able to get into sight
And it's also where the bulls to use his two flashes to help facilitate for a razor
Good look to flash you know flash over the top even the first one's kind of a nothing flash. I'm not gonna lie
oh good read that was close he knows this one at the wall as well so those
just one close I think he's just trying to draw as much attention as possible so
raids can play the drop and here we go drop down it was me watched by Pluto
Swifter trade 1v1
Sharky versus where the balls and sharky does defeat wet
I can shock the water
Well sharks aren't really attracted to water they're just kind of in it to begin with I think
I don't think sharks are born on land and then walking to the water
That would be a sight to bold
Well man, Alpho back in the lead!
Yeah, three straight. Additional bans now to come through.
I think we lost frames being a camera.
Oh, we lost it a while ago.
Yeah, you were the one who pointed it out.
Down to basement, round ten. As man Alpho stormed towards taking out the map and the series.
Do we need a pre-host to fix this camera?
I hope not.
I don't know if I'll go two rounds away from the ultimate prize, which is a chance to take
on enterprise later this week for a spot at eSports World Cup.
Could we get beers himself, here's an J. Canneron man.
Here's an J. Canneron to the eSports World Cup.
It almost doesn't sound like that is something that's possible, yet half of it has come true.
Stranger things have happened.
Yep.
Five seasons of it.
I still haven't watched the end of the most recent.
I watched half of it and I haven't finished it.
I do feel a little bit for a Razer, I don't know what he's mentally feeling like, but
I would imagine when you're 12 and 5, you're playing an elimination game, unfortunately
with a sub, you lost the first map and you're balling out here on bank, but it almost feels
like it's dull and void, no matter how much you try, and it must feel frustrating.
These are the last dog of payloads that will not be on cooldown for particular individuals,
what was the length, 12 seconds?
Oh, I'm not on the new patch. No, I know I'm saying these will be the last ones 14. I think 14
Up from seven if I'm correct. I think it was doubled chef Jeff
Like I've got you and trying and I still can't push
Oh
back on the body shot as well from where the bulls maybe rival he's locked in I'm
not gonna give up on this yet but they are aware of where the bulls is just a
little bit too locked in they have not cleared out server he could have used his
radar walking down the stairs oh no elements just as a swing against the
for his kill he comes frame as well. Oh my goodness! The racer blows! He gets the forest!
Whenables has to push back down blue stairs he thought he already cleaned it. They will
get the pinch he will go down 3 vs 3.
Well they're making this more difficult than it should be.
They lost the hard breach as well. It's not going to get fully opened up they must now
push through this doorway area like this is rough.
I'll show you a double glare.
Well, Nitro saw early from Beers and a fallback from Acogins.
He won't go down.
First floor for both Wettables and Chef Jeff.
60 seconds left, but he's still got the three gaspapes
of Sharky.
Volta canisters, I imagine, still in play.
Do they think about a vault drop?
Do they think about doing something a little different?
But Wettables is back blue stairs.
So he double pushes server.
Chef Jeff's over towards open.
On the nook, he's going to be the difference maker.
50 seconds left.
He could do a red drop here, 45 on the board. He'll posh to floor it.
It's into a double cross though, so Chef Jeff really needs to catch a fortunate timing here to unlock the round for rival.
Welcome canister, so again, still more flames that need to be extinguished.
Chef Jeff with two frag grenades as well. Another one still available for Wettables. Time running low, still one gaspabe left, two for Sharky.
No, he's got the reed. He has the reed. If Chef Jeff drops, he's dead. Plant now from
ACOG. Is there a denial opportunity? No. Beers goes down, Wettables good connection
and they all fall. There is nothing to deny, but Rival is still alive. It's five to five.
We may still yet get that third map in this series.
Big round for Wettables and despite a major error on the server side clear they get away
with it.
5-5 the score line.
This is an unbelievable match.
We return to the second floor.
Break point, where's James?
I don't see him.
He should be here.
He's nervous.
He's nervous, he's he's have to leave!
Oh, good call. I can't believe that, and technically,
no one else got a single kill in that round, except for the server misclicked.
Breakpoint.
Now, if the man on the floor,
strung together three straight rounds, it finally comes undone.
interesting 100% conversion on the opening kills guys in fact across both maps
there's only been a single round that was not converted that's been the story
of tonight while the truly
you just stopped pointing that thing
What thing your pointer device
So is it a little too long for you deal with a short note
So into the 11
Key round who can get to that map point first or for man now or foe potentially a
a serious point on the other side of this one a lot of catch in play from the defense here with the
romai but it's all for nothing as chef jeff on the lobby long angle will get the opening kill
he's taking control he goes on to the glass last time out acog tried to play it had no effect on
that repell I tell you what lair is on have we got a status update on proxy how's the
Yeah, well that's what I was thinking. I mean, is he back?
Well, if this does go the way of Rival, we're probably not on to a mid-night anyway because...
He's got plenty of time. The maintenance is gonna work out perfectly for him.
Oh, could you imagine? This could be one of the greatest series of all time if Rival could get themselves...
It's a storyline. Two edges.
...to Lair.
Oh, Pia's stuck in the corner.
Oh, he's gonna have to frag grenade from Wettepuls now up to 6 and 9 after he started 1 and 8.
And the plant looks like it will be successful for ACOG. They're making it work.
Rival will get themselves map point here on bank there is around the corner. Oh
No, it's tantalizing isn't it absolutely that this is what lower bracket is all about you don't give in it's elimination game
Everything to gain even a razor smiling. He's listen up a little bit
That's probably a sigh of relief. We have
of OT secured and if you're man LFO you're thinking geez how are we losing this?
OT secured at minimum four rival.
It's been a map of runs to two to man LFO then four straight to rival then three
straight to man LFO now two straight to rival.
Is there another twist here? Can we get ourselves another overtime for tonight?
We'll go and have a look at the numbers on there as well. By the way, it's, as I mentioned
before, the number one preference for men LFO, 2-1 record. The Beat Shy Academy lost
win for them in april and recently as of a couple of weeks ago lost at 1.7 to chiefs
rival lost at 3.7 to chiefs last week to begin finals
not a lot of day to go off
chef jeff back onto the glass
Oh, how's it all gone so horribly wrong for man on the phone?
It's been rough.
Weddables has woken up.
Chef Jaff has woken up.
That's where it's all gone right for rival.
Those two have returned.
That's a wonderful drone here from Chef Jeff, really good information.
Beers spotted in front desk.
Yeah, oblivious.
I do wonder if Rival are able to play off that information, could help give them the
opener in this open area or attack.
There's no one inside the janitor.
Oh, it's Wettable's.
Down to Wettable.
Beers gets the trade.
Pistol out.
No one's playing long.
Razor's dead.
Pistol's going to connect up towards our locked doors.
Beers is now down.
Rival.
Oh, they've got it done it.
They're sending us to Lair.
It's a three versus two.
You say they've gone and done it.
Sharky and Elamit's not going to give up just yet.
Yeah, three gas babes here for Sharky to try and stay alive.
Pluto conceding that fragger frame
is just too much to handle.
It's the adrenal surges.
Adrenal surges have been pretty good.
On point, has one more available?
Can't you adjust yet?
The guys at the studio cannot believe this they are stunned and chef Jeff converts on to elements
And we should have a 40 minutes of the maintenance all three maps
Will be required in due time
And on a whole new perhaps to sort it out on layer because there's no world that shark is winning this one
rival had done the unthinkable
They look dead and buried chef Jeff cannot believe it
And with the coach sub, they've gone one bank.
What started for me playing for Enterprise? Stage 1, where I played with Chiefs and that
was like my first proper team of like playing with like really good people like Odal and
obviously with Cairo and like Tets and obviously Quizz and I felt like that stage. Playing
with like very experienced people kind of made me nervous. I had to play to a standard.
I kind of played worse knowing that Jigsaw would come in mid stage. I played bad and
then obviously Jigsaw came in and took my spot but that was all definitely a learning
lesson for me. After that, I was honestly done with Siege. It was a really huge
butterfly effect, me joining EP. Randomly I got shot a message by Harry, but to
one, and he just basically said like, you play him, like we need you right now. I
was like, you know, do I really want to play Siege again? I don't know if we're
gonna make it, like there's obviously Chief still playing, there's like GG,
and we're like this dirt, like I'm thinking in my head like a third team. I'm
not getting paid a lot of money. These like players that I wanted to play with
like Fischo, Touhan, and Bappin, and obviously Reles, not fully committed at first, but then
I was really drawn to it, like playing CG and, you know, proving myself. I mean, that
was the biggest thing. I wanted to prove myself again, after Chiefs, and show that I can compete.
I am good. My first impressions playing, like, under EP in that stage, I knew shit was, like,
serious. In terms of Fischo guy, Touhan, and just, like, the seriousness of the team, I
knew I had to, like, put my head down and work. My first game was against, it was like
I'm pretty sure on Chalet, I proved to myself that beyond Compi, I can beat these teams.
And I think that really put my confidence up.
Obviously with the support of 2R and Bapin and Realism Fish, they definitely helped me
a lot.
Having that confidence for me to be the best player in Australia.
I think with the stats, I was looking at it a lot.
Obviously being a really competitive team at that time.
number one obviously meant a lot in regards of like me only playing playoffs
I wanted to stay there like I wanted to just not go like this is just a one game
thing like I wanted to stay there came GG after Ludovico this was when we needed
to really prove ourselves I think this was like honestly one of the biggest
games in my career obviously being international or going international but
this was what it really meant like this is what it came down to really proving
myself with this like European super team and obviously being the rivals at the time
who's going to go to the major, this was a game that was really meant for me.
I would share it to my friends, to my girlfriend at the time and all my family and we put a
lot of work into beating them and we did it.
I was really happy with the way I played and I remember it very clearly like I knew
they were all watching and my girlfriend at the time was in my living room watching as
well.
As soon as we won, as soon as I killed Croxen in that 1v1, I knew like this is like my dreams coming true.
Having a 1v1 against Croxen to win this whole series, this is what I dreamt of as a kid.
All of Australia watching it at one time, two Titans versing each other.
And I remember I rushed out my door and I was like, we won, this is crazy.
I feel like a celebrity.
So many people in Australia watching and we beat the Titan.
That was kind of like where it started. I think for me
I could be the best player in Australia and then obviously after that came the rematch against Vito Vico for the finals
We won it for the EWC. Just winning it was just
Honestly, it didn't feel real to me. I am in the best team in Australia now
I'm going to like an event. Everything I've worked for came up to this moment. I finally actually won it
I stayed number one on the stats. Ejigsaw obviously deserved it as well having that name for myself
then proving that I can be one of the best in Australia.
The Melbourne event just meant a lot for me.
Obviously, after the upset, obviously the run didn't go well for us.
The Melbourne Major or the event was just definitely my favourite event.
100%.
Just after everything that happened, after everything that went down and playing in front
of a crowd, I knew these people from the community and seeing face to face them watching
me is incredible.
I want to win it for them.
I felt like it was in my hands to represent Australia.
We lost the first map against PSG.
I was kicking myself in the head.
I was like, I don't want to lose this.
We cannot be doing this without our home crowd.
We need to change something.
And I remember after the loss, I remember very accurately.
I walked with Oda to the bathroom and he would tell me, you guys really need to put your
heads in and really focus up if you want to make this major.
All eyes are on us at that time.
We can't like just stay here and like not go to this major came to the next map
It was bank and we absolutely destroyed them that was just a big confidence boost for us
Like we can lose some in the map and just destroy them in the second map like then obviously came the last map on clubhouse
I think this is
Matt where I was really in that flow state like I
I couldn't even notice the crowd, I couldn't notice anyone, and I just wanted to just do it and win it.
Came that round where I think it was passed over time and it was match point for us.
We were like in a really sticky situation, PFC kind of had the whole map, I needed to make a play.
I remember Blackbeard went through the church wall, I think Harry killed him, I got that 3k with the D.Eagle.
And every kill I got that was just screaming from the crowd and yelling after every kill
I was just so in that state and I remember the best feeling from like all of siege
I would say after that 3k and knowing that I made a play to win the round and when that last guy was coming down
I was very like even before
We killed him Harry started screaming and he died and then everyone decides screaming
I stood up and I just felt like I did it. Best feeling ever. All my friends were watching, everyone was watching, everyone in Australia was watching and we beat an international team to make a major.
I think playing internationally over the year, basically only one Australian team is going to the event, we're representing Australia.
We showed hints of potential. Beating Waybo and taking Mapo Furo, there was this potential that we could do better for Australia.
And obviously there were peaks of happiness where it's like, yeah, I'm finally here.
I'm finally at this stage where I'm representing Australia, but the guilt of loss as we were
representing Australia, like it definitely took a toll because what's the point of us
making it this major so we can't even compete.
I feel like it definitely took a toll on all of us in the team.
Having this regret of playing bad and also this low self esteem and like do we even have
like the potential to even pursue this.
And I feel like that's like kind of what started
in the roster changes for sure.
So, I don't know
the name
I'm not sure
if it's because of the age
But it's okay if it's like us
I'm not gonna be
And I'm gonna be
Yes, my love
You know I love you
I love you
I love you
So
I got a little girl
That name
Goodbye
Unfortunately, I was a little bit worried for the TV again. I'm not gonna lie. I was well that was gonna go
Oh, sorry, but was not my help. I do
Not lighting back up a little bit. We don't want to go to me yet. Not yet
We you know what actually what what do you want? I want like a real like seedy pinky purpley
Yeah
Okay, let's never ever ever
Everyone you got I can hear production downstairs everyone unanimously said you
You know what in fact? Let's go green cuz that was yuck. I don't ever want that in my household ever again
We're gonna quickly go down here, but of course everyone's famous
segment ramen ranking
However, we have a very special chef on site today who we may have a bit of BTS footage
Chef for the ramen today
There's not a lot of ingredients in there. It's a little bit worrying
I'm pretty sure that that was the node that you don't use that
Jules don't help either. I don't think a measuring tape can help. Let's see measuring I
I
I'm a little bit concerned. You know what's interesting Rob is after all these years. We still don't know who he is
We don't I feel like it's right here. I know it's anything. That's the beauty of it
Is we're still trying to figure it out. It's really gives me Ryan Reynolds fire. Do you think it's Vinny?
Is that why he's on the show?
Well, I mean I
Feel like I'm cooking here, but
Well, he's cooking, but he might be the one cooking, but of course we do have our incredible
ramen, so will we please share this around the room as we start to prepare.
Now, this is as my, as the project manager is saying, this is a Japanese ramen and for
the white boy on the team, who doesn't speak any Japanese, she decided to help me by saying,
is show you ramen so I don't know if it's actually gonna be that but no so I
believe I think you might know so I will I think I got really into ramen during
lockdown okay and nothing to do anything and so I I tried cooking ramen all day
yep and I was living alone and I didn't have a dog at a time so it's just
whatever I could do I made show you ramen which is based on a chicken broth so
I made it from scratch and it was delicious it's one of my favorite okay
interesting. Nanik, you know what to do mate, it's time for us to dive in.
The daily words are first of all, okay? This is the Jake special, okay? The team that
plays the best on the day will be the team that wins in the end. Okay? The cast that
says the smartest words will be the greatest cast out of all. With the first glass, a man
drinks wine, but the second the wine drinks the wine. It doesn't make any sense. I'm just
reading, okay? Don't mind me. With the fair glass, the wine drinks the man. Even sea bream
is not delicious when eaten in loneliness. Even if a warrior hasn't eaten, he still holds
his toothpick high. Rotten sea bream is still sea bream. Spilled water cannot be gathered
After the festival, bitten by the dog, one has raised.
Namaste.
Namaste.
Not a clue.
I don't think that context would help, even if you broke it down for us, unfortunately.
I like the thing that he said about the guest.
I'm going to have to lend a translator.
Nick, I have a question.
The one that wins.
What's the question?
Yeah, what's your question?
Pull it away from your mouth just a little bit more.
Okay
Nicholas
Do you get jealous when we're sitting here eating ramen then you just I
Mean if only there was more budget, right?
I could do that right now.
Oh.
Hey, Miss Economy, they should just be-
I feel like we're spending all this money on this premium ramen.
We could be spending it on getting Nick to melt.
I don't want to dox you.
Obviously, we all know that you're leaving Denmark.
Do we?
Yeah.
That's an easy way.
Oh, did I-
I'm presumably-
Did I dox you?
I doxed him earlier tonight as well.
So, yeah, go.
Did people think you lived in Sweden?
Yeah, I think so.
I think it was just me, actually.
As Fabian would say, Denmark is a South Sweden.
Yes, okay. Do they not have ramen over there?
And you have ramen everywhere, but is there a common thing do we do we have it often?
Not really, but I could go to the store for a next showday and get a little ramen for myself
And I can join you guys virtually you should we could do that. That could be smart football
That's not someone just gotta drop the daily words of wisdom because I can't eat the ramen and say the words at the same time
I'll have to find someone maybe help me
Apel man that was on standby for these kind of moments. What are we thinking in terms of reading?
Breaking I think it's just very plain to be honest. Yeah, there's no spice. It's boring. It's definitely edible
It's very it's very good. I always give it a B on the edible sense where yeah, if you're hungry you want something that's
You know lunch
And you're not gonna burn your mouth. It's a very temperature hot
So I'm here only burning my mouth just because it really is quite
Yeah, I'm lucky there's no a H&S in this bad boy. Oh
Well say goodbye to you and I'll take chopsticks. We are not gonna have any more on today. You met would you like my chopsticks?
No
You definitely don't know what those things. I can't like there's no way they don't get out of this where it ends
Well, so I'm just gonna stop there. Are you gonna eat with that?
5 seconds for sure. Yeah, that is very true. You didn't see what Nick did to that floor before.
Yeah, Nick has been basically breakdancing on the floor, so unfortunately we do have
problems back there. But okay, so as you can tell, I kind of, I didn't really enjoy
I think I'm a penguin
You do remind me a bit of a fairy penguin actually, thank you very much
Well, I've got this for me cuz I'm a messy grot. What is it for?
What? Sorry, what? What did you think I was doing with this?
As you can probably tell, we're waiting for the game update to completely finish downloading for everyone and making sure that we're back.
Which I'm very excited for, by the way, because we have Hella buffs and Helena, well, actually, no guns.
No, we're in the G-Buffs. Hella buffs.
Hella buffs.
So, Nick, my friend, our magical word of wisdom. This is a very uncomfortable angle for me.
for me. I'm going to throw some ratings out. What are we, what are we thinking in terms
of packaging? Now, this is just, this is just the top of it, Nick. So it's not, it's not
what I would call. You've got to show him the main domain. And now, and now let me put
it up. I think it's only fair that maybe we just do this, right? This is what it what
What are your thoughts on this one, Nick?
No, I'm not sold.
Nah, I'm not sold either.
I'm going to go to a D category here.
Yeah, I think of all the ramen looks we can have, this is pretty basic.
It's pretty basic.
And I would say I'm not here to flame anyone, but I think the flavor is pretty basic as well.
It is very simple.
What would you rate it?
It is on brand.
I think it's a C.
Who said that?
What do you mean who said that? I'm right next to you.
What do you mean who said that?
I have earbuds in, so everyone sounds like they're whispering in my ear.
I get it. I have one. You can't tell when it's done.
One of us can't read through their nose.
So you've got a C?
Yeah, but you two sound pretty similar.
I think I would give the C.
I think it's a C.
I think I would give the noodles and the ingredients in it.
in it probably like a D but there's Jake said the box is actually quite nice so that probably is
sort of on a B so if i had to average it out
it's not hitting the spot Jake you turn the mic off
sorry i turned it off okay so that's typically when it's green it means that we didn't realize
because he turned it off so i had no idea this is not your fault this is not my fault that's fine
this is purely on your own as i imagine i was saying ever is his fault though okay you supposed to
So synergy as I was saying taste-wise mid
Not bad. Yeah, just just me
Brought is nice. Yeah edible. Yeah, that's good
Edible but okay that cost the point
That one the last one we had I heard that you were enjoying that for the two days following as well
Yeah, I had to get more I wasn't
I would have been fine to give this a low end B or high end C
So we're reaching around this actually a fully aligned is it possible to move that red packet down one and put this in front of
Oh, we only have one per only in the ramen ranking council
16 on a unanimous decision. Can we move that week? Are we are we only left one?
Is this like one of those no, no, it's not one. It's not one
is nearly a meter long. He's actually meant for multiple different segments. You don't have to
just choose one, baby. This isn't the top five ranking. Actually, here we go. Here's a blind one
for you. Blind ranking. You ready? You're going to go out of the top five. Fisho guy.
Are you just talking to me? Yep. Wait, why am I going to close my eyes? I don't know why I'm
going to close my eyes. It's not going to help. Fisho guy, well, I mean, that's difficult. I mean,
are we doing IGL? No, no, no. We're just, this is just random. So we're now doing top five,
Three start three. I mean he's the goat ideal in the region, but three to
Five, okay
Jigsaw one, okay interesting
Digital four, okay, can I throw one? Yeah, go his last one sage
Well, he has to go to now because no one else. Yes. Are you happy with your decision? I mean, I think that's pretty good
Yeah, I think you've done
I think sage maybe even above I should have waited for Gio until the end and really teed it up
But anyway, I think we've agreed with a C Michael. Would you do the honors fun? Yeah? Yeah, sure. Do you take this on the board?
I was almost good a check and then you made that noise
Let's see
Can you try to align it with the other one because it's they kind of okay, it's like look it's a little precarious
I didn't say I didn't say that it's stable and well built now you two wonderful commentators
You're done for this bit. You can turn your mics off and walk off. How's the status of the update Rob?
Well, we're actually about to talk about that right now. It's looking pretty body good bother it. I
Think we've done well at the vertical alignment of the ramen ranking is like on the C category
They're like completely it's very good. How would you break? How would you rank it's God's ability to place the rankings?
Yeah, scale from s to d d what that's an F
Like but look the ranking is almost entering the B category. Yes, it is
What is that? It is but do you want to know the best part is we don't have to rank Roman any longer?
We actually have the patch notes to talk through. I think the teams are actually starting to get ready within the game
I know you're a little bit of a nerd. Would you like to run us through or would you like penguin?
Maybe read through this. So I'm just drinking the ramen. It's delicious
By the way, if you actually drink just the sauce really nice penguin. You do you do the words of wisdom, okay?
Oh my god mouse mouse of keyboard. Yeah
Great yeah, I get the
Okay, game will come in with some adjustments as well balancing changes for support was in for pay, of course
So it could be a scouting above and nerf, people kind of go across this from different perspectives.
You can now have a cooldown only per target. You cannot spend all the same player anymore,
but you can call, you know, two, three, four different defenders back to back to back, essentially.
The cooldown has gone from seven seconds to 14, so it's doubled.
While Maia's getting crazy buff, return to U2 meta, question mark right.
She's gonna get more maximum tries.
So Maia is gonna get them more frequently, and she's gonna be activating faster, so a bit more proactive use, of course.
Then you gotta get the bottle shoot and see for Jaeger three speed we're back in you
What is one baby? No a cocktail and then there's no more text anymore text come on
Yeah, scroll for the down guys scroll scroll. Yeah, we're getting there. Come on. Yeah, Sophia
She got a third concussion mine third exposure charge a little it's here as well
Let's recall for the 416 7C for the as that's wrong 416 C for Jaeger
We're all our fast activation time cool down from three things to one
To the ours that there's more utility with Sophia and will my yeah, and they'll could be got kind of off kind of nerve
that's the big ones okay interesting so obviously you can go ahead and check this out at your own
leisure for the viewers at home it seems as though the game is actually nearly ready so if we just
quickly kind of I guess polish up what was a really disappointing bank for man LFO that was
if I'm if I'm being brutal here that is not a map that they should be losing with a coach
subbing in but alas it is the way that unfolds and you know to rival's credit
they've really backed it off on the attack in fact we're actually so ready
Jensen I don't even need your opinions on this one let's go but heading into
Lair Mick which way does this guy I believe there may be a change of sub
but without knowing that which way you lean I mean without the coach playing
here, Fraga framework where his name was right, I think it's Chalk. So if the coach is out, I'm gonna go rival, you know, and then I'm gonna go
to the full right there, and if the killer man is back, then I'm gonna go rival.
Now, frame unfortunately is still in, there's no change to the sum of all proxies.
No, no, no, that's a good thing. That's a coach box.
Wait, that's not frame.
No, it's frame's name, but it's not his player.
Never mind, I got absolutely baited.
That is killer man.
Is that proxy?
That is killer man.
Can we get a full on that is absolutely confirmed killer man now for those of you that are just joining and
Familiar with who killer man is he's actually one of the better fraggers that we had in the region that weren't on the top
Two teams is up to the name. He certainly does. He kills a lot of men
And on that note, I think it's the perfect time for us to leave you man
In the somewhat capable hands of the common status
Well what a turn of events guys, we added to map 3 a little earlier than I thought,
1.49 on the clock, I didn't think we'd be starting for another 20 minutes but I also
didn't think we'd see Killiman tonight.
And I didn't think we'd see Killiman, that was not on the Bingo card, you have to now
imagine from there now on the phone they had the chance to close things out on bank.
And they cooked it.
And they cooked it.
And now, we talk about an upgrade from frame to Killiman, they don't even know what we'll
says of course it depends on you know how ready is kill a man I mean you might not
have touched the game I have no idea how am not do you want to get the statue I'm
looking at the other six tracker yeah well as we head into this third map again
a reminder and then thanks everyone for bearing with us of course throughout
maintenance that we have had changes as you can see elements on the Wamai has
been himself a nitrous cell he'll have seven of those Wamai discs huge buff
For were my yeah, talk about
Having to adjust on the fly. Yeah, this is next level
Yeah, but also at the same time where it pulls straight away onto the Zofia chef Jeff will stay on the dock be despite the nurse
Or just in so you know, yeah just I call it a nerve. I guess
Kiliman has no doubt on this account here. It's okay. Well
Depends. I mean
Would be surprised by the way, he's the kind of player that
We've seen a lot over the years and I think at one point I'd say the peak of his career genuine peak
He was top three. He was up there. Yeah
In the O3, of course just to specify
He's in the hoodie. I wonder if he was watching maybe he got the call
Hey, what do you want to we might eat you the proxy of course as an update on him
He's straight still has a power outage
And we ever had a series where you've played with three different players proxy and console at frameland bank
kill a man on where? Probably not many. Talk about stretching the roster. If they win
with kill a man, do they, like you said before, what if he goes in and drops 20? What if he
drops 20 here? Do you keep him for EP? I mean kill a man has had his fair share of tangos
with jigsaw, they can't go toe to toe. Razor though, he's the one that gets the opportunity
kill and he's the reason why we're on this third map if we're going to be honest.
Yeah, very good back on bank and a strong start to the round and the map for rival.
Clash still up the man LFO and that will pose a threat for the rest of this push.
Double Nitro also in play here for the defense.
You know the one mine?
Oh, headshot again from Eraser wins the long-angled battle.
I tell you what, Eraser's on fanvp tonight.
Yeah, I mean, I think in the context of what's happened tonight in this match, although
player was a pretty good MVP candidate too from the first series against his old team.
Sharkey, good headshot, Wettables down to 1 HP,
Suddling looks a little bit more lively, down for Manaventho.
Wettables will go into Mars, will look for the plant, nothing really too denying.
Almond's trying to walk forward as Killerman gets onto the board,
1000 he does best, he kills man, Wettables gets rid of Sharkey.
Hunter gets one, but Chef Jeff to get the final and Rive,
What will take the lead of the series?
Tell what I guess it how it works you're in about three one a lot
Hmm
We're two here for Manila foe
I wonder if they just killed it like they probably are feeling is if bank absolutely they never should have lost
Remember they won the first two rounds on bank and then rounds 3-4 with the clutch rounds from a razor
They should have been 4-0 up on bank and
Would have been on their way I
Think if a razor doesn't clutch those around it's not even so much the 4-0 lead
I think at that point it would have been the mental capacity of rival to think yeah
We can actually win this but when a razor won those and those rounds and it gets to 2-2
I think everyone on the team was probably like why can't we win this and that belief was restored
And now they know they absolutely can win this uh, no disrespect to miss the fragger frame their coach
But he went for nine for the 76 EPS back on bank you're getting a clear upgrade here in kill a man
Sure thing
It's funny how our, as proxy, no no no, our stat interface has not been scaled to support
this unique place in a match, it's, when you go to the match somewhere it's still 5v5
even though we've had all of it, yeah, so proxy's numbers from Consulate and Bank even
though he didn't play on Bank, it's all under proxy's name, 7 and 17, I mean, I don't know
I mean, I do want to reiterate as well the stage that Proxy had coming into tonight.
He was having a very good stage.
He was eighth rated player.
Yeah, he was a good one.
Like, it's a big loss for us.
That's your number one player on the team.
He's been a big loss.
And yet they are still alive and an old friend comes to help out.
I tell you what, if rivals still go on to win this, given the circumstance,
Nick is the prediction's go.
Oh, kill him.
He goes down early.
Pluto finds the first pick and that's on to the capitol, most of utility.
They're looking quite active here off that yokai. Aggressive. Pretty typical of this
position, but now with the advantage, Shaman Alpha will probably look to consolidate. Hunter
might not be in a spot necessarily where he can rotate though, so he'll put up a final
stand. He doesn't really need to either. He's got some help too from Sharky on the
the echo, the yokai there can actually kind of maybe bait them in, if they can get a burst
hunter then they can swing off, especially if it's the acog here on the blitz, it needs
to help, unfortunately yokai was down, oh he got him, it did get the down but he's going
to get brought back up, it's going to be a successful revive onto the blitz.
It at least means the blitz though is really low, it's a double nitro, that's not a great
position plus even some goya flames will be enough to really put him in a compromised
position so solid work there from Hunter, he was more than likely going to die from
that position anyway. 100%. And so a minute now remains on the clock. Hatches and a bit
of vert to be finalized here by the attack who are probably shaping up for a default
plan here. I mean obviously Starstruck with ACL survived this round. I mean as you mentioned
before double nitro but then also you've still got Sharky alive on the echo. So if ACL goes
for a plan and well that yokai is in the right position he should get pushed off that 30
seconds doesn't leave a lot of time.
I've flamed out, AcoG absolutely cannot run through those flames way too low on health
to do that.
Now this B is 1 for 1, in fact it is literally a 1 for 1, immediately after the patch that's
back.
Now I just settled for Pluto, it doesn't connect, AcoG is still alive.
It's a letter pulls that needs to stay alive and he cannot elements will get the double
Good response from an LFO now the feeling this one on there is not going to be done anytime soon
Yeah, I could certainly end up being a bit of a grindfest between those two and a lot of back and forth is I
Think a pretty fair
Expectation that's what you want though in finals you do
You have your seven zeros your seven ones
You know your quick play days in the group stage, but come finals you want all three maps you want close games
You want good competition?
So Tom's up next round three
Be intrigued to see if we see rival go for the sense that play in this site
it seems as if they won't instead they'll opt for a little more flexibility
they'll still have the capital available but they'll bring double flank watch so
that would suggest to me that they'll invest pretty heavily in the top floor
clear and then try and flush out that way and then assess their sort of options
from that point onwards if they're able to clear out the site and then they won't
be as susceptible to the late flank which the defense will typically go for on
this objective. The class as well in an interesting addition if they get green
side control a razor could be potentially in a position to pluck that
pick onto site and typically the defense will only have one or maybe two
defenders on the objective itself. Just looking at this data that we've got
we're going at 90% round with Ray on the opening kill across the series so one
One round wasn't converted on concert, every single round was converted on bank.
And so far both rounds on lair have been converted, I'm pretty sure that's even higher than 9%.
I mean we must be at like 95% now.
Like a 95%, the league average is 71%.
So we're probably a good 24% higher than that.
the importance on these first few kills let's see if this train continues if it
does man LFO should have this turn around the back of that pig on to kill a man
and then don't get it twisted there would be pressure on him coming into
this game then played with this roster since scrims pre-stage you haven't played
comp you're getting called upon in the hour of need this pressure on your
shoulders and a one-two star for kill a man
now losing the hard bridge as well not ideal for rival I need to go about this
round the old-fashioned way by grinding out his control above when I was tried
to aggressive new bridge was immediately shut down and despite that
though rival have been able to maintain a three versus three so certainly not the
worst position in fact now they've got the advantage yeah that's been from a
on low health able to get that kill onto beers.
Elements in Hunter have fallen back to site.
They're half the time. They can play this pretty safely down for rival, extra player advantage.
Bunk's briefing of course to site, so Hunter and Elements are there.
You know the concern is of course ACOG is low on health, one flash and a couple of air
jabs.
ACOG on low health is found to say he's found two picks from that one HP position.
That's so crucial in a round such as this, Nitrosol will connect though from elements
on to ACOG and we'll be able to get that kit comfortably.
Chef Jeff will acquire it 30 seconds.
Still winnable though for the solo and 1v2 as they push down green stairs together.
If you can get a good swing timing drone comes through from chef Jeff has caught out his position
And that's gonna allow them to push down green stairs flash thrown in chef Jeff will go for the plant
Don't raise up will then go for the cover double a jab one goes out. Well, they're gonna go for the swing
Well chef Jeff now has to push elements of the wearer this goes for the pick reload
Does he know they slipped in it seems like he's got an idea, but chef Jeff
Who does it again? Sheppy Jeff me doing finals things?
Wow, that was really high risk. I would have thought they'd play the plant and watch the
cross. Well they had one AirJab on the main door, probably could have flicked a second
on the rotate breach green side and I think that would have been in a position where they
could have planted. I guess that was maybe a concern of Nitro.
That's in relation of course to the one I had in the Nitro cell available.
as I said. Did he even have nitro in that round? He did. Ah, okay. And that's how we got the
kill onto ACOC. Ah, yeah. Now, if he had, if he had it in pocket, he could have played
out quite differently. Although, to be fair, nitro in that position when they're flooding
for the kill wasn't... Well, he used it to kill ACOC. That's what he's saying. It wouldn't
have been close because it was a 1v3 against the kill with the nitro. Ah, yeah, okay.
Well interesting, unless the rival are in the lead once again, first rotation complete
and so the additional bans to be selected wanty interestingly for man LFO and on the
side of rival they'll like to take it down the clash so in a roundabout way they will
nullify each other, it does not mean that the mirror will persist a strong operator
Especially on this top floor.
You think about some of the longer lines of sight that you can look to establish on the mirror?
And some of the areas of the map that you can contest with a little bit more freedom mirrors gonna be potentially pretty influential here.
This is interesting they're gonna bring a lineup that you would typically see actually full buns briefing, but
Obviously we're not Bunk's briefing.
Full smoke is available in the round for clouds.
Jeff, Jeff has got four early kills.
I think naturally as we go deeper and deeper
here into Lair, the tension will continue to rise.
I mean, this is map three now.
Been a strange old night.
I mean, at all time, up a bracket final
into a consulate that was very one-sided into a bank
that was for the ages, it's maintenance, it's a ramen,
it's a lair.
Into.
Yeah, to going home after this.
I don't know what's up to this.
I'd rather win maybe.
Yeah, I mean, it's hard to really jaws of defeat.
Really hard to say from here.
Honestly, it's still to be played out.
That double push through the hallway
does give them control into storage.
Also trick the wall with the bandit banged out
and Wettable's net's a kill, that's a big brain play.
It's also not a very conventional looking attack
here from Rival, so I wonder if it's just kind of causing
some confusion for Manolo Fo.
A little bit more of a back hit focus rather than
that sort of arcs into mezz that we would typically see.
Smoke gets layered out, now the ROUs,
they're gonna go for the plant into R6.
So a different angle of approach here from rival it should pay dividends. I think this is going to get denied
And Pluto's over the message in with that Microsoft. So he wasn't even inside to defend
Jeff Jeff just goes nuts down all one versus two elements of Pluto got one a piece
Oh, it's so low in health though and another smoke is going out
Jeff Jeff can play the time on this
Elements can't do much until it dissipates and even then you've still got a long angle glass that you need to deal with
And then at the hallway, you've got to raise our two angles that are being covered.
I don't see how elements can win this unless rival throw it.
He's going to have to try and go for a long arm.
But that long arm should be watched by Chef Jeff.
He just has to peek it and raise.
He's going to be the one to play the contact.
Rival got three one up.
Their attacks are looking pretty good on that.
That was a really solid attack.
I mean, waitables on the entry there.
That was a really smart play into the bandit.
They didn't really have a way to deal with those batteries.
and so he elected to trick the wall and let it a kill.
Time for Sally to get involved.
Tactical timeout, man, LFO.
The strength of this roster throughout the stage.
I've repeated it many times throughout group stage.
They did the finals.
They're a very well-coached and structured team.
But right now on the left, they're
looking a little bit in disarray.
And to a degree, Bank 2 felt like they probably
went away from the script.
So he knows this is his last chance to get the message across here on layer three very important rounds coming up
It doesn't feel like the best of positions at the moment for
Manila fo trailing by to returning to basement on defense
Must win
It's getting very close to that territory. Well, I mean must be in the sense that if you go for one down clearly your defense struggling layer in this
In O's is pretty defend decided especially that top floor. That's already cost them massively when you're losing that site
In this fashion, it doesn't bode well
You just kind of see yourself the challenge and and
chlorine back at for one deficit and
And they're doing a lot of that in your attacking half. Oh, yeah, just don't
Don't know if they're gonna have it in them and need to win the next two get it to three three reset then mentally at the break
Wonder what frame also spoke to rival about
So far killer bands actually not doing much better than Frank one of three
Yeah, it's been a bit of a tricky stuff.
In the same fashion, and this is actually one thing, you know, you bring in a coach sub at the very last second, you obviously reference, it's not as if he's had a lot of play time.
It's not easy to just get caught up to speed that quickly, even for someone like Killerman.
And Frame had the benefit of actually being clued in with strategy, whereas Killerman doesn't have that, so it's kind of a...
Things might have changed. There might be some things that are similar, but I would imagine a loss would probably change since he was lost on the roster.
Well, sorry, in the core part of the roster, he is a substitute for anyone wondering.
Killiman was, of course, a part of Rival and moved to sub,
AcoG standing to the main team, and hence why they've been able to play with three different players across three different maps.
It is legal.
But it's a rare occurrence. This was a very rare night today.
Uncharted territory.
Yeah, and two patches across three maps.
It's kind of like if rival win this map it means the only map they lost in this series was with the player that's supposed to playing with
But he's also their best player
statistically
What's a cock setting up for you? Oh?
He did that. He's looked the most lively four men all the time same with elements
I genuinely can't tell if Chef Jeff gets tilted.
Nah, he's tilted.
Okay, a little bit of side of life here for Man-O-Ripo.
Play a little more conventional.
No, I mean this is quite cheeky.
Yeah, that position hasn't been cleared, so if Killiman was default, he'd find himself in trouble and hunt today to find a kill potentially.
But no, he dies, puts pressure back onto elements, but he goes the safe route.
Yeah, I like the fallback at that point. You know, if you're there in that powered position because you still have someone blue stairs.
Once he dies, there's no point to play that position because now they can funnel down blue stairs
and you're just going to be sitting in that corner with that. So quick for elements to react.
Fall back, play your life, 30 seconds, they still have to clear a lot more, they still
have to do a lot more work. And Kilometh does have full belt of utility on the capitol.
You do still have a lot of smokes available actually between a Razor and Acoge, no warden up.
It's not impossible for Rival, but they're going to have to be really shot with their shots as they
enter the site. 15 now on the clock, Acoge goes deep to initiate the plan and the shots rain out.
Oh, he controlled that nicely, a razor, but needed more help from Kiliman and Acog.
Now they could connect and walk into the site.
Man, LFO, we're ready for it.
They get a second round.
Two, three, big final round of the half on the horizon.
Our first series of the night, that upper bracket final.
That went all three maps as well, Gus.
And that went eight, seven on the third final map.
Could we be potentially heading in that direction again?
Remember, this is an elimination game. You lose this, no EWC for you and certainly a
big loss in SI points and money. You win, you get a chance. And you win that chance
and you go. I mean, all I'm going to say is again, funny things have happened before,
in this stage alone across various reasons, reasons, regions.
Yeah, that's still there for Man LFO on defense.
This does feel like a critical round for them to win,
to cap off the half.
Even is good enough, but trailing heading into the attack
seems like a very challenging prospect for them.
I like how the black light code still says Munich 20.
I might need to update it to Osaka 20 soon. Maybe.
Well my three plate again here in round six no night show though this time around I think
my wife is probably gonna see a big uptick in their particular pick rate for the remainder
of the stage to be played up will be very versatile operator and especially on maps
with classic power positions and where you want to switch.
Yeah, maybe.
Maybe, like, genuinely.
I mean, the proxy alarm's fine, but you're probably going to want an archer in this case,
unless there is a specific reason why.
That's what I'm thinking.
Opside currently from rival and range hard-reaching from killer man in the
thick of it once more the ball that I look at this I genuinely think that
this should have had a nitro cell and probably just didn't change it with it
you know we just had the batch probably just didn't cross his mind it would be
quite hilarious if he thinks he has it and just throws a proxy alarm at the
mass plant it could be a bad and switch into the facture then you followed up
the nitro. Well the nitro is already gone though they don't have another one. So they will not be doing this.
Slow round with the glio in play. Yeah I mean top floor plays slow at times and especially
the way that rival want to try and play this with the with the glass.
Well, that guy's a razor. That's a big kill for Man LFO. Razor's being such a star for
Rival tonight. He's got 21 kills. Funnily enough, Chef Chef's got 23. Across the series,
Dears leads everyone with 28. 5-1 on the entry. Bicking off beers, he gets the kill onto A-Cogs,
It's only Wettable's left, somewhat winnable though for Wett.
30 seconds, they were seeing him, we already win a 1v5 this stage alone.
B is on 1 HP, Hunt is low as well.
28 seconds, just don't let that time sink too quickly.
Hunt is not allowing him to pull off another big clutch.
We are tied 3-3 on the final map of this series.
Well, it feels pretty fitting considering where we were on Bank and now where we are on Wett.
And it does feel as though there is an energy to what rival we're able to achieve with a coach sub been
now you bring in kill a man and
The flow feels right to me David feels like this is actually a series and like this should be the conclusion to a very important match
I think one of the things that's a big advantage for rival is just naturally they have a long
I think you play as like that's the thing about chef the reason why he's always played. Well, he plays well when he's not overly too serious
You know, this is the guy that became famous because he ran pulse shotgun before it was a legit thing to do when it was a meme
Yeah, and I think that bank was a great chance to get in that headspace
Yeah, because it was a lot of clutches. It was very loosey-goosey. It was silly
They failed at rushes. Yeah, but they succeeded in clutches and they were playing with their coach
And now they've got a real sub in but still it's a sub right so you're forced to play in this space where it's like
Oh, well, we're not gonna
Overthink you're going to take things too seriously
I actually think if you had to put both man on a phone and rival into those that space and see which one performs
Well, I think it's gonna be rival. Yeah. I look I think from what we're seeing on there at the moment
It does feel a bit more it feels definitely more cohesive and it feels like a proper game now
where I think pingo on bank we were laughing a fair bit with a lot of rounds that we're taking place now now
Kind of feels like we're locked in a lot more seriously and this is an elimination match
So don't get it twisted at home. This is still very important
Yeah, like Jake said rather if you win here, there's a chance if you win that chance then you qualify
But if the matter of fact is yes, the loser he'll go out of the tournament
That's gonna be a for stage one here, but the winner goes up against Enterprise. What a reward
But yeah, there is a chance and I think to this be a three is has been all over the place right with the sobbing in the sobbing
Now we're at a patch between map two and map three that almost never happens
Yeah, it's been chaotic
But that also teaches you a lot of things in the team like James said if you can take this I know
Bad circumstance
Unlocking circumstance whatever and have a laugh and just put on your best face and your best performance
there's a lot to learn from that.
There is, and you know, you were kind of talking about Chef Jeff just then and you know,
me, me, players back in the day and all of those kind of things that he does lean into
a bit of chaos.
Right now, across the course of the entire series, he's gone 24 and 18, like, this is
not the thing to me, and I guess the conversation that I kind of maybe want your opinion on
very quickly before we go back is just the fact that like, if there was a team to upset
one of the major players, it does feel like it would be rival.
Yeah, yeah, considering you look back at stage one and they bailed out pretty early, you know, man LFO on paper
with the runners-up team behind Chiefs and EP after kickoff, I should say, not stage one,
whereas Rival all the way down, I think they ended up in sixth place, they got knocked out by Rock LFO,
if I remember it serves, back when they were called Team Anyos.
So yes, I think the Rival are the underdogs, I think they've come in here with a new spirit,
and I think considering the situation they've had to play with, they've been doing so well.
Of course, it really doesn't get more even than this, we're three-three at the end of the half,
We've seen the bands come through it is anyone's game. There's no particular odds defensive or attack aside
It just comes down to the next three rounds, but I will say this
We've had seen some pretty scary attacks from Manila foe today
So I don't want to put a pass him on concert
They were very prepared on their attacking side and if we can see the same from them on there
But then maybe there is a world where Manila foe bring it back. Well, it's time to lock in. It is the last
regulation half I should say regulation half over time is still
alluding us and it still may come to fruition it is the last regulation half
of the night and potentially of one of these teams campaign in stage one
Thunderlock back in Jaden Gus. Yeah thanks very much for buying it on the desk
Can I change this especially?
Shining a little bit like this today?
Sorry, I had to do it one more time and then I stopped.
Oh, that just hurt me so bad Michael, that hurt.
There's a rush by the way.
You've completely thrown me off.
That is...
Oh, you gotta compose yourself.
You know, so to rival.
The rush is not working for man on a phone till that moment Pluto finds two.
I almost hunted pretty quickly.
His peers remain locked in.
I probably shouldn't make too much fun of James because the reality is we're probably
going to have to cast all week.
No, absolutely not.
Maybe we'll get Rob back in.
You can stay far.
I'm a host of plenty.
Even I could.
Well, kill him and it's time to get involved.
The race has been clutched to rival so far in this series.
Oh man, just completely overwhelmed. What is he meant to do? Sharky's in his face.
Oh, I tell you what, Razer can kill elements here without going down.
It's not impossible for the man who's been very clutched tonight.
That is a very, very low health Blackbeard needed to get that.
Oh my goodness, that could have been a little spicy, but man, that'll have phoned.
They take the lead and they've made it three straight rounds.
You know, they're locking in at the moment.
And finally, Sali goat. I'll tell you why. If they win this game, that man is the goat coach at the moment.
Yeah, just when it felt like starting to lose their footing, he called that tack at a perfect time and they've really
looked locked in since that moment, so credit to him and the words that he's been able to impart.
Clearly the team responding positively to that.
I think one thing over the years that we've been covering this region that maybe we lack a little bit is
highlighting coaches when they do well and
Who has influence?
For the most part this is of course being a region that's usually dominated by one team and so therefore that there's one coach
That does really well, but I want to give my props to Sally this day, you know man. I love foe
They don't have an organizational backing the players on the roster have not historically been contenders for top three in the region
He's really got them to a good point. Now it's not to give him the 100% of the credit, absolutely not.
But I think in the same way that when you see a team play poorly, you think, well, maybe it's the coach,
or you see a team play well, oh, it's all the players. Sometimes you've got a good performance of the coach as well.
And when you get a timeout into three straight round wins, then there's probably something that he's done right.
Even if it's just words of affirmation, encouragement, it doesn't have to be purely strategical.
and man management is in a very important part of coaching they take the
lead but a long way still to go
just the second round here on this map and I think third overall for the
series that the open kill was not converted so a rare statistic goes
against rival in that previous round so Valken play then for the eighth with
Kill man and no IQ counter on the board for man elephant on the attack
So we'll see if that does have influence in the ability for the defense to gain information
Rayora in play and gates to be deployed by hunt up
He's closely alongside this glass at the moment and they may look to push deep here
Kill man does find the first
Did that get him going?
Foxen push, oh, what an eye
Great clear from Acov
Try to snap back around but it's the shield of sharky in the face that keeps him alive
Tried to repress her
Surely they got this cross back on the weather balls indeed. He got himself into a vulnerable position
This life is then for
Kill me get the second one is he starting to awaken?
Well, he does get overwhelmed
Microsoft from a razor is insanely good
As he has been all night for his team Wow
He has placed that to perfection
And Arreza continues to make a strong case that he could be the MVP for the night.
He has really dug deep when his team has been in trouble.
He hasn't got the numbers.
He hasn't got the numbers, but he's had the impact.
It's high-test.
It's high-test.
Absolutely.
There have been a lot of moments in this match where they have looked down and out and he
has just made something out of nothing.
an aggro pushing that last round, Toxin side, Facilitator below, the Reora's stock.
But, I mean, Wettables, I have to bring this statistic up, I apologize, I'm so sorry.
I do, for what it's worth, like, he's a great guy.
Over the years, plenty of banter.
He has a 3% of survival rate.
Every now and then server is like 30% plus, he's a 3%.
That can't be right, there has to be something wrong with the track gun.
10 plus 12 20 so that's 22 rounds with them now up to 8 so that's 30 round yeah
no that's pretty much about right he's died 28 out of 30 rounds okay that is a
very very low number sounds a little bit like a hate watching
I'm definitely not. It's more of a stat that you don't see every day.
I expected better from you.
Apparently I expected better from what?
Whenever you put expectation on a player.
It's not about up to this point, it's about what you do from this point.
Lies where I'm 9, 4 and kill a man, well he's an perfect example.
Very slow start, but now he's awoken.
It just takes a few kills and then he finds his footing.
No pitting pick again for Rival, that's very straight, so they're starting to win some of these early battles.
I'm starting to get a little bit nervous for Man Alaphaw on attack, I'm getting a little bit nervous.
They did just win 3 straight, but Rival, if they win this it'll be too straight for them.
This is an interesting play. I think I can watch you on ARK.
I guess Elements is looking to try and contest Lobby.
I think he's expecting a little bit more of an aggressive hold main stance.
Yeah, I agree. It's a lot more passive than he probably is anticipating.
control in the meantime for Manila foe Pluto low on HP
Oh no!
Bang!
Double from ACOG!
Another big Nitro.
And with Pluto down, Alchemist is now the only one left.
He took his time pushing into main stairs.
He finally got the kill onto Eraser, the down and the flush onto Killer Man.
And 1v5A, it's been done this stage.
It was, in fact, where the bulls that did it.
I'll push four seconds after you guys. You guys go in there push.
Well, if he wins the round, who cares?
Into the mirror though.
Into the mirror is not ideal. He does still have three calls left by the way.
Well, hang on. That's not the door.
He really can't go that way.
40 seconds.
Oh, he makes the cross.
But he can't. Oh, he did get the kill of the chef.
Chef, the old trade, one for one.
Well, a valiant effort.
Is he golf clapping?
He's been pretty animated tonight as he would expect from Chef. He loves those big games.
I'd love to see Chef Jeff in LAN. I really would.
I like the AP boys and it's better if they go. I'm gonna leave it. It's better if they go.
But I would love to see Chef Jeff.
I'd be more than happy to just see him play against AP.
Could you imagine Chef Jeff just going and just trying to troll them out of an EWC spot?
I don't think it's gonna work.
it would be funny just to watch not necessarily anyone taking you mean like
in the trash fork sense oh just the trash talk the animation or results aside I
just want to kind of just want to say that
he's a character oh he is I love him
Got 10 dorms. Oh, I'll tell you what rival
I mean, it was the three straight to be an alofo after their tactical timeout closed the half off nicely started the
second half perfectly attacking into master in R6
And now the pendulum swings the other way rival are five to four
But at no point in this series if I felt like I threw these two teams have really got full grasp on the map
evil back on bank I mean it was a rollercoaster
it started off as man on the phone looking as if they were just gonna
probably win 7-2 in the first couple of rounds then it seemed like rival and
found that the go-go juice and I don't know that they the go-go juice
It's the truth that you drink when you have a coochie.
You wanna go?
Okay.
I can't say I've ever tried that one before.
Yeah, big round here for dorms.
We'll see what the YouTube belt ends up looking like for Man-Alifo.
They're like, not to bring the sense, not to bring the capitao.
It's a little more unconventional, but they can stack the candelos,
they can play aggro greenside, the guise.
They can clear a lot of this U-Tool as well with the addition of the Flores.
Question will be, of course, how fiercely Rival looked to defend a barb and I'm anticipating it will be pretty fierce, especially with the Solace in play for that plant denial.
Man, now if I have an 80% win rate in the closing stretch, whatever that statistic means, we actually touched on that briefly at the start of the night.
Well, they've won 11 out of 14 rounds, 10 to 12.
Well, guess what, it's round 10.
If I'm not mistaken, Rival actually above a 25% win rate in the closing stretch.
So that does favor Man-Alifo, but Rival gets the first kill.
And it's on the beers again.
That's back-to-back opening death for the top fragger of Man-Alifo.
The series of chef Jeff rings around the corner, sit down, Elements, he'll let you know all
about it.
As Killerman, he's returned to form, needs to be started because he just looked like someone had never played the game before
Maybe ten minutes ago, now he's up to seven kills, flawless rival, have two match and series points
Could they actually get the result?
Does Killerman get to play against Enterprise?
Probably not, I don't think so
I think Proxy's straight back in
My word
what a full frame i guess
what what an insane night and again this
honestly i can't think of a better way to encapsulate rivals journey over the
course of the stage a team that was beaten down and out with roster changes
late lost the first games and haven't gone full circle by bringing him
back here
under emergency circumstances to potentially qualify for that lower bracket final
and a chance of the eastwards walk up and holy
they got two opportunities
to be one series away from the global event.
Forgetting who they're playing for a second.
That in itself, from where they started the stage,
if you had a tossing,
I'm gonna think one that rival would make it
to the lower bracket.
Top three.
You'd be like, hell nah.
Even saying to make the playoffs.
I think I would have probably backed into Academy.
Yeah.
Well, Barbie boys back before they were seven, man, LFO.
Yeah, rival were pretty low on the totem pole of form.
And that's a testament to their work ethic and desire.
The man out on the phone, it's going to be a disappointing end to the stage, but still I think largely a successful stage.
They're a team that's still on the rise, but they're not done yet. They just need two rounds in a row.
As we mentioned before, they're better in the closing rounds, but it didn't start well for round 10.
Now they've got round 11 and 12 where they must win.
Quick control first fall then getting to work on the hatch as quick, vert potential as well
with the sledge for elements. He's had a really good day at the office. I think some of his
numbers this stage have probably been below his expectation and he's doing a good job tonight.
Some struggles there in terms of trying to trick the hatch for Hunter, the electroclaw
not being dealt with, so that's unfortunate.
I'm going to bet for Wettables, essentially dumped out of the league, forced him to retirement,
and that was after he was essentially forced off the dragging role to become a support
player all the way back from gaming gladiators, the Titan era.
And now back into a top three in a spot in a lower final.
If they can close this out, which there's only 90 seconds left.
Right now you're happier if you're on defense.
The longer this round goes on without meaningful action by the attack, the more and more comfortable
rifle are going to feel.
Trying to work out.
What is the plan from this point for man LFO?
It doesn't feel like the groundwork has been particularly meaningful.
And Sharki almost gets caught out.
Hey, Killiman finds the opener!
The trade though from Pluto.
Over towards barrels, he was able to get there pretty quickly on the move.
Get the trade.
Killiman ends up at 9-9, I think he started about 2 and 6.
What for?
For someone who hasn't played for a while over a month,
I think you'd be pretty content by the end of this...
this map of Lair.
Xkairos from Hunter.
Those are the final ones.
It's a good chance onto Alamance.
A racer can connect.
Feels like one of the rare moments tonight
where he wasn't able to convert,
but as Sharky falls from the hands of Chef Jeff,
that leaves it down to Hunter.
He too goes down.
Pluto and Alamance must win a two versus three
on their knocked out of finals.
DMR available here for Pluto.
If he can make the play 25 seconds,
that will force them forward to stay alive.
Does still have one more smoke available
to throw that one out, provide some cover,
but he dies, leaves it to Elements,
it's falling apart from Anelophote.
That speech from Sali apparently didn't do enough in the end.
Rifle will confirm top three for stage one of APL.
They get their opportunity to qualify
but the Esports won't come at the end of this week
in a match against Enterprise.
Who would have thought all the way from the start of the stage
where things looked a little bit bleak,
Chef Jeff and crew are top three bound.
The head chef of this goddamn region.
No, it's not actually that far,
but I will say rival eSports, they look good,
they lock in, they're having players perform across the board
when they need to, and they've done it all
with a coach sub into an emergency,
with some emergency savvy is actually technically the substitute but they're
different maps and also three different fifths crazy three different five stacks
across the three maps and not by trucks not because hey it's time to get a
substituted not because hey it's time to get our Falco in to do the secret mute
spots on console it like no this is oh crap this guy's lost power for his
entire street time to get our coach in oh crap you know we've had to update the
game and sit through maintenance, it's yeah it's crazy. Yeah and what's even more absurd than that
is the stat that you threw at me that I was not aware of going into that. Proxy is the 8th best
player in Oast right now and by far the best player for Rival and here's the player that dropped
out Nick. So you've got to give credit where credit's due. Rival dig their heels in there.
They did. That was what you posted me about between map 2 and map 3. It's like
The mental game, look at the player cams, they seem super high in their spirits.
Once you're growing, they should be feeling awful about the circumstances.
Right, they're missing their player for a big game right now.
This is awful. No, big smile.
And you say, you know, guys, we got this. Let's go.
I managed to catch guys to screenshot it for me.
It was a message in the old chat from Chef Jeff.
Oh, yeah, Chef with friendly eyes.
It is, actually. Yeah.
Very PG and just very funny and classic Chef Jeff banter.
Castors, can we please make a fragger frame MVP of the playday, thank you very much.
And that says it so well, like their coach, they literally came back on the map with their coach.
It's what you're saying, right then, it's the nuanced shit talk that Chef Jeff has.
It's just a different caliber.
It gasses him up.
It is in this extra aura, extra energy.
It's perfect, it's so shit posty, just like our interviewee.
Let's welcome in
My friend it's been a minute brother. How are you doing?
Look you're looking a bit better now that we won, but thank you said we were smiling look that I'll be honest in bank
I was pissed off
I think actually the cast has mentioned a couple of times and I said they've just won a round and
Wet does not look happy. So you would you're not happy, mate? You're not happy that there's power outages
That's the better end talking to you. Come on. It's different from
No, it's not had nothing of the power. I think it was just the way it was handed like, you know
Obviously nothing like towards these guys here. Obviously, it's you know, it's that's how do you like going off the robot?
It's the second time I've dealt with some
How did bullshit in the picture?
But you're walking this time brother you're walking this time and that's all that matters
What's it like to have the power outage on your side?
I can't I can't say my honest thoughts because I've only used my one F bomb and I'm gonna not say
I do I do want to ask you just vaguely speaking, you know coming into this
We definitely looked at rival saying that if there's gonna be an upset throughout any of this bracket
It's more than likely going to be you and the team
Knowing where you come from the caliber of players that you have
How do you feel coming into the playoffs bracket? Because I think this is the first time we're talking to you in playoffs
How did you guys approach coming into playoffs?
Well from the start of the season we had that roster change so I think for us it was just
trying our best to make it here and when you like longer and longer than we went it would
be fucking awesome.
Oh my god.
No, that's too.
That's alright.
We got to wrap up here.
We're thanks for the bulls anyway.
The longer we were going we'd become more solid and we'd get used to each other so I think
it was just making playoffs and then just taking our time with letting the roster ash I guess.
Sure, yeah, can I get a bit of a play-by-play from you between the three different maps?
You know obviously you had I know you don't want to get into it too much
But just give me the vibes of what's happening in the call when you realize you know
I'm guessing just proxy just DC like are you guys in the call together and suddenly he's not talking and suddenly
Boop-Boom and then he calls you on it's like like well, how does that happen how does he find out that?
It's a power outage. How do you guys figure out? Okay? We get frame in
What's the mentality going into that game?
Are you guys changing your game plan and then for the game three getting a killer man?
Just run me through the play between those three maps
Well, I didn't even know actually lost his power
I don't have anything up about the monitor and in the chat people like
I see he's got no power
But he's seen what it is and then he realized the whole street was up. Oh, I'm like, and I'm like here we go
I'm like, all right sweet and then we were like we have Kyle we're going message it message car
He wasn't getting in there and obviously the admins are trying to say like how long or that they're rushing us
And then we're like spirit will get framed
Just as we say we're gonna get framed car responds me says I can get on
Because before he submitted frame in that too we can't bring Kyle and we're like guys you're pushing us to hurry up
Some justice for the surely you can like you know give some leniency here because you're pushing for it
They're like no we can't so we went into that too in the bank and we were said yes
the way they play the game
is completely different. We
just kind of wing it and just
enjoy ourselves. And all the
boys were enjoying themselves.
I was just trying to bite my
tongue and not get a bit out
of hand with what I was going
to say. So it was better for
them to just be like, no
pressure. Just run around and
play ranked. And then same
thing in like that through
style.
I mean, quite quite the series.
We say the longer the team has been going on for the more the roster can kind of jail and get more experience together.
The better you're going to get. What's it look like now going up against EP in the lower bracket for the spot for land?
Like, are you guys there where this matchup feels realistically winnable?
Or is it about just like playing the vibes? What are your expectations going to that match?
Um, well, I think for us, like we have a lot of younger players, like so I think we just try not to make everyone else have like too much pressure.
trying not to make everyone else have like too much pressure.
Yeah, no, the end result is AWC.
It's always gonna be there.
The thought's always gonna be there.
But the more you think of it,
the more it'll just sit there
and just like hover over your head and it just builds up.
And it's not good.
And especially if you're like an experienced player,
you don't want that.
You want them to be free.
You want them to have as much fun as they can.
Because when you're 18 and you're like fresh,
like into the game, you're sharp most of the time, right?
You don't want any pressure on you
and you just wanna go and don't shoot.
And I think that's probably the best way
going to go into the EP game and not ever. I got a friend, you know, I got a friend here
wet, but just wanted to wave and say hello. It's your best message for you.
only way is up I generally just I've lost all care about my stats I used to
can't eat but like it's it's whatever like if I beg some of the stats and like
I'll just get in my own head so you gotta get on the the 1v1
I'm going to kick him off wet anything that you'd like to say before we let you go mate obviously a very big match up on Friday like you've already said you know you don't want to go into it with too much pressure but this is your final words before what will be a very interesting match I still believe that there could be an upset brewing
Yeah, shout out rival shout the boys
I want to shout out like frame and car last minute, you know on the bullshit that happens
So getting them in the sub and like playing you know how to fix them
Shout out you Rob. I'm expecting an ages
Shout out penguin on the TV
You shout out Rob you shout out penguin is that everything?
You know what that's the perfect time to cut that one but thanks for joining us mate. Best of luck against EP on Friday
Play was nice to me. He said in my voice sounded sexy. Well speaking of speaking of sexy voice compliments
I don't know. Great segue. Let's talk about the MVP for today.
Player, by a country mile, has become, I think, one of the greatest storylines that we've had in a while for an individual player.
I think that this is kind of on par with the storyline we built back in the GG days with Oda and him moving across and then stealing spots away from other teams.
Player has done exactly that but I feel as though there's an extra player at the moment Nick that has really brought to life the
individual prowess he has
Yeah, no, yeah, it's been a great story
No, I've really loved everything that we've got to see out of players journey, you know
Of course, it was just a soft point of time to that old Chiefs roster
The newest spot was getting taken by Jigsaw once he came back from Europe and he
He graciously stepped aside, saw all that go down, you know, he's been there kind of climbing up from the lower levels of the game to finally get his chance with Enterprise to making it naturally to getting dropped to then building his old team for a spot at the Esports.
You want to join me here as I as we look at this. I'm just going to read off what I was trying to explain before
Since 2023 player has been on homeless
Circular spheres aerial rise odium man e-sports Ludovica chiefs
EP and chiefs again
It has been an unbelievable ride for him and for him and the rest of the players to secure that spot in the grand final
They've already booked their ticket to EWC. Yes
that Grand Final has massive permutations once we actually get to EWC, but I think Dev the storyline
that they've got right now, I mean I couldn't be happier for them. Sure, well Chiefs are on top
of the world right now, but as you say that Grand Final still waits and it does a lot of
weight behind it, which means that we have a chance to get even sourcier if EP are on for a
rematch in that Grand Final. EP could take the crown back, but it's not a given that EP is
is going to be there. I mean,
Wett is coming for his old teammate,
Brenda is there. Wett says,
Hey, remember the blizz days?
I'm coming back for it, mate.
It would be,
I was thinking about this a little bit today.
Obviously, Chief Speeding EP.
That's an upset.
We consider that an upset.
It would be the biggest upset
we could have possibly thought in OZ.
If anyone goes to EWC, that's not EP, right?
So if rival Upsets, that's a way bigger upset,
way bigger, a hundred dollar story
than we ever could have imagined.
You've done well right until the end there
where you started to crash, because I think you're...
Uh, yeah, I don't know if you can tell the story.
Alright, I don't know if you can tell, but I got a sexy deep voice, and all of a sudden...
You know what, I've decided. I'm gonna talk like this all the time.
You know what, you might get compliments by...
You can't.
Also, you kind of sound like a mix between Fox and Laxan. I can't on here. It feels weird.
If I put on an American accent, is that really gonna mess with your brain?
Ah, maybe if it was not.
No, that didn't do it for me, okay?
Thank you, Giga.
But what would do it for me is EML, which is coming up next.
One that you do not want to miss as the playoffs.
There's a set.
Get close to the corner.
Including, hit it, hit it, hit it.
There's a get's, desert shoes.
Oh, there's a get's.
And uh, overtime, I can't wait.
We're going to overtime.
We're going all the way to overtime.
It just doesn't stop.
It just doesn't, buddy, stop.
That is a nice hour and a half away.
so you don't have to wait too long. You know what, get outside, touch some grass, go for a nice walk, get some fresh air in your lungs.
Nick, any thoughts as we quickly wrap this up and close up?
Happy day, chaotic day. You two don't go touch grass, go to bed instead.
Rest up because we have just, what, five play days back to back to back to back here in the APL, so rest up.
Thank you very much, James. I'll ask for your feedback, but I think you are about ready to go to bed, so we're going to wrap up here.
Thank you very much for joining us here out of your own stays to we'll be back tomorrow with Asia
It's one that you don't want to miss but just as my great friend penguin would say
Namaste. Good night. Have a great night
To make
It's not like we're in the right age
It's okay if it's like us
It's different if we don't let go
Even if it's just a day, let's end it
I'll hold your hand
It's a little painful, but it's still fine
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