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Well, well, well, if it wasn't Christmas in July, we're now into the final playday for
each of the subregions, which means we have three more slots for EWC, and today we give
one more O's team a slot. That's exciting enough. The storylines that we've got going into it might
actually splice things up even more so time to get underway with this one. I'm really excited to
see the APL pin maker research. I don't know how quick we can get this APAS logo before we had
an APL. We haven't actually zoomed in. Can our camera man zoom in here? Let's give this a big ask.
Big ask. Let's see. Let's try those that remember. That is one of the most beautiful things
that has ever existed. I love it. Hey, I will say I love the old Flora logo, but our new Dragon logo
it goes extra hard, especially all the amazing things that you didn't get to do until you're 100%
Yeah, by me you mean the production crew. Well, yeah, of course. Of course. I'm also very excited
because I'm back. I'm sorry for missing you out yesterday. Nick, I heard you had a little bit
of a cast with what? Guzz and Jake? What a suit jacket as well! I wasn't informed. Yeah, sorry man.
I am I'm I was sitting just for content. I was sitting here in a black t-shirt. I get told in five minutes ago
Can you change your shirt, please? You're not you're like under dress compare
It's like I didn't get the memo. We're sitting there in the same black t-shirt that you slept in
like
Five in call time I got up early this morning. Okay, I appreciate
But Nick speaking of your sleep man. How you feel you ready for another day?
But I've done my first cup of coffee which is crazy because I don't drink coffee, okay?
So I'm locked in I'm geeked. I'm ready. I'm excited and it's grand finals day. So what's the next month?
Have you ever seen over the hedge?
Oh, maybe when it came out.
He's gonna end up being the squirrel that takes the coffee. He's gonna end up going a little crazy.
It's a very niche reference.
I think it was a Danish.
Oh, I've seen this. It's called Owha Hicken in Danish. I've seen this.
It's one of the few movies that we thought this is a kids movie.
Yeah, that's good. That's good.
Well, I guess the squirrel is on that side in that instance.
A very good niche reference.
But as we start to talk a little bit more about all the action that we have to unfold,
of course, yesterday we saw a lot from APAC North,
and some very interesting discussion points, I guess,
just kind of around that lower bracket final and what we might expect.
KineTrotnik, I think, looked really good,
but also there are still a lot of gaps to talk about.
It was a very puzzling series. The constant back and forth, the thing being X team is the better one but it's going to be the other one instead and we're going to have clutches and times running out and for a moment on the third map, Kino Trump looked like they had almost given up and were like, you guys are bound to win this series, like why are you giving up?
and then they start making the comeback again and it was just a crazy game honestly.
And I think for A-Pack North, you know, it's a region where it's been a bit of a one team wonder
with CAT taking the lead for the majority of the time.
Then people have skied at the game pod roster.
They are now challenging them quite successfully over the last almost a year at this point.
But now, Scars and Cunatroup, it's a four man region if you will, and everyone's stepping up to the plate.
They certainly are. And the day before last, of course, Asia, that was the one that we kind of
We're left a little bit puzzled by it. I don't want to say a little bit.
I feel like that's maybe disingenuous to say that we were puzzled by it in its entirety.
But the fact of the matter is Team Orca ended up looking better on the day,
and that doesn't always happen there. I know we looked at this head-to-head a lot.
Of course, Solzha and Orca are the two best teams out of Thailand.
It have been the top two teams from Thailand forever.
Always it's such an exciting time to see them go head-to-head, especially because you've got
former players, you know, i9 having played on both of those teams started with the souls heart boys
went to orchid now back with souls heart and the win condition for souls heart tends to be does i9
show up and sadly he was pretty quiet for a lot of that series orchid ended up taking it i think
that makes sense in my brain i think orchid have been a bit more of a consistent team over the last
year or so are they consistent enough though to bring it back to actually be a contender on the
international stage remains to be seen because daystar got a map off of weibo for the first time
them in history. Wabo through the grand final as expected, but not in the way that we expected.
We really thought that Wabo were probably going to be 2-0ing everyone in Asia and making
a very strong case to be the best team in all of APAC. But at the moment, Deisar is
showing that they are getting better, maybe not quite as fast as Wabo is, but they are
catching up.
I mean, I always get thrown in every time you look at Dez. There's something about it
that just, it really throws me off.
If you knew what I was looking at on my end, okay, I'm looking outside my window to get the island.
Yeah, and I've put a little scarecracker with my face on it outside that would be a staring back at you.
That would actually be cool. And creepy at the same time, but I think it's fair to say that overall with the Asia League in its current position,
every team seems to be like they're getting a little bit closer, if that makes sense.
like it feels like we're not losing as much of that massive top end as what we used to have things
are starting to crumple in a bit. Sorry I said Nick but that didn't really work so instead how
about we uh get underway because ah you're okay fair enough fair enough Nick well I won't bother
throwing that to you because in fact we actually have a camp here do you know what that means what's
in the box. That means we've got a pro player joining us for the first time. Hey, Scatman!
Scatman! Hello! Scatman, how are you my friend? I'm good for Bangkok guys. Oh, it's so good to
have you from Bangkok. How are you doing Scatman? I'm doing good. How about you guys? Oh, just jolly.
Even better to be seeing you Scatman my friends and very excited that we get to talk to you today
and get some tips and tricks from you. How are you feeling about the way that the season has
panned out of course unfortunately your team did not make it through to the
lower bracket final do you have anything to say about that match it was of
course a very hard game against T-Mobile.
It's so hard playing for us you know like we try to win everything around we try to
Yeah, of course it was still a very good season for your team. This whole year has been pretty incredible from from Sol's heart.
You started this year in Tokyo by winning the APAC Cup.
You had so many highlight moments in the APL, which we're just watching some of right now.
What was your favorite moment in Stage 1 of the APL?
My favorite moment is going to be the match that we play against side normally.
like the sports like the 6-3 and then we manage it to come back and then we verify for the pay off.
That one is cinematic, you know, like cinema.
Yeah, it absolutely was. It feels very on point for pop culture at the moment that we are saying
that's Catman absolute cinema. But obviously today we have you on to give us some tips and
tricks around shields. How are you feeling about helping the audience understand it a little better? Do you feel like you're going to give some good points?
Yeah, yeah. I would try. I would try.
You know what? That's all I can ask from you, because that's the important part. Obviously, kind of looking forward, I guess, to a little bit of a discussion around shields.
do you have any kind of, I guess, just straight off the bat, do you have an idea as to why they're so
important for pro play at the moment because I think very, very rarely are we ever seeing a game
where we don't have shields. Uh oh. So you were talking about this. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Scarman,
He was just asking why do you think shields are so important?
Shield operator is very important for the attack because like shield operator you can take the map control easily without dying or getting the opening killed by defender
So this is very important to play shield
If you play the other operator, so you can take the map control as well, but it's gonna be more easier for the attack side, you know
So I can see skatman that you've bought the blackbeard
We've also got pengu in there to help you pengu you've gone with the blitz
So of course blackbeard blitz and montane tend to be the three main shields at the moment skatman
What do you think is the most important thing about playing blackbeard?
Is there something you want to show us here on Clubhouse about an important way to play Blackbeard?
Yeah, when you play Blackbeard, so you can push, and when you push, you have to like face down a little bit.
So the enemy cannot be able to shoot your face, something like that.
Then you...
Yeah, maybe we can...
The enemy is at the shield, so they're gonna aim for the face, or somebody they're gonna aim at the head.
when you pop up the shield so you're gonna headshot you so you get to about that and try to face down like this
and then pushing them and if you have your fans as a cover so when you see some enemy hiding at the corner
So you can use your name, like this, or like this, and then you aim, like that.
Nice.
You win the round, you're so good.
He's so good, he's so good at the game.
Nice.
I noticed that you were bringing the iron sights on the black bead instead of the scope.
What would you recommend between ACOG or Hollow or Iron sights?
It depends how you are going to push the enemy, like if you want to push Catwalk a lot, there might be one trick, you can use ACOB, you can use ACOB and then you aim, you use ACOB right there, and then you aim from the respawn, and then you are going to aim at the Catwalk, so the enemy won't see your face, something like that.
Maybe you can show us that.
You're talking about taking out Raja off this.
Yeah, maybe you can show us that.
And we can have a look at that.
I was going to say, we can show the garage angle.
It's kind of nasty.
It's something that I didn't see the cow walk angle being
used very commonly until I watched.
I think it was like G2 doki doing it maybe earlier this year,
where you can get like a one way angle, for example.
We can show it here in a second.
We're just putting in.
But it's the same as SPF when you're upside down window
repelling.
You know how like you can see their feet
before they see your head because like perspectives,
we can do the same thing here in Catwalk Rafters.
So, Scatman, if you go outside the Garrett store,
I will go on the Catwalk Rafters
and we can kind of show what the difference is.
Okay, so you know, I'll be a Sami,
since I'm role playing right now, no Kibas.
But I'm sitting here on the Catwalk Rafters
and Scatman will just like slowly walk forward.
If you expect it, Scatman,
you're getting the idea of what he's seeing.
Oh, so he can actually already see you right now.
And I can only see his shield, so I can't shoot him.
And we have a look at Penguin's shield.
So I can't fight back when I'm standing.
Yeah, so he can only see his shield.
See, in this case, if I'm standing up.
Yeah.
And you can actually...
If I crouch, I can just about see his head.
But he can fully see you and kill you right now.
Yeah.
So right now, he can kill me and I cannot kill him.
Like, if you play the perfect pixel angle.
So it's very, very strong one way essentially.
Wow.
That's not fun.
Even against like an asami or Jaeger or Wamai. This is such a strong way of playing against the rafters set up here
Scatman, I'm what's your favorite place to push on called house with the blackfield?
If I pay top out
I have no idea about that, but I got to take the map control for my teammate. So
like and when I see like a
a shield from defender so I can destroy it by myself. Like if there was no one in the corner
like I demonstrated before like this no one in the corner and then I push take the map control
my friend call me and this one if our teammate have no more drone to share this position so I can
can make it and then shake, then you fight.
I can't.
You can push it.
You cannot die.
You can't push it.
And if, like most of the team they like to put, place the shoe on the bathroom so I can
make it.
Yeah.
Mmm.
Yes.
Very interesting.
Okay.
So, you talked a little bit.
Obviously, you're talking about, oh, I was going to say, you speak about like the entry
and clearing the angles, using the shields, etc.
We also see if people play the shields very passively as a plant operator,
and a small trick that we started seeing people do is instead of you have the shield,
you walk in, you're covering yourself, you get to the plant position, now you'll hold F,
and you gotta, when I stop planting here, I gotta stop planting, and you gotta take the shield
and equip it back. It is like a full second of waiting in the animation. So a lot of teams these
these days they will walk in with the shield, I know they get the cover, okay now I got
a plant, you weapon swap the shield on your back then you start planting, this gets you
faster in and out of the planting animation, so you don't got to do like the weapon swap
where like you put it in front of your face again, very small trick that we see teams
start doing as well.
What do you think scatman for you and your team, how versatile are the shields becoming,
like are they such an instrumental part of the way that you play the game?
Yeah, not that most like, we not pay a shield that often.
But when we need to push or take the map control,
because on the time when we push and then we need that map control
and we try to take a gunfight against defenders.
And most of the time we got opening kill by the enemies.
So at that time, so we're gonna take the shield.
Like yesterday, we played against Orchid.
We cannot push into the challenge map,
and we got opening kill a lot.
So I decided to keep like 1T and base and back there
to take the map control for my teammate.
So that's actually the question I was gonna ask there, Scatman.
what is it that makes your mind up about which operator you're going to use between the four
shields like what what what is it that makes your decision for you? As first I'm going to use my
Monty, I'm going to pick Monty first because this is like a big shield so you can walk easily like
this it's not that it's gonna don't have need or fat like this but you can change my font to
23 and then you're gonna push the enemy back to that side like if they don't go
back so then my dad you know yeah maybe push them back so they're gonna like
watch Friday and then I gonna order my team okay you watch me to watch for
Frank something like that and then okay I'm ready to plant they don't have a
people to deny anymore they don't have smoke something like that so I can plant
you guys call me and then that's it so we're gonna take the line silly yeah yeah
so that's why you would be picking Monty why would you pick Blackbeard what
would be the reason you'd go for Blackbeard instead because the Monty
got banned you would never just pick Blackbeard even if you had both Monty
Blackbeard available. You know I always pick Monty. Yeah if Monty is available so I'm going to
take I'm going to keep her for me first. Yeah. But if Monty get done so I go for Blackbeard
and if we want to play like Master Game so I'm going to go for Blitz. Okay so tell me and maybe
I mean thank you you're playing Blitz right now maybe you can show us but maybe Scamman what's
the way that you would use blitz you've obviously talked to us about using the
black beard taking the grenades taking map control what would you be using the
blitz for? Like if I go for a blitz I got like waiting for my team to drone if I
can take time to kill like if that was close so I'm gonna push them and then
flash like flash and then go for kill something like that but if the enemy have a crossfire
like they have a rotate over here so we're gonna have to smoke over there first and then
we go on the right to push but we have to know first where is the enemy who we're gonna
take the kill maybe because the more black the harder one but then they rush to the
team guys and then then we got a team guy so they can can in team something
like that. Interesting. It's very interesting because obviously with
Blackbeard right you kind of want to always keep your target ready for a
gunfight because he has an AR and he's got the frag grenades like Scatman said
if you're in a corner a grenade goes out you gotta be sprinting away like
that kills you. With Blitz it's almost the opposite you don't even want to be
looking too much towards the blitz because if you're looking towards a flashbang
you're gonna get blinded from a further distance. So about blitz it's not about
faking him out, right? Or I'm turning my back, I'm trying to dupe the flashbang.
Just once that the flash goes on cooldown, you have like what is it like
six to eight seconds of you control the game now. But as long as blitz has the
flash available, if you get within like a five meter proximity, you should be
winning as blitz. So if I yellow ping around Skeppman's feet, he's now three
meters away. If you stand completely still here for a second. If I am here at
about six meters and I blind right nothing happens the blind doesn't do
anything it's a it's within four meters that you have to be before any blind
defect occurs so Scatman is just kind of flicking back and forth a little bit and
faking me out and he gets the timing my blind will miss and then you can beat
the blitz or is it B.B. if you turn your back to him he's gonna ADS you're the
failure to make a weapon he's loose yeah he's just gonna destroy your life he's
gonna ruin all the fun speaking about ruining all the fun Scatman we've had a
Lovely time talking to you about this, but unfortunately, we are gonna have to wrap this and move on
Obviously, you know, you probably haven't finished the way you wanted to in stage one
but I think there's a lot that you guys can take away from what we've seen so far and
You know credit to you and the team for continuing to I guess stay at the top of Asia for such a long time
I want to give you the floor here. Is there anything you'd like to say maybe moving into stage two or even just for anyone watching at home?
Yeah, so we thank you so much for you guys, for the one guys or everyone who's sharing us.
Like it's been a long time, it's been a while that we've been in this game.
Like it might be time for someone, it might be time for me. So please enjoy Rainbow Six game,
You can see the ticket, like, so...
Scott, maybe are you saying you might be retiring? Is that what you just said?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, something like that.
No, really?
Because I so love this game. I love this game so much, you know.
So is that just because you've been playing it for so long?
Like are you actually considering about retiring?
We considering considering. Okay, please don't
We love you too much
You've been here the whole time, please don't
You get gonna see me in ENC ENC not in WC but ENC for sure. Yes, of course. We'll definitely see you at ENC
But will we see you in stage two?
Okay
I hope, I believe, my team can go to it, yeah?
I really hope so too, I mean your team has been such an iconic part of Rainbow Six for a long time.
Not just for Thailand, not just for APEC, but your appearances as well on the world stage.
So it would be a very sad day if you ever decided to retire.
I hope that you keep playing for as long as you possibly can.
like thank you so much guys thank you so much thank you for joining us my friend we will
speak to you very soon I have no doubt about it don't you go anywhere bye scout man holy
crap wow yeah we are like I guess I guess for context like some of these players we've
been casting like our entire careers with them we've gone to events with them like we
looked at each other when he said that and I was like, did he just say what I think he
just had wide eyes. Yeah, that's crazy. I mean, hopefully, hopefully he sticks around.
I can understand, you know, that souls heart team, those players have been playing to them
for a really long time, especially that core three, you know, you know, Statman, I know
in DC age. So I really hope that they continue playing for a long time. But see what happens
with that team, but you know top four finish maybe not quite as good as they'd hoped, but
Asia is extremely competitive especially with Wayville in their current form, Deystar getting
better and better and Orkid just made it once upon a time, so it's hard as well.
Yes, one spot is absolutely brutal, but speaking of that one spot, EWC obviously closing in
around us as well as the end of stage one, but this is how it kind of unfolds for everyone
that doesn't fully understand. So we're talking about one slot for Asia, but that doesn't mean
there's just one slot for the sub regions. Oast does have two slots and with APAC North being
as competitive as it's ever been, Nick, that one slot is pretty brutal. Yep, very, very brutal.
And it's, it's, I think it's just goes to show that you need to actually support your sub region
a lot more, you know, um, you know, in APAC North, in Asia, in Oceania, because you want your region
teammates to do really well, so you will get two spots in the future, because that's the big talking point, right?
Wave were been so good at getting Asia at second spot in the past, then we have Enterprise calls the upset,
and now every Oast player in the world, the biggest EP fan is initially, because now you get two spots in your subregion.
Yeah, and we need to recompose ourselves now, because it is time for Oast, and this matchup,
yes, the Grand Final has a lot to it, and we'll talk about that later.
We obviously have a very big storyline for the Grand Final,
But this lower bracket final is massive.
The team that wins goes to EWC.
It's as simple as that.
It's not like they've got to then go and play a grand final to make that spot.
And James, I just like, well, I can't help but feel like there is something in the water
where rival could do something unthinkable.
For sure.
I mean, it's not just that the team that wins this game makes it to EWC.
We already saw that with the other players on it.
But it's also critically the team that loses this game does not make it.
Correct.
Correct.
Whereas in that upper final, EP, they lost it to Chiefs
and they got a second chance.
But this is their second and final chance to make EWC.
The team from APAC that did what no team has done for such a long
time and make it to a major stage in Salt Lake City
and therefore earned a second spot for their region
have now been overtaken by the Chiefs
and now have to fight in the lower bracket to make it to EWC.
You're absolutely right.
Enterprises are the heavy favorites.
it would be an unthinkable upset if EP doesn't make it.
But, Rival, they're on a bit of a revenge tour.
Wettables, once upon a time,
played with some of these Enterprise boys,
particularly Brendo and that old Bliss core,
way back in the day.
And he's hungry for it.
He knows what it's like to play at an international event.
He knows what it's like to be the best in this region
for a very long time, back-to-back events,
even of course, a top eight finish in Sao Paulo in 2024.
and now he's going up against the new best team in the region and he can play spoils.
He certainly can and if you want to talk about playing spoils, I mean a player that's been there time and time again is Chef Jeff as well.
Chef Jeff has constantly been just the bridesmaids nearly every league that we've had over the last three years.
He's been close to denying and ruining people's days but it's always in the last second where they just don't drag it across the line.
But it does feel me as though this roster this kind of group of players
Whilst EP yes on paper the far superior team is no question about it rival e-sports will be there toe-to-toe with them
Well, that's the thing right because when I think about EP I wouldn't use the word. They are the better team
I know excited what you mean when you say it. Yeah, but I'm thinking about EP. They have the better individual player
They got the style, they got the individual experience, but when it comes to teamwork,
that's how Chiefs beat EP in the upper brackets in my final.
So to me, if you can have the better team here today in Rival, and you go into this
thinking, we're the underdogs, we have no business being here, let's have a bit of fun.
Because when they had their previous matchup, they played a best of three, and every single
map, they had a different player.
They had Proxy, they had Fragror frame, the coach, they had their sobbing killer man,
and they went into it, chips and set, it's not fun.
Enjoy it and just try and see what we can do in the server.
Don't try and eagle challenge EP
and individual gun skills.
Don't try and feel the pressure in the server.
That's an EP.
They are in a lower bracket.
Use that to your advantage.
Yeah, this is their territory, right?
They're used to, I'm not gonna be brutal to them,
but they are used to being here before.
But if we just kind of had a lovely chat about
Scott man and his retirement,
well, we can't not bring up wetables
and the fact that he did retire.
and then came back to continue playing Siege and is at a point where you know he could potentially play
spoils and send him and the entire team to an international event and as far as I'm concerned
this would be the first international event for all four players on the team that isn't
Wettables and that's a huge like it's a huge opportunity for them to even Wettables himself
has had such a storied history he was a I remember way way back in the day he played for an LFO team
just at the bottom of the standings at OCE he grinds well. He used to say I don't really care about being competitive
I just want to have a good time. Then he got a taste for it. Then he played on Blitz, Blitz, and he went to the Sixth
Invitational. He went to these international events. He knew what it was like to be the best team in Australia.
And then that team fell apart. He was part of the villainous Gigi story line. He was playing those
Europeans that flew out to Australia to compete with him on Gaming Gladiators. When that team eventually fell to pieces
It was after then that he retired notable that he didn't shout out his time on GG in his retirement. He retired
And then shouted out the heyday of bullets and he's now chasing his own legacy, right?
Something new something that isn't in the shadow of players like Oda something that isn't
Tainted by what happened with GG. Yeah, he's joined what was team an EOS now rivals who were historically the tier 2
upset Kings. Yes. A year ago, Team Anios and Tier 2 Team beat that old Chiefs roster with
Oda on it. And then in kickoff, they managed to beat Chiefs again and make a date in the
upper bracket with Enterprise. They even got a map off of EP, eventually got knocked out
by Rock LFO. Now Rival are here to play, but it is going to be a gantuan task up against
the super team like OZ has never seen before.
Yeah, I couldn't agree more with what you said.
There is a super team.
And to lean back into what Nick was saying,
again, like we always talk about the sum of the parts
of the individuals versus the sum of the part of the team.
And for Enterprise, they just have an all gunner
and all star lineup.
Nick, the fact that Tujan is their worst rated player
at 100 EPS and Tujan was a little less than like six months
ago, the best player in OZ goes to speak volumes
about where this roster is at.
I mean, it's ridiculous, the amount of firepower that this roster has on their side,
and it's their biggest strength and their biggest weakness,
because you will have players who are confident, over-swing,
and sometimes, on a rare occasion,
they will lose in a crucial gunfight that can alter the entire course of the round,
because they're ego-challenging.
And the thing about Enterprise, when it all starts against Chiefs,
and all of a came down to the fact that
Chiefs weren't surrendering easy kills,
and making it very challenging for EP to get a foothold in the map, to get a clean win condition,
because Enterprise, that are a team that actually played for the plant in a 3-2-1 execute necessarily,
so they can be challenged strategically. And I think that's mostly due to that ego. We spoke a lot
about, you know, doing kickoff and whatnot, that, you know, Max joined this roster as a former player,
as a coach, training discipline, practicing the more core fundamentals of the game.
I don't feel like we've seen that much of that kind of playstyle here in stage one.
It almost feels like Enterprise is making two steps forward,
and they were like really, really looking solid during kickoff.
And then one step backwards now, and some of those small details are missing a bit more.
And that's honestly in a match like this.
That is what will kill you, right?
Like Rival, and I think it's really important again to bring us back down to the level of
storytelling we're trying to opt in for here.
team. It's a very good team.
Whilst rival are a very good
team. This is enterprises game
to lose, right? And they have
the better team. Correct. Every
day of the week already being
shown that if you give a team
an inch, they'll take a mile
after chiefs beat them. This is
the tweet that Bapham decided
to post in due time and that I
think it goes to reiterate the
But the entire region puts on their shoulders now
That's incredible. I love these recent baffin. He's kind of trying to make his own story, right? Yeah, we
See that time and time again from him
I feel like it is like so on them to prove it though
And if let's say they fall short today
That's gonna have huge consequence to the long-term surely because they go into this thinking all this spot is ours
There's two spots for us. Who was it that actually got this from sub region that second spot that was EP themselves
themselves. They should be the ones guaranteed to qualify, or they're the ones that made
sure that this subregion of O's were the ones to get the advantage.
Yeah, Baphen himself, not only does he talk a lot on Twitter, but he has been speaking
volumes in the server as well. This is his stats from the stage so far, 120 EPS is insane.
But what's more, in the match that E.P. lost in that upper bracket final to the Chiefs,
What happened was the only player going positive, everybody else, even Jeeves or going negative.
Tuhan himself, minus 10, KD, really struggling.
Of course, Tuhan has much more responsibility in terms of in-game leadership of the team
compared to what used to be the case last year with the old EP when Fischoguy was there.
The things have changed a lot, but things, one thing that cannot change for EP is them
going to an international event.
They let this slip. This would be an utterly like half a
chlismic moment for this team.
It certainly would be just before we go to damn it.
I was going to get something to happen, but that's OK.
I'll get some of my hands in the wind.
It is like for us to get out of the way with the map picks.
It was nearly a pile of what do we are?
We're going for James.
I love you in this.
Is that bank then?
That is strange to me that EP banned bank EP 7
two rival on bank in the group stage. Of course, let's also remember that EP got smashed by
Chiefs 7-0 on bank just a few days ago. So, wow. That's just, to me, that says, is EP
a little bit rattled? You know, they were so good, especially against rival on this
map, but they themselves getting really humbled by Chiefs on it, them seeing rival winning
it against Manila Foei, even playing with the sub. Yeah, that's an interesting one to
me. Nick, how do you think this is paying down? I mean, I see it. I mean, I don't know the
insides of both these two rosters. I don't get in their voicecom server, right? Figure
out their plans. But bank is a map where you can force a lot of gunfights to be around
utility, around the three to one executes in the crossfire. So I feel like, you know,
EP going to border, no brainer. If they could play chalet, no brainer, if they could play
fortress, I think that's also no brainer. And that's why rival is going around. They
They banned the Shelly, they banned the Fortress, EP was like, you know what, the one way we
could get stopped is gonna be about the setups.
So Rival got a Clubhouse, a set of heavy map, EP banned Bank, a set of heavy map, and now
in the Bistro 3, you're gonna get Border and Nighthaven, and I would say both of those
maps probably go in favor of EP, but Rival of course is taking the favor of a non-map
of Clubhouse.
Well, I think it's really gonna have a tempo set here on board, the most aggressive map
in the pool, EP haven't played it all stage long, they bring it out here for one reason,
want to frag the hell out. They certainly do and if you are EP right now this should be your stomping
ground. Let's get underway with what will be rivals most important matches of their careers
whilst enterprise. I mean the only context is lose this and the entire story flips on its head.
Let's get underway. Mr. Jake Zenox and Billy are you ready? Yes I am Rob. This is a huge game
a qualified final win and you're not only into the Grand Final later today but you're
also into the eSports World Cup. The only region across the next few days, James, that
is going to get this opportunity. I say James, Michael is not here just yet. He's a little
bit late running into some traffic but good to have you on the broadcast and I hope you're
feeling a little bit better from yesterday. I feel a little bit better and I'm very excited
to be back on OCE particularly for a game with this level of stakes. The whole play
with this level of stakes, of course, right here we're playing for that final spot from OCE through to EWC.
But even later today, when the winner of this match plays against the Chiefs through our championship of OCE,
there are huge amounts of stakes behind that match as well because of the way that seeding works.
EWC has a very unique format. We've never had it before in Rainbow Six.
We have a play-ins and it's very risky for any team going into play-ins.
going into play-ins and they will make it to the group stage. Whoever loses our
O's Grand Final will be seated into the play-ins, whereas the champions of this
region will go all the way through to group stage. So there's a lot of stakes
for that match later today, but right now what really matters is just getting
that spot in the first place. Something that neither of these teams, even EP, can
take for granted. I see like a bit of a mouthful to get through James, honestly
commendable for even remembering all of that as well. I think that the main
everything is as you said we just got to focus on one game at a time really in this
series if you're rival it's one round at a time I don't think too far into the future
you wouldn't worry about the vetoes but the vetoes itself actually for us in our viewing
the border pick is interesting when you consider it fuels on people like a really good pick
for enterprise and it probably will be but it isn't it isn't that they've had pretty
much locked away because they keep banning it it's been a hard ban for them but I don't
kind of view it as a hard ban at this game to play, but they don't want to play it.
They probably just don't want to bring it out until it's absolutely necessary,
and now they feel it's necessary. Let's try and get this win against a team like Rival Play to
their strengths. You know, you think about Baphen, you think about Jigsaw. This is the kind of map
that's literally designed for those two. Yeah, yeah, for sure. It's such an aggressive map that
it really sets the pace of how EP want to play here. And for Rival, it's one that they're not
particularly familiar with, probably weren't expecting to come out here. We haven't seen Rival
Playborder all-stage. We didn't see them play it in kickoff either when they were known as Team Annios
But they do start picking down Bappin looking for a little bit more now as the black beard makes his way forward
Waitables take the fight
How is chef come outside and jumped on two of them from EP?
Unbelievable what a kickstart from rival and enterprise already on the ropes. I mean we had chef chef
Give us a shotgun master class for a reason and he brings in straight away a shotgun opening round border and gets a three kill
No, no rush into the round rival. No rush into the series and chef Jeff
These are he's kind of games he can get into the heads of enterprise in fact
I think he's probably the only player in the region that could do it
Excellent from you chef. Oh
Man, here we go. Surely the final one as well comment
Brando downstairs just looking to bait a kill one kill at a time
What a way to kickstart this game?
rival have really
Showed EP they are not to be underestimated. They are a force to be reckoned with
And now it's just patience from rival as Brando looks to bait a little bit he's just being toyed with I think that's above him
Chef Jeff just swinging around in 360s
Is he even going to find one? Out comes the nitro, doesn't land on anything.
I mean it would be a statement here for Rival to fall as this, indeed they will.
And it's wettables. It is wettables to find another one.
Brando and Jigsaw humbled a little bit at the start and Chef got that big smile on his dial.
Yeah and I think for Rival they need to come into this to have fun. First and foremost have fun,
it's a little bracket fine on, there's a lot on the line. But that's why you play this game
as a professional. You want to be in these big games and you want to enjoy it.
And I think for Rival, they know that there is zero pressure on them in this match.
I think what was said when it was Rival, it meant esports.
The winner will have negative pressure going into any match against Enterprise.
And so for Rival, they know this is a freeze week.
They know that Enterprise have got all the pressure.
They know that Enterprise will be the ones to look silly if they do not qualify for the esports World Cup.
But Enterprise are fortunate to even be in this position because of their early work,
Now the Salt Lake City Major providing for two slots.
A great start though. I mean, for rifle it's all about the start.
If EP come out of the game and they just, you know, slap three, four rounds on you immediately,
they're dominating back of Jigsaw running around the map, it's very easy to then get back into your shell,
go defensive mode, feel as if, yeah, this might be too difficult,
but if you get the body of work on the table, the first round defense, nice,
deploy the second round, can you make it 2-0?
And then he starts to realize and believe, hey, we can do this.
I think Rival know full well that, in a way, it's even a bit of an upset that they're here, considering they had to play with three different pips earlier in the week against Man LFO, knowing that they were the fourth seeded, not the third seeded team.
They actually lost to Man LFO in the group stage.
And of course, while we do have Wannables with so much experience, and Chef Jeff, who's been around kicking around the top of OC for quite some time,
Eraser, Acog, and Proxy are very much newer players. They've been kicking around the mid to bottom pack of OS for a relatively short amount of time.
Well, don't forget, Chef Jeff and kickoff, his team, Anios, beat Enterprise on one map.
And they did beat Chafeson in a B03, so that's, you know, quite impressive.
I think the start to the stage as well for rival wasn't kind after the whole kill I mean incident at the very beginning
I had to replace him last second. They got a cock in they also they have to start the stage play both tubes and enterprise
I mean talk about a difficult start but ever since then I mean if you would have a momentum line
They're at the top of it. Hey into this match
They really have peaked at the right time
Oh big wow
They're playing with the confidence to go for that sort of swing jigsaw
usually would win that sort of fight. Long angle, a swinging defender, Jigsaw's in a good position.
Jeff Jeff just controls that nicely. He's got the confidence. He's swinging with purpose.
He's not just swinging to get information. He wants to get the kill. And Rival have another opening kill.
I mean, Jeff is not just a shotgun merchant, it seems. He's found two kills fighting with the inferior weaponry against Jigsaw and Bredo both.
Bit of a free fire through the wall as he knows Kyra has kept up the main stairs.
Driver looked to try and peel back. Oh, Sheffi knows that he's got diffuser outside. He's actually gonna reposition.
He's already found what four kills so far in this game from this exact position, and he's hungry for a little more.
Yeah, I just would over-invest in that as the ground goes on to find the defendant for now. Have that information.
That's the main thing that hey, they don't have kit. We can actually give up site.
We don't need to play the site directly. Broxy gets the kill off the back.
Good to see that he's back. He was very unfortunate.
which is a bit of a power outage.
And what's interesting is going into that series last week
as Proxy gets the second kill
and they're gonna finish this off,
he was the highest rated player was Proxy
up until the series that we had played at last week.
And so it wasn't, then until, unfortunately,
the way the tracker works,
his numbers got affected by games 2 and 3,
even if it wasn't him.
So it wasn't until then that he's no longer number one,
but he was up to that point.
So him coming back into the team,
Despite Killerman having a pretty decent game by the end on map 3, he's going to be a big upgrade for Rival.
They've got the stability. They've been already through the trenches through a really bad night.
For them, this is a breeze. This is 3PM on Friday. Beautiful day outside. They're loving this.
2-0 start. They're here to play. Rival are not here to just make up the numbers.
I genuinely think they've come into today with the mindset we can do it. And so far in the server, it's showing.
Sure, I'll let this sink in Jake.
Rival have already found as many rounds against EP in this Baster 3 as they found in the BO1 when these teams played each other in group stage.
Yeah.
Well, I mean...
And this is EP's map pick by the way.
Yeah, I mean, I think again it's the way they're playing to start here on board.
On board you can't go into your shell, you can't just sit back, you can't give space, you can't give free entry.
And you need to really gunfights as well critically which is the thing that Enterprise are typically very good at.
Like there's no universe where chef with the mp5k on my wins two gunfights in relatively long range
Against jigsaw and Brenda. What's going on there?
EP after losing an early advantage ended up kind of just waltzing into the
The map and trying to cut corners. It's just very unlike enterprise
I am surprised and disappointed that that's how the round ended up playing out for them
And now really I start to wonder on the attacking side on board or where they should be finding
success and a reasonably attacker heavy map at what point do they decide that
they need mag in for a tactical time out on our service that's actually we've
got a really cool graphic which has that sort of in wheel that shows what are
your strengths weaknesses so enterprise 81% on the opener that's really high
yeah rivals 89% and it's showing in the opening two rounds this is actually a
strength of this 89% round win rate on the opening kill so far two from two
So if that does continue on boarder and surprise I've got some trouble and we've got a series Brenda opening kill
Let's get things really now underway
E.P. You've probably now got the message that right away here to play
Oh, we're gonna bring that a game chef Jeff goes for the heat check
That's maybe a little bit overzealous doesn't need to go that
Aggressive in that moment on the solos as well and gets punished
E.P. Will punish those sort of plays if you try and go too aggressive they will be ready for it
They're happy to sit back at times
Yeah, this is good. Exactly what E.P. needed to just slow down and hope that rival over-extend.
Now a two-player advantage. This should be, in theory, unloosable here for Enterprise.
Bombsite is vents and workshop, which means they have to either make the gamble of going for a plant without top floor control or clear the top floor.
They go for the former plant going down now with the solar stem. It's gonna be much harder to find where this diffuser is going down. Almost gets denied.
Gotta be careful there. Razor did a lot of damage on Akira, but the plant has been confirmed and now it's up to rival to retake
Directly into EP's waiting arts. Yeah, I mean you probably got to go for the quick hatch drop
But Brenda really good reposition really good read in terms of the way they're gonna get back through the site proxy into server 2v3
I like the fact that blitzes up in the post plant leaves and flies in a very solid position
It's all the shotgun shots from a razor close to maybe denying not close enough enterprise strike back in the third round
We go to one they take that workshop as I said this has all the hallmarks a following
What's actually been a very competitive finals James? I mentioned it yesterday on the broadcast since
Wednesday last week
We've had nothing but three maps every single series again across every single region that's continued into today
Which is the Friday? That's insane to think about how competitive this stage has been in finals when you think about
about Enterprise versus Rival. A year ago we would have said 7171. Today it's already
2-1. Into the band's car yeet and the Blackbeard. The Blackbeard played back in the opening
round. It does mean for Enterprise I think they'll lean more into the Blitz if they do
want to go shield play. And obviously the chat look as well. I'm expecting to see the
banter. It's funny that we haven't seen but not much of a snack tour kind of EP so far.
I did notice after they lost the second round, I saw Kyra in the oil chat say sick, looked
like a bit of sarcasm.
I don't know if that was in being tilted at the way he died or something, but I gotta
say if you're enterprise like very emotional team, make sure that you keep that mental
in check.
And if you are emotional, I hope the emotions are working in your favor as we have seen
do so in the past.
They're both great.
Cause I think the emotion can sometimes be a positive truth.
Oh yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
If they are getting emotional, I hope it's in a good way because I've certainly seen them get emotional in maybe a less constructive way and you don't need to get emotional.
You guys are playing against rival. I think that needs to be the attitude here.
It's like, guys, look, this is a good team. If we play our best, we'll beat these guys every single day of the week. They won't even find a map.
So let's just play the game. We know how to play.
And if we make a mistake here or there, let's not bite each other's heads off. Let's just say, okay guys, come on, lock in.
And they did that. After two rounds lost in a pretty convincing fashion, they really lock in, they convert a 5v3 given to them early by some unnecessary aggression at a rival, and I think that's brought EP a little bit more time.
Otherwise, I would have said, you take the tactical timeout, you down 0-3 at the start of this game, they would have needed to call the attack timeout, but no, instead they get straight into it with a round of their own, and of course the operator bands come through, which will stick for the rest of the half as well.
I wonder if this would be a fast end towards CCTV if you're playing this blitz trying to go for a clear out on the hold, a raise up there.
A two hundredth step into the Griswold mine.
The Griswold has eaten the call, Chef Jeffs don't eat a bullet headshot by Jigsaw.
Enterprise starting to do a little bit better now in the opening portion of these rounds.
Back to back opening kills, we'll see if they can convert this.
Chef Jeffs started 6-0 since then, two deaths.
Not ideal for someone who's certainly an impact player can make big plays.
As we saw back in the opening two rounds, Razer long shot, not gonna hit.
Tujan can bring that lift forward.
Surprise again with a slight advantage. Halfway through this fourth round, there is still two
knife to sales. Make it one now, because that one from Wettables from Fountain gets nothing.
Tujan though dealt with. Bappen gets a big headshot though onto Proxy.
You would imagine there should still be Vulcan canisters near the site.
And Razer's gonna go for this though. Bappen ready. Quick down to 1 HP though.
This could be a huge moment in the round.
Oh, but Bapham still finds one.
And the C4 from Acre doesn't land. Bapham doubles down.
Critical moment for him on the line.
And now Wettable's the last one standing.
Make it flawless.
Bapham having a chuckle. He knows that his restabilization there just bought them the round for EP.
And now we're back to 2-2, a piece.
Rival.
Getting a little bit of a taste of their own medicine.
Struggled in these past two rounds and EP have found their feet and they found the momentum on border
Now I'm just looking back to the opening kill that's the me
I think what really sets this round so there's a triple night's soul stuck from from rival
So they do have the ability to deal with the blitz but chef Jeff
He started top-weighting and then he's rotated into break jigsaw's playing the balcony outside with the air jabs on the
So I do wonder if Chef Jeff got caught, maybe by one of those, he ended up shooting, unfortunately
it doesn't seem like our observer was, or one of our observers was on it.
But yeah, so he just goes down, so he dies over towards Bright.
Now you think about the positioning stuff, you have double stack arc, one off, one fountain,
so Bright's pretty isolated.
That's a pretty aggressive forward position for Chef Jeff to be, and there's zero trade
potential when Jigsaw's out in the balcony.
So I think that kind of positioning, with four rounds in, two, two.
They're both kind of landed a blow, clearly Rival just went with a sucker punch though,
like instead of handshaking at the start, being like, let's have a good fight, they
were just like, bang, we're going to just start this off with a hot start, but Enterprise
have now started fighting back, Rival need to chill, Rival need to just calm down a little
bit, let's not try and play these overly aggressive positions, play together as a team, there's
still two more rounds to go in the half as we will see bathroom tellers for the second
time.
Noticing the new patch really come into play a lot as well, already Jake, you know, we've
I've seen the Zofia picked quite a few times now already.
Bappin's jumping on that this round again.
Three explosives and three concussions.
I think people forget just how good Zofia was.
On launch, Zofia had two explosions and four concussions.
Then was nerfed at 2-2. Now she's got 3-3.
It's a ton of utile.
And also leans really well into countering the Wamai
who we're seeing more of now that he's been buffed.
Not only to have the Nitro, but also to generate his discs
a little bit faster, especially in a meta where droning is a little bit more expensive, takes a lot more time, not as efficient.
There's a fear, can do the work of a drone with those concussions, because as soon as you use it, if it detonates early, you'll know that there's someone there.
Oh, this is a big flank opportunity though, from Eraser. He finds the blitz here, Tuhang goes down early, that could be very detrimental for E.P.
Don't forget, Rival were the first team in the world to play this new patch.
True.
Really.
Hahahahaha.
We're in series, and uh, straight onto it.
Hey, Cog down early.
Jigsaw's starting to find that mojo.
Back to the back.
Cog's been killed.
Oh, he's lost the Blitz.
He's going to go for plant?
Is he going to find an angle?
I don't think he's going to find the angle here.
He certainly won't get the kill with the gas.
Oh, yes, he will!
Oh, yes, he will!
Yes, the damage plus the gas combination.
Indeed, we'll get the kill with the gas.
You weren't a little early, Jeff, but it was the damage
that we didn't see coming.
That was the big reason.
Gas alone wouldn't have done it.
But the combination of both will see the Blitz go down
and the advantage for Rival now obtained.
And now Rival have to chill out.
Though this kill could be very troublesome.
If proxy goes down as he just has,
it does give E.P. a way back into it.
As they look to try and clear out the rest of top floor.
Rival have to try and fall back.
Good kill with the shotty from Chef Jeff.
His signature move, Bappin, looks to push and refrag
and does so.
Yeah, a swing there though with the shotgun
from that distance, Bappin has the read.
He's already in position to trade his fallen comrade 40 seconds
But the good thing for rival is they still got wetables inside bathroom a razor place
Well, he was playing top floor now. He drops costumes so they're split
But it means for enterprise with a low amount of time both players very low in health
It's very difficult to isolate these defenders
Oh, Jigsaw, that's what I wanted for all of our razors, just completely misplayed that.
And then, yeah, lots of misplayed.
A razor should never be swinging down that hallway.
There's no need.
And then Wettables, in his mind, thinking, I've got a trade.
And then he goes for the swing, and Jigsaw's reaction is just insane.
This is turning into Jigsaw reminding everyone why he's the best player in the region.
And one of the best that the region has ever seen, if not the best player that the overseas
ever seen. Yeah, you're right. In that 2v2 on paper, Rival had the advantage despite the
two defenders being very separated. The thing that they needed to keep in mind, as we just
have a look at this, I want to know what was the thing that took out a chunk of about a
third of Tuhan's health because he was, yeah, I know Jake, you get onto the little cheeky
tell us straight replay system, but it was a C4. Oh, it's about to find that. I'm not
I'm not sure who whispered that in my ear, but thank you to God or whoever that was.
I didn't see the C4 land, but it must have been tossed out by Chef's Wormon.
Chef's did throw one out, but it took a while, unless there was two, yeah there's two, so
Wettables actually.
Wettables did just enough damage with his C4.
That's a thing that people forget often, like smoke is great, but it's not a hard plant,
and you need to combine tick damage, especially when you're playing against a shield.
might do 10 to 30 damage by a shot to the feet and then you know maybe a
further 40 damage from your smoke but you need something to just give that
little extra oomph. This still always annoys me when I see this. No one at
home can know what you're pointing at. Well Proxy is actually, this is good
because he's actually used all his Vulcan canisters this round but in the previous
round he still had one up when he was playing the top east stairs position. He could have put that
I had a default plant position and that would have been detonated by that C4 and prevented the plant.
Ah well. In the end, EP1 that because Jigsaw went big and I think that was because rival in that 2v2 maybe just let it slip a little bit, forgot the wind condition.
Well look at this, I mean in terms of the Jigsaw is the difference maker with an 86% ground wind rate when he gets two or more kills. It's only 33% when he's got zero.
Yeah, I mean that's classic jigsaw, isn't it? It's been that way on pretty much every team he's ever played.
When he has an impact, the team wins. If he is missing, the team rarely does, and he's already started well with the AK.
It's hard to get cast accursed, either. He just keeps going doing his thing. He gets another opening pick.
That's three straight, by the way. And for Enterprise, this is where they've really turned it around.
He's getting jigsaw involved. This is his map. This is jigsaw's bread and butter.
said at the start jigsaw bappard they're designed for this map what are they
both got six killed each yeah and jigsaw got four of his kills last round by
the way now he's looking for a little bit more property we'll finally get
brendo but the big thing here for rival is caution that is required for big
nitro cell onto to hard the blitz is down and the main plan to as well
eliminated from EP now we really need bappard and jigsaw to step up a baton
is completely obliterated by Wettables on the swing with a TCSG, Cairo and Jigsaw now.
Otherwise, Rival will finish off this half with a third round.
Calmer down, calmer down a few Rivals, 60 seconds, 4v2, get in a bad spot.
This is where you just go back to Armory Archives, you can fall back, you can play Sight.
But this is where they've got to slow it down, stop swinging, don't need a P for information.
Yeah, Jigsaw's the scary boogeyman, we get it.
But ultimately, with 50 seconds, he can only do so much.
He's not superhuman.
Positions aren't perfect here though for Rival.
Oh, I like that though.
Retreat from Wettables.
He had to retreat and well played.
They baited him into a pre-placed nitro from Akog.
Now it comes down to Cairo who does find the first.
Akog goes down 1v3 as Proxy tries to peek him.
Be careful here Rival, do not give him ones.
They still claim the diffuser outside on the balcony.
Kyra has to play this perfectly. Proxy is unnecessarily swinging this position.
Chef and Wettables now.
I mean, it's too smart. They're OGs, they've been around the block,
and yeah, Chef-Chef plays the closer angle shotgun.
I'm sure he has scoped in as well with that one.
He's started the half with the shotgun kill, ends it with the shotgun kill.
3-3, tight. We've got a game here on board, and we've got two bald men on the couch.
watch. Oh, that's that's filthy balding it bold balding. Thank you very much. I don't
know if you can see but I've slowly got a little bit more of a shadow back. Jake's
and that's a video. Don't appreciate that. But all things considered, Nick, I think that
this has been a pretty outrageous first half in border. I mean, Chef Jeff really took this
game by the reins.
Honestly, I'm gonna say there should be a 4-2 rival half.
I mean, the castles, thankfully, you know, Jake, you've clocked it.
You have no business swinging that in the 2 vs 2.
You know, you have a Racer that you deliver from a faraway distance,
you lose a couple of bad gunfights, etc.
The rival has been incredible so far.
It really has been a big story about getting that opening kill naturally in board.
It's a very small map.
If you find the kill, you find a ton of map control with it.
So I'm not surprised to see that the statistic is very much
who gets opening pick, who often also converted.
but this front right here, that's the thrill.
They deny the plan to do such a good job.
And then a couple of solo swings here,
a jigsaw is just better, Simit Bappin.
That's the, I mean, we were talking about it
coming into this series, Nick,
which is the individual prowess of EP
is just probably a little too superior to rival eSports.
And that's not, you know, having a dig at rival,
the fact that they're three, three goes to show.
And I totally agree with your sentiment.
There should be four, two right now.
That fifth round, that should have been there's locked in.
But I think that there is that element that's really hard to
It's really hard to juggle between being aggressive like chef Jeff is with the shotgun swinging and finding kills
But also not getting over aggressive
Especially I find it's always in the mid to late round against EP that teams feel like they've got a swing
And that's typically where we see teams getting caught off
Yeah, I think it's a very interesting conversation because you know before we saw them after you do the thing
is rather than you need confidence, you gotta be able to take the fights or take them smartly,
they've done their great job with staying on the page with EP and not letting them run
over them.
Because EP against most teams here knows they can't just run across the board with enemies.
But they're holding on to early nap control, they're fighting for E stairs, break room,
CC, etc.
I think Rivalry gotta keep up the aggression early game as they have been, also here on
the attack, and then once they get that kill, once they get into the advantageous position,
lower down, take a breather, figure out, okay, can we get two guns fighting one player from
EP?
Can we now on the attack inside leverage a shield operator or a grim demos, a glass,
a glass has been bent away now actually, something that's unfair essentially, because
you said it, you don't want to give a 50-50 fair gunfight against EP because it's not
actually fair.
And rival have actually taken away probably the two operators, the least fair for the
attack is the black beard and the glass so they I think they know what to expect
here I think they know that rival probably I mean I don't want to say
this outright Nick but I feel they already know you see this is the thing
though like this is when you compete in a region so frequently with each other
you're always going to have this conversation but regardless look I think
rival eSports have done tremendously well on board are considering the map
that border is and considering the kind of context that we have for EPs
individual players they've stood up so well and moving into the second half
it's now time to lock in because if they can take this map God only knows what
will happen on Clubhouse let's get back under way the second half.
Yeah I mean who knows although I think the Enterprise getting into 3-3 on their map pick now go defense on
border where Jigsaw, Bapu and Kairos that's a license to just roam around and fight
these entry battles and interestingly customs supply. Yeah this is real
This is the least picked bombsite on the map by far so much so that if you saw our stats come up
Just then it says a zero percent win rate for attack and defense. That's because it hasn't played at all
So far an APL. I mean to be fair board has been played once before this this day
Sure, I wouldn't be surprised if the play rate of this bombsite globally in stage one is is very low
I'd be surprised it was played more than once or twice
But yeah, the reason why this bombsite is so hard to hold as a defender is because you
really have to maintain control of CCTV up above the bombsite and break.
I'm not going to play the entire map.
Pretty much, yeah, because break and CC are very hard to hold and if you can't hold them,
then there's vert that basically kills any position on the bombsite.
So it's a very loose bombsite.
You have to hard hold positions, but then as soon as you're losing, you have to fall
off and then retake and fight and very chaotic. It can work well for EPs
playstyle especially with operators like the Solus and the Valkyrie. Info is
keying on a bombsite like this. Very unusual little jail cell created for
Tzuhan in detention though with not just the electrical but also Castle Barricade.
That's a very unique way I haven't seen before holding that position. Yeah I mean I
think it's actually really intriguing the way that they're playing this.
Essentially you can either look at it two ways they can funnel rival where they
want them to be or they can kind of lock themselves into a safe spot really really have that lockdown
position most importantly as well for Cairo sitting bathroom how much intel can he gain
on that solace rival also will probably be coming into this round a little bit unsure hence the
slope is the slow nature of this seventh round we're getting close to that minimak still 585
map like border that's quite rare oh well clearly rival is trying to still figure things out as
Two Han has locked away
They gave up top floor control. I didn't even notice that this is a very unusual way of holding this bomb site from EP
They've got a brand new strat and they've actually managed to hold on to this external detention wall for a very long time
Thanks to the way that two Han was playing it. His C4 actually cleared off that Selma from proxy and now chef
Jeff has to come in using as a fear-teasing can openers to open up a breach still time is ticking away and still in a five
5v5 this typically attack a side of bomb site is looking to favor the defense
At the time is the biggest concern is that jigsaw they can see open a kill to a razor the solid snake ineffective
Arrays it was so important for rival last week
But just won six in this long bracket final without opening kill over the time now expiring into the final 15 seconds
It is looking really difficult for rival slipping in towards the capture where the balls does have the kid
And two hearts still holding a safe position support
It's Batman friend or that to complain nice sweet from where the balls to get that kill now can go to the plant to be to
Chef Jeff will hold for the summer from supply goes to the supply doesn't matter
Kara finds the angle where the balls is dealt with while going for said plan rival almost almost bring it back James
But the time indeed did elude them. Hmm. Yeah
I mean that is the magic of a pocket strat like that from EP
They wasted so much of rivals time with that detention wall that it meant that in the end
And EP, even though they actually lost the gunfights and lost site control, they could
play for retake, pivotally because that solace was alive on Cairo to find out where that
plant was going down and deny it.
I believe he was upstairs in CCTV and denied it through the floor, which was, again, about
the retake.
I really like that from EP.
It's little magical moments like that that make me love Siege so much because you can
pick a bombsite, which is typically unplayable, do something unexpected, and then make it
work. Now the problem is you can't go back to that bomb site time and time again because
rival will know the way that you're setting up and will have prepared ways to counter
it and expedite the clock. And in the end it was really the clock that was rival's
worst enemy in that round. But EP are bringing out more pocket strats. They're bringing
Brenda on the bullet, uh, on the bandit and they're actually hiding him throughout the
entire prep phase. This is another obstacle that EP are going to bring to the defensive
side that then rival are going to have to deal with. I really like this because we think
of EP as a very frag heavy team, you know, these days they don't try and necessarily
always outsmart their opponents, they try and outgun them. And instead they are looking
to try and outsmart their opponents, especially on a map where the meta typically, like you
look at Six Invitational, how Team Secret held border, it was typically putting their
best fraggers in Hell in a Cell position and trusting them to get one or two kills every
round, right? That's the meta on border. EP is saying, you know, let's bring a different
flavor to the table. Let's instead try and create obstacles for rival to deal with and it worked
to charm last round I think it might this one too. I think also since mag is
joined the team as a coach they have started the outsmart teams that have added that as an element
to their overall game rather than just outpricing it. And that's Cairo's playstyle as well to his
credit. Cairo has always been the kind of player that tries to outsmart his opponent.
Triple H is a style 4 enterprise in this eighth round we go back to the primary bomb site in
Armory and Archives.
And quietly now, EP though, I've got four of the last five rounds, so they have the
whole momentum.
Rival need a little bit of a circuit break-up, 11 kills for Chef Jeff, he's doing as much
as possible off the Zofia in this round, with some recent buffs, oh is he going to go from
the triple tap from below?
It's proxy, that gets it open, a kill and a rare one.
It was a huge five round win streak for Enterprise in that department, finally Grime will get
first kill, not yourself, ineffective. Looks so far a little better. Full rival in this
8th round. The path and shutdown proxy stays a little bit in a vulnerable position. They
do have drones in towards Office. It looks like Rival is trying to do a lot of different
things at one time, which is very challenging, especially when Jigsaw finds an aggressive
angle like that all the way towards Office and a razor goes down. He's struggling, 1 and
7 and it's not good to say because he was so
Influential for them last two days are such a gangster. It's very unusual to see him one and second
But also you're playing against enterprise it's gonna be difficult to win a lot of your gun flights
50 seconds Brenda to play the ball chassis
We need to prize her in a good position
I'm disappointed that chef has decided to come back upstairs now
He's the Zofi still has two explosives in pocket
He could go for a vertical kill.
Jigsaw has just swung again and taken down
Wettables and Brando is far in angle.
He does get snuck on through but
Hacock immediately traded back.
That's two and a row on the defensive side
for EP and they are just swimming through this gap.
But who gets that kill onto Chef Jeff
because Hacock is sneaking on through
and Chef Jeff doesn't realize then that position
is actually quite dangerous.
This is looking very dangerous now for Rival.
After starting so hard winning the first two rounds
a 3-3 first half, it's just all enterprise. 5-3 lead, bathroom teller's up next and
starting to think they're running away with this map of who we're being Frank.
It's just the full team effort plus Jigsaw dominating, four opening kills
straight for Jigsaw until that round just then. The problem with that round
just then is proxy, yes it did get the open kill, they couldn't convert it.
nothing's working right now for rival except for Chef Jeff and the way that
EP are winning these defenses it's not because individual players are just
monstrous you know despite of course in jigsaw getting three kills in that round
from his position it's not that EP are just fracking out it's that EP are
actually at smarting rival in all of these rounds so far they've put very
tough setups to break and rival have struggled to actually break through them with utility and I think the
Bandit last round was a big part of that from EP
I want to see rival continue to do that problem something because you see the cogs wearing you see wetables at the start of last round
With there's a fear going downstairs if you know that they're playing bandit
One of the great things about bandit and mirror as attackers is you know where they're gonna be right in order to use the utility
They've got to be playing in position to put those gadgets down or in Nira's case to play off that gadget
That makes them very vulnerable to verticality from below. I want to see where the bulls using that soap
Like the good old 2022 upnades the try and get some kills onto these power positions
And I think the lion from a code can pair perfectly with that
Even the docker be can too as well if you manage to get 40 damage onto someone with the docker beat and they're gonna take
Are they gonna have even lower HP and be extra vulnerable to the taps from below from zone?
Only why I'm scared from a call
To above for enterprise Brenda does take a little bit of damage it immediately just drops and so he goes back first floor
With that leaving actually not jukes or by himself on this top floor. He's the only one
still somewhat contested around armory and archives.
Look at the drones.
They can, of course, drop.
But they've played into Drones and are so well here with EP.
They've brought that mozzie and they've taken down all the two variants here from rival.
You're absolutely right.
EP have to be clear on this top floor, but it's Jigsaw and supported from down below.
It's Bappin with a pre-placed C4 ready for the audio call.
Perhaps even a call from a Valkyrie cam.
Jigsaw takes a bit more damage.
damage needs to make sure that he falls off before he dies. And he does so.
You know, Top 4 completely succeeded here to rival, but Enterprise want to be in a
late round 5v5. That's what they're hoping for.
And it's late round again. This is where Rival is facing. I think if the clear has been quite
slow then that means they're going into the execute part of the phase with not as much
time on the clock. Wettables trying to play against through these wallboards has the yellow
ping intel but Enterprise are pretty much aware of this and had basically wasting time.
Right now it's been too long on these like little mini games and then beginning to go
for a picture, you have to hit the DMR, it does at least get the kill on to Doohan.
Last time they go down, oh but the fire is going to completely nullify that position
and he's going to have to try and move and he does get shot while Black Brembo trades
himself out with that nitro cell, Cairo desperately looks to try and deny the plan but it can't
happen very messy very chaotic but rival have a much needed round yeah I mean to
the credit of rival there in the late round they actually did pick up the pace
finally because they spent up until 38 seconds left under the round not really
doing much because if you think about it we noticed early on it was only jigsaw on
the top floor so it's not as if it was really enterprise playing a super
aggressive top floor hold it was more jigsaw holding back I'm an archive
saying like hey come over here waste some time and then they didn't really bite
They didn't really like try and hunt him down, but then finally they they went for the drop at around that 48 second mark
Actually, well a razor actually looks like he's just gonna vault in from outside and they probably run around tellers
So knowing he's of course got the support of players above
So you've got proxy of the world's break and in office is where the balls
So you think about where the positions here for enterprise Brenda is playing main stairs
I wonder if he maybe thought about trying to go back up, but there wasn't really many up there
Anyway, they do leave the site vulnerable. There's no one inside bathroom, for instance, and then the plant just goes down inside the
Talos. Too much for Alliance, I think, in the end of the T'Chunkah. From that workshop position, Kyra, not enough bodies up close at the site to be able to swing,
make contact with the planter, and from there the round is pretty much done. So really well played from Rival, I think, to identify the setup from Enterprise,
playing a bit more of that workshop side, and left the vulnerable on the top floor, and left the vulnerable in the site.
We've had an adaptation here from Rival after the Operator Bands come out.
They get rid of the Kayu.
I think that is huge.
Hey, you can't be saying people are really bad too, Hamlin.
You are one and six.
I've been a few years.
Oh, man.
SmackTalk.
Look, I think Rival are feeling unfazed by EP's SmackTalk because of how much expectation
is on EP and how little is on Rival right now.
But as I was saying, the Operator Bands have come through, I like both of these, particularly
Rival getting rid of the Kaiji, that is a huge one, they struggle to deal with the
Electric Claws, but EP is going to flex onto the Bandit instead.
Yeah, I don't know how I feel about this, 200 is much more vulnerable playing the Bandit
and I don't think he's going to be able to hold on for detention as long.
But EP getting rid of the Dockabee tells me they want to keep playing Valk, so I really
like that from them.
Yeah, going back to Customs inspection is a real surprise for me, for EP.
I think that they might be a little bit overconfident.
I do feel like that was a really nice strat, but it does feel a bit like a one and done to me.
Two on one, by the way. 30th raided this stage out of 43 players.
He's obviously playing a different role these days, I think from his Ultra Prime.
But you consider a lot more pressure on his shoulders though.
Yeah, absolutely, but you consider what it once was as a fragger it is insane to see but I think it's that natural
Evolution with wetables speech that one once a fragger. He's good. Why good clear onto Cairo
That's much better from rifle. I mean, yeah
Minut 35 so you expecting a midway through the round to create some space and bring the pressure
But the blitz stars net the opening kill on the solvus. Oh, yeah, chef chef caught by Bap and asleep at the wheel
Little bit there. He had a chance.
Chef Jeff Topfagar from Rival taken down.
That said, this exchange definitely favors Rival.
The most important operator to keep alive here for E.P.
was that solace who's gone down early.
Good info here from Jigsaw's Valkyrie cameras, though,
will still enable a retake in the late round.
And 2-1 is able to deny the plan here.
We really need to see verticality.
I don't know why Rival aren't upstairs.
I mean, no one from E.P. is in CCTV.
Eraser is literally above, and he dies to a nitro cell.
Very well played from Tujan here on the band and I thought he was going to be extra vulnerable
But no now Jigsaw is able to retake as well
He's flanked back upstairs and wettables and boxy together just walked straight into Brenda a
Second successful defense of customs. Yeah, and that's too hard just saying to Brenda. Hey, they're coming your way
Because they're not coming from this way. They're locked out
It's pretty easy in the end for Enterprise and again this setup looks really really nice
And unfortunately for rival just lacking
Any ability to actually deal with that to Han didn't didn't get kills in that round champs
But he did do what he needed to do in his job and again the beauty of CEF is sometimes it's not about the kills
You can't be 1-6 and still being positive for your team in terms of what are you doing with your operator?
Are you playing to the strategy and he's been doing that especially on custom supply?
Tactical timeout for Rival, they're still close enough in this game, they're not out of it just yet, but starting to get the sense that clearly Enterprise are pulling away.
Yeah, and I'm starting to feel like the fact that EP are able to flex between both the Bandit and the Kaid with a lot of success, it makes me feel like Rival probably needed to go for a Maverick instead of banning out the Kaid and then trying to simplify things.
As soon as your third player dies trying to kill the bandit, then it's not a good look.
You really need to be
breaching the wall at the same time as that third is getting open so that Tuhan has to make a choice between taking the
fight with the player on the vert or tricking the wall. He can't do both, but because Rival went one at a time,
they weren't able to do either because Tuhan played his position perfectly. And look, it doesn't matter if he's one and seven or two and seven,
That plays is massively impactful to keep that wall closed as a bandit and even to find a kill is huge
Wow, chef is a bit triggered by that one
And if that's a pretty big moment too because if chef Jeff does get that kill on the back
And that opens up his ability to kind of slip through workshop and also then weakens a little bit about first four holes
You can't just be entirely and still a lot of push though
It's not like the main
No, no, no, absolutely right, but it's kind of then takes a little bit of focus away from others who are like
Oh, I can just focus on wall or I can just focus on this door position
That's like, oh, we haven't got anyone workshop and there's a solid snake bone
Now it's like I'm watching different angles and that just opens things up
Maybe that's C4 then doesn't actually go out of security and it's that snowball effect
So it's these little things but in the little things that Enterprise have been better at that
regardless this map. Yeah, look if you told me to make a bingo sheet one thing
I wouldn't have put on it is Enterprise win the most frag heavy map in the game
by playing really structured and smart I would not have put that on my bingo sheet
but that's what we're seeing so far on the EPD fences they are creating
absolute fortresses they've won three rounds on this defensive side so far the
only they've lost was actually on bathroom tellers and even then it got
very close rival now have to go to and a row to push over time otherwise they'll
fall on the first map.
Yeah, unfortunately back to Armory and Archives.
Got one yet to find rifle on their attack, only bathroom tellers in this second half.
Jigsaw and B'lva Smoke in the CCTV position is a big change as well.
He's no longer got as good of a weapon in the DMR that he used to have.
He's going to be a much more close range operator.
It's a case of expecting the Blitz counter, so the Blitz shows at the break door and instead
of just firing a few shots and walking back, gasp right immediately.
And rival half-poise to try and address this head-on.
Bappen playing on the mezzanine, falling back now into break room.
Wow, look at that!
Interesting smoke all the way deep onto the long hallway.
Flashback comes out, Bappen does get blinded for a brief moment, gets his facilities back
Again as he tries to retreat further and further back another flashbang
And it seems to be a bit of a retreat here as I say that back and looks to reposition and look at the way that EP
Are allowed so much flexibility because there's no one on that balcony outside
Jigsaw spotted three players tries to take a gunfights one at a time a razor on the floor
They got the knockdown well done from Jigsaw good patience wetables
Just barely staying alive now on this but he needs the focus on just being alive keep that shield off goes
Oh, never mind, he gets to kill the pistol while playing from Wettables to beat out Jigsaw.
So low on health.
Oh no!
Juhan, good flank though, from Lockers.
They do get the revive with Eraser, so that does keep the numbers up with Rival, 40 seconds
left, James.
Yeah, but that was a critical mistake from Wettables.
They had the advantage, 5 vs 3, and he decides to pre-fire while aiming down sights towards
Armory.
It costs him his life, and it costs the team the blitz.
Wow.
Very low HP on Eraser now.
What a shot with the SMG-11.
Brenda goes massive, Kyra's on the back.
It's up to Chef Jeff.
1v1, still a Nitro available,
but Chefy Jeffy is built for these moments.
Bendetta out, Deathmark active, chasing down 2 Hunt.
He said it was bad and he beats him in the 1v1.
Oh, 2 Hunt's gonna give it to him in the chat.
You just know it.
Huge round win, huge map win.
Enterprise now one up in this lower bracket final and one map away from the e-sports World Cup
Hi, my name is Chris.
I'm a player, 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.
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 ever played was at my friend's house. We played Battlefront,
the old Battlefront, and that's kind of, so I guess it started at FPS, straight from there.
Yeah, so I have a sister. I wouldn't say it's always been very competitive between us, but I
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.
Yeah, 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 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 gaming and just anything, sports as well.
I started off playing like 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 it was
like something that I tried to pursue.
I definitely stopped because of gaming, yes it kind of took over and I drew all my focus
from like sports and fitness 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, there was a minute and it was just like
just beating everyone in the public lobbies was just really fun.
But I would 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,
Um, and then when I kind of like peaked on console, that's when I wanted to move to PC.
I hit Diamond in 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 at times like Serenity 17, Kickstar,
and like the movement just seemed so like fun and like obviously like the pearly 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 wanted to get a piece.
The
by being a 7-4 that one definitely got a little close for comfort. I will say massive props to
Rival eSports. They really kept EP going there Devon and really looked like that could have gone a
distance. Yeah for sure. I think the first half thought a very different story to the seconds.
When Rival were on the defensive side they started off two rounds in a row. EP found their
footing a little bit but for me it changed drastically once we moved into the second half.
EP winning four out of their 5d fences largely based on coming in with really good prep really new strats
New ideas kind of customs bombsite relying on the coyote in the bandit
Which is not a typical way to play border in the current meta
Really Dave rival a lot of obstacles to deal with a lot to think about and they weren't quite fast enough when it came to the
Problem-solving to actually get through all that before they execute. Yeah, a lot of them felt like
explosive rounds the ones that were close for rival at the very least but that
last round that have everyone on the ropes including two yeah let's let's
very quickly dive into the man saved EP there from who knows what happens after
that point but Nick Tuhan really up until the very last rounds now was
somewhat missing in the circle.
Yeah, he's not really had the performance that he's needed and that's been a big question mark.
You know, we used to say, how will the team with Jigsaw perform, you know, across any of the iterations of Jigsaw's teams,
how will they perform when Jigsaw doesn't show up?
Yeah.
Well, right now the question is kind of, it's like, E.P. they're winning, yes,
But they're barely scraping by and the big question mark is well
They're just missing to eat as that individual he has a big presence in the server
He has a bit of a leadership figure as well
It was important that he's there and also being vocal when you're having a really tough game on the scoreboard
some players do shut down in the creative process and problem-solving and
You're praising EP James and you know good for them good for you
I want to go on to the other side of rival here where I think there are things that they could do better
Yeah, because right the final couple of hours one that they said about who won. It's about who should have won
Okay, and that was like waiting to be when it was if they don't make it
Because it doesn't matter that they didn't make it doesn't matter that they they didn't I would love to speak to
To what it was after this game regardless if they would or not because he's very insightful
Oh, and he also over swung there in some of those final moments, right because he's an implicit
he gets over to CTTB and he goes I'm gonna ADS swing to he and I'm right with one HP to my name
boop and he dies with blitz there are a couple of moments arrival they are over
sellers and trying to get a little bit more than they should have aimed for and
there's there's two sides to it on one side I have so much respect for it they're
keeping the pace against enterprise on the flip side it's not really working but
that's border I think the fact that they almost going to OT the fact that they
could have won had a few pieces gone their way it's a great sign for rival
the game. We've got a lot of
players that have been
involved in this game. We've
got a lot of players that
have been involved in this
business. For sure. But that
was a piece of map pick after
all. So then coming in with a
lot of good prep for defense
makes sense. The rival now
take us to clubhouse as the
second map, and it's
something that we haven't
seen a lot of from
enterprise. They only played
at once during the group
stage. They won seven four
over seven rival on the flip
side. They played this a few
times. They seven three.
could get it done in two but rival like you said there's plenty we've seen from them on that one
that might suggest that they know what they're talking about yeah and when you really do deep
dive into into what they were doing Nick you and I were absolutely on board with what rival were
bringing to the table there um and and like you were saying you know sometimes it's just a hot hand
sometimes they get a little overzealous sometimes they get a little over confident but I think
on clubhouse I mean I'd love to hear your opinion on this but I feel as though that's going to be
rained in quite heavily for rival. Yeah, it is. That's where I want to go back to James's previous
point of how Enterprise were utilizing, you know, the band did the Kaid on border, very
uncharacteristic of that map, and that is going to blow up well for AP. Yes, I've played this map
a ton. It's not super highly preference this perhaps, but I think the playstyle they showed on
border has already shown a little bit of hope for them here in Cobblestone, playing more about the
wall denial, the step one, two, three, and setting up problems for all the attackers to solve,
because that has been my critique of EP this stage.
They have been little bit linear, little bit one-dimensional,
forcing gunfights and not being super consistent.
When you're playing Cloudbush,
you've got to be more about the setup and the strategy.
So this could be a wake-up call for EP when they're lost against Chiefs.
They'll say, hey guys,
we can just win our fights and beat every team he knows.
We have to go back on paper because of good strats going.
Well, Pengu, James, thank you for joining me here on the desk.
Pleasure.
Pleasure to you, James and Jake.
Thank you very much, well.
I tell you what, that desk, they know what they're talking about.
That blomfeller in the middle, he's pretty switched on.
So, I heard a lot of rival...
What's the opposite of slander? Praise.
Rival praise on the desk from Thank You.
How do you feel? After first half of Border,
I was in the rival camp EP just absolutely walloped on their defense. What do you feel now that we're on club?
That's I felt he's yeah me too. I felt let on I felt like they you know, we're gonna
Make it even more. They probably didn't need to win, but you know to be fair seven fours not bad
But I think they showed they had the capabilities of even pushing it to overtime
Yeah, but if you had a said to me pre series
Enterprise, map pick, border, 7-4, it's not too bad, it's not bad if maybe going into
clubhouse they'll have a chance.
So I'm going to hold onto that mantra, I'm not going to give up on them just yet.
We'll see if they can bounce back, we'll see if they've not given up on themselves.
Although Enterprise 2 start defense, to put it pretty plain it is for Enterprise now.
A map in which they can qualify for the eSports World Cup with a grand funnel itself is going
to be even bigger, even more important. Not just because it's chiefs and they'll want
that revenge and they'll want to be the best team in the region, but for seeding ramifications,
extra money, SI points, all trains watching, everything else that's on the line in that
grand final, it might have been more overall. As we head into this opening ground, no surprise
basement to begin for Enterprise, they'll all fire stack down all down below for the
final minute. Rival will have access to the Sen's REUs of a Razor who had a very unfortunate
time back on board for someone who was so clinical last week. Just two and nine on the opening map.
Yeah, I would love to know how Rival are going to clear out a lot of this great
powerful Util EP who brought the table on the defensive side. We've got Mira, we've got his
army both to create incredible fortified power positions. Plus two deployable shields, one from
smoke one from or my this is giving me flashbacks to the 22nd matter of 2020
and of course Cairo as well on the Denari he put most of those traps on the
moto hatch drop which rival are gonna have to figure out a way to clear I
think potentially using the fuse through the hallway on the floor you might
be able to destroy some of them.
Not a lot of time left. There's only 25 seconds remaining in the round. It's just going to be a bot lane pushed with the Blackbeard.
Oh, you can't do that. You can't even do that with the gas pipe. There's still two more for Brenner. They're going to need to find a new route and find it pretty quickly.
quickly curtain goes up from the ROUs still haven't really dealt with the
likes of Jigsaw over at the back wow this is not enough
and five seconds I don't know how they think we're gonna get this plant down
you're not getting inside a church brendo throws out another gas plate time it's
just gonna expire it expired just as the fighting begun
I don't think we see that all too often James no it was still 4v3 and they all
just started shooting enterprises sat around for two and a half minutes
Bappin says it very well, bruh.
Seven players still alive in the server, and the round is over, because Rival were just a little bit too slow.
And I think EP have really clued in after their defensive half on boarder.
All you need to do is have a really strong setup that requires a lot of problem solving,
and Rival will sit there twiddling their thumbs for way too long, and then just make mistakes.
So Rival really need to fix that in these next couple of rounds, because they can't afford to lose this half.
They can't afford to only find, say, two attack routes in this half.
They need to dig deep.
Enterprise look a lot better on their attack than Rival do at the moment.
So I really think that E.P.
are going to continue showing new challenges in Rival's face
for the next five rounds of defense.
And Rival have to show a little bit more inspiration when it comes to these attacks.
Well, I think also it's probably a case of this would be a different team
that Rival was playing.
I think they were trying to go for a little bit more strength play.
I think they bucked their frag and their abilities in, but when you're going up against Enterprise,
one thing when you're already struggling to break down what is clearly some pretty good strategic play,
it's not as if we go, alright let's just rush in and just go for frags.
When you've got Bappin and Jigsaw and Cairo, all on the other side,
Pretendo's getting a frag or as well again this stage, he's nearly stepped up.
So you've got players to Enterprise defensively that are going to be very strong with gun in hand.
And they're all playing behind shields and mirror windows in his army keeper,
but that's not a fair fight.
What Rival needs to do is assess the setup earlier and deal with it earlier to give themselves enough space and time late round to actually then have a chance in the round.
100%.
Because what we just saw then in that round, that's very reminiscent of Borda.
That's a concern. You don't want to be bringing the problems they had on the opening map now to the second map.
Yeah, 100%.
EP have got a lot of good setup even in this round. Notice the Goyo Vulcan canister is actually in that drone hole
Which presents where prevents wetables from getting his twitch drone into us. They can go quick in this round though
So the blitz the glass you can lay the smokes the blitz can push with the smokes obviously the guys that the glass can play off of that and
There's no warped. Ah
There goes a razor
Lovely not yourself from too hard, but that also is again when surprised with this very window
You get to kind of see firsthand when they go for this sort of setup
They still haven't I love the double stack of the mirror windows to one on the breach one on
Bartram wall as well
So really doubling down and saying if you're gonna play that fast blitz that wants to push in from jacuzzi ain't happening
So chef Jeff they have to go the long way cut off at the CC window. They need this kill
They cannot allow Brenda out to come
And but this is good jigsaw then pushes up the window and doesn't allow wetables to get the swing kill
That is some wonderful teamplay from Jigsaw. They get the rotates out. They're out
They go on 4v2 and there's just nowhere for Acog and Chef Jeff to go
They can't find anyone they're like rats that have just scurried away
They are. E.P. have played this to perfection
The way that they held on to ground as long as they could and then fell back with the Azami to assist
They're complimenting each other very well
And they've also continued to brought these cheeky little bits of spice of pre-prepared ideas like that
Propreka, it's a nice spice, a little bit spicy, a little bit too spicy for rival right now.
I mean, EP even, you know, the double mirror set up like you said with a pre-placed or
pre-ripped C4, perfect.
And now ACOG is about to find Grendo, one of the other way around.
Well, Grendo knows he's probably dead, but they're also dead.
It's fine, because Kaira's there to trade him back and another convincing defense round
for EP.
of the last what seven rounds that we've seen it's all been defences for EP
rival of only one a single attack in that time
I mean there are definitely some concerns here to begin with I will say
though it is clubhouse I'm expecting rival where they're gonna plan success
has to be cash and CCTV Jim bedroom is to be the 5050 okay they fail on the
first one great start from two harm and maybe the confidence gained by the
clots up in the final round so I'm gonna bring it back a little bit here on my
my tele-stratum really kind of have a look at this one so again you can pretty
much tell that a rival the initial setup actually was to bring that blitz and the
glass over on the the CCTV side so they weren't actually ever really playing
into this set up anyway so if they're not playing into the mirror setup and
they're bringing the glass and the Blitz, the Raze is over-focusing by trying to open that up
straight away and then he ends up dying to a Nitro Cell that he didn't really even need to die to
because they let the Blitz and the glass do their thing first and with that instead of having
I actually don't even know who this is, no this is the Chef Chef sorry, the Chef Chef rotates
after death, then have him instead CC window, the Blitz comes through CCTV, has someone else
I was pushed through clear across that's why you typically see that clear across on the cash top road holds
They kind of did half and half. They didn't commit to one or the other like why is the blitz CCTV by himself?
Yeah rival trying to split up their attention to push multiple things at one time, but
EP always bringing something a little bit unexpected like that nitrous cell
To put a thorn in rival side and as soon as they do that
EP
Just pounce on them
see that Michael Gosgari has rocked up get him mate how you doing?
I'm already sweaty as well by the way he might need that
don't worry everyone I'm sure that you'll get to hear Gus's analysis before too long
he's gonna have to take the mic out of my cold dead hands
oh I mean he might not even get a chance if he's fine this is the quick one
this is a 2-0 then maybe get him on the couch
well you mentioned the glass and the shields we've seen a double up this round
and Chef Jeff and Wettables on the glass and the Monty also proxy on the doccabee.
This is the attempted way of clearing out Cairo who's playing rafters.
Now this is a CCTV bombsite defense by Gokai Garage as well, but now that's a great way
of punishing that Monty if Wettables starts to make his way forward.
Well here comes the fire from the Capitale, ACOG is completely frying Cairo, he does manage
to get away.
No one able to peek and swing on that position and now Karat forced to answer his phone.
That's your flame box.
If I want to damage though, they can continue calling him.
Though there is a cooldown now, we thought change to how it got to be works to be a cooldown specifically on Takara.
We can need to see, oh no, Eraser has fallen to the happen.
Eraser is having an absolute shocker of a series.
But I will say, I don't think Touhan has that garage yokai anymore.
Oh, I do think Rival got it. Oh my god, he just had it. Oh, that shouldn't be allowed.
Well, Proxy does get the kill at least.
Weddables, by the way, still alive.
And not for much longer. Jigsaw made sure.
Hell in high water that that thing was gonna stay dead back there.
Oh, a loud double kill.
Onto A-Kong and Chef Jeff.
Oh, this is getting nasty.
That is a disgusting round from Enterprise.
Rival's starting to really trip up here on Clubhouse, down three already.
Is this time-out time? To double down with the half-time roll, or the roll swap, or the bans?
I'm going early here on now.
The extra ban.
The extra ban? Do they double down?
Yeah, I think that Rival lead a tactical time-out very deely here.
They've now attacked three different bomb sites, and everyone has looked really pitiful.
Rival do take their tactical time-out, could call from you, of course.
It's also going to give Mag a chance to talk to E.P.
And everything I've seen so far in these two maps leads me to believe that E.P.
will have plenty of extra strats in the back pocket despite that mirror band coming out.
struggling. Mag would probably be just sitting back and saying keep what you're doing, they're
probably going to look to adjust, they're going to look to try and do this, they're taking away
the mirror, so they're going to try and do x and y, so it's pretty calm. I would imagine from his
side of things, in terms of what frame and rival would be talking about, it's probably the urgency,
you know, because EP now four rounds away, so you do have to be a little bit urgent, you can't just
just keep saying I'll be calm, be relaxed.
I mean, it needs to be a sense of urgency here.
You need to have someone calling the shots
and someone reinforcing the timeline
that that's gonna get them.
You know, right here, as we look into the prep phase,
E.P. are getting aggressive and hunting drones.
Bappan is here getting hatches,
but he's also making sure to run all the way towards strip
to shut down that info gathering
in the prep phase from Rival,
which is so pitiful because the step-by-step
for this round for Rival,
firstly, you're taking base, that's hard enough as is.
The rival have to drone out the map, know that everything is clear, know they're set up on site, and start clearing it away piece by piece.
And we have a shield from Baphen, we actually don't have a shield from Brenda this time around, plus we have the Keyboard Barriers from Jigsaw.
That's a lot of setup on the bombsite to create fortified positions.
Not to mention that once EP actually started aggressive on those, sorry, rival start taking those positions, they're going to be protected by warden and smog, and well my,
There is a lot that has to be done on this attacking side, Rival, have to make quick work of it.
A lot of bub wire.
And Kyra is actually roaming at the moment, all the way upstairs in Lodgy.
I think he's got a...
He's just gonna...
He's fighting.
This is very cheeky.
I mean...
But risky as well.
It's very risky, cause it is also a pretty common drone top down.
And if they don't do that, that's a mistake on Rival's part.
And...
Oh, don't...
Surely...
There you go.
But in staying that Kyro should get help going down main stairs. Yeah, Brenda is over at main
Don't think I was gonna linger around too much longer. Don't have to QZ
He's still holding
So could move the doctor be cool is good. That's gonna get a bunch of damage onto him. Oh, he's he's just playing
The trade that's all by himself that trade is so worth it for wetables by the way, that's the his army gone down
Oh, to be honest.
I honestly feel like Rival's been half ignored.
Cairo here.
Ignore? Well, maybe they've even just instinctively thought he's just eventually pushed back down main stairs and gone back to site.
That's the usual play.
So once that player logic gets thrown down, it's back down main, back to site.
He stays gym, so he can flank.
The Rival aren't careful that he's gotta be good for at least one kill, and he's also already eaten that dock would be cool.
So they can't really go and call him out.
But because Rival killed Jigsaw, Chef Jeff has control of the Defender Cameras.
Which means they can start stripping away that really important info gathering that Cairo, as his teammates, has been helping him out with.
Eraser has to make sure not to die here.
Cairo gets droned yet again, player on the window outside, Wettables takes him down. Advantage for Rival.
Yeah, I mean, finally dealt with and did so at a pretty good time.
I like the fact they put the work in to go back and deal with him because if they don't, he's going to just cause too much damage.
I don't think they were expecting that one.
Eraser again, he's just having an awful time today.
How is he supposed to expect Eraser pushing out Mates?
How have they not made the vert for this position?
Brando should never be able to escape.
He shouldn't have been allowed back.
Eraser has a secondary shotgun.
He should be making that vert before he pushes down the stairs.
3v3, 30 seconds out of the tactical timeout for rival.
And it's Wettifall's on the Maverick to just push.
Good kill.
Church triple, headshot onto Brando.
should get the second on to two hunts, where it pulls with four in the round. Looking for the ace now knows that.
Oh, bad rules!
He will find all five! Not a lot of celebration because he knows there's a lot more work to be done.
But he does keep hope alive for him and his team.
Much better round from rival, even though they didn't find the opening kill,
they traded back jigsaw straight after and then they made sure to play that
roam hunt very well. They needed to make a decision.
They leave Cairo and look to hold their flanks or they just hunt him and get it done with and they did play that very well
Cairo couldn't have done a lot better to be honest
There was a critical mistake there with trying to flush out Brenda from the main stairs
They didn't play that perfectly. Well, you could have probably got me kill. Kyra. Yeah, but I mean like you can't really fall
Sure, but you can't expect like he was never gonna even get a 50-50 fight
So you could never expect him to get a kill if his opponents to be honest
I'll say I don't think Wettables could have played this much better because he was also the one that got that kill onto Kyro with the vault gym window
Playing off the drone clearing him out at Lodgy. So Wettables did the full world tour across Crop House. He did. He roam cleared, he executed
Very well played from Wettables
But rather just got to be careful because we are still seeing little mistakes that could get enterprise back into it
I also I don't know if I really think that Kyro roaming was the right call there
It makes me think that EPS is starting to...
I think he was one of the star. I think he should have just come back down main stairs when he got thrown down.
Problem is, you can't safely get back down main stairs.
Well, Pepe was main stairs.
Yeah, but...
He was first floor main.
Yeah, typically you can't get back down main stairs once you've lost kitchen hallway control.
Because they can actually cut you out from outside the building.
But I don't know, it's always a hard call to make.
Kyra backed himself in to waste more time than he did, I believe, or at least find a kill with it.
with it but regardless we now go to Jim and Bedjinger, Jake the last time that
rival defended this or attacked this bombsite, Eraser really was punished
early by that nitro self because near his band that's no longer possible.
Yeah, poor Eraser, it's been a rough one. He's unfortunately just having an all-time
stinker but that's not what you usually see from him. I want to make that pretty
clear how good he was last week. I keep saying that for a reason and it's again
not so much the highlight, we've been a struggle today in the series but more
Also, what rival are kinda missing out on at the moment. They're missing out on Normal or Razor. Razor is having an off-day 213.
04 entry.
4p6 EBS. I mean, shouldn't be involved in any entry.
He is, to be honest.
He can start to just get back to a little bit of the normal numbers.
Rival actually have actually got themselves quite a bit of a power spike available.
Wow! Good angle!
Big kill, and it's onto the clash. That's the most important part of that pick.
Well played to Wettables. He was in the very risky boost spot that we see some players try and get into when you're actually on the wrong side
Of the the fence that's on the roof next to logistic office
A lot of players fall off the roof trying to get into that spot
But it was very pivotal that he managed to do that proxy now because this castle barcades muted
He can't detonate the ex-carousel but because the team canopies don't get affected by the new jammers
He can detonate it just so now jigsaw is a bit more of an awkward spot
He's lost two Castle Barricades protecting him but Baphen lashes out and punishes a razor again
Zero and five for the Thermite as Jigsaw tries to hunt for more. The Thorn Trap tossed outside
Doesn't find a kill. Weddables needs to continue having an impact here for Rive. They might be able to clear Jigsaw
There is a frag grenade available on Weddables. He needs to throw that and clear him out
Weddables actually does get the kill on to Baphen and did force Jigsaw away from the mattress over the bomb chassis
He'll retake this position though
Oh, he's going to go for the push and he does get a kill on to chef Jeff
How's he meant to expect that pushup they deal with wetables down to just a cock in the one versus three
It's on the verge of a ball for him and get a jigsaw with the vault
Four to one lead for enterprise three rounds away from securing their place into the grand final
It's must win territory now for rival. They need to get this sixth round. They cannot have any other result
It has to be a win
E.P. have been in lockstep on their defensive halves in this game.
Rival have one last chance to break through and look to find an attack
round win, but E.P. just continue extending deeper and deeper into their
strat book. When the mirror gets banned out, they bring the clash check. When the
clash has been shown, they go and play the echo instead. We go back to cash and
CCTV. The last time Enterprise won this very dominantly despite losing
Cairo up on the rafters because they had Bappin down below in lounge find three
kills flanking with that Goyo. Rival have really let this game slip out of their
hands. Every attack round it seems to be just slightly too complicated for them
to handle. Yeah I mean it's disappointing for Rival in some of the
way that they're losing these rounds, Cache and CCTV offers to be their final
solace. Last beacon of hope, must win this site. 5-1 down a cloud house, it's a
long way back, it's close to impossible for them you think, against
Enterprise. It's going to be a pretty similar looking line-up as well
for Enterprise on this site to what we saw back in the third round. In fact, I
identical James no change at all we're gonna have again the Azami over to watch
rafters it will be probably a yokai around garage somewhere the difference
though is going to be no Monty this time they actually go fuse instead
Deimos as well instead of the glass yeah I don't know if I really like this set up
Wow, a Vulcan canister already placed on the external wall, this is good.
GP like just slowing down rival as much as possible in the early rounds.
But the wall is now having reached two of the walls.
Now sets his sights on the main focus of the bomb site.
You can see there's also a fully reinforced rafters wall into the bomb site too.
So even after rival take control of rafters there'll be another layer of hard breach
required.
They got him.
Got him.
Very well played here from Rival.
They got to be careful for the re-aggress here from EP.
Yeah, but if there is a re-aggress from EP, there's got three players there, so I think
they would be ready for it.
Well, at least they had the three players there.
By putting the extra bodies there, EP can't just immediately push someone through the
lounge to go and get a quick trade.
It's going to give Rival the extra player advantage.
This is so agro from Jigsaw.
I do not rate this position from him. He should be punished. He has the license. It's
What he does maybe mere mortals can't be doing
Wow, he is so cocky to be contesting this with a C75
He is the epitome of don't copy what he's doing only he can do yeah
In this week look this is actually such a good position now from rival
They are really well set up to go for an execute
But there's a lot of you still here from EP and the smokes and the yokai's planning to deny it
Will they get into position to get quick enough the yokai does stall it out for a brief moment and
A razor's dead, hell of a lot of damage to the smoke and bap and lashes out for one as well
Yeah, they just tried to get over the replay immediately and just lost two players
Jeff Jeff lost on the cover fight. My head of bulls gets rid of jigsaw
They do still have these yokai's available kits in about 20 seconds
It sits in the rack with two players going out. It means I think this is honestly up to where the bap is
He's gonna need to get probably up to double-digit kills if they're gonna win this round
Forget about the plan. Weddables has to go deep. CCTV top red clear onto Brenda successful
They can still play this although if you push this call you can get rid of a two-hand
He does Bappin lounge 1v1 have to push you have no choice
The barbed wire doesn't matter slows him down and so there is bappin that gets away enterprise get fifth round
It's so unfortunate for Weddables time
expired
Wow, wow, wow, wow. How close could that have been? And Mick, I think we're going to
look back at that round in particular and say how important that was that EP got that
over the line. A 4-2 half doesn't look too bad, but a 5-1 looks way too dominant at this
point.
Yeah, I mean, big praise for EP. They're playing super disciplined, they're giving up anything
for free. They're showing us again that there are indeed multiple layers and nuances to
their playstyle, not just being a frag heavy superstar team, which is amazing, but yeah,
for rival, shortcomings, right? We see the multiple times not on the attacking side,
where they might get the opening pick, or they'll trade back in even numbers. If you go back to the
round where Red Devil's got the ace, for example, right, they lose a player early, they get two kills
right back during a 4v3, big advantage. And then you have to think to yourself, now they got to
slow down, get the flank drones, do the breaching, and then go for bumps and execute. But the
But the strategy is sprint towards the main stairs, Rendo is still there, he gets a kill,
Wettable becomes a clutch player, and he just finds the picks.
So the rounds that rival they have been winning have been of clutch moments, from Wettable's
of all players, not supposed to happen, right?
And also individually, Eraser is 2 and 15 across the internet right now.
They are playing in a 4v5 effectively.
That's really brutal, I had not actually looked at his entire series, yeah, that unfortunately
really flips a bit of that narrative that we were talking about where rival e-sports might actually be able to do something here
I think that what you were talking about there with the the wetables kind of performance it leans a little bit back into what we were
saying on map one, which is like
Wetables and nonchalant this now almost in the way that he plays is so dangerous because now there isn't that care factor as much as
What there was back in the day, right?
If he died when he was playing on EP or any of those kind of teams GG
There was a repercussion to it now
He's kind of playing with a bit more freedom
However, when you're playing with freedom the rest of the players can't pick up these pieces me
You look across the board
There's five kills between the next four players and when you're going up against EP. Yeah, that's not enough
No, it's also a matter of and this is hard to see without having the information, right?
But when I'm looking at those attacking side rounds from rival it feels like no one is keeping track of the checklist
Because that's how you often play clubhouse. Oh, we gotta get this objective done have a player watching this angle
Now I gotta do the fire then the flashbang then the peak
There's all these small kind of order to things and when I'm watching rival attack
It feels like they're progressing on air of the map and it's looking pretty good
But then if you look at any of the areas whether it's the heart reaching the flank watching all the execution
That's missing completely. So maybe this is where it was being more free, more loose on the server and individually
He's doing fine, but no one's controlling the team and saying hey guys make sure this is taken care of. Hey
Have you guys done this job? Okay good now we can keep going. Yeah, so they're going forward forward forward
No one's looking behind and they're losing people because of it now a side swap is a different story
But what we need to see from rival now is everyone individually stepping up
Yeah, we're looking at players like chef Jeff was instrumental on border with the kill department a razor
Who's created 2015 and we're looking at that check this down defense making sure that they're watching all the angles leaving
No gaps by the bomb side that you begin utilize and it being such a process driven math like you were saying
You've got a hope that they can really find their foot in here in the second half
They need that there's no question
They cannot let these first two rounds slip if they want any footing in this game
If they want to remain stable, if they want to push this night haven lads, they need these
first two opening rounds.
There is no question about it.
Enterprise right now are but two rounds away from securing EWC.
Let's head back into the matchup.
Well said Rob.
Yeah, it's troubling times for rival facing elimination.
They only have one round that they can effectively give over to Enterprise that would then give
over time and a whole raft of matches here is points
Chef Jeff is not wrong, I'm not going to lie to you
1 in 5 is that really the time to be talking smack
I mean Chef Jeff is the kind of player that
the way he performed in the last map he can probably say what he wants on this one
I think that's fine
I don't know what happened there, I assume wet really sparkled issue Brenda's trying.
But yeah, yeah, you're right, Tuhan has not been quite a fragger to E.P. but that's fine because his entire team is fraggers.
And now they're on the attacking side and they've made a very quick work of clearing out the map here.
They already start to reach the walls or floors I should say with the RAM as
rival keek tabs on their positions with the Valkyrie
Yeah, the Valkyrie here is interesting James where it would be most useful is anywhere you can play the bird with these nike cells
Little unfortunate on the timing there from a razor. Also, but in terms of getting information say like secret
You're always gonna assume that someone's gonna push blue
You always have to be heads up. What if they push dirt? What if they push blue motto drop all of these positions?
Especially in 5v5 you've got to be mindful of all these
And so unfortunately they kind of miss out on the nitrous I'll play already. They've got none left
Yeah, yeah
Unfortunately, no the info that was in kitchen just wasn't quite time well enough with that pre-placed C4
And perhaps the pre the C4 had to be pre-placed and then just on the call. I mean be exploded immediately
It might have hit you.
Regardless, the info wasn't quite fresh enough.
This is aggressive, by the way.
50 seconds, so there's a lot of time. They might not expect Jigsaw to already be deep-loaded.
Karazlan going in Arsenal as well, so that's going to draw focus.
All of these bodies are going to shift to Arsenal. That's why Jigsaw can now slip into church.
He gets the kill on to A-Cost.
Another one as well, off to Wettepauls. It's an absolute slaughter into basement.
But it's the old classic.
Rush into Arsenal down, I think was it down through main into the left side gap?
I didn't even see it, I think he just dropped the hatch.
I think Kari just dropped the hatch.
I'm gonna watch it back.
Yeah he did, he dropped hatch.
He just dropped hatch.
There's no way that he's just allowed to drop hatch like that.
This is the problem with leaving Monty in here.
But that's also the problem with using all of your nitros to play off those Volcamps
and you don't hit anything.
You also then don't have any nitros cells for a quick drop hatch from the Monty.
No smoke brought to the table either.
No, there's literally nothing they could do.
And the Goyo Vulcan canister that was in position to deny that default plant was actually detonated by the vertical C4
That rival tossed out earlier. So that was gone
You got no smoke no Goyo no C4's and you decided to ban the ace instead of the Monty by the way
It's just doesn't get much worse than this for rival EP
well and truly back in form and they can even afford to send Jigsaw
Hunting for kills in church at the same time as the executes going down
I mean, it's and it's also great heads up because they're just gonna be doing this
But they're not worried about you saw
Essentially from that position because they're focused on to see the plan. Yeah, and with that round now at 6-1
By browns straight needed for rival
Look valley in effort and there were some decent signs on water
I think this was always going to be a very difficult series for them and top three nothing to
to snark out and maybe in another year when we get three slots in the region.
Look, you can never have that attitude. You can never say, oh well, we did good enough.
Maybe they'll give us a freebie next time. I think obviously Rival have done incredibly
well to make it to top three up from what was it?
I really ended the most competitive OZ region I've ever seen for a while.
As a reminder, back when they were Team Anios, Rival was 6th place in kickoff.
They actually got knocked out by ACOG's team at the time, Rock LFO.
After losing to EP and the upper bracket, they lost to Rock in the lower bracket.
Now Rival, you know, group stage, they were 4th here and in through the stage finals.
And that's not as if this Core 5 has been together a long time ago.
No, two roster changes after kickoff.
Chef Jeff joined the core for kickoff, then they made the changes in struggle for this stage.
So if they were to stick together going into stage 2, like their third, why not close the gap then the Chiefs in EP.
Evidently goes through the gap.
Of course Enterprise, if they win this series they will have another one to play shortly after against the Chiefs.
the championship of OCE and they will be burning for revenge after losing that first match in the
upper bracket final just earlier this week. Jake, well we used to have that graphic, James, I don't
know if you remember the warm-up or the fatigue graphic, did you see that? And usually the warm-up
actually ended up being better. Yeah, look, EP were knocked off their perch by Chiefs already and
they will be very hungry to prove that they are the best team in this region. Bring it on! They've
They've just found a 4v2 and rival are dropping like flies.
Yeah, there's only ACOG left and he's all three against Brendo and Jigsaw, Bappin.
Talk about big names, household names in this region.
And unfortunately for ACOG, the GG called already from two-hundred.
Nitrocell hit nothing, the Vendetta from Bappin hits cold in the heart.
As Enterprise booked their place at the Esports World Cup at Paris,
and most importantly, into the grand final later today against Chiefs.
They want their crown back.
I think they're gonna get their chance at getting it.
I'll tell you that much right now.
A huge congratulations to and surprise.
Matt won, look, you've got to give it to rival.
They really did push the limits there,
but ultimately class is just something
that can be unforgettable.
It is pure and raw passion in the second map.
You can see it in the cans.
You can see what it means to the rest of EP there.
I think Tengyu ultimately, this is what we would have expected, this is what we would have hoped for for E.P.
Ultimately though, that second map was just absolute class.
This is what I would particularly ask me before Stage 1 started, how well will E.P. perform for the entirety of the stage.
However, due to the last previous matches and a bit of a struggle here for E.P. it became a bit of a surprising factor.
Can you stop this?
No, I see you.
I look over and I'm like why are you laughing me right? My point is
EP finally looked up to the expectation we had from them
This is why I always have two spots at the EWC because they played so well to nationally at the Salt Lake City
But that version of EP has been missing in my mind in the Georgia stage one
I think that's a super fair and valid point after their
Dominance that they showcased throughout the entirety of Salt Lake City the storylines that were built up for them
Yeah, they certainly they certainly went a little missing in terms of that category there
But ultimately when in push comes to shove they do show it
They've got that in them all along for sure
I mean EP have so much belief in themselves that they're the best team in this region and by that I don't just mean OCI
I mean all of a pack
I mean that's been said by these EP players before but I can't deny that every now and then when they drop games to
Chicademy or chiefs in the VL1s or chiefs in the upper crack final that I started out that
It's games like these that make me remember the pedigree of this team and the fact that they're not just here to swing people like they are here to actually
Commit to the prep work. They came into today with a ton of new strats. Yeah, and they completely outclassed rival much more discipline as well
I think the real telling thing is gonna be how EP do in that grand final because if they come back and win that grand final
I think they can say yeah
We are the best team in this week is the best teams are the ones that win when it matters
And they certainly do speaking of someone that wins when it matters
I don't think anyone else could be put better closer to that and our good friend. Oh, let's welcome him in for the first time
In a hot minute Brenda my friend. How you feeling after that one? You're gonna be jeered up
Yeah, feeling great obviously, but uh, you know, what we really want is to be nice
So, we're still locked, we're still locked, but yeah, obviously feeling great, you know.
Making Paracetab see it's a big, big thing, so really happy.
Yeah, how do you feel, just very quickly, just touching on kind of the conversations that we're having here about,
I guess, the perception of EP coming off the back of Salt Lake City and into stage one,
and yeah, there's been some frailty here and there, but how have you guys felt?
Do you feel as though that's a warranted storyline, or do you feel like we're just talking smack as we're analysts?
because we're analysts. No, no, you guys are definitely right. We're obviously working
through things and like, you know, it's hard coming back into a region that we've just
won, like everyone's hungry to beat us. And we've got Strogos Varro and like,
Bentley and we're maybe diving into strategic stuff too much and not really focusing on the
game in front of us. And that's basically been our problem this stage. So we're just,
we're kind of just figuring it out. So you guys are saying it's not.
Yeah, I wanted to ask, you said you've been focusing too much on strategic stuff and not
not playing a game in front of you. Today it really felt like you came in with a ton of
new strats. You were playing Customs, Bombsite on Border, you were trying a lot of new things
on both maps, a lot of pre-Landup C4s on outside jacuzzi balcony, on the double mirror setup,
a lot of things that it seemed like you were like, okay, here's a preset idea we're going
to bring to the table. Was that the mentality coming in and saying against rival, okay,
Okay, we're gonna try and play into their weakness as we're trying to play new stuff.
Um, to be honest, that game we kind of just focused on ourselves, like, everyone's pretty well-driven with the play,
the lineups and whatnot coming up, but yeah, we literally just want to get, and like,
look at the players we have on our team, we just shoot, so yeah.
Keeping it simple and playing custom spawnside on board, man, your level of support is excellent.
No, I'm not.
We practice every day right now.
It's not that I like custom strat.
I hope so.
Sorry, I didn't realize that was step one for you guys. Customs here no worries, PENKU.
So we didn't talk between each other here in the desk, who's going to ask more questions?
You guys are stolen both of mine.
It's obviously going to be a rematch now in the grand final, you said that you're hungry
to win O's, that's the primary goal. I love that for you guys, you're still staying hungry
about the smaller things, because I think a lot of people would say, well, Qualifier
for EWC, job is done. Obviously, for you guys, it's not. You had the game against Chiefs,
you said you're working through it, there was a couple of struggles, now you get the
rematch. What's going to be different today versus previously in that upper bracket game?
How are you going to beat Chiefs now, and what things have you solved that's going to get
you there?
Yeah, like I said, just bringing it back to basics, to be honest, obviously I can't say
too much, but you have to burst them before you have 5 minutes, but just make sure everyone's
comfortable in the server and not overthink it. Like that bank game that we got 7-0ed,
like I've never seen all 5 of us play that bad, so clearly we've just got some things mentally
to figure out and I think we've done it, so we'll get it. Okay, yeah, I guess for context for the
viewers at home, the reason why we weren't able to talk about the questions is because you finished
that map so quickly obviously only two rounds were needed but holy crap I felt
like I blinked and I was pushing our camera operator back in behind the
camera to make sure we were ready to go. I think it was look but I also think
that's that's on the back of kind of what you're talking about which is the
core fundamentals of your team are just so outrageously good like I don't know
how much you listen to us or warrant what we say but a lot of the conversation
for EP is just around like look at all of your names like it's it's as simple as
that look at all the names you've got no well you know I like to talk shit on
you guys sometimes but I do really need to give props where props are due you
know you guys continue to push the boundaries of what we can expect from
an OS team so I went east and today come on yeah well actually very good yeah
you're thinking about picking him up again absolutely thank you so much for
joining us look before you are gonna prepare for your match against cheese
which I'm sure you're already well and truly prepared do you have any final
words to leave us with just shout out EP shout out everyone watching us and
supporting my mom watching at work right now
It's like sneakily watching it work and stuff and yeah, just thanks. Thank you guys as well the go-to parents of the region
I'll tell you what we're lucky to have and brando. We're lucky to have you mate. Thank you very much for joining us and I
Can't wait for this matchup. No, go lock in mate. We'll speak to you soon. Yeah, let's go see it
All right
Well, it's time for us to start locking in on that one as well because all the context all the fun stuff is out of the way
Right worry P going to make it to EWC ultimately. We all came into today James saying yeah, of course
to make it. Yeah, but we're always like, is there a chance? Well, they've completely just watched that away. For sure. And that's a real redemption now for EP who had a bit of a fall from grace. We can't deny that, of course, losing the Chiefs in the upper bracket final, but the redemption
arc continues not just by dismissing rival quite handily, but by going up against Chiefs again in our grand final that rematch. That is for all the marbles. It's for the championship here in OCE within the APL, but it's also for preferential seeding to EWC and just to put that
end of perspective, EWC has a new format we've never done before for a Rainbow Six
event where we actually have two phases to play in. So you'll play a double
elimination within a group at the start of play-ins, and then after that you have to
play a single qualification game, it's single elix. So like you lose that
tier three and you're out. You win and you're through to group stage. Or you can
just win this Grand Final right now and you skip both phases of those play-ins at
EWC, which is an extra 10,000 US dollars in prize pool minimum as well. So the
for this upcoming game really could not be higher.
It's the revenge story, it's the player versus his old team arc,
it's the stakes at EWC and it's of course
for the title of the game.
It certainly is, Nick, I know that we'll have plenty
to talk about when we come back from the break,
but unfortunately I'm not gonna let you speak
before the break, because it is time for one.
On the other side though, this is one you cannot afford
to miss, Chiefs and EP go head to head in the grand final.
and the early days of siege like on PC during like my high school 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 month 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 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, Ferox,
but it was like my first time basically competing properly and like I came second in it and it was against a pro league 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 a round 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 early team and I was with Juicy,
Josh, Quizz 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 that stage was honestly so shit. Definitely felt like
a lot of nerves on that stage but I think I grew a lot as a player from that stage.
So after that first stage of Pro League, 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 kidnap my whole life to this right now.
I think after Homeless, I joined Circles Fizz, which turned into Aerial, and by my performance
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 gotten into a fight with my friend group and kind of split ways with them.
So I was honestly very over just like school.
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 siege, um, fully because
that was my passion, that's what I was good at, I wanted to keep pursuing.
Let's put them in the ground.
Fall back!
Team one, report.
Alive in West state. We love conflict with the other teams.
They have their warrants. We need to go for Nix.
You can be in my eyes. You can cover her.
All in.
Hostile. Setting a payload.
Your corner, bitch!
Surrender!
I see one old man.
One old man about to die!
Well, we have a repeat of the O's Grand Final, but before we get there, the greatest segment
of all time. It's ramen ranking time although I don't think you can call this ramen, Jake.
It's just I only just saw what we've got today. Well, it's fantastic, but it's not ramen. It's
fantastic. It is absolutely fantastic. Are these ones Ozzie I'm guessing. Yes, and you pull that
mic a little bit further away. There we go. Try that again. Yeah, that one. That one was going a
This is like a home for primary school, school, PM.
For the viewers at home, this is one of the greatest things
of all time.
This was like a high school cafeteria,
hand let me bring it back.
High school cafeteria food.
Many fights over this though, because it was like a beef
or chicken, which you preferred.
What would you prefer?
Well, you had chicken gang and beef gang.
Yeah, which gang were you?
I think I was chicken gang.
I'm chicken gang.
I'm chicken gang too.
I think beef gang is this.
Can you be a mix?
Actually, I don't think anyone ever tried that, Nick. I don't think anyone was smart enough back in the day
I think um, someone's gonna be the first. Yeah, you've actually found me for a spin there
I wonder what it would taste like if we mix it, but I was both we had the exact same thing in them
Like all the chicken gang or beef gang
Yeah, a bit of both there. Oh a bit of both. A bit of this and a bit of that
Is that is a hang on when we say both you saying you mix both in?
We oh
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Was grand final day
Just seemed to do the thing baby, but we roll on it doesn't stop as we head into ramen raking once again
Let's try that 2.0. Shall we gentlemen? I have absolutely no idea how much people didn't didn't here. So
Context from the ramen time
These are what I would not classify as ramen at all
So as as we were saying earlier, this is kind of the like, you know, your your mom's given you like $2.50 to take to the school canteen
Yeah, by yourself some lunch and this would be to go to yeah
Back in you know, I grew up in
So 50 would not get you much these days no back then it would certainly be hard turns out though
So I thought this was an Australian classic, but having a look at the packaging
We've been lied to our whole it says where does it say it made in Australia from at least
75% Australian ingredients. Okay. Well, that's not bad
It also says this in South Australia, you just read only the New Zealand. Oh, yeah, sorry
They have an office in Australia and an office in New Zealand. So it's look at 75% Australian
It's a good right. That's better than the old gaming gladiators roster
That's a good one mind that law so I'm that's such a good meme. I'm never noodles as per usual
One of the greatest parts about this segment are our words of wisdom.
Words of wisdom.
Propekir.
Let's do this again.
How is it time for this again?
Hey, let's lock in.
Gentlemen, this is Democracy Manifest.
Have a look at the headlock here.
See that chap over?
Hey!
Get your hand off my manic Monday!
This is the blow who got me in the Jake and Gus podcast before.
What is the charge?
Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal.
Oh, that's a nice hitbox, sir.
Oh! Ah, yes.
I see the Neo-Judo very well.
Good one.
When you, sir, are you waiting to receive my limb,
James Stewart?
How dare you!
Get your hands off me!
Tatan, farewell!
One cuff!
Look, they even broke the cuff.
No, no, no, you forgot the last bit.
How'd I do that?
That, that, that's the last bit.
I
Sorry, I was not so Senna, I feel like the Namaste was a bit all fine there for this one was particularly loose
To maybe go off the usual pace I was told it's like something manifest
Into the classic Australian thing that I've never seen before but I was full of you guys would get it
So did you watch the video?
I was only sent my title text not oh my god Nick I had no influence you didn't
want me to be influenced by how I was opposed to like read it out loud I
supposed to just like go with it Nick can I say the fact that you've never
watched that video before and yet you delivered it with such raw emotion but
hang on so it says like fill in the blanks and it says get your hands off my
James Stewart what do you think he's actually talking about I don't know all right so we're
gonna have to speed from this bit Nick that was an incredible reading by the way this
has got me stupid nostalgic I'm just gonna I'm just gonna keep adding this as we finish
up but where are we this one I made your thoughts hi so my personal thought here is
that there's too much yellow to go over a bee I had to be that guy but that's a
limiting factor for sure sure sure so S a B I'm gonna go high C or the lowest of
bees okay that's fair that's fair now if I was giving my honest ramen ranking I
I would give that out of solid D.
I was gonna say D as well?
Yeah, it's awful.
Territory for me.
Well, it's not even ramen, so...
Well, yeah, the nostalgia plays a little bit.
Like, when I saw it, I did have this little dopamine kit unlocked from, like, you know, 15 years ago.
It's FTA for my nostalgia, for sure.
But to be honest, like, I had a whiff of my mind.
It's kind of dried up.
I don't know if there's any, like, sauce in there anymore, but I, like, had a tiny bit of it.
I was like, no, I can't do it.
I don't think they even put sauce in there.
No, I mean like the liquid like the hot water
No, you don't worry about that. You don't worry about that. Okay, so F tier
B. D. I think we go in the middle here and go E. All right
I think we can't go F because F would be brutal. I think that doesn't work because yesterday. I said F for the
mushroom. Jake, you were you were you were you were taken out of this because our good friend say it really loud for me Michael
mushroom friend
You missed the whole bit James, but we're putting it down in a and we're gonna start moving forward with this bad boy
Cuz oh no one more down one more down on them
We got there
One same time well James, you know what you can do yeah
You know take your place
like a three. You can go and take it and get it. Among the greats, speaking of taking your place,
how about you take your place at EWC alongside EP and the Chiefs? That's right.
A little less than two weeks away, we will kick start EWC heading into the third and fourth week
where the finals will take place. R6S15, the 15% off in checkout. Great opportunity to see the
world's best doing what the world's best do which ironically nick is the world's best
it is it is i uh i got sidetracked i'm very sorry i'm just gonna say get your
teeth just now use the arches s15 code tim send off because i was distracted i didn't
hear a single what you said but i want to see you guys there at dwc there's all of a great
time together yeah rob sorry nick i didn't hear anything that you said it's time for us to move
on with the cheese. The team that are absolutely making a name for themselves here in the O's
finals. I mean, coming into it, we all had high hopes for them, but Jake, did we really
expect it to be EP in the upper bracket? Yeah, I think we did. I think coming into that game,
it was, I couldn't, I couldn't. I don't think you can say we expected it, no, but I think
I think what you can say we expected was for it to be clearly a series that could go either way, as we like to say in the business and it didn't, you know, I think the way that I framed...
Which is the best team I win today?
I would say, well I would say the best team will win today, yes Nick, thank you, but I think that series in particular, the upper bracket final made more to chips.
Yeah, sure.
They just want to get to the sports world cup, it doesn't matter how they get there, it doesn't matter first, second, I think for them just getting land, the player for real is to get back to that international position and then also for like the lunchbox they cannot get there.
Oh my god he's gone again.
To get there international players.
The Neptune as well might you I think.
Neptune hasn't been much.
They had a little bit more to prove in that game and now Enterprise have to prove in the grand final
But they're still the top dogs and they're gonna get revenge
Yeah, it's a beautiful storyline and the irony Nick that the Chiefs had to be EP
To make it to like Paris obviously
But they had to do it to the team that gave them an opportunity to have two slots in the first place
The irony is not really lost on me there. You know what I mean?
Now poetry and motion and I have to say this, I actually agree with Jake a lot here.
I do believe that for Chiefs, you know, it doesn't matter if they qualify into like the
play-ins or the group stage, I actually think as a matter of fact, maybe it's better for
the Chiefs to qualify in the second seed and lose in the grand final because going to play-ins
gives you a bit more experience, a bit more games on the international ground, you also
are going to play against weaker teams because that is why you're in play-ins, you're in
lower seeded from all the regions. So we're for EP and you know teams like CHE,
for Wable, looking for top 8, looking for top 4 but she should just looking at
Megan Lan like this. Let's lock in here as player is EP, the team that they're
about to go toe-to-toe with again for a third time in stage one and this roster
is as dangerous as ever. You see what happens when you allow them to get
comfortable when you allow them to buy it they buy back pretty hard Jake I mean
they certainly do jigsaw got off the leash in that last series and he was a
huge reason why they were very dominant against rival and if he can play to that
same level again in this grand final he's gonna be tough to stop and you know
they also just played to their strength you think about border as a map yes
they're bended away and then they say let's go to it and let's enable the likes
of jigsaw and baffler who both almost combined the 20 kills and what ended up
pretty dominating border. And I think that's what Enterprise needed to do as well against
Jeeves and play to that same level of strength, which is can we get Jigsaw, Bap and roaming
around the map taking fights and most importantly the entry battle fights. We know you're going
to have a pretty strong end of round with the likes of Brendo, Cairo, Chuhan as well,
actually had a pretty decent clubhouse. That was probably one of the better games we've
seen from him. And he was actually pretty important too when he was playing the bandit
back on board of playing his role. So I think for Enterprise, this is actually the graphic
that we had earlier many times over the kickoff, the warm up versus the fatigue. I'm bringing
this one back a little bit of a snapshot here. For Enterprise, yes, it may be back to back
best of three. But what we've seen is the warm up typically overrides the fatigue.
Yeah, it's something like a crazy 80% stat. And I mean, when you look back at the matchup,
that was literally less than three days ago now.
The Chiefs and Enterprise upper bracket final
truly did deliver on all fronts.
Expectations blown out of the water,
great individual performances,
but Nick, ultimately it did take a final map
where we had to go to the very edge.
We really had to see EP push to their limits
for Chiefs to bring this out.
And I think that that's the most important part
about this story is there's no easy win for either team.
Yeah, exactly. That's the real story is that it could be anybody's game and I think that I think the maps have come down to it a lot. You know, James now are both praising EP earlier today when they had their retreat just like half an hour ago.
They're playing more structured, more strategy, playing more fundamental and I think that's going to be crucial against Chiefs because they have been the better strategy masters in the server.
And EP needs to be both the fraggers and the strat masters, I think to win this final BF3 for them.
You can see what it means to them, but leaning into this one, this is a massively important
matchup.
We were talking about it before.
I need my glasses.
Yeah, please grab your glasses.
Take your time.
Me and FaZe won.
Yeah, correct.
So, there is an entire phase that you miss if you win this grand final.
This is massive.
First place will go through to groups.
Second place has to play through FaZe 1.
Who's LL Club?
I don't think it would be nice, so Valentino is on there, that's the only one that I personally
recognize, nobody else that I've seen from international people.
Sure.
Well it goes back to what Nick was saying, I agree with him, I mean as much as Chiefs
I'm sure would still love to win Nick and finish first and all the extra money and going
different to the tournament in terms of actually like improvement and playing more games internationally
maybe second might be better for them in that regard.
Do they kind of just get a fair swing here like they can't lose.
Yeah, I think the important point here which we were touching on before Nick and this was
a conversation that flared up off camera actually at the very start of the day is the prize pool
difference between what happens if you make it first here versus you know you kind of
limp through. It's a whole $10,000 difference Jake. What are you doing?
I just got lost in his mind. I was just looking at him.
He was looking at me. I was looking at him. It's like a love story.
It's a modern-day love story. Speaking of a modern-day love story,
here's an EP you could kind of say is a modern-day love story.
It's a run-down Juliet kind of story with hopefully not the ending.
I had to have a look at the vetoes to determine where we're going for this one. Ultimately, like we said, the vetoes might actually make a bit of a bit of what we're talking about right now, either incomplete or wow, there we go. We're going back to bank.
Holy crap cafe bank and shall I nick the thoughts on this one, right?
Yeah, this one's exciting
So obviously we got a bit of a rematch when they played an all-bracketed to chalet bank for choice
I saw those weird games where you know seven five between chalet for EP then a
Seven civil of achieves and bank. I do feel like if you're in surprise right now
You're thinking that was a bit of fluke
Brenda also said it during the player interview about again half an hour ago that they have never played as poorly as
individuals asked them back and that's why they got 7-0. So I like that EPL kind of ego challenging,
say hey we're actually the better team, we actually have the better players, we can run it back and
get a different result that favors us in this grind fight. Well they're definitely going to get a
different result Nick because they get to start defense now so you think back to that last time
they played, they teach for defense, they got that 6-0 start on defense. So now Enterprise will go
defense even though it's Chief's map pick. So I wonder if it's them not only backing themselves
in in saying no what you guys did was a fluke we are that good and we get to start defense we're
going to prove it to you and I like that I think that's just a team that clearly understands we're
bloody good at this yeah we we we slipped up and it's not going to happen again and we're going
to allow you to take us back there and we're going to prove you wrong cafe is the intriguing one
looking at his the statistics for it it's it's an intriguing pick for enterprise because they've
only got a 3-3 record but it's the kind of map they play internationally so whenever you have that
that sort of map in your pool.
Yeah, you're not gonna have the greatest record on it.
So they lost the Shopify rebellion.
They lost the oxygen, they lost the space station.
These are teams, Nick, that are not, say, Oceanic teams.
So I think for the enterprise, clearly this is a map.
They know how to play at a high level.
Obviously for Chiefs 2-0,
but against Arcade and Rival, very different teams, Rob.
This is such a huge grudge match.
Do not get this twisted.
Brendo set up before their gunning for championship.
Chiefs are looking to solidify their own storyline
potentially overtaking their predecessors. They want to knock Enterprise completely off that
purge and keep themselves as the absolute champions of OZ. Let's get underway with this one.
Jamesy boy! Are you ready? I'm ready man. I'm so damn ready. For a grand final here at OCE and a
rematch of the biggest moment from stage one so far which was Chiefs booking their spot at EWC
taking down the Kings of the region in Enterprise. Now we get to find out who
will sit on that throne heading into Paris. Which of these two teams will see
straight into the group stage and which will have to battle it out through the
play-ins? Guzz, I'm very glad that you could make it and it's fun to be casting
with you again and for a grand final no less. Yep, another one in the books. Excited
to jump in to this one, it's the Grim-Ying Band out alongside his army of Mai. I imagine
that probably means that Mai is close to, if not already, surpassing double digits in
terms of bans after only being buffed 48.72 hours ago. All teams seemingly here locally
already jumping on that bandwagon. I came to this matchup, I think thanks to me is the
most anti-lighting of course. A 7-0 for Chiefs last time out makes you feel like Enterprise
really have to dig deep here on cafe there Matt Pig. Of course Enterprise
haven't played cafe all of stage one. The last time they played it was at the
Salt Lake City Major where they took down twisted mines on the main stage by the
way in that major quarter final eventually losing the series but starting
so strong on cafe. EP look resurgent after a win earlier today against Rival a
little bit sketchy there for a brief moment from Jigsaw with the boss G but
the second slug will land and he takes down player who has been so fired up for
Chiefs as of late.
The demos in the dog-of-the-combo here can be quite potent for EP and gainy
information but equally info gathering available for the defense with both the
echo and the source in combination punchbox though while he's not below the
side in fact above it at the moment and before peeling back will catch jigsaw
and only off guard certainly didn't expect that to take place here is the
Daimos now on display one of Baffin's favorite operators and he's so proficient
tucked away currently though is relays and is timing this Daimos well fight
elsewhere but she's retained advantage yeah well this is very back and forth
whereas you say she's supported the storm and jacanna has managed to
reposition his yokais to try and prevent the execute into the site from being easy.
Borendo takes down one of those yokais, but does inch closer to the bomb site if he can
take the 1v1 with Jakenna here.
Maybe there's a chance for E.P., but never mind.
Jakenna finds it, Bapham tries to go deep on Relays, takes down his old teammate, and
now it's a 1v2 on the Deimos for the man who has talked so much on Twitter.
Let's see if he can let action speak louder than words.
No, he can't.
box shuts him down in the kitchen and with that chiefs starting very solidly on
cafe. Yeah to be fair it wouldn't have been the worst of course to have backed
back and in to give that a real shot but unfortunately not really put in the
greatest of positions to be able to pull that particular attempt off. Well last
time these teams met in the upper bracket final it actually was an
Enterprise who were clutching not a single clutch from any EP players in the series while we had three from Neptune one from Jakenna
In lunchbox each
It's chiefs who as of late have had more heroic moments than the star players of EP
I'm actually a little surprised
I thought the rate would be higher for Bapu and his ability to clutch out of 20 attempts
He's he's converted to now in terms of a percentage it puts him kind of middle of a road
It's not like he's what's the standout play if you can have clutch percentage
A very outstanding clutch percentage look like what happens. It's a 10% in terms of the
Percentage of the enough supremacist is actually top of the percentage. Yeah one out of two obvious
But in terms of a player that had a large subset
Karma three out of seven a razor six out of 14
Standout it's a chance for a razor. He had such a pitiful day today
Yeah, he was being really good over the course of the rest of the stage. So unfortunate as I think for a lot of these less
Experienced players they can't perform when the stakes are very high and of course for the rival players
Stakes are higher than they've ever found before now that
Story does come into play a little bit here between chiefs and EP because while chiefs have now qualified for EWC
And they've shown that they can battle with EP players like Neptune
in jacana and lunchbox have never actually played at an international event before they lack that experience that e p
Have now gained for themselves by consecutive appearances at international events
Yeah, I don't know how much I subscribe to the theory of chiefs a better service finishing second in this matchup
I think you'd rather think that's absolutely
EP though, I think have a little more pressure on them to finish first they'll have a little more expectation when it comes to
the long-term run at that event and no doubt starting later will naturally I
think give you an advantage or at least does for most team generally speaking
it kicks off on the upper in the second
Relays never mind it's actually Neptune who finds that opening kill
dropshitting down Cairo Neptune has been such a standout for the chief
He's been in the scene for such a long time here at OCE, but failed to really dig deep
on a top team before, until now it was his first time qualifying for an international
event.
He is being watched from down below by Jigsaw, just waiting for Neptune to try and retrieve
Jigsaw, has snuck in very early, but I believe his position may be revealed, Neptune seems
suspicious of it, and to his gone down, nice nade.
But Neptune doesn't overextend, he's just biting his time.
It's up to E.P. to make the first move.
Yeah, it doesn't have immediate support.
Neptune finds a window to drop.
Does seemingly have a read on the white stairs.
The map currently E.P. now with full-top control.
It's acceptable though to the triple nitro.
Still triple nitro in play.
Three available here for Chiefs.
And Infos well from Chikena and Neptune with these Info operators.
as I believe Chiefs are saving those nitrocells for the plant as much as possible.
Oh, okay, I don't know what Brenda was calling his pants down inside of pillars.
Neptune finds two. Jigsaw quick to trade. However, now he finds himself in a 1v3.
And with the pulse alive and well down below the bomb site with a nitrocell in hand,
Well, not that that will matter in the end. Player pushes deep for a third kill, big moment for him.
Chief's two in a row and Lunchbox is up.
I think I saw a message before from a chatter asking what's the over-under on Lunchbox.
How many times Lunchbox will get over from his seat?
What do you think, if you had to hand a guess?
Ultimately, I think the question you're asking is how many rounds gets played in this...
It'll be one per round, won't it?
...in this best of three, so...
I would love to ask Lunchbox why he stands up.
it just he might not even really like consciously know he's doing it it's just a
habit that's developed and it could also be sort of like what tennis players do
where they have tendencies and it's just like yeah they feel like it puts them in
a good mind the wrap in the doll where he has this really specific way of like
adjusting his shorts and then like wiping his brow and how many times they
dance the ball yeah crazy stuff if it works it works but again I'm still kind
afraid that he's gonna make a live stage. You can't do that after every single round.
Because your headset will fall off if you go to land and every single time you finish
a round you stand up. It's not something that you can replicate all the time.
I am very curious to see how Chiefs perform at an international event under that extra
pressure, especially for Neptune Relays. So Neptune, Jake, and Lunchbox.
Do you feel like they'll be out of play to the best of their ability on the international
stage?
New play styles, let's say they're going up against the real unknown quantity, a team
that they haven't necessarily studied as much or a team that they haven't played before,
non-APAC team for example.
It's difficult to predict that they will do well and that's honestly really not just
on Chiefs as individuals or as a team.
A lot of that is based on what we've seen historically which is that Oceanic teams
even APL by extension their first international event sometimes two maybe
even their third can be really quite challenging and difficult. It's been the
case for EP I mean even six of a rotation. Yeah it takes a lot of time.
Wow good nitro self from lunchbox. Brenda goes down it's been a real tough
slog of the attacking side here for EP. I like the active defenses we're seeing
out of chiefs they're doing a lot of information denial with that mozzie pick
They've got a lot of information gathering and they've got some pretty damn hunkered down setups that
Enterprise are gonna have to clear just look at positions like this one right here from lunchbox on the mirror
His phone rings and he falls back
That's fine various mirror windows
I'm hearing them
Sounds like they've been taken out of play successfully by
EPs to one standing lounge side is to hunt equalizers
You'll be able to get to work on the VRT with the RAM and the auto breaches
Gridlock available here for EP to establish a tank watch
Tammacher on the jigsaw thanks to the boogie from RAM, but
There's no one I'd rather see on the entry here from EP than jigsaw
He makes his way up clears the top floor and now she's stuck to fall back nitro
So without information doesn't find its target into the 4v4 EP having full top four control and plenty of verticality available
Yeah, no frag no
Pardon me nitrous I'll remain for the defense that puts them in a tricky position and not even a razor bloom for player to potentially lob towards the default
So that's likely to be the game plan here for EP
RELAZE is actually tucked away just near the entrance of the bombsite.
Tuhan finds him. That was a little bit too risky there from RELAZE.
And now EP, 20 seconds to play, have the numbers to make the execute work.
Player, his phone ringing, tries to rotate as the plant's going down from Cairo lunchbox, able to deny.
Are EP able to get back into position? No, they can't hunt him down.
they can't look to re-attempt the plant. The cover was not there and now Bappen in a 1v3
dodging the thorn traps. He'll find one, you can't hit a trade and Chiefs make it another round on the board.
EP so close yet they could not cover that plant.
They had the coverage up above unfortunately. I think we just kind of captured it on the top right of screen
was not set in a position to cover that directly and well it opened up the
window of opportunity. The C's parted and cheese were able to simply walk up
and deny that diffuser from being successfully planted. Could it to
lunchbox? It's somebody had to step up and take the risk and it was rewarded.
And now it's time for Mag to get in the years of these EP players. This is
enterprises map pick they cannot afford to go down their attacking side such a
deficit they've 0-3 at the moment on their attack now it is tough map to
attack but they should be out of conjure to hopefully three rounds if they can
capitalize on this tactical time out now we have seen the operator bands come
through chiefs getting rid of the solid snake which we only saw the one time from
EP and enterprise getting rid of the Valkyrie to me that feels like a very
powerful pick. However, also only picks that one time the Echo, the Solas, the
Pulse, and the Mozzie have also been very deadly for Chiefs. What has Mag said to
the EP boys? Try and get them back on the board. We go into a kitchen attack now.
A lot of map control required. Chiefs looking a Scopus pick.
Yeah, look, I think that's a great selection. If I had to guess what some of the key problems are for EP at the moment, it's really just fundamental checks and maybe clearing the airwaves a little bit with comms, because as we saw in that last round, a good example where planets going down and the coverage wasn't really as well set as it probably should have been in that position, and maybe just a bit of a follow-on from the rounds we've seen prior as well where, for the most part, she's very much had the number of their opponents.
and let's say what you may about the bank result in the last best of three of course the expectation
isn't for that to be replicated in any way shape or form but chiefs are still pretty firm favorites
on that second map so we'd be pretty astounding to enter the second with chiefs 1.0 up in the series
so it's critical now that EP respond accordingly to that tactical timeout which we have seen
since the introduction of mag has been a big boost a big positive aspect for this roster so
So I'm expecting them to get very close to that two-round benchmark.
Anything's possible.
So it looks like the Scopus inactive shell has been placed actually down in dishes in
one of the default plan spots on the bomb site.
I thought it might be coffee just in the other corner of that bomb site.
Relay himself is all the way on that top floor.
Oh, the Rotero drone has actually just destroyed the Scopus very early in the round, which means
Relay has no way to teleport back to the bombsite. He's expecting a rush from outside of Bakery, but there's no one there
Yeah, I wonder if that's going to change his process much now in these
Grounds he has ultra aggressive talking of aggressive lunchbox dumps out tries to test my swing though
My name is unsuccessful. Relay's was able to net one and player doubles down
Chiefs again in an advantageous position. That was really well played
The fact that even though lunchbox died relays double down thinking enterprise won't expect a second and when relays went aggressive
Player did as well on the same page through the same same sends wall
That's why chiefs are so in sync now players found bappen as well the rivalry continues and EP are
struggling to convert this tactical time out
Get a chatter from player
Especially if he goes on to win back-to-back series against his former team, I think has
every right in the world to be Lippy.
Happens awfully quiet right now in the server.
And I don't just mean in terms of his kills.
EP, it's Brenda and Jigsaw, two of the greatest players that this region has ever seen.
Can they spring into form when it matters?
0-3 down.
Neptune on the bombsite, one gas-babin pocket.
He can buy a lot of time.
and EP are just hoping that they're going to be given a chance to get kills, that they're
going to be given gunfights. It doesn't look like chiefs are willing to oblige.
And they'll be going in to potentially double Razorbloom late here from Jane Canna, but
Brando does find a pick. 40 seconds now remain. Brando probably not wanting to go for plant.
Maybe if they can cut this cross they could attempt and then bait these defenders in.
Just sneaking on through, Jigsaw gets caught off guard by Jakenna and player finds a third on the round.
Bit of energy from the Chiefs as they start their cafe defence with four locked up.
A little bit concerning, EP failing to convert after that tack timeout.
Not that I think that that round was really majorly lost by them. I'd say that was a big chief's win their ability to
To aggress and maybe an anticipation for EP having a set straight off the back of the tack
Just looking to disrupt it and that's the scary part the EP
It feels like they very rarely lose the rounds immediately following their tactical time out exactly
That is a bit of a scary one tack time out burns
Doesn't get them around doesn't stop that momentum here
from the Chiefs, which has now started to really run up massively.
I mean, all of these players have been playing for such a long time.
A lot of them have been grinding from the very, very start.
I remember all the way back when Brenda was in Challenger League, fighting through Tier 2.
You guys can fight through Tier 2 to get to where these players are today.
Of course, our Challenger circuit sign-ups are live.
You should scan that QR code, register your team.
We have so much going on at the moment for grassroots and for tier 2 and you never know where you know the start of your
CJ Esports career will take you for a lot of these players it started just like you guys playing those tier 2 leagues and competitions
So round five we go and if EP to lock in it needs to start right now
Now, difficult to envision that a 5-1 and certainly a 6-0 is going to be a salvageable
position whereas 4-2 would be far more manageable.
It's a tricky prospect though to envision chiefs slowing down because they are looking
switched on and ready to go.
The warm-up bonus for EP seemingly is not applying right now.
And that has been a very constant trend, not just domestically but internationally as
well.
reason today it's not quite work for EP. And if the warm-up from playing that
Lull Bracket final earlier today isn't helping you here in the grand final then
I don't think that getting a warm-up at EWC by having to play through the
play-ins will be an advantage either. EP went deeper in Salt Lake City than any
APAC team has gone for a hell of a long time at a major but they need to keep up
that momentum for subsequent international events to actually earn
their stripes on the world stage. Wow, a bit of a spray player is exposed, but look at the confidence
from him to just reposition and continue fighting in pillars. Chiefs have locked up again with this
pulse, trying to go for a lot of early information, trying to disrupt the EP attack. But EP,
guys, they've leaned on what a lot of teams lean on when they're struggling. It's that Montaigne from
too hard. In our first appearance of a primary shield over the course of this
half and really is looking to disrupt. Great sandwich with Neptune who does
eventually fall courtesy of Jigsaw. But still a massive win by taking Monty
out of the play. Yeah that is a worthwhile trade every day of the week.
You lose your Mute but you kill that Montane. Great active defense here from
Chiefs. They're looking to play spoils on EP Jigsaw. About to take the fight onto
relays and he seems to always win those. A second kill for the round for him as
EP take the numbers advantage. 40 seconds now on the board and arguably the
best opportunity or maybe second best for EP to finally get around. Play with
good work pull up now up to six and one. Jay Kenner still up with Nitro and
lunchbox has proven to be a big threat this stage. Now player is getting
targeted by Baphen. Again, the rivalry continues. Lunchbox is the one that's
exposed, however, and then targeted. Through that, Cairo finishes him off.
E.P. have gotten themselves the closest they've been so far, but
Jakenna is on the pulse down below looking to try and deny the plant in the
late rounds. Player has to try and buy as much time for him as he possibly can
as the plant starts to go down from Cairo. Does he know where that plant is?
Up goes the Nitro Cell, but it gets shot out of midair by Bappen!
And that might have just saved the round for Enterprise.
Jakenna now looks for the retake, 1v3, but they are watching his position,
and Bappen will shut him down.
A moment of heroism from Bappen was required for EP to get themselves on the scoreboard.
He's not the most comfortable of rounds for EP, but a round win.
He's a round win is the wise jakes and oxfendity loves to say I don't know if shooting at the night show there ultimately made a huge
Difference, I'd love to see a replay, but I think it would have just been confirmed
But it may have been able to net a kill maybe even to that had it actually exploded
So the scent that nitrocell definitely would have won the round had it detonated
I I all the least at minimum made a retake very very possible as opposed to one V3
Here it is. I it was all it was very
close it was we're talking a couple ticks either way I think but credit to EP
would have heard and seen the shotgun shots and it was pretty indicative that
the nitro was coming their way so doing a good job to shoot anytime not easy to
do with that Vendetta pistol as well from Bappin they only have six shots in that
It's not an automatic weapon, it makes it harder to shoot those C-Force.
E.P. have a first round on the board, as we go into the final round of the half, it feels
like they need a second here.
One round is not enough.
Difficult to disagree with that assessment.
Chiefs have played well in this opening half.
are they maybe just taking a little bit of time to reboot after that devastating first
series against Rival.
All eyes on this sixth round, the final of the half, the Monty.
Back in play and Gypsal has just made great work of that.
Straight up red and Rila has got completely caught off guard.
The fingerpick is a personal favorite of Jigsaw's, I wonder what the idea is?
Is it so that he can push quicker through things like barbed wire?
Is it for the tiny little boost of the HP?
Or is it to help to on ADS faster?
He's playing Monty, not Blackbeard or Blitz, so typically I wouldn't expect it to be for
the ADS.
He just wants to relive the good old days of the LMG map.
I mean, he's pretty damn good with this LMG.
He still does a lot of damage.
recourse just not quite as good as it used to be and you are a lot slower as
well running those LMGs and have a slower aim down sights time as well but
here we go I mean 200 takes a little bit of damage immediately the finger boost
comes in and it also cleanses the limping effect that is otherwise triggered by
that thorn trap.
Now two Hines can apply pressure but playing it again that's a big impactful
kill in the round now flashed out potentially forced to drop but will
hold his ground actually no he did go pillar but long angles still in play
can you see of the mirror it's fine for chiefs to give up a little bit of ground
here they can always fall back to the ground floor which is close to the
bombsite oh but here comes Bappin big swing on to Neptune Cairo as well wins
his necessity now for Jakenna but he doesn't have enough shots to go for the
second and Cairo trades him on out. Bapin can be picked up as well and now it's a 1v4 for player.
They have a very tricky prospect. Bapin now back on his feet.
He's being taught by Deimos. This is unwinnable. And players in a lot of strife.
If Bapin had been finished off maybe there was a world, a universe where player can
clutch this but up against a Monty and a Deimos with two other players who can focus up on planting.
I don't think this is winnable at all.
Cairo shuts him down.
Great close to the half from Cairo.
Big three from him on the gridlock.
And with that, Enterprise have found a second round
on the attacking half.
And a critical two rounds that will prove to be,
there's no doubt about it.
The Chiefs were off and running with that series, Nick.
We thought that that was gonna be a very quick 6-0,
but honestly, credit where credit's due, they did their job.
Yeah, and obviously a big praise to 2-1 here, we're speaking about how he's individualism,
he's getting kills and getting map space, they lose 4-1 in a row and they pull the
clock that is, emergency, get out the Monty, right, getting that stable, consistent, insular
operator and the very first round that they tried in round number 5, he gets shot down
by a cheese, they make a mini-play, they peek the pixel door in piano, the impact is soft
on a freezer and the 2-1 in the Monty, they get the kill.
But they still clutch on the end thankfully there for EP, then they run back one more
time 20 states that I've got the entirety of the round it's a much more
solid attack of that and they get that two-fourth bit that is so desperately
needed thank you yeah yeah I mean honestly I think boy the EP need those
last two rounds yeah I think anything that was gonna be 5-1 6-0 yeah call it
and from there going into bank it would have been very intriguing but the two
attacking rounds which open to the defense it's I think there's that sign
of life now for Enterprise. I think they're just awoken a little bit. Which is surprising
because I would have figured, Nick, AP actually looked like the team that didn't play the
last series. Chiefs looked like the team that played the last series and they're warmed up.
So I wasn't maybe expecting the start, but I guess maybe the fact that Chiefs started
on the defense probably had something to do with it. But ultimately for Enterprise,
Jigsaw 7 kills, Bat from the fall maybe expected a bit more. And the fatigue or the warmup factor
There is something that I spoke about actually from the previous series, when we were talking
about Enterprise versus Rival, having to play back to back best of three.
And what we've seen historically, Nick, is the team that does play the back to back ends
up doing pretty good.
But you know, you have people that wake up and they get their morning coffee and they
slowly they get better and better and eventually they're 100%.
Then you have people who wake up, mindset enabled, the hunger to seize the day, to seize
the moment.
right now. Mind you, they are still having that underdog story. They came to this grand final
from Upper Bracket, already beating EB before. That was the first step of their journey. Now,
they want the whole damn states themselves to say, we are the kings of O's. And I think that hunger
is driving them into those first two rounds. Look, I think that now they go defense, probably a
little bit settled for two on the scoreboard. Looks a lot nicer, mirror and with my band,
So they won't have the access to that. I do like the Monty ban and also even the the nomad to the removal there
No air jabs, maybe gives a bit of freedom for the the defense
I wouldn't be surprised to be see quite a bit of gridlock in this first half as well from cheese
I know we saw quite a bit of it from enterprise
So expect them to maybe play it as well for too late
Obviously, you know when you kind of look at for cheese player again having another really good series at 7-3
They cannot a big game from him, but they do still have one room from room at Rob
It's relays to form quiet feel like you got beaten up by Jigsaw a couple of times in that first half
Let's see if he can activate now on the attack for chiefs
Well, I mean this is a great opportunity for them a 4-2 first half and it very easily could have been a 5-1
Even a 6-0 for chiefs
They could be absolutely running away with this series right now, but Enterprise do what they do best and they keep it close
They keep it competitive. Let's get on the wipe of the second half
Thank you very much gents. It feels a little bit like
What Jake and I were discussing the other day in a best of three
Sometimes it can be a tale of the tortoise and the hair and I can't help the feel but in this first-five cheeks have been that hair
EP have just done enough to crawl themselves into a pretty decent and
Comfortable position now defensively on cafe
this should be their forte and they now have the advantage of a little bit of a
buff off. Yeah, EP have looked really mad good on defense today guys. Against
rival across border and clubhouse, EP only lost a single round of defense
compared to the six that they won. Ouch. So now that EP have weathered the storm,
found their two rounds, gotten to the second half, they might be able to make a
comeback here. It is their map pick after all and we know what happened last
Last time these teams met on bank with Chiefs winning 7-0 it just seems to mount more and
more pressure on EP to come back.
Like we know they can.
Oh, hello.
Where did that come from?
Great question, but where did the round go?
Is probably a better question.
It's lunchbox and a 1v5, only a minute and 10 seconds into the round.
Baffin's having a laugh, and surely Lunchbox is going to die shortly as well, taking damage
from every which way possible, up in close range, and Jigsaw confirms a flawless start
for E.P. from their defensive half.
Well, it was an ambitious attempt there from Chase with the direct route site on the rappel
with the defuser, and sometimes with high risk comes little reward attacking in siege.
can be completely brutal if that particular strategy falls apart it seems
early and that's well exactly what happened. Great to know they're from
AP clean up the rest of the attack and maybe they will be smooth sailing ahead
for them in this half. Especially around like that gives them a lot of
confidence. We might have screwed up at the start of our attacks but we're
on defense now. We've only trailed by one round after that first defense win.
I mean one more and we're even the Chiefs. I think they'll have a lot of
confidence to finish off cafe now chiefs though we've seen a lot of very
well thought out executes from them in the past it's something that I think
has really landed its itself to their success is their ability to focus up on
a plant focused wind condition brute force in there with you to that said
the nomad is banned the Monty is bad both of those operators protect you the
Nomad protects you from re-aggression, the Monty protects you from, well, everything as you get information.
So, Chiefs, I'm not gonna have as many safe ways.
E.P. are trying to rattle them as much as possible so they're not walking on solid ground.
I think it's the right move to go up against the Chiefs that likes to come in with a step 1, 2, 3, have a pre-planned execute,
force Chiefs to think on their feet a little bit more.
You know, I think that's a good read.
Trying to unsettle this chief's attack, unnerve them in the second path.
Very difficult after the previous round to assess the situation as it was directly
chasing the media with a more classic map sweep.
We'll probably see the effect of that in particularly how aggressive AP wished to play off-site
and how long they want to hold these positions.
Just peeking the hatch.
that is ballsy from jigsaw and lunchbox his utility is going to go begging that gridlock
is very powerful these days especially with that nomad band and assuming jigsaw saw that
it was the gridlock dismissed he'll relay that to the rest of the team and they can
go hunting around the map as they please.
I feel like we need to see chiefs fade out some runouts here but no instead player just
Repels and doesn't realize he himself is the bait.
No Nomad.
No Nomad.
No one watching the flanks here.
E.P. are running rings around them.
Now Bappen's found one onto Jakenna.
The information was not good enough.
He just tried to sprint on through.
Bappen can solo hold this position with the Izami.
Chiefs look completely lost at the swap of the sides.
Has not been a convincing start for Chiefs.
Two hands giving all the information for his teammate as well, down below the cardiac
sensor.
They have a live read on Neptune's position.
Might have been a good opportunity to sit on the roof here as his customary on CAFE.
And have a think over things for the next 60 seconds.
Now that lead from Chiefs 4 in a row has evaporated.
It's about to be 4-4 and Bapens decide to get Lippy in the chat again.
I do wonder who does Nate take the attack now and extend this discussion or will he
wait until the next round with the Operator Band to extend that chat?
Good question.
I mean on the one hand obviously Chiefs are now taking an unofficial tactical time out
by just allowing Neptune to stand on the roof and have a chat about this next time.
we're getting a lunchbox mid-round stand up that might be a new one so the
thing is here for EP right reading is locked mining fireplace can be locked
next round they have to either go top floor or down onto kitchen chiefs don't
know which one it's gonna be yeah it'll be intriguing is it gonna be a tough time
now or are they gonna wait one round I feel like you wait one more round the
problem is if you lose this next round it's five four down I feel like that
might be too late to come back doesn't look like the tactical timeouts gonna
come through they're gonna commit to this round one more round before the
bands come through let's see if I'm chiefs I'm thinking a pulse band but
they wouldn't be aware that the pulse is bit as impactful as it has been like
Pulse, Solas, probably enough, EP brought the exact same defenders two rounds in a row and are not that different this round
They've still got the Azami, they've still got the Thorn and the Solas
The only thing that's changed for this round is instead of Malusi and Pulse, we've got the Oryx and the Azami
They've also gone top floor, guys, I almost put you pink
They've gone top floor instead of kitchen, which a lot of teams seem to prefer these days
That would be in the highest of compliments both in
appearance and ability to play the game. Yeah the castle is an intriguing
introduction not atypical for the top four and it may prompt a bit of a
switch around here in terms of the op selection from chiefs and it seems to
have been the case look how many frag grenades will be available for the
attack this round that's gonna be critical and dealing with a large portion
of that plus the keyletharies as well they can be a little bit iffy though.
I honestly consider running the there's a fear. Yeah, so it feels like a little bit of a brainer
Explosers plus the three concussions are really good for getting information that you can't get in the trunks
Very fair point
Question the striker
Maybe they really want to claim us for the cocktail side jump out which is fair enough when you don't have the nomad having that backup option is a
nice safety net
Alright, Sledge has been a good read here though for taking down those Castle Markets on the external.
However, there's still a lot of fortified positions here from the EP,
and the Azami is a big part of that here for Batman.
Oh, Jigsaw is all the way down below, ready for an impact jump out.
He goes for it, and he sports two players, goes for one, tries to get the second one.
The Lion locks him in place.
Is he gonna run out again? I feel like he might. He's so tempted to do so. He almost gets an angle onto relays as well.
He's so tempted to continue running out.
One of the more frustrating runouts in the game to die to, I feel, especially mid-round when you feel like you're starting at a layer utility and make a play in a bank.
You just can't fight it. But, player does punish him. Jigsaw just waits a little bit too long downstairs.
Maybe a little bit of blood in that round for Jigsaw.
That's jigsaw for you though. I can't blame him. He's had a feast so far. 14 kills
The player is hot on his heels about to break double digits. He does not want to let Enterprise overtake them five in a row
Well, I expect Bappin will make a final stand here over towards the Garland won't want to fall for this ground for three
Fight take and need to dislodge forced forward
It's caught. Well played from Relays. The team together linked up with the fire, the grenades, and then the well-timed Peaks.
E.P. now just relying on Brenda and Touhan as they fall back on their defense. A mid-round reinforcement as well from Touhan, but he's feeling the pressure from down below.
Nice shot lashing out is Brenda taking a lot of damage though from standing in the flames.
Now, Chiefs have to figure out how do they recompose to harness this punished jakenna player has to have a big impact here as
Brenda looks to hunt down lunchboxes gets a better of him and player pushes deep onto to harness well
Chiefs finally stopped the game from running away from them. They find a fifth
Massive pick there on to Brenda from shop a
A 50-50 fight which if it goes the other way could have opened up a 1v1 opportunity and a good chance for EP to
Extend that streak of rounds to five, but it gets halted at four
So chiefs win the first four EP respond with the next four
Seems like it's a pretty aggressive seesaw
At the moment as we have the additional band phase solar as opposed to maybe that pulse and
gridlock interestingly from AP so the double commit with the nomad and the
gridlock that may prompt more striker play from cheese sensing they need
claim wars and just in general they're going to be a little more fearful of
these runouts and these mid-round aggressors that AP looked to try and
inject into their playstarts. I do feel like this is a case of diminishing returns
this is something that Pengu always says let's say you ban Thermite and Ace and
and Hibana. All of your bans are going towards Hydrage. Let's say you ban Monty, Blackbeard
and Blitz. All your bans are going towards Shields. Here, E.P. ban the Monty, and then
two operators that are about flanking. If their flanks aren't successful, then that's
a huge waste. There are so many other tools they could have been getting rid of here.
And the other power operator here that I'm going to be worried about if I'm on the chief
side, aside from the Solos which they have banned out, is going to be the Izami which
Bappen has jumped on again. Of course there's also the pulse which I think is
very impactful but that Azami it really comes down to Chiefs making sure they
have enough maids and utility and coordination to clear it because some of
these rounds yes have been won by Jigsaw on the solo some of them have been
won by Bappen on the Azami and as we go down to reading and fireplace once again
here for EP this was the bomb site if you remember that Chiefs essentially threw
at the start of the round going for a rush that didn't work out where's that
nitro cell jigsaw show me jigsaw he's got the last four opening kills oh he's
prepped for a pretty rip the moment that hatch opens he'll throw that forward
but an opportunity not presenting from Jigsaw
oh there we go that's so clever from jigsaw he waits for the sound cue of the
Sledge opening up one of the hatches and then he puts the C4 not to go through the hash but go on the other hatch
Genius three kill on a relays
Five in a row opening kills a lot of metric that are that solace all you're doing is giving him a C4
Jigsaw's had three three K's this game as well by the way
How many kills did he get again in series 1 all of the day?
Admittedly a short series but...
Against Rival, Jigsaw had 18 kills, so he's had almost as many kills in this one map against Jesus as he did in two maps against Rival.
Finally, traded on back, Cairo also, I don't know how he died, but apparently it was to luck, and with that, a little bit of aggression there from Jigsaw falling into the claymour, it means that Jigsaw are now in the numbers advantage.
And the good example of the striker and those claimers have an impact in the round is Jay
Kenner.
Is he under threat now above?
Both Brendo and Baphen looming on the top floor.
Trader back, critical moment now.
Baphen will fall.
Tuhan now left with it all to do downstairs, no C4.
With the Reaper in hand, Chiefs look to try and claim map point on EPs' map pick, unless
if Tuham can be a miracle worker.
No Nitro, might be able to get a little bit of info, but the Blackbeard won't be free,
no good luck to us.
No nomad means that the drone is the only thing on Flankwatch, and now he sees that
Blackbeard.
Chiefs have to play this perfectly, and Alja Kenner is affected by the Thorn.
There is a world, a universe where Tuan wins this.
And it starts with a moment like that,
taking down the top fragger from the Chiefs.
Lunchbox, and you're going to have to play this well.
Shotgun in close range, Jakenna has to be so careful.
Where does Lunchbox go?
He looks to rotate down the stairs.
No names on either player, but Jakenna takes the gamble,
takes the gunfight, and takes map point here for the Chiefs.
Cheaps able to lock back in. Credit to them. And it felt like that EP wave of rounds was
going to be very challenging to stop. And it certainly wasn't easy, but now that they've
been able to achieve it, it's impressive. And that is off the back of 5-Hp to kill straight
for EP with the last two. A failure to convert. Some of that mid-round aggression, even with
the Nomad and the Gridlock Band out probably hasn't netted as much success that EP have
been looking for.
If anything, I think Chiefs had done a really good job in anticipating it, which is obviously
pretty easy when you see the band, but they're actually being able to convert that into meaningful
moves.
This is one of the reasons why people say best of threes are a truer test of who's a better
team than a best of one.
In a best of one or even ranked, right, the reason why aggression works so well in ranked
and jumping out of windows is because people are not expecting it in the first round, maybe
the second round, they're still not expecting it. After you, you know, for me once, shame
on you, for me twice, shame on me. Chiefs have read into the playstyle from EP. EP are
picking everything, flying out windows, looking for aggression, and they've not just banned
the Nomad, they've also banned the Gridlock. They have given Chiefs a thousand reasons
to expect aggression. And guess what? Chiefs are starting to shut it down. It's on EP
now to adapt you can't just continue playing aggressive if chiefs are putting a claymore
underneath every window you're probably gonna have to stop jumping out of them. We've also seen
very similar lineups from EP they've exchanged out the souls for the mozzie general if generally
speaking the overwhelming majority of rounds. Other than that it's been the pulse the malusi the
thorn he's on his army it has been super consistent and i wonder as well is that aiding chiefs in
just having a better read knowing what to expect a little more comfortability a little more familiarity
Sure, Kape isn't a map where you have to change things up massively as the defense,
so it could be wrong, but maybe that's another factor that Chusek thriving in this environment as a result.
Wow, that was a very interesting choice there from Karri. He thought he could stick
in his position and tank the nade. In the end, he was shot from the rappel angle from player.
E.P. One man down to kick off match point, map point I could say.
Their own map pick.
I cannot emphasise this enough.
And the last time they played Bank they lost 0-7 E.P.
Okay, it's cheese.
What the heck?
This is a real scary moment for E.P.
This is a huge opportunity for cheese.
Consider as well the six invitational implications. They will get an extra 120 points as opposed to finishing second
And that can have massive implications at the end of the year as well
C4 misses from Jigsaw
And
The desperation starts to set in here for EP they feel the need to get aggressive now two players in deficit with over a minute on the clock
But you can it doesn't want to overextend he needs to check his corners that half-clear
I think that was a half-clear. It gives a gap here to Brenda to push deep and finish off the black beard
He's now low on HP and they know where he is. He has to retreat the jigsaw's found one, too
With that enterprise have a lifeline
Yeah, bappin was being deathmarked, but realize it to jigsaw who nets the kill on a three versus three
50 seconds on the clock for cheese now trailing. This is how you fumble a 5v3 chiefs
Do not let it slip between your fingers. Do not let EP back into this game
Relays and lunchbox. Now look to try and finish what their team started with
Brendo and Jigsaw both low on HP. Brendo goes down but Jigsaw finds killed
number 18. Relays must 1 versus 2 clutch and they know exactly where he is but
Jigsaw will go down. It's Relays versus his old teammate of Bappin. 20 seconds to
play. Defuser recollected and another van she shot out. Time to plant this
diffuse. Bappen has two impacts and two keepers in pocket. Does he use them? He
bites his time, allows the plant to go down, looks to take the gun, fight bit
Bappen! Up against Relays, makes a statement, makes his presence known, and
keeps EP in the game. Huge moment for Bappen. Doesn't worry about the utility.
He just backs himself in with gun up, wins the duel and E.P. stay alive for at least
a little while longer.
All 12 rounds of regulation needed.
E.P. now looking to go across to reading and fireplace up next, he's still seemingly with
pretty good read is to the overall play from EP. This is turning out now to be a bit of an oddity
in terms of the lack of open kill conversion she's successful in that last round with player
onto Kyro who got caught, great nade and flush out and a 3 versus 5 but it was a it was a half
clear from Jay Kenner didn't quite look towards the trolley. Brenda saw that then as an opportunity
to get his team back into the round. We saw Jigsawster for Baphin who was deathmarked on
top and ultimately it was Baphin to then go on and clutch up the round. And now it only
takes one more to send us to OT here guys. Remember the last time these teams met in
Abesta 3 it came down to the final map 8-7 on Fortress. Chiefs only just barely won the
series and claim the spot at EWC as a result, EP, Hungry for Revenge. And look at this
Denari they brought, you talk about how they haven't changed many operators for what feels
like the first time, they've got the Mute and they've got the Denari and they're doing
some mission impossible type stuff here. I saw this with Nick the other day, I feel like
we've casted so much C that it's all molded into one so I can't remember the exact matchup
but that setup looked eerily similar and it was actually really really effective at keeping
the attack at bay, made the default push tricky, skylight drop a challenge, yeah well how do
you clear that?
The hard thing is a lot of the time you think oh the scenario is I want to throw a nade
at it but the problem is if the nade actually hits a laser it will destroy the nade and
it won't detonate.
I think one of the key ones was under that trolley position Brenda was playing last round
so it can be cleared by some expoices from the skylight for instance but you just have
to make sure you land it and it actually hits your nade into the laser, otherwise a twitch
Florez also very good for clearing that I don't have either of those and I see
three C4s brought by EP ready to try and take down a put on a Pell. I do have ten
frag grenades though James. I hear a couple going out. Explosives on both sides
Jigsaw is just waiting for the sound cue of the upside down the Pell. Oh this is his chance though as he falls on back.
midpoint of the round and Cairo is lurking below feeding good information live to the
rest of the defense. Good drone working chiefs, bit of info deep and it is Cairo on that pulse
now to be targeted on death mark. We'll be able to relay that it is the white star of
the power. There it is. And immediately Jigsaw jumps into action off that call and that's
back-back around with the demo is actually aided jigsaw and finding a
kill and another round where jigsaw finds the opening kill that is his sixth
opening kill in this game he has been open the gates seventh opening kill
has one back in round two oh my god but it's only been about a 50 50 conversion
off yeah sorry not the most telling that trick as he hopes to try and land
double digits here takes a little bit of damage or rather gives a little bit of
damage to jakenna on the blackbeard and then falls back hasn't seemingly slowed
down since losing that solace and picking up the mozzie instead as the
Aussie starts to make his way back up the stairs keen for a fight. Eager. But look
at chiefs 20 seconds to play and they are not in position to plant as of yet
Enterprise are on the verge of pushing us deeper and deeper as jigsaw hits 20.
Lunchbox is down jakenna finds a gap but is immediately shut down afterwards as
Well, relays is not long for this world, but EP are logging for an overtime
Yeah, fair play to EP locking in
OT needed
I wasn't quite sure EP were going to be able to recover it was a devastating start trailing by four
able to lock in though after the mag time out eventually
It took one round of additional for them to be forfeited, but it's been back and forth.
It was four on a row for Chiefs, four on a row for EP, two on a row for Chiefs, two on
a row for EP.
If any team finds two on a row now, it's over.
EP to defend, it's been their stronger side, it's been the stronger side for both teams
with a two-fours clip respectively.
up first. It's up to Chiefs to figure out how do they deal with this early aggression
from Jigsaw. 20 kills in just 12 rounds. Constantly fed information by Tuhan on that pulse and
even sometimes as you said by his teammates who are getting Deimos tracked as they can
tell where that Deimos is. Wow, look at that sight string. This is very much a
defender-sided sight in this game so far, especially when teams find the opening
kill. And yeah, just looking at the opening kill, we've said it a few times,
but Jigsaw in their defensive half got the opening kill every single round,
except for one when player got it onto Cairo. And then in their attack half,
Jigsaw also got two opening kills seven so far in just 12 rounds and keen for
more as well. Well he's looked ever dangerous in the early round especially
what does Jigsaw have up his sleeve around 13 doesn't seem like he's really
had an opportunity presented to him so the Chiefs have done well to be cautious here.
The Lion and the Demons can play for Info and a player trapped pixel.
Don't know if Relays is aware that Thapin is down, almost can be finished off, the
Nade will finish him off, however Tuhan takes the chance to Nitro Relays. More or less an
even trade but for chiefs that does give them some ground.
Oh wow, Jakenna almost dies to that second thorn trap, had to turn to face it just to
try and tank extra damage and exposes back to Brenda.
Jigsaw with a pre-placed nacho there as well from the shop door.
So keep that in mind as chiefs look to progress forward here you could blow that off Brenda's
info. And if it lands that could be a defining moment in the round. T'Han as well will rotate
to first floor so still feeding info on the pulse. Three targets available here. Four lunch
box. Oh this is going to be good info here for T'Han. He might even be able to get a
wallbang here. Jigsaw's C4 actually misses here as he tries to fight that player upstairs
and now rotates back towards the mining bomb site. The big thing is 2-1 can continue getting
info here for the flank from Brenda as he makes his way up the stairs. Here comes the
flank from 2-1. Oh he misses his fights! That's a critical mistake there for 2-1 and 1 that
Enterprise may well have to eat.
Jikena makes his way to the bomb site as Neptune supports him as well.
Brando needs to try and win this fight upstairs.
The lunchbox is keeping him at bay.
Jigsaw has no nitro cell left to try and deny this plant and as such it will go down.
Brando able to kill Jikena but not before that diffuser is confirmed on the ground.
It's now a retake for Brando and Jigsaw up against their former organization.
Chiefs look to try and claim a third match point.
Brendo stands in their way.
20 seconds of ticking away on that defense
as Jigsaw hunts deeper.
Lunchbox and Neptune fall back.
Jigsaw covers.
Brendo is forcing their plans.
Neptune can't find the angle.
And Jigsaw has clutched up with Brendo.
Enterprise with a match point of their own on cafe.
Uh-oh.
Some cheeky grins on the side of EP.
Oh no, oh no.
Yep, they know that they got away with one there.
To be fair, originally before the final push,
you could probably say fairly that EP were in the better of the two positions.
Tried to agress off site.
She's right into it, which they've done really well over the course of the map so far.
Now they take their tactical time out.
Leaving it to the 11th hour.
And so no doubt probably a seed of frustration planted after the last round, but it's up
to Nate to rally the truce and get them to refresh.
Look, we never expected Chiefs to be able to win more attacks than defences here and
over time.
EP only just barely winning that off of a clutch, but that's the thing.
That's the thing about having these incredibly talented individual players and this level
of experience. They are so capable. In these dire moments they never count themselves out.
Doesn't matter the score, doesn't matter the numbers deficit in the round. They will dig
deeper and deeper until the game is theirs. Enterprise were down 0-4 and then they were
down 6-4 and then they were down 2v4. And now they are so close to taking cafe.
Right here. Oh my 2-1 lost that fight. It felt like cheese to run for a big
attacking round win. They just got the plant down and then in the post-nap
tune fell down the hatch but was unable to successfully deny the counter to
views an awkward one ultimately there for chiefs now trailing they elect to go
kitchen for their sole defensive round here in OT
interesting decision they do only play this once on the I saw them they play
this twice on their defensive half they wanted both times whereas the other two
bombsites they won once and lost once.
They'll play the Goyo coffee side set up here and in response Bapen brings the
twitch.
So in play it's good damage as expected.
Trion's very careful. Good damage already from Jakenna
and plenty more tick damage available for achieves with
two impacts a C4 smoke and Goyo plus the form.
Bappa needs to get active with that twitch as you say and clear out not just the Goyos but also ideally some Vauntraps as well
Thankfully for Tuhan he's got the thinker there to continue healing and boosting him up
Doesn't matter as much about that tick damage
Ever underestimate what Jigsaw can do with that thinker LMG
He's already hit 22 kills
Jigsaw in a position, over towards the red stairs, that could be pretty influential.
Barbed wire at the bottom of the stairs will impede his progress a little bit now, but also
a bot white.
Full control.
VIP probably next on the checklist here for EP or at least opening a reasonable route
towards that site if they are to opt for the freezer drop into that coffee plant.
Disposition here though looks a little carious and
A clear queue given across to lunchbox to still sitting inside of co-check.
VP is just fighting their time. I like this from Kari with his over.
He's now using his team cannon openers to make some vert. Bappen's fallen.
Jakenna has actually snuck back upstairs. He's into pillars now. The big thing here for Jakenna is not to overextend.
His team has enough of his advantage, he doesn't need to force an early death here, just sit and hold this position, force EP to do the heavy lifting.
Oh wow! Goyo fire! Completely obliterates Tuhan as the Blitz tries to make his way into Bakery!
And now, Cairo trying to hunt down that pesky little roamer eventually, Jakenna will fall.
But not without Cairo going down to just one HP.
Brenda now, the last full HP player for Enterprise.
As Jigsaw has fallen.
And Chiefs sit back on the bombsite holding their crossfires they do not need to make the next move.
20 seconds to play Brenda, caught in a crossfire, Cairo left all alone up above with no diffuser and no teammates.
Just about no hope in the round either.
either. Chiefs will dig again deeper on their defensive side and continue pushing this game,
pushing Enterprise to their limits. Kyra looking for an exit frag or two. It doesn't matter my
friend. The round is over. We're going to a 15th. Chiefs have one final chance to lock this in.
Well this map so far has been a tale of two teams not wanting to give up and
giving it the role here in the open up setting the stage for an interesting best of three and
well hopefully from an EP perspective a little more resilience to be expected on bank as well
so the role swap once more for the final time
defences reign supreme through regulation two four split in the favor of that role
here in OT it has also been successful over to reading for the 15th and final
do maybe see an ace up the sleeve of chiefs I'm looking at across at that
sense pick early and maybe the snake to facilitate a quick entry in this round it
would be a bold decision to make to go for a direct hit in this round but it
could actually work out pretty well given we haven't seen it outside of the very very first attack
yeah and how did that one go from cheese that one was a failure but ap may have forgotten that one
by now i mean i'm looking at a tree site yet not the repel dining as a potential so you think
what's going for the balcony just straight through the door oh man it's no balcony doors and your
It's a ranked classic, it's very scary if the defense has top floor control.
Jigsaw is likely going to be running out this snow door.
They dropped the sense anyway, so I imagine it's going to be pretty standard here with a map.
Look, Deimos and Docovie together as well as the sense, plus the black bit,
it's going to be a tear for anyone getting targeted on that defensive side.
However, Jigsaw is continuing to fight in the early round.
Prep to C4. At the snow door. Ready to go for a run out if required.
Part of the reason is well, I thought we could see something direct is in response to the Nomad gridlock
BAM, which is clearly allowed AP to be more aggressive and proactive around the map.
To be fair though, Chiefs, generally speaking, have actually done quite a good job in enticing that aggression and
Yeah, it tends to be hit and miss for both teams, who wins that aggressive exchange.
Chicana's got to be extra wary of C4s, four C4s here for Enterprise, and once again,
two Han.
Well, he's freezer at the moment, two Han, so he'll be calling the white status side
is completely clear, so if he should have a pretty good read that it is, he's a gas
sign.
burns his C4 very early.
Brenda is actually
detected by the solid snake
otherwise I thought he could have dealt some damage
hidden away from that position at bar
but Enterprise give up a lot of ground
everyone falling off that top floor
and Lunchbox now
targeting Bapin on that Deimos
and then immediately dismissing it
looking for another player instead
70 seconds now remains
Chiefs with full control above but there's the third of the pulse on first floor for E.P.
and still three nitros that could wreak havoc in the round for chiefs.
And so it's still volatile for both. Jake Kenner takes a chunk of damage.
Oh he's down! It's another opening kill for Jigsaw!
Wow another nitro cell kill as well. E.P. turning up the heat as Tuan continues to gain information
for his team to reposition to prepare for where chiefs are coming for the chiefs are looking for a plant
player is forcing it down jigsaw's found a second it'll need to be a retake now for enterprise
caro gets aggressive takes down player but not before the diffuser has been locked in
neptune and lunchbox now into the post plan 2v5 do they have the info do they have the verticality
caro fades off the plan and jigsaw's now made it a 1v5 for neptune enterprise are on the verge of
of yet another retake. Lunchbox finds the first, gunning for a second, needs to try and
take down Kyron, but Bapman says if you take a shot at the king, you better not miss.
E.P. Stealed our map in the series, and we go deeper to rematch on bank.
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 have imagined in terms of like a destined career and like
uni I would send them like streams and they would kind of understand like this
is cool this is fun like people are watching there's people like they're
actually like 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 competing into all the other
teams and see like the view count and the broadcast. That's kind of when it
started not really started but their full support in terms of like they love
what I'm doing they support like the career path up in that time now they
love it. I think my dad's support I couldn't wish for more. I don't cry on
fucking camera. I don't need to cry mercilessly. I can't. I'm like cheering
off. I'm like thinking about it. He's a very hardworking person because I don't
really see him much because he's like always working in terms of like the
business whatever. So to see him like just like wake up at like 4am to watch
my games is like crazy. I guess obviously I'm in Saudi
And he's always texting me like doing crazy like he's like tapped him like he's like
Furia 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
International family obviously, right so it's incredible like how much he supported me or there's times of I've only quit
He like fucking stays up like every night comes like all my events that he can come to
So I think it's like incredible, so I love him a lot.
Found his support being just like insane, you know.
They're getting it, Cyber and Bullet are able to get one of these with the kit so far away and Canadian down upstairs.
Evert, wow, that was special.
It's a one bird, it's three to hold and that person is from behind.
He's found one, he's got to get the vertical as well.
They get pulled off, Tim, we're down to the last three or four seconds.
Ryder's got another, he's held on, he's going to do it.
And BFU, take the two-one win.
Both players spotted, but the Reds can be made successfully.
Oh!
What about the Microsoft for information from the bees?
It goes dead so fast!
Oh, here it is!
Seven eggs!
They cement themselves as one of the greatest of all time!
These aren't even cooked alive, Oli, but he's using the stem pestles!
Look at this from the dock!
Surely not.
Brilliant!
Let's play the year in my book.
Place the game here.
The old body doesn't quite catch it.
That's the only good sense!
The damage!
He doesn't have only the solution!
He's going back, he's not quite sure.
He has a few seconds to get Nassil, stick it!
This is an angle that he might be able to contest.
No, unfortunately, it takes just a bit of damage there.
Waka gets the second one, Eclipse though, will get one.
Turning it into a 2v2, 9v2 pushing on the site.
The bandit will lose out on this!
Eclipse the last alive on the ally.
Spots the head and takes the ace for Waka.
He will down V.C. Canadian positioning to pick up, but that's going to result in a double
game from Vertical.
Let's pull it for him in the round.
Necrox, the final defender against Vertical, the A absolute domination.
Oh, believe in Magic, Michael.
Team one does as they win the Mexico Major.
The Magic Michael team won times as they win the Mexico Major.
and
In through the nose, out through the mouth.
One more time.
In through the nose, out through the mouth.
Deeply this time, in through the nose,
out through the mouth.
Anyone else?
Anyone else?
Brother this is not working. I don't know if this is working or not. You know what I'm so sick of, this is shit.
Brother, you know what we need? We need a jigsaw puzzle.
We do need a jigsaw puzzle. You know what, next time we'll try to find the pieces.
Hopefully not miss the ones around the edges because I'll tell you what, Nick, jigsaw did not miss a single piece of that puzzle.
No, it was honestly ridiculous.
It's a classic tale for EP really where Jigsaw drops a 20 bomb and he's still just barely
scraped by with a single around.
He had 8 opening kills, shot more 25 kills to end it, almost broke the record in the
best of one map.
And yet, she used it hold on for as long as she went past the wall.
Crazy.
It was crazy, wasn't it Jake?
I mean, individual performances aside, one of the more entertaining matches I've watched
in a long while.
Yeah, really, really good game.
I think that clearly for Chiefs, they were up to the challenge in the first four rounds,
4-0 straight.
And I wasn't surprised.
I think when they win an upper bracket final against Enterprise, that shouldn't be surprising.
They're pretty much looking ultra competitive.
We've probably expected, obviously, Enterprise to bring it back.
They win it too.
We speak about half-time thinking, okay, game on.
And then we see the two from Enterprise, and then we'll fight up.
we then get to is chiefs, chiefs, match point and then they get a 5 versus 3 advantage at
that point I'm thinking wow they've actually navigated this situation they've pulled through
they've been able to respond to that comeback from Enterprise this is actually very mature
of a performance and they squandered a missed opportunity Nick because at 5 versus 3 in
that 11th round, Papin goes on clutches it and from that moment on 4 of the next 5 to
enterprise they're just like oh we almost lost it we're gonna make sure we
close this out now and even in the very final round right they did yes they
lose an opening kill to a c4 from jigsaw downstairs but they get the planned
off they get like I think three attackers alive player who planted
down shortly after to 2v5 at that point it looks so winnable until the very
final few moments of the round but this right here it's so hard to beat again
world record pace 25 kills eight opening kills that is absurd and again just
reiterated this is an individual performance of a lifetime and it's
still is only victory by one yeah it's kind of absurd and how close that one
was like you're alluding to there just to give some context for everyone at home
to understand what Jigsaw has actually achieved there 25 kills and eight opening
engagements one right in his last series against the chiefs 24 kills and only six opening engagements across three
You don't have love to see Rob across the course of his career an overall tally of kills
Yeah, the oceanic region. Yeah, because he'd be surely number one have to be would have to and I posed
Unique because you've now been a part of our APL family for a decent amount of time. Have you seen?
dominance from one
individually in a particular region to within their region to this sort of level where they're so much better than everyone else in their own region I
Mean the name that immediately comes to mind is going to be Shaikou and EML obviously when you play in Oast League
They're gonna be some bottom teams that you can kind of farm if you jigsaw
Have to make the comment here I will have it here
But the thing is jigsaw is doing this also against cheese and a grand final to play for the better seed at a land event
It's not like he's only farming the bad teams and choking against the better teams
Yeah, but you go to EML when they live less a little bit higher. We have to say it
Yeah, you have Shiger doing the same thing over many many years in same performances
He's also leaving the kill record the plus minus the KTRs in various different events the last couple of years
And he still gets dropped because the players can do and he still gets dropped
That's possible, right? And that's the thing, right? We speak about Jigsaw great individual player
But a bit of a toxic guy at times right he also has been a bit of drama following him along
But you gotta have that ego you gotta have that confidence
But then you also need a teammate that can control you a little bit right a little bit of a leash around your neck say hey
Jigsaw go over here be a good boy. Don't go too far
Come on, I want
Oh good boy
Yeah, they're bulging you, I'll tell you that much.
Obviously, moving into map two, Bank,
we saw what happened last time
these two teams played on Bank.
Now, I think Nick, it's fair to say
that's a pretty large anomaly.
I don't think that we can expect
anywhere near that kind of dominance.
We heard from Brenda before and he said,
I'll be honest with you, we played like shit.
But Bank, last time they played for those
that didn't watch the Apple bracket final,
it was a 7-0 against Enterprise.
That is the very first time
have ever been 7-0 Nick and it was by the chiefs on this exact map at the exact same point in the series.
Yeah I think right now you know the simple thing we achieved is the mental game.
I we all think here that they probably should have won it on cafe. The players too could also
get kind of caught up in that saying oh we should have won that and there was this round and that
planned the net clutch opportunity and if only those small things went our way we could win the
first map. Forget about it it's a business 3. The big story here is teams they are super capable
also here for the second time at beating Enterprise in the business environment.
So you fully reset, you go back to Bank and you should have the confidence.
Yeah, Brent was gonna say that they played the worst game of all time.
That's their story.
But for the Chiefs, they're thinking we are the better team.
We'll just simply win again.
Probably better both.
Somewhere in the neutral observation of it.
I think we can all agree it was an Enterprise's best game.
But also at the same time, that doesn't take anything away from what Chiefs did.
That's fair.
So you've got to be able to find bits of fun, but there are already striking similarities. You know back in that upper bracket final
We shut we played shall a 75 win to eat these all rounds for a kill. I know this time
We went to overtime on cafe and then bank in the middle
So I mean it's hard to argue the biggest difference. I'll say the purpose up before this time around
Enterprises started on defense last time they were on the attack. That's where they struggled
So I'm not expecting 70 I get in fact
I'm gonna go on the limb and say I think EP now win this 2-0. Wow. I mean look to be fair
No, I mean it's not it's time to get jiggy with it
Ah, it's time to see that man. Just the way he hit the ties with me. Jiggy's good for one. He's not good for two maps
It's not Shiko settle down. Yeah, is it I
Say through that is required and I hope that's gonna be the case as well
I mean, look, so do I. At this point, the last two maps, and for us as well, the last two maps in this series have already been played in their previous time out just three days ago.
Chiefs came out on top of that one. Will the script flip? Will it change? Only one way to find out. Let's get in. Ta-Bang!
It is very much time to get this grand final one step further along for EP.
After overcoming what was a very scary start to cafe, they now return to a very scary place.
Chiefs destroyed them on bank last time these teams met.
The first time and only time EP has ever lost a match, 7-0.
Chiefs, they don't need to win at 7-0, guys, but they certainly need to win it.
Otherwise, this grand final will be finished in two.
Yeah, this is a very, very difficult game to...
of maps, I suppose, to predicts and assess going in, because it is so rare.
One, to see a 7-0.
Two, to see a 7-0 with two teams that are considered close or uneven footing.
And then you factor in the fact that it wasn't really that long ago.
This is a weird situation. This is an oddity, a rarity.
I would have surprised if we even saw Bank make it through this veto.
It's an opportunity for EP to prove to themselves that they can, in fact, play this map.
And play it well.
Chiefs, I'm sure, will be motivated, though, for the 14-0.
Oh, yeah. And as the analysts mentioned, last time these teams met on Bank,
enterprise yes they lost seven rounds in a row but they started on the attacking
side now they start defense because EPs defense rate today in the two matches
they played against rival and against chiefs they've won 15 rounds of defense
only lost four 15 to four that is an unbelievable defense rate and now they
start on the defense here they look to continue that form they have a very
deadly operator line up as well they've extended their roam with the ability to
fall off it's jigsaw all alone in open area the ability to fall down the hatch
at a moment's notice
jigsaw relax the job makes the correct decision thanks to calculated call to
fall back and play nitrate for the late round
It's gonna really trick from below just to slow down a little bit of the progression
here for the feasts.
Second date, Bop Square.
At the moment, choose Posh String for a default.
Testing the waters here on this opening attack, hatches opened as visible and Jay Kenner will
be the courier of the kit, Bop Blue currently.
And the inverse mirrored trick from AP and old plastic rearing is heading this round
just to make that default a little more challenging to open up.
How are they to clear this mirror window I wonder?
We see the Hibana get to work trying to breach open and execute onto the SIDER position of
plant.
I don't believe there is enough of a breach to try and get inside and plant there.
Lunchbox has been tasked with a very ambitious amount of hard destruction to achieve and
he hasn't been able to do so however he has found a kill on the jigsaw almost a
kill. Cairo there peeking up through the hatch here comes the plant will Neptune
drop and try and go for kills Cairo has actually managed to C4 on to
Jakenna plant denied now lunchbox tries to reattempt with Neptune to cover from
up above. Plans successful but a 4v2 retake looks very possible here for
Enterprise and they're just gonna run straight up above James and they need to
clear Neptune. Wow, one going all the way to the very top floor, Neptune, shotgun in
close quarters. He's not going to be in position to take down Bapin and well played from EP
to make this a 4v1. Now they know exactly where Lunchbox is and he's shut down from
above the hatch. Two perfect from EP on the retake. They weathered the storm, allowed
that plant to go down and then pounced on it afterwards beautiful from Enterprise.
More rounds than they had last time at the play bank.
Yeah, Jiggy Javits took me a moment for that to clock.
Solid work from AP, did a good job in denying the first plant attempt and they didn't panic when they couldn't deny the second or failed to deny the second.
A sprung interaction immediately took top floor control. I love the Talos side hit as well.
It's very typical for the player on that hatch above the tucked in corner in that fashion.
And being into the shotgun, whether they knew it or not, just filtering through open probably would have been very risky, so...
A really good read. Well executed.
Left flunch walks on an island and can't fault him for failing to win the 1vx.
I've got to open area 4, ground number 2, Bands as well to note the Pied and flashed into the Graze in the sense that the sense being taken does limit the options for more Hatch Drop centric plays on that base from the site so Chase unable to commit to it in that last round
IE as well we saw exchange for some really tricky now which is not particularly prevalent
right now.
I've seen a couple of teams do it, Chison EP, a few teams that will do the Boyo trick
or the Erunny trick.
Obviously EP could later decide to ban Hibana and go for the Boyo trick as well, but probably
not necessary.
Around like this and again like this. I think they're better off banning some of the power-ups for chiefs. Honestly, the Cavitar wouldn't be a bad shot
Chiefs do seem to love their capi. They brought him in this round as well
Our chiefs. Oh, wow. What is that position to not? I've never seen someone put a shield and literally just tuck in the corner
That's a nice one. I
Like that idea often we see his armies play in positions like like that in star room, but
No, the warden get the job done for sure. Especially up against a Ying.
Nice shot.
Well played from Chiefs to find the opening and
Neptune helps out.
Chiefs looks to take control of the top floor.
Lunchbox makes his way forward.
He knows the Bapin is still inside stock.
EP how much longer will they hold on to this position for
chiefs don't have anyone outside the balcony which otherwise
completely obliterate his position
someone now rotating over
and back into size it's time to get out of dodgy falls back down the stairs for
v3
for the chiefs
as they flush most the players back to the bonsai
it's not a particularly pleasant
experience moment for EP in the second round
to hugo searching will be made to play contact with player barricade they will
force him to reveal position
and a stalemate between the two to have will be forced back to the whole
means there's the question this is from lunchbox and brenda
the scamper away
yet you still have a lot of
nobility and freedom despite having
numbers disadvantage
also have information i saw things going out
on to players position shouldn't be possible thanks to his gadget
Riai grow now from Brenda as he looks to try and take
above enterprise still holding on chiefs
waiting for that flank here comes lunchbox the flash comes out
and jakenna will swing confirm that kill now a 4v2
seems all but one for chiefs unless if too hard directly underneath the hatch
can have a big impact takes down the blitz looks for a little more the player
stabs him in the back and Neptune finishes the round for the Chiefs and attack
round on the board and these teams are meeting each other for the battle right
in the middle. Yeah close contest so far and a good response there from Chiefs
in the previous round they found the two opening kills thus far. That one though
in the second for the open hit was about that minute mark it then gave them
quite a bit of maneuverability. I love the lurk option they had Lobby, and the inclusion
of the Blitz as well was maybe not as super effective as they maybe would have lied to
the friend they were getting away main early, but still a good amount of pressure that was
able to translate into a round win. I'll trade out the Blitz for this round though. It's
Reign, Tart breach, alongside the Monty, so you think about the impact that that can have
Kanto's side and then on the side of defense the kind of objective where I
think the hands are gonna favor them pretty significantly have the castle
the mirror and the Azami even just one of those on the side James in isolation
could be super impactful so it's a bit of a triple threat on the top floor and
it's gonna mean that Neptune here on the floor has a has a big role in dealing
with a lot of that utility that brings frag grenades, blow, and instead of Jaykenna actually
committing to the shield, instead of Chiefs committing to the range of hard wishes, switch
it up, Blackbeard now in the hands of Relays, and they bring the Rayora as well. To test
I think this track will perhaps here in round 3, achieve.
How aggro will AP look to try and play here?
Assign a fall back, not using early nitros to kill these repelling players.
The Riterra is here from Neptune able to clear out a lot of U2 that would otherwise impede chiefs as execute onto the site.
No hard breach whatsoever by the way, so they're not going to look to try and clear stock with hard breach.
The Brendo exposes himself to that long repel all the way over from the car garage.
Two Hounds also taking a bit of damage. Look at the information. These pre-placed drones from the Chiefs.
They are just whittling away at these layers E.P. have brought.
And a first flash very early on. Perhaps trying to bait out some utility. It succeeds.
Two Hounds looking for the Nitro.
It may have landed there on the lunchbox.
Either way, Chiefs now with a good foothold will be side, they can send the Blackbeard
in the front line.
They have a great drone main stairs.
That looks like one you'd use in Ranked Jigs.
Maybe years ago.
They've converted this advantage with two further kills now.
Cairo and Jigsaw tossing up. What is their best way to play this out?
Jigsaw decides to vault in getting aggressive. He plays D-Bone close to the bomb site, but now he's left all alone.
Look, Jigsaw may be the greatest player to ever touch the game in this region, but he certainly isn't gonna win this 1v5.
I can tell you that right now.
No repel inside. A flawless has player. Spider-Man repels down main stairs. And Jigs take the lead.
I have classed this game now for way too long.
I don't think I have ever seen someone rappel Main Stairs Bank and get a kill.
I'm sure you see the drop. They get me wrong. But the rappel kill? That was...
Jigsaw's just said in chat, what is that?
Hop off.
Neptune says you like that tech.
That's the new way to clear you, Phillips.
Yeah, Jigsaw knows their bank. Oh, hey, look at this. A bit of a smoke ban.
I really like that Ying ban here. I mean chiefs have brought it every single round so far and now with the Ying and
Glaz band chiefs have far fewer options for playing very disruptive when they force plants down
But on the flip side of that EP have far fewer ways of keeping these executes at bay now smoke is gone
It's gonna force Kairos it onto the Tachanka
between Tachanka, Goyo, and a couple of C4s, EP have plenty of ways to deny this
plant on the basement. Interesting that they still commit the warden into this
round despite taking the Ying out of play. I've got a shotgun, nitro, and a comfort
pick generally for a lot of players so it's really not too unusual. Make sure to
sign up for Challenger Circuit in the meantime if you are an aspiring pro.
As we were saying before, many of these players
did their ground through the ranks to get themselves into position they are in today.
Of course.
I think Brenda is just the one that always comes to mind.
Do you remember when he played in Challenger League?
Ground zero days.
Good old days.
A lot of these players came through Challenger League.
He was on the team with...
Was that the minor they pressed?
Or was that maybe a double iteration?
Good question. I wouldn't press yeah, I don't know if Milo was on that team, but press definitely was
It's funny though. If you look back a few years ago, and you look at some of the
If you look back in time at some of those like OG challenge a league like tier 2 rosters
You realize that like every goat of the region has come from one of these once upon a time nobody teams
Lot of history for all the players in the server right now
I remember when Jigsaw first got picked up for the old Chiefs roster, or bliss I should say,
roster after getting 20 kills against the old Chiefs 2022 roster.
It was a 2021 team that was at the time the greatest team that we had seen in the region for a very long time.
Jigsaw made a name for himself by fragging the hell out against the best in the region and now he is fragging the hell out as the best in the region.
Unless the Chiefs were able to win this today and take the crown away from them.
Yeah, so notice how the Goyo placed in the middle of the hatch.
That prevents you from putting an exothermic or a tin can opener.
It doesn't prevent you from opening it with Hibana.
So a little bit wasteful for EP to be putting those Goyos there when the Hibana is not.
Oh
What's that for now Jesus
That would have been maybe it's not like it last occurs if much like some
How you would die to claim but
Yeah, let's books finding new ways to take damage minutes ago in the round cheese place to five up
Maybe he was on drone next to it when it's
I really like the way that they're planning on using the stature though.
It's up to...
Never saw it.
It's up to Relace here.
Ah, the vault did.
It's a little bit funny.
It's up to Relace here on the Thatcher to try and prevent these exothermic charges from coming on through.
Problem is the Thatcher will not counter to Chanka, so we need something from Chiefs to prevent Cairo from just firing out the entire bomb site for the rest of this round.
They may have to end up opting for a drop plant here, but without the same, it could be a charlie.
Inception falls on the long angle.
There's no lurk threat to dislodge too hard from this position.
Yeah, this is very scary, cheesy, typically very good at these fast executes.
However, E.P. hold all the cards, down into the bomb site they go, looking for a plant.
Nitro cell comes out, EMP out of the air.
Thank you to the Thatcher, but Jakena's taking a hell of a lot of damage.
Managers to confirm the plant regardless and Kyra on the Techanca has been dealt with.
E.P. now look for a retake that is far more challenging than the last time they did so on this bombsite.
Chiefs still most of their players alive. Player trades himself back onto Jigsaw.
And RealAze is covering the plant. Jake on the bombsite takes down Brando who got a little bit too over egregious looking for that retake.
now it's all the way up to two on finds the first of three required but cannot find the second chiefs
Three attacks in a row
build them momentum in this first half of bank and that was some really nice resilience. I think if you
screenshot pre-execute there and try to make an assessment as to which team was ahead
It's probably fair to say that EP with the plant and all they had that the tank of the nitro
So even the warden into the smoke, which I doubted as being impactful, nearly was influential.
It looked pretty good for defense, but good work from chiefs in salvaging that round and
big credit Astagotor Relays in denying the night show.
And the toros of his companion getting that plant down and then while structured in the
post as well certainly helped that there were more players up for teams but
positionally they were absolutely spot-on
Jake are you alright?
Just saw Jake struggling a little bit
He's laughing now, thank goodness
Looks like he was trying to eat more of the ramen and started chasing
I don't know what's going on with him over there, maybe you just saw that round and he was completely amazed
I started joking, well hopefully EP don't choke now.
Down 3-1 on map 2, look, they've got a...
One round more than they did last time they played this map.
I thought for a second I wouldn't have a co-caster for the rest of the stage.
Maybe just lay off the co-series mate for the rest of the week.
Alright, well, deep into the fifth round now, and EP need to get back on the board.
The defensive record has been so good today. Coming into this map, they had won 15 of the last 19 defensive rounds that they've played today.
And Bank is really starting to prove to be their curse. Chiefs found the number in these last three rounds.
And now we go to kitchen open area again.
EP not really changing that much to be honest.
Freelay's very early in the round, got into an aggressive position, and player has just been waiting patiently for somebody to over swing.
The Jigsaw won 5. I would love to know. The last time that Jigsaw has gone 1 and 5.
After getting 20 plus kills on the first map as well.
It's also now his third entry death, and we think back to CAFE.
It was 7 entry kills.
It was 7 entry kills.
He walked away from that opening map.
8 and 0, I think she was 8.
So we got opening kills
more than half the rounds of the entire
15 round dance. That's insane.
And he now sits 0-3
on bank.
Maybe it's not that bank isn't
an enterprise map. Maybe bank
isn't a jigsaw map.
This is a good position. Cairo, buddy, does get
spotted out. If only he'd been
saying in a mutual, but here it comes.
Deeper to the bomb site,
Chiefs will go and Relays from the fire and the flame
will find his kill.
Brendo, forced into a 1v5,
the Chiefs are gunning for a fourth.
There's no two ways about it.
They're gonna continue this streak
and that has got to be time for EP to call a tactical,
going for another one.
Lunchbox with the Blitz.
EP has one final chance on their defensive side
before they swap onto the attack.
Chase looked really, really good on Bank. It's fun to watch.
It's way too early to say it, but
could you imagine that it's just a 7-1 after a 7-0?
Seriously, they look really switched on. I'm so curious as to see how
Chase will do on the international stage. Of course, Enterprise
managed top 8s at Salt Lake City Major.
And you know we're only a few rounds away from getting to the semi-finals when they took a map off of
twisted mines and
Chiefs potentially looking like the better team out of the two at the moment. Will they have enough experience?
to dig deep at an international event against
much more experienced and I'm pardon me unpredictable competition
I just don't you start dying on me too. No, I've been dying for a week
But I look at the difference between starting in phase one versus starting in phase two.
Look, guys, to start in phase one with the play-ins, it's not easy, right?
Through WC, you've got to play against teams like, well, Alula Club, who of course, through
the men are qualifier, they're likely to be one of the weaker teams in phase one, but
never to be underestimated, as we know.
Then you've got Fnatic, who are in peak form right now, Shopify Rebellion, finalists from
Salt Lake City.
Yeah, and then you've got the fourth seed of out of South America League seeds three and four out of CNL
And then the APAC North seed one team. That's who you'll be fighting for
Just two spots from those eight teams will make it through to the group stage, right?
Whereas if you win this game, you go straight to the group stage
You do not want to leave at the chance because I think even chiefs or EP
Whichever one ends up having to fight through phase one their chances of getting out are very slim
and you get the 120 SI point so if EP fails to potentially make a cycle that could make him very interesting.
Well EP are struggling on bank, it gets worse now, Brando getting picked early, Jigsaw looking to try and refrag but he is too late.
And player has evaporated, 7 kills so far for player, as finally Cairo puts him down, they look to lash out, Jigsaw is on for a big flank,
this is a very unusual way to play it but Jigsaw managed to trade himself!
Him and the Blitz of Jakenna both die after that exchange.
We have a very strange round from E.P. starting to play out.
3 vs 3 it will be for the majority of this round as Chiefs prepare for the execute.
But there is no Duchenka and with Smoke banned, the only reasonable plan denial here from Enterprise is Cairo's Mira with that C4.
Perhaps some impacts from Baphen, perhaps some aggression from Tuhan.
You don't often see a 3v3 bank base with midpoint of the ground, this is a little bit of a tricky
one for both teams to digest to try and problem solve.
Jason tried to gain a little info that works in your tool.
Do they end up posh string for default?
It will also be in to the inverse mirror setup off that nitro.
It feels a little dangerous for Chiefs but they can flush out some positions, namely red
with a capitao.
Don't have the Thatcher though to rely upon for that also critical plant denial counter.
40 seconds remains and Cairo proactively finds one.
Yeah, lunchbox now able to trade as well.
This mirror window is going to be deadly.
Neptune tries to sneak on through.
He prones underneath the angle, but he is now caught in a crossfire.
Cairo shuts him down, well played.
From Enterprise, they conjured up just enough energy to find a second round at the end of the half.
Once again, another strong first half from the Chiefs, backed up with a critical round by EP.
4-2 on Bank. I mean we said going into this that it should look a lot more
comfortable but I'll be honest I did expect a bit more on their defense
change. Yeah I mean I expected a little bit more as well I mean at the end of the
day though Nick who defensive rounds is better than getting 7-0 so they're in the
game but ultimately I think as Robb is alluding to I think 3-3 is probably what
I was expecting. 5 out of 6 opening kills for Chiefs they were able to get the
plant down three times. Interestingly, no multi kills, but
they're obviously two rounds where they they did get flawless.
So I think when you kind of look at the half in isolation, a
very good half for Chiefs, like to get the rounds they did. And I
think it's fine that they weren't able to win Basement if
there's going to be a site they struggled to win, it probably
is going to be Locker CCTB in this region. So overall, it's a
big take for Chiefs and it's looking more likely, I think
we'll get to to Chalet.
Yeah, I think so as well. And to be honest, how how many
plans that she's a playing for is actually quite incredible. So right now, typically this isn't on
paper, I'll explain that after, but half the attacker rounds they've played combined with Bank and
Cafe, they've planted. Now, it's not a true stat because they have had like a five attackers as
one defended like on top four C on Bank, but it's like they would have planted if they hadn't found
the final kill, right? It was Dixiel hiding in corner. So they've planted half or been in a type
position, half of the attack in times. That is how much the ping on that objective and how much of a
a struggle if you're having at the nine that kind of performance and we don't
have to start up in 25 kills yet so stop touching that TV stop touching that
TV stop it TV that's my pookie that is your pookie that is your pookie bear
you know you don't have anywhere else at the moment and that's okay James he's
not yours not anymore he's now part of the other desk crew part of the
Furniture of the furniture never heard a true estate. That's all right. We got there in the end actually neat funnily enough
I don't know I might have missed
Your comment there, but I actually think yesterday as well over half of their attackings around rounds one
Well on the back of plants, so it's kind of like there is a very real trend here where the chiefs are backing themselves into these
Mid to late round plays which is something that's now I want to say
It's really rare in OZ, even rarer in APAC.
Yeah, to be fair, it's also very challenging
to get into a plant position against interpires
who love to lash out early and try and go over
that disruptive sort of playstyle.
So again, very, very big praise to Chiefs here,
both in this series and last time they messed
in the upper bracket.
The thing is, when they go on sites up here for defense,
your playstyle is gonna change quite a lot.
You can no longer play for a plant, you are a defender.
And you can play for plant denial, you play
to shine gas, smoke, boil, maestro, echo, whatever.
But the issue is, if enterprises and a tagging team now
aren't trying to plant, what exactly are you denying?
So it's no luck out to choose to control the playstyle now.
They have to go for the adaptive play.
If EPA play the plant, you can play them now.
Is it played for early kill map control,
whether you can test it with the roam of your own,
or you play safely by the bomb site
and try and play down the layers and play down the time?
So now San Paterson adaptation game
on the fly to come into action.
I think that if we were to look at the Chiefs kind of in isolation over the last two play days that they've had,
they're definitely all that the team that can do that.
Bank has turned into a map that is far less pushy on the individual performances,
especially for this series, which means that this could be well and truly up in the air, Chiefs.
They do have the lead for now, but we've seen what any prize can do in a second half.
Speaking of, let's get back underway.
I do wonder what Nick's looking at when he pretends to lock eyes with Jake on the desk
because they're just a plain white wall next to him.
He said that there's a window that looks outside and I told him I'm going to make a little
skank with my friends.
Oh, he's taking a photo of it.
That's great.
Very astute observation there.
He will set it up for you.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I'm sure he's very beautiful, each viewed from his mansion that he was able to buy with
all his SI winnings.
That's right.
That's right.
That's right, yeah, of course, on the uh, on the shores of Ibiza.
He's on the top of the mountain looking down the rest of the town.
King of the village.
That is a mountain in Denmark.
Alright, EP now on the attacking side and while they don't have the Monty to utilize,
Kara can jump on that black beard.
Nice little pre-fire through the smoke from Jigsaw, hoping to catch a chief's player
in front of a rotate underneath that cover.
The big thing here for Chiex is we got relays with the clash.
What is he going to be able to do when the execute comes through feeding information
for a potential plantanile, I hope?
But that plantanile will be made somewhat more troublesome by the fact that the Echo
has been banned, and now the fact that player has lost his head to Jigsaw, who's finally
woken up.
He was one of five since then.
He's got two kills, and we've died a single time.
Oh, great angle though from Jakenna. All the way into lobby. Typically attacking teams will have a drone in this position, but they weren't able to warn Brendo.
It feels like it might be a desperate time to attack though. Jigsaw makes his way inside Janna closet, finds a kill.
He's the only one from EP that's been able to deal damage so far.
I think jigsaw's not enough.
And he said,
let me just push in lads.
I'll find the opening.
Unfortunately they're four and a little bit stalled out now.
Over towards conference.
True harm.
To contest the clash as Relay's falls.
Wow.
Yeah, it looks good here on bank, but now needs to find a 1v3.
Finds the first one.
The guest who's watching his position.
It's jigsaw.
On for the reload. Fake rep of the C4.
forward. Jigsaw gets exposed for a brief moment, but Kairu with the black bin will dash him down.
EP dominant in the first round. They're attacking side.
That's solid from EP and a great positive way to kick off this second half on attack. They showed
pretty good initiative and if that is a sign of things to come in terms of Jigsaw and attack and
in the role that he may be able to play, be on entry, and perhaps through the mid-round
as well. That could be a little bit scary.
And a basement for the follow-up. Can EP cook here on bank? It would be an interesting
title if they were to respond in a Tuzera fashion in the grand final. We have the additional
120 points towards the six invitation of global standings and as you were theorizing when we were
I believe at the half-time break earlier
It's tough to envision
These teams making out of the the first phase of EWC. So you really do want that favorable seating
Sure. I mean you look at who's currently qualified play-ins at phase one
Alula Club, Fnatic, Shufflefire Rebellion, and then the South American League, C4 is likely to be NIP or LOS.
That's both very strong teams. You've got CNL, C3 and 4, APL, North, C1 probably going to be CAG.
That's at least three to four teams that I think are potentially better than both of these teams.
so few that make it and only two from those eight will make it through to the
group stage or you just win this game right here and you go straight to group
stage you don't have to worry about that immediately 10,000 US higher prize money
also you mentioned the SI points I mean yeah it's just it's so much there's so
much value out of winning this game
AP, let's be real, probably should be safe on points, right, if they finish first or second
here, which they will, minimum of 300, then presuming they qualify for a co-sci-car, probably
a pretty safe spot.
Yeah, you would have thought that making top 8 is the one that really needed every point
they could get.
That said, I mean, you know, you can never count on making the next major.
What if these Osteens really struggle at EWC and we get a solid adjustment for Stage 2
and Asia gets two spots again?
That's also true, yeah.
Then you might not make it to Osaka, and your chances of making it to SINEXG will be
dwindling two-hound big kill onto Neptune with the Blitz Vigil dispatched with this
roam for the Basement Bomb Site, not successful thus far for Chiefs.
jigsaw on the solid snake reveals three of the players. Relays go searching for a bit
of space. Oh, he's well rewarded, Brendo, no idea. Oh, ironic though that Jakena then
aggresses a little bit too much and loses his life to jigsaw. Now, Chiefs do have a
crossfire onto the position attempted flank there from player but he decides to
fall on back goes all the way down relays finds another one this time on to
Bappen surely Enterprise will be able to take him down now this roam has been
incessant and now lunchbox drops all the way down but Chigsaw is there ready to
catch him dropping through the vault hatch EP have numbers advantage though
and Chigsaw is getting so much information knowing where both of these
remaining players are thanks to the solid snake player must 1v3 against his
old team takes down one lot of damage on the two on and now Cairo comes up
against him in the 1v1 it's Blackbeard versus 2 Brown bit of damage but Cairo
with the ADS and EP find yet another round on this attacking side they are
fighting tooth and nail and they are back in even stead with the Chiefs
Fair play to Cairo. He was able to march forward, ensured that he didn't die so the leg shots
and the foot shots closed that gap to potentially open up the opportunity for the melee. And
I think that maybe that then planted the seed of doubt in the mind of player not expecting
Cairo to actually go gun up. And then he was kind of blindsided by the chassis and never
saw the shield drop.
find Marge into the tail end of that round but what can't be denied is the score line 4-4.
A clean draw currently between these two. It's open area to break that draw at least momentarily.
Could this be another case of a similar table to Cafe with some of these violent swings that was
Four straight for Chiefs. Could it be four straight for EP?
What can Chiefs do in trying to stall us out and disrupt?
Can they find a way to deal with the double shield liner? The Monty's banned, but EP will
bring both the Blitz and the Blackbeard into the round. I also love the twist selection.
look at looking at the util of the gloom and the thorn
this lineup is really scary
don't discount jigsaw as well on the Zofia
he can also have big influence against
his army and the general util dump in the
particular setup here for the attack so it's unnervy
unnerving to chase the environment
E.B. are cooking something, you can feel it, double shield.
Zov very close to that bombsite and the Reora.
She's just struggling to read what is this plan from E.B.
Where are they gathering their forces before they go for an execute?
Cairo attempted to make his way inside, could rush very close to that bombsite, bot square
now is Jigsaw, rather top square. Concussion to go out, that'll feed some info. Here come
the Spokes as well. It'll be an aggressive play into the bridge where he's looking Neptune.
Cairo stabs him in the back and now the Ryorogates create a safe haven for a plant from EP.
Cairo not safe as he thought though as player obliterates him with the impact grenade.
And now as the round restabilizers enterprise might have taken half of the bomb site
They haven't got that plant down and now that effuses cold on the ground
But the wall was soft that was super high risk from Kyra when you think about maybe would have been better placed
The planning everywhere Brenda was positioned the more traditional chassis spot, but it might not matter as
EP able to bleed these picks
In their favor player will look to hold on alongside relays
No utility though, and Jigsaw sneaks on through amongst the smoke. He finds his kill.
Tuhan forcing that plant down. A Relay's clutch needs to happen here. Tuhan takes a lot of damage,
but no kill as of yet from the Goyo fire and Hooper Jigsaw to claim the final kill.
Four rounds in a row for Enterprise as they take the lead.
Really good recovery.
I love that set up the so vehicle from top square made entry then through bot at quarter
It was net chin right up close
It's got you out caught off guard and difficult to blame him because there was a lot going on
Ryorigates also dispersed Kairos plant position was particularly vulnerable and aggressive from EP
So credit the chiefs in denying that but then that follow up in the second wave of that push
They weren't able to withstand and this bank far far far more competitive than the last encounter
Being 7-0 just three days ago to now taking the lead and being two rounds
From taking the championship EP
Have had a reprisal that is nothing short of extraordinary
Chiefs take their tactical time out
They're the ones on that defensive side
They have not found a round on defense as of yet on bank
Nate needs to cook something up right now they've tried going top floor they've tried basement and they've tried open area nothing sticks
EP continue having more responses
Whether these strats these executes to improvise or whether there's something that's been prepared enterprise have been so
diligent with them they're not leaving any gaps in these attacks and even when
they do even when the planter of Cairo dies early they're able to quickly
reposition and redeem the round and Chik-Saw is on a tear today
sure is there's only a handful of kills away from the beer one record back on
map one and whilst he did have a slow start here on bank. From one and five to nine and
seven is insane. He has turned out. He kills only two deaths. Yeah. Was able to make up
for whatever wasn't working in that first half and maybe just the nature of his role
here, attacking into bank. It's putting in strong play making positions and as a result
of being such a sharp player and being informed tonight, he is capturing them nicely.
Cheats have sound tactically over the course of this stage and after that timeout, courtesy
of Nate, we'll see if that will continue here on bank.
a talented team and did a great job to beat EP last time out to qualify themselves into
EWC but EP now have to secure that spot themselves and on a march towards a much more favourable
seating. Yeah they are much much more favourable. Now we've had the operator bands come on through
the final ones of the game, Chiefs got rid of the Black Deer, good move though we've
We've seen E.P. happen to run this Blitz, and we got E.P. getting rid of the E.P.'s army,
which is so powerful on so many of these bombsites, especially this top floor.
Wait, is this potential for a triple spam?
Triple spam.
Oh, he only has the one there.
Oh, sorry.
I thought it was the same thing.
No, it's Jigsaw, Brando's on the windows.
No.
That's all right.
But still, I mean, he had a chance at just getting here with the gun, yeah.
Unfortunately, for Jigsaw, the timing was just off.
He wasn't quite in position.
Yes, Nick.
Nick, you don't have to admin the Discord mode, I did see it.
Brenda, countering the castles in the meantime, by the way.
That's the way the impact's all being used.
I'd like to see Brenda try and counter Relays on the clash, because at the moment Relays is aggressively playing outside of Janitor's Hall.
Speaking of aggression, here comes a creep from Jakenna all the way down in blue stairs.
He can get on for a flank, he might be able to take down Jigsaw.
Nice use of the Ryora here.
One goes out, Kyra on the blitz the first to fall, the Fuser on the grounds, not planted.
Jakenna is biting his time, there's two undersized, it's about his time to get inside, but cut down.
As he sprints to a plant spot, Jakenna with his C4 puts a stop to Jigsaw on this push,
an Enterprise about the wind sucked from their execute. They sure have credit to Chiefs.
they will convert off the back of that tactical timeout telling magic of a
team that can respond to the instruction given by their coach and
when he said as a mark of resilience as well and being able to hold my
mental, he was a hot street to EP and Chiefs are probably the only other team in this
league that could have put it to an end. Yeah look you're talking about in the past
sense I never want to count it out maybe now but look we saw a lot of 2v4s and a
lot of clutches. Unlivable situations being stolen by
enterprise on cafe it's all those BAP demons as lunchbox as BAP it looks to
try and pat a few kills he's not going to give him the chance here. Cheese will
find a fifth rounds. We go deeper and deeper in this series up to break point
Five rounds apiece if eb win one more they've got match and championship point if chiefs win two more than they send us the distance to a third map
I believe it's shall a yeah it is shall a can you imagine that a big aetic oh my god I
Feel like we deserve to see three maps out of these teams
games. There's never way this
pans out whether the chiefs push us the distance or whether Enterprise win here on
bank after getting 7-0ed by Chiefs on it three days ago. We are so treated today,
so very treated. Downstairs now for Chiefs after they won that top-floor
defense, the first defense they've won on bank today. Down to the basement they
go, this bombsite on paper is the best for defense but Chiefs have clearly been a little
bit scared of going to it. They've waited a long time to look for a second attempts.
But honestly they got so close to winning it last time they played it as well. They
won that roam game, it was just that EP managed to rush the site. Chiefs are elected to, in
a very unusual way of defending this bombsite. I think EP has started to read it, but this
time they only have the one shield. Guys they've been running a lot of Blitz Blackbeard combo,
now that Blackbeard's banned out, EP only have the Blitz for this round. Intriguingly
We will see the ram. Oh
Jigsaw gets caught
Neptune from archives has a peek pot square up through the double
That is a sneaky way to get an opening kill, but it pays off big time and it just puts the cool off
On jigsaw puts him on ice for a little bit as
He's had some big form in the last handful of rounds and I do wonder how influential this will end up being
as mentioned the Ram is in play to
I would rather if I'm chiefs to get back to site 5v4 than to risk continue fighting.
I'm glad that Neptune is falling off as soon as that starts to come out.
I do not think chiefs need to overcommit to the roam game here.
They've got their one, they've punished Jigsaw, the best fragger here from EP so far and also
Pivotally the solid snake skin so much information now back and opening up this hatch
If he's still out for a little bit by player, that's good, but continue falling back here for chiefs
I don't want them to ever stay there welcome
Oh, but maybe they will yeah, they will lunchbox was in a position where he couldn't easily rotate back down below
Okay, to see if a sharp shot from caro. It's now back before versus four
the rest of the defense now forced back everybody drops to basement as cheese
now look to transition into plant denial before to barrel how did you hear
that I break this down it's interesting to have the once made for the later
double flash cork and even senator is for info gather doesn't have to worry
about the Goyo default should probably be the most optimal here
Oh, there's a player inside of dirt.
Ah, what? Oh, this is not a good player.
I don't know what player is doing, but he completely trapped himself there.
That's a very misstep from player.
Yeah, he gave away the advantage in this round with it as well.
Now, E.P. should be able to lock this in.
That is going to be one to think about later tonight.
If Chiefs let this slip between their fingers, player will be frustrated at losing that.
But have a look, it's not a default player to back you here from two-on.
This is a risky play, and Kyra has fallen.
Brenda was well
Toon has to desperately make his way in the bomb site. He doesn't have that diffuser time. It's being hunted down
It's being kept in control, but relays has fallen. It's to Kenan now in a 1v2
But to hon. I don't think he has the position. We got it. He forces his way into the plant it gets denied
He just barely denies it in time
How on earth did he win that?
Bap and just had to land the shots, but by the skin of his teeth, Jakenna denies the
plant and with it, Chiefs will take the round.
Far, far too close for comfort.
The Chiefs have a cheeky laugh about that one.
Oh my word.
That was a funny end to the round.
up six to five and one away from pushing this one to shall a mag will look to
refocus the troops felt like they were well and truly back in that round
especially when player got isolated server it felt like they were on went
for the backdrop pivot and whilst they were able to just initiate the plan in
the first place was tight 200s forced to go deep elevated find that pick and
got it down with a tick or two remaining in the round. It wasn't long. Unfortunately though,
Bapen was unable to get himself in a position to find, which he cannot.
The plan started with like no time on the clock. It was seven seconds, two hundred,
had to hold F and hope that Bapen covered. I cannot believe that the first two shotgun
shots did not land. Oh my god. And Bapham was spraying that position on the wide swing.
Just a fraction after the plant got denied. It was very close to being covered. Wow. Oh
man. Chiefs of EP really keeping us on our toes but look if there's anything going for
EP is they've taken their tactical time out right when they know more or less what bombsite
site should be played here because chiefs still have the top floor and the basement locked up which
means it's going to be one of these two ground floor bombsites pretty safe to assume chiefs will
go open area staff room as they have now this time guys they don't have that as army last time they
did although he did die early because of that unusual execute EP went through now with everything on
the line to EP go for another unusual execute rush onto the bomb site well they don't have the
the Raiora this time that they have bought for the first time in this series glass no
warden counter for chiefs so they may be susceptible to that glass depending on
how Bapham looks to lay that utility and critically well positioned if it ends up
being like a play pot square if he does the employer maybe above certainly a
Versatile operato could even go from the window. There's options available
The Bappin
There's once again EP will posture electrical like this eerily similar to last time out
Without that ray or however, it won't be a one-to-one
They were my magnet actually positioned inside of electrical to catch that first
Explosive from to Han. He's actually out of explosives. That's a big moment in the round from a utility standpoint
Wow, unusual my magnet from Neptune, but it might actually print in that strap from happening and
the cell is with that Nate
Gives time though for Neptune to reposition
It gets done though. It's a rough spot to be in
Well, yeah on a long angle is finished off too hard. So struggling in this round a lot
They're gonna try and look for an execute here, but again they were my magnets are catching all of this usual
Kairi's gonna try and plant in the smoke with the cover and the glides to peek through the smoke as well
Neptune stands up, but he needs to use his C4 out of colors, but it is far too late to deny that plans
Kairi will be finished off by the gas, but EP looked to try and send us to overtime
time. Gikennar is on for his flank, out goes his C4. He's about to take the fight with
Brando up against the AK-12 with the SMG-11 in hand. He's being watched from all the
way at top square as well. Chiefs have the numbers advantage and they will further it.
No indeed, Brando will tie it back up. Bappen finishing off Neptune as well. It's an IMPOSSIBLE
task for Relays and Launchboxes. Relays gets traded back. Jigsaw sends us the distance!
EP are not finished on bank just yet. They will continue fighting until the championship is theirs
We're headed to overtime
Was that some groans I heard from the desk that they really want three maps over there James
They would have loved to have this to have missed to have immediately been pushed to three
I mean last time we saw these teams meet we got an 8-7 on the final map I feel like we
deserve nothing less.
What are the chances we get 3 8-7s out of this series?
uh...
non-zero
the
attackers have discovered the location of a bomb
it would be pretty wild
what if next you had his time again do you throw the nitrous right away
did you reckon you just forgot he had it all
or did he do well?
i'm trying to understand
it's very rare something like that happens so you often need to try and rationalize
what it took place
what's funny really is that it was the one my magnet
maybe it would get shot out obviously that i don't think he really thought about it that much
i'm not sure if he heard the plant going down either
ah surely didn't he relay it to play who then tried to deny it
i don't know it's funny though because you know that plant or that smoke went into that position
because it was caught by the one my magnet it was quick thinking from eb to see that their smoke
got caught by the magnet and think you know what i don't care that it got caught i'm gonna
Unfortunately, they had the Blitz because it was ultimately the turtle that I pretty sure covered it.
It was indeed the turtle, and also fortunately they had the glass.
Couldn't have gotten much better as a combination there for EP, they really played off their feet.
Now they're back on their defensive side, which was a challenge for them, of course on the two rounds of defense were one on their side.
Down into the basement they go, now they did win this two out of the three times they picked it.
They're going for that room again.
How long will Jigsaw hold on to this room before he falls back down the hatches?
It's checklist time for Chiefs.
Let's try and get one step closer towards closing out the round, the map.
And that is step one.
done. Jakana, I think they're actually maybe getting somewhat close to nearly a kill, but
either way, E.P. are forced to the basement, but they will resume their positions and their
structure for the plantanile to follow. Triple Nacho available as Zoto, they may be stilled
out and stretch out this attack a little bit. Not brought as counterplay onto the sense
as that was already banned out. On the side of chiefs, it's more shield play. Here on
bank, we've got an interesting element and an opportunity for J. Kenner, maybe in a similar
vein to the previous round, to plant in an off position. It does offer that flexibility.
The big one that I'm thinking about is the first hatch for the late round.
Yeah, the C4 is being super sharp at those EMPs.
Interesting that the blitz goes down early, especially from this position here.
Marsl just exposed himself to the hatch, Jigsaw went for that swing.
Means no more turtle plant on the chiefs, so they're going to be far more exposed,
especially if they go through the deeper plant.
Jigsaw wants to fight so badly.
Bapindas as well, as he finds it against his old rival, an old teammate.
Chiefs are running out of options here. This attack is looking fairly uninspired.
The Hibana pilots finally do detonate. Now Jigsaw is in a spot of bother, but he still has his nitro cell.
Nate comes out. He'll tank a little bit of damage from it.
Relays has to land these shots with the EMP. What are you doing?
He puts it away at the wrong moment and now the plan will be denied completely.
Relays has to do everything he can with the rifle, but it ain't gonna happen.
EP have a chance now at finishing it off.
At finishing what they started in that upper bracket final.
When Chiefs wrestled, they're thrown away from them.
Now EP have a chance to take it back.
What around from EP really was dominant from start to finish and whilst maybe they were
blundishers from Chiefs it's difficult to deny that the defense from Enterprise was
particularly strong.
What's the score on that now guys?
uh... i've just i blanked i didn't see the score do you know what the score is right now
the scoreline is half of twelve to half of fourteen
uh... sorry mass was never my strong suit uh...
do you know what the num- how many rounds chief survived? five plus one to six plus one
uh... production just told me that it's currently six seven
it looks like returning to basement for this next round apologies for the pause tech delay called
I think it may have been for Bappin's webcam, so he'll get those muscles back in frame and we should be good to go in a moment.
And in fact, we do resume.
So let's jump back in. Can EP get it done in 14 rounds?
Oh, big question, big question.
Took him 15 to take CAFE.
Pushed all the way to the final round of OT.
Look, if there's any evidence that these teams are so closely matched, it's this series right here.
Not to mention the series we saw between them in the upper bracket final
Where it ended up it's an 8-7 win for Chiefs on the final map of Fortress
Enterprise have been burning for a chance at vengeance ever since that match earlier this week
and now
They've been given that opportunity and they are ready for it. They have been grinding for this moment
For a return to the international stage
Not just because they qualified for EWC, but because they are the best team in this region and they want everybody to know it
They want to make a statement here against the Chiefs by taking them back to Bank
Where EP fumbled 0-7 just a few days ago and writing the wrongs of that upper bracket final
That's right
would have been very easy to have just taken it out of play and relied on the rest of her map
pool which is fairly deep but they've taken a calculated risk and it might pay off. Long angle
from lunchbox but forfeits that position. Allows Jigsaw now to sneak in and in all clear. On the
solid snake radar means that him and alongside the team can begin to get to work. Hard breach up on
on the Hibana and Cairo with secondaries alongside Baphen with a couple as well and the sense
suggesting to me that they could be looking for that set play on the drop, it does mean
that Lunchbox will want to stay alive so it kind of does a great counter onto the sense.
There's been an excellent time management here from Enterprise and now they get to work
with the fuse as well to clear out a ton of utile also does a hell of a damage to lunchbox
hatch instead that could lead them susceptible to the sense late that's an interesting call
from lunchbox
maybe unknowingly because of the sense so
but i thought that maybe it was brought in into sub patient for it maybe not though
now the fascia as well used to counter
not just the clash himself but also the utile behind it this is beautiful
great work from Enterprise to peel away the layers of this chief's defence.
Now Neptune is going to be trapped very shortly.
And Nade prepared, like going to be tossed his way.
And Brando will see it.
I'm sure he's going to die now.
2-1, swings him with the shotgun from Yabana.
Enterprise showing their middle here in what may be the final round of OCE for stage one.
Another deal with Relays though, launchbox falls elsewhere, EP with the two player advantage.
A kill here onto Relays should confirm the round and confirm the stage.
Well I see for a lot of damage but doesn't get the kill as of yet forced to reload.
Cairo is closing the distance, goes for the knife.
Cairo down on the floor looking for a refragment Relays!
Double here in server, he gives Chiefs a lifeline.
As Enterprise looked to try and respond, forcing the position.
But they don't have the util they need, and he shuts down Brendo!
Relays!
Dropped from Enterprise, and now he drops them one by one!
Desperately down the main stairs, Jigs 4 hungry for more, but player...
Eliminates him, it's all up to Bapper now.
Can he walk the walk, just like he talks the talk?
Almost a shot onto player, going deep with the pistol, but not to B!
Another 15 round map here for Chiefs and EP!
Oh my bravo relays what a play as I said a kill there from EP onto the player
server was more than likely going to be enough to win the map win the stage but
a huge solo effort from the former EP man himself just enough to keep the
chiefs alive and this will be round 30 of this best of three and I don't know if
we've ever had a game, a grand final in OCE go 15 rounds for three maps. I'm not
sure that's ever happened. Have we even seen an 8-7-8-7-2-0? I don't know if we've
ever seen a rea- this region be as tight as it is right now between the top two
teams. That's that's honest and look we've had some fierce rivalries in the
past. You look back over the years, Enterprise and Chiefs, Enterprise and the
old chiefs. Chiefs in that old game and gladiators roster. Even when Bliss was somewhat contested
by teams like ManLFO, by that old wildcard team, and you look further and further back,
you know, knights, wildcard, chiefs, order, fanatic, athletic, further and further back
into the history books, I'm not sure we've ever had a period of OCEA history where our
top two teams are this tightly contested going 15 rounds in every single map of the grand final
but Enterprise still have a chance to make this a 2-0 all they have to do is dig deep on this top
floor defense. Oh it's 14. Is that 39 boys? Did I just hear 39 on the couch? 39 in the
series for Jigsaw as he creeps closer towards that BO3 record but the problem is he needs
all three maps so in a way he wants to lose this round. Jigsaw, look if anyone was gonna
break the kill record from my CD to be jigsaw I tell you that much the player
this game has been giving him a run for his money play has eclipsed him on this
map alone 16 kills while relays was the hero in server last round for chiefs he
will sit out the rest of this map EP sitting back and waiting it's up the
chiefs to make the next move. Yeah the sights will now be set on some of this
U2 clearance, last Ratero sent out into the castle, into the Izami, so some
groundwork and impacts still up for player as well. Double shield here is an
interesting prospect and it just keeps things intriguing for the final half of
the round. I want a rappel bombsite too, shields are so much weaker. That is true,
might have to pivot Lobby and we see that from Jake Kenner.
Desperately looking for a wall bang with the pistol as well.
The fight returned by Cairo.
This repel angle has to bear fruit for play up.
And it does! Down goes Brendo!
Finished off.
And Jake Kenner will continue marching on forward into the 4v4,
but he is now impeded by this castle barricade.
It's going to be a long time to smack that barricade.
Nine hits to destroy it.
as chiefs need to start forming up a plan for their eventual plant.
This makes things a little bit interesting for Tempo now
and it's a loud jigsaw to play down below.
And in combination with Tuham, who has a Nitro in pocket, this plant looks unlikely for chiefs.
E.P. just needs to be patient, they need to buy their time.
But for chiefs, the time to act is now.
They've beaten EP twice before, but they need to do so here again on Bank as
Jakena starts to force that plant down. Jigsaw is looking the wrong way! The plant will surely be confirmed!
The C4 is far too late, but now it's retake time for EP. Neptune and player
into the post-plants as they look to send us to Chalet. But Enterprise will
buy their time on this retake. Kyra making the first move, but no shields up for EP
He means it's all up to gunfights and Kyra looks to piece it together, player goes down,
Neptune now, forced to 1v4 to save his team and he has jumped out and punished!
You can kick them down but you cannot knock them out!
The crown belongs to its rightful heir and there is only one king in OCE, EPR Champions
once again!
to enter prize I cannot believe we even saw bank in this best of three and to snap back with a 15 round victory for a
two zero series top super impressive with that it's additional S I points James and better seating at EWC
straight into the group stage at the e-sports World Cup for our champions of the oceanic region
What a series, bro. 8787, you know, it's one of those ones where you walk away from it clearly
feeling to chiefs, but at the same time, I did call Enterprise to win on bank.
Tell you what, you've left me a nice little entrance for a while there. Do you want to know why?
Sir Bappin joins us. Sir Bappin, they're great. The knighted, the biceps himself. Bappin!
Hey mate. How are you buddy? Guns are out. Oh yeah, we're good mate. How are you? Oh mate, I'm living the bloody dream
I get to do this for a living. I can't ask for much more, but speaking of what you do for a living
You're gonna be feeling pretty wrapped after that
I know you guys would always put yourselves on top of those right now, but that's gonna be a good feeling. Oh
Yeah, I mean
I had a feeling we were just gonna take it anywhere. It's just like it's like the last last time bomb
like previously when we fucking oh shit we lost the chiefs in the like the
first upper final and we beat them and then we lost them because we thought we
had it it's just what they've done they won the upper bracket they got
comfortable I guess I was close but we swept it from them congratulations
Bappin on the win I said on the broadcast the other day well whenever it
was the upper bracket final I said the upper bracket final to me it seemed like it meant
more for chiefs than it did for enterprise for them to go to an international event with
that roster for the first time something you guys have already done that's not the prize
on your mind and that when you the grand final is there that's when you guys are going to
get to your best level is that how the team sort of felt coming away from that upper bracket
final? Oh yeah for sure but there was no doubts going into the upper bracket final like we like
obviously were very confident and they had their good day but like the amount of prep we put in
over the last three days or two days how long it's been we knew we were destined to win this for
sure um making an event for them is like that's that's their dream they they made that dream so
they're not they're not gonna be fully locked in you know like I know when I made my first event
now going into the grand final like yeah like you know you made the event it's
like that's good for all of them but I had the confidence to sweep on them.
Thank you. Nice it's kind of twofold the question here first off Brenda mentioned
earlier today in your first series or after your first series you guys have
been working through some issues lately it hasn't been the cleanest stage you
went to lower brackets of course what do you feel like is the current skill
level for you guys do you feel like this is chiefs overperforming match you want
one go into overtime are you guys like the underperforming what's the
difference in there between you guys and chief right now because you're both
gonna be representing O's after you guys play for the top like city you have two
spots to go to international grounds at the EWC I think it's the um my style
flash is like obviously out like like very solo attack style and that is really
weird brushes and stuff it's like it like doesn't work together they're
obviously like well I mean if they can brush people in an event they're gonna
get smashed like a bit of voting just like you know now yeah so we had to we
had to take a step back and really like rework our playstyle coming into this
game and it worked it paid off I mean as much as obviously there's always gonna
be the trash talk there's always going to be you know you guys are maybe the
big brother there, the little brother in the situation. It must be though overall better
for you guys and the region, but mostly for you guys to have the competition be a little
bit more even between you and another team in the region. You think about within the
oceanic region over the last four or five years, it's always been that one top team.
And then there's never really quite that second team. Overall, it is probably a benefit for
So you guys as a roster that chiefs do play to a relatively high level?
Yeah, obviously it's good, but you can't disagree.
I think you're not going to get much improvement in the team that it's going to rush.
It doesn't give us more than the heartache, to be honest.
We are bound to beat any of these teams in my opinion, like I don't know, you guys might
have a different opinion.
I don't think they can go far, like it's not fun, but I think like teams like this, it's like twisted minds, you know, like, they're not even making the event like they lost the amount, these guys are playing like they're ratty, stupid, geez, shit, so like.
Do you think that by going to the Esports World Cup, they'll come back a little bit more mature because of it?
Oh yeah for sure like I can say from my experience my first event really like it took like a
Another step of the game, you know like I didn't think it was possible and then players like box. He's always pretty good
Jake is shit
They say they can grow so hopefully they move forward from like this stupid like rushing stuff
And they can actually become great competition like for us and the region
Respectfully, I don't mean that
No, yeah, of course.
It just hits on them, man.
I think I'm respectful.
No, no, no. I'll defend Papua here. I think that was very respectful because he has a good point to provide.
Respectful.
And the story that we respectfully had a good point. You know, they're probably going to go into National.
They're going to get smacked. That's very possible.
And like Jake said earlier, the story of a cheeser qualifying to the event, that's the victory.
For you guys, it seems like CAG, for Wabo, qualifying isn't enough. That's the beginning.
You guys want to go top 8, you guys want to go top 4, that's you guys' story.
But because Oceania is doing so well, thanks to you guys, you have two spots,
you're growing better and better players, there's more competition,
and you must be proud of that fact, regardless of their place.
Yeah, I think we're all really happy in the two spots, because I don't know, I'm not gonna lie.
I think Chase will smash any second-place team in Asia or whatever you want to call it.
Okay, that's pretty. Yeah, I think that's pretty valid. Look, Nathan, obviously we're stoked to
have two representatives going to AWC, but I think everyone on the desk, everyone here knows full
well that if we're going to get a result, we're going to get a result out of you boys. The EP
are going to push this as far as they can, and I think that everything you've done in this year
has certainly proven that. So first off congratulations on being champion. Secondly, would you like
to say anything before we close out? I know you've got a lot of family that watch these matches.
Oxy, hello my mom. She's the best. You know what, shout out Chris, bro, player. You're actually a
nice guy, bro. You weren't a prick. And then shout out my team. I love my team. They're the best.
Shout out EP. Sports crazy. See you soon in Paris, of course. We'll be there.
Thank you very much mate. It's nice to see a bit of love being thrown either way. We'll catch up with you soon mate, take care.
See you guys.
All things end positive, that start positive and right now EPR bloody well positive. J.K. Boy it doesn't go two ways.
Yeah and look what a performance from Jigsaw. Just bringing it all back now to the series to the game.
38 20 he probably was gone on and then broken the overall record if we had it got to a third that 10 4 on entry
That's the big statistic. What's interesting as well Nick is back there. We just had on there
He dropped 20 kills you didn't get a single entry kill and that is a big strength of his as well
Yeah, I feel like for AP we gotta have this new stat line
Which is like the map MVP in a B of 3 or B of 5 series because it's always gonna be no one guy stands out
Okay, obviously we all know that it's gonna be jigsaw for the first map because he dropped a nuclear 25 kills on the second
App here of bang though. I can't give you such a Cairo
I thought that once they got into the tag inside and he got any shields and the kind of help them with the pace and get
Inside the building quickly and whatnot
It really got a lot of space for the other frackers in the team to find their footing and take some gunfire some strong position
And and that's the funny thing about for me when I watch EP is that you never know who's gonna be the main character
It often is jigsaw especially the last couple of days
But you know in kickoff it was always 2e so there's always that one guy about a pop-off it's the question of when and where
I think that's what you want though Nick from the best teams you want to actually have
Firstly the number one the main star that the big guy then he's follow-up
But you also need three four and five to also have
The ability to be a map MVP if it's just one and two and the rest aren't great
You're not gonna do too much and if there is no number one guy or number two guy and it's all everyone's kind of even
You lack that ability to have a 25 bomb from a jigsaw for example
So it's all about and that's what I think makes the enterprise so good way
But I'm pretty similar you think about the recipe of that roster. I think they're pretty similar
So coming out of a pack. It's no surprise over the last couple of years. They've been the two best teams. I
Think a lot of it comes down to a strong foundation right you think of EP if you think Brenda
He's always that rock you'll take up the dirty rose the boring rose and he'll always be there for a clutch late around think of Falcons
There's Breedy back on the BDS roster as well face. They have players like your souls look at speak easy from
You always have that really strong foundation and when that works you have like a base start line
And then you have your star players your clutch ones whatever afterwards
I think all the good teams across all the levels and regions of siege
They have that same shared aspect to it. Yeah
I mean, they're all the same
Realm of great I guess but obviously yeah look math MVPs are great, but we're doing it in MVP and I this can't go to anyone else
This is no way. I thought you already did
No, no
Well, I mean you guys just did pretty much cast it off pretty well
But I think everyone unanimously can say he thought jigsaw especially after math one
I mean he got 25 kills yesterday needs to ask sorry not yesterday
But their last playday in their entire series who only managed 24
So that's just kind of shows that the magnitude at which you play today Jay
He does have a tendency sometimes this is when he's at his worst
It's when he kind of gets a little bit of his bathing mode
Where it's a little bit like later to enter the building or he's taking gunfights after others have started
He's at his best when he's the entry nuked because you look at that opening map on cafe
Yeah, eight and zero on entry. So he's eight zero entry
He then goes and gets 25 kills so to get the most out of jigsaw
They're gonna be wrong can be volatile because if he has an off night and he's playing that way and he doesn't go eight zero entry
And maybe he goes like three five probably not gonna have the same level of impact
But if you want to get the very best out of him the grand final kind of performance or the performance needed to be the big
International team he has to play that way
So the more often he does that the better prepared he will be for those big international games
Which he does tend to turn up in but Nick obviously
Champions being champions
It's a phenomenal performance from EP. You still want to give a lot of loves to chiefs
But what's your kind of final thoughts on the region as a whole so far now that we've seen the entirety of group one? Hmm. I
Hmm
Okay, so across all the three-stop regions of a PL
I do think that O's for the week is when it comes to like what happens after the top two
Okay, we very much have like, you know, you're your chief your EP and then kind of everybody else you be quiet
Okay, if you go to Asia it goes a pack. No, I do think we have three four teams that actually up there
Not too far from each other and then we have the bottom
I like how Batman also said an interview that he also recognized that they are a team of individuals
where his teams they have this like he called it weird rushes a ratty play style I do think that
he's has a lot of emphasis on teamwork and coordination because they don't have that star
player for frag ability and every single member but as always APL super exciting and we had some
insane moments actually I think we have you seen APL man today no haven't I please no where has
What is APL man being this entire day?
I feel as though we saw, hang on.
Oh, oh, dang it.
No, no, no, no, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt.
See, everyone thinks we're the bad guys.
Switch it, switch it, switch it.
Everyone, wrong camera.
Everyone thinks we're the bad guys.
We're part of the hashtag free APL men.
We stand with APL men.
I had no idea that was happening as soon as we're done.
I'm going to go down there.
I stand with APL men.
I'm going to free him.
I will be the freer.
You'll personally go and free him.
I will personally go free him.
If he's still there, I don't know.
They might get rid of him.
Mike off again as well so just be careful. Jake? Jake well unfortunately as they cut
Jake's Mike off we do have N and L coming up in I believe about five hours and that's
something that you won't want to miss a little bit of action a little bit of fun coming
your way. It's the beauty and as we get to finals there's so much to go through there's
so many regions that we need to run through before we get to EWC but unfortunately that
is all we are roughly have time for you right Jake what are you looking for you lost your marbles
oh it's over there never mind that's too far oh yeah unfortunately that one might be a little bit
too far i've won james on that yeah james kind of threw that to the other side of the room but
that is all we have time for here in the APL finals but don't worry we are back tomorrow in i think
12 hours or so actually less than 12 and we will be back very very soon don't you worry about that
Asia has its final playday before
HAHAHAHAHA
GG call already come too hard
The knock itself is nothing
The meddecker from bathroom
He's called for heart
We're waiting to be seen for real
Don't you think?
I'm looking at you
I'm looking at you, tell me
Oops
Oh, per-
There he goes
That's my dude
That is your face
That is your face
That's my dude
He forces his way into the plan
It gets denied
Oh no!
He just barely denies it in time
One V4 to save his team and he has jumped out and punished.
You can kick them down, but you cannot knock them out.
The crown belongs to his rightful heir and there is only one king.
You don't see any peace, our champion.